the press of James Monroe & Co., of Boston, called Merry | so much for these benighted parents, as that they should Moant, by a new author whose name we have not heard. once become acquainted with the habits and principles of a well ordered English nursery. A reform in that quarter is The following short extract from this last named work will much needed among us, and we know of no people so well able to be our instructors as the English, who have certainly afford some idea of the author's style: brought the nursery system to great perfection, both as respects the comfort and advantage of the parents and children." Kirkland's habits "For a moment we return to the solitary of Shawmut. The day had been one of fierce and unclouded sunshine, the evening had been cool and serene, but the night which Such remarks from a woman of Mrs. was now approaching seemed to be of another character.The moon had sunk in the west, overwhelmed at her depar- of observation are worth attending to. The majority of ture by the hosts of dark and shadowy clouds, which seemed to have gathered from every quarter to hurl her from her mothers in our country are as cruel as Herod to their little throne. The north wind blew its trumpet-blast through the ones, but all in kindness. It is the kindness of ignorance, shivering woods. The send flew thick and fast across the however, which is as injurious as the greatest cruelty of a upper sky. There was a wild hurtling and trampling in the air, as if from a conflict of invisible and ærial hosts. Sud- revengeful savage. But we trust that the time is coming when our own matrons will be better "posted up," as they say in denly a flaming meteor, larger and more lustrous than a planet, shot completely across the sky, springing up from the Pearl street, in physical ethics, and will learn not to kill north, culminating almost to the zenith, and disappearing their offspring out of kindness to them.......THE marvelin the sea with a crash like thunder. Then the thickly conous stories of golden sands in the rivers of California have gregated mass of clouds suddenly rolled away, like a scroll that shrivels in the flame, and the hermit saw in the western been again revived; and now there is no longer any doubt sky, hanging just above the horizon, the gigantic image of a flaming sword. As he was gazing with a sensation of awe of the truth of the first reports that reached us on this side at this strange phenomenon, which displayed itself just after of the New World, of the treasures discovered in our newly his eyes had been dazzled and his ears stunned by the sud-acquired territory of California. The new El Dorado will den appearance and violent explosion of the meteor, it vanished, while a little above the quarter where it had disap-soon be overrun with gold hunters, and the only precious peared he distinctly saw the images of four ships, slowly metals in that distant sister of the confederacy will be iron ploughing their way across the blue and unclouded expanse and copper. It has been ascertained beyond a question that of ether, with snowy sail and flying pennon, each, after a few moments, successively disappearing in a mysterious and the beds of the Feather river and the Sacramento are beds ghost like manner, below the western horizon. The solitary of gold. The amount of the precious metal that has been stood gazing at this strange succession of weird and unwont for centuries washed into the sea must be beyond concepHe ed appearances with a singular trouble in his mind. stood watching long after the last ærial ship had sunk below tion, and the fact that such a treasury should have remainthe horizon, anxiously awaiting the appearance of some new ed so many years unknown to the inhabitants of the counand still more bewildering phenomenon. "No farther sign appeared however. The clouds gather-try is among the greatest of the marvels connected with the ed again over the face of heaven, the night grew gloomy and starless, the wind, now veering towards the east and freshening to a gale, spread its wings, damp and heavy with ocean mist, across the murky landscape. The hermit, who felt chilled and depressed by the sudden atmospheric change, as well as perplexed by the wild and boding appearances which he had witnessed in the sky, looked fearfully around, lest perhaps the former preternatural but beautiful face, which had not long before appeared to him, might even now be gazing through the dense foliage of the oak tree near which he was standing. He almost dreaded, as he cast his glances slowly around him, to find those dark and mournful eyes looking upon him with the same warning and prophetic expression which they lately wore. But the strange apparition did not return to him that night, although his imagination, strongly excited by the unusual phenomena of nature which had just displayed themselves to him, might easily, it would seem, have bodied forth, out of the melancholy and dreamy fancies which were thronging about his mind, some visible shape of mystery and terror, such as had once before perplexed and haunted him." affair. The addition of so great a quantity of gold to the amount now in circulation will, of course, tend to depreciate its value, and as old debts must be paid in the new currency, it will be the same as reducing twenty-five or fifty per cent, as the case may be from the obligations now contracted.— Col. Mason, the military governor of California, supposes that if the United States authorities should take possession of the mines that a sufficient quantity of gold could be obtained in one year to pay off the national debt. But what would the government do with the gold after the debt should be paid, for, of course, the annual gain from the mines would greatly exceed the annual expenses? Would the government become a gold merchant and sell the precious metal? That hardly seems "the thing" for government, yet we do not see, clearly, what else the government could do with the precious metal. If the time should ever come when gold would be substituted for brass and copper in the construction of common articles for domestic use, the pleasures of living would be greatly enhanced, and the necessity for labor greatly diminished. Golden lamps, wash basins, spoons, door handles, dishes generally and ornamental furniture, would greatly add to the pleasures of house-keeping. The time now used in scrubbing and scouring brass and Britannia metal utensils might be dispensed with. Picture frames of gold would be extremely beautiful, and we may yet see the "b'hoys" running with fire engines enriched "Pretty children one sees in abundance everywhere-and with gold ornaments. If gold should ever become so abunso nicely kept! It seems to us that nobody knows so well dant as to be used for domestic purposes, ornaments for the how to care for the physique of children as the English.person made of that material would no longer be worn; They feed them with the simplest possible food, and are astonished when they hear that our young folks share the rich, would be a miserable piece of vanity, worthy of a savage, to heavy, high-seasoned dishes of their parents. Oatmeal porridge is considered a suitable breakfast for infant royalty it- hoop the fingers with rings of so common a material as self; and a simpla dinner at one o'clock, the proper thing gold; and as for suspending it from the ears, as ladies now Ex- do, they would as soon think of hanging an oyster shell from for children whose parents dine sumptuously at seven. Another effect of the abundance of ercise is considered one of the necessaries of life; and a daily walk or ride (not drive) in the fresh air the proper form of it. the lobes of their ears. It might be superfluous to notice any thing so obvious if it gold will be to make a paper currency the only representawere not that so many people in good circumstances with tive of value. However, it will be a good while before the us, neglect this, and keep their children immured in nursestate of things which we have imagined will occur, and we ries, or cooped up in school 100ms, with no thought of exercise in the open air, as a daily requisite. We wish nothing fear that we shall not wash in a golden hand basin during Among the new works announced as soon to make their appearance before the reading public is Mrs. Kirkland's Sight Seeing in Europe," which will doubtless prove as popular as all the writings which have flowed from her facile pen. We have read parts of the work and find that it abounds in the same lively, piquant, sensible and humorous observations which have been peculiar to all her published volumes. We clip from one of her exceedingly pleasant letters the following remarks on the children of England: it this year, but we know not what a year may bring forth.We have other mineral riches besides the Californian rivers of gold. On this side of the Rocky Mountains we have copper, iron and coal in amazing quantities, and there are more reliable sources of national wealth in these common minerals than in silver and gold. Mr. Prentice, an intelligent English traveller, who has been in this country during the past year surveying the land, and taking notes of the people, has returned to Manchester, where he has been a newspaper editor for many years; and since his return he has been delivering a series of lectures on this country. From one of his lectures as reported in an English paper we make the following extract in reference to some of the mineral resources of the Western States, which are as rich in the elements of wealth as the gold rivers of California. "In reference to the capacities of the country as a field for emigrants, there were other requisites besides abundance of land; and the working man should prefer to settle in a district where minerals, and especially coal, were abundant, because, however fertile a place might be, wood in time would become scarce; and the settler on prairie land, if not located near the wooded banks of a river, would find the cartage of his fire wood forty or fifty miles a somewhat expensive undertaking. A district producing abundance of both food and minerals would ultimately possess manufactures. The extent of the coal fields in America was enorOne field on the west of the Alleghany Mountains, extending 700 miles in length, covered an extent of 63.000 square miles-more than the whole of the surface of England and Wales (hear.) And it must also be considered that the expense of shaft-sinking was not needed, as the coal seams lay horizontal and cropped out on the banks of the great rivers, the Monongahela and Ohio, and only horizontal passages were necessary. Coal of the finest quality may be had for twopence a cwt.; and one seam, called the Pittsburgh seam, a part of the above field, was ten feet in thickness, and extended over 14,000 square miles (hear.) mons. The Illinois field was still more extensive, spreading over 70,000 square miles. It occupied one half of Illinois and Indiana, and extended over the Ohio into Kentucky, being laid open to navigation by the Ohio, the Great Wabash, and the Illinois rivers, and bounded on the west by the Mississippi. The centre of the great State of Michigan was also a large coal field, occupying probably 25,000 square miles-nearly equal to the whole of Ireland (hear;) and a bay of Lake Huron was indented into it for a distance of fifty miles, giving it the advantage of the navigation of all the lakes. It was advisable that emigrants, whose aim was not so much to earn present comfort, but to make provision for their families, should settle on or in the neighborhood of these coal fields, where their children would ultimately be enabled to choose whether they should be employed in agriculture, or in those occupations which resulted from an abundant supply of iron and coal (cheers.)" Mr. Prentice did not visit the United States as a critic of manners, the character in which the majority of English travellers have visited us, but to make observations on the natural resources of the country, and he accordingly gives a most glowing description of the localities which he visited and recommends his countrymen to emigrate here without delay. In respect to climate and society he makes the following remarks: "As to the climate of America, all the country north of the line formed by the base of the Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia States, would agree with Englishmen. The States south of 36% degrees of north latitude were too hot for Eng lishmen. Even in the Northern States, the climate was trying to an English constitution, but still it could be endured by care and temperance (cheers.) With regard to the society of America, a notion prevailed that the settlers must of necessity be at a great distance from each other; but it was foolish for a man to isolate himself thus, as he at the same time increased his distance from a market for his produce. As to the sociality of the Americans, they were rather a pleasanter people than ourselves, and devoid of that hauteur which distinguished our upper classes. There were no poor men. There was no cringing to masters, but a manly independence and intelligence in the working classes (cheers;) and so great was the respect shown toward the female sex, that were the President of the States occupying the choice seat in a railway carriage, he would be compelled, by the usage of the country, to relinquish it in favor of the wife of the humblest weaver from the New Cross in Manchester (loud cheers.) "The American artizan would have due respect shown to him, and honor being awarded to labor, he was cheerful of their institutions, their republicanism, their equality, and and happy (applause.) The Americans were justly proud the cheapness of their government; but John Bull was apt to become pugnacious at the oft repeated boast. He must, however, keep his temper." Comparing the populations of the different States with that of England, Mr. Prentice says: "Illinois contained 52,000 square miles, and the number of inhabitants was 9 1-10 to the square mile. This State was more fertile throughout than England was. There were no high barren mountains like those of Wales, Westmoreland, and Cumberland; and there was no ridge or back bone like that which runs from Northumberland through Derbyshire to the midland counties. Almost every acre of the land was capable of cultivation. In this State, also, there was room for the whole population of England (hear.) The State of New York contained 45,000 square miles, being only one fifth less than the size of England, and had only 52 7-10 inhabitants to the square mile. An erroneous notion was prevalent that all the places near the coast were filled up; but in the State of New York itself there was a whole county that had never yet been surveyed, having no inhabitants but a few Indians-and bears (laughter)-and there was no doubt that a careful man. going out with a little money, would find just as good a bargain in land in that State as farther west, with the advantage, also. of ready communication with the sea by the port of New York. Pennsylvania contained 40,000 square miles, with only 35 inhabitants to the mile; noble rivers and delightful valleys, and abundant natural facilities for dairy produce; and it abounded in iron and coal. Ohio contained the same number of inhabitants to the square mile as Pennsylvania; and, in the centre of the State, there was a considerable amount of prairie land, which, however, would require to be drained before it could become productive and healthy. Indiana contained 37,000 square miles, and 18 5-10 inhabitants to the mile. The vast State of Iowa, on the western bank of the Mississippi, contained only the fifth part of a man to the square mile (laughter.) Wisconsin, another State of vast extent, which was thickly peopled in the southern part by German settlers, who sometimes arrived at the rate of 1000 a day, contained 100,000 square miles, and had only three-fifths of a man to the mile. Massachusetts, the most closely populated State in the Union, contained 100 persons to the square mile; but he would not advise emigration to the New England States, as the ground was composed chiefly of granite, though there were fertile bottoms on the banks of the rivers. Then, for those who did not relish republicanism, there was a capital opening in Canada, where they would find a people loyal enough, who abused the Americans, spoke of the evils of republicanismwere, indeed, even more John Bullish than ourselves, and proud of being the dependency of a great empire; they were Englishmen-Britons." A MILLIONAIRE OF THE PRESS.-Nothing is more common than to see men of middle age who have retired from business after accumulating a fortune; but it is something quite new to hear of the editor of a paper leaving off his oc cupation because he has acquired a fortune at his business. But such things do sometimes happen in these improved days. Last month Mr. Beach, the proprietor of the New York Sun, sold out his interest in that paper to his sons and retired from the management of the establishment to enjoy the fortune which he had gained by the sale of a penny paper. Mr. Beach made his exit from the newspaperial world in a very becoming and handsome manner. He issued cards to all the respectable members of the editorial fraternity inviting them to his fine house in Chambers street, formerly the residence of George Griswold, one of the wealthiest merchants of New York, and here he received the congratulations of the members of the Press, and took his farewell of a position which had proved so profitable to him. The entertainment which was served up on the occa 9366 sion was both elegant and liberal. The history of Mr. | it is a history of a family, and all the different parts help to Beach proves what may be accomplished by patience, per- elucidate each other. The stories introduced into Braceseverance, and method in business. He came to this city bridge Hall, by way of interludes; the "Student of Salanot many years ago a journeyman cabinet maker, and afmanca," " 'Dolph Heyliger," Annette Delabre," and the terwards entered the Sun office as a clerk, in time he be- "Spectre Ship," are so wholly foreign to the main interest came the sole proprietor of the establishment, and by tact of the work that they tend to lessen its merit. They are and good management he has gained a large fortune, and well enough by themselves, but they do not harmonize with given to his sons the most profitable newspaper establishment the other ingredients, and we suspect that they are generally in the United States. The penny press was among news- skipped by the majority of readers. Irving is just such a papers what the Dollar Magazine is among monthly periodi- writer as could hardly have been looked for in America; cals; it did not cause a revolution, but it created an entire- without any of the prejudices of Englishmen he is thoroughly new element in the business of life and enlarged the in-ly English in the quiet humor which pervades his writings. fluence of that great machine, the daily Press, and extended its potent sway where it must ever have remained unfelt and unknown. The penny papers have the largest circulations of any daily papers published in the country; the Sun of New York has a circulation of about 35,000 copies daily and the Philadelphia Ledger of about the same number.-ral, the Rooks, and all the dependants of an English CounBut even a circulation of 35,000, large as it seems, is but small compared with the population of New York, which is 500,000. As our Magazine is not intended for any particu-native to the manor born. He is a thorough artist, and His sketches of English character are as fine as anything that has ever emanated from an English pen; the pictures of domestic life in Bracebridge Hall have never been excelled by any English author; Ready-Money Jack, Master Simon, the Squire, the Gipsies, Lady Lillycraft, the Gene try House are not merely sketched, but finished with a delicacy of touch, that could only have been looked for in a lar class, but is made to suit the wants of the whole world leaves nothing unfinished or in a slovenly condition. And of English readers, we expect to reach a circulation of four he shows a proper respect for his reader, as well as a proper times the number of any daily or weekly paper ever pub- regard for himself, by not attempting anything which he is lished. Of the successors of Mr. Beach we can confidently not fully competent to finish. It is a fortunate circumstance speak as possessing the necessary qualificatious for conduct that he can now, when his writings have become classics, ing a paper of the immense circulation and influence of the superintend the republication of his earlier works, and so Sun. Mr. Moses S. Beach has for some years been the consign them to posterity in a perfect form. They are most "responsible" editor, and on him has devolved the arduous beautifully published, and together form the proudest monuduties of continual and laborious action as well as that ment of which our native literature can boast. It is not a watchfulness so necessary in directing and guiding. That little remarkable that the most popular of modern English he will tread in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," authors, Dickens, confesses that he modeled his style after to the entire satisfaction of the community, none who know that of Washington Irving, and felt pride in being compared him will doubt in the least. Of his partner, Mr. Alfred E. with him. Our great prose writer is still living in the midst Beach, we may be excused for saying a few words. He grew of us, in a hale and hearty bachelorhood, spending his time up, as it were, with us, from boyhood's days, and was one partly at his quiet residence on the Hudson, near Sleepy of our earliest and warmest hearted friends. When the world Hollow, and partly in the city, sorrounded by his old friends, looked coolly upon us, and even partially refused its sympa- and in intimacy with the literary eminences of the country. thy, when those who had for years walked side by side with He may generally be seen at mid-day in the store of his pubus as friends, (friends in the literal, dictionary definition of lisher in Broadway, and those who formed their ideas of him the word,) turned coldly away from communion, and prof- from the portraits which have been published would hardly fered advice which they freely gave because it cost nothing, recognize in the prim looking old gentleman in a brown when old men were profuse in predictions and chary in wig the author of "The Wife" and Knickerbocker's Hischarity, and young men were cool in congratulations and tory.......Literary people are very often unfortunate in contemptuous in civilities, and we were disgusted with lip their matrimonial engagements: there seems to be a perversity service, which flowed as water-to waste!-then we found in literary women, in particular, in throwing themselves away in him a friend, a true, a noble-hearted friend, who always upon men who have no sympathy in their tastes or pursuits. had stood by us in trouble, and who, to this day, has done Women of brilliant talents seem to take pleasure in uniting the same. Acting only on the impulses of a noble heart, he themselves to the merest sticks of men, as though they sewarmly clasped our hand in his own, and proved one who lected them on purpose as foils. During the past month the would not forget in manhood the nature of his school-boy public journals have been filled with the particulars of the sympathies. The honorary title of man-man in the fullest, domestic infelicities of Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler and her noblest, manliest acceptation of the word—is his, and, if the husband. He married her for her beauty and talents and title honors him through its bestowal, he reciprocates by an she him for his wealth. Where there was no sympathy in acceptance. And now that he is fairly launched upon his the beginning there was no likelihood of its growing by fanew career, we tender him the hand of friendship, as he, miliarity. Mr. Malaprop was of opinion that it was better time and again, has given us his own, and wish him all the to begin with a little dislike, in matrimony, but we have prosperity and happiness, all the success and worldly wealth never known aversion to change into love by marriage. The which he so richly merits. May his shadow in the Sun safer way, we think, with due deference to Mrs. Malaprop, never be less, nor his prospects on the earth more liable to is to begin with a little love. The case of Mrs. Butler is one earthly destruction......THE sixth volume of Washington of peculiar hardship; for a woman to be deprived of the Irving's works has been issued by Putnam, in a style of cor- care of her children, through the instrumentality of her husresponding elegance with the other volumes of this author's band, is one of the most melancholy that we can conceive writings; it contains the whole of Bracebridge Hall, a work of. Many of the letters which passed between Mrs. Butler which is still popular after a quarter of a century's existence. and her husband, in relation to their separation, have been This work has higher merits than the Sketch Book, because, published, which reveal a sad story of suffering. The folalthough composed of separate essays like that popular work,lowing letter from Mrs. Butler to her husband proves her to be a noble-hearted, generous woman, and we cannot but think that the man whose conduct required such an appeal and expostulation was unworthy the affection or confidence of her, whose happiness he had destroyed: 66 THURSDAY, December 15th. "My Dear Pierce :-The other day, when I asked you what it was that you required from me, when you rejected the attempt at a reconciliation, that my affection and conscience both prompted me to make, you replied, that until I obeyed your will you would not be reconciled to me. In reflecting more solemnly upon our sad condition, and the means by which I may have been instrumental in causing it, and the means (if any) by which I might perhaps amelio rate it, I have been at a loss to imagine in what I have disobeyed your will or opposed any wish of yours, but with regard to the question which you asked me about the money which I had borrowed from my sister-this I believe-I mean, refusing to answer that question, is the only act of opposition to your will with which I can tax myself. At the time when I refused to satisfy you upon that point, your mode of interrogating me was such as to rouse all the worst feelings of my nature, pride, resentment, and a resistance which I conceived justified, to a demand which I thought you had no right to make. "My sister leaves town on Monday. I shall not remain in her house after her departure. Perhaps as you have unmight choose to make such arrangements as, by enabling us to dertaken the management of your own household, you live entirely separate, would also restore me to my children, from whom, I have nowise deserved to be parted, whose loss is unutterably grevious to me, and who must suffer in many ways from my absence. In proposing this arrangement to you, namely, an entire separate establishment, though in the same house, I must explain the motives that lead me to suggest this plan. You have apparently lost all affection and regard for me, and have attained such a state of indifference towards me, that you can see me and speak But I perceive that our position is so perilous now, our to me as you would to one of your servants, or a common future happiness more, much more, our future conduct acquaintance, while in every essential of intimate interseems threatened at this moment by such fatal influences, course, affection, confidence, kindness, we are utterly esthat there is no possible concession of pride, or resentment, tranged, and have as little in common, whether of sentior any other feeling, that I am not prepared to make for the ment or interest, as two people who had never seen each sake of retrieving the past, and averting the future. That other till yesterday. This state of things appears perfectly future! Do you see what it is? Do you contemplate, as I agreeable, or at least, endurable to you-it is not so to me. do, in it, the utter destruction of all our hopes, the deterio- I told you so the other day. I now repeat it, together with ration, it may be the complete degradation of our charac- my reasons for not being able to endure it, which I also ter? Look through the remainder of our youth, more than laid before you the other day. Having loved you well one half of which is now already passed, at what lies before enough to give you my life when it was best worth giving us-a home without love, without peace, without virtue, having made you the centre of all my hopes of earthly whence we shall each of us make haste to depart as from a loved you, you can never be to me like any other being; it happiness-having never loved any human being as I have place accursed, to seek forgetfulness of all its disappoint-is utterly impossible that I should ever regard you with inments, at bitter sources which will return nothing but poison difference. My whole existence having once had you for its into our hearts? Look further yet, think of the lonely sole object, and all its thoughts, hopes, affections and paspresent, the dark accusing retrospect, the cheerless and fear-sions, having in their full harvest been yours, as you well ful prospect which must close the existence of two human beings, who have thus wickedly wasted every blessing that ever was bestowed upon creatures most favored by Provi dence. "For what a lot might ours be! Have we not youth, health, a most fortunate social position, many friends who rejoice in our welfare, our children? Oh! Pierce, Pierce! I look at our children and tremble, lest God should strike them for our sins; lest we should be punished in some awful way, through them, for our abuse of all the benefits which are daily showered upon us, and which we are turning into judgments against ourselves. For God's sake, and for your children's sake, and for your own sake, Pierce, my husband, oh, still my most tenderly beloved, let us be wise before it is too late; show me wherein I have sinned in this our terrible condition, and mercifully help me to amend it. "Save yourself, and me,Pierce, and our darling children, from a ruin worse than any worldly beggary, from self-condemnation of each other, from a daily and hourly departure further and further from all noble and holy influences. Let us be friends, let us be christians, let us return to our duties, and to the path where peace and happiness are found. I implore you by that love which you once had for me, by that unalterable love which I still bear you, and which makes me dread being the cause of wrong in you, more than any conceivable thing, put away from your heart all evil thoughts and feelings towards me, forgive me, forgive me, and deal with me with righteous and merciful dealing, and spare yourself the reproaches of your conscience, and the upbraidings of your better nature. Do not, for God's sake, give yourself up to unworthy pursuits and pleasures; remember your children, Pierce, and as you hope to influence them towards what is noble, virtuous and excellent, do not forsake them and me, and destroy our common life, which, if not one of sacred mutual duties, of mutual help, compassion and affection, must be a thing accursed and evil to us all, which we shall have to answer for having made 80. Before writing to you, I prayed to God to grant that I might speak to your heart as I have spoken from my own. May He bless you, and guide you, and enlighten you, my husband." In affairs of this kind, it is unsafe for an outsider to give an opinion, but we cannot help thinking that the noble woman of genius was sacrificed to the jealousy of a husband who was incapable of appreciating her superiority. know they were, it is utterly impossible I should forget this; that I should forget that you were once my lover and are my husband and the father of my children; such love as mine has been for you, might in evil hearts and by evil means be turned into hatred; but be sure it never can become indifference in any one, nor in me can it as certainly ever become hatred. I cannot behold you without emotion; my heart still answers to my voice, my blood in my veins to your footsteps; and if this emotion is to be one of perpetual pain-sudden, violent, intense, almost intolerable painjudge how little I am endowed by nature with a temperament fit to endure so severe and incessant a trial. My intercourse with you, if not a source of happiness, becomes one of anguish, and the necessary communion which a life of intimacy brings, furnishes perpetually occasions of suffering greater than I can bear. I have told you this already. I appealed to your humanity, when, after a prolonged season of this species of mental torture, I found myself, from prived of my senses as to be upon the point of destroying a combination of moral and physical canses, so nearly de myself. I entreated you to save me from the horrible state of nervous malady into which this very kind of intercourse hardly that of a man, much less of a friend or husband." with you had thrown me. God knows your answer was Here is an extract from another of her letters to her husband, who seeks to obtain a divorce from her on the ground of her deserting him : "I hear with great pain that you are ill. I dare not come to you for fear of annoying and irritating you, but I implore you to let me come to you, and be with you while you are suffering and helpless. Oh! Pierce, I love you to hear of your illness-only send me word that I may dearly; pray let me come and nurse you. I am miserable come,-pray-pray do, dear Pierce." THE IMMENSITY OF LONDON.-New York is fast striding towards the first rank of cities; its population, in the city proper, is at least half a million, while the suburbs, dependent upon the city, and whose population do in fact belong to it, number at least two hundred thousand, so that New York may be considered as large a city as Paris, and half as large as London, which is the monster town of the world. haberdashers. Her boot and shoemakers number about "The num 2160, and her hosiers between 300 and 400." Here is a piece makers, 10 watch-spring makers, 11 tool makers, 5 wheel makers, and 686 so-called watch makers! Thus there are 25 distinct and well-marked branches of this trade, or, in all, about 968 master tradesmen, of course employing a large number of operatives, engaged in the construction and sale of watches in London." An extremely interesting essay might be written on the different trades and occupations of our own metropolis, where nearly every man makes his own living by his industry.......NEW YORK AS IT IS.-There But the comparative magnitude of a city cannot be deter- | plary. To return from this digression. The clothing trades mined by its population; their relative condition must be of London are numerous, and in many instances on an exconsidered in making an estimate of their comparative gran- tensive scale. It is commonly alleged that the fair sex are Whether deur. The number of poor people in London is much exclusively addicted to the extravagance of dress. greater than that of New York. It makes a great difference what we are about to state will roll away this disgrace or whether ten families live in one house or in ten houses. We not from them, we dare not affirm; let gentlemen, however, have been led to draw some comparisons between the two be made acquainted with this truth, that our parent city cities from looking over some London statistics, drawn from keeps for us alone 2880 master tailors, while, for the other the London Post Office Directory: an English writer, in sex, her establishment of milliners of the same position only commenting on them, says: "London, the mother of two amounts to 1080. We are bound, however, to add, that millions of children, must be fed. Looking, then, to the list of she also sustains upwards of 1400 chief linen-drapers and those on whom the task devolves, we find, in the first place, a corps of 2500 bakers. It has been calculated that this corps consumes and disposes of in all about 1,000,000 quarters of wheat each year. Four-fifths of this is made into bread, and distributed among the inhabitants of the metropolis in the shape of quartern loaves, to the number annually of 15,000,000. The bread thus provided cannot-so at least say they who can afford to say it-be consumed without butter, and we find 990 buttermen coming in to the res-employed in its construction. There are 9 cap makers, 42 case makers, 15 dial plate makers, 1 silverer of watch and cue, with 11,000 tons of butter every year, and 13,000 tons clock countenances, a number of enamellers, engine turners of cheese! Bread and butter are suggestive of tea and suand chasers, 9 engravers, 15 escapement makers, 8 finishers, gar; and we find the large number of 30,000 grocers and tea dealers helping to spread our tables with the luxuries and 4 fuse makers, 23 case gilders, 12 watch-glass makers, 10 comforts of the East. We are thus also naturally conducted hand makers, 2 index makers, 24 jewellers of holes, 5 joint to the dairy, which employs 900 established dairy keepers, finishers, 3 makers of watch-keys, 4 dealers in watch matewith a whole army of Welsh and Irish milkmen and women, rials, 25 watch-motion makers, 1 pallet jeweller, 2 pallet and professes to afford an annual supply of 8,000,000 gal-makers, 3 pendant makers, 3 pinion makers, 36 secret-spring lons of milk, but, as will be readily conjectured by those who are familiar with the anomalous aspect of this fluid in London, great uncertainty attaches to all statistics about it. Her dinner-table is supplied with meat by upwards of 1700 master butchers, with their men; and the annual number of beasts slaughtered for use, including oxen, sheep, calves, and pigs, amounts, as is calculated, to 1,701,000. Her more luxurious children spend £80,000 a year on poultry, and employ therefore a proportionate number of poulterers. Her supply of fish is the duty of more than 400 chief fishmon-have recently been a class of publications issued in different gers; and although it is impossible to give a correct estimate, her annual consumption of this article cannot fall short of 15,000,000 pounds and is probably above that quantity. Her vegetables and dessert are the occupation of nearly 1300 green grocers and fruiterers, and, it is supposed, cost annually about £1,000,000 sterling. Her table is supplied with wine by 1000 merchants; and, alas! her poor are poisoned with intoxicating beverages by eleven thousand public houses! On account of the great distance from place to place, and the manner in which a 'connection" is scattered, it is customary for butchers, bakers, fishmongers, green grocers, and some other tradesmen, to send out their respective wares in spring-gigs, or, as they are usually termed, White chapel Carts.' In London and its environs the number of these vehicles is very great. Milk is usually served from pans suspended by a yoke from the shoulders. The supplying of milk (from the pump as well as the cow) is considered a good trade; and we can at all events certify that our milk-printing offices; of elegancies and refinements, of peace, man' and his wife on a late occasion went to the Opera as gaily attired as the best of 'em.' If this instance of the way the money goes' be thought surprising to strangers, it will give them a notion of the extent of trade carried on in apparently insignificant situations, when we mention that 'our fishmonger,' who occupies a little shop scarcely larger than a sentry-box, is rated at £200 a year by the incometax commissioners. The greater number of these small tradesmen, as they are ordinarily termed, are far from economical in their habits, though it must be owned they earn their money by a course of industry beyond anything exem forms, professing to give representations of New York As It Is, which might with much greater propriety be called New York As It Isn't. They give exaggerated, if exaggeration be possible in such cases, descriptions of the vilest haunts of the vilest part of the people and call them pictures of" Life in New York." To those who are ignorant of the existence of such places, this kind of knowledge imparts neither pleasure nor profit. Such filthy and revolting revelations can answer no good purpose. But they are to the last degree pernicious and absurd when given as representations of "New York As It Is." There are such places in the city, as those described, unquestionably, but they form a very inconsiderable part of New York. New York as it is, is a City of churches, of benevolent institutions, of thrifty merchants, of comfortable houses, of lecture rooms, athenæums, libraries, theatres and markets; of ship yards, manufactories, warehouses, hotels, of intelligent mechanics, work-shops and abundance, and rational enjoyments. In giving a picture |