Every nation has a right to its prejudices--certainly the English people have such a right as regards America, this country appearing to the English eye like a huge mushroom, the growth of a night, and unsubstantial. But it is surely wrong to censure a whole nation--as some have done the Southern people--for the faults of a few. Although the right of a nation to its prejudices be admitted, no one has a right, without thorough examination and acquaintance with the subject, to publish as facts the exaggerated accounts of another nation, put forth by its enemies. The world in this way receives very erroneous impressions. For instance, we have no right to suppose the Germans a cruel race because of the following paragraph clipped from a recent newspaper: "The cruelty of German officers is a matter of notoriety, but an officer in an artillery regiment has lately gone beyond precedent in ingenuity of cruelty. Some of his men being insubordinate, he punished them by means of a 'spurring process,' which consisted in jabbing spurs persistently and brutally into their legs. By this process his men were so severely injured that they had to go to the hospital." Neither have we a right to pronounce all Pennsylvanians cruel to their "helps," as they call them, because a Pennsylvania lady told me "the only way she could manage her help"--a white girl fourteen years old--"was by holding her head under the pump and pumping water upon it until she lost her breath,"--a process I could not have conceived, and which filled me with horror. But sorrow and oppression, we suppose, may be found in some form in every clime, and in every phase of existence some hearts are "weary and heavy laden." Even Dickens, whose mind naturally sought and fed upon the comic, saw wrong and oppression in the "humane institutions" of his own land! And Macaulay gives a painful picture of Mme. D'Arblay's life as waiting-maid to Queen Charlotte--from which we are not to infer, however, that all queens are cruel to their waiting-maids.