1838.
Fr. 24,

132

LI¥8 GF JORDAN,

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Cobden seems to have for beneficent absolutism, ib 18 of
least a mark of true sagacity to have discerned that manne”
may have as much to do with the happiness of a people, ®
has the form of their government.
In a letter to his sister, he shows that his journey ba
supplied him with material for an instructive contrast”
“Let me give you an idea of society here by telling ¥'
how I spent yesterday, being Sundey. In the first plac
I went to the cathedral church at nine o’clock in tH
morning, a very large building, pretty well filled (the ladi€*
were as five to one in the congregation, against the nurab?
of male attendants).
“The singing would have been a treat; bub unhapp!!
[ was placed beside a little old man whose devotion was &
great, that he sang louder than all the congregation, in
screaming tone that pierced my tympanum, I heard nothin
but the deep notes of the organ, and the little man’s not®
still ring in my ears, and his ugly little persevering face wil
haunt me till I reach the Rhine. The sermon lasted fort!
minutes; the service was all over in one hour and a half
and at eleven o’clock I went in a coach to the count!’
palace of the king at Charlottenburg, where is a splendif
mausoleum and a statue of his late wife to be seem. TH
statue is a masterpiece of the first Prussian sculptor, and #
I always criticise masterpieces, I thought it stiff, Passio?
through a wood laid out in pleasant walks, interspersed wit?
sheets of water and provided with seats, T saw number’
of the cockveys strolling about, and again I might ha"
fancied myself in Kensington Gardens. But the variet
of head-dress, the frequent absence of the odious bonnet
which seems a part of the Englishwoman’s nature, and th¢
substitution of the lace or gauze covering, which aids rath?”
than hides the prefitiest accessory of a womsn’s face, b¢’
well-managed hair, reminded me that I was from Yin, I