The examiner., 1848-06-17
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Ii is pleasant to take one s ease in ones
inn; bot il is essential 10 the realization OF \
the idea, that il should be a good inn. For
an inn TO be good, there is no necessity that |
it should be fine. It may be fine, and not
good. The quality OF goodness in an inn
depends on its fulfilling the ideal Of its own
pretensions, whatever these are. All we re-
quire is, that it should be good Of its class;
that is, il il be grand inn, that it should
be grand without any derogatory slatternli-
ness, any misapplication Of servant power,
or any other drawback from splendor; If an
humble inn, pretending only to moderate
presentment Of comforts, that it should really
be tolerable home for its own class Of Gus
TONERS, and so forth. These pOstulates be-
ing attained, then, we may each take our
ease in our inn indeed; and very great
privilege it is to be able to do so at usually
so small an expenditure OF money. Duty,
pleasure, whim, or whatever else, calls US
out from home-we travel or ramble all
day-it is perhaps wilderness, with only
a few cottages scattered over il; but lol il is
a post-road we are upon; and there, for eer-
tain, at the end Of few miles, rises good
ly house, furnished with all the ordinary
comforts Of refined life-there smiling
welcome awaits us; il wet, we are sympa-
thised with and dried; if hungry, the table
is instantly spread; we lounge over good
fire all the remainder Of the evening, and
for the night rePose among sheets redolent
Of the daisies where they were bleached.
Mere payment Of a bill next morning,
though legal, is not a moral discharge for
all these benefits. Never do | enjoy them
without personal thankfulness to the hon
est people who have chosen a mode Of live
lihOod so useful and so kindly towards their
fellow-creatures, as well as a more senti,
mental gratitude for the privileges Of living
in country so settled, and 80 advanced in
the things of civilization, as to admit Of such
a regular, albeit mercantile system Of hos
pilality.
Between the highest and humblest Of all
things the intervals are usually enormous-
for example, as has been somewhere re
marked, between the Archbishop Of Canter
bury and the hedge Parson, or between Sil
Ashley Cooper and the village aPothecary-
however they may be describable by com
mon names, as in these cases, clergyman Of
doctor. So between Mivarts, with it
rows Of fifteen windows TO Brook street. OF
Douglas and Barry's in Edinburgh, o.
Gresham's in Dublin, and the modest au
: berge Of the village, with its ''red lion pre-
dominating over a punch-bowl, or its black
bull, with gilt hools and horns, the inter
space is vast; and yet they all belong to the
genus INN, as well as the hundred shades o
variety which stand between. All, too
may have their virtues, if conducted in
fitting manner-on that every thing de
Pends. There is something interesting, al
most awing, In an outTageously large inn
/ 10 be shown with your carpetbag into No
/ lo9, or 2lI. is Of the nature Of an inpres
4 slve event-Somewhat chilling, TOO, perhaps
, seeing how individuality sinks when yol
/ consider that you are only one Of a multi
5 tude making your home for the night in th
: vast house. One feels in such a case O
$ wonderfully small account in the ewes O
both servants and masters. Your illness
or even death, would hardly fix their regar,
5 for moment. The beauty, however. is il
the regularity-the system. The bed
= chambering power perfect as clOckwork, il
, despite OF Virgil and his Uarium et uuta
! bile. Breakfasts appear at order, as if som,
law presided over the association Of the va
rlous things on the tray and their coming III
T Stairs. There is even generalization o
T hot shaving water which seems marvellous
+ One could almost suppose that boots wall
down stairs, clean themselves, and come III
i again. Mechanical, sentimentless, cold
f and unloving is the whole affair, vet how
5 admirably adapted for a general effect il
e giving comfort and exPediting wishes How
+ excellent entirely in its own way!--Chaul
I btTs' Journal.