Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09

not that the British Consufuuon lies paAs tusi
implies MAsxA CHAHrA and common ias0, with oil the
rights that have been from arbitrary power By sslwa
Bons under John. and the Psamentsrsns na' resisted
Charles l. and deposed James II Where do We hnd the
oe;n and the u,us Quea Of such provisions in our National
Constitution those relating 70 the privilege Of nsDeas COZ
nus hills Of attainde ex pos, cio laws and such like ex
cen, 4 the constitutional history Of Great Britain Yes
they were our ancestors who sat in old Wensgemoes and
in the Pasmen,s Of aier day; ancestors too were
among the stout retanes that rallied around the Bsrons OF
"Merrie England" at Runnymsds ancestors glowed
with christian indignation the voice Of the martial
Of Amens and charged with headlong vaor amid the "sa
cramenta hos. that Richard Of the lion heart led against
Paynm knight and in6de" Our ancestors fought under
the Black Prince Poice and their cothysrd arrows dark
enel the air at Crecy and Asincoui they iumphed with
the Scots over the Malignant Marston Moor, and under
Cromwell routed perfdious Charles st Nasby; they conso
dated English liberty under William and Mayi and they too
read the old chronicles, and melted the sConfesslo
Amans" of sgene Cover" and followed the Pilgrims in
the Canterbury Tales of Chsuce they laughed at Fslsta
and wept Desdemona they read the Holy Book" IN
the quaint old version Of Tyndale and Of Wck, and the
Bible that we this day read s still called King Jamess
Bible"
Such being the relations bear England and the Eng
ish it can hardly be expected that should endure the
csnsorousness Of British tourists with the phlosophc equa
nmiy and nonchaLance Of Freedman in London; for
Frenchman, says recent leitsrwrer Of the journal des
De5as is always resigned TO be considered in England as
sort Of wonder in the animal kingdom. Neither have
always been very fortunate in the precise peonages that have
taken upon themselves to make report concerning Us for
travellers Of the cockney order homs like the Fauxs and
Fearons are not noted for that retirement Of which
would be likely win for them the mos. desirable scquan
. ararfai lit
eness of mind that peculiar to the Species and which
must forever incapscae the gentry Of English cockneydom
reporters any thing beyond the pureus Of London Of
late however, our transatlantic knsok have become
derfully complainant The praise which Mrs. MAuRT be-
slowed upon US almost enough make blush, even
though modey may not be exactly predominant national
feeling and have, reprinted in country, the
Travels Of the Lady WoRrAEr, not TO mention " The
Gimpses Of the Great Western Republic by Lieut. Colonel
ARTHUR CussISsHAME which have yet been, and per-
haps will not be- republished the water" Each Of
these latter works sbundsny audatoy, especially the Lady
EaELIsrs The idea forms Of lady in read
ing her leefor her book pupors to have been compiled
from letters friends hoes Of most determined travel
ler who hrinks from Of the difficulties and desagremes
incident to travel by food field and alike 10 her trbu-
laons poyage and in the observation she makes men
and things seems imbued with benignan optimism that
would do honor to Candde Where other tourists have
nothing admire her eyes have been opened the dscov
cry of beauties. The Mississippi which Mr.. Dickens found
SO monotonous and wearsome from M fat banks and inter-
minable border Of dense forests she found enchanting
An old grandmamma whom she met steamboat at Louis
vile and who would have thrown the deectabe Mrs. Troll
lope into convuson, to have ELECTED from Lady
Emene kindly interest," for the dame being proper skea
aboard Of steaming boats and much wortted by brood
Of badly spod Children amiabe authoress took quite
liking the worthy SOUL and pitied her much for her
.skeaynes and for the kicks md cuffs Of her nsubornate
grandchildren The relation Of and slave, that shocked
greatly the sensbiies Of the holy Miss Harriet Mariineau,
seems to have awakened similar osthing in Lady
Worley On the plantation Of Gen. Taylor every thing is
described couer de rose excepting the 'sab
fry and the roypolies that paraded in their
~ a;rartisemens Of ie';..i- .--Shiary
The style Of Lady Emene ornate in tho highest degree
Occasionally she piles flower upon flower, until sentence
swells into the sembance Of nosegay in print Such is
generally the whom letters recalled from those
whom they originally addressed in order to be retouch-
cd for publication Witness the letters Of Pope The col
loqua that constitutes the charm Of letter rarely fails
TO be smohered in s recenson for the public eye Yet her
narrative Of adventure the United States and in Mexico
and South America, is highly interesting, and her book
doubt not will be popular in country We append
the following extracts:
In Boston the gentlemen look Ike gentlemen not be-
they have emon-colored kid gloves or Partisan boots
but from their whole cir and As to being merely
weressed, in the sense OF the
word that almost every body 10. mob 10 the United
States mob in broadcloth. we may talk Of rabble in
republic it is rabbe in black silk wsscoats (the favorite
among certain classes in Amenca) and well brushed
hats Therefore to look really like gentleman in the United
States depends nowse the Clothes but entirely on the
wearer and the tailor has less to do with manufacturing
gentleman here than in perhaps any other part Of the world
For in all other countries you little assisted the con-
cuson, unwngy by the Dress but here not in the least
you must Judge wholly BY Fair noble dstingue the
verse, Of the individual.
"I very seldom you see any equestrans in these north
en cities Every body chooses to walk 60 in carriages.
The Common is very agreeable place for pomenading
and there you will great deal of little America in the
shape of pretty fairy like children enjoying the fresh air with
their Irish nurses their graceful mammss Little Ameri-
Gu is, unhappiy, generally only grownup America seen
through telescope turned the wrong way The point,
perhaps, in which concur with other writer's on the
United States is there being no real chke children here
The little creatures looking all the time every thing that
inanne and unsophsca,sd will read novels and newspa
peTs for hours together and the little boys will give YOU their
opinion dctaory enough occasionally and the little girls
talk toilet and gossip and descant on the merits Of the last
French novel; the eligibility Of such payti for husband
for such lady, the way Mrs. So-and-so msconducts
her household AFFAIRS and spends money at Newpor. or Sara
toga springs and 80 far this not pleasing our English
tastes" !" s
From work which s than half devoted to descrip
ton Of Mexico Cuba, and South Ameics it would be hard
H fair to give selected only from the parts relating to
the United States We therefore add the following as spe
cmen Of Lady Emelines style and descriptive powers She
is describing the descent from Perote along the mountain