The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-08-24


train fatigue. Il Is not. within my remember.
ance what The explorers of Greek and Roman
antiquities have discovered d the proficiency
Of the two sumpremely civilized nanonl n
the art ofpufiHg. / thought IBIS ce1ld BE- car
ried no fudhe. than had Wlla1ssed 4 q l'aTis
under as lsupposed al Postll laEms. But n
a fortnight al London / saw hat tie aesIenlB
must have been, as the Pafsians with TIER
long and highly tasksd ingenuity stu are
mere novices and bunglena Whan compared
with the English IN th8ir Babylon the Great.
Their advertising and notonety- seeking ior
their inventions wares, shoUsf enterprises.
institutions, men and women IN what spheEo
ana pursuit soever, bagrar al rrPust and daa-
cfIptions. 1neir devices and placanis, mn'-
tpled beyond calculation in every way 10
strike the eye and the fancy, and to excite CO.
pidity and curiosity, constitute apart an exam.
pie study Of London life, invention, industry
and quackey.
The extensive board enclosures Of the new
Exchange, and the other huge editices adyan-
cling in the principal seats Of business and hsh-
ion, are covered with printed bills Of every size
where every marvel and every good calculated
to meet the necessities, roinemenlg, and fol-
lies Of metropolitan existence, Is presented 80
as to make impressions Of some kind, or on
some loible Of every passenger. Those en-
closures, was told, are iauned out, and yield a
round sum to the spectators. When eazed
at tho long files Of sturdy porlers marching
solemnly with immense advertising bills raised
aloit, and at the ootagon towers exhibiting on
each PANEL the card Of tailor or b0otmaker
in colossal characters, and slowly revolving
as the horse proceeded in his daily tour ofma-
nv miles, | asked an old Londoner, my COM
panion, whether the expense, trouble, and
Grotesqueness Of those parades could not be
advantageously spared by a resort to some Of
the scores af Aewspapers, He stated that
there we're hosts Of purchasers and nght-seers
who never read the newspapers or at least,
never looked at the advertising columns; that
every day, crowds Of provincials and other
strangers entered London who had not the tme
OF opportunity to take up a Iournah and 70
whom as sure customers everything must be
at once emblazoned in the streets. 1.-THE pn-
ces Of travelling BY the railroads and s'ealiers
were lowered, the capital would gam, INNS
considerably, by an additional dauy inlnN ilo.il
all parts from which il could be reached within
Jour or FIVE hours; and ] need not say how
] large and populous a circuit they lotin, ~
Paris we can distinguish at different PERIODS o.
the day on the boulevards the imp1rtatons q
traders, and provincials on a ffohe, by me
Rouen and the Orleans lines, recently eomPie,S
ted. lfthis city betrayed the expense Of Az
the railroads to the coast and the interior, this
would be, in the end, lucrative outlay Inc
commit tee ofthe Deputies on the grand scne'ne
Of internal communications have decided IN
favor Of Calls, in preference to Boulogne, as 1hs
place Of railroad connection between PaIis ana
Londan by Dover. But a company val give
Boulougne branch, and the oficial route wi
viii not be more frequented. The ride 70 "a
lais is more picturesque word however
which ought not to use in eonne1ion win
railroad, with It's deep and short euta tnnneiSi
and expedition. As you journey IN me coacn
from Dover to Ashford, the views o. the coasl
and ocean, glorious speCtaoles, render you more
sensible to the negative glimpses o. the cSunT{
from the ears thence 10 the metropolis.
thought that / perceived the influences o.
steam dispatch in the hurry Of the private an
ners IN London; halfthe time OF the ola era Is
not allowed in the new, for choice and mas'ioa-
I ton.