The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-20


some OF his subjects then grown men, are not nov
satisfied with forty and fry miles an hour; and
suppose that II the atmospheric railway succeeds
and rate OF three or four hundred miles should b
attained, even that will not be fast enough for some
who will then want 60 travel with magnetic tee
graph speed, and go round the globe in second o
two hope they will be gratifed.
4 "who paint a god unless that god nspIrel
II What catch the lightning but the speed Of lreP
i So sang the bard Of Twickenham, more than
hundred years ago He intended, though, only TO b
poetieal and prophetic. The lightning itlle as b,
supposed possible to do So has been caught and on.
4 stripped In tho race-surely most wonderful dis
coyery and invention, for il partakss Of both; and
although there may be others Of more utility, there
IL scarcely any perhaps more ingenious and as
founding.
The country We passed through is beautiful
highly cultivated, and lhiekly populated Not .
! foot Of ground is lost The embahkments Of the
railway set in grass wherever IL can be done,
and on the tops hawthorn hedges every thing
looking green and cheerful indeed, except the leaves
which, with the exception Of the evergreens, have
taken leave Of the Trees for the present year Ae-
eustomed as ] have been nearly all my life TO
spnssis las We ssy) popalsscd countries claiming 10
be baekwoodsman and glorying in the name, the
people here seem TO me to be too thick to thrive.
There Is scarcely room for locomouon. do not
think they can breathe freely. They have TO elbow
each other 10 get along. do not mean in London,
ior here there is such Jam as WIS never seen be-
forei but in the country, in the rural districts,
where one would expect to find room and retire
ment, but they are not 10 he found. What would
Daniel Boone have done in such a country He
would surely not have "liyed hunting up ninety
IN IL, as Byron says Of him. He would have died
Of eompression--besn sudoeatsd for want Of fresh
air
Passing through several towns, large and small,
we came, in less than three hours, TO Birmingham,
81 miles, so famous for its manufactures, its trade
and It's misery IL was very redoent Of cosl-smoke,
which Is not the most agreeable perfume IN
the world to sensitive olfactories. But we
found something better than coaLsmoke there
This IL great INTERPRETATION, or depot, as we
call 1t, and here those dine or sup that choose
twenty minutes being allowed the passengers for
refreshing themselves We went into the refresh
mentrOOm, they cGll II, which IL a spacious and
handsome saloon, where were five six large tables
covered with various vands-tabe-linen and nap
klns as white snow-vases Of beautifsl flowers
for table ornaments-and, something still more
mental than these, young, tidy, well-dressed whit
lng-mads, some very handsome and all good
ing, with bright eyes and compile xions that rvalled
and ou-dd the lilies and esrnstion Of the flowers.
These pretty dumsels were gliding about inaudibly,
like fseries, as suppose the faeres do, (see Lud-
wig Ticks stories-Marchen,) smiling upon every
body, attending to everybody, with grace and
pnnctualIty that were truly admirable. Looking at
one of these oblising aud engaging creatures, but
that am falling into 1.-THE sore, the yellow leaf"
should have been almost tempted to turn cannbsl,
that might, "hke the worm i the bud, feed on her
dsmask check" But il becomes me much more to
contemplate that hour-not far off, certainly-when
| shall be but as "a cod Of the valley" than TO adj
mire bright eyes and rosy cheeks. | have admired
them in my time. Those days are past, never to
return again. Let them go!
Tho perishd bliss OF youths first prime
That once 80 bright DER fancy playd
REEVES no more IN after time"
And now the bell rings; so farewell Birming-
ham! paid for the cup of tea had, and was Off
to the car in hurry; for locomotives like time
and tide, wait for no man. At that station, and nj
all, believe, you have just what you want, and pay
for no more. This is exactly right, and it ought
to be everywhere.
We came on rapidly scarcely aware that we were
in motion,F passed through Coventry, Pecping
Toms town, and other popuous places, and found
ourselves in London at haf-past 10 at night Never
before had travelled so rapidly; and finding my
self so suddenly translated, and with little trou-
Die, from place to another $40 miles, could al
most fancy that had some how other got hold
Of Fortuna,uss wshing-cap; but his inexhaustibe
purse certainly have not yet found.
Leaving the cars, | went TO excellent hotel not
far off, where found a landady-not landlord
ready 10 receive me. She was about thirty-fvc,
nearly Sin feet high, rosy and robust, and rather
Amazonian extremely civil and extremely neat with
profnson of auburn ringlets very arstically curl
cd. She was every inch an English woman and
ruled in her dompons much more despotically than
Queen Victoria, and at the same time ruled az well,
no doubt; for she was not obliged to trust every
thing to crafty, selfish, humbugging ministers. She
seemed TO have her eye upon everybody, and her
slightest nod was ebeyed with much nlacrity as
though she were czarna of all the Russias.
had good room, good bed, and found all con-
veniences, even a rest for trunk foot high, so
that you open it without STOPPING. Some things
saw that did not even know the of-perhnps
they of none The single beds large in
London-would hold three very easily--nre all cur
tanned, and good, clean, sweet linen of all kinds
! abounds. think our table dhois Common table,
an improvement on the unsocial English fashion,
where each eats by himself, and calls for Just
what he wants. The difference s, that, in the Uni
ted States, you can get better dinner for dollar
than you can here for two, supposing the prices of
everything to be the same. But in many respects
the English taverns decidedly the best; they are
dearer also, though, which is most worthy of con-
sderation.
Paying my bill next morning, with the view of
penetrating further into the city, discovered that
the landlady had made mistake of shilling against
herself, which I-being willing to begin London life
by act of probity and honor particularly as il
cost only shling-hastened to correct She look
ed at me with apparent surprise, being little used,
fancy to such disnterested corrections; and when
paid her. received the amount with " thank you,
sir" enunciated with an JUNCTION and energy that
would have done credit to Mrs Siddons herself the
great tragedy queen, who frightened hop-keeper
by the tragic tone in which she asked him whether
the silk she was about to purchase would wash.
That thank you, sr'' could have been pro-
nounced, think, in so impressive manner by
none other than an English woman, expressing graf
ifcation and conveying compliment at the same
| time.
am now fairly in London, and have established
myself in Regent street ut the West End | am
in the city, therefore, though am in the town
the city proper being east Of Tempebar, and that is
nearly two miles further on. And here conclude
my letter. Truly, yours, p.
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