Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-20

''"o'S Twin tAStif VIC HOW give some more:
NEWCASTLE, Eng. July 30, 1851.
" came up through the heart Of England by
railroad yesterday from London hr RIlGh.,--I ;~s-
III pIoyerDlal abundance.
The British Railroads are better built, more sub
stantia and costly than ours but their management
does not equal my antclpatlons. They make no
such time as Is currently reported on our side, and
are by no means reliable for punctuality.
| The spirit of accommodation is not strikingy
evnced on British Railroads. The train halts at
place to which you are stranger, and you perhaps
hear lis name called out for the benefit of the pass
eDgers who are to stop there; but whether the halt
Is to last half minute, five minutes or ten, YOU
must find out as you can. The French Railroads
are better in this respect, and the American cannot
be worse though the fault is not unknown there.
There Is much sameness in English rural scenery
have now travelled nearly thousand miles in this
country without seeing anything like mountain or
hardly precplce except the chalky cliffs of the sea
Shore Nearly every acre have seen is susceptible
Of cultivation, and of course either cultivated, built
upon, or devoted to wood. A few steep banks of
streams or ravines, almost uniformly wooded and
some small marshes, mainly on the sea-coast, are
all the exceptions | remember to the general capaci-
ty for cultivation. Usually, the aspect of the conn
try is pleasant-beautiful, if you choose-but no.
wise calculated to excite wonder or evoke enthus-
asm. The abundance Of evergreen hedges is its
most striking characteristic Judge that two-thirds
Of England is in Grass (meadow or pasture) very
green and thrifty, and dotted with noble herds of
cattle and focks Of sheep They are anxious to en-
lsh Hay-maklng throughout the region we trayersed
yesterday; but as there has been scarcely an hour
of very bashtu sunshine during the last six days,
more than half which has been rainy the operation
is one rather trying TO human patience. Some of
the cut grass looks as if il were Flax spread out 10
rot, and all of it evnces want Of shelter. This
morning is almost fair though hazy, so that the ne
cessty of taking in and drying the hay by fire may
be obviated, but great deal of it must be seriously
damaged. (P. S. 10 o'clock.-It is cloudy and
raining agaln.)
| Wheat covers perhaps eighth Of all Central
England, is now ripening and generally heavy, but
much of it is beaten down by the wind and rain, and
looks as if herd Of butfaloes had been chased
!. through it by tribe of mounted Indians. IL the
weather should be mainly fair henceforth, the crop
may be saved, but it must already have received
material damage, and the process Of harvesting it
must be tedious. Considerable grassland has been
poughed up for Wheat next season, and some Tur-
nps are Just vsibe but it is evident that Grass and
Stock, under the influence ofhe low prices of Grain
produced by the repeal of the Corn-laws, stead
lily gaining upon Illage, of course throwing tens of
thousands of Agricultural laborers out OF employ
ment, and driving them to emigration, to manufac-
lures, or the poor-house Thus the rural population
of England is steadily and constantly decreasing.
The best feature of English landscape is formed
by its Trees. Though rarely relied on for fuel,
there is scarcely oflorty acres without them
while single trees, copses, more rarely rows, and Of
ten petty forests are everywhere visible. The trees
are NOT the straight tall trim, short-imbed, shade
less Poplars, etc, of France and Italy, but wide
spreading, hospitabe Oaks, Yews and other sturdy
battlers with wind aud storm, which have far more
genial and satisfactory appearance. And the trees
of England have commercial as well as less
measurable value; for timber Of all sorts is in de-
mand in the collieries, manufactures and mnes and
bears high price, the consumption far exceeding
the domestic supply. Butfor the trees, these sullen
skies and level grounds would render England dreary
enough