Star.
London, England, 1831-08-02 00:00:00

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Sir it fir lid aura, t,hiclt paraphrastically translated,
signifies—
•• From Westminster-bridge how prodigious the bop is,
To Waterloo ditto, where the shot tower's top is.
At Westminster all was deadly mitt distual—at its sister
of the Strand all was jovial end jubilee-like i or, as Shak-
spear somewhat better ennresses it—
" 'The one. almrst as infinite as all,
The other, ltlat 1; as nothing."
Even on Sunday the, view from Waterloo-bridge Vats!.
wards was dtelightfolly gay the holiday loungent veer:
beating it here and there—the flags were flying iis treirincl
listed—and the " click of hantmerr—(in defiance of the
iletuth of Bishops, the King's College, and the Society
rot the Suppression of Vice) gave " rote of pr:nant ton" fer
Cie comiug morrow. lint yesterday each of rhe‘c feature..
conjunct with a hundred collets, were enhanced, and tip
vac: of the Thames was a scene of life that the next
age, with all its cen;enary prolongations, may not h:
happy enough to witn:st. Without entering into the
metre distant peculiarities of the prospect. the long vista
of barges, craft, and vesseTs' moored head and stern,,
till the sight was interrupted by Blackfriers.Brltle, we.
in itself a rich and varied emigration fir the rye to
scan. Each of these tit:menus receptacles for the visitors t"
the clay was ornamented, or, as it were, illumilotta w'th a
multittide of coloured fl-g% exhillting not oulv device
of every nation, but even those of fi.milies andsirt"ividnaltt
To this must be etldeel the sight presented alcog El.bcr
where every nook and '"vantaga ground' was mad: avail-
able ter .he reception of determined occupants. who ttsolt
up their stations from the very rneight of the morn:tag.
and who displayed ilia most exemulary patic•te i i raisin,;
for the embarkation of their Majesties and tie Royal c.rrUor.
Along the whole line of the magriCcent terrace thot. di/Isles
Somerset House front the riser, a ceourodioutt ten tn
of seats ass placed. tl.e w'oole of which was densely ceetrpicd
by noose who. no dun hi, thou tin ti at they had areivrcl tie
the %annuli of bliss in obtaining tickets fur so destrede
sit nation. But not only were th: banks on both Woof the
river troweled with eo t • any, the Thames itself ens utmost
hid whit the crowd of boats that were pressing forward in
every direction, either depositing their cargoes at the Intros
that fanned the dordtle En: of Co: procession. or else !trail-
ing themselves of the rt.-rods:4(v that was gran cd, up to one
o'clock, of passing, tip al:ti down within the We, by which a
general survey of ale whale course use obtained.

VIEW PUOIII vier. Testrt.t: coat-tags.
The si,w fram II: :se beauth'...., pre., ns was perhaps one of
the most pinatant level rw.s••:err that die wl ole line pre-
sented ; the bright green of the ttir:'. the beds of “OV/CN and
'limb% and the rateral abide of the trees, we-e a delicious
relief. after lain; exposed to tit r t•roed glare of the son on
the river; end the open space tiffittd:d ta those 11/113 seer• al.
lowed ingress to the (larders rerr..7 es aa agreeable r, sumac
to those whose imonticacc small no: ,tertnit ettin to amain in
one confined spot till the gr.-nit :titration of 012 day should
make its appearance. Tice line t•; craft In the from or
rho• Gardens see/mil to be nior.: select that at any other Spat,
so that a much more open anti ext.msit view was affmeed
to those who rargcti eking the extrem • cdge of the Ter.
race. Another great utlytuttage,'anti on. ,ha m ti,t have been its
an slight degree anpreciatrd Ly the ri,iotr•, was. that the
Garden* wee: by no tccatts eppressivelv erott sled, s s that the
company had really' roam :n wore ei.o,g--It mater Of re
• 11 all Natter in London, where at all iIf.:CA (to ray nr,hirg
t,f such a holiday as yesterday) the gre..tert c tra is taken to
;tut into practice Mr.3litithus'o ento Mr :ride summer pi oposi-
don of four to every square lard of tarot. Bur not only
were the gardens thickly mudded with ohureers of the pass-
, 1;:g show; every window in the Temple iota( ti -at cant.
month(' a prospect, ore part of a ploosp-et, or anything like
1 a part of a prorphet. I:ad its occupant and misty. dusty
chandler% h,ratofore detlintted to the ruminations of the dis-
ciples of Coke upon Littleton, hardly knew themselyc.. ea
fire were they made with the hest &Imlay coats, green satin
i outets, and flounces a /a roods Pth'oaliaise.