New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-11
NEW.YORK TRIBUNE.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Tribune.
SombIiua Notes on the OLD morlo

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b;gb,ysys in England beyond reproacb, for the
natter Of finish Iwould do you good to take
,o...co.eb ride here The whole country is inter
..c,eJ with perfect Macadsmized turnpikes.
have not seen so much as rut or slough, and
have here and there been over some thousand miles
Of English road. The most superb portions OF your
Tsird Avenue are not equal TO the average Of com.
moa road in England The highways are not as
wide as with u.s. for land is too precious to waste,
dLods and Dukes can boast Of their Parks, twenty
miles in circumference, where the antlered stag
leaps and fattens for dainty palates. with no pie.
bejsn foot daring TO intrude ON his domain. They
are graded from the center to the sides very
slightly 10 carry of the rains and the least fracture
a the surface Is at once remedied. Throughout
the kingdom you will see small piles Of prepare
,or gravel or pounded stone sitting like watch dogs
ready 10 fall into the least gap. And the post
coach takes you along at such delightful pace
Changing its horses every six or eight miles, you
arc whrled away at the rate Of ten miles an hour,
asst rapidly enough to give you a fair sight OF the
bills and doles, the gardens and fields And most
magnificent spectacle It is. Just In harvest time,
with the golden grains hanging like a mantle on
the sloping land, far the eye can reach either
way, broken by nothing save an occasional high.
ind or cump Of park. OF forest as with us there
is none, except some 10000 acres at Windsor the
Royal hunting ground The few trees that are scat.
tered across the landscape oak and elm, are neatly
trimmed Of every decaying or ugly branch, and the
scene is but one extended garden. The fields are
small in size and in most sections of the country
lined BY beautiful close. shaver hedge. There is
but little wall. and less fence the hedge every
where lies like a green wreath over all the ex'
panse. And the fields are titled to the edge and in
every nook The crops bend and sigh with their
fatness and the reaper sweats and groans with the
Toll Of cutting them Our farmers should all see the
country, if only to carry home memory OF its felds
They would am sure be content with smallerfarms
and culture them better. They could not say ele'
yance and taste were lost in being blended with
usefulness Such fields as these make one think
better Of Nature and OF God. The hand OF the
farmer. sho gardener end the forlst upon all this
length aud breadth OF England, Is IKE art scicnOI
and philosophy upon the mind, they have developed
4, strength and beauty And the mansions cotta-
ees and lawns--how exquisite and surPasslneiy
air thought in other parts OF tue worid nau
see the earth III lts poIitfbOht Wv
IA tron;cal abundance may do much the patient
and laborious hand of man can do more Every
cottage has its lawn-that is to say out from the
villases-and such lawns They are not large ana
randy. hut rather unique, close cut, adorned win
shrubbery that is only because cultivated INTO
the rsrest shapes flowers daintly PeePlnS over
hedges trees uelised against the sides oil Ihe COZ
tsges, and vines that hang in clusters hhe inc
ringets on fair child's brow,--an entlre lieeuon'
from ostentation. vet peering on you win DC
wischinr beauty. How little it takes OF time and
Toll 10 make earthly paradses with these cottages
could almost be a slave, Pagan ogre or any ,lns
else with such dwelling as ! conld select almost
anywhere in the country. And we may nave an
this beauty and more il we will a lttle care III
saving portions of our wooded land Tor PARKS
little labor in clearing them Of rubbish with an eye
10 the corners of our fields. would soon bring aoou'
a wonderful transformation. Hundreds OF SHRUBS
and flowers that depend upon cOnserVatories mere
would grow in the open air with US upon my
soul with all our labor saving machines we nave
no taste no eve for the beautiful IN Nature yet-1
Nature guided by Art for she yields most ooeai
emily 10 tbe Informed soul--and as here, becomes
teacher and companion-a delight and rapture
Al every turn. | do not wonder that the hnSnsf
tsIk ~ ms nj the beauty of their country-and 10
them. who have grown up familiar WIN THESE hSn''
and shadovs 1t is far less beautiful than 10 tue ey
~ the .traneer i quite cursed the milestone'
a
vsrdens and helds-But this is not the rallwa.
nom Liverpool to London. This, as l said bore
me at the rate OF fifty miles the hour through Man
chester Birmingham and other places oil less note
I,ook nv seat in the second class. THESE cars arr
inferior 10 ours but the first class are luxurious
patent barber s-chairs. All cushion, eieshheo aio
oaatness : They are made to accommodate So
persons in car. three looking forward and three
staring back The seats parted by cushionet
rests or the arms but in such proximity as u
MAKE MEAS familiar The second class cars hay,
simple plank seats turned soft side down wiz
uncomfortable straight backs. Your society
most is confined 10 six or eight persons NO. oPei
aud free as in our cars ana thSre no 'as y,
save single pane of glass about 100, SQUARE %
each side I'm the top OF the doors. The third cias
IA ouito omen. and without ROOF. Your ticket is de
handed 10 be seen before entering the cars Oh
thing about the railways | hhe much ni,.s ar
posted up in all the dep0ts informing 'e puoso ~
to give any fee to the company sen ants ms
relief after having Remember tnS ""iss'
Angsa ~ ona's ears twenty times day. Man
chester il a wonderful city, the home OF Copden
the birthplace of Chartism, the hotbed OF sedtion
among the Pooplc-and the shuttle and spindle
dom heart of England. A great sroan.nS an'
Kissing wool and cotton monster tnAt SNAKES i'vn
ITS limbs sheets shirts pantaoons aud coats iVr tn
worid-just as Birmingham rattles out 100 Vuaiio
and rngs-and Sheffield, knives forks ana razor
" shanhlnd- lhe nrSt ana nNtut" IN
ieels amid the roar and confusion OF thVse an
Other great manufacturing towns IN hhetaho
mat Of general Thrift And so there IS ior OSpna
out horrible mesgerness tor Toll In this S'oh'I.
more than any other, Capital has got the apPc
hand OF Labor and boand II to a condition. cor
dition IN many respects worse than actual siSNef
-'of slavery II actually is, while the poor WIet0
Is aot credited for his bonds. The oppression
commercial capital too while 1t threatens dlsso,u
uon 70 another older enorInity. the tyranny OF IN
laadedProprietary system which is growing poo
iast as the other is accommodating wealth-is wors
,es ITS vassas than the lord ever was TO his sefis
Between the two. the poor working man IS driver
clean 70 the wal, and only breathes by sufteranee
les, Manchester with its Atheneums, ana pII
bingham with It's great Music Hall both OF whiel
would seem to indicate something better are nan
way houses between life and death, where mas
o. people beg % be kept from starvation Ant
WY .nl Because few men by entail posses
,ne lands OF a country capable to support a popu
lation OF one hundred millions II it were distrioa
eed as humanity dictates and these few gran
people, whose rights and titles depend upon thei
oafosrous or robber- ancestors swords. the primo
o. whom was 4 base born bsstard-aiser employ
ing As many Of the twenty millions as can pronts
oiy tenant their estates. turn .he nineteen twer
~tns co seek their labor in mines, Potseries an
tse thousand sndone factory marts created o
commerce and trade. Some portion OF these go
MI the place OF middlemen between capital an
s~fL -ll a. a - -. al.