Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-11

Here and There; or, NOTES OF 1rafelolS'
Another volume collected from Dickens
Household Words 9Th, {" Hoods Own :"
Selected illustrated MWhO can re-
fuse to purchase this amusing book 9th, |
"Home Narratives another volume from
the " Houseworld Words" The publications |
thus far in this Library have been judicious,
and if kept up, Putmsn's publications will
become equally popular with those Of his
friendly rivals.
From "Walks and Talks of an American
in England" we extract the following inter
esting paragraphs, descriptive Of the anti
ouities Of that ancient town in England,
known as
CHESTER
Wewere about to leave the printers for a walk
on the wall. l will not detain myself with de-
tailed account of our proceedings, but imagine
that you are with me, while Ipoint out to you
few of the noteworthy objects.
We are on tho top of the wall, a few feet from
the side of the archway through which we en-
tered the town. Look down now on the outside
The road Just before it enters the gate, crosses,
by bridge, deep ravine. In it, some seventy |
feet below u.s. you see the dark water, perhaps l
of old the t0Sge, but now q modern commercial |
than our canal boats, laden with Goals, IS sconlng
from under the bridge; woman is steering 1t, |
and on the cabin, in lsrge, red letters, you see /
her name, "Margaret Francis" and the name |
Of the boat, the '' Telegraph" That arch was |
turned by a man now living, but that course Of |
stones-the dark ones between the ivy and the 1
abutment--was laid by keman mason, when |
Rome was mistress Of the world.
Walk on The wall is five feet wide on the |
top, with pzrapet Of stone on the outside, and |
Ill f. -. ~
far and deep to the canal and the stone looks so
time-worn and crumbling; it is firm With true |
Roman cement, the blood Of bravo men. Here |
it is ngthened by . heavy tower, now sone- |
what dilapidated. Look ups and you SEQ upon |
it 3 rude carving Of a phosnix; under It an old |
tablet, with thesewords;-
: on THIS TOWER STOOD CHARLES THE FIRST AND
SAW HIS ARMY DEFEATED"
Within the tower Is the stall Of ii newsman
Buy the London Times, which has come some
hundred miles since morning, with the informa-
tion that yesterday the honorable president of
Peace Society was shot IN a duel. "a fact)
Pass on. On one side Of us are tall chimneys,
through which. FROM fierce forge fres, ascend
black smoke and incense of bitumen to the glory
of manmon Close ON the other side stands
venerable cathedral, built by pious labor Of de-
veut nen to he laud and service Of their God.
We look into the burying ground, and on the
Rravestones observe many familiar names OF New
THE AMERICAN REVIEW, for Apri1.--
Champion Bssell, publisher. The American
for this month, is excellent The portrait Of
Alex. H. II. Stuart, Secretary of the Inte-
ricr, is truthful and spirited Its contents
are devoted to articles on &c The Admins
tration: the Parity Journalism and Jour
nalists in Paris" capital paper Demo
cratic Candidates for the Presidency; sThe
Central Nation; " Mormonism in illinois,;
" Life and Times Of William H. Crawford;
" A Pioneer Of the Northwest; Biography
of N. K Hail, P. NJ General; ''Carlyle and
his Imitators," q splendidly written produc-
ton ''Margaret Fuller Ossoli'' & Congress
sional Summary; and {" Critical Notices"
mined to reduce the price of the Il Anleri-
can" on the first Of July next, to $3 90 per
annum This reduction is not caused from
want Of patronage, but from the desire to
bring the work more prominently before the
public The reviewer of the Memsirs of
margaret Fuller Ossoli, entertains us with
very readable criticism upon the external
and internal character Of this gifted woman
It is, apart from its deeply philosophical dis
crimination, manly and just contribution
to her memory, and we cannot do our readers
a greater justice than by extracting the
following paragraphs:
MARGARET FULLER
In regard to her positive qualities, we should
place among the first, her goodness of heart.
Her love was deep as her nature itself Her be-
nevolence (well-wishing) always led to benef-
cencs, (well-doing) She visited the prisoners
at Sing Sing and at Blackwelrs Island, and
always took deep interest in measures that
promised to reclaim the fallen of her own sex.
"There was at New York poor adventurer,
half patriot, half author,-a miserable man, al
ways in such depths of distress, with such SQUAD
rons Of enemies, that no charity could relieve,
aud no intervention save him He believed
Europe banded together for his destruction, and
America corrupted to connive at it. Margaret
/ listened to these woes with such patience and
mercy, that she drew five hundred dollars, which
had bsen invested for her in a safe place, and put
them in those hapless hands, where, of course,
the money was only the prey Of new rapacity, to
be bewailed by new reproaches." At Rome,
while living on the simplest fare, spending only
/ ten or twelve cents day for her dinner, She lent
her last fifty dollars to a needy artist. "The
| prevalent impression at Rome, among all who
| knew her, was, that she was q saint and a min
/ istering angel" We have already seen how she
was willing to sell the hair from her head and
| blood from her arm to provide for the DOOR
! wounded soldiers in an Italian Hospital ssMar-
garet'S charities" says Mrs Story, according
10 hsr means, were larger than those Of any other
whom ! ever knew"
She is represented as in every thing truthful
she admired truth, believed in it, spoke it, and,
above all, lived it. Never did she pretend to be
what she was not. She was not wanting in ven
GRAFTON, but her veneration was by no means pro-
found Her journal contains numerous prayers,
which are psrvaded with the deepest sincerity,
but are deficient in that nameless something,
that unctiOn, which constitutes the soul Of devo-
tion and gives to it a quickening power. She
was naturally enthusiastic, hopeful, and aspiring;
her religion was essentially ethic: and here we
must stop, for we do not wish to encroach upon
the forbidden grounds Of theology.
A vein of mysticism manifests itself more and
more as we progress with her life. " She had q
taste for gems, cpbers, talismans, omens, coin
cidences, and birth days" Here and there in
her letters, we find tinge Of that mystic spirit
which pervades nearly all oriental literature
which shows itself abundsntly in the hymns of
Proclus, in the writings Of Gerson, Thomas
kempis, Jacob Boehmen, and Swedenborg, in
Pagan and Christian men AS we have already
said, she communed at some mystic shrine, but
WAS unable to convey her experience intelligibly
TO others. This mysticism is not yet accounted
for in our physiology and psychology; the shall
low l&GSu AZ IL, VI piunBo uohutOuk INTO IL the
wise abide by tried principles, and look on
thoughtiully.
A JOURNEY THROUGH TARTARY, THIBEr
AND CHINA. By M. Hue. vols, 12 mo.
D. Appleton & Co., American publishers
These volumes form the fourth and ffth is
sues of the Popular Library of the Best
Authors" and we certainly were never more
delighted than in their perusal We had
previously read review Of M. Huc's inte-
resting travels in Blackwood, which but ex-
cited our appetite for the verftable volumes
of this enthusiastic and untiring Missionary
of the living God The manners and Gus
toms of the remote people Of whom the au-
thor speaks are 50 wildly described, that
they render these volumns most captivating
There are SO many interesting sketches which
we can readily lay our hands on, that we
find it difficult to select from among them
those which We might consider most interest
ing to the reader.
PALACE OF THE TALE LAMA.
The palace Of the Tale Lama well deserves
the celebrity it enjoys. Towards the DOrthern
part Of the town, at a small distance from it,
there rises a rocky mountain of no great eleva-
tion, and conicsl in form bearing the name of
Buddha-la, that is, the Divine Mountain, and on
this grand site theradorners Of the Tale Buddha
have reared palace to their living and incar-
nate divinity. This palace consists Of cluster
of temples, varying in size and beauty the cen
tire temple has an elevation of four stories the
dome is entirely covered with plates of gold, and
is surrounded by peristyles of which the
columns are likewise gilded. Here the Tale
Lama has fixed his residence, and from the
heighth Of his sanctuary can contemplate, on
days Of high solemnities, his countless worship
pers, thronging the plain and prostrating them
selves at the base of the Sacred Mountain The
secondary palaces grouped around, accommodate
a crowd Of Lamas whose continued occupation is
to serve and wait on the living Buddha Two
fine avenues, bordered with magnificent trees,
lead from Lba-Sea to this temple, and there may
be seen multitude Of pilgrims unrolling between
their fingers the long Buddhist rosaries and the
Lamas Of the court spledidly dressed, and mount
ed on horses richly comparisoned. There is con-
tinual motion in the vicinity Of the Buddha-i.a
but the multitude is generally silent and seri-
Gus.
SINGULAR CUSTOM.
The Thibetan women adopt custom, or
rather submit to a regulation certainly unique in
the world. Before going out of their houses,
they rub their faces with sort of black sticky