The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-09
From the ". Y. Sun.

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The Great Western, from Bristol 22d utimo, ar
rived at six O'Clock last evening, bringing London
and Liverpool papers to her day of sailing, together
with large number of passengers, and Dickens
new book entitled 90 Notes on America" for a copy
Of which indebted TO our attentive and enter
prsing Liverpool correspondents, Messrs. Wilmer &
Smith.
| We find no political news Of interest in our ample
files. Mr.. Dickens book is largely extracted from
by the London press, and from cursory glance
those extracts, judge that he has made out work
which the Americans will have some little reason to
| find fault with.
| His observations upon the public and charitable
institutions of Boston, including the lunatic asylum
and Jas, contain matter not only Of an absorbing in
eres to the philanthropisi, but of the very highest
Importance to the legislator and economist
| He has pointed and stringent remarks upon
| the American representatives, to which we can now
do no more than simply refer our readers and with
| an account OF his presentation TO the President Mr..
Dickens concludes his first volume.
| The London Chronicle thus closes a summary
view of the general character Of the work
awe have here, we believe, an impartial book on
America so far as it proiessedy extends and for SO
praises when he i, pleased and blames when he is
annoyed or disgusted but his praise and blame are
alike reterable to broad principles Of right and wrong,
and are not the indiscrmnate outpourngs of perso-
nal petulance national prejudice.
" Like of common sense when he visited
another country, he expected to find things different
to those at home, and was prepared to accommodate
himself to the change. He presents to us vivid pic
lures and racy descriptions of the he viewed
at one time throwing his readers into commissions of
laughter, theu tea nf
sympathy, even the occasion demands or his own
ftful humor suggests
ale has not committed the presumptuous imperti-
hence of jottng down a diatribe against the cra-
vest institutions OF great people at the window Of
his travelling carriage the hppant insult Of pro-
nouncing upon their domestic manners and social
worth from BIRDS eye view taken at the easement
of his inn.
"He has not conceived it his bounden duty to abuse
every thing in exact ratio to the extent of its differ
ence from the English fashion," nor because he is
an ardent lover OF liberty, has he imagined necessa
ry perfection in every thing American because it is
republican.
ellis volumes have not the air of being manufac
tured to a publishers order because former books
by the same hand have 'taken the town." but are
fresh, stirring and vigorous. He never twaddles-
indeed TO Dickens that would be mpossible-but,
which is better praise, he never Troltopises."
Now we have not the remotest idea what, in the
estimation Of the Chronicle, is entitled to this iaL-
cised epthet but if Mrs. Trolope ever perpelraed
any Iroiiopy which surpassed tie following hcadding
trucking to the British press, at the expense of sa-
critce of al the rirues and of the American press we
have never come across it, Witness his dairbe up
on the American newspaper press
When any man Of any grade of desert, in intel
lect or character, can climb TO any public distinction
no matter what, in America, without grow eng down
upon the earth, and bending the knee before this
monster OF depraviiy; when any private excellence
is sale from Its attacks when any social confidence
is LETT unbroken by it, any tie of social decency or
honor is held in the least regard when any man in
mat Tree country has freedom of opinion, and pre-
sumes to think for himself and speak for himself
without humble reference censorship which, from
lis rampant ignorance and sheer dishonesty he utter
y loaths and despres in his heart; when those who
most acuely feel its niamy and the reproach it casts
upon the nation, and who must denounce il to each
Other dare to set their heels upon and crush it open
" IN the sight OF all men then i will believe that
It's influence is lessenig, and men are returning to
their manly senses. But while that press has its evil
eye in every house. and its black hand In every ap-
pointment in the State from President to post
man--while with ribald SANDER for its only stock in
trade, is the standard literature of an enormous
class, who must find their reading in newspaper or
they will not read at all-so long must its odum be
upon the countrys head, and so long must its odiu
be plainly visible in the republic. TO those who are
accustomed to the leading English journals or TO the
respectable journals of the Continent of Europe-o
those who are accustomed to anything else in print
and paper--it would be impossible, without an
amount of extract, for which | have neither space
nor inclination to convey adequate idea of tins
irghtiul engine IN America
The LATE FIRE At LrvERrooL-The following is
a detailed account CT the damage done by the late
conflagration AZ, 1871 bales cotton, II gS7 barrels
turpenne, $50 barrels rosn 80 casks taIow GO tons
oil, las tons hemp Ia tons fax 200 casks beef,
1924 barrels fou 800 sacks -four, ) tons coffee 5
tierces coffee, 81 casks tnca 0S casks quercitron
bark 60 casks horn tips, 81 tons logwood 81 double
maduer. cOrn e
India rubber, crates teasels and several packages
and parcels of drugs.-Lrepoof Journal.
The packet ship Columbus, hence, arrived at Liver
pool both uit.
The prelimnaries for the marriage of her ROYAL
Hghness the Princess OF Augusta of Cambridge
have been finally arranged and the nuptuai ceremony
will take place at no very distant day.
The Calcutta Star tells an affecting anecdote Of the
retreat from Ghuznce Ga The death Of Lieutenant
Lumsden and his young wife is confirmed, and the
details of their fate, as narrated of the most
melancholy and painful character. IL is stated that
when he fell, desperately wounded, his young wife
threw herself upon his body, and impored him not TO
leave her TO fall into the hands of the enemy when
he with last effort, drew his pistols from his belt
and put end first to her suerngs and then to his
own"
Lord Advocate Sir William Rae expired on the
10Th ultmo at ST. Catharines, his country seat near
Edinburgh.
A man named Joseph Hall has been arrested at
London charged with having stolen bag of gold,
between 20 and 80 dollars consist
ing Of 10 doubloons Of Mexico, Bogota, and Chill,
and quarter eagles Of the United States coinage the
property Of Mr.. Montfort, English emigrant So
journing at the South Boston Hotel, Boston.
Among the recent failures find the names Of
Evans, Foster & Langton, in the Ceylon trade,
London and the Liverpool firm of Gordon s. Green
whale.
The complaints Of the enormous intrigues OF Rus
STA are becoming universal The Paris National calls
atten ion TO the alarming progress making by Rus
sia, which, if not impeded 10y The other European
powers, bids fair to fulfil the weknown prophecy Of
Napoleon Her last project IS that Of uniting in
phalahx all the families Of Sclavonian orIgn.n