Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-28
EditOfiai Correspondence Of the N. Tribune.
Chances at EurOpe-.NO.IX.
Sights in London.
London. Nav %.

London. May %, 1s41.
have been much occupied, through the
last fortnight and shall be for some ten days
more, with the Great Exhibition, in fuI6llment
Of the duties of juror therein The number
Of Americans here (not exhibiiors) who can
and will devote the time required for this SER
vice is SO small that none can well be excused;
and the fairness evinced by the Royal Com
missioners in offering to place as many for
eigners (named by the Commissioners of their
respective countries) as Britons on the several /
Juries well deserves to be met in cores
ponding spirit ! did not, therefore, feel at
liberty to decline the post of Juror, to which /
I had been assigned before my arrival, though
il involves much labor and care, and will keep
me here somewhat longer than had intended
TO stay.a On the other hand, it has opened 70 |
me sources of information andfacilities for OBJ |
servation which could not, in brief visit TO-
a land of strangers have otherwise hoped 10
ENJOY. / spend each secular day at the Ex-
hibiion -generally from 10 to three o'clock
land have my evenings for other pursuits
and thoughts. propose here to jot down
few of the notes on London have made since
the sailing of the last steamship.
a WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
lii I Tattended divine worship in this celebrated
.edifce last Sunday morning Situated near
the Houses of Parliament, the Royal Palaces
Of Buekinghamshire and Sc. James, and in the
most aristoeratic quarter Of the city its exter-
nal appearance is less imposing than / had ex
pected, and WhatI saw Of its interior did not
particularly impress me. Lofty ceilings, STAIN
ed windows, and a barbaric profasiou of carv-4
ing groining and all manner Of costly contri-
vances for absorbing money and labor made
on me the impression of waste rather than
taste, seeming to give form and substance to
the orator. smile Of the contoTtions of the ST.
byl without her inspiration. A better ac-
quainlance with the edifee, or with the prin-
ciples of architecture, might serve to correct
this hasty Judgment; but surely Westminster
Abbey ought to afford a place of worship
| lequal3in capacity, fitness and convenience TO a
modern church edi6ee costisg $50, ,0Oe, and
surely it does not | think there is no one Of
the zen best churches in New York which is
not superior to the Abbey for this purpose.
/ thought myself acquainted with all the
,approved renderings Of the Episcopal morning
service, but when the clergyman who ofRciat-
ed al the Abbey, began TO twang out. Dear
lly beloved brethren, &c, in a nasal. dTawling
Esimi-ehant I was taken completely aback. II
sounded as though some graceiess Friaf Tuck
had wormed himself into the desk and was en-
ldeavoring, under the pretense Of reading the
service, to earicature as broadly as possible the
1 alleged peculiarly Of Wethodistic pulpit eBun-
citation superimposed upon the regular 7 an
kee drawEa AS the service proceeded, ] be-
came more accustomed and more reconciled to
/ this mode Of ntterance. but never enough, so
ito like it, nor even the responses, which were
tgiven in the same way, but much better
After l came away 4 was informed that This
1semi-chant is termed intoniag, and is said to
be revival of an ancient method of rendering
the church service. If such be the fact / can
Eonly say that in my poor judgment that was
an unwise and unfortunate one. 8 lsfssls Il
| The service was very long=-more than two
1hours7-the Music congregation
Plarge--the Sermon, ofarasI can judge, had
nothing bad in it. Yet there was an Eleventh
i Century air about the whole which strength
4 ened my conviction thatithe Anglican Church
i viii very soon be summoned totake her stand
distinctly on the side either of Romanism Of
/ Of Professionalism, and that the summons viii
shake not the Church army but the Realm Il
its center-5v fea Is94 tHsf4sssfsa asY
4 g4aa ~ RAGGED SCHOOLS zshgi "a
! In the evening 1 attended the Ragged
i School situated in Carriers Field Lane, neal
the cattle market in Smithfeld, (wheTei Joht
Rogers was burned a: the stake by Catholics
as Catholics had been burned by Protestant.
before him. The honest candid history o
), Persecution for Faiths sake has never ye
been written: whenever il shall be; it mus
cause many earsto tinele.) eslss isa.s p'
1t was something past O'Clock, when vi
reached ihe rough old building in 6lthy,pov
er4y- Stricken quarter, which has been rudelJ
! fitted up for tile Ragged School--one Of tn,
: first, l belevethat was attempted. should
say there were about four hundred pupils OF
its benches. with about forty teachers the pu
pills were at least two thirds males, from fiv'
! 10 twenty years old, with dozen or mon
. adults. The girls were a hundred. mainl,
from three to ten years Of age; butin a sepa
1 rate and upper apartment ascending out Of th
main room; there were some forty adult wo
: men, with teachers exclusively of their owl
sex. The teachers were Of various grades q
Z capacity; but as all teach without pay, IAN,
under circumstances " hich forbid the idea 9
any other than phiianthFopic or religious al
: tractiveness in the duty. they are all desefv
: ing of praise The teaching is confneds Il be
J Iieve, to rudimental inlogic and moral lesson
g from the Bible. As the doors are open an
: every one who sees ft comes in, stays so lon
e as he pleasesJ and then goes out. there
much confusion and hustle at times. but o
thejwhole a satisfactory degree of order
preserved, and considerable, though very nne
+ quail, progress made by the pupils a0
g But such facesi such garments such ds
IS guerreotypes of the superlatiye of hums
= wretchedness and degradation These Pupi
Il were gathered from among the outeasts
, London.--those who have have no family tie
e no homes no education, no religious trainin,
g but were born to wander about the dock
e. picking up chance job now and thensbutla al
e quiring no skill no settled vocation, ofte
U compelled to steal or starve, and finally TRAN
IS ed to regard the sheltered, well9fed and re-
9 pecsed majority as their natural oppressol
= and Their natural prey. Ofthislarge classi
,nI of Migrants, amounting in thscity to thousand