The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-20
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
From our regullr correspondent
Nrxx Yopu Nov ~

From our regular correspondent
New YoRK, Nov. Is, l645.
The weather continues as balmy, as clear, and as
fnc the best spring days. During autumnal In
dian summers am told by an Italian friend that
our climate vies with that OF Italy. November is
said to be the month in which "New Englanders
feast and dance. and Old Englanders hang them
selves"
At this season Of the year. the fogs Of London
are thick, dark, and gloomy, to al extent few-will
believe unless they have witnessed them. On one
occasion, in December, when l was residing
there, the log great that not only the stores,
public houses, &c, had 10 burn lights all day. (or
this is usual occurrenca,) but the street lamps
had TO be kept lighted while IL some narrow thor
oughfares, TO prevent accidents, lanterns and fam
beaux had TO be carried by porters and policemen.
AT such times, the danger from wheel carriages to
footmen is very great while pedestrians themselves,
in the pervading darkness, frequently run foul Of
one another. Often in winter, and for days togeth-
or, have we breakfased al haf-past 8 TO 9 by cam
delight Combined with the humid fog is
large body of dark smoke discharged from the i'm
mense combustion of bituminous coal, which, by
its precipitation, soils everything Of white color
The bosom Of your shirt in a single day will be
soiled so far to render it unfit for the evening
wear in genteel company. Nothing white remains
so. The huge Grecian columns and walls of St.
Paul's cathedral are coated with black pail of the
SCOT OF ages, which, at some points, has been washed
off by rain, showing that the material Of which
it is composed portland stone) was originally
white. The universal dngy appearance Of houses,
public edi6ces, &c, especially in the city proper,
gives them an cir of the greatest and mos, im-
posing antiquity
To one familiar with English history and Eng
lish literature, there is place this earth filed
with more Interesting objects and recolectons of
antiquity than the ancient city Of London. Here
one can spend months, il not years, in tracing out
localities and institutions, made sacred in his mem
Dry by the associations of his early reading.
Ifautumn and winter enshroud the ancient city
and island in misty clouds and fogs, the early and
bright spring sheds a glory, lustre, and richness
over the land nowhere surpassed, il rivaled, in
Chrsiendom. The cowslips, hyacinths, prm-
roses, and lilies growing wild about their beau
tiful hawthorn hedges, farms, and parks, by their
early blooming amidst scenes of the most exquisite,
neat, and tasteful cultivation the globe, shed a
fragrance and richness beneath bright clear sun,
that enriches the landscape beyond the power of
description. Il is then, too that the voice of the
nightingale is heard serenading the live
long night the ancient groves and uncovered cas-
Ties of "mrrry old EngiGnd." Many night, when
visiting the south of England, have |, with an old
English gentleman, crept along the hedges by the
light Of the clear bright moon until within short
distance OF the nocturnal singers and sat for hours
listening TO their "sweet notes and epening caroi.'
These charming singers not larger than the Amer
can-thrush, or large sparrow. All attempts 10 do
mesticate them have proved unsuccessful For thou
sands of years, under all revolutions of government
civil wars, or other changes, these charmisg sing
ers have never failed to pay their annual visit to old
EnsiGnda They still come, sing out their time, and
depart as they did under the ancient Briton's
rule, the Roman conquest, the Saxon hepiarchy,
and the Norman triumph; their same sweet notes
are heard chdnted forth from phe fowery thckets
which were poured forth thousands Of years be-
fore. Their serenading commences in April, and
ends in Jane and July. From whence they come,
or whittier they go, they reveal not
Such ~ the love. and reverence of the country
people for these charming songsters that they never
destroy them. Their visits are always welcomed
by the peasantry, who hail their advent as the end
Of dreary win'er-a token Of approaching sunshine,
exciting hopes Of coming harvest and future frutfuI-
ness Tn an Engshman returned TO his native
land after long years of absence, toll, and adven-
tnre, the sight Of his native ivy festooned cottage.
the surprising beauty of the copses, parks and cn
tivated fields, bordered by the evergreen and fow-
cry hawthorn, all tell upon his heart and youthful
affections; but is only when he hears the silver
voice of the nightingale burst forth in its soft tones
Of ancient music, that he indeed feels that he is once
more at home.
.'Bresthes there man with soul so dead,n &C.
How full Of associations is old England, and
her renowned city Of London, to the descendants
of the Anglo Saxon race in every cline In every
sea- in every land heard the sounds of the Eng
Saxons; who, differing widely as they may in
political feelings from the mother country can never
cease to contemplate the remarkable island of their
ancestral origin with feelings of veneration. What
descendant Of the ancient island can ramble through
the streets of London, without visiting the tomb
Of Milton, at ST. CHESS, Crpplegae' or fail to
think Of Shakespeare and the Globe theatre, on the
south bark Of the Thamesl or recall the days of
good old Queen Bess," when Bacon and Ra-
leigh fonr,shed' or visit st. Johns gate, where
Johnson, Garrick, and Goldsmith metz or visit Fri
day street, where Milton was bornl or 20 TO Break
neck Stairs, in an old house, close to which Gold
smith wrote his immortal Vicar of Wakefeldi or
repair to St. Saviours, St. Pauls, or Westminster
Abbey, and survey the tombs of the mighty dead
renowned in science, in war; learning, and history
or visit the hall of the Royal Society and see the
chair in which Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Joseph
Banks sat, as presidents of this renowned nstitu-
ton, and where may be seen three portraits Of the
grent Anglo-Saxon philosopher Time and space
fails. For the present, let us hold up.
City, tpaa 4 p. m.-The votes cast in this State
show, so far, about 10000 majority in favor Of
The ost Albany mall has been recovered from the
rag man who found il.
A Mr.. Glackmegrer is writing history Of Cana
da, and is engaged in consulting the State and colo
NAL archives at Albany; which are said to be so
as TO likely occupy his time for eigh-
een months.
At a meeting of the officers of the ancient arie.
~ company Of this city, they have decided, by a
majority Of three votes not to draw the artillery or
cannon through the streets on the anniversary of
The evacuation day, the 25th ins.-the day on which
he British troops were Withdrawn from New York
1t the close Of the revolutionary war.
General Storm, however, has, it is said, in con-
temptation to supply the State artillery, and have
all out in the celebration.
A long address to the friends of the poor appears
in the city papers, signed by some Of our mos,
wealthy aud respectable ctyens,
The losa at Sag Harbor by FIRE is estimated at
,bout $50 GOO. Many lost their all.
Flour is quiet to-day at SC 81.
800 bales Of cotton sold to-day for shipment to
1avre. No change in price.
Exchange dull at former quotations.
Stocks are about in siaiu quo. Sales to a fair
mount
have no arrivals or clearanoes Of importance to
tote,
All anxiously await the next news by the steam
n.
Yours, very truly and respectfully,
G.. AZ "A tals n.