Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
them were Lord M. Kerr and Mr. Bayard Taylor-the author
of some beautiful poetical pieces, and of a work entitled "Views
A-foot." He performed a pedestrian tour nearly all over Europe.
He was then returning from California, and is, I believe, onr the
eve of publishing a work-already prepared for the press-relating
to that country, which, I should think, would be exceedinglv interesting. Hle is a very gentlemanlike youngff man, and appears
full of intelligence and information.
Mr. Hill, an English gentleman just returned from a lengthened tour, was also on board. He had been living between two and
three years in Russia and Siberia (the last not involuntary!),
having latterly come from South America and Polynesia. He
had sailed from Kamtschatka, in a Russian merchant ship, and
while in South America, had made several excursions inland. His
account of the poorer classes in Siberia, (where the peasants are
not serfs), made one think they must form almost the happiest and
most flourishing peasantry in the world. It appears they have not
only plenty to boil in the pot, but they have the pot boiling almost
all day long: in short, plenty of fuel, and plenty of food and clothing. Very unlike the uoor Californicazs of olden days. It is probably
known to miany that on that very soil, now found to be teeming
with the golden treasures of earth, the former inhabitants, in a
state of the mnost abject poverty, were wont to subsist on grasshoppers
We stopped at Mobile point, on our way hither, to land and
receive passengers and specie, and came-to among the crowded
shipping at the anchorage there; but, in consequence of our long
delay at Tampico, the " Thames" staid as short a time as possible,
and I had not an opportunity of seeing my dear friend Madame
L. V. Mr. Bayard Taylor, who landed there, was good
enough to take her a note from rme.
There was a very melancholy circumstance connected with our
brie'f stay at M-'obile. Mr. -, an American merchant, who had
been to Mexico on business, expected to receive at Mobile, letters
from his wife, to whom he had written from Mexico to say he
should go by way of the Havana to New York, on such a day, by
one of the American steamers (they are generally very punctual),
and as they ordinarily arrive in the evening, he begged her to have
tea ready for him.
He appeared a very pleasant, amiable person, and was extremely popular in the ship. I had not made his acquaintance; but
one could not but remark his liveliness of manner and flow of
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