Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-08-20


.e tinguished looking Englishman was sittir
g on his horse, near the train, and we ask,
. him about the exhibition at London. L"
lc is the worst thing that ever happen,
y England" he replied. All the wor
% will carry off our inventions and improv
Is ments, and England will be ruined" l
e continued. "Then you think it is impos
e iblc for England to learn any thing fro,
C other nations-:tion, the Yankees, .tor Il
l. stance'-asked our Yankee phrenologis
# with Yankee cuteness, and joke in hi
n eye. "Haw" sneercd John Bull. "Yar
f KEGS! they are the laughing stock Of al
: nations. ."-"Espccially of England,
s quickly added our Yankee, "when Wash
l ington and jackson made John laugh, a
t two different times, on tie ,crony side 0
his mouth" All this narrowing up ole
prejudiccs is wrong, but with wealthy an,
: titled Englishmcn all the old elements o
hatred towards the United States still
exist, and you might as well whistle jig.
to mile-stones, and expect to see then
dance, as to try to move one of these old
fashioned, easy living John Bulls in his
opinion that it is impossible for anything
great or grand or noble to happen out OF
England. His mind is made up on that sub
ject, at least, and in whatever thing other
nations have differed from England, he looks
upon them as lacking just that much of
being enlightened. The middle and poorer
classes have better opinion of the United
States They would separate church and
state, but the ten pounds freehold required
for the right of suffrage, debar most of
them from all say in the government.
The few Fergus O'Conner's and George
W. NJ. Reynolds's that head a Chartist
(but another name for the republican,
party, are soon bought over by fat office,
and the people are obliged to submit to be
governed by those who claim to be of bet
ter blood. But, saying nothing of the
contrasts one sees-nothing of the old ru-
ined castles, the parks and country seats,
and ragged looking cottages of the poor,
or of 'Harrow on the hill" where Byron
went to school, We arrive in London, the
largest, the most bizarre, the most curious
and the most uninhabitable city in the
world, notwithstanding it contains popu-
even of the English live there. People
pass through it, GO there ON business, but
as soon as they can get out of it, they
hurry off by the fastest train, to breathe
the pure air, as does after he has seen
the bottom of a coal mine Only the
dead Ire in London, and if what monar-
chists style the nobility are permitted "for
a certain time to walk the earth," like
Hamlet's fathers ghost, the ancient kings
and their several troups of courtiers, long
since buried in Westminster Abbey and
St. Paul's sally out at night, to stretch
their royal legs and view the city One
would suppose, from what one reads, that
London is a sort of earthly Paradise, and
that a man who lives there must be sort
Of Sardanapalus. This may be the case
with some of the titled class, and no doubt
The fat Archbishop of London, with his
salary of about $4,000, year, feels quite
but it seems to me that to
the middle and poorer classes, London is
4 nice little purgatory. You step into a
beer-shop-for every place one stops to
rest himself is bccr-shop, and the staple
Of London, is beer, beer, al
Ways beer There you see the sleek
rosy with beer, and tolerably
,entccl looking women, young and old,
With their husbands and gallants, all en-.
Dying their beer, and the men all smoking
ong pipes. They grow talkative, and |
heir eyes begin to roll, as they sip and !
mokc and rest themselves, and smile IA I
niliarly at each other, as if they had met {
,efore, but had almost forgotten when or 4
where. This is the way Londoncrs attain 4
hat material felicity by means of which
hey think themselves in sort Of Maho- a
ncdan paradise. S
OF the Worlds Fair need not speak. t
IF course, it is grand affair, and all the a
ingenuity of man is to be seen there, be- ?
ides numerous specimens of people of all \
he civilized nations, with sprinkling of b
Egyptians, Turks, Greeks and Pachas of b
s many tails as you please, but to an c
american, whose country is no "pent up n
Ttica," the crystal palace appears much Il
mailer than he expected to find it. But t.
find must be brief, and of the Fair you 81
ou have the accounts in the papers. The Il
aper on which 1 write this, is Of the b
eight of single letter in France, and of Ii
ne sights in London, Paris, France and Il
lie Alps, near Sardinia, where 1 now am Il
school, (the object of which is the ed I
cation of teachers of the French language S,