TOPICS OF THE DAY.
. LONDON AND TICE .E1:114NE•98 TH1jUO1.
IT is the season in London the Parliament is in tie midst of ;bnsi nese, the Opera has attained its prime, and the Metry Ilia It is a wonderful congregation that no*: eddies's. ;tit londont streets—a Mingling of all races and ranks. perhaps London neVO was SO thronged as it is no*, even at the -height Of the RallWay Amnia it is feller perhaps than it will he until the E kition of 18.51 draw larger supplies. of Manldnd from the World. 6 *St- ead swarms with Peers, Members, younger sons, butlers, can- didates for elation past 'and future, Corintry gentlemen wagers,, ladies'-maids, Court beauties, " et hoe genus oinne '`iieStreinster teems wi tlilitwyers,Pailianientaryagents, priVatebill prinnoters ; West of TenipleBar with artist6,Muinaters of religion gatliering'fcg) April and gay Meetings, eountry.consins, horse-dealers ; oninibuseso splendid moving boxes of humanity, discharge their everehangingi cargoes at every oorner; letitts have discovered the perpetual luotionii the beirts'on the Thames begiallieir season of tempting fate with impossible loads : Regent gtrekies. a wonder of charioteering. Temple Aar is a perpetual TheintepyLn of resistance to invasion; con-
stant supply; ever full ; the • is :a delicious purgatory ;' Covent
Cheapside is like a. water-pipe improved principle of Garderfoorripareeits fruits an flowers with arl equivalent show of cheeks and lips: the gx*bitions are trials of the eonstitntion-- tests' of the power to ,. resist, 'feinting : ahopmen cannot sell their wares for the press of óustómers ' • bankers' clerks stride acrosS the. floor like Coulon,. and begini to fear for the stability of their own: brains : every by-street)s,lilie a Main' thorOuglifare :Abe wild Irish have come to town, with the beggars' both of the ragged and Silken; plc*. orders ; London is the region Of a floating Poland; it IS Hungary, it is Italy, Ms-Prance, Legitimate and Iltra-Dernocra- tici it Is familiar as 'Malta. with every costume, from that of Egeter *Hall to that of the Ind;oti, irchipelogo. And ,the poor llitVe always with you--in Bethnal Green eountl, anA in other'iniblirban provinees. , Also the thieveS, and predatory classes. Also -4nt " Nan r4doniam de lor; roo guards e posse talk net to ears polite of thatelaie of our countrywomen seen most as the light fade--that claim of the untrained, the unsuspecting ; fruit of recognized enormities in Our social system.: the sphinx of whose involuntary is a 'toren chiefly to it- self; the Lamm whom the ApollouiuB ot received phitoiophy dooms to utter perdition as an expiation for the :sins which' it endires rather than originates. lie ' often the angel face of innocent wo- man passes into that altered race, " the inextinguishable good- ness of human nature". faintly showing its fairest light through': the darkness of corruption and conning death I The wellbred eye Sees but rests not on the Unnamed, and slides easily past the living furniture of our streets. Nor is that the only Pit this gigantic jumble of men . and things called .-London, the one striking fact beneath the ever- agitated surface surface is the thorough separation of glasses.' Society is divided into innumerable circles, each with its own customs and objects. Sections have their own journals, at times unknown even to other circles. - The countless ;-"Interests" are Separate,- intent only on themselves. 'Projects withotit number pursue their -own , prizes, sometimes :ignorant of exact :doubles already existing, or running a parallel Path tewarde attainingnxistenoeto • encounter each other in mutual ruin at the goal. The fellowship of kind is neutralized by the multitudinousness of the concourse: in crowded London; 'Urea tiO pale uf his own eirele; man'knOws his fellow
man only as an universal ecimpetitor or an obstruction.. •
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