, 1843-09-16

Of the Albany Evening Journal, in
one of his interesting and familiar
letters from England writes:
Every body drinks beer in Eng
land. have astonished walters, in
two or three instances, bv asking for
water. When yoe seat yourself at
a Coffee Room or .Steak-house"
for dinner, and have ordered your
"ioint,Y or ~"Steak," or "chop," the
waitef inquiries, Hale, porter, or
Stout sir?'' If in the place of either
of these national beverages, you re-
ply uatcr, he either laughs in your
face or turns away, wondering where
such a wild chap could have been
caught. Now that have seen some
thing of English habits, | am aston
ished that Miss Martineau should have
deemed the circumstance that two o
three American women with whom
she met, were "not all tor love, but a
little for the bottle" worthy Of re-
mark. The drinking of hale, porter
and stout, is universal here, with the
females of the poorer classes when
they can get il, and with those Of
the Better classes of mechanics, fe-
males, people and shop-keepers.--
While at dinner at Birmingham, it
was observed by al of US, that the la
dies "a DOZEN at table, drank porter
as if they were thirsty, and is If il
did them good. The lady opposite
to me, who was well dressed and well
educated, disposed OF nearly an en-
tire bottle. Iou meet ladies at eve
~ turn OF the streets in London, "the
rubric of whose faces shows the
>hrines at which they kneeI." have
met ladies' at exhibition rooms, whose
fiery faces entitled them to the dis
tIUction OF being cIassed with Shak-
spears knight OF the burning lamp.
And you find every sidewalk black
ed up with Iusty ladies, who are in
debtcd for their rubicund faces and
round persons, 10 habltual beer
drinking. | Yesterday sat in IN ON
nibus with an old lady and gentle.
man, evidently of the wealthy class,
the latter of whom was 4 victim to
govt, while the former displayed a
face and nose, the maintenance of
which had cost as much as FalIstaf
paid for "sack" 10 keep BardolPh's
salamandeT in fire. + =
Noblemen, as 4 class, here. are dis
tinguished as readily by the plainness
of their dress as by the simplicity of
their address. Were you 10 judge of
rank by the cut and texture of the
coat, or the tie of the cravat. you
would be sure TO mistake the Foot
man for the Peer. The Duke of
Wellington, Lord John Russell, Sir
Robert Peel, tho certainly not "ort
at the elbows" are, when een in
Parliament, quite plainly dressed gen.
tlcman. But their Footmen and Val
cts adorn their persons with rs much
taste, and as elaborately as the ex-
quisites who are to be seen in Amerl-
can Drawing and Assembly Rooms.
And the consequential personages
who stand in Noblemen's Halls, to
answer the Bell, are so rcdundantly
decorated with lace, spangles and
powder. hat they remind you of the
Mock Duke in Rule Vile and
have 4 Wife" The "swell" genius
is almost extinct here. There is oc-
casicnaIly an old Beau, who makes
himself up of artificial hair, teeth,
eyebrows, whiskerS, calves, &c. &c..
after the manner OF Potts. whom
Lockhart immortalized in "Peter's
Letters to his Kinsfolk;" and you
sometimes meet Il THING that owes its
existence to its Tailor, but they are
rare, and belong 1t is said, TO Crock
ford or some other Gaming House
Proprietor. The moral of all this is,
that we, instead of 4 new London
rig all around, as was anticipated,
wear onr American made clothes.
PARmcIpE.--The MaysviIle Eagle,
of the 3Orh INST, has the following:
"a murder OF the most horrid and
shocking nature was committed, in
the vicinity OF this city, on Monday
evening last. Ii a difficulty between
Mr.. John Barnett and his son James
Barnett, a young nan about twenty
two years Of age, the latter killed his
father with an axe. He struck him
on the head, mangling him in a most
revolving manner. The unfortunate
father fingered until yesterday morn
ing, when he expired. A coroner's
inquest was SHIELD over his body, and a
verdict rendered that he came 10 his