Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-25

preston the Queens English is nowhere spoken with m,
correctness nor with 1.-THE of the uniformity that il Is on
your side Of the Atlantic Take Engishmen as they run NOT
of them five scope his mouth but out their file,
cockneysm proyincasm Stop the first person Won mee,
in the Strand and ask him the locality of Westminster Hall
and the chance is ten to that you will be told that The
ais directly hopposite 10 the Ha6bey" This abuse of be
asprae by confined b the ignorant part of
the community is aboos likely happen in the draw
ing room as on the pavemeM and have frequently
heard from highly educated and accomplished dyines in the
pulpit The country abounds with different dialects In ira
yelling tbrougsome districts could scarcely recognise IN the
p0tos OF the common people any thing like my own verna
euar. required the closest attention and constant stretch
OF the Imagination to understand the heahensh lingo MANY
OF these very dialects have the smallest family resemblance be-
tween them The Yorkshire the Norfolk and Suffolk and
the West of England, in which last Fielding his broad
est scenes nearly unlike each other High and Low
Dutch.
TO something like proper and standard before hoo
ing quite loudly Yankee phraseology. Draw pic
lures too, Of republican rudeness aud -breedng have
ourneyed some ten thousand miles the length breadth
OF my native land, and have many instances Of
coarsness and yugay have observed in travelling one
twentieth OF that distance in England On railways and in
steamboats, have repeatedly heard the presence respec
able females indecenes Of language that would have excited
general Indignation IN American conveyance and perhaps
have occasloned the immediate expulsion Of its authors Yet
here, noticed at all, they only treated food for
laughter Were book maker would be the thing
IN The world to trick these cut with all needn rhetorical
embellishments and attempt palm them of as yerable spe-
cTens OF English manners. The truth is that yulgary is
common enough every where and those who like work on
such material can always find hand But in neither
England nor America is it prevalent form popular
characteristic. At oil events and youch for it, America
has no reason to be ashamed of her republican breeding when
compared with that Of her proud mother the ao
wthsandng the latter has had the advantage of royal and
arsocraic models from time immemoriaI. >
In few things do Americans and Engshmen differ more
than in the extraordinary fondness of the latter for sport All
classes Of Engshmen to make of the
pnIa nf I,ta
geefu fvoty of the French It far manler least
far masculine in its character. Its play ground is not
the sde the adn but the wicket and the turf Horse
racing fox hunng, rabbt-coursng pgeonhootng, hurdle
eapns. cricket playing walking, running, rowing
hing, spIrng and fighting according to the different ranks
and tastes OF the people, its favoe modeso qualification
The man would hardly be Briton who did times in
duge in of these The of fox hunting parsons is
not you may have imagined, altogether extinct Scores
II not hundreds Of cegymen annually take out their
game certificates Love of gymnasc exercises almost uni
Versa among the country people. Every parish and
and county has lis avoe bully and this Of the
year particularly gatherings had every week two in
different parts o. each county for the trial OF athletic abilities
Those gatherng arranged and publicly advertised weeks
beforehand are Kept up two and sometimes three days,
ard TO those who particularly distinguish themselves prizes OF
considerable Of money awarded They attended
by people from tie whole county around including many
who move in the middle and upper walks of e Taverns
upon such occasions crowded from cellar TO garnet and,
IN travelling through the country was more than once put
to no little Inconvenience by absolute inability to obtain
lodgings at any public house for either love money
passion for horseracng pevades all classes This is
the darling sport the people; pacans and peheans alike
flock 10 the exciting spectacle and with their wives, their
sons, and their daughters. The "meetirgs, they
termed, arranged with the perfect SYSTEM that
there may be interference and liz the spring and fall
months they follow each other in almost uninterrupted
ceson of any importance takes place that its
suit does not produce certain sensation the whole
try. The forwarded by electric telegraph all Of the
principal towns and sought for with the greatest interest.
Hundreds Of thousands, and in millions Of pounds
in the aggregate saked upon the issue Of racewager
ed only by those the ground but by mutudes scat
tered all the kingdom The late Lord George Bentnck,
the distinguished leader Of the Tory party the week before
his death sngs horse ESQ., 600 at the Doncasier
Some conception may be formed Of the interest felt in
England in sports, from the fact that the weekly paper
Bells Life in London which is little else than chronicle
they transpe of regatta gymnastc contests and
prize ghts-yes gentle reader prize fights, for every
her contains description, aOre, Of half dozen
has, though its subscription price high, sale Of more than
27,0o0 while Of the five principal morning papers in Lon
don, The Times crculates only $1,000, the Daily News only
,OO0 and the Morning Chronicle, the Herald, and the
Post together only 1000 copies. Yours, &C. SIGMA.