New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-02
New1lurk DAILY Gribm,m
Bsyard Taylor In Northern Europe.
40. XLIlI.
30. XLIlI.
FAREWELL TO THE N0RTH-SBC0ND
INTERVIEW WITH HCMBoLDi''

spent a week in Stockholm before leaving. aad
though We had the initiasory gale OF Winter (ths
same in which the Russian line-o battle ship Lefort
kundered in the Gulf of FiDland), on our wg
from Up-aIs thither, the succeeding days wers
mild and SUM- the tender farewell of Summer.
The trees in the Durgaard aud in the islands OF
tbe Malsr were still in fu foliage; the Dalecariian
boatwomen Piled their crafts 10 the outer hsrbor:
the little garden under the Norrbro was gay with
music and lamps every evening; and the brief and
ioysl Summer life Of the Swedes, near its close,
cunp to the flying sunshine, that not moment
might be suffered to pass unemployed. found tue
city Gay and agreeable enough st this season and
would retract oil said concerning IT'S dulness
during the Spring months were 1t not prooso'e
that the latter impression is reproduced every
year, at the same time
1t was pleasant again to occrpy my old quarters
st Kahn cellent hotel, and 10 renew the cheer
full friendships Of six months ago. Mr. Schroeder
had left for the United States only 6ye days before
our arrival, and We found bis faithful servant,
Ericsson. walking with a sorrowful face about the
vscant rooms Rector Syedborn was still at his
most. 20 soon, alas to vscate It forever. lie died
of cholera a week sfterward, and one OF the hon.
este.t hearts and ablest pens in Sweden is lost to
the party of Progress. Retzus, the gen'si Pa'-
losopber. occupied his Old quarters at the Caro-
linsks Institute, and was pursuing his ethnolosic@
.tudies with the same exhaustess enthuslasm' In
tie DIOttning -gatan, one evening, stumbled upoa
Mr. Wolley who had just arrived from Lspi"hd'
and was on bis way home, laden with the results OF
three years Polar exile. In farewell visits ana ias'
excursions to the Durgsard, Drettningholmand the
familiar hills about Stockholm, the week passed
awey rapidly, and felt very decided regret when,
standing ON the deck of the Prussian steamer aud
watching the noble palace and the city spires vanish
behind the islands of the outer archipelago, | re-
aected that should probably never behold Stock
holm again.
Now tkaP he Scandinavian North lies behind me,
and nearly ten months of travel and study have
Owen me some right to feel acquainted with it, |
first fairly appreciate how ample has been my com
pensstion. Separated as the Swedish-Norwegian
peninsula is from the rest of Europe geOgraphi-
ealy, and comparatively unntiuenced, except IN
its capital and commercial cities, by the huctua'
tons of European social life, its people preserve.
in much greater degree than in other lands, the
ties. undeyeoped ss yet, but also unperSerted, oil
the iron race frem which they sprang. We cannot
say, as in Italy, or Spain, or the East splendid
elimination has been reached and passed. The
people, though often hndered and frustrated by
ubeclle rulers and the influence of beggarly no.
biity, have been making slow and gradual progress
since the days of Gustavus Vasa, and there is still
| the stuff in them for noble nation Sweden, 1t
is true, does not now occupy the political place
where the genius of Gustavus Adolphus, or the
| energy of that magnificent msdman Charles XII,
| placed hers but under the peaceful policy of tho
new dynasty she has had time for recuperation and
all the best elements of strength she ia probably
| az strong as ever. The same remark is still truer
| a. applied to Norway Other nations have outstrip-
ped the Scandinayians, during the last hundred and
fifty years, but they have future before them and
catnot but believe that their most prosperous age
is yet to come. When the Norwegans lay aside
their etregous vanity, the Swedes their self-depre
ciatiOD, and both, forgetting their ABSURD mutus
jeaousss, work together for the good of their
common country and their common race, the
drfam OF a united and powerful Scandinavia, in
which northern youth delight to indulge, will be-
Huch nearer lts FedilZdUOn. Inc only nope oil
Denmark is evidently in such union, but neither
Denmark nor Norway would now willingly merge
their nationality in that of Sweden, and yet Swe-
den alone give head to these disjointcd limbs.
Everything il must be acknowledged, depends
OIL the progress of the latter country. Both Den.
mark and Norway possess more free, rational aud
practical forms of government, and, before anything
further can be DONE she must stand on common
platform in this respect. Anything mere unwieldy
and more unfair than her present system of repre-
'entation and legislation can scarcely be imagined
But her people, like their German relatives, possess
great capacity for patient endurance aud now,
since they have lost their best friend, King Oscar,
there is telling how long the needed reforms may
be postponed. The Prince Regent is said to be
reactOnary in his views, and very ambitious of
military glory. soldier is, just at present, the
worst ruler Sweden could have.
OF the Swedish people, shall always retain the
most agreeable recollections. In no country have
found more honesty, simplicity and kindness Of
heart. Courteous without being servile outwardly
reserved but inwsrdly tender, courageous, cheer
iul and enduring, their stable qualities win the
more the longer they are known The frank,
friendly faces Of hundreds with whom talked re-
main dear and fresh in my memory, presenting
themselves without effort and will no more depart
than the floating stanzas of Swedish song which |
have read, and, for their melody cannot forget.
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