THEIR INTELLECTÜAL CONDITION.

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reniains of tlie okl Roman fashions — as witness the subjoinedengravings..

ROMAN " ACUS"

(from an engraving glven in Montfaucoti).

GRECIAN " 1IITEA"

(copicdfrom an ancient vase).

Hence, with the Rhenish people, the World seems to havestood still since the time of Tiberius, or at least, Charlemagne.

" But have the Coblenz people no gas in their streets ?" itmay be asked. " Yes, they have," is the reply; " but aFrenchman manufactures it for them."

"Have they no steam-engines?" "Certainly; but theyare all constructed in England."

Their steam-vessels are built by English shipwrights.Their raihvays, again, are cut by English navigators, andmanaged by English directors; their mines are almost allworked by Englishmen; and Englishmen, too, are mostly atthe head of their factories.

Indeed, the German mind is naturally so slow, and thepeople so innately averse to any land-conveyance that travelsat a quicker pace than an aged cow, or to any vessel that cutsthrough the water at a more rapid rate than a Dutch " trek-schuit," that at the last Revolution the populace fired at thesteam-tugs as they passed up the Rhine, and we were crediblyassured, that should another such outbreak take place, everyengine in the land would be destroyed.

Now, did you ever happen, sapient reader—we suppose