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cumscribed. The conversation of the one, therefore, was more elegant, ornamented, and detailed; that of the other more original, energetic, and concise. The one spoke in epic, the other in epigram. They had both travelled much, and far; the one, it should seem, from choice; the other from necessity: and the result from their conversation appeared to be that the one had stored his mind with images, the other strengthened his judgment by observations. The one had studied forms, the other men. The one had only increased his constitutional tendency to satiety and ennui, by the resources which, young as he was, he had already exhausted; the other had sharpened his appetite for enquiry by the experience he had obtained. Such as they were, they were both evidently "out of the common roll of men"- and alike distinguished by personal and mental superiority.

The Commodore had dressed, breakfasted, made the necessary arrangements for their journey to Munster, and gone abroad, before his fellow traveller had, gotten half way through his toilette, even with the assistance of Monsieur, his valet. Mr. De Vere had indeed but just sat down to his coffee, and his "Fairy Queen," when the elder stranger returned, after an absence of near two hours.

"Have you seen much of Dublin ?” asked the younger traveller, laying down his book.

"Yes, I believe I have been half through it."

"What impression does it give you the whole?"

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Why, with its extremes of poverty and splendor, the wretchedness of a great part of its inhabitants, and the magnificence of its buildings, it is to me a Grecian temple turned into a lazzaretto. One-third of its population are in an

actual state of pauperism: one-half of its trading streets exhibit as many bankrupt sales as open shops: the best houses are to be let, and the debtors' prisons are overflowing."

"Have you, then, had time to visit the prisons?"

"Business brought me to one: buзiness with the high sheriff of a county, who has delivered himself up for the purpose of a whitewashing under the insolvency act, as he termed it.”

"Ha! ha! ha! an high sheriff in prison-that's singular enough!"

"Not so singular in Ireland; for two other high sheriffs were confined in the same room with him, and for the same purposes."

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"The laws must be well administered! But, doubtless, they are all honorable men."

"They are loyal men, as my friend the sheriff told me, though under a little present difficulty."

"You have purchased a pocket telescope, I perceive."

"Yes, and a little information from the intelligent optician from whom I bought it. I went into his shop as the tax-gatherer was carrying out of it several articles which he had seized for non-payment. The owner was looking on calmly, and to some observation of mine, he replied, 'I have not the money, Sir: there's no use in talking: when government have got all, we shall be at rest: we cannot be worse.'. To my remark on the supposed tendency of the Union, so often vaunted in newspapers, and in debate, that it would bring English capital into Irish trade; he answered, 'The effect of the Union is ruin to Ireland: since that epoch her debt has increased, her resources diminished, her taxes augmented, her manufactures languishing, her gentry self-exiled, her peasantry turbulent from distress, and her tradesmen, like myself, drained to

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the last farthing, and sighing to remove to that country, where they will not be obliged to pay a large rent to the government, for leave to live; to America.* But all cannot do this.-I note these observations as being curious from one of his class.

"It is a pity," said the younger stranger, "that these Americans are so baroque, for they are, politically speaking, a great people; they are, however, so prosperous, that they can never be interesting: they are beyond the reach of prose or verse: we may say of their national, as of Darby and Joan's conjugal felicity,

They eat, and drink, and sleep,-what then? Why sleep, and drink, and eat again."

The waiter now entered, presented the bill, and announced that all was ready for their departure. The land

America is considered as the land of Canaan by the lower ranks of Irish: the peasantry emphatically call it "the Land."

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