Paris

I'aris, Sept. 20, 1847. This is truly n gorgeous city ; tiot ihe laid, sober, nggregated tvorld of ]fe and labor that you find in London, but a fiorid Bablyon of homeless beings who live in the most artifical way conceivable. By homeless, I do not mean house - less beings - far from t ; but the thousinds who live like transient guests or lodgers in our own houscs. Business ilself, and the great activilies of human existence, and the lnngdrawn ton of the poor, are ciad in superfical garb, and do not look "natural," as in England and America; but ratlier as a condition of life inlorcepted beiween hours of amusement { and sensual gralificalions, which seem to be the chief beginning and end of man here, in the estimation of the people and the Government.too. Everything seems to have be?n made expressly to be looked at ; and, occordingly, the superfices of all handiworks cover more ground taan is the case witli things of tlie same size in othcr countries. But the Government has "cnpped" the climax" of this popufar propennify for s--octaclc worship, by making the firnplest provi-iinns for siimulaling it, as a cheap method ofdiverting the people's thoughts from iheir own personal and political condiüon. - Notln'ng that could.teüd to.efiect lln's object has been left untried. The city is feil of brazen and irurblo im.-igai, of Nebjchadnezzar's mould, and objects of gnudy splendor, nnd music ni.d dancing, illuminale I garderrs nnd grrtves, and outof door theal res, and fetes and fire-works, and juvenile sports set to rrinnhood bv llie highest authorilies. Even the most magnificent works of art, - creations of the pencil nnd chisel which liaie itnmortalized ihe memory of niighty goniuses of uiden times, - are arrnved jis tlie more piriiu;il paris of the templé erected by the Government for thé spëctacle-worihip of the [leopl?, and servr to the mintry of amusement rather tlinn nsrucion. Religión, labor, and li:e and all its necfSsilies, bend lo this hungrv propensity for amusement, and the Sabbat h is the greatest holiday of the spvpn.when the populace are treated grauitously with new sights,- jts'd'eau nnd jets-de-seu, and mariial music and slately frivolitie.s under guord of ihe gensd' armes. Asa specimen of these Sunday diversions, I noliced shoniing tables, planrtft? thickly alongthe Boulevards, each surrounded by a g'oup of men nnd boys, who were developing iheir martial ideas in shooting at a troop of piaster soldiers ; and, in some cases, this playing at war was expanded into the digmiy of directing n pnrk of litile brass cannons against castles and fortified cities of the s-ame i commodating material. Long bcfore sunset, the doors of the numerous theatrrs are ihronged vvith the pleasure-cnasing multitudes which have failed to secure thp phanto.-ns of thoir pursui: elsewhere. In a word, the Fiench people ore Inuglied and danced out of true liberty, nnd of the choicest or thosie immunities secured lo iheir American and English brethron. - Their worship of military glory completos their suljugation. Nationality is a kind of Nebuchndnezznr's image set up for their idolatrous devotion, and tbeyfall down and worship it in all the high places upon wliich t is mounted. It was enough to move ono's hoart to pjty to see scores of laboritig men sitting under Napoleon's stupendous Triumphal Arch, and looknig up at ils martial statuary and records. - Their eyes were set witbdreamy esctncv , in the contemplation of the names of battle fields and battle-generals chronicled high u in the mighty waJIs, nnd all , mounted by the genius of Napoleon.- , The greatness and glory of fn.nce seem , to come dQwn upon thera in , ing npocalypse.ond they nlmost trcmbled, , for either joy or awe-, at the majesty and , nnght of their country. AdJ tho glory , of ihe greatThree Day's Revolution adder) another overawing presence for Iheir süent ndoration ; and ihere they sat as if spell-bound and half ovcrwhelmed with the sense of nalionality. Poor men ! 1 pitied them from my heart. Had ihey hut venüirpd io look nt and into tbemselves ; to have resolved themselves mto n mpelngf)r five minutes, riiscussion of their politicnl eondition underone of thoe archrs, the whole weight f this nntionnüiy onld have been down upon lliem wiih a vengpance ; for, notwiihstanding all tlieir statuary of überty, and glnry, and ia)olenn's brazen pillar nnd imnge, and the Marseilles IJymn, and national songs rnd slghts innumerable of marl ial mernory, no twenty subjects of the '-grand nation" c-in meel togethor for the purpose of discussing even a quetion of politica! economy, without a formnl permissionofthe government. Notafisherman on the sea-shore mny dip a bucket of water from the great oc an, for the purpose of converting it into salt to preserve bij herrings, without being chascd by the majestic nationaüty which he