The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-02 00:00:00

THE LITERARY MAN IN FRANCE.--The literary
man glides into the cabinet and the boudoir, not in a powdered
wig and an embroidered waistcoat, but bound in vellum. He
does not measure his force or his address with your's, but his
intelligence ; he is the person to admire ; he is the person to
fear ; he is the person in France which he is nowhere else.
He is the person in France that he cannot be in America, for
there is no superstition for the arts in America ; the vanity of
wealth, the natural consequence of a nation depending wholly
on its industry and on its commerce, predominates over the
diviner thoughts and more graceful occupation of letters. He
is the person in France that he cannot be in Germany—for in
Germany a " von " before your name is a matter of social ne-
cessity ; for in Germany, to be " well-born," or to be " nobly
born," or to be " right nobly born," is a matter submitted to
historical rules, and the superscription of a letter demands the
profoundest study, the most accurate knowledge, the nicest
distinctions. He is the person in France that he cannot be in
England—for in England politics is the only passion of the
men, fashion the only idol of the women—for in England to
be a blockhead is far more pardonable than to live in a bad
street—for in England to have voted against the house and
window tax would win you more favour than to have written
the profoundest work on legislation.—Bultver's New Work on
France.

Notwithstanding the large influx of emigrants which
has taken place this year, we are glad to learn that employ-
ment continues abundant in Canada. Some thousands of
labourers even were wanted for the Welland Canal, the Grand
River Navigation, and other public works ; and the wages
given were 31. per month, with board. Mechanics, too, were
in great demand, and continued to obtain high wages.
Thrale's house and grounds in Streatham Park, to
which Dr. Johnson was introduced about the year 1765, and
where, subsequently to that period, Goldsmith, Burke, Ma-
lone, Stevens, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, with other distin-
guished literary characters of that brilliant era, were constant
guests, remain m nearly the same state as they were when that
hospitable and humane person died. The chamber occupied
by Johnson, over the drawing-room, contains the identical
table, or slab, on which the Doctor wrote many of his popular
works, and the inky spots left by him at the time are not per-
mitted to be obliterated. The breakfast-room, and the grate
under which Johnson indignantly threw a china cup and saucer
of great beauty, because of a severe rebuke from Mrs. Thrale;
the round or octagon summer-house near the mansion, in
which the Doctor arranged a considerable portion of his Dic-
tionary ; and many other reminiscences connected with the
great lexicographer, are still pointed out by an intelligent old
gardener, who, during many years has been a trusty servant.
The park and most extensive gardens are in a ruinous condi-
tion, and the house has been without a tenant ever since it was
given up by Prince Lieven. At the death of Mrs. Piozzi, the
estatlr was sold. It is now the property of Mr. Phillips of
Wimbledon, and is to let. We were grieved to hear that a
flourishing cedar-tree, planted by Dr. Johnson, at the west end
of the house, had recently been cut down by order of Mr.
Phillips.