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

ftrain fatigue. Il is not. within nv renernber.
ance what the explorers If Greek and Roma n
antiquities have discovered Of the proficiency
of the two sumpremely civilized hafions II
the art ofPl12ngs Thought giis could be car
ried no further than had VIII ed il II Paris
under as Isupposed al posi- FIRMS, But in
a fortnight at London ] saw hat TIE anclents
must have been, as the PafSiaIs with their
long and highly tasked ingenuity stIll arc
mere novices and bungIeTa when compared
with the English in. their Babylon the Great;
Their advertising and notorety seeking i0F
their inventions, wares, shoEss enterprises
institutions, men and women in what ephano
e enp tHa1sut fGHsgXfr esggsr III null
tipled beyond calculation IN every way 70
strike the eye and the fancy, and to excitecu-
pdity and curiosity, constitute apart an exam.
pie study of London life. invention, industEyi
and quackery. r~fhs
The extensive board enclosures of the new
Exchange, and the other huge edifices advan-
cling in the principal seats of business and FASH
ion, are covered with printed bills of every sizes
where every marvel and every good calculated
to meet the necessities, re6nementss and fol-
lies of metropolitan existence, is presented so
as to make impressions of some kind or on
some foible of every passenger. Those en-.
closures, was told, are farmed out, and yield q
round sum to the spectators. When gazed
at the long files of sturdy porters marching
soemnIy with immense advertising bills raised
aloft, and at the octagon towers exmnltmg on
each PANEL the card of tailor or bOotmaker
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
grotesuuencss of those parades could not be
advantageously spared by resort to some OF
the scores of kspapers. He stated that
there were hosts of purchasers and sight-seers
who never read the newspapers, or, at least,
never looked at the advertising columns; that
every day, crowds OF provInclals ana other
strangers entered London who had not the Tune
or opportunity to take up journal ana 20
whom as sure customers everything must ne
at once emblazoned in the streets. l1tne pm
ces of travelling by the railroads and steamers
were lowered, the capital would gam, think
considerably, by an additional daily influx rom
all parts from which it could be reached wltnm
four or five hours; and ! need not say now
large and populous circuit they form. IN
Paris we can distinguish at different PERIODS OF
the day on the boulevards the lmportalions OF
traders, and proyincials on tEoilc, OF the
Rouen and the Orleans lines, recently comPle.
ted. If this city betrayed the expense Of an
the railroads to the coast and tho interior, TINS
would be, in the end, lucrative QUAY. Inc
committee ofthe Deputies on the grand scheme
of internal communications have decided IN
favor of Calls, in preference to Boulogne' as the
place Of railroad connection between Paris ana
Londen by Dover. But company VIII give
Bou1ougne branch, and the official route WI
will not be more frequented. The rlde 70 Oa-
lais is more picturesque-a WORD however,
which ought not to use in connexlon Win
railroad, with its deep and short cuts. tunnels
and erpeduion. AS you journey in the coach
from Dover to Ashford, the views OF the coast
and ocean, glorious spectacIes. render you moro
sensible to the negative glimpses Of the country
from the cars thence to the metropolis. L
thought that perceived the influences OF
steam dispatch in the hurry OF the private oln-
ners in London; half the time OF the old era Is
not allowed in the new, for choice and maStica-
ton.