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C1ARENpoN PLACE. MAIpEl

CLARENDON PLACE, MAIDEN Hill, |
London, Oct. "a, 1866. I'll
have Just returned from Paris after a sojourn
there of three weeks. What wonderful city, |
and how much more wonderful is the man that
rules over it. You know the saying is that "Paris
is France" 1t is, and it is not. BY his great TACT
he has made it not only the mart of France but of
the world Constituting the government the
great buyer of wine corn las all grain is called
here,) the purchaser Of all patents that are worth
the name, he controls the markets of the world. |
By his sagaoity in making Paris the most attrac-
tive place for beauty-e externally or internally
he brings people from all parts of the civilized
world there to spend their money quietly cajoling
them out of it, in the thousand and one attractive
Things that meet them on every hand NO Whefe
else do Americans spend so much as in Paris. His
love for horses and his determination to improve the
breed, has made him the purchaser of some OF
the best horses in the world the never to be |
beaten American, therefore, must bring over his |
private studs to compete with the emperor. He
does So but he drops lot of money in the doing,
and is sure to drop his horses too, ere he leaves
either from necessity, or persuasion-ottener the
first. But these are small things that make the
greatness of Napoleon. 1t is not his sagacity as
ruler against all other nations, as it. is often
said-though he is not far. behind in the race-but
his exact knowledge what to do with the French
people. believe he is impelled by higher mo-
tive than his own aggrandizement. think ne is
ambitious for his nation; that she shall be the
first in arts, in cultivation of agricultural and
animals, in merchandise and machinery, in music
and education, in fact in all things that must
make nation, and well will he with France, if
his life be spared fifteen years more; he will then
have made so sure a foundation-more especially
if his son partakes of his genius and character,
that it will take much to shake it. 9a-
| One thing particularly strikes a stranger more
especially after visiting England Ireland and Scot
land, and that is the total absence of beggars.
| You never see barefooted children, ragged men
/ and women proWling the streets. As soouas they
are found, and they cannot escape long. as there
are too many vigiiant eyes on every hand they
are taken to the proper bureau, and whatever they
are hit for they dol they are put on public works
| of some kind and paid the regular daily wages of
all mechanics. An Englishman replied to me
/ when Imentioned this part with pleasure-"true,
| but is he not mourning great national debt2"
| Perhaps, but even 80, cannot but see good re-
suits to the poor whilst it makes France the most
attractive place in civilized Europe to visit Here
we have comparative few beggars but they APP
| pear host in comparison to Paris--l may say
France. am told that Lyons, Marseilles and all
the surrounding country about Paris are feeling the
benefits Of steady Improvement. Another
law that had never heard before is
peremptorily carried out All children must
| be sent to school to learn reading, writing and
the simple rules of arithmetic. If England does
not soon do something really tangible this sub
Iiect, pity her future. believe she is even now
lslumhefing over a volcano. The heart of the land
/ is diseased; some remedy must be found or woe
to the mistress Of the seas.n
If you could see Hyde Park now you would
more quickly understand the fact than / can ex-
| plain by my pen. Milesof boarding show where
the mob tore down the heavy iron railing, simply
to show the aristocratic portion their power.
They had parks of their own, where they were
wont to meet, and would have still continued to
do so, but when told they should not use the park
OF the aristocracy, they plainly showed them they
meant to have voice in the nation, and as they
mr. foil thoT,v
enter it. All this would be nothing if the people
were educated to carry out the lesson: but where
| the brutal passions predominant, ] leave you to
conceive what such bowling rabble would do,
led by bad men, and they are found somewhere else
than onour own soil. Whilst in Paris was prom
ised the statistics of the lower ordersor beggars
4 and the like; have those of Ireland, Scotland,
and England When get that promised, I will
/ give them to you think their numbers will
startle you. One Of the crying evils Of Great
Britain is her unequally divided wealth. Think of
the half Of England being owned by twenty four
men, the half of Scotland by eleven. As for Ire
land her owners are on this side of the channel
mostly. You will say, all the better for emigra-
tion; but it is sad to contemplate people being
compelled to leave their native land to find q
homet that will give their little ones future.
| Many and bitter as the mistakes have been in my
own dear land; difficult as her future is to solve,
would not exchange her birthright for all the old
rotten courts of the world. She is young has
wealth untold, not yet discovered, or made aYaila-
/ pIsF udS DFdVe, uaFuy SONS ana beautiful women,
with brains that will yet work out her glory. /
/ never love my native land half so much
as when away. l can exclaim, with BY
| ron-changing the name of the country
/ America, with all thy faults love thee still y
won't touch on politics; but for the honor of our
land, wish there was one American less in Paris.
| l leave you to puzzle out who.
Paris has much improved since I saw it last.
4 The quadrangle connecting the Tuileries and the
Louvre is nearly completed making one Of the most
| imposing imperial residences Of the old world
| Many works of art have been added to the gal
ieries OF the Louvre, am told-also in the Tull-
lefies The latter could not see, as it has been
undergoing repairs for the expected guests of the
emperor during the exposition. ! saw only the
exterior OF the latter and thatin very unfinished
state, II size bespeaks its grandeur, it will be
grand indeed. Everybody is furnishing up their
houses, in the eager expectation of the money
that wall come in. On all sides you see ''dpdrte-
mems a toUer pour peGpostjon't 't-and a good
round sum they will have to pay. One of our
NeW fork merchants has Just engaged plot for
which ne pays $4,000 in gold, for six months
and $1,000 for his stables. The French
people have an idea to be an American you must
be rich; poor deluded people-some of them have
found to their cost.
saw marvellous panorama, such as | never
saw before, for effect and its truth TO nature It
| is called the g Glory of FranceH and represents
the battle of Solferno. Unlike any one ever
saw, 1t does not move, but is placed on the rails
\ oil rotunda; and as you go up stairs and stand
on the floor, ithas the appearance of your standing
| on balcony with the scene actually passing be-
fore you. No piecing of canvas is visible you
only see the clear, beautiful Italian sky-the sunny
landscape, moved by what looks like real smoke.
| 70 make the illusion more complete, all around
the platform represents the side of hill-with
real earth,-here and there a spent cannon bail ;
a burst shell; broken gun-carriage, with its
eas9n turned On it's side; and as the eye goes to
the bottom Of the hill, on one side, where men and
horses are in the midst of a fearful struggle-or
the other, an exploded caison, with its wheels
bfoken and pieces flying in the air. one of its
horses dead 1.-THE other fearfully wounded lying in
painful, patient resignation, his life blood yelling
away, You feel as if the tide Of battle must haye
Just rolled over the hill whereon you stand, The
atmosphere you breathe gives you sensation Of
| giddness, and spite of sober reason you cannot
| dlRest yourself of the horror around YOU You
see men handto-hand; horses rolling on their
riders, in the death agony in the far distance the
french cavalry coming up on the double-quick to
intercept reinforcement Of Austrians. wished
FOR your knowledge Of the battlefield to describe
1t Alright. Here and there birds are wheeling,
afflghted in the air; whilst little to the right
Stands Napoleon and his staff watching with ear
nest, eagle glances the fortunes of the daY. I can
only convey toyouslightly this great picture. 1t is
on looking on scene like this Ifeel how tru io.
norant am; how feebly the words come to eS-
press what requires torrent.
sIhe emperor arrived at St. Cloud the Iay before
| left, and in good health, newspaper reports To