The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-20

enemies A4anY 81 naf fthihitore pave
gore home disgus,ea and many remain
IN crampcd eondaisoa and many,
more bod. have arphea @ the English
Z Commissioner and obtained relief Nj
! Beckwiih is an American. bat has lived
in PARIS So long. he is q Frsnghman.
they al say. and unfit iur the place
Some one from the States no doaht
should have had u, who would have ex-
ertcd himself % have made tho Z s
appear the best possible Instead =
TINS. the complaints show that he has
done al be could do to The contrary
strange aud inconsistent as il may APP
pear II is not known how long the cx-
position is Ga last, tina, remains fcr the
Emperor 10 say But longer OF short.
err, II one half the complaints against
Commissioner +. arc true, be should be
removed at once As have not been
able 20 spend much time at the exposi.
ton as yet will tell you more Of that
( IN my next, and the balance Of this let
ter viii devote to my trip Of last week
into Belgium and the interior Of France.
4 left Charlie ut Paris. he is more than
delighted with the glitter Of this city
and here he met some home friends
ship friends, and many Americans. r.
Here he could feast his eyes on the
beautiful. quite contrast to London.
Having secured rooms at the Grand
Hotel, which, by the way is the grand
est hotel / ever saw, and very FASH
ionable resort, patronized at the present
time, mostly by Americans. Charlie
smiled and elapped his hands and OK
claimed, There, this is all right / am
happy at lastl'
Brussels, the capital OF Belgium, il
about 300 miles from Paris. arrived
there in the morning. 1t is very
handsome city Of 100000 population.
There are many things Of Anticipated
interest there. 1t is located on a side
slope from the river Semie. II is the
residence of Leopold the King, young
/, man who succeeded his father, very
good old man that died two years ago
His palace is nothing magnificent, AND
, is very old, showing the marks OF time
There are many splendid parks here.
The field Of the battle of Waterloo il
about Z miles from the city, and may be
seen from the tower Of the old and goth.
, ic structure Hotel de VRie, 36l feet high
This building is over 400 years old
The handsomest part of the city is on
the Boulevards. The museum contains
: some very choice pictures by the grea
artist Rubens, who was born at Cologne
! in 1877, and who was educated in ia,
art under Titan at Venice, afterward,
went to Rome to study the pictures o.
Raphael HIS success was such, ant
he became such master that Maria
! Medicis sent for him TO come to Paris
and paint the series OF pictures repre-
senting her from her birth to her rec.
oncilliation with Louis XIII, which pic.
lures are in the De Loune, Paris, and
attract much attention, as well as thes,
at Brussels. My stop in Brussels wa'
only for one day Here / found parties
Of Americans stopping few days, sigh
seeing, before taking trip up the
Rhine. Though strangers, as soon al
! we near the English language spoken
we always meet as old acquaintance
and give each other all the points Of in
: formation we can cheerfully, and it
, quite favor to those who cannot speal
French, as their mouths and ears ar,
literally sealed as soon as they come OF
to the Continent, except when they NEE
. each other. And now let me say, ney
er come to this country until you cur
at least speak French. French is spo
ken everywhere, and with it you can e
the world over, and have no trouble in
making yourself understood. But with
out the French language you lose mort
than half the pleasure you might have
l speak from experience, and here Iwil
relate little Of it. From Brussels
had to go by night train distance o
: some two hundred miles, along the small
frontier towns Of France and Belgium
The trains did not connect, so | was
obliged to remain ut these different sta
tons or functions few hours each
to get out 50 as not to be carried on th,
wrong way, and which next train &
take, | could not ask, and when / at
tempted to find out by showing my tick
ct, the conductor would answer me il
|, French, and leave me none the wiser
| stopped at one place three hours. ane
wanting something to eat, could not ash
foa hotel 50 as to be able to find one
, or If dad, TO know safe it would be t.