75.0 i'eiteréitetl o.ssei'tion, that English is spoken better in America than in the mother country, and with t some.‘fl_iutm. as nothing but his own obscrvutioii and inflation will show him wlicit foiiiidatioii can possibly exist f.sr such an assumption. If he stays long enough in the country, Zl|1(l tro- veis sufficiently, he will grant tlisu. tliroiigliout. America. iie~”will generally hear English pronounc- ed, as he inayreuclily understand it. Fiutliei-, that the dialects which piiiavail in runny of our counties do notexist, thougli in some 13f.U‘iS of the l.*}:istc_rii States, a language very much tipproacliing to it dia- lect is spoken; for the rest, he will find that tliougli as far as the general pronunciation of Llielallg‘l,1i1gB goes, all may be at least intelligible, there Will be {L great deal which an Eiiglislimmi t-.zi_ii linrtlly be expected to undeistmicl ; thatslziiig, quite as incom- prehensible to him as the gipsy lingo of our ow_n hedge-sides, forms the common mode of comm uni- cation in some parts of the country ; and that, gen- erally speaking, there are it few i-aiiks_oi'_society in which a certain degree of this base coin is not cur- rent.. He will find from the style of conversation of Americans of :1 literary turn, that out of‘ the main cities, arid in remote parts of the country, itis evident. tlint. the difference .bet-w can writtcii and conversational language is scarcely under-stood,——— which may arise from the spcalcei-s liaving to ‘dr:i\v their langimge more from books than ii-om the ini.ei-- change of iclctis with men of their own stziinp ; end that conseqiiently the use of big and pompous words, such as load the no 'spnpe'r pzmigi-ii plis, .15 much more common thzii-i good taste would itiliiiii. But enough of the pompous ti‘-l\’ell<3l'. 1'.i.(‘. l‘il“iy do ve little llt\'t'i‘n, but he will do no gi-_c-tit good; hen you travelled as u cosmopolitziii ‘.l—-—iNo: I dislike the word. I love, and 1')i‘€fe1',f1l'1[l uphold the political, social, moral, and religious supei'iori_ty of my own native country too sincerely, to claim the title. of ‘it citizen of the world,’ if by tlinl. term you ineiin one who is equally iit home and without preferences where ever he wuiiders over its broad surface; but if by ityou would designate one who. reconciled himself easily for fl. time to chiuigc oi place and scene ;——one whose impulse is i-either to sing with the native of a foreign land thun to quar- rel with him .; to see good every where ratlier than evil;-one with arfacility to form ties with the na- tives of every clime, and enter into their usages and feelings not only with charity but with pleu- sure, so long as they are not t'oi-bidden by his Bible, and by the sense ofriglit and wroiig wliicli soiiiid education and good ex-nrnplcs may have given him -«so far I am :1 Cosinopolitiui, and as suclii visited America. > It is not without interest to l‘Ci1lEil‘l(,Lll‘CiLLliC lust London Q.l1al'l.8i'ly, in reviewing this work, quotes the first paragrtipli oi' the above extract, and adds this liberal coinnient and palinodc: We sincerely hope this lesson will be held in mind by all future tmvellers in the United States. For ourselves, we are obliged to confess tliai we much wish we had kept it steutlily before us when reviewing the recent. work of Mrs. Trollope, and we may even add of Capt. Bzisil Htill. \Vc have no suspicion that either of these able writers de- signed to give it fztlsc’iinpi'essioii of the state oi‘so- ciety in America; but we are C0l1Si.l"clil'ieCl to ac- knowledge tiiat we think if "Washington Irving: had undertaken zi tour among our own provincizil towns, he might have Found nintcriails for lively and amusing sketclies of Britisli inziiiiicrs not bet- ter than those representetl as characteristics of the Ainericans: indeed we strongly suspect. that he might have found almost the sauna iueitlental things andiaslgioyiis. And how, after rill, could this be oi.hcrwise’!--'Wha.t were allthosc Aiiicricziu towns sixty years ago but. pl'0Vll1CialBi‘lii,cst, il'if1l.l)!‘(!\‘i’ wili bu woiiiided: or place the sweet lilossoiri in your bosom, the tliorn will be there. This I'Ci\l or itlezil mingling of piiin rind sorrow, with the nxqiiisitc bertutyof the rose, nil'ords 3 ncvr-r-eiiiiling i.iieinr,~. to those who are best ncquaintccl with the inevit.-iblr-. blending of clouds and suiisliinc, hope and ictii-, weal and wo, in this our cnrtlily iill1.".i‘liJni‘.C*. "With every thing fiiir, or sweet, or exquisite in tl1l.SWO1‘l(l, it has seciiied meet. to tliail. wisdoiii. which appoints our sorrows, rind sets it bound to 0iii‘el]j0_Yil'l8i)l,S, to iirlix some Siflill, some l'lll,l€-i‘- iicss, or some alloy, wliicli niuy not iiiaptiy be callccl, in figiiriitivo liillgtitlgi‘, R. tlioi-ii. St.'Paul cnipli;iticnll_y speaks 0!’ it “ thorn in the ilcsli,” and from this e.\'prcssioii, us well as il’iil1l his €:ni'iiesL- ncss in liiiviiu pi-nyeil ilii-ice. ilmt it ll'ilJlll. be re- niovcd, we conclude it must have been :