New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-21
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

Special Correspondence of The London Times.
BosTos, Oct. TO- 1856.
Tbose who gave the name of New. England to this
oroup of the northern Provinces Of America were
bappier in their choice than most Of the disc overers
and settlers who have dispersed the names of the
Old World over regions with little meaning and
much confusion of geography. New-England might
nj first be ONLY the expression OF remembrance but
time has converted it into much more The people
worked in the spirit of the land they LETT here mas
been LEES infusion of the foreign elements that may
be traced in other parts of America, and gradually
New-Eneland has grown into very close reproduce
ton of the old. Both in town and country an
Enlisbman finds much quite familiar to him.
Landing at Boston, he has to rub his eyes slightly
and recall the waste OF ocean he has trayersed beore
he thoroughly realizes" the fact that be is not at
home: the difference is so sight, and to be remarked
mostly in uinor peculartes In New York, but for
the language he might be puzzled to say exactly
three European cities TO have been shaken aud
then stirred up with it There Is something of its
Dutch origin; the tree planted streets minus the 60
nas for instar &c, are impOratlons from Holland, and
among the best things the Date men have lett behind
them There is much that is German still more that
i French in taste, dress and dc corati,n and there
are localities at once new and dilapidated, regularly
built but squaid and disordery, settlements thar
are the ragged fringe Of its purple which repeat
but too faithfully the features OF the Liberties and
ST. Giles The most distinctly British contribution ID
Ney-Yok U.s. unhapply, the least favorable, fact not
in any struck between the nations.
But The capital of New England Boston, has only one
chsr,cter il is sodly and steadily English settled
down into English mold, and hard sned IN It, IL has
refused admittsnce to foreign fashions, or admitted
them only with a considerable modification of their
original ryre. The thoroughly French cafe you are
delighted 10 find is stir an exotic, only throws teT
innovations into the coDtectioners the completely
German speisekeler, it is pleasure TO remark, does
not flourish, not getting much beyond oysters; nay,
even the American bsr-room, with It's gay decorations
ard elaborate apparatus Is chast. ned and so 10 speak,
sobered; much subdued IN ilght asu coor, ro.,Ies
IL. md sO
II ia only known the initiated In this resistance
TO foreign institutions there may he much that 10
merely provincial but someth ng must also be a'cted
10 kindred and commend able prejudice against things
un.Engish there is evident adherence to the ma
tionaI character in greater matters The way OF con-
Quoting business is quiet and orderly; in New York It
is race everybody appears to be running over each
other and the puse OF its traffic looks at times Ike
scrambe The city is not finished, and its people have
never done work; they restless and feyersh, al
ways pulling down I'd building up Tor space
and ready 10 move Acheron to obtain 1t, digging two
stories below the street, and throwing up SIX hoors
toward Heaven in as many weeks, ruthlessly dem)l-
sbpg but restoring with marvellous rapidlty.
Boston has done with all that It has passed through
the cycles of change and renovation, New.fork has
vet to fulfill; having taken It's permanent form,
has opIy to extend outwardly, without cont nu Ally
tearing its interior to pieces to remodel it, Ii has
not the immense commerce OF New York, but
,aIstively The arrangements ii has established for
ondrcng il appe ar complete than those of the
,netropolis more perfectw atersde quarter suices to
nreyen the traffic from running over into and the chok
mo the the streets belong to tue pubic
b;le in New-York the community Is, to most iucon-
yeni. Mt extent ignored and the frontage sections OF
the public way appropriated by soneoooy as tneh
private premises. Boston, as it now exists promises
70 endn,e. The abundance of granite in the State
has favored very solid, though rather rough style
NJ bnilding. Many of the warehouses have mas.ive
rugged exterior; bat they are Whist thcy appear 70
be- not brick imposed on the world as niafot ~
ARCHITECTURAL yeneering. There can De no d9lot
Of their subs,ar TALLY this Is indeed the Guar
acteiisc Cf the city, and the TOURIST sP2 ~ W %
reseublapces may note that too as an tpsn-h 4u.y.
Another feature of Boston that ms! VIC ~ ~ 80,
confidently claimed trace Oh Ihe o.i c4i"ty
Il tho arrapp enent non-ar6ogemfh' vi 'uS
,t,ets which display the true saxon coH'einI' VI
man and uniformity. They have grown Up an' ca ca
tended according TO the caprice =. tI w',h
the Necessary concessions TO indi'lo al Tu
striking fre edom and independenee oil eacn ono,,
which has produced lanes, eourfs, esys & 'h no
no thorouchfares the duplicates OF "ncu M ,on
fonnd in sfy old English cry. In tuf ."iid
:; Sran New.York il Ro nsn, aud has been cpnlroled
ever an re II began TO spread 20 thai oeyoGI ~ ga
al bouuarIs il is all uniform, WIN sugn n :, The
right angles, like the rosds OF vh.n yon lose your.
sT and saw "how English. Inc sHeee, ~, -.
named not Numbered an Innovation Ion ~ lin
cannot aeopt not having tha. lesa'. oher;ng nos
aust pree Est to render the Ian where i, can be
sipe ns ONLY advantage Of toe old me,noa : - r.
!, cpnnsa.ates for its ntrcac! .! -. I'D ,oany
the history Of place ITS b mere arithmetic Is fatal
it, rssg pscu ., Of I the ,nsGa, Sen,
| lhe .DiI a I'D water around 1t. Inere wee g,en
eS;,s eIr making it ROTTERDAM ~ $50, 30
the s:% M a. The city ys ssd s's s %
pcttont. and ling mp OF lne ss'u,.N'i W "a "A
hes t % si psi
tno water on N the recess Of spscious bay and,
sss1. 1s SSrGs heed; 9ssas 5 Gess
proper Is ibe CENT ,cis through which fJGr rivers
by three nei'I ps,hor TIE three snburbs Of Charles
1s ed . East .Is :.s 'as ss to
| from tne gie: "a IN every direction acsOss the
joined sh ,hsIow waters Of these laielike es
tusries AID creeks, the threass and lines o
,,urca IONS are throya out r. railway viaduct
| oos ,han fr,m Val Gus polDss to the IN inland
stretching avsy north south and west some Of ths.'
pes ilicfsect IL mid ssteV. en- ron On es Vafoo
lie that OF t.c obelisk On Bunker shll, the pufa.
engine ard In tain eppes, 70 DO gliding OVER the sur