The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-03 00:00:00

AUTUMN TRAVELS.

I boldly assert that the pleasure of Continental tra-
velling is not only not overrated, bat that it is one of
the greatest and purest pleasures which this world can
give. It is not the travelling, but the travellers who are
in fault. Otir friends in the dusty voiture had been doing
had been doing too much. Having perhaps but two or
three weeks to spare, they thought that the best way
of enjoying them was to get over as mach ground as
possible. Accordingly, they rushed in a few hours
from London to Bale or Geneva, their impressions of
foreign countries being thus far limited to sea-sicknese,
gesticulation, jabber, gendarmes, passports, billets de
bagages, and salles d'attente. They probably rose in a
state of utter bewilderment at two or three o'clock in
the morning
tringaion,f the day on which it was your privilege
to
see them ; since which they have been in an ornnibu,,
a railway
a steamer, over a mountain pass, and
five or six hours with a voiturier. Their object was to
do a great deal, and heir consolation is that they have
done it.
a, heard
They have "done" the lake, the pass, the
waterfall, the cathedral.heeeard tthe
e eThey
ha t
hhaatv
everybody
seen the
hearseun rise
a t
over s.o and
one place, drank the wine that everybody drinks at
another,
and seen the figures come out on the clock at
another. It is this insane i
ane
the root of the tourist desire to "do," which at
.rirasery. Oa his return home
he finds the
and thathat having " might
dolite'l t
evael ryt wellhih
oh, avh ee shtaaey elide
ettilo ehroe.,
I will answer for it,
if people
swould give up the
rr doing" system, and take to h
seldom complain of disappointrnenteeiinngi'o reith:ny t would
.
Let them remember that a besot ful scene is not beheld
to the greatest advantage if you rush by it in a steamer,
or if all the time you are looking at it you are r t g
with heat or sighing with fatigue, or wondering whether
you shall be too late for the next train. You have
no
right to travel in this way. You have no right to deny
yourself time to dwell on the tnaj ;sty and beauty of
those klerious works of God which it is your rare privi.
lege, for no desert of your own, to see ; nor to come
suddenly upon them with a min" in that devotional
state which is the re-arlt of the daily perusal of articte,
in newspapers and a sedulous attendance on metropo-
litan dinner-parties. II it were possible for you to de
without them, I should even have advised you to tie -
pense with Murray and Bradshaw, and the whole tribe
of guide-hooks, as dangerous incentives to " doing.
Fraser's Magazine.

HARVEST IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE.'—The accounts re
ceived from the south of Europe relative to the ci rn
crops are rig t very satisfactory. The prolonged drought
of the month of April militated against the earirg of
wheat, and it is thought there will be an undue quantity
cf straw. The yield will, it is believed, be but moderate
in Lombardy, Konnagna, and the ki:gdoen of Naples.
In Algeria the wheat harvet will commence about the
middle of the present month. It is generally affirmed
that in the provinces of Algiers, Oran, and Constantino
the harvest_witl be-iatisfactory for wheat and barley,
and
indifferent foe oats. From Spain the accounts are
contradictory.