Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-23
FROM TIE CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.
Thoughts about Europe.
LONDON, July Is, 49,


Mr.. Editor: The excitement and wea-
riness of constant travel, as we'll as other
engagements, will prevent my sending
you any thing like connected journal of
nv tour; but [ cannot refrain from fur
nishing your readers with some general
impressions made on my mind, of Europe.
| have now been in this kingdom nearly
four weeks, and have travelled eleven
hundred miles in Ireland, Scotland and
England. / stayed from two to four days
in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, and Edn-
burgh. | have had abundant access 10
private families of every class, and listen
ed to six sermons. You know | am liable
to keep my eyes open, and to improve my
Yankee privilege to ask questions, when
information is to be obtained. L may be
allowed therefore to state few general
differences from what | have heard and
seen, without entering into details, for
which have at present no leisure.
In the first place, agriculture is mere
greatly in advance of what 1t is IN the
United States. This makes the physical
aspect of the country most beautiful to the
traveller.
2. There is every where the evidence
of great capital seeking investment in pub
lie enterprises, and giving to all works
constructed an expense, finish and dura-
biIity unknown in the United States. The
presence of monuments which have endu
, red for thousand years, seems 10 nave
, given to the capitalists of the old WorlC
the idea of building for a thousand years
-. | huI Php1 n
: the present, and leave posterity TO tak'
: care of itself
b 3. Females, as class, in this country
have less respect than in ours. They ar
. crowded and joslled in stages and steam
. boats, without mercy, and left to fight theI
= own way. Add to this, that in Scotlan
= and Ireland, and even England, more tina
. one-half of the field labor is performe
:, by women, whose wages for ten hour
= hard service is ten pence. After the day
labor. the house work is TO be done. Y
il the personal neatness, refinement and ed
e cation of women, so much depends, IN
?. such a system cannot be pursued, wltho
If great detriment to the elevation OF soclet
70 A. Throughout this kingdom, there Is
n. great sycophancy to artificial distinction
,e What Her Majesty has said and DONE
- what HIS Grace or His Lordshlp has don
40 in the smallest trifes, is made matter
" general conversation and high interest
q, the most cultivated society, including Gle
,f gvmen and their families. This to
I'M American is hard to be endured.
air 5. The laborers of this kingdom are
n. degraded and humbled class. In irela
70. their mud novels are miserable cabli
nd and their furniture more scanty, and In
" whole aspect more deplorabIe, than ma
ak ever seen in the "quarters" OF Soutnf
ton plantations. In Scotland even, the Lap
ont inc man has oatnseaI soup for breakls
.ov and oatmeal soup for supper, with lie
ink en- bread, made OF peas and barley.
nb. iii some great revolution shall change
sr,s tenure Of property, and release the iat
49,. ers from enormous rents to feudai Ia
her lords, who squander $500, 900 yea
Tho broad, thus drawing the life blood from
The country, / do not see that TINS sta'e
f.e things can be changed.