The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-04-03
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.


New YosK. March 81. 1852
The Wsaiser. Severity Of Ms Past Sesson.-1as Peri
odieas for the coming Month. The Democratic Re
view. Harpe's Monthly. Se.--Iems from Foreign
Monatiiss, 5cArriual of lhs Canada. Foreign Nsscs
drriual Of The Crescent Guy, Nth Gold and NeUs
from California.
March is leaving us according to the promise held
forth by the old adage fer though IL came in like
lon,' IT shows no symptoms OF going out " like lamb"
On the contrary It's exit is accompanied by cold, bleak
eastery wind bearing upon its wings rain. and see and
hail The treasures OF snow laid up in the North, To-
gether with the vast expanse OF ice which the
great lakes, will, for long time to come. blight the
hopes OF those who eagerly looking for the and
genial airs OF spring "The Oldest inhabants' are
everywhere comparing notes and casting up their
counts, and from all quarters hear that the re-
suit has been arrived anamey that the last has been
the seyeres winter for many. many years. In Maine.
New Hampshire. and Vermont. the thermometer has at
times fallen 10 40 degrees below zero; at Macknaw
the snow has covered the houses the wide plains OF
the West the cold has been intense; the
board navigation has been mpeded almost unpTece-
denied degree and the floating beacon of Sandy Hook
the only The coast which has kept it's position has
for days and weeks together presented the appearance OF
ship Of glass; completely have her hull and spars been
clothed with the glitterDg livery OF the frost Even the
sunny South has felt the chilling influence OF the northern
blast, and from Havana learn that the icy breath OF
winter has swept the far Antilles and caused the
fair creoles to SILVER and shake its unwoned vista
ton The spring fashions later by month or more
the gay world still goes clad in furs and coaks and
wrappers, and the magazine prints still portray the lead
ers of the ton close builoned TO the chin.
Speaking of magazines, those for the coming month
all out except the Democratic Review the March
number OF which, strange to say has not yet made its a
pearance had not last night, the 3Oh How cruel 10
keep us in such suspense, as if exposed to ire
mendous pivot-gun, which all know is loaded TO the
muzzle with cartridge and canister but in what drec-
ton to be discharged knows Our only consola
ton must be that sometimes these
"Guns, well aimed at duck or plover
Recoi and kick their owners over"
Hoping to survive the shock when it comes let us
pass on to the rest of the periodicals for April of which
say, in general, that they rather more than
usually crediiable 10 their publishers Harper's Monthly
contains the first number OF Dickenss new work .Bleak
House," which promises WELL Aside from this feature,
however, it is by means ahead of, if equal to, its
contemporaries It's selections from foreign literature
well enough but the meagerness Of editorial native
talent displayed reminds Of the somewhat scant and
frigid hospitality extended TO his constituents by the
chief proprietor Of this mammoth monthly, when ele-
waited by the nativst faction 10 the dignity OF mayor Of
New York Instead of throwing Open the doors of his
spacious mansion and inviting his fellowcitzens TO
Widespread board like Philip Hone and the merchant
princes who had been his predecessors in Office the mil
lonare publisher dumped cart-oad of ice into the Park
Fountain, provided OF tin cups, and asked the
sovereign people to take drink of cool Croton In honor
OF the occasion.
In looking over the British periodicals., we sometimes
come curious and interesting items of information
which overlooked by the literary foragers who COL
ect from them such extensive supplies for maya
zines While the controversy is warmly wagng in some
parts OF this country between the advocates of the Anglo
Saxon and the Celtic racesand Greeeys Richelieu,
OF sausage eating notoney maintaining his lectures
only tina, The Anglo-Sa very degraded set
but that the Cells (under which denomination he includes
the French Scotch and Irish. and embraces such
as Napoleon, Wellington. Washington, and Jackson)
are the foremost race OF all manknd--the Irish hsto
rans and aniluarians busy tracing their descent
from the Greeks, and the French claiming that the
Franks, from whom, the conquerors OF the Celtic in
habanis OF Gaul they boast their origin, kindred
branch of the Teuonic which, under the name
of Anglo Saxons externipa,ed to great extent the
Celts of Great Britain We had for the moment in
tenon review Richeieus lecture but second glance
the position he and the data he starts from
satisfied that the game not worth the candle"
For instance, assuming the population OF the United
States at % 900, he classes il follows Irish, by
birth and blood 1906, 900 Germans, by birth and blood
5 500 Ooo French, Scotch &c. 3,Oooooo Anglo-Saxon.
, 500 900 negro, 100000. How surprising, if this
classification be correct, that the English language is
generally understood and spoken among u.s. Blu, Richie
lieu says that the Anglo Saxon is inferior not only
in point OF numbers, but physically and mentally Now
we believe il will be admitted that, in nation composed
OF mixed races the language OF the superior always
predominaes that is is the language in which the laws
are enacted and administered-ihe language in general
and established use II this be so. there is great blum
der souewhereone the other OF Rcheleus positions
surely wrong II numerical inferorty is such as
he represents it, mental and physical superiority must
be proporlionally great and This would pre-
sent difficulty minds but the lecturer gets
il very easily, for in the very next paragraph, he tells
us that there is such thing in the world Anglo
Saxon race r. Not satisfied with cutting down
bers and disparaging our capacity, be winds up by
us altogether After that, Anglo-Saxons,
of course we have nothing more to say.
In an English article on India we find an interesting
notice OF body OF Syrian Christians who located In
Tavancore on the Malabar coast. This primitive church
was discovered there by the first Europeans who visited
that country, and there is TO believe that IT has
existed since the first century OF According to
their own tradition they were colony OF Syrian Jews,
and were converted by Saint Thomas the Apostle in the
year Of our Lord ST. Their tenes those OF the oriho
dox churches Of the present day. their forms OF worship
very simple their lives devou and in all essential respects
they resemble the Protcslants of modern times In their
practice and in their belief they bear invaluable testimony
to the purity and simplicity OF the early church.
Some Of the particulars OF the Kafhr instruction in
South Africa which given in the English monhlies
curiously Illustrative OF the folly and mpolicy Of
the course so universally pursued by the British govern
ment in their relations with the African There