The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1851-07-19

LERIEs dARDRE AND cHAhrs ELYsEEs,
In everything that conveys the Impress Of
wealth, and bespeaka the common sense Of
people, London far surpasses Paris. The
substantial and the useful are found through
out London, and much that is indeed beauti-
ful bat for attraetiyeness, most Americans
who have been over the ground, will Allcge
that Paris is altogether superior to London.
Let the traveller, AFTER being set down at
any Of the hotels which abound In Paris with
Ia one hrlh OF K mile from iEe T1i1ieFi6s, aud
become dOmiciled for sojourn in that me-
tropols sufficiently lengthy to compass the
chief sights In the eiry, take his ha, and walk.
Aay, 6rst 10 the Place le Concorde Of a clear
summer day. look cAsterly TO the Garden Of
mr. 'fuitirrtr- uu,i westerly thrangh The long
vista known as the Champs Elysees, mile
and quarter, 10 the Triumphal Arch. rising
upon the slightly elevated ground lying in the
direction Of Ncuilly; aud oven n he have
ransacke ed all the cities Of the world, Ne will
admit there is nothing IN Hny ,,f them which
equals this brilliant portion Of the gny me
tropolis OF the French empire. The Parks
Of London are noble, and the mansions sur
rounding Regents and Hyde, bespeak inn
mense wealth. SO Regent Street is beautiful
beautiful As a stAr-brilliant as the jewels
in diadcm and the merchandise with which
its shops are filled would probably surpass in
amount and value that in halfa DOZEN streets
each OF equal length, in Paris; but nothing
in London can compare moment with the
startling briiliancy with which traveller j.
greeted, when for the first time he finds him
self Of n clear summer or early autumn day,
near tho Luxor Pillar, in the Place le Con-
cordc, and looks east, west, north and south
upon a scene, Il is said unequallcd in any city
OF Europe. It, magnifccnte utterly sets de-
scripIion at defiance; Il can never be apprc-
ciated unless seen hut, unlike many objects
in great cities, once bchcld is impress will
not soon be obliteated from the memory.
r We went thither for the first time on the
last afternoon OF September, 1904 cloud
less day, and which was near its close. The
sun was getting below the dome of the hOspi-
tai ofInvalides, and the air partook of a faii-
ish temperature. The brilliant flowers in
the Tuillerics Garden, however, had vet felt
no frost, aud the trees lining tho immense
vista stretching n mile and quarter 10 the
Triumphal Arch, were nearly as grecn as
with us IN July. The spacious ground, we're
covered by thousands and thousands of peo-
Pile, reyelling in the splendor by which they
were surrounded Children and youth trip
ped over the walk. III cduHtlrsy ttFtHgs,tiiriv-
faces smiling rs the flowers in the garden of
the Palace, middle-eged people were thereto
shake of their cares in the sunset breeze, (f
a Partisan can be said to have cares y aged
people were there, looking, probably for the
thousandth time, upon the joyous spectacle
and thanking the stars they are Paris born,
and saw Napoleon in his glory exactly where
Marly's Horses and the Luxor Pillar now
stand. Numhersof pensioners from tho In
valides were there, in their cooked hats and
long blue surioHts, with limbs MANNED per-
haps at Austerlitz, Enlau. Ulm, or Waterloo,
who remembered, as if yesterday, when a
countless host of troops filed through these
very grounds, and they, then yonhg and
WIN WIN uluhlC huUflthN"
" ravishing to move the stones beneath their
feet and went TO battle without fear. since
imperial eagles wer~ upon the standard sheet
which aeatod above them, and Napoleon led
them on.
But whoever is in the Place 10 Concorde,
and looks Hpen the sFleRaaF around him. will
find II difficult to realize that he is upon
ground where has been enacted some OF the
most horrid deeds which ever occurred under
the sun. The Tuillcries Garden, blooming
with flowers and decked with shrubbery, wns
once a field of blood. The graceful stAtuary
there may be the same up which the poor
Swiss household troops climbed for refuge in
the evening Of memorable 10th of August
1892, and were pricked down by the bayo-
nets Of enraged Revolutionists and pikemen
from the faubourg st. Antonine, and then
shot or pierced with pixies for it is said the
French rabble, even in moments of frenzy,
were careful Of things which minisierrd to
the public taste and qualification. The grey
pile beyond, in form now as in 1872, grey
with age, and made impressive by its ancient
Italian architecture the Palace Of the Tuil-
leries--what fearful scenes once occurred
within its wallsl Who can count the groans
or measure the blood and tears which have
flowed within il
This "Place le Coneorde" was once "Place
lie Revolution" and where water now flows so
copiously from beautiful fountains, blood once
flowed with the same profusion. Stand be-
tween Mariy's horses (large statuary) and
the centre of the Place, and you are where
Louis XVI was hehcaded, Jan. 2I, fYaS; and
between the centre OF the Place and the gate
Of the Tuilleries Garden, and there stood the
guillotine, where the PROUD Austrian, Marie
Antoineete, was beheaded-who would never
have come TO snch an end IL her husband had
possessed her spirit and she hss. In this place
too, Charlotte Corday, who meditaeed in her
obscnre abode ak Caen the death Of Marst,
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