New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-22
Netu.ylork Daily Gi!sribn,1e,
LITERA TURE AND ART IN LONDON

Fern Our Own CoTespcodent
LONDON, Wednesday, July s. 1854.
in my last letter promised to continue the subject
IL the Crystal Palace in this but my time has been 30
oeeupied in other things that have been unable to
pay It another visit. am paying my tax for no
tpriety. You aware that have just published my
"Lays from Taylor's Goose" and that henceforth
the poet of the Messrs Moses g. Son is not alone in
bis glory as Laureate Of Snipdom. In fact, my lays
have proved to be golden eggs and as the critics say
they have the ring Of the right metal. So have be-
come popular, and fearful thing it is too The inyl-
sstons to literary parties come fast and furious and
have TO the gauntlet of being bored 10 death II
don't 20, and the same if do Then the correspon-
dents one has to answer One sweet Miss lispingly
requests sheet full of autographs for distribution
among circle Of her friends and acquaintances all OF
whom are great admirers of the wonderful tailor How
can resist Another nlodestly soicits me 20 look
over and correct novel in three volumes which is an
strocious scrawl and should have 10 send il TO the
Foreign Office to get it decphered. gentleman who
has not the pleasure Of knowing me would be greatly
Obliged would turn prose work on the Life of the
Great Dock into verse he thinks ii would sell bet
tar He does not whether 1t be done IN terra
rma or the Spenserian sanzs; and trusts Will take
this request of perfect stranger IN the spirit IN Whch
he makes it, Last night kind friend OF mine called
10 say that he would send me his Thousand Sonnets
no touch up" and use my interest with my publisher
and get him to publish them. These are only very
trivial specimens of what has occurred to me daily
since wrote nv last letter to you. There ID regu'
lar standing army of besegers firing away at me in IN
aastral regiments, to whom can only reply with hre,
besides ipnumerabe guerlas and stragglers who are
down upon me in all sorts of by-ways.
The other day. while | sitting at breakfast
brooding over my Lays" and enjoying it, too,
ME anv exultant hen her nest of nine the servant
II say servant for she is not any help to us-niormed
me that was wanted. / asked who wanted me, and
abe said a policeman. A policeman What had
done that policeman should be so anxious Tor my &C
guantanoe He had given very emphatic knock
Inc door. began funbing at the very bottom OF my
heart to see what hidden there that should n I
have been. i began searching among my scared
thoughts to see which one couldn't loon me IN the
hee / could MT solve the mystery But, police
ma1 heavens show him in-who's AFRAID Ana IN
he came. Now for it, thinks l. and that was evidently
his thought likewise. on came the SHINING nat' ana
down went large bundle on the floor, and he pro-
ceeded--not to take me up, as had somehow dimy
snticipated--but to take me aback by informing me
that he was poet, the most tumble OF brl'lsh
poets and he had ventured TO bring me his MSS; 10
look over and give him my opinion thereon. lhey
weighed about twenty -four pounds and numbered some
thousand tolios. believe l did MT Kick nm down
stairs because he was twice as big as was, put
almost felt valiant enough to have done So Tor all my
ureyous ear and trembling miracuOusly changed INTO
he most intrepid courage, which is the way win al
cowardy natures. But when he informed me that ne
had obtained days holiday and come fifty miles per
rail on purpose TO submit his MSS to the wonderful
tailor was Modified. Ye Gods Apollo among the
Pscersl Policemen breaking hearts with their slaves,
instead of breaking heads with them This is too bad
melodious stOne-mason, blacksmith, Wooucutter'
ataor ANYTHING but policeman We have had 10
call for the Police, but little did we dream that tney
would come in such questionable shape. something
mist be done to stop this rhyming mania among the
workers. Ii would seem worklngman ataity 'hat
should he ever take pen in hand he considers IL ihcu
bent on him TO write IN rhyme William hoWi'e toiu
me that when he edited The Peoples and his own
yswnaL they collected much verse written by
working men would have reached from the taoe 10
The ceiling in large pile; and the thought comes rush,
ing upon me, how far have / been INSTRUMENTAL
in giving impetus 20 this mania L. VINO nave ruSned
into publication cotemporarily with my beard What
arhyminp cuprit have been. All well there Is
eonsoation though poor one, IN thinking that shOud
be driven TO commit murder more latal than inc
poetical one and one that is punishable 10y the laws
tof the land shall have the melancholy satisfaction OF
sddueipg printed evidence of my insanity Hencetorth
shall stick TO prose, plain, honest Saxon prose-its
splendid medium of communication between man ana
nan / was talking the other day with -, OF
the American Legation. and Gerald Massey, on this
subject and also on the subject of Negroslavery and
the Nebraska bill. had special ego IN at Slavery
something in this style; America is not all We nave
hetp led 10 believe she fast and fatally are the
roots of the old world evils ramif.ing in her young soil
That apportoning Of the land, the common nherltanc
CT Humanity private property that lust OF gain and
creed of gold and extensive worship OF the Almighty
Dollar that setting up of Shams ana h!poerisles III
the place of simple, noble Manhood that perPetuauoh
or the Proetariat speculation III man by lah-'ne
.slayery-are things 10 mourn over. But OF all
ieal sores hereditary or Indigenous that Negfoea'er
10 the most deplorable. Shame ON the pretended
Democracy that countenances Slavery, ana would
make tie bondage of the black sieppns-sione 10
power. The color Of my Democracy is not that OF
An-dstinction but that Of the warm, Tch and human
Geart White black slaves II matters not, where
ever Humanity il yearnng to cast of the oppression
that brushes itwherever there epeople groaning be-
meath the lash of there lisa wrong
crying for redress-there is cause the cause that
should have the heart and hand all genuine Democracy
and pure Repubicanism. Shall this dark and deadly
1use be still tolerated and permitted 10 blight American
ana Republican lie Shall Democracy and Chris
isty continue the tearing asunder Of Natures dearest
teal Shall these look smiling the blood that runs be-
heath the slayers lash sprnkes the very sod where
the blood of their stern foreithers of the Republic
red TO render the land ree pretty tbeyy
heroes OF the whip and chain talk OF setting the old
Vord free from the thraldo of King-erat aud State
raft and of aiding Europe 10 burst the bonds of Kai-
.er Pope and Gar while they revel in the price of
flood. and drive that traffic IN human flesh. They
IKE Tie holy name Of Liberty in vain. Alb America !.
Uspg Republic OF the West Child OF our own mo- |
lAeflard rocked on the brave hearts, and nursed IN
The sturdy arms of our common fathers Arouse thee,
md fal6n the glorious promise Of thy infancy No /
orger perpetuate this dark and terrible wrong or iooE
30 IT, s,me spar.aeus Of the West may get arse and
sysnge hc countless wrongs and injuries OF his tram
"a A sa.s al all honor IN the Dpt!p men who