The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-15 00:00:00

would confer a benefit especially on Ameriea, who
lost most by the present system. It was also con-
sidered necessary that the Steites should have on
this side such a financial agency, to raise luaus,
pay dividends and coupons, and meet the drafts of
the tVashington Treasury. It was thought that
an establishment on a grand scale, known to be in
connection with the Government, would not only
supply an American want, but tend to establish
upon a firm basis the credit of the United States in
Europe. A resolution is now before Congress to
appoint such an agency, and the New York Journal qf
Commerce says that Mr. M'CuLeocn, who has ac-
cepted the post, will be located in London, while as a
partnerof Messrs JAY COOKE and Co. he will represen t
here that firm. It is a matter of astonishment to Eng-
lishmen to observe the sudden changes which trans-
form an American Cabinet Minister of enormous
power into a resident partner of a banking house
expatriated in a foreign city. Let them glance at
the short sketch we last week gave of the new
and re-elected Senators, and they will see how
common these changes are. HANNIBAL LIA3I LIN
was a small farmer ; be was then Vice-President,
a second time farmer, and now member of the
United States Senate. General CARL SCHURZ,
after many a hungry day in London, was a writer
for the newspaper press—Minister to Madrid—a
General commanding an Army Corps of the United
States—again newspaper correspondent, the step
being direct from the great power which his ele-
vated military post gave in time of war down to a
correspondent, and from the editorship of a Ger-
man newspaper be Has now entered the Senate.
The Republic is full of men whose career has been
even more chequered. A Judge descends from the
bench of the Supreme Court to work as an attor-
ney. A Cabinet Minister from a seat at the Coun-
cil Board takes a place at the desk of a trading firm,
a President becomes a lecturer, and a most cele-
brated General, on whom has hinged the future.
of a continent, has sunk into a professor's chair of
an obscure college. These curious changes are in-
accordance with the genius of the people, and are
the practical result of their institutions. It is a
common thing to hear an American say that he has
to do one morn only, to have tried all the profes-
sions. He has sailed a ship, he has commanded a
regiment, he has argued a case, he has run a news-
paper, be has worked a farm, he has failed as a
merchant, he has ".stumped" a State, he has
" spouted" in Congress, be has represented Repub-
lican dignity in the Court Of a despot, he has been
manager of an hotel, and he intends to die a
bishop! In Europe a!l this is iacmnprehentible,
genuine facts being ascribed to exaggeration,
and listened to with incredulity. More espe-
cially iu England is a man's choice of a profe-4-
aim like th.l choice of a wife, an irrevocable
step, to which he is tied ail: .3 the Siamese twins,
for the place he gets into, however ill adapted to
his form, as he afterwards may find, he becomes com-
pelled thenceforth to occupy; and the square man
in the round hole has through friction to wear off
the sharp angles, till he gets accommodated to the
position. These professions are like the castes
of India, they are so hedged in that it is almost im-
possible to enter them except by training at an early
age for the career. They possess degrees of dignity
made sacred by time, and an esprit de corps compels
each member in his own person to maintain that dig-
nity. A voluntary descent to something society
considers beneath the former position would be
regarded almost as a crime, certainly as an offence ;
and he who rises from the lower into the higher
walks of life does all he can to obliterate every trace
of the former stage, treating an allusion to it in his
presence almost as an insult. An American, on
the contrary, throws up what the Englishman con-
siders the higher and goes back voluntarily to the
lower, or he makes his original occupation his ar-
morial device. Mr. JOHNSON while at the head of
his mighty nation receives deputations of tailors,
and rliarnaana +ha_ track !VLSI!)
tradesman, acknowledging that he was never more
happy than when working in the craft. During
the election the Union was covered with tanner
clubs in honour of GRANT'S old employment. Of
all things most likely to be unsavoury to tho
olfactory sense of the Englishman who had been
so employed after he bad risen to high dig-
nity would be a tanyard, and all EUGENE RIM-
MEL'S perfumes could not overpower the taint.
Governor SEYMOUR'S occupation would be un-
derstood and condoned in England, as that of
a gentleman engaged in high farming, and he
could therefore even with pride offer his guests
some of the cheese from his own dairy. Many
Americans imagine that English prejudices against
trade and useful occupations generally, are con-
fined to the Upper I'ea Thousand; but this is a
great mistake, for perhaps these prejudices are
there lees felt than in the other grades of society
The traveller who takes a coach and drives through
an English county, on asking his JEHU to whom
that beautiful demesne belongs, learns that " Lord
COWHIDE is the proprietor, his grandfather was a
butcher ; he is a new man, and thought little of in
the county." " There," he will add, pointing to
some gable-ended country residence with straight
rows of trees, " that is the old manor house of Sir
JEREMY DIMMER, one of the most ancient ba-
ronets; indeed he came over with the Conqueror."
There can be little doubt that this prejudice is
giving way before the progress of Americanization,
and a handicraft-man does not now seem so much
inclined to sneer at the family founded by his sat- •
cessful fellow-craftsman. That "founding a family"
is what Americans dislike, and Englishmen love.
The very essence of the institutions of the Re-
public is, that every man should have a fair
chance in life and succeed or fail according to
his individual merits. The founding a family
is the reverse of this, the object being to perpetuate
a name, a memory, to which other considerations
have to give way. Hence the law of primogeni-
ture and entail, by which all the younger sons, and
all the daughters are thrown aside in favour of the
first-born son, who may turn out to be the most un-
worthy
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woolsack, again as hard as a garden bench ; now
he is on the stool of repentance, now with a dunce's
cap placed in a corner, but always busy and hurrying
along from change to change, up and down in the
ever-restless throng, the übiquitous, pliable, brain-
working Yankee, who tries all things, and to whom
only of all mankind is conceded the power, o: doing
them all well.

TEXAS.—Among the Southern States the giant
Texas, in material resources, stands preeminent. Her
cotton crop last year yielded 240,000 bales, worth $18,000,000
in gold. Among her shipments 100,000 head of beeves
and 300,009 hides. There are at least 5,000,000 head of
cattle in the State, and large quantities of wool aro ex-
ported. Corn, potatoes, and every kind of vegetable and
produce is abundant and cheap. With all these elements
of prosperity within her nothing can prevent her onwarl
course.— Wall-street Journal.

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