Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-19
WESTMINSTER PALACE.

uIF The following interesting extract of one Of
Evening Journal, now travelling in Europe de.
scibes the splendnr ard muniiiccnce INDUCED in
hy some of The wealthy English nobility;
We took an early breakfast this morning and
left Liverpool at half past :, for Chester and
Eaton Hall, the former, as is known, being one
ofthc only two walled cities in England, and
the latter the splendid mansion of the Marquis
Of Westminster, (formerly Earl Grosvenor,)
who is one ofthc wcalthicst Peers of the realm
We crossed the Mcrsey to Birkenhcad and
there took the railway to Chester, l6 miles
Chester is place OF much historical interest
That portion of it enclosed by the wall is honry
with age. Its ruins commemorate events and
cras Of great magnitude and antiquity. The
city was occupied for long time by the Ro-
man invaders, Of whom many memorials re-
main. lis principal business streets kave cover
ed portcos, elevated several feet above the
pave through which pedestrians pass, and be.
meath which are shops level with the street.
There is a canal running through the city, in
some places eXcavated forty and even fifty feet
sweep around two sides of the city. st. Johns
Church, supposed to have been erected by f.
thelrcd in $50, is n splendid, but fast crumbling
ruin.-What remains Of its tower, composed OF
slightest tonch. The Cathedral, much more
extensive structure, and more than len ccntu-
rjcs have passed since lis erection, is in n far
better state ofprcscrvation. The dust Of un-
numbered nobes, abbots monks, priests, &c.
rc2osc in the tombs, tho inches and the recess
cs. and beneath entabatures Of this magnificent
cdificc. It's choir displays profusion of an
cicnt carvings. perfectly preserved. High a
bovc tie choir is spacious gallery on botl
sides, extending the whole way across the build
ings, where the nuns are said to have sat; anG
below is a wide hall, running through two cX
teHsivc angles of the building, and in front o.
gloomy, dungeon-like cells, the monks are said
TO have walked and lodged The heads OF the
ancient Dignitaries of the church, more or les,
mutilatcd, appear, cut from stone, upon tho
walls. The Sexton, with his "gravc-diggcrs,
was engaged in one of the vaults, within tho
Abbey, from which two cofins had been taken
They looked SO old that inquired, after tht
manner of Hamlet, if he knew their history
md was informed they were children who ha'
not been buried more than twenty-cight or thir
v years. lie then showed rs into the Vestry
The Chapter and the Library. This spendit
building, though erected by those holding to
li(Icrcnt doctrine, has long been, and is now
Protestant Cathedral.
Leaving the Cathedral, we nsccnded an,
walked about the city upon its wall. Adoin
no il, is the ruin OF an ancient Abbey, in tn
over of which, as placard apprlzHd us,
low a museum and panorama. Farther on, W
;ame to an old battlemcnt connected with Tia
val from the top of which King Charles tn
FIRST stood and saw his army routed and dc
troycd upon Marston Moor, in lGi6. The r'
mains of the poet Parnell repose here in III
'cmctTy of Trinity Church.
Having seen the objects of the most s'rlkln
interest in Chester, we started for Eaton Hal
The first demonstration Of the wealth and mi
ifcence of the Marquis of Westminster tht
tracts attention is stone bridge over ii
liver Dec, the arch Of which has span of2C