The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-22
PARTISAN COCKNCyTCu

b'dcHpood HogGzlne tor July, republished by
Leonard, Scott Co., contains an article on senti
mental Physiology, being a review of Michelet's
Amour, from which we make the following ex-
tract on the Cockneyism of the Parisians. The
faith OF the Parsians in Paris is by no means the
exclusive property Of Frenchmen Americans
EnglShmen and Russians, share in the sentiment
1t Is tanatlcism founded in good reason:
Zone who loves to shape for himself the forms of
events in the darkness of the future mirht be in
terested and puzzled for long time with the mo-
mentous question, ''What is to become Of Paris ?''
The prospects Of that city sufficiently embar-
rasslng, whether regarded from moral, religious
social, or political point of view Paris will grow
and grow, and grow, and its ramtying railroads
VIII act as so many arteries, bringing the vital fluid
INTO the great central heart of France and not re-
acting as veins to carry it back. Paris will cer-
talnly become congested again, as it has happened
often before, and the next time matters NAV be
worse than they yet have been: the explosion NAV
be more tremendously proportion to the CONGESTION.
On the face OF things such a danger would appear
to threaten London even to a greater extent on
aon Is larger than Paris, and expands every dav
but that matters little. The outward and visible
increase is apparent rather than real There is mn
strong attachment of EngShmen towards London
as there is of Frenchmen towards Paris bnt the
forces OF attraction and repusion appear correct
each other England will never be centralized in
London as France is to a certain extent in Paris
NO one who has the shadow of a settlement else
where connects the feeling of home with our great
metropolis while the true Frenchman is at home
only IN Parls His feelings those of Ovid in his
exile at Toni, when business or health takes him
away from his beloved capital:
Cum suht illus trstissima noctis image
Que mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuft
Even IN the glorious Alps of Dauphne or amnnr
the Pyreneese, mountain scenery which he NAV
reVcl IN without putting his foot on foreign OF ound
and equal to any in the world, he feels enauye at a
short sojourn, and sighs for the Heshpots of Egvpt
and gross mud-hOney Of town" 1t is far other
wise with the Brtons. Unless very Young indeed
nothing but duty will bind him to a dav longer in
hohaon than he can possibly help. If he is an NJ
r., he never mods in the House under the inaiction
OF long-wnded speaker, but his dreams are of the
gorse and the grouse if he is a merchant he takes
delight only in the associations connected BY the
name ot Change, cursing the reality of the thing:
1t small tradesman, he is never hummed into a
sleepy reverie by the flies in his shOps but he
dreams of the suburban box whittier when times
mend, he may wend his by rail or omnibus
ABOUT tour IN the afternoon leaving his late custom
10 an underlIng; ii mechanic his thoughts through
the week are of his Sunday holiday and the bur
den of his secret prayers is that the dav may be
hne to enjoy it in fact, from the perpetual and
growing antpathy of its Inhabitants ioined to the
miasma Of the Thames, London is in danger of
dlSintegratiOn, and seems in fair way to be trans
planted piecemeal to the several railroad stations
IN Its nelghborhood. has even now, with its fu-
rous and fevered life, burnt itself so hollow in the
centre, that proposals have been made to trans
plant into the suburbs the metror olitan churches
to sites whittier their parishes have migrated
Parls, on the other hand, becomes daily more
tihcatiOns. Its evirOns are dull-what place is
duller than Versailles ? st. Germain ST. Dennis,
and the rest are the finest possible specimens of
deadly liyeliness In the central part of Paris and
that part OF the BouevardS which is near them, is
all the motion all the life, all the gayety and we
may add, to a great extent, all the beauty The
Place de la COncordei it the focus from which France
radlates- the central point of that peculiarly Attic
civilization IN which France takes the lead of the
world. Standing there about the fountains we
have often been struck with the idea that it was
the boss OF ''umbicus' of the world. bearing the
same relation to modern Europe that Delphi was
supposed by the ancients 20 bear to their world
There is something sngularly open and upIifted in
the situation. The splendid vista of the Rue de
Rlvoli, terminated by, rather continuing itself
through, the Arch of the Star, looks like the
High street of the world, and might well be sup
posed to be the entrance of some great cosmopoii-
tan thoroughtare like the Appian Way of old. The
elevation of mountain isolated by surrounding
raVlnes seems rather to uplift to heaven than
to command earth. The elevation of the Place de
la Concorde is ofthat perfectly mundane and ac-
cessibe nature, spreading every way into the hori
zon, that it seems to symbolic the alpervading in
fuence of an imperial community. We have seen
an excellent photograph of that very place, in
Guiding the facade of the Louvre and the front of
the Madelane. The only thing that struck us as
unnatural about that photograph was the entire
absence of all life; an omission, however, in actual
fact, easily explainable, such photographs being
generally taken early in the morning. No human
being to be seen, either civil or military; no
horse, vehicle.
One great characteristic of the spot, and that
which especially gives it its cosmopolitan charac-
ter, is the constant circulation of motley life around
1t; not in the shape of excessive crowding as seen
in the aDeurisms of the arteries of London but as
natural and healthy kind. 1t is not to be wonder
ed at that trenchman is proud of Paris-loves
Paris; wonders whether dinner or a play is to be
eaten or seen elsewhere in the world affects or re-
ally has profound ignorance of every other place
and people besides Paris and its inhabitants ANY
one who is in the habit OF rea ding what we would
call par excellence the Cockney Partisan literature
OF the day, will see that do not overstate this
case. The charge of Cocknevsm may be brought
with great force against much of our own popular
writings. From the fact that the workshops of
newspapers and periodicals are in London London
sights and sounds obtruded too often and forci-
Dly on the eyes and minds Of contributors not to
Affect greatly their lucubrations. Punch, for in
stance, circulates everywhere where uniformly ex-
celent drawing and occasional Joke can be ap-
preclated. Why shonld almost all of PuRchs illus
tratioDs and Jokes be drawn from London lfe-we
4ad almost said spawned in the mud of the Thames?
Is there no fun in Yorkshire? \ few more Jokes
from the mining districts would have been most ac
ceptabie. Is there no wit north of the Tweed ?
Maga knows better-or west of the Irish Channel :?
Or, rather, is it not all wit there when potatoes are
plentiful? And the great Times himself is emphat-
lcally Londoner, but he loves it not. The Eng
llsh HterdteUr Is COckney by cOmpulsion; he can
not help it. He kicks against it. goes off to Scar
borough, sketches seaside crinones but the neces
his brain, and his imagination-t his stomach
revolts at it's Cockney and of Cockaigne. Not
so with the Frenchman He does not know whether
he is Partisan by necessity or not so thoroughly
is he so by choice He loves Paris lives in Paris
breathes Paris, and all the of the universe
through an inverted Partisan lorgnete.
The WEATHER AND CRoP NEws.-The weather
the week, has been intensely hot the
temperature being considerably higher than what
Is usual In the hottest summer weather in this To-
cality, the thermometer (Fahrenheits) indicating
So to So from sunset to sunrise, and $50 to 1909
during the day, in the shade. In the hall of the Mer
chants Exchange, which is well shaded with nor |
therly and easterly exposure the temperature was
~ to $40, from 10 A NJ, until p NJ, each dav. |
TINS intense heat has proved unusually fatal to |
many OF those exposed to it, and the deaths by sun
stroke during the week. in this city, is reported at
slxty-hve, whilst large number of deaths have |
been induced by it Indirectly
Heavy showers have swept over portions of the |
various western States within the week, but they
have been only partial; and, generally speaking |
the corn and grass are suffering for want of rain
In west Tennessee and western Kentucky, the |
drought has been severe and it is feared will prove
disastrous TO corn. letter from Jackson, Tennes-
see, informs us hat the in that locality, is
nearly, if not wholly ruined and that planters had
almost despaired of having any.
From Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin or In |
diana, we have not received any serious complaints
the corn is represented doing well, but in need of
rain. The grass in most places, is dried up badly
The heat is intense all over the West letter from
Racine, Wisconsin, says the thermometer on the
10th and 18th, stood at 99o in the shade about the
middle of the day.-Cin. Price Current, July 2Om
One JOKE AND THREE CHURCHES AT ANNAPoL1s-
In the San of yesterday is the following telegraphie
despatch:
''BEDFoRD, Pa, July I9.-President Buchanan
and his party arrived here this evening"
NO doubt ofit. His party is small that ample
accommodations for it can be found at Bedford.
1t is expected that there win be divine service at
81. Annes Church on Sunday, the 3lst instant, the
interior OF the new edifce being nearly ready for
the accommodation of the congregation.
The Workmen are progressing rapidly in build
ing the new Methodist and Roman Catholic church
& es; They will probably be ready for service in the