- - hear at the coach window of Some renoWied belle. , 11 :;., , But the can 0343 nothing more delightia than a walk hero Amin the early morning There is a fresbnOs then in the air, a Viet; and peacefulness that aro found at no othAt time of the day. rrhe student comes with, hill book ; the priest,r from his early mass; the nurse, with hen baby ; the sentimental flask to sigh for her iota, (and perhaps topechirila the dyspeptic to earn an appetite for his titealt.:;, fast; the monk; the lounger, and even the la+. borer, stop for a ittomeut beneath the' vefresh ingshades, to tali* breath for the coming day, It is almost DruigioaLin the solemnstillness of its gioves,placed pa the 'midst of a populationi of two hundreelhomumil. Even the birds; seem to have bee 4 assured, tieared . froni the . . Plains, they are bire in a, sanctuary,' and tit: profane band, dais tonich them. They havl consequently plaitteff, as if by consent . of each other, &find cotnies in different parts of the wood; the owl, ttipion her branch, in one place ; the 'West making love th 6 business ' - of their lives, in anfther • themoeking birds ma= king a third spot, a p erfect eholil and inm4 merable sparroWg and wreti4, like so many Paul Prys, chatikring and pattering abont'with i an intrusive peress through the dominions JO i f{ 'all the test. ' t Directly went f the Alameda, and on the' • same street, is f,,lie Paseo Nueva, another de lightfd drive of 4, mile in length, bordered with paths and tree*: and dividedbY fountains a- domed with stat4ary and sculpture. Passing out o the western gate of the Al meda,' he fashiojnbles every evening take; a turn or two along this driVe. On festivals it ,is crowded; Aly the equipages of the , city must be there,aid it is the mode for everyper son of consaleratlon, or who, desires considera- Cton,lo Possess an equipage. It is not thoUght "'exactly proper?, for a lady ever to walk-, mt. cept to mass—off, sometimes, when she !gees shopping; 114oach, therefore, on all gala dais,. is sure to Opear on the Pasco with its fair burden. dreed in the French style as for a (Saner party of a ball. When I first arrived in Mexico, it w* rare to see a bonnet on such occasions; thatlfwk ward appendage of fashion able costutna wet becoming gradually in vogue before I • kft. , I.' , _ l For affiltour 4 !nor, it is the custom to pass' up and down, thalsidekof the Paseo, nodding and smiling at the cavaliers, who show off their' horsemanship ailing the centre of the road. Here the utroosOuxury and style are exhibit- , ed, in the equiptrUmt of carriage and animals. Gold embroidert silver plating, and every or nament that canradd splendor to. harneas and livery, are brou . ,4t fort's To suck an extent is the taste for ttlose exhibitions carried; that one of the millieoares of Mexico appears , eeei sionaily at the Faso() on a saddle which (with out Counting thwvalue of the rest of his coni prim) cost the sum of five thousand doll*. It Was the ch,ef t aware of an honest German. saddler who made it, and retired from trade to his beloved _ " father land." On approachik this charming drive, the whole plain of thovalley of the valley of Mex ico is at once repealed to you, without passing a dirty suburb. l &your right, is the cypress covered and castle crowned hill of Ohapultepee, formeily the situ it ! , is alleged, of one of Men teztana's palacfs L b efare 'you and behind stretch two imufense aqueducts—the-one cam . ing from the hilp, the other from a greater dis tance, ,ear Taenbaya, and screening that vil -1 lage as t leans kainst the first slopes of the western mountains. On your left tower the vol canoes, ion ;60.4 sumOits -the last rosy rayi of .• . t ~sunset 're re4g. I The y thrditg diaperse, as the moon rises from b ind the mountains, pouring a flood; of eleai T ht, brit as the day in other lands, over th . tranqwil landicape. The moonli.,,alt of Mexico is - marvelloutly !beat& Iv city, . yon remember, is 7,600 t feet ab ve the pa, and nearly that numbeal-of feet eloy to the stars than we are; the et insosph re, consignently, isonore rarified, and ~ e ' die lig t comet; as it were, pate and pelltiaid: :from h aven . ; on seem able to touch stars, sob ' ' ntly n .ar do they Stand oat relieved. 2,,, " Choi) , -ground of an intensely Noel a l sky."trillini on such 'eights in Mexico, when j n ia I saw he shalt lines of the tower and temple tome oldly out with shape. and 'even color, :almost as brigltt, yet softer than at noonday, 1 1 have often bfen tempted - . to- say that the alma : t youet at home (much as it is the thetno, of poetx,and lovers) is but seeond-hand ate, prepare - 4 with that of Mexico. ' • . r An •so ir4ri - 416 - climatdi. Betieen the Pa , shore t Vera rim. and the volcanoes, wli,ose an : .ete sn ows g over Mexico, you have ev ery ill ' to in ; he world. - i ). ' In die vall4 • there is a perpetual spring.- - - Ter Imonthe in the year-(the winter mouths ' , as the are alled) . rain never falls; daring the