The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

through the mist for a moment. And then Mr.
Parry suddenly changes into the bachelors friend,
Mr. Olympus—a heavy, classical-allusionist gentle-
man of ponderous jocosity—who looks sternly over
tortoiseshell spectacles at the bridesmaids
.whose
health he proposes—begins with " The ancient
Greeks," goes on with the Vestal Virgins, quotes his
" humorous friend Homer," reflects on the disad-
vantage of shaving young ladies' heads, apropos
of the supposed custom of the Vestal Virgins,
hurls—with that grave energy which precludes
the idea of anything more than oratory--heavycompliments straight at the eight bridesmaids' sa-
teen eyes, and ends, after a long pause, with an
emphatic and even earnest enunciation of the plir"
pose, " I shall now sit down." The manly decision
of this last resolve, the firmness with which it is in-
stantly carried into execution, the strongly giark,e
divisions of his sentences, and the steady, thorougir
going way which Mr. Olympus goes through all 11?
classical allusions, jokes, and compliments, are 3111
striking contrast to the espgglerie and flutter o
emotion which otherwise marks the whole occasion:
Mr. John Parry can transform himself at a moment:
notice from the delicate, curvetting, conscious Amy/
i▪
nto the strong, stout cob.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON EMOPE
FRIENDS OF AMERICA.—It was pertinently and
forcibly asked by a great Reformer of a Pe°P e
i▪ n the olden time—" Am I, therefore, becoule
ta
your enemy because I tell you the truth?" Wi
equal force and pertinence, it may be asked now
—ls, therefore, the friend of America of noes:
say the enemy of Europe ? Certainly not. But here the other inquiry naturally arises—Ai'"
are the friends of America in Europe ? There
iS
but one answer to this question—The friends 01
America are they who tell the truth about her.
Am erica ought not to recognise any others as her
friends, either at home or abroad. In other dais
she had these friends in Europe, whose faithful Pre-
dictions have been more than verified by the sable"
quent events of history. In more recent tune Si.
America has found other friends in Europe, frier
who have told the truth about her, through goo
report and through evil report ; and how trilirni;
phantly are their prophecies being fulfilled ! A
claim Richard Cobden, and John Bright, an
Thomas Bayley Potter, and Sir Morton Pett
and Edward Baines, and P. A. Taylor, and me-
of like character, as friends of America, because theri
have done no more and no less than tell the truth
about her, in plain English. For the same rea-
son we honour Laboulye and Gasparin, in Fran
Kossuth, in Hungary, Garibaldi, in Italy, an,
men of a kindred spirit in Germany, Switzerlano,
and other parts of Europe. Professors Cairn
and Newman, and Smith, Reverends Hall, 3„,%
Noel, and Guthrie, and other good men, r",,,
friends of America, because, in representing
position, they have told the truth. In doing
great work are all these men, enemies
of the eney;
of Europe ? Again we replyi—certainly 110:
The high-minded and well-informed man every()
where must see that the growth of America true
greatness is but the transplanting and expans,!eti°,
sound European principles on the American td°l3„o
ne. nt. The original founders of America sPrti
directly from- England. They drank their firs
draughts of liberty from English fountains ; draughts
that lost none of their strength by a wintry voyaAl g
of three thousand miles in the cabin of the
Flower, and by being replenished from the stici
broader and deeper springs of life in the New W°Dt;
Americans do not ask their friends in Europe
flatter America. They well know that het!.,o
country has had her faults, and has them still. 11,
would not dissemble about them, nor have them
cloaked. Let the truth be told of America just
it is, for that alone will stand the test of ages..
any of the men we have named in this article
should visit America—some of them, we are haPPI
to say, have done so—they would see much there
to condemn. But no intelligent or candid Amer;,
can would on that account regard them as t„
enemies of his country. Neither would he regaw
the American who told the truth about Europe,
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they the enemy of America. By the same r
they who commend that which is commendable!:
America are by no means to be regarded as the.
enemies of Europe. On the contrary, they are ,
only real friends of both countries.