Litchfield enquirer., 1841-06-17
LONDON AT .N1cur

wealth anu DegSaEys wee and virtue, guilt and innocence, repletion and the direst hum ger' all treading on eachsother, and crowd ing together, arc gathered round it. Draw but little circle above the clustering house-tops, and you shall have within it's space every thing, with it's opposite extreme and contradiction, close beside. Where wonder feeble light is shining, man is but tnls moment dead. The taper, at a few yards distant, is seen by eyes that have this instant opened on the world There are two houses separated by an inch or two of wall In one there are quiet minds at rest; lh lne other, waking conscience that one might thlnk would trouble the very air. In that close corner where the roofs shrink down and cover together, as if to hide their secrets from the handsome street hard by. there are such dark crimes, such miseries and horrors, as could be hardly told in whispers. In the handsome street, there are folks asleep who have dwelt there all their lives, and have no more knowledge of these things than if they had never been, or were transacted at the remotest limits of the world-who, if they were hinted at, would shake their heads, look wise, and frown, ana say they were impossible, and out of nature-as if all great towns were not Does not this heart of London, that nothing moves, nor stops, nor quickens-that goes on the same, let what will be done--does it 1 not express the city'S character well? Ihe day begins to break, and soon there. l IS the hum of noise and life. Those who | nave spent the night on the door steps and 1 cola stones, crawl off to beg; they who nave slept in their beds, come forth to their occupation too, and business is astir. The | fog of sleep moves slowly off, and shines awake. The streets are filled with carria- geS, and people gaily clad. The iails are l Iull. too. fO the fhrpaf Vanr hox houses or hospitals much room to spare.- The courts of law are crowded. Tayerns nave thelr regular frequenters by this time, ana every mart of traffic has it's throng.- Each of these places is q world, and has it's own inhabitants; each is distant from. and almost unconscious of the existence of any other' There are some people we'll to do who remember to have heard it said, that the numbers of men and women--t thonsanslss they think it was-get up in London every day. unknowing where to lay their heads 1t night; and that there are quarters of the town where misery and famine always arc. They don't believe it quite-there may be some truth in it, but it is exaggerated Of course. So each of these thousand worlds go on, intent upon itself until night comes again-frst with it's lights and pleasures, and its cheerful street; then with it's guilt ! and darkness.
 Heart of London, there is moral in thy every stroke as look on at thy indomita- bic working. which neither death nor press ot Illte. nor grief. nor gladness out of doors, will influence one jot. I seem to hear u voice within thee which sinks into my heart, bidding mo us elbow my way among the crowd, have some thought for the meanest wretch that passes, and, being man, turn away with scorn and pride from none who bear tho human shape.-Dickens.
 Extraordinary Fields of Ice -tn the Atlontic. Tho following-is an extract of letter written by-capt. James Hosken, commander of the Great Western:
 I GREAT WESTERN STEAM SH1p,
 Bristol Channel, May IA, ls4l.
 Sr-Under the impression that ice, to the extent it has been seen this year, has never before been heard of in these attitudes, give you the following particulars for the infor-
 nation of your readers. On Sunday, April
 IS, the ship steering west, at 6 P. M., first saw one iceberg on the starboard bows, ut ' 30 passed it; at that time four or five others in sight; at Is passed several small pieces of ice-blowed the engine.
 In few minutes after, the ship was sur rounded with light field ice. which appeared similar to field ran through on the lith of February, 1859: this induced me to go slowly, with the hopes of getting through as had done on that occasion, but by 30 fnd- ing it became closely packed, and much thicker, prudence dictated our escape by the
 same channel we had entered. then stop ped, and attempted to get the ships head to the eastward, by turning ahead and a-stern, until there was room for her to come round {;
 in the course of this operation the ship had : occasionally Cat least two) strokes heel given by either wheel passing over large masses of ice.
 [ At 10 15 succeeded in getting the ships head to the eastward, and by II entirely clear; from that time went slowly, passing several icebergs; the night at times very clear, the aurora borealis very bright At 3 30 q. m. of the 18th, again got embayed in the ice, stopped, hauled short round our keel, and steered E. s. coasting the ice for five or six miles; 4 20, kept her to the westward, running through innumerabfe icebergs. 9 When the sun arose the ice was visible as
 far us the eye could reach in an unbrokeR l line, from NE. by E. by the northward to v NV. by w., at the same time icebergs innu- . merable in every direction, forming one of
 the most magnificent sights ever behelf-
 The first iceberg we saw was in latitude 43, long. 46 30, and this last in lat. 42 %,
 long. 5O I am quite certain there was an unbroken field of the extent, and from what I heard from Captain Baily, ofthe American packet ship United States, have no doubt the field of ice extended, with very little break, to lat. 40 3O where Captain Baily fell in with it on the morning of the 18th. |, Several other ships also fell in with 1t in the same longitude, and were completely stopped, giving them an opportunity of kill ling seals, which were on it in great num- bers.