Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-08-27


70 articles he exhibits there. ButJohn mus
os remember that at home, emo pent up Utic
d contracts our powers" and that we mus
I have ample room for democratic evolu
l. tions, besides chairs and tables to eros
l. our legs on when we want to whittl
d sticks or chew tobacco, or guess at tn
e small amount of awe with which pom
d pous Englishman inspires us. A higl
o price of admission on Fridays and Satur
:, days, gives those days almost exclusivel,
e to the gentry" On all the other day:
e of the week, the price of admittance is {
e shilling, and on those days the Crysta
Palace is like the tower of Babel, where
e all the languages, all the shades and col
0 ors, and all the creeds mingle, fraternize
: and jostle each other in one grand democ
racy. But let US take a little of something
r to eat, and leave. We pass into the re-
fres hment rooms where, for one shilling
and sixpence, We have the right to indulge
in all the gastronomic eccentricities Of
. Garagantua. There you see tables loaded
, with viands worthy of the descriptions of
Rabelais, and mountains of half roasted
beef, which from its redness of color,
makes you shudder with horror. There
the Englishman devours his roast beef and
plum pudding with as much ferocity as
the Yankee, except that the Yankee pre-
fers his beef roasted, and there too you see
swarms of handsome women seated amidst
flowers and verdure eating ham and drink
ing beer. But we pass out look in at
St.Paul's in passing by it, and reading the
pedigrees ON this, that and the other mon
ument or pedestal of statue, We conclu-
ded that eo0,000 year, is right COM
Portable salary for an archbishop, and that
Americans can not value too highly the
religious liberty that permits them to pay
for the support of the different systems of
religion that each one may like best. The
Tower is without doubt the greatest curl
osity of London. Once a palace and cas-
tie, but since the time of Elizabeth it has
been occupied as place of safety for the
crown jewels, for an arsenal, and for
state prison. For shilling the warders
show you the armor of all the different
ages of England, on a long line of life-like
looking men and horses; the thumb screws
that the Spanish armada brought the
crown of Queen Victoria, worth e1,-
100000 sterling /; a case Of coronation
trinkets, valued at 100000 axes
and blocks with which kings and mobiles
have been beheadcd; the dungeon in
which Sir Walter Raleigh was kept
prisoner for Il years; the bloody tower,
where the two infant princes were muir
dcred by Richard Sd; the record tower,
where Henry 9th was murdered the
windows which Anne Boleyn and Mary
Queen of Scots looked out of while priso-
ners, &c, &c. Since the Fair commenced,
and the number of foreigners in London
has increased, not more than 500 persons
are allowed to be in the Tower at one
time. As soon az that numbe is in, the .
doors are barred on them, and strong
guard is set. The English deny that .
troops haTe been accumulated in London
since the opening of the Fair, but there is
almost constantly in view some flourish of
or some long line of foot
soldiers, changing quarters Or maneuvering
to show that they are on hand; but this
locking in the visitors to the Tower, and
putting guard over them at the gates, is
ridiculous to say the least.-From London
it is 81 miles to New Haven, on the Eng
lish Channel. Crowds of French are all talk
ing at once, and they are arriving and de-
parting for and from London and the Fair.
1t is a raining, clustering region down !
there, and where an American expects to
find the handsomest and best furnished
steamboats, in the world, he finds them
small, dirty, and furnished no better than
4 Philadelphia ferry boat. But these little
black, porpoise-like looking steamers, travel {
sast up and down the waves, and Albion, ?,
named so by the Romans from the lofty ,
white rocks on its coasD soon disappears t
n the fog. Owing to the smallncss of the a
-essel, one is more liable to be sea-sick ]
han upon large ship on the Atlantic, land e
many who escape from the payment of /
ribute to Neptune on the ocean, are a
orced to pay for their sea-knowledge on G
he English Channel. In eight or ten S
ours you are at Dieppe. Every thing u
ooks different from England or America.
'rowds of French are upon the pier, but G
be gems d'arms, EARNED and uniformed A
olice, soon drive the crowd back Two G.
opes are stretched from the boat to the 3
astom house opposite, to prevent the d
assengers from escaping into the crowd, st