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cause, that other, and pensioned Englishmen visit this 
country, frequently for the express purpose of under¬ 
valuing and understating our true condition, and study¬ 
ing just how far they can distort the features, yet give 
a resemblance to the original of our body politic. We 
would be slow to impute such motives to Professor 
Johnston; yet, he seems to participate in some of these 
characteristics, by his frequently travelling out of his 
Soute, to pick up subjects to hang distorted views upon. 
How unlike the gifted, comprehensive minded Tupper, 
who has just left us with a soul full of thankfulness to 
Deity for allowing his vision to be greeted with the 
sight of a vast, yet newly-created people, in the enjoy¬ 
ment of every blessing vouchsafed to man, and who are 
more likely than any other on the globe, to transmit 
these glorious priviliges through countless generations 
to come. 
One more quotation and we have done, for we have 
already quadrupled the space we intended to devote to 
this subject. The Hudson does not please this travel¬ 
ler better than our people or their manners. He says, 
“ The first BO miles reminds one, though on a larger 
scale, of sailing upon one of those Dutch or Belgian ca¬ 
nals, along which, in former days, travellers moved in 
the treckschuits, hemmed in on either hand by elevated 
dykes, under pretence of seeing foreign countries.’ 
The Catskill and West Point please him better; but, 
“ on the whole,” he adds, “ I was disappointed with the 
Hudson.” And so are we with Professor James P. W. 
Johnston, M. A., P. R. S. S. L. & E., F. G-. S., C. S., 
&c., &c,, &c., and his “ -Notes on North America.” 
THE WORLD’S EXHIBITION. 
The “ Palace of Glass ” is open, where multitudes of 
visitors are daily witnessing the industrial productions, 
both ornamental and useful, of all nations. Now what 
use is this exhibition to the farmer ? The advantages 
are too many to be easily described. The following 
are a few, as detailed in the London Agricultural Ga¬ 
zette, the good results of which are to be looked for by 
the British farmer, and a hint or two may be derived 
by the farmers of the United States :— 
It will be an important step in the extension and 
progress of civilisation, if the taste of the great mass 
of the humbler classes from our rural districts is quick¬ 
ened and beautified by beholding the graceful and 
grand structure itself, and the eloquent sculptures, su¬ 
perb ornaments, and creations of the arts which are 
emphatically ‘ fine,’ which arrest and fascinate our gaze 
within it. It will be of service to us, if, when there a 
friendly feeling should go out to those of other nations 
who have contributed to deck the resplendent avenues 
with these things. It will be of incalculable service to 
agriculturists to compare by the aid of their own eye¬ 
sight, not by the help.of party journals, the meehanical 
resources of English farmers, with those of foreign cul¬ 
tivators ; and from the unspeakable superiority [?] of the 
former, receive an inspiring hope and encourage to sus¬ 
tain them in competition with all the world. And, 
doubtless, many a farmer will this year find out some 
practice of distant counties, m our own land, or 
of other countries which may be of use to him 
at home; and many a one will see implements and 
instruments with which he was previously unac¬ 
quainted, and which may comprise just the form or the 
motion for which he has been long seeking. And this 
opportunity is the greater, not only from the presence 
of foreign tools and machines, but also from the circum¬ 
stance of the collection of those of Britain, embracing 
the inventions of a wider extent of coufitry than any 
previous show in either England, Ireland, or Scotland. 
And many, also, will notice specimens of cereal pro¬ 
duce, roots, seeds, and grasses, and of fibres, fleeces, 
skins, <fec., which he may introduce with benefit into his 
own neighborhood. 
“ But leaving other means of advantage to be suggested 
by the reader’s own reflection, let us proceed to notice, 
for the information of those who cannot witness them, 
some of the more worthy objects of the farmer’s atten¬ 
tion, to be found in the Glass House of Hyde Park— 
the great conservatory, where all the fruits of human 
industry have been nourished into ripeness.. Entering, 
perhaps, into the great transept, where a strangely 
sylvan scene bursts upon the view—tropical trees 
shooting fan-like under the shade of English elms— 
with the high filmy arch over all, the farmer turns at 
once toward the department which the crimson cloths 
overhead proclaim ‘ agricultural;’ and passing the rich 
carvings, and gorgeous adornments, the fountains, and 
colossal images, and the glitter of glass, gold, and fancy 
manufactures, threads his way between the slender pil¬ 
lars, till he is lost amidst the more familiar objects of 
farm machinery. But plows in a palace, carts, and 
chaff cutters in its crystal colonnades, are they not un¬ 
sightly and out of taste? By no means; the imple¬ 
ments of the field and barn are here tinted, polished, 
and burnished, so as to be worthy of a place beside the 
workmanship of fine art; and instead of the customary 
red, blue, black, and green paint, the colors vie with 
those of the nobleman’s carriage, and the metal shines 
bright like silver, and some is even ornate with gold. 
No farmer dare purchase such at first, except for his 
drawing room; they are for ladies and princesses to 
admire. But when the outside gloss and brilliancy 
have worn off, it is certain that the utility of these ma¬ 
chines will meet the expectations of the ingenuity which 
has framed them. 
“ On first entering this department, the eye is be¬ 
wildered by a succession of steam-engine funnels, 
drilling machines, cutters, carts, plows, wheels, and 
ponderous engines, the nature of which, it requires a 
minute examination to understand 1 . On each side of 
the main walk through this long department, are raised 
stands or galleries, erected by some of the principal 
machinests, crowded with implements and wheels, and 
one surmounted by an emblematic golden sheaf. On 4 
cursory survey also appear spades, forks, &c., and many 
beautiful models of farmsteads and farm instruments.” 
