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London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

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price of all securities, and the feverish state of the
~eomercial pulse), we need he at no loss to account
.or the supposed evaporation of a considerable amount
of the aggregate wealth of the nation. In fine, the
directors of the principal companies propose to.lay be-
fore their constituents, immediately, a detailed state-
ment of the assets and liabilities of their several un-
dertakings. When this statement appears, we shall
lose no time in subjectiet; it to a careful and impartial
scrutiny. Until it is in the hands of the public, we
deem it both rational and just to suspend our judg-
ment, and we would advise shareholders, for their Own
sakes, to follow our example.
TlMES.—There is not, probably, to be found in
any capital city in Europe so beautiful a spectacle as
that which is seen from the centre of the l'h:ce do
la Concorde at l'aris. The simple architecture of
the Chamber of Deputies rises ouilhe one side, and
the Colonnade of the Madeleine upon the other.
l3ehind is the Palace of the Tuileries, a pile of build- .
jug which not only rivets the eye but interests the
imagination, as the point of origin of all the move•
merits which have shaken European society to its
foundation for the last sixty years. In front stretches
the avenue of the Champs Elysees, with the Bar-
riere de l'Etoile in the distance, a limit which
fixes without embarrassing the attention. From the
central point we have indicated, should a stranger to
the French capital pursue his walk doss n the Rue
Royale to the gay Boulevard de la Madeleine, and thence
along the line of the Boulevards, with their theatres,
their cafés, and their promenades, collected from
every country in Europe—he would behold
a sight to which no town in Europe, and
most certainly not London—could furnish a parallel.
We, a people of indoor life, may make this admis-
sion without shame, and acquiesce cheerfully in our
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appreciated and understood. We cannot hope to
attract the eye of the passing stranger so much as
to interest the understanding and awaken the re-
flection of thinking men. 'We have seen with great
satisfaction the visit of the National Guards of Paris
to London. Their presence in our capital City has
probably appeared stranger to us than the strange
town and the strange people to themselves. They
Came upon us unawares. had longer warning and
ample opportunity been given to the civic authorities,
we believe they would have welcomed the coming as
satisfactortly as the South-Eastern Railway have Company
sped the parting guests. Such points as these,
however, desirable as they may be, as evidence of •
courtesy and goodwill, are but of slight importance
in comparison with the peace and tranquillity which .
these strangers must have seen pervading the public
places and streets of a metropolis which, on the •
lowest calculation, contains double the number of the
population of Paris. They cannot, one would think,
however much they may have regretted the absence
of a certain dramatic effect which distinguishes the
Parisian boulevards, but have been struck with the
fact, that whilst in every capital city throughout
Europe the hand of each man is against his fellow,
in London alone commerce, trade, and credit main-
tain their usual and uninterrupted course. Take St.
Paul's, and describe a circle of five miles' distance
from this centre, and in this space would be con-
tained the most numerous myriads of human beings,
with all their complicated interests and passions, to
be found in the same area in any civilised country
now is it, then, that whilst Berlin and Vienna, the
two principal towns of a population of forty millions,
who have attained no mean eminence in war, in
science, and in literature, are trembling on the verge
of another conflict, in which father and son, brother
and brother, will stand arrayed against each other in
hostile ranks ; and Paris, too, is threatened with re-
newal of scenes we would fain expunge from the
records of history—that London continues unshaken :
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by the universal tumult ? This is no time for self-
' gratulation, but the most susceptible patriotism
cannot take offence at the recital of bare
facts, when it is of such awful importance that
from them the correct inference should be derived.
We will not here repeat those declarations which
are the common-places of the hustings and the
public dinner. We will make no boasts of in•
stitutions which have been very faulty —or we
should not have amended them ; nor of laws
that we ourselves have pronounced unworthy of the
refinement and humanity of modern ideas. There is,
however, one point in the spirit of the English people
to which we shOuld wish the attention of every in.
telligent foreigner to be directed—our aversion to
change by open violence and armed force. That
which out of the limits of these islands cannot be un-
derstood is, that twelve men should be placed in a jury
box, and should sentence a thirteenth to the scaffold
or to deportation, not for holding.opposite opinions to
themselves, but for endeavouring to establish those
opinions by violence in the public streets. Great
social changes are of slow growth, and undue preci-
pitation in effecting them leads rather to their inde.
finite postponement. It is of course impossible to
suppose that in the course of a few hours' visit to
London the National Guards of Paris should have
succeeded in comprehending the spirit and springs
of action of a numerous people—we have formed no
visionary expectations of this sort. We simply hope.
that the knowledge of effects may lead them to
study causes. Let them endeavour to explain it how
they will, there is a great practical contrast between
the outward aspect of Paris and London. We have
no rival flags, no cannon in the public places, no
camps, no bivouacs, no rolling drums, no glittering
bayonets. Paris is controlled by armed legions,
London by the truncheon of a policeman. We hope
that our late visitors may endeavour to explain this
fact to themselves. That is the practical benefit to
be derived from their journey to the metropolis of
England. Before concling these few remarks on
so interesting a subject, we should add, in justice to
our visitors, that travelling Englishmen would do
well to borrow a hint from the method in which the
National Guards occupied themselves during their
short stay in London. It is not too much to say that
during their short sojourn amongst us they have seen
more of the outward features of a strange town in
a few days than most Englishmen do abroad in' as
many weeks. Cabs laden with National Guards, in•
side and out, have been seen in the remotest quarters
of the town. The polite Belgravia add the forlorn
region of Bethnal-green have equally been penetrated
by the enterprising invaders. The courts of justice,
Vie police-offices, the Exchange, the coffee-houses,
the clubs, and the theatres, have been in turn ex•
plored. We will not criticise too closely the advan-
tages of a personal impression, but it has its value.
Certainly no body of men ever more conscientiously
endeavoured to see as much of London as could be
seen in a few hours as the National Guard of Paris
within the last few days. We can but express, in
conclusion, a hope that the result of this visit to our
capital of many hundreds of the armed citizens of the
French metropolis, who are engaged in the arduous
task of restoring the supremacy of law and order, may
not be altogether unproductive of solid advantage, as
well as of momentary interest and amusement.

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