Litchfield enquirer., 1844-02-08

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 >Sa3a ea' .pn1 LIVERPOOL, June 21.
 sl We seated ourselves in the cars for York pass ing through more variegatcd country than I have yet seen. There are more hills and valleys, and now and then high ridge by the road side covered with trees like those by the Hudson. All the riv-
 CTS here are very small, not wider ::Aan our canals The Ayr has a tow path, and is used as canal. They have not the beautifully wooded banks that ours have. We passed some of the most beautiful little dells with hamlets situated delightfully."- on rising ground. There would be occasionally meet
 
 tiled ones about it, and then the good substantial bSiss and out-houses surrounding it, and last but not least little stone church with its one square f0rrctedstower, and perhaps riyulet which we would not deem worthy bridge of any kind, spanned by single arch, built of stone, with its sides overgrown with vines and grass. The men employed in the railroad depots have here kind of livery, red frock coat with gilt buttons, yellow facings, and a band on their hats and the post c,aucc: hare rostill:on who rides on the back of one of the horses, Scd wears scarlet jacket drab vest and small clothes white top boots, gilt band and buttons. As soon as we arrived at York and stored away our luggage into our room in the hotel
 we sallied forth impatient n obtain view of the famous cathedral of York, minster as 1t is more generally called. And o what a glorious sight It is one can never forget think 1t the most e. a laborate work within and without, the most beau- tful stained glass, and the most beautiful carving and sfatuary that could have conceived. The ground it covers should think to that cov- cred by four of our squares in NewYors. One window in 1t is equal to the whole gable erd of one of our country churches, and all the windows are of stained glasss, the secret of making which IS now unknown. The organ has 5000 pipes, and the organ screen is most elaborately carved and at the bot tom are full length statues of all the kings from William tie Conqueror to Henry 7th. Under the large wildow mentioned, on the outside, are the heads of Savior and the twelve Apostles, carved in stone and all the projections, outside and in, are carved head, aud images, and in the nichcs full
 length statues Within the church in the center you look up to tower 232 feet with nothing to break the view save the power or rather the want of power of seeing. We attended service, hssrd a sermca from the Dean on the 24th June, St. John tS4 Bapfist's day. in the choir which is 9S feet from floor to roo... In the cloisters were very many monuments and very ancient ones, knights in armor and bishops and archb;shops in their robes rcclin- ing under beautiful eanopies and nobles and their ladies in full court dress, and standing erect and beautifully carved in white marble. At the altar in one of the Chapes we were shown the scxton'S cii:;r. more than thousand years old, in which wesc crowned James VI. Richard III. an! other soyereig,s. In another place we were shown the robes King James yV.s crowned in, and some things older than the chrir. Underneath the church are exhibited the pillars of the old Norman church, oyer which the present one was 6uHt. There is one circular window called the Marygold window, 27 feet in circumference, and also one called the five Sisters" It is in five divisions and was painted or copied from some embroidery ny five sisters, leach division differently painted at Y their expense and given to the Minister. It is nearly as high as the large one before mentioned
 but not wide. It is however very large. Icannot call this description; it is merely catalogue of wonders It would be impossible think for any one were the mental gifts ever great, to give. satisfactory description of this immense and elabo rate pile It has no rival in the Kingdom save Westminster Abbey. There is here a museum containing the Roman antiquities and remains that have been dug in various parts in and around the civ. Near the museum are the ruins of $. Ma rvs Abbey, only one side remaining perfect with the Gothic asched windows and large pillars form- ed from small ones united i Here are broken pillars and parts of the walls by which you can trace the extent within what was the interior. and there are the stumps of trees some F or Is feet in circumference, within the walls, which have four ished and died since the abbey was ruin. ''ia 4 ? It seemed very strange when we entered York by railroad to think of passing under the walls with
 steam engine, but suppose wonders will never cease. We crossed the Ouse in row boat which is used to ferry passengers over, and walked over the walls quite circuit, passing over Micklegate bar on which used to be stuck the heads of traitors and those slain war, and then crossing again visited York Castle. which is prison for cap- ital offences and like every thing else here it is the picture of neatness itself. The building is round and half of it is divided into wards for the prisoners with paved courts CT yards between in which the prisoners take their exercise together. They are allowed to converse with each other, and there is a schoolmaster comes every day to set them copies and they amusc themselves in reading, or writing, having no work to do but to keep themselves and their depaftments clean. The cells in which they sleep are quite roomy, so than our State rooms in the Ship, but the sides top and bottom Of them are each one solid stone and the door plates l. ron. with bolts and locks to make them fast - The prisou relics were rather disgusting than in- terestng consisting of the various instumentswith which crimes had ben committed and plaster b'asts of famous murderers. We were shown the skull of the man whom Eugene Aram: murdered, and the different irons used to coufne the famous Duck 1tgPiR. 'if@s r --aas ovse 1l- t' rsn-
 There is very little left ofthe old Castle, the pre- sent being built upon the fragments of the old. There is tower called Clifford's Tower enclosed