The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

To the Editor.

SIR, —London is subsiding ! overmuch joy has
given place to grief, regret, despair, indignation,
that will prove • thorn to the roam, however much
in self-satmflecl ambition the Lord Mayor repose'.
Boethimiptou'e pet is yet the Sir Railway Grams of
Commerce. No title has been toot him on approba-
tion to test by the Shakeperien Standard, "4 rose
by any other name would smell aa sweet." The
every-day aspect of London is beginning to present
itself Louticaers feel that they can enjoy a revel,
• fete, or • esrnival; but despair of ever finding the
mediocrities who ran manage it. They resign their
individual right sad hbertiee without a murmur to
the authorities to direct it, and their direction is an
inextricable &byes of muddle stupidity and confusion.
Generally, but little of forethought is expected
from the city authorities. The merchants wham
easy unostentatious program plain them at the power
of 031111=41:11, reject city honours, and it has on in-
creasing tendency to fall into the hands of fussy
small people—good oarvere—with social amenities,
and knife and fork proclivities. Ws do not think
as much of the Lord Mayor here as they do in Paris,
and infinitely lese than they do at Soethampton.
We shudder now to think what foreigners will think
of us, with their eyes busied observingly towards us;
certainly it will confirm their impression of ye
manners and customs of ye English ; and strengthen
their impresnion of ita being perfectly parliamentary
to sells our wives in Smithfield, with • halter round
their necks. If the standard of a nation's deifies-
Pon is tested by the treatment of woman, eertainly
we shall cut but • sorry figure as gallant cavaliers.
Six women trampled to death I Is that is not • dis-
astrous draught of morrow to commingle with our
rejoicings?
Every Londoner, down to the veriest school boy
who is at all up in Loodoe tragic, believes that if
you could have given him the power to direct the
arrangements, he would have laid down in one-half-
hour, with the map of London thoughtfully before
him, by which this calamity could have been easily
averted. It is very, very sad it should be always so.
The authorities mud have been blind to what wee
passing before their eyes, if they could not see that
Landon was about to go in for the event likes May-
day sweep.
To philosophim on the " why and because" of this
manifestation of unbridled enthusiasm, whether
regret for the father gave intensity to hops and
respect for the son—whether an exuberant -loyalty
was formed to intensity by events in America so as
to assume to the democratic refugee an appearance
of thinkeyism or servility, or with a oesseicaely toil-
ing people like the Londoner proper, he has a burn-
ing desire is suspend for a day the COMIDOD course of
ceaseless toil, or like the Poet Laureate, who says;—
For Saxon, or Lame, or Norman we,
Teuton, or Celt. or whatever we be,
We are este all Dane is our welcome of thee."

That whilst the Laureate had than grave and parti-
cular doubts about the purity of the race, the sagacity
of the people said, like prizatsking agriculturists,
that to continue the species with energetic attributes
we prefers northern selection. Whether all or any of
three mars enter into speculations on the event,
suffice it to my, the people were pleased, and as a
conetquence that it is happy times when trifles plane,
arid no eyewitness, 'Macaulay" of the event can
possibly arise as be would have been stopped in hie
course by police arrangementsi A journey n any
vehicle from London-bridge to Bt. Paul's Church-
yard, on Tuesday night, eid Canneactrest, taking
from 8 o'clock to five minutes past 12, from the
crowded state of the streets, with a general block of
four lines of carriages proosediag by inch-to-inch
movereasts to cram London-bridge from the Southern
or Surrey side. The block of carriages commenced
at Stones-arid in the Borough, when the journey
round Bt. Pail's and down Ludgate-hill was seem-
phsbed. The polioe berried carrisges over Black-
friers-bridge to take their place in rotation, that
rotation oetamencing at a little beyond Stamford-
street, my thres-querters of a mile front Fleet-street.
Waterloo-bridge the same block, some oarriagee
stood fixed for frier hours. The New-cut was full of
°wisest, Westaninster-road as far as the obelisk.
The KensiNgthe-reed, and all the other appraising
to Westminster-bridge. The writer finding his way
over Vanxball-bridge as the only available means by
the several bridges, viz., Landoll, Blaafriars,
Waterloo, Westminster Lambeth. Southwark was
available, but only to land you in the densest. part of
the block. Amusing are the longues of going out to I
see the illuminatioes—every family have their own
tale to tell. One party hired a private omnibus. ,
drove to the top of the street where they lived, and
after a vain attempt to taro into the hat of carriages
in a mein thoroughfare, the attempt occupying four
hours, forty minutes, turned round down the street,
and went home. A lady friend of mine hind a asb st
3s. 6d. per hour, got by dint of perseverance on the
part ot her driver into Oxford-street, and remained
their in one Owe for four hours, and so you eould
go on with illustrations ad itifieitusa
• A few novelties beyond the ordinary Royal birth-
day display presented themselves. The National '
Gam was unquestionably a pretty design, but
mimed are, although I saw a host of men at work 4 ,
it all day Sunday (where's the Bishops?) Ipassedit
at nine o'clock, and it was not lit_;
_circumlocution
delayed the order, I suspect St. Paul's was a most
conspicuous failure. The Victoria Tower, a miserable
bull. The Tines was rather stifle upon these two
objects. They pointed to its Deoseuity as a national
display, and a pretty display was made of their pro-
gramme. Pro• Pepper produced only a pepper.
and-salt display of brifteney. An enterprising
West-end tailor had the most chaste design among
tradesmen, cart £l,OOO fixing and lighting, and so
ended' ibe gossip at what was seen and thought of
she ilimainitioss and rojekingeo' a the wedding" day
of our into,. Ilovaciiip. H. W.

The Priam at Wales, following the example of his
august mother, has addremed • letter to the Lord
Mayor as the emblem of the ht./ accidents lithe
city on the night of the illniniastions. Wm Royal
High mo OtPris, hie Imp awed that what am
meet) t fur reaoseig.shealithare lesea lamed iati
occasion of mournuig, sad he fseb the adaatity the
more *pigpen* is seceent of the warm and enthu-
siastic welcome with which the P27gband himself
were ieCeiVig aa Vint the (Jity.
The Panay farther addarrneriety to do an that
may halide pilaw to relieve the 'offering of those
wbo lost their relatives on that =Wawa occesios,
and with that view, reqlue that hdormation as to•
the cooditioa of those iliss may be commaniceted
tis
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basest mid meth peonies, eity in the mirth It ote-
tains the vast somber of 1,000.000 dwelliap and
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