New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-16

water iron steamers and wineries Onniouscs,
which crowd the principal avenues here, as tney
do Broadway, in New 7 Tork, were only introduced
in 1880 They take you to any part OF the city
4 I'm their route for sixpencc sterling. In cabs,
whether for one, two or three persons, you pay
. shilling mile, and si&pence for an additional
mile. or two slliliings If by the hour. Every
thing is taxed here. A hackney coach pays a
duty OF ten shhngs per week. Each wheel and
sprng Of every vehicle is taxed In the country.
the coachlnan is compelled to show his license Go
post TO the Gate (or pike, as Sam Weller calls
them Keepers. There are over 1000 hacks, and
over 900 omnibuscs for London and its environs.
The latter. it is computed, carry over 10000 pas
sengers daily.
The first vessel propelled on the Thames by
steam, was brought from Glasgow in 1915, eight
years after our Hudson River was thus naVlgatcd.
The steamboat fare to Woolwich, Greenwich.
Margate, Ramsoate, GraveSend, &c &c. Is rea-
sonable and these excursions are exceedingly
pleasant to stranger
walked through Patcrnoster Row, among the
booksellers to-day, and INTO the London House
of WILEY s, PUTNAM, who you know are leading
booksellers and publishers in New York, and TO
whom [ had letter from my friends the t,R-
YgKs These gentlemen are doing much to
force knowledge of American books upon tho
British public. But they find many discourage
ments With the exceptions that exist among
eniohtened men Of liberal minds. the great mass
of Engishmcn look upon us as People scarcely
able to read and comprehend, and much less
qualified to write or think. and yet In looking
upon themselves and running over the " American
Book Circular" which these gentlemen have
pushed all over Europe, was proud OF the Lite
rary wealth Of my Country, and Of the array OF
names we present, that even British supremacy,
in Letters ana Science does not cast into tie
shade
Mr.. ALISON, in his History of Europe, takes
OCCASION to show how much better qualified he is
10 speak Of Europe than Of America, by the re-
mark that while the g american soil is not 1ant-
ing in genius, European HABITS and ideas
necessary 10 Their dMc deye!0pcmem." This con-
cIuson is drawn from the circumstance that
WASHINGTON TRviNG, DR.. CLAIMING, &C., have
published their works in England. This assump-
ton however, is destroyed by the fact that these
writers produced their best works before they
crossed the Atlantic; and if further proof Is
wanting we have it in the conclusive circum-
stance that some Of our ripest and rarest schol
ais have noI even yet had tiieir " iiaoljs ana
ideas developed by visit 10 England. But
refer to this, more for the purpose OF saying that
Messrs WILEY & Putnam, in their Preface to
the Circular, have rendered American Literature
good service, by Notes and Statistics which,
while they correct the errors INTO which Mr.
ALISON may have fallen unintentionally, expose
the ialsehoods and rebuke the nsoencc OF british
reviewers and travellers.
To the charge that "intcIlectuG! G6l!:fy Of tie
highest order meets 1rith 40 eacouyagemcnt IN
Arelica,' tie Circular opposes the fact that nine
Editions Of prescott's g Ferdinand and Isabella
Al, 4 ont al
America both very expensive works. have re-
Gently been sold in America. The position is
further fortified by strong facts, not the least o'
which is that while our own books sell, large and
expensive editions OF all valuable European books
are published and sold in America. The Circular
atirms, too, upon good English authority, that
the lexicons, by ROBINSON, the Textbook Edit
tons OF Horace, by ANTnoN, the contribution to
Spanish History, by PREsCoTr, Medical jurls
prudence, by our respected townsman, DR.. /.
RoMEyN Beck, and even Dictionary OF the
English Language, by NoAu WEBSTER q are the
best works. in their several departments, existing
IN the language
The Circular exposes some very discreti;ahle
English piracics upon American literature and
in1urcrs who, il looking over the titles of London
Publications, would suppose that '.Quebcc and
New York. or the three Beauiies" was the same
as Burton, or the Siegcs;" that "'Fhe last days
OF Arrelian" is nothing less or moro than Mr.
Wares f" Probus, or Rome IN the third Century,;
OF Montaine,' only new title for y new
tomc:' and that Sparks f" Life Of Ledyard, the
American Traveller appears here as g Memoirs
Of Lcdyard, the A6icaa Traveller; :" Judge
SgcRy's Law and Bai!mcnts," cat into fragments
BY lheobo?d and appended to his Notes on SIR
William johnson; and finally, that Volume OF
IL >,l.- I,.t
NEAL, OF Phi!adglphia appear here entire, bound
up without c!odi, in the Pic Me Papers,
eaitcd BY Ci'ARI.&s DlckFNs,
AproPos OF Dickens, | was about 10 cali on
Boz The day after my arrival in London, with
friend who is well acquainted with him. but dc
iayed lhc cail al uggest;on of Bishop tluGnGs,
Who SAID from the strange questions asked hrn
about America, based upon Dickens character
ei US. he would advise me 10 read the last num-
her OF Martin Chc2zlewit before | made niy
call Having read that number, 1t Is scarcely
necesSsrv 10 say that the call ,yas indefinitely
pos,pgaed. Was ever such malice or ribadry
rerpctrated Dickens has actually out Trolopet
f!d!er and Hall. His caricaturc OF New York is
even coarsey than that OF another man of Ro
Nance, who, after enjoying the refaements Of
Europe, sought and Found " his sHome.,,
sadly out OF temper And all this TRADE, the
sfosSness of which is only cquaed by Its stupidity.
b!usted forth because the American Congress did
rot think proper to pass an inter national law OF
copyright for an Author who. with idio;ic AFRO.
gance, made the mcrcenary object Of his visit the
Principal topic of speech delivered at Boston
Immediately after his arrival.
But let me go back to Wiley & PurSAM's
American Eook Circular," where find metal
more attractive, Let it be remembered that the
sale Of American books in England encounters
many obstacles other than those ! have referred