Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-07
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Dieppe in Normandy, thence BY rail lbs
miles to Paris. 1t happened with me
that l stopped some hours in Dieppe, and
as it was the first French town / saw, Of
course everything seemed novel, and re-
mains indslibly pictured in memory. 1t
is place Of from FIVE to ten thousand
inhabitants, built in an old.fAshioned
style, upon and back of a high bit Of
land which can be seen at a great dis.
lance from sea. The soil aud the chalky
cliffs are much the same as seen at
Dover and other points on the English
side. The channel can be crossed in a
few hours at any point, and in such de
lightiul weather as | had - neither
hot nor cold the sail is g
most delightful one. It seems so
odd to an American accustomed to
travelling several days and nights by rail
without getting out Of his wi country,
to find that he can cross England, say
from Liverpool to New Haven, as / did,
in about six hours, though not without
stopping in London some days. 1t is
stranger, still, to find that the nearest
neighbors Of England not only have diff.
ferent styles of architecture, different
manners, habits, dress and language, but
their methods of thought, of occupation
and Of dealing with the every day affairs
of life, seem as unlike the Eoglish as if
they lived at the Antipodes. An air of
neatness and cheerfulness pervades all
things, animate and inanimste. The
men 90 about their work eheerfully aud
there seems to be little idleness or vice.
The women, many Of them, wear wooden
shoes, rather short dresses, and the white
Normandy cap, always 81 becoming
Once OUT Of the city, the traveller be-
holds evidences of the system
under which go many Of the poorer peo-
pie are landholders. The great ambition
of q Frenchman seems to be 10 own
t land, however little. What we would
call a goodsizsd farm or plantation may
. be divided up among hundreds Of own
ers. The people generally live together
in towns or villages and go out some
E distance to cultivate their strips or
D patches Of land. Hence, all sorts Of
0 crops may be seen growing within q
j., small area, as each man plants, lows
and c~nltivates to suit his own interest OIL
: taste, regardless Of his neighbor. Thil
5, mania for ownership in the soil may &C
d count for the Intellectual efforts Of thu
French to establish and maintain colo
MES. The French love their country, it
amusements, social customs and every
day life. Ia England it is different. Thl
y country is owned by a few men
1t The Oldest sons inherit the mos
Of the property in q family
and the younger ones are taught fror
infancy that they must rely upon them
re selves for competence and success, an
ii. that to be independent they may have t
20 TO India, Australia, New ZeslauC
or Canada, or even to the United States, I
ty End a field for their energy. 1t is a n
be marksble fact, however, that so man
cy Englishmen who go TO the latter countr
.p- live there the greater part of a lifetim
les without ever becoming %naturalizad. .
ng love for their own country and institl
lily tons is part Of the reason, and the rel
ob- may be found in the idea implanted
ng their minds as they learned to spea
be their native tongue, that our corntr
he will 20 to pieces one Of these days, on
hrs that the republican experiment Of sci
WI government will prove a failure. In su,
for port Of this theory, which it is Il
to religion Of all legal Euglishmen to no
tia. and expound, especially when Anne.
of cans are about, they point to the CORFU
md tons which have grown up under h
ing government since the war as the Datur
Ter. outgrowth Of our free and easy syste
in Of politics. Just now the English a
to in a state Of high glee over the gre
low and bloOdless victory gained at Berl
lea over Russia aud the other powers
ain Europe. 1t is no wonder they are G
Iole thusiAstic at the result.
lall The English are supposed to be
phlegmatic race, incapable Of emotion
lity display, and 10 this respect they q
'om usually quite the opposite Of their neiC
all bors across the channel. Coming
OUR from the Crystal Palace, where | spe
q II several hours to-day, / got off at Cbari
Oh Cross station and had an opportunity
IN witness the grand popular demonstrate
'nee on the occasion Of Lord Beacons6el
NY. triumphal return from Berlin. Ithadbe
oara evident for a day or two that John B
'uon had made up bis mind TO manifest
tease supreme satisfaction at the happy tn
New Of affairs which arrested war and secur
SEN more territory and a stronger Tooth
sous in the Mediterranean. The lord mayo
and gilded C~arriNge and four, with driv
* in and outriders in gorgeous livery 9
Inch white curled wigs, stood just outside
Our the gate, aud half a dozen other ca,
urI'y ages IN much the same style we're dra
ut Of up in a roW behind. The crowd
and lected on the streets was INNER
lne There were at least one hundred Il
agent sand people about the station
every on the line it was kpI