New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-24

az cuneIform characters are SHARPLY diu S4N"''
ON, and even the lines ruled by the engrayer for
MS guidance, are still perceptlble. The system
.don,ed IN forming an alphabet Of the character,
is very simple and beautiful. There IS but one
form. that of a slender arrowhead, and all the
different symbol. are Constructed from this, oy
ra,iations of size, number and position. Il Is
the mos; picturesque written language nave
ever seen. Col Rawlioson, who has succeeded
n a considerable extent. III decyphenng the
characters. has lately read some OF the ncrip-
,;o,s On these bas-reliefs He intends returning
10 Assyria during the coming Winter. NJ Anr-
,.y tho nnblisber informs me that the discover
los recently made by Layard, (who Is now n
Fnoland) are even more interesting and import
tant than MS former ones.
Speaking of Nlneveh, perceive IN I't.nf'
INST received. that you have reversed the order OF
nv nronosed trip in the East. leave to-morro"
for Fgypt and the Upper Nile, and probably shall
not reach Mosul until April or May next. The
coming season is in every respect the most favo-
rable for Egypt and Nubia and the Winters N
SYRIA are too cold and wet to travel there with
comfort.
There is still a large number of Americans IN
London. though the greater part OF those VINO
were here during the Summer have either re-
turned home or gone on the Continent no.
ticed that at least half the names on the visitors
hooks at Kenilworth and Stratford were Ameri-
can. and was glad to see the most OF them also
registered in the book of contributions toward
having for the Shakspere Cottage. There has
been such a large representation here that the
shop-keeping, cab-drlvng and begging popuia-
ton have come TO recognize US quite lkiailioly'
II is in vain to try to pass yourself on as an
Engishman. On entering shop, the first salu'
tation is Well your country is beating all oil
us. at the Exhibition :" or there is something
which all Americans buy to take home ana Oh
course you cannot disgrace your country oy re-
fusng to buy also Cabmen always SUCK lew
pence extra on the fare for you, and If you give
the conductor OF an omnibus sixpence when the
fare is fourpence he touches his hat with
"thank you, sir" which quite cuts you OH ron
asking for the twopence change. On the CONT
nent, | am told, things have come to the same
pass. with the additional peculiarly that Ameri-
cans are known by their staying only one day III
each place.
The literary world of London is almost depop-
ulated at present was fortunate enough to
meet Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
two of England's noblest poets, before their de-
parture for Paris, whittier they have gone to
snend the Winter. William and Mary Hewitt
have Just left for the country. Their daughter,
Anna Mary Hewitt, who has been studying at
al.
Munic under the painter Kaulbach, is now with
them, on account of her health, which had be-
come impaired by too enthusiastic devotion to
her art Carlyle left on Wednesday, on visit TO
Lord Ashburton, at Passy, near Paris, alter
which he intends making a pedestrian tour
through Normandy. His Life of Sterling is com
pleted. and will be published here in about two
weeks. Tennyson is now in Florence, where he
will remain year or more. His brother who
married an Italian lady, has been resident OF
that city for some time. | have been glad to find
again, six years since saw him in Switzerland,
Germany's most prosecuted poet, Ferdinand
Freiligrath. His family has recently joined him,
and he has decided to remain here, instead OF
going to America, as was his first intention. In
spite of all the trials through which he has gone.
he i. still cheerful and hopeful, and seems hap
rier than when first saw him in exile.
Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, the pane
eyrist of America, and one of the most courage
Gus travellers | ever met, is now here, and 10
about publishing poem on the Great Exhibl-
ton. At Birmingham, met with my friend Bu-
chanan Read, several of whose pictures have
been purchased by Mr.. Joseph Pickering, OF that
place Mr.. Read is now or his way to America.
Mr. Greenough, the sculptor, is here, also on his
way home.
There is a complete iull in political excite
ment The Cuban invasion, Australian gold and
the probabilities of revolution in Europe next
Summer, are the principal topics of talk. The
first is Indignantly denounced the second salts
factorily discussed, and the third unanimously
anticipated. T.