New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-27
EUROPE RETISITED....No. XVII.
QUITTING FRANCE.


of it. Paris is pleasant city for those to whom
pleasure is the end Of life; but /, il exiled for
five years to Europe, should be apt to give two
of them to the British Isles, one each TO Ger
may, Switzerland and Italy, and hardly month
to Frarce her capital included. Life is here
too superficial, too material, too egods.c. l
could OF be content in greatcity which sither
has nor feels the need Of Tabernacle or Exc
ter Hall. yea,'s and the Trois Freres are we'll
in their way, but no substitute for those. Paris
is the Paradise Of FIenchmen, but my nature is
not French, and never can be. ] found friends
in the gay metropolis, and trust did not alien
ate any; but could make or strengthen attach
ments faster almost anywhere else. Aud so,
with some pleasant and other less agreeable re-
membranes Of the two months l had spent
there, and With grateful regard to those who had
there proved themselves friends indeed il was
with q real sense Of relief that saw Paris fade
behind and the broad, green country open be-
fore me, in the direction Of ROaen, Dieppe and
the English Channel. We reached Dieppe
little after 9 o'clock, were questioned, aud
through the Police Office by halfpast 10, got our
permits allowing us to go on board the Channel
steamboat, and were ready to start for Euglish
New. Haven at IL, the advertised hour.
Will any gentleman be good enough TO light
his cigar with NY passport
CROSSING THE CHANNEL
had crossed the Channel three times previous
", twice at this point and once from Dover to
Calais-the last-named the toughest and sickest
voyage Of the three. So, as the hour OF starting
suited my convenience and the fare by this route
was cheaper, decided to come by Dieppe,-and
most bili, rly did with reason repentit. Our boat
was snail and poor-in fact. mere tub-the pas
sengers were numcrous-tbe accommodations
next to nothing-the northwest winds brisk and
cblly-the sea rough and chOppng, striking our
boat on her bow quarter and causing her TO roll
and wabble about like cork in boiling pot was
very soon driven on deck where / spent six miser-
able hours,-from midnight till six A. M.-tho
spray breaking over me while crouched under
the shelter of this or that oaboose, or sat by the
lee rail, devOtedly feeding the fishes. should be
glad to know that they liked the taste of what was
sent them-I DIDN'T. New-IIayen is new and
petty village Of half dozen houses and almost no
comforts for travellers, where we were bound to
stop an hour and half to have baggage scrutin-
lied in behalf of the British Customs, but right
Glad were all of us TO Jump upon its sorry wharves.
At 7:35 the train started, and two hours and
quarter sufficed to wbirl us thence to London.
THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
London deepens its impression upon me with
each vist-nay rarely spend day within its vast
circumference without increasing wonder and ai-
miration 1t is the capital if not of the civilized,
certainly of the commercial world, civilized and
otherwise To her wharves the raw produce of all
climes and countries to her vaults the gold of Cal
iorna and Australia, to her cabinets the gems of
Golconda and Brazil, insensibly gravitate. From
this mighty heart radiate the main arteries OF the
worlds trade a great crash here brings down
leading and lODgesta olshed houses in the South
Pacific or the Yellow Sea- / dropped in today on
an old friend whom / had known ten or fifteen
years AGO as a philos0phlc radical and social re-
former in America i found him in great sugar
house under the shadow of the Bank cOrrecung
Price Current which he edits, having Just made up
a teleqraphic dispatch for his houses CORES
pondents in Bombay. | found him calm and wise
az ever: more practical some would say, but still
bopefl of the good time coming he had been several
wears with that house, and he told me bis income
was quite satisfactory, and that his eldest son was
doing very well in Australia. l came over from
America with an intelligent and excellent Engnsh
family that had been several years IN Mexico, the
husband and father managing mine. They were
on visit to their native land to say goodbye to
SON and brother in the Army who was ordered to
the Crimea. BY this time they are probably on
their return 10 Mexico for another four years
soiourn. Their many heavy trunks were inscribed
Mai F., London" And so the great city
is constantly sending forth her thousands
10 every corner Of the globe where
goods may be sold mines proiitably worked, pro
duets gathered up, settlements planted or rail
roads OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of them TO return after
season with riches, or distinction or competence
- others 10 iil unmarked graves on far-of, lonely
shores-but all to contribute to the wealth and
mower of the worlds commercial emporium
Among our passengers out was Capt. b, a
civil engineer who had been surveying for rail-
road. somewhere down in Spanish America, and
was returning with the result to his London en-
ployers Capt b." asked friend, casually do
Won remain in England some timel or are you
SoipC off again 2" 81 am going again, was his
oniet reply; "but don't know till | reach Lon
don whether l shall be employed IN Brazii or ia
Asia Minor. There is much mistaken pride ana
false dignity in England; but if Briton insists on
bo;no nToud of London, shall not quarrel with
him on that head.
'. is now 20 late in the season that nobody,
he parlance, is lef, IN town: The Queen
~ ~ M iSsuioiSS "nSsrc a. ~, Isle ef Wight the nobility
are ." at rbeir country seats, the merchants have
taken their families each to some watel'-.
or hose in the country; while 4 swarm OF the busy
and the idle, the wealthy and the needy the shreWd
and the simple have gone over to the Parls EXui-
bition to spend money or see if they cannot make
some: vet London Bridge can hardly hold the
Thousands eyermore pressing to pass over 1t; the
city (proper) is a crowded, busy hive; ana ihe
great artery leading thence 10 the west End
called Cheapside, Ludgate ST, Flect-st., the
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