with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.

Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
tell you anything about them.

The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
are carried on to a considerable extent.

Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different