New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-15
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RAMBLEs IN wARwICKSHIRE

KEsILwoRTn, WARWICK CASTLE AND sTRArFoRD-
oN-AvoN.
Editorial Correspondence Of The N Tribune.
WARWICK Eng, Thursday, Sept. u.s. 1851.
Few Americans leave Liverpool without
visiting Chester. As the only walled city IN
England, dating its foundation from the Roman
invasion, it is certainly a place Of interest, but
neither so venerable nor so peculiar III It's ap'
pearance as had imagined. must own, how
ever that the old towns of the Continent were
constantly in my memory during the two or three
hours devoted to its steep streets and winding
walls The only things on which looked with
real interest were the church founded by Ethel
red the Saxon, and the crumbng watch-tower
from whose top Charles |. watched the fortunes
Of the battle on Rowton Moor. The walk around
the ramparts was charming. The warm, soft,
slvery haze of an English autumn, filled the
air, yelling the more distant of the Welsh noun
,ains, but rounding the graceful outlines of the
nearer hills and touching with the gentest play
of light and shadow the Valley of the Dee, over
whose waters we hung, while turning the sharp
angles of the bastions on the southern side.
took the afternoon train to Shrewsbury The
road passes into Wales soon after leaving Ches-
ter and for many miles follows the hills which
inclose the Allen, tributary of the Dee. The
country is hllly, but varied IN It's features, so
picturesque in the disposition of hight an valley,
stream and wood, SO tim by nature and so lux
urant by culture, that was ready to regard 1t
as specimen of landscape gardening on a mag
nifcent scale Not dead bough encountered
the trees not patch of bare soil showed the
earth's leanness The meadows Were smooth
enough for a fairy's foot the streams as tranquil
and pcllucid, as If only fit
"to roll ashore
The beryl and the golden ore y
and the horses and cows IN the paSture-teldS
were apparently newly washed and currled. To
Keep up the impression, at the Wrexham station
we found a crowd of Welsh youths and maidens
in their holiday dresses, the great Fair had
Just commenced. At the next station beyond,
we passed an excursion tram from Shrewsbury,
mile of cars, mostly open, and crammed with
delighted children, to whom we all waved our
handkerchiets IN return for their shouts.
The sun dipped his crimson disc behind the
mountains, as we looked into the renowned Vale
Of Llangollen, IN passing-a stately vale, broad
at first and rich with woods, but narrowing in
the distance and lost between the mterlocking
bases of the hills Then twilight came on the
chimney OF a furnace flashed here and there !;
white mist gathered along the streams, growing
thicker as we reached the Severn, TIL the chimes
Of Shrew sbury clock" rang from some invisible
station in the air had foggy and ghoStly sort
Of ramble IN the streets, getting lost IN all kinds
Of dark windngs up and down the hill ON which
the town is built, and thinking it pity to spoil
such an appropriate impression Of the old place
left for Birmingham in the morning. Had II not
been for German pedestrian, who arrived al
the George Eek JUS, before left, NIGH,
have visited ihe town, SO far as my recollection
of i, Is concerned, IN the time OF Richard III.
The face of the country became more monoi-
onous and the soil poorer, as We approached
Birmingham. From Northampton. large
manufacturing town, to the latter place, dis
lance of ten OF twelve miles We passed an I'M
broken range OF furnaces, FORCES and other es-
Establishments for the manufacture OF lron Scores
of tall chmneys belched forth volumes OF red
fame and black smoke like 50 many hues pleTc-
ing down TO the central fires Whether from
this cause or not, will not venture 70 say, but
the sky, which was mild and clear, aftsr leaving
the foss OF the Severn, became dark and lower
ins, and drops OF rain tell at times on passing
through this district. Beyond Birmingham,
where Agriculture gets the upper hand, we found
the sunshine again.
The appearance of Birmingham from the rail
mad yiaduci is mos, uninyitlng. The only relief
10 the view of numberless blocks OF duh red
houses, rooted with redtiles, is afforded by two or
three spires and multitude OF furnace-chimneys
IN the distance. lief, the Shropshire tram at the
station, took another for Kenalworsh, and IN less
.han an hour saw the three tail spires OF Co