New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-07-28

-. sor mole 10 pole; Thy capitalists WELD at
'a u f distant nations; and thy merchant prln
~" ~ b Inc right hand and the left the exrecI'ies OF
either Ind.
There is no place for uery ostentatiOn or the yain
5; of dis.ioated wealth The governor of the Bank of
Earl,nd and junior clerk carry with them chop 10 an
hpnbe tavern and parake of the midday meal with equal
lunilv director of the East India House end diapers
assistant their biscuit and take TIER glass Of sherry at
the bar; the Of hundred ships and the mate OF
trader exchange the the day the table OF din
~ cofec.house OF 4 dusky alley of Cornhill.
Taking his down Of The main OF the me-
iropos the aora for example, that Pocr the tt
tide human existence through Feeree aRd tie Strand
the splendor less real than that he has e behind OH mere
apparent breaks upon hs asten;shed "ew. Shc shops Il
the goldsmith piled from floor root viii! the richest ea-
of their the shawshops. through whose crysta
fronts catch The eorg-ousncss OF the commodities "ithn
the cmporurn of works Of and vertr wnere lessons OF
taste NAV he had for looking the repositories OF sdE'
inc appealing eoquesv the eve OF the mind these ana
thousand .vidcncc of dusive uea, oppre=s for while
and beder the mind b. ineir immensely and almost lead
to the belief that :. the wealth and splendor Of the world
must gathered here for scw. How much more would
our astonishmcnt increase ii We knew the history Of any
one Of those shops Gisputing attention The fortunes
that have been umasscd within for succession OF genera
ons-he fortunes that being amused IN them now by
some and the handsome competence they afford TO a-he
taxes ,hey pay the municipality and 10 the revenue TIE
incomes thev afford in rroundeu prot-reht-. beneficial
interests and partnerships nurs--!c iyelinoocS de-
rived by tradcsnen, clerks assistants down 10
the portcrs who take OF the shutters. and the man who
the crossing-not Ia speak OF the nyrads MO- all
over the world earn their bread and support their families
BY manufacturing the Observation-Disclosures works OF art and m
dustry that arc there within the limits OF hour walk,
hibed every passing stranser-wno can OF VINO cannot
buv Truly blame in speaking OF tIs city % i
world when consider that those shops. lttcd together
in rows like arks and edclns each other vi the
pavement, each lis owner aud may be com
pared for the purposes OF illustration with vast extent OF
erritory giving subsistence and employment to numbers OF
our fellow
We are nj Charine ross we have left behind the regions
the great merchants and OF the shoPocrats and we now
mdy adventure upon the cour regions OF the consumers
and " nat change Here PRIDE seems 10 Fegn
triumphant: coonc,ed carriages abound the butterflies OF
fashion are abroad ocnaliouS wealth. and nonproductIve
industry rule the desiines OF tins extremity OF our world
Anon in the heart mighty thoroughiarc, where every
zoo, Of ground is worth weight gold we skirt dead
wall n penicnary doubtless, prison No the MASSIVE
gate falls back upon ponderous hinges and, while COR
gesus oqupage rolls forth, reveals for instant spacious
courtyard ornnmentcd with statues and vases sumpuouS
palace occupying background. We would look at the
revealed spcndors far moment. but The foriy CerberS
fobds: darng indignant glance at the inqnve 'ran
ger he hastcns close the massive portal III our teeth
Talk Of the Grand Tsrk .arsoo, and his eraslo talk
of the secusion OF tn. lmpcneab1iy OF the
Faubourg St German assault upon The privacy OF any
icm chld play compared with the fororn hope
of penetrating the exclusive ecsion of the mosnates o
London fashionable life.
The space occupied by ot the town palaces o our
great nobility would If let building ground, afford more
than the revenue German Potentate slip OF wharfage
cut off from the foot of the garden of Of these produces
at this moment upwards of eight thousand pounds ayear
and the garden alone would let for sixteen eighteen thou
sand more Perhaps nothing conveya better idea OF the
ilmabe revenues of of the great afsocracy than
The fact that they can afford this immense sacrifice the
indulgence of city parks around their CITY palaces
Tho traveller is leaving the neghborhoods OF com
mercer he goes on for little WHILE The rivalry OF shops
and private dwellings continues but soon the former give
up the unequal contest and stranger finds himself IN
VIVA, is conventonay understood gentee neighborhood
4 mile further oil, grass plots and holly bushes
growing from tubs into fashion, how-pots we'll stored
with mgnonete musk stone-crop geraniuns aud poyan
,huses decorate the windows and the etdeludrd royoger
fond believes that he must now least approximate
the end Of the
Alas the end his journey farther than the journey he
has already made the wilderness of Lond,n out OF
town is before him and the shades of evening fall, and
The suburban butchers let on their gas, he finds himself
somewhere about the end of kcAsngton and tie beginning
of Tnham Green where footsore and weary he gives II
I'd as bad Job and the city, satisfied that this
vast metropolis is really and truly a world without end
The of suburban London distinguishes that city
emnentlv from the continental cities. mile beyond Paris
YOU arc in Wilderness of sard hills, gypsum qsares sterile
rocks and wndnils beyond the walls OF Rome there Is
literally an immense cxpanse OF desert; whereas London ii
we NAV borrow bull surrounds itself suburb cinsing to
suburb. like onions fifty u rope. =