Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-29

PROGRESS IN EURoPE.-We are permitted to
make the following extract from private letter
from a professional gentleman, travelling in Eu-
rope, TO his brother in this city, dated Munich,
[Bavarial Aug. II, 1871"
What has struck me as most remarkable in
our journeyings, is the wonderful stride which
has been made, in growth and Improvements by
nearly all of the large cities in Europe, since my
visit to them in 1s49 This is especially true of
London, Paris, and Vienna, and in regard to
improvements, most especially true of the
last two cities mentioned. Whatever may
be said in condemnation of the acts of Napo-
leon the third, believe it cannot be truly de-
MED that France has flourished under his rule
as she never before flourished; that commerce,
trade and the useful arts have been more vigo.
rous, and have increased more rapidly than at
any former time; and that their legitimate re-
suits, the increase of the comforts and convent
ences of man, and the accumulation of wealth,
have been equally rapid. Nothing, perhaps,
has ever more astOunded (thatis the word) the
moneyed men Of Europe, than the history OF
the recent loan by the French government. Al
though the largest loan ever sought by any gov
eminent within the written history OF the world,
it was all taken, and by Frenchmen, too, in one
day, Not only so, but tloice the amount of the
loan was subscribed for, and the citizens of
Paris, alone subscribed for the full amount.
France has been sorely tried and severely pm
ished; but she is very far from being impover-
ished and her resources appear inexhaustible.
And Paris, after all its sufeTings and injuries,
is to-day, the same grand and beautiful city,
with its gay and apparently light hearted peo-
pie, that it was before the war.
Judging from the vast improvements in Vi
| emma, among which the most conspicuous are
| large numbers Of buildings, which excel even
| those of the new Boulevards in Paris, in mag
niticence, the wealth of the Viennese has kept
pace with the Parisans. Railroads have, I'M
doubleday, been one of the primal causes of all
these results; but, in Austria, | think some
thing is due to the change in the government,
since 1S49. In that year. Theodore 5. Fay, then
the American secretary OF legation at Berlin,
told me that he thought the Austrians, as a
whole the most democratic people in the world.
Since that time they have forced their sovereign
| to give them liberal, constitutional govern
ment with its two legislative assemblies. In
| 1S49 could not get into Austria until Mr. Fay
| assumed all responsibility therefor, and even
| then, not until a new passport was made for
| me, mentioning every important city to which l
| intended to 90, and the object of my journey.
| Now, we all went into Austria without request
| even to look at our passports and without any
examination of our baggage, Truly, the world
has moved in that quarter, And whereas, in
1S49, as for long years before, it hehooVed the
traveller in Austria 10 obey the injunction OF
Prince Puckler Muskau: "Don't talk about the
government" 1t would now appear that both
the traveller and the iuhabitant of Austria may
talk about the government as much as they
please.