The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-09-10
THE TRAVELLER.
LETTER FROM w. C. BRYANT, ESQ.
EDITOR OF THE Ew YORK EVENING POST
DUBLIN, July "a, lS45.

EDITOR OF THE N EW YORK EVENING POSf'
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DUBLIN, July "a, lS45.
promised another letter concerning Scotland,
but had not time to write it until the Irish Chan
nei lay between me and the Scottish coast.
When we reached Glasgow on the 18th of Ju-
ly, the streets were swarming with people.
enquired the OCCASION, and was told that this was
the annual fair The artisans were all out with
their families, and great numbers of country
people were sauntering about. This fair was
once, what IFS name imports, an annual market
forthe slle of merchandise; but it is now mere
holiday in which the principal streets, as it ap-
peared to me, were Of gingerbread and whlskey.
| strolled the next morning to the Green, spa
cious open ground that stretches along the
Clyde. One part of it was occupied with the
booths and temporary theatres and wagons of
showmen, around and among which vast throng
was assembled, who seemed TO delight in being
deaiened with the cries of the shoWmen and the
music of their instruments. In one place band
was playing, in another gong was laundering,
and from one of the balconies fellow in regal
robes and pasteboard crown, surrounded by
several persons of both sexes in taudry stage
dresses, who seemed to have just got out of bed,
and were yawning and rubbing their eyes, was
vociferatng to the crowd in praise of the enter
tain nent which was shortly TO be offered them,
while not far off the stentor of rival company,
under flag which announced new pantomime
for penny, was decaiming with equal vehe-
mence. made my way with difficulty through
the crowd to the ancient street called the Salt
Market, in which Scott places the habitation of
Baillie Jarvie. 1t was obstructed with little stalls,
where toys and other inconsiderable articles
we're sold. Here at the corner of one of the
streets stands the old tower of the tobooth where
Rob Roy was confined, solid piece of ancient
architecture. The main building has been re-
moved and modern house supplies lis place; the
tower has been pierced below for throughEare,
and its clock still reports the time of day to the
people of Glasgow. The crowd through which
passed bad that squald appearance which
marks extreme poverty and uncertain means of
subsistence, and was able to form some idea of
the prodigious number of this class in a populous
city of Great Britain like Glasgow. For popu-
lous sne is, and prosperous as city, increasing
with rapdity equal to that of New York, and
already she numbers, ii is estimated, three hun
dred thousand inhabitants. OF these it is said
that full one-third are Irish by birth or born of
Irish parents.
The next day, which was Sunday, before 60
ing to church, walked towards the west part of
the city; here the streets are broad and the hou-
ses extremely well built of the same noble ma
tera as the new town of Edinburgh; and many
of the houses have fine gardens, their sites in
many places overlook the pleasant valley of the
Clyde, and could not help acknowledging that
Glasgow was not without claim to the epithet of
beautiful, which | should have denied her if |
had formed my judgment from the commercial
streets only The people of Glasgow also have
shown their good sense in erecting the statues
which adorn their public squares, only to men
who have some just claim to distinction Here
are no statues, for example, of the pronlgate
Charles II. or the worthless Duke of York, or
the silly Duke of Cambridge, as you will see in
other cities, but here the marble effigy of Walter
Scott, looks from lofty column in the principal
square, and not far from it is the statue of Watt
while the statues erected 10 military men are to
those who, like Wellington, have acquired just
renown in arms. The streets were full of we'll
dressed persons going to church, the women for
the most part, must say, far from beautiful.
turned with the throng and followed il as far as
st. Enoch's church, in Buchanan street, where
heard long discourse from sensible preacher,
Dr. Barr, minister of the established Kirk of
Scotland.
In the afternoon climbed one of the steep
streets 10 the north Of my hotel, and found three
places Of worship, built with considerable atten-
tion to architectural effect, and fresh as it SEEM
ed from the hands of the mason. They all, as |
was told, belonged TO the Free Kirk, which has
lately been rent from the establishment, and
threatens to leave it a mere shadow of church,
like the Episcopal church in Ireland. "Nothing," !"
said an intelligent Glasgow friend of mine, "can
excel the zeal of the friends of the free church.
One OF our Glasgow merchants has just given ff-
teen hundred pounds towards the fund for proyi-
ding 1lGHSes or parsonages, for the ministers of
that church, and know of several who have sub
scribed thousand. In all the colleges of Scot
land, the professors are obliged, by way of fest,
to declare their attachment TO the Presbyterian
church as by law established. Parliament has
jus refused to repeal this test, and The friends Of
the Free church are determined TO found col
lege of their own. Twenty thousand pounds had
already been subscribed before the government
refused to dispense wirh this test, and the project
will now be supported with more zeal than ever
Il Iwentin into one of these free churches, and
Istoned TO sermon from Dr. Lindsay, profess
sor in some new theological school, II was
quite common place, though not SO long as the
Scotch ministers are in the habit OF giving-for