Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-02


morals and manners they antipodes. In their
religion their laws in their agriculture, IN their
architecture in theirpolitics in their society, in their
drama in their press, IN their whole daily life, mo-
ton and being there is not one solitary point of
semblance. We can scarcely imagine that the En-
glshmen and the Frenchmen sprang from the same
| original stock We do not wonder that they have
been many times at war; We only wonder that
they have ever been at peace The contrasts between
them are inexhaustible. The Englishman, averse to
Innovations worships God after ceremonial OF Pro-
testant Church, while the Frenchman, devoted to
change faithful to the Catholic forms ofthe religion
of his forefathers Should England tomorrow an
her adhesion to the Holy See, we should not
be surprised to behold France in the next twenty
four hours grimacing with great earnestness In the
surplice and cassock of Canterbury. The morality
of EngIishmen is stern, rigid, selfdenying; that OF
France has more indulgence for human frailty. The
woman who falls in England can never recover,
though her afterlife were river of pure pentential
tears. The fra French woman suffers but tempo
rary eclipse and her accomplishments and graces are
not lost to society account of her misfortune In
England they marry from love, in France from con-
venience and yet the marriages in both are happy.
Englishmen grave, taciturn and awkward French
men the embodiment of courtesy and grace. In war,
the Frcnchmen excels in the brilliant and dashing
charge, pouring down upon his adversary ike the
ocean billow, when mpeled by the tornado; whilst
the Englishman's forte is the steady and stubborn
vaour, which ressts like the rock of Gibraltar, the
aggressive flood and dashes it back in spray and
foam. The Englishmen is plain, practical matter-ot
fact methodcal and business like; the Frenchman
imaginative poctica practical brilliant and piquant
They unlike even III their benevoence. 1t yon
sick, the Englishmcn will sit up with you all
night; the Frenchman will send you a fragrant bou-
quet The English love commerce and the useful
artsther genius is creative; that of the French is
destructive, and military glory is their master pas
sion England delights in the mastering of the blue
deep; the Frenchman afoat is always sea-sch. The
Crystal Palace is the pet of Englisnmen of the pres
ent day the French nation would not give up the
cooked hat of the little corporal for all the Crystal
Palaces in the glittcrng universe. AS they do not
live alike, neither do they die alike. The English
man meets his last enemy with grave fOrtltude;
the Frenchman shrugs his shoulders, and with dra-
matte gesticulatiops and heroic sentiments, waves
graceful adieu to his friends and rctlrtS deterentay
from the stage of life.
The antipathies of the two ireconcilable.
The solidarity of the peoples" will never be illus
trated in them 1t is chronic delusiOn in England
that on pair of English legs do walk three
Frenchmen. You may convince the Rural Bull,
Bull the cockney, that the moon is made of metal
and was manufactured in Birmingham, before yon
can persuade him that one Englishman is not equal
to three frog caters. The French,nan, in his turn
though not quite vain glorious, is that France
could swallow England in a moment, but for the
quamish waves which roll between. Yet both
brave as were ever Roman and Greek.
The married woman of England distant and
reserved and the girls gay and confident. In France,
the young lady is shy and timd as num- whilst the
married woman is free, sovereign and independent
The very houses are dissimilar; the French light
some and joyous; the English dark and dismal.
What delightful people, the French socially;
full of bright sparkling, yet amiable lfe-the
brilliant bubbling, etfervescing champagne of hu-
mainly. How grutf frigid and repusive does Bull
appear in comparison-a mountain covered with
snow, but within are volcanic fires.
In politeness, certainly, we must give the palm,
where it has always been bestowed, to the gay and
gallant French. The Englishman visits France-his
enormous shirt collar, his bcardless lip his raight
forward walk, excite no comment If there is a
smile it is within the mouth and the dignity of Bull
receives no detriment. But let Frenchman visit
London-he will be followed by a crowd; here broad
and significant grins meet his eye and there occa-
sional roars of laughter reach his Our Gaul is
infinitely perplexed He knows not what to make
of all this He wonders if hump has grown upon
his back, if he has become clubfooted tits very
difficult for him to realize that all this attention and
merriment have been caused by his mustachios and
his foreign air
1t is immense loss to humanity that these two
great nations cannot their antipaties and
work together in harmony for the freedom and ele-
walton of mankind Their present alliance in behalf
of Turkey must roll back the flood of Northern bar
barsm upon its fountains, and their future friend
ship would the liberty and civilization of the
world. Richmond Despatch.