The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-08-03
[Fromthe New-York Advertiser.I
ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.
Extract of letter, dated London, May 8, 1926
Liverpool is beautiful town. The
docks are wonderful indeed, particular.
y the new dock. The approach to Lii
verpool IS hazardous in the extreme
They want the bay of Newly ork. The
Exchange in this town surpasses that o.
any in Europe. What astonished me
most, was. the immense size oe the Car
horses, their carts, and the loads they
draw. The cart itself, think, weigh:
more than a New-York cart, horse, hid
OF sugar. and The cartmen in the bar
gallo, and on one Of these ponderous We.
hicles counted twenty-six bales of cot.
ton, drawn by two horses with grea
ease. The people look very much like
New Yorkers, and are quite sociable
ITher living is twice the price of living
in N.w-Y ork, and what hate above all
things, is, after having paid the Landlord
double fare, one is obliged to pay the
servhts-for transient persons the rule
is nirP pence a day for the head waiter
six pince day for the chamber maid,
and tree pence day for boots as he is
teTmid. Then come the coaches-the
fare utside from Liverpool to Birming-
hamis one pound two-then comes the
guar, he must have his shilling for such
dlsance. and coachman must have his
If he guards or coaChmen are chang
ed, yu must pay the new ones. Ser
Vantfpay their imasters large sums OF
mony, IN some cases, TO wait upon gen.
TENN in the public houses, and they
must be remunerated by passengers
Coahmen, guards, and all indeed live
not rom wages, but from gratuitous pre-.
sents; and one is bound 10 comply with
! their custom.
Oxford is beautiful city. The col
leges, some of which we're built in the
thirteenth century, have rather an ole
look-somewha wrinkled and furrowet
but gothic and magnificent in the high
est degree. Indeed, as the colleges are
scattered all over the city, it appears a
though there were no other building
there-between and 5000 students, a
present, are at this ancient place o
learning.
Nothing pleased me better than Wis
ii TO the house in which Shakespeare wa
born, in Stratford upon Avon. TIL,
coachman gave us half an hour for din
ner at this town, and although quite hun
cry, postponed the dinner to pay Wis
ii 10 the birth place of the celebrate
poet. The house is on the main street
the lower part occupied as a butcher
shop. 1t is a miserable looking place
very narrow and low, and rough enoug
for stable. The room in which Shak
speare was born, is about ii or Is fee
square. low ceiling. and built as thong
it was intended the house should last foI
ever, as most of the English houses ar
built.
| found the walls, sides, and owe
head, written so full of names, that
was quite difficult to find space suffic
ienlly large to put down mine. On pas;
ing through the butchers shop (he oc
cupies the first story | looked sharpl
at his meats, for there seemed to be mt
sic in the very bones of the joints. Fo
ten miles before you get to Birmingham
| the coal smoke suffocates one.--l hav
often heard of their inventions for cor
suming their own sm 1ke in England
they must mean by the inhabitants, fo
each one appeared 10 me as though h
had been assisting in the consumption.
| am delighted with the appearance {
the country. All England is like flow
err garden--indeed, il is so highly cult
waited, and'so beautiful, that one gets a
most fatigued with seeing such contlI
ued sameness of beautiful fields an
hedge fences. Above all, nothing Ca
compare with the neatness of the Eog
lish cottages. They look so neat, an
are enlivened in their appearance b
such a profusion of flowers, which al
TO be seen in every window, as we'll
in their gardens-and then, too, the smi
ing and healthy countenances of the co
tager and bis family, with cheeks as re
as the rose, and eyes as bright as ne
sovereign---one has little time for ar
thing but admiration at such scenes
these.-England was never SO prospe
Gus as at the present moment, and Il
most perfect good will, and most frien
ly feeling exists towards America IT
} people speak of our country with adm
ration, and SO far | have found them
greeable and sociable 10 such degre
that bushis constantly put upon Anne
lean manners.