The process which is going on, through various channels, to
ren- der the intercourse of mankind easy and expeditious, might alone disarm all fears on the score of Papist restorations in England. The ultra-orthodox cannot have to fight Sunday trains and the Pope both at once, any more than you can have to endure the glow of a Southern summer and the ice of an Arctic winter at the same mo- ment. The Western clergy have been trying to put down the cheap excursion-trains on Sunday ; but the Great Western Com- pany, feeling, no doubt, the moral strength imparted by the Juno Lionof popular sympathy with swinging profits, has stood firm- These excursion-trains are keeping up a weekly movement of the pofiulation—the Cockney to the sea-side, the moors, the lakes, and the countryman to the metropolis—altogether incompatible - with stagnation Of ideas. The same kind of process has a further extension: it is fully at work in North America, and we see that a Easton company has put forth a propo- sition for pleasure-trips to .England, by means of international steam-ships—six weeks to be spent in this country, and the " cost to be a hundred dollars. Next year the Exposition will' give a peculiar impulse to locomotion. Every Mayor at the York banquet is but the unit representing a large party that will invade London from his town. We know that preparations for travellers, on a Transatlantic scale, like that of the international steam-ships, are going on in the American cities. The Prussian Government is preparing for the transit of a body equal in number to three full regiments. If we do not hear of such formal prepa- rations in Paris, we believe the reason to be, the comparative nearness, which renders such anticipation unnecessary, and still more the immense number of strictly private airangemente that are going on. But when we go to distant places, like the great cities of India, again we hear that people are already engaged in organizing extensive parties of visiters. In view of these great movements, the hop interest at last raises its desponding head, and , by the mouth of Mr. Law Hodges, at Cranbrook, confesses to the , revival of hope. All the world is to visit London next spring— yea, even Germany ; and the brewers will provide amazing pros- pective stores of beer.
