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    '3.9-8 A STROLL THROUGH HAMBURGH.

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    As I Stand On The Deck Ofthe Hamburgh St...

    crowned puritanical hats ; but these are less often to be met witls than their bod-guardsixteen in numbersince these claim

    _theprivilege of disp y laying , their livery ( comprising , short Spanish cloak , ruffwiand sword ) at wedding or funeral that occurs

    . contributing , g , a due amoun every t of rejoicing or mourning to the , respective ceremonies in return for a certain fixed fee .

    As I perambulate the handsome new half of the city , I am proud to remember that it was an Englishman who found means

    to stop the most fearful conflagration of modern days , when it was threatening to leave nought unspared ; the same wise liead and

    skilful hand that _planned all that has arisen to replace it , and so replace it as to make that misfortune of the moment appear now

    almost really the most fortunate event that could have occurred ; who devised a scheme of protection for the future ; and who also >

    constructed the sewers which purify the city , and laid down the conveniences water service , of which modern secures civilization to every ¦; blessings household which one of Berlin the greatest is only

    now beginning to attain , and which many continental cities are quite without . TrulHamburgh has reason to honour the name

    y of Lindley the engineer . Nor can I forget how much my country ' s benevolence did to alleviate the sufferings of that season of

    affliction ,, and that more than £ 40 , 000 were sent from England to > succour those on whom the great Fire had , for' a time at least ,

    brought ruin . But I have reached one of the most curious mementoes of that

    event , and which is also the public building of most importance in so commercial a citythe Borse . Exchangewhichwhen the

    flameswere raging around , it on all , sides , stood , like the , three Jews of olden time in the midst of the furnace , untouched by their fury ,

    and was left quite uninjured . It could have been ill spared , for it is considered to be perhaps the best building of its class yet

    constructed , not excepting even that of Paris , and is certainly a very handsome edifice , with its spacious asphalte-paved central area

    lighted from above , surrounded by a colonnade , double at the ends and trile at the sidesforming cloistered walks ; while above the

    circular p arches , a lofty , gallery , now occupied only by a few gentlemen quietly reading their newspapers , is carried all round the

    building . In the few money transactions incidental to a visitor passing

    through , the cosmopolitan character of the place is strikingly seen in the ready acceptance of any medium of payment that may be

    offered , for though there is of course a national currency , ( and a confusing one it is to a strangerinvolving a double system of

    reckoning very , either by " rigs" or " banco , " ) any other coinage is almost equally available , and the franc or the florin , the thaler or

    the half-crown , are alike received in payment . Cash of some kind seems here to be the basis of all things , for if it be not admitted

    that " money makes the man , " at least , it is established that it

    '3.9-8 A Stroll Through Hamburgh.

    ' 3 . 9-8 A STROLL THROUGH HAMBURGH .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/38/