The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-12-24


voa ser ap one class above another. the
youne and riddy ami thouehilcss should
pluagc irto vice and i Is true that hon
est labor with tie hands and lhc bead Is
the only condition Of healthy lite. Idle
men arc sicions and disposed 70 vice, and
when idle meuare noblemen, vice becomes
fashionable. There are men siill living
who iook part ia the proGigacy Of the re-
ee1ty. wlrn all she sons u George III
le8 iaoa Immoral lives which proved a
Shame and a scandal 10 the age n was
ban the other day that noble lord--aud
lave chapter and verse. name, date and
place--a noble lord presided AZ a meeting
and presented testimonials from the pro-
pricior Of tie Argyle Rooms Gan abandon
ed house in Loadon). ! would say, here,
thai The puresi court IN Europe. presided
over by the purest woman that ever sat
on a throne--thal this court, or any coun.
try. whether d republic or monarchy. can
not recover in City years from the effects
of lebauehcry, when il is made universal
and fashionable as it was in the reign Of
George ~.
CoCRNEys AND "YANErFs."
fear that in tho middle classes you do
not end that intellectual training tia, is so
requisite. Old General Thompson said
that there are no union men now-a-days--
they are all whiskers and puff Tie req
ular eockney i not generally O very fine
specimen Of the genus homo. lie is gem
orally rather conceiied, but very much
matter-of-tact parsonage. They do not
understand our American Jokes. Suppose
YOU told 4 coeknsy that ii Alabama the
pigs were so thin that they tied knots in
their tails to keep them from going through
the fences, aud he VIII begin 10 argue
about il, and eadeavor to prove to you by
the rules Of logic that such a thing was
very improbable, il not ridiculously impos-
sible. Something like the observation Of
the minister, after reading Gullirers S
Travels he said that il was most re
markable book, bat there were some
strange statements in it! There is dif /
ference between the Yankee and the Eng
lishman in the way in which they do I
things. The one is wiry and patient IN
his actions, the other hot-hcaded and inn
pcuous. The cockney knows little Of
anything but his business and his good
dinner He takes very little trouble.
He even does not thinl, for himself lie
believes MI he reads III the Times, and
thus he i. furnished wilha freshet ofopin-
or polilical--on an aver
age of once a month That Times paper
rules England. II is easy, reckless, clev-
er, and fools John Bull as John loves 10
be fooled sometimes. Astronomers tell Us
hat there arc spots in the sun, but the
Times caauol see any in the British luml-
iary.
join Bright sad there is more social
freedom in Paris than in London, and |
believe there H. Man must conform to
he class Of people he belongs to. Sidney
Smith once aad that it took surgical OPP
ration 10 make Scotchman understand
, joke, and it is Almost rs difficult to get
IN Englishman to adopt anything new.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS
/ should not close without saying word
bout The postal arrangements. No per-
on in London is more tIian iurlong from
post Office. There arc ten deliveries a
lay. One Of the curious sights Of Lon
lon is d post office before the window of
which wend a crowd Of men, women and
,oys, advancing and retrcaling, with bill
cts, packages, and sometimes whole bags ,
al of letters, each looking anxionsly at
he clock which tells the hour Of closing. {
/ is only a minute Of six faster faster,
wifter they press towards tie window.
Ihe clock strikes onc--onward rushes the !
rowd of men women and boys; tgo-
ire away; hree--onward they rush, get ]
ing almost in tumult four-fre-- sir !
nd down goes the window, smashing fin !
grs, or perhaps cutting a bagIul of letters, /
savng onc-half 10 90 and the other TO !
.ait for the next mail. And it is this
and regularity Of the post Of
ce in England that makes it so valuable
t is remarkable how letter will follow
ou from place TO place, and when every
ndeayor to find It's destination proves Z
ruthless, it is opened by tie government /
nd returned TO the writer, for which only /
ne penny is paid. Fl
Time fails 10 allow me to speak Of the !
olice. tie watermen and tie cabmca. T
be different opinions Of different indiyid- q
ais about London would Gil volumes Il I
the whole Of human life inal its yarie-
rs, the contemplation Of which Is mex t
austiLle. Byron calls London one su. !,
eib mpnagerie.' Charles Lamb. Swift 4
M others could live nowhere bot IN Lon q
On. Some men live In London for its 4
xcitemeuis, others for is quetade-- o
here, indeed, may be found deeper SOL s
ude than in tie seclasion Of the country. q
,acon sa4s that While the noisy coaches
ere rolling through Bond street he had
assed many a solitary evening IN bis e
1yn, surrounded by bis books. c
| have cndeasored 10 give yon some y
lea Of the lights aud shadows of Lon k