LONDON AND THE FULNESS THEREOF. [From the "Spectator," April 13.]

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 462, 18 September 1850, Page 3

LONDON AND THE FULNESS THEREOF. [From the " Spectator," April 13.]

It is the season in London ; the Parliament is in the u>i<i},t ot business the Opera has attained its piime, and iha metropolis is full. It is a wondeiful congregation that now eddies about London streets — a mingling of all vaces and ranks. IVhaps London never was so thronged as it is now, cvi.n at the height of the Railway mania* it is fuller pirhap. Ihau it will dp until the Exposition of 1851 dt\iw L.rger supplies of mankind from the wo. ld. The West -end BWirms with Peeis, Meuibeis, yoiin\iT EO".s, butlers, c indicates for election past and Jut me, couutiy gentlemen, dowaguis,«— ladies'-muds, Cuuitl.eauttes, "ci hoc <>enus omne ' ; Westminister terns with. Idwvers, Pcirlumentaiy agents, private bill promoters; ! ah Wtot of Temple Bar wi h ar.iots ministers of religion gathering for April and May meetings, cnilnti y cousins, h')ise dealeis; omnibuses, splendid moving boXc'S ol huraaiiiiy, discharge their ever dnnijing cargoes at every corner, tabs have discovered tha perpetual motion ; the boats on the Thames have bt^in their season of tempting fute wiih impossible loads ; Regent s'reet is a wonder of chanoteetinc; Jskill :j temple Ear U a perpetual Thcimopjl* or resistance to invasion - Clita r >hiJe is hksa wjter-t>ipe on tbe principle of con; bfant supply ever full; the Opera is a delicious purgatory; Covent Garden compares its fruits and florets wiih an rqu.valent 6how of cheeks and lips ; the Exhibitions arc the trials of the coustitutioii — tests of the unver to rcaitt fainting; shopmen cannot Bp|l their waivs for the pie-^s of customers; bankets' clerks fetnde across tbe floor like Coulon, and bpgin to fear for the stability of their own brains : every by.otrect la like a main thoroughfare; tbe wild Irish have come ta town, with the beggars both of the ra^ed and silken gown orders; London is the region of a floating Poland it is Hungary, it is Itally, ir is Fiance, Legitimate and dltra-Dtmociative ; it is fdtnilter as Malta with every costume, from that of Exetsr Hell to that of tbe Indian Archipelago. And the poor you have always with you — in Bethna! Green c^unt|p-.s, and in other suburban provinces. Also the thieves and predatory classes. Alsu— but Non ragioniam de lor, ma guarda c passa. talk not to ears pyhte ot that class of oureounirywomen seen most as the light fades— thaljeldts of the unti&ined. the uiuubpectin^ ; tmit of recognized enormities in our social .system ; *he sphinx of civilize ion whose involuntary existanre is a cu-se chiefly to itself; the Lamia whom the Apolloniua of recehed plulosoi>hy dooms to utter ('ediiiou as an expiation for the sins which it endures rather than otiginates. Uotv often the an^el face of innocent women passes into that altered race ■' the inextinguishable goodness of human nature" family showing iis f-urest light through [the darkness of corruption and coming death ! 'J lie well lcdfyea sees but rts s not on the unnamed and slides easily past the living furniture ot our streets. Nor is thrtt the only alienage. In this gigantic jumble of men, and things called London Ihe one striking tact bsn<wth the ev-r-agiUted surface is the thotough iencration of c'assts. Society is divided into liiiiumer.«lile ciiclea, each with its own customs and objects Sections Inive Iheir own joirna's, at times unknown even to other circles. The countless " interests" are separate, intent only on themselves. Projects without number puisne their own priz,s sometimes ignorant o( "x-ict doubUs alrealy exihtins; or lunning a parrallel path towirJs attuning existence to eucourt'er each other in mutual ruin ac tbe goal. The fellowship of kind is neutial iz*d by the multitudinousneKS of the coucoar.se ; in crowded London beyoudthe pale of hia own circle, man knows hu lellow man only as uu uiuversal conipeiuioior mi obitruction.

Rumours of Nisw Pi r,as: Split ix the Cabinet ox ms Marine Mevsojies. — It is rumercd t da t Mr. Labonehere 11 to be created a Peer, and that Mr. Wilsoa ir ro succeed him as President of eht Boa'd 01 Trade. For our own part, we give no ceded ce to te icpoit, as iar as it regnds the promotion ot .\ir. W.i(■on ; for this simple leason, he would not be likely to h-izird bis letinn .'mir >ni Wesrbury, We are, however, \n< lined to be lt-ve ihrre may ba some tiuth \vi;h re spout to the iV|)oit of Mr. L'lboiicbere's el",vatiin lo the pt>era"e. He hus> bd-n a iibct'ul and h id-woi'onK: menibiT of the.VVii'^ Cabinet ",:he has done raois work, u iuhl got !e-s ]uiy thannny ol lv, ci>l!oa^ue3 ; und beusj; possession ol .» f?jod piiva'e fortune, the ri^ht honouia'jld <{t'ntle.iiaii beg. us perlmps to fancy that the Whig tenure ot office may be short, and that, theietore, he had better exchange olfip" anil salary fur a " jieeiage," while it is to be had. But this is not the leason assiined at the west and political cotenes. Tliero it is suJ that L ir .l John Itubitll and ftlr. Laboncbert', navrt not been (juite of accord as to the wisdom trnd policy of introduciu* the merCairila inarme billb this BI6SIOH. Mr. LubiHieher'i, however, still d j cUres his de'erminiti n to proceed with them to a bPio.id reading on the !9 hot Apui. Under these circuinstcince.t, ir is siitl that the nolde Premier is desuous that Mr. La'jou here should embmc: thii> opo tunity of accept lin; .» peerage, nband ining his billh to lni sws 01 ia olli';j to do<il wi,h ne\c ficsiun — SJrpp nj Gn:ettc t