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V O L U M E I X , B I N G H A M T O N , B R O O M E C O U N T Y ' , (N . Y . ) T H U R S D A Y , M A R C H 1 5 , 1 8 3 2 , N U M B E R 4 6 . T H E BROOM E R E P U B L I C A N IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY C A N C E L & E V A N S , * K P I TO Its AND PRO P R IK TORS. T E R M S . — Village subscribers ivill have their p a pers left at t h e i r doors at t w o do l l ar s per annum, payable half yearly. Mail subscribers, t w o dollars per annum, paya ble half yearly in advance. Those who receive t.licir papers by' Post, t w o d o l l a r s per annum.,, payable quarterly. Subscribers living o u t o f th e village, w h o receive their papers at the office, singly, o k k dollar a n d s e v e n t y - f i v e c k n t s . (J j ^ All arrearages must be paid, before a paper o r advertisement can be discontinued. All letters to the editors must be p o s t p a i d . Advertisements inserted a t 50 cents for 18 lines, for the first week, a n d 25 cents for every subsequent iusor- tion ; but a liberal discount made to those who ad vertise by the year. Legal Advertisements inserted a t the price fixed by law . AND EVKRY VARIETY OF J O B P R I N T I N G , Executed in a superior style at this Office. W A S H I N G T O N . Tho following original hymn was sung at the celebration on the 22d of February, in the Old South Church, Boston :— To thee, beneath whose eye Each circling century Obedient rolls, O n r nation , in its prim e , Looked with a faith sublime, Aud trusted, in “ the time T h a t tried men’s souls”— When, from this gate of heaven,* People and priest were driven B y fire a n d sword, And, where thy saints had prayed, The harness’d war-horse neighed? And horsemen’s trumpets brayctf* In harsh accord. Nor w a s our father’s trust, , Thou Mighty O n e a n d Just, T h e n put to s h a m e : “ Up to the hills” for light, Looked they in peril’s night, Aud, frD\» y o n guardian height,f Deliverance came. There, like an angel form, Stood W A S H I N G T O N ! Clouds broke and rolled aw a y ; Foes fled in palo dismay; W r e a thed were his b rows with bay, W h e n w a r was clone. God of our sires and sods, Let other Washingtons O u r country bless, And, like the bravo and wise Of by-gone centuries, Show that true grentucss lies Iu righteousness. • T h e Old South Church was taken possession of by the British, while they held Boston, and converted into barracks for the cavalry, the pews being c u t up for fuel, or used iu constructing stalls for the horses. f From his position on “ Dorchester Heights,” that overlook the town, General Washington succeeded in compelling t h e British forces to evacuate Boston. T E M P E KAN CM D E P A11T M E N T . of t h e respective questions.— T h e ardent, spirits used in the army in 1830 has impaired t h e health, diminished the s trength, injuriously affected t h e appearance, and t e n d e d to debase th e moral condition o f the soldiers. It has rendered t h e m less warlike as an army, but m o re quarrelsonie and brutal as men. It has had a tendency to disqualify them for fronting the enem ies of f r e e dom , and for maintaining in unsullied trium p h our hitherto invincible flag. It has, in fine, i f I may so describe it, distilled an unfavorable influ ence into their moral, intellectual and social s y s tem — touched with a corrosive poison every spring of action, and embittered the fountain o f every healthful enjoyment. G o v e r n o r Cass a c com p a n i e s his s t a t e m e n t with respect to tiie a- m o u n t of whiskey consumed as a pari o f the r a tion am o n g (lie a rmy, in 1830, with the following judicious remarks : “ If this sum ( that is, $ 2 2 ,132, the cost of the whiskey,) were applied to th e purchase o f tea, coffee and sugar, for the use of the soldiers, their hahits and morals would be greatly improved, and t h e discipline a n d respect* ability of t h e army promoted. T h e regulation of this departm e n t , by which an offer is m a d e to the soldier of c o m m u t i n g the whiskey ration by the paym e n t of one cent, is productive of little advantage. In this estim a te o f the value of this part of the ration, reference lias been had only to t h e actual average cost of t h e article deliver ed in large quantities a t the various posts. Bn! this is unjust to the soldier, l i e estimates it ve ry naturally at t h e retail price, averaging p r o b a bly five c e n ts, and the present offer o f co m m u tation is in fact t o ask him to sell it f o r one fifth of its value. It is f a r better to leave the troops no choice ,, but to all 070 them a liberal compensation, and in such articles as re ill be most u s e f u l E v e ry reflecting mind will, I apprehend, utter a r e a dy response to t h e sentiment contained in the concluding sentence of the foregoing remarks. T h e r e may be s o me, however, who would dis cover an impropriety in the r a ther implied re com m e n d a tion o f the Secretary, with respect to the “ purchase o f tea, coffee and sugar, for the use of the soldiers,” with the thousands of d o l lars annually expended for their liq u o r ; as those whose opinions and habits are most o p p o sed to reform are generally m o s t forward and clamorous in holding to t h o “ letter o f the ’ >. id ” the reformed and reforming. In other words, they may entertain the opinion, that the use of tea anil coffee is a species of i n t e m p e r a n c e which should be equally crucified with distilled spirits. Indeed, they are all a t once so in fear th a t the causu o f t e m p e r a n c e will b e injured by the laxity of its professors, as to narrow t h e m dow n from the whole r a n g e o f potations to the single inflexible use of simple unadulterated cold ivaier. T o such I would very a c c o m m o d a t ingly say, let. then the use of “ tea, coffee and sugar,” he prohibited am o n g the soldiers, ( a s I believe it is now,) and let the money now' annually ex pended in scattering liquid poison through the veins of the army be applied to the more eleva ted, ennobling object o f advancing their m o r a l c u l t u r e ; which, (ought it not t o ho s p o k e n t o the sham e of o u r e n lightened and Christian country?) I regret to add, the Secretary informs u s is “ wholly neglected.” L e t such a revolution he now com m e n c e d , and persovcringly consum m a ted, and higher still will our favorite -------------------------Columbia to glory arise, T h e queen of the world aud the child of the skies 1 W . whole air and character were so f ree from self- consciousness or pretension— never one who looked to me so capable of the cffm, lofty, u n conquerable heroism of a martyr. “ Paris is the centre o f the world,” if c e n tr i p etal tendency is any proof of it. Every thing struck off from the other parts of the universe flies s traight to the Palais Royal. You may m e e t in its thronged galleries, in the course of an hour, representatives of every creed, rani:, nation, a n d system under heaven. Hussein Pasha and Don P e d r o pace daily the s a m e y m ’e, (he one brood ing on a kingdom lost, the oilier on the throne he hopes t o win— the Polish genera’ a n d the pro scribed Spaniard, the exiled Italian conspirator, the contem p t u o u s T u r k , die weibdressed negro from Elayti, and the silk-robed Persian, revolve by t h e hour t o g e ther round thesarnejVf d'eau — and costumes o f every cut and color, m u s taches and beards o f every degree o f ferocity and od dity, press so fast and thick upon t h e eye, that one forgets to be astonished. T h e r e are no such things as “ lions” in Paris. T h e extraordinary persons out-num b e r the ordinary. Every other m a n you m e e t would keep a small town in a fer m e n t for a month. I spent yesterday at Pere, la Chaise , and t o day at Versailles. T h e two places are in o p p o site environs, and of very opposite characters— one certainly making you in love with life, the other almost as certainly with death. O n e could lican. F o r the Broome Republican. T E M P E R A N C E — N O . V I I . In a form e r article headed “ T e m p e r a n c e No. IV ,” I presented a few r e m a r k s on th a t part of the Secretary of W a r ’s R e p o r t which alluded to the custom practiced by our governm e n t of'ma- king ardent spirits a p a r t of th e ration o f our soldiery. I nmv purpose to redeem the promise which closed those remarks, of resuming a sub ject which I consider of no ordinary importance. According to the above m e n tioned Report, “ there w e re issued to the army, in 1330, 72,537 gallons o f whiskey, at t h e cost of $22,132.” — M a y I not put the com m o n b u t not irrelevant interrogatory—O f what avail has been this c o n siderable expenditure o f money ? H a s it pro m o ted the health, increased the strength, i m p r o ved the appearance, or w r o u g h t a favorable re volution in the moral condition of the soldiers ? Ifas it rendered t h e m m o r e warlike— more fit to front the enemies of freedom and preserve un tarnished o u r “ s t a r s p a n g led banner ?” H a s it, in fine, improved in any shape or m a n n e r their condition as soldiers or as men 1 T o enable us to arrive a t a c o r r e c t solution o f these questions it is not necessary for us to be acquainted with the condition of o u r soldiery prior or subsequent to'tho period within which these 72,537 gallons o f whiskey wore c o n s u m e d . I f we s u b scribe to the doctrine that all men are s imilar in their ge neral constitutions, the known effects of a r d e n t spirits upon men with whom w e are acquaint ed will be its know n effects upon those with whom we are not.. T h e n w h a t do facts from every quarter answ e r ? W h a t arc the features as refiecti d by t h e mirror of e x p e r ience? What, is the s e n tence o f public opinion ? All c o mbine to return unequivocally, em p h a tically and so lemnly t h e following replies. And I would that the truth therein contained might be burnt wilh a meridian sunbeam on the brow o f heaven, to flash its impressive warning upon the latest pos terity. I shall r e c o rd t h e answers in the order with a bright s u n and a warm south wind. B e fore us, at the distance of a mile, lay a vast mass of a r c h itecture, with the centre falling b a c k be tween t h e two projecting wings, and the whole crow n i n g a l o n g and gradual ascent, of which the tri-colored (lag waving against (he sky from the central turrets was the highest point. As we approached, we noticed an occasional flash in the sun, and a stir of bright colors t h rough the broad, deep court between t h e wings, which, as we advanced nearer, proved to be a body of a- bout tw o or three thousand lancers and troops of the line under review. T h e effect was inde scribably fine. T h e gay uniforms, the hundreds of tall lances, each wilh its red flag flying in the wind, the imposing crescent of a r c h ilecture in which the array was e m b r a c e d , the ringing echo of the grand military music from the towers, and all this intoxication for t h e positive senses, fused with the historical atmosphere o f the place, the recollection of the king and queen, whose favorite residence it had been, (the unfortunate Louis and M a r ie Antoinette) of the celebrated w o m e n who had lived in their s e p a r a t e palaces within its g rounds, of the genius and chivalry of court after court that had m a d e it, in t u r n , the scene o f their brilliant follies, and, over all, N a poleon, who must have rode through its gilded gates with the thought of p ride that he w a s it..-, imperial m a s t e r by the royalty of h is groat na ture alone, it was, in truth, e n o u g h , the r e a l and the ideal, to dazzle the eyes of a simple repub- w a n d e r forever in the wilderness of art at V e r sailles, a n d it must be a restless ghost that could not co n t e n t itself with Pere la Clause for its e!_ sium. This beauliful c e metery is built upon the b r o a d ascent of a hill, c o m m a n d ing the whole of Paris at a glance. It is a wood of small Bees, laid out in alleys and crowded with tombs an d m o n u m e n t s o f every possible description. You will scarce g e t through it without being surprised into a t e a r ; but if affectation and tbntastical- ness in s u c h a place do not more grieve t h a n a- rmise you, you will much ofiener smile. T h e whole thing is a melancholy mock ol\life. Its distinctions a re all kept up. T h e r e are the fash ionable avenues, lined with costly chapels and m o n u m e n t s , with the nam e s o f the exclusive te nants in golden letters upon the doors, iron r a i lings set forbiddingly about the shrubs, and the blessing-scrap writ ambitiously in Latin. T h e tablets record the long family titles, and the of fices and honors, perhaps of the' dead. T h e y read like chapters of herald ry more than like epitaphs. It is a relict to grit into the outer alley, unci see how poverty aud simple feeling express what should be the s a m e thing. It is usually s o me brief sentence, c o m m o n enough, but often exquisitely beautiful in this prettiest of languages, and expressing al ways the kind of sorrow felt by the mourner.— You can (ell, for instance, by the s entiment s im ply, without looking at the record . below, w h e ther the deceased was young or m u c h loved, or m o u n t e d by husband, or patent, or brother, or a circle of all. I noticed one, however, the h u m blest and simplest m o n u m e n t perhaps in the whole cem e tery, which loll the story beautifully After gazing a t the fascinn'ting s h o w an hour, w'e took *1 guide and entered the palace. W e iv>. I w e re walked through suite a fter suite of cold a- partm e n ts, desolately splendid with gold and m a rble, and crowded with costly pictures, till I was sick and weary of magnificence. T h e guide went before, saying over his rapid rigm a role o f nam e s and dates, giving us about three minures to a room in which there were some twenty pictures, perhaps, o f which he presumed he hud told us all that was necessary to know. I (ell behind, after a while, and as a considera ble English party had overtaken and joined us, I s u c c e e d e d in keeping one room fln th e rear, and enjoying the remainder in my own way. From the New-York Mirror. F I R S T IM P R E S S I O N S O F E U R O P E . N O . T I T . . T O A C I U M L E L J D V K T , — f’A f . A I S R O Y A L — I'M R E I , * C I I . U ' E — V E R S A I L L E S , &1C. & C . I met at a breakfast party to-day Joachim Lolowel, the celebrated scholar a n d patriot of Poland. Having fallen in wilh a g r e a t deal of revolutionary and em igrant society since I have been in Paris, I have often heard his name, and looked forward to meeting him with high plea sure and curiosity. Ilis writings a r e passionate ly admired by his countrymen. H e w a s the principal o f 1 he university, idolized hy that effec tive part of the population, t h e students o f Po land ; and the fearless and lofty l o n e ofbis pa triotic principles is said to have given the first and strongest m o m e n t u m to the ill-fated stru g gle just over. Lelcwel impressed me very s t r o n g ly. Unlike most, of the Poles, who are erect, athletic and florid, he is thin, bent, and pale, and were it not for the fire and decision of his eye, Ids u n certain gait and sensitive address would convey an expression almost of timidity, ilis form, features, and manners, arc very like those ofP e r e i v a l , the American poet, though their countenances arc marked with t h e respective difference of their habits of mind. Lelcwel looks like a naturally modest, shrinking m a n , w o iked up to the calm resolution o f a martyr. The strong stam p o f his face is dev oterl enthusiasm. His eye is excessively bright, but quiet aud ha bitually dow n c a s t — his lips are s e t firmly, but without effort, t o g e t h e r — and his voice is a lm o s t sepulchral, it is so low and calm. He never breaks through his melancholy, ihongli his refu gee countrym e n , except when Poland is alluded to, have all the vivacliy of F rench m a n n e r s , and seem easily to forget their misfortunes. He. was silent, except when particularly addressed, and had the air of a man who t h o u g h t hinweif un observed, and had shrunk into his ow ffkm n d .— T felt t h a t lie was winning upon m y heart every untold, i t was a slab ofcom m o n marl, inscrib ed “ Pnuvre M a rie!” nothing more. I have, l h o ’t of it, and.speculated a great deal since. W h a t was she ? and who wrote her epitaph ? Miy was she p a n e re Marie ? Before almost all t h e poorer monum e n ts is a m iniature garden with a low wooden fence, and either t h e initials of the dead sown in flowers, or rose trees, carefully cultivated, trained to lutrig over the stone. I was surprised to find in a public cemetery in December, roses in fill! bloom, and valuable exotics at almost every grave. It speaks both for the sentim e n t and delicate principle of the people. Few of the m o r e costly m o n u m e n ts were either interesting or pretty. O n e struck my fanev— a small open chapel, large enough to c o n tain fourchnirs, u itfi the slab facing the d o o r, and a crucifix, encircled with fresh flowers on a simple s h rine above, it is a place where the survivors iri a familv might com e and sit any time, nowhere more pleasant ly. Frorn the chapel I s p e a k of, you may look out and see all Paris; and I can imagine how it would lessen the feeling of desertion and f o r g e t fulness that makes the anticipation of d e a th so dreadful, to be certain that your friends would com e , a s they may here, a n d talk cheerfully and enjoy themselves near you, so to speak. T h e cem e t e r y in s u m m e r must be one of the s w e e t est places in the world. It would be a sufficient inducem e n t of itself to bring me to Paris from almost any distance in another season. Versailles is a royal sum m e r chateau, about T h e little marble palace, called T n a tion,” built Cor M a d a m e P o m p a d o u r in the g a r den ^rpuiuis, is a beautiful afi’air, full o f what sotjijfebody calls “ affectionate-looking ro o m s ; ” G r a n d Trianon ,” built also on tho grounds of halt’ n mile, for M a d a m e Main- tefionf is savory lovely spot m a d e more inter esting by the preference giy,pn to it over all pla ces by M a d e Antoinette. H e r e she amused her self with her Swiss village. T h e cottages and artificial “ m o u n tains,” (ton feet high, perhaps,) arc exceedingly pretty models in m i n iature, and probably illustrate very fairly the ideas o f a pal - acc-bred fancy upon natural scenery. T h e r e are giens and grottos, and rocky beds for b rocks, that run at will, (“ les rivieres a vo/ante ,” the guide called them,) ami trees set out upon the crags at most uncomfortable angles, and every contrivance t o make a lovely lawn as i n c o n v e n iently like nature as possible. T h e Swiss fami lies, however, must have been very amusing.— Brought fresh from their wild country, -and sot down in these (iretty mock cottages, with orders to live just as they dirl in their ow n mountains, they must have been charmingly puzzled. In the midst of the village stands an exquisite little C o rinthian t e m p l e ; and our g u ide informed 11 s that (lie cottage vvluch the queen occupied at her Swiss tea-parties, was furnished a t an expense o f sixty thousand francs— two not very Svvitzer- iike circumstances. It was in the little p alace o f Trianon that N a poleon signed his divorce from J o s e p h ine. T h e guide showed us the room , and the t a b l e on . - . which he wrote. I have s e e n nothing t h a t h r o ’l me so near Napoleon. T h e r e is 110 place in France that could have for me a greater inter est. It is a little boudoir , adjoining the state sleeping room, simply furnished, and m a d e for familiar retirement, not for show. T h e single sofa, the small round table, the enchasing tent gardens. I t stretches c l e a r over t h e horizon.— > You stand on a natural em inence t h a t co m m a n d s the whole country, and t h e plan seems to you like s o m e work of t h e T i t a n s . T h e l o n g sweep of the avenue, with a breadth of d e s c e n t that a t the first glance takes aivay your breath, stretching its two lines o f gigantic statues a n d vases t o the w a ter level; the wide slum b e r ing canal at its foot, c a rrying o n the eye to t h e hori zon like a river of an even flood lying straig h t through the bosom of t h e landscape ; the s i d e avenues almost as extensive ; the palaces in t h e distant grounds, a n d the s t r a n g e union altogeth er to an A m e r ican, of as much extent as t h e eye c a n reach, cultivated equally with t h e t r i m elegance of a g a r d e n —all these, combining t o gether, form a spectacle which nothing but n a ture’s royalty of genius could design, and ( t o descend ungracefully from the climax,) which only t h e exactions o f an unnatural royalty c o u l d pay for. I think t h e most forcible lesson one learns n t Paris is the value o f time and money. I h a v e always been told erroneously that, it was a p l a c e to w a s te both. Yrim could do s o much with a n other hour, i f you had if, and buy so m u c h w i t h another dollar, if y o u could afford it, t h a t the r e flected economy upon w h a t you can co m m a n d , is inevitable. As to the worth o f time, for i n stance,there are s o m e twelve o r fourteen g r a tuitous lectures every day at t h e Sorbonne , t h e school o f medicine, and t h e college, o f France , by men like Cuvier, Say, Spurzheim , an d others, eaclvin his professed pursuit, the most em i n e n t perhaps in t h e world ; and there are t h e Louvre and the Royal Library, a n d similar p u b lic insti tutions, all open t o gratuitous use, with obsequi ous a t t e n d a n t s , w a r m room s , m a t e r i a l s for w r i ting, and perfect seclusion; to say nothing o f tho t h o u s a n d interesting but less useful resorts with which Paris abounds, such as exhibitions of flowers, porcelains, mosaics, an d curious h a n dy w o r k of every description, an d (m o r e am u s ing a n d time-killing still) t h e never-ending c h a n ges o f sights in the public places, from distin guished foreigners down to miracles o f e d u c a ted monkeys. Life seems m o s t provokingly short as you look at it. T h e n , for money, you are more puzzled how to spend it poor pitiful frank in Paris (it will buy so m a n y things y o u want) than you would b e in A m e r ica with th e outlay of a m o n t h ’s income. B e as idle and ex travagant as you will, y o u r idle hours look y o u in th e face as they pass, to know whether, in spite* o f the increase of their value, you really moan to waste t h e m ; a n d the m o n e y that s lip ped through your pocket, you know n o t how a t home, sticks em b a r rassed to y o u r fingers, f r o m the mere multiplicity of t h e dem a n d s m a d e for it. T h e r e are shops all over Paris called the Vingt-sinq s o v s f where every article is fixed at ill a t price— twenty-fve cents! T h e y c o n tain ev e ry t h i n g you want, except a wife and fire-wood —th e only two things difficult to b e got in France. (T h e latter, with or w ithout a pun, is much the dearer o f the t w o . ) I w o n d e r that t h e y are not bought out, and sent over t o A m e r ica on speculation, 'There is scarce an article in them that would not be he’d ch e a p with us at live times its purchase. T h e r e are bronze stan* dishes for ink, s a n d , and wafers, pearl paper- cutters, s p ice lamps, decanters, essence-bottles, sets ofchina, table-bells of all devices, m a n t e l ornaments, vases o f artificial flowers, k itchen u- tensils, dog-collars, canes, guard-chains, c h e s s men, whips, ham m e r s , brushes, and every t h i n g that is e ither convenient or pretty. You m i g h t freight a s h i p with them, and all good and well finished, a t twenty-five cents th e set o r article! You would think the m a n was joking, to w a lk through his shop. m o m e n t. I never s a w a m a n in mvj w-te.'C like curtains, the modest, unobtrusive elegaiiee of ornam e n t s and furniture, give it rather t h e look of a retreat fashioned by the tenderness'’and taste of private life than any apartm e n t in a rov ai palace. .1 felt unwilling to leave if. M y thoughts were too busy. YV hat was t h e motive of that great man in this most affecting and dis puted action of his life? T h a t he loved Jose phine with his whole power of loving, no one can donbt. 7'liat he was above m a k i n g such a sacrifice to his ambition merely,I equally believe. T h e r e is b u t one other principle into which it can be resolved— o n e t h a t has not been suffi ciently weighed by those who have written noon his character, but which, as a.spring o f action, twelve miles from Paris, with a demesne of 2 0 ! is second only to the ruling passion in the bo- 1 miles in circumference. T a k e that for the scale, soms of m e n — tho desire for offspring. l e a n and imagine a palace completed in proportion conceive N a p o l e o n ’s sacrifice of that glorious wom a n on no other g round, and, ascribing it to thi«, it m o re proves than discredits t h e t e n d e r ness of his great nature. After having been threaded through the p a l aces, we had a few moments loft for the grounds. T h e y are magnificent beyond description. YV'e; know very little of this thing in A m e r ica as off art.;(hnt it is one, 1 have come t o think, that in its-requisition of genius, is s c a rce inferior to a r chitecture.'. ('criainiy, the three palaces of’Vcr- sailicS'fogclher, did not impress me so much a^ the s i i g ’.o-view lidm the upper lei r a c e of the in all its details of g rounds, ornam e n t, and ar chitecture. It cosl, says the guide book, two hundred and fifty millions o f dollars I and, leav ing your fancy to expend that trifle over a resi dence, which (rem e m b e r) is but one out of som e half-dozen occupied during tho year by a single family, I com m e n d the republican moral o yopr consideration, anti proceed with the m d M L articular description of my visit. jJSi(!,'Dr. Howe, was my com p a n i o n .— bo up the grand avenue on one. of the [.mornings that ever sin prised D e c e m b e r DU. N O . V I I I . BOWRIftG— AMERICAN AR TISTS— BRUTAL AMUSE MEN T, &C. I have m e t Dr. ^Bowling in Paris, and called upon him to-day with M r . Morse, by appoint\ m e n t . T h e translator o f ihe “ Orle t o the D e i ty,” (from the Russian o f Dizzhavin,) could n o t hy any accident be an ordinary m a n , and I an ticipated great pleasure in his society. H e re ceived us a t his lodgings in t h e Place Vendome. I w a s every way pleased with him. His k n o w ledge of o u r country and its literatnre surprised me, and I could not but be gratified with t h e un prejudiced and well-informed interest with which he discoursed on our governm e n t and institu tions. l i e expressed g r e a t pleasure at having seen his o d e in one of o u r school books, ( P icr- p o n j ’s Header, 1 think,) and assured us t h a t the pWfhise t o himself of a visit to A m e r ica was one of his brightest anticipations. This is not a t all an uncom m o n feeling, by tlie way, am o n g the m e n of talent in Paris; and I a m pleasingly sur prised, every where, with the e n thusiastic hopes expressed for the success of our e x p e r i m e n t in liberal principles. Dr. Bowring is a slender m a n , a little above t h e middle height, with a keen, in quisitive expression of c o u n t e n a n c e , and n g o o d forehead, from which t h e hair is c o m b e d s traight back all round, in the style o f t h e C a m e r o n i a n 9 . frlis m a n n e r is all life, and his motion and ges t u r e nervously sudden and angular. He talks rapidly, b u t c'e.tflypind uses b eautiful l a n g u a g e ; condise, and lid I o f select expressions and vivid figure,s. * Mis' c o n v e rsation in this particular was n c o n s t a n t surprise. l i e gave us a <*reat deal of infoim j i i o n , an d when wo parted, inquired my A V
