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several new ones in progress sufficiently attes
along Castle-street, Lord-street, Church-stree

we were struck with the elegance and cost:

►s, and the profuse abundance in which the]
varied stores. Every body has heard o
and therefore I shall give no description o

I am not sure that it is even
of its class in the London world—
t surpassed. But what pleased us still more

e leading streets, was the va
nce of the second-rate shops all throw
ttrast which Liverpool thus presents wit

rich we had just left, and which was freshest upon our
s most striking. There is nothing in Liverpool to be
le College Green and Westmoreland-street,
and Sackville-street of Dublin. Liverpool
gay equipages, n3r the fashionable moving
such a light and pleasing air to the living
Dublin is like an elegant
Liverpool like a solid

the coach maker's

t a farming-implement manufactu-
ut when you have seen the good parts and the bright
what then? Why, then, prepare for the
Ind what these are, let Daniel O'Connell or

completed a

other Irish patriot sing or say for me, with an appro
tvirra-strue. But when you have seen a pretty toler
measure of fair streets and good houses, shopped o

wise in Liverpool, you have to prepare only for seeing
aye, more of the same order and quality still. Ii
n you pass from splendour (a splendour, by the way
'ten on the surface only) to beggary—from the elegan
ons—once of the nobility—of Merrion-square and Ca
th-row, to the squalor and misery of the Liberty ; bu

ou have no such swift transitions to make

there are some very capital mansions, worthy of an
it and flourishing city, in Abercromby-square, Bedford-
, Mount-pleasant, and that neighbourhood ; but there
hers to match them in Islington, Shaw-street, and
luarters. But take an inferior order of messuages and

appurtenances as the subject of comparison, and you
sort of republican equality widely prevailing, which it
ghtful to contemplate. Everton, and Edge-hill, and
lane abound with capital isolated mansions, pleasantly
!d, and almost, if not altogether, beyond the boun-
if that smoky envelopement which so greatly mars
suty cf a lower region. But these are the domiciles
. Such we expected to find, and
—Liy not greatly surprised to meet with ; but
vered a theme of remark which to us was more novel
"al in the vast diffusion of substantial comfort, and
prosperity which we could trace in so many ob-
- shapes around us. The population of Li-
one. There are large proportions of Welsh
Jut the grave and business-like character of the
..ce predominates, and seems, like Aaron's rod, to
swallowed up all the others. Liverpool has few loungers,
sopears to be fully occupied with his own affairs
be. There is no gadding about—no gos-
, even the merchant of the shop, though you buy from
.h, seems to think you exact too much, if you expect him
to furnish you with conversation as well as goods at the one
-ice. The French art—and I may add the Irish too, (for the
and daughters of Erin certainly excel in it)—of talking
deal, and saying nothing, or of talking merely to sus-
..,t exquisite instrument, the human voice
iot understood here. The English have ever been,
be, I believe, a serious matter-of-fact people.
6, doing," is, at all events, the order of the day in this
t town, and not talking, and I would give it these short

ercantile aristocrasy

isequentl

Saxon r

er they may

music of tE

rds as a motto for its crest—

Virtute, non ver bis

reat deal of business here in a quiet way, sir,"
;ent bookseller to me, as he handed me a guide-
for which I had paid him. "No doubt of that," said

Ye do a

I, " you have that art in perfection, and long may you retain
it, for you seem to thrive by it wonderfully. I only wish
that people that I wot of, could learn the secret."
Next day being Sunday, we did not fail, in the morning,
to re-kindle the flame of heavenward musings by attending
the church of the celebrated minister of St. Jude's—nor in
the evening to drink in the sweet harmonies of the Blind
Asylum chapel; but I have not half-done with secular mat-
ters yet, and must postpone my sabbath walks and pen, till
these are all disposed of. Sufficient, however, for the day—
to-morrow we shall resume.

LY VEGETATION.—Grass has already appeared in our
The first load for the season was sold in the New
irket, •on Saturday last. Mr. Skirving, of Walton,
seller, and Mr. Haggerston, cowkeeper, Scotland-

..—Let us take our station in the east, and
ue extent of our lodges. We behold before us
;ace—length and breadth, and depth and height ;
ins unnaeasurable ; in comprehension, inconceiv-
,s view embraces a representation of the world ;
di all its treasures, the beauties of the vegetable
the riches of its subterraneous mines and caverns,
iountains and boiling whirlpools, the scaly produce
hless ocean, and all the advantages to be derived
itime traffic over its yielding surface. The toils of
and the benefits of commerce, the mutual aid and
'ommodation afforded to each other by different na-
-1 included in a general survey of a mason's lodge.
us this, the great advantages conveyed to man-
ts and sciences, are here placed before us. We
of architecture as displayed in gorgeous pa-
the construction of stately cities,
i the rural peace and retirement of the humble
.... sheds and dwellings of mud and straw. We
in our prospect the scenes of every kind, by which
,ature is ennobled, or our frame supported. The cheer-
., harvest-field of the industrious peasant, and the busy hum
and clink of a manufacturing population, each employed in
procuring subsistence, and preparing benefits for their fellow
creatures; the sailor on his fickle element, and the statesman
haranguing in the senate ; every rank and and class busily
employed in their vocation, and all toiling for riches, honors,
popularity, and bread. These scenes diversify the surface,
whether east or west, or north or south. And if we descend
The
toward N, the same busy industry prevails.
bo '- s 1 re eagerly ransacked for their rich con-
t d • . ._ , consenting to be buried in dreary
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