The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-08-22
wiLLIs's LETTERS FROM LONDON.


Departure from Liverpool - Speed % tho Fog.
llsh rsilwsys-Prce OF the trans = Effects
OF travelling upwards Of forty mile. an hour.--
Rural beauty Of England.-Auvai IN Lon
don Regent street - Men w omen. r. Car.
tagos PlacArls Shops - BeggAr- = Same,
nc-s - fashtont-'' Broug hams"--C abe The
pssements Of the streets difference betEesn
London and Nov York in thts particular -
" oodon psvomoa,s IN wet weather -bmnts
bu,scs Lady Blc.-ngion's equpare rho
tbiuf Of Tho f,fisan Police lis personal
Appearance and CURIOUS career An American
Bolis.-iler admirers Dfo.leti. The cello.
buted nolab,Iay Of the season, etc, etc
Losnl~, Iaiy
Ny DEAR MoRRfs Having some delay
IN giving my little lmosen her fret Eng.
lish dnGer, We saved our passage by bait
d minute, md were off from Liverpool nj
1 precisely. Tho distance TO London IS,
boliesc, 22o miles, and We did II IN five
hours-an uccclcralion Of speed which -
lately introduced upon the Engllsh rail.
ways. There aro slower trains on f'le
Same route, aud the Pricc, by these, Is less.
There are also three ur four different
kinds uf cars to each tfu,n, aud nj differ.
ont prices. chnuced to light upon The
frat class, mud paiJ e for two pluces--my
nurse aud child counting ms one. under.
staud since, that many gentlemen and la
dics Of tho most respectable rank take tho
second class cars-[as fcw Americans
would, am sorry TO say, though there
" ould be two degrees still below them.
This travelling at forty odd miles the
hour gives ones eyes hardly tlmo To know
a tree from u COW, bdi here aud there !
got distant view 10 crossing valley md
recognized the rural beauty Of England,
tho FIRST impression Of which lasts one, like
All enchanted memory, through life. Not.
wI,hs,andmg tho great speed, the cars ran
SO evenly on tbetr admirable ralis, that
thoro was no pr to prevent ones sleeping
or being comfortable, and | nwuko from a
very pleasant dream to hud myself in Lon.
don.
IA was dressing To dine out on tho fol.
loving day, stopped tying my crays, 10
send for a physician, and hero, II you
please, we viii make pump over twelve
days, and come to bright morning when
| was let out for walk IN Region, street.
II is extraordinary how lilllo the Eng.
Ilsh change Regcnt.srcei, nllor four or
five years, Is exactly what Regent.street
mds. Tho men have the Same light cru.
watts, coats too small, ovorbrushed wbisk-
ors, and look ol beng excessively wash d.
The carriages aud horses exactly the same.
Tho cheap shops have the came pIacnfd Of
g SELLING orr " IN their broad windows.
The blind boggars tell tho same story, aud
arc led by tho same dogs bot wba, ~
stranger lhnu all this snneness, Is that tho
ladies hook the same The fashions hnv0
perhaps chapgcd-In the nlllncrs' shops
But tho EHgitshing that is done 10 French
bonnets hiicr they arc bought, or the Eng
lIsb way IN which they are worn, over.
powers the novelty, and gives tho fair oc
cDpants Of The splendid carriages of Lon.
don the very same look they had ten years
ngo.
Still, there arc some slight differences
observable IN ihe street, and among others, /
! observe that the economical private car.
rage called u 4" Brougham,' is very com.
mon. These are low cabs, holding two or
four persons, with driver, and perhaps
footman in livery on the outside seat,
and one horse seems to do the work as
well as two. This fashion would lie well. F
into New York tina, IS to say