The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-08

Cattle, pigs and poultry. are, as Tar rs have
SEEN finer here than with us because | sup
pose so much more carefully kept There Is,
of late, rage for rare poultry here as in the
| United States. Cochin China fowls. in espe.
cia sell at preposterously high price. This
"hen-ieyern seems to have spread over the
world-a plot well Matched, on which the sue
cessful spectators may plume themselves-but
fowl conspiracy at the best.
The English home-style Of living does not
differ widely from our own, except that il is
often simpler, and always quieter | notice
that the table at meals is usually decked with
howers-a beautiful custom we should do well
TO adopt
A few expressions have struck me, as new
and peculiar; such as car" for cab. car
rage for car, "box' for trunk, and starved >
| for chilled.
The manner of an English gentleman to-
ward the American visitcr is most polite and
considerable, but sometimes little too marked
At dinner-party, the other day. during little
playful discussion OF Yankee character, bland
and benevolent-looking old gentleman Mt my
side, informed me that he had come to the con-
clusion that the wooden-nutmeg story was nei
Their more nor less than mschievous satire.
For said he, " there would lie such an
amount OF minute carving required to make
successful imitation of the nutmeg that the
deception would hardly pay the workman.
For myself do not believe the cheat was ever
practiced' thanked him in the name of my
country for the justice done her, and assured
him that the story Of the Yankee having whit
tied large lot of unsaleable shoe pegs into
melon-seeds, and sold them to the Canadians,
was also n base fabrication of our enemies.
hav l..
showers, alternating with bursts of warm. efful-
gent sunlight-and often sunlight and shower
together. According to a popular tradition OF
our country, certain gentleman in black is
at this season administering marital discipline
with unusual frequency and severity.
Euening.-We have ust returned from a
pleasant drive into the country some four or
five miles to see the old Handsworth Church
and Chantry's monument to James Watt This
is within the church, but curtained off by itself;
is plain large, white marble pedestal, sup
porting a sitting lile-size figure of the great in
ventOr 1t is a most beautiful work of art, and
form and face of noble character
There was bust by Flaxman also in this
church. and one by Chantry
The church itself is Il curiosity, for its great
age 1t contains some efiigies in stone, said to
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is a knight in complete armor, with very dan
dified waist and enormous thighs, and slim
lady, with a very tight fitting shroud, crowded
against the wall behind him The good DANES
irill has suffered some dilapdation, and the
gallant knight is minus nose
The high, quaint old pews impressed me
most at once imagined little David Copper
field sitting in one of them. with his mother
and Peggotty.. By the way, you can have nc
| idea of the luxury of reading Dickens IN Eng.
| land.
On our way back, we stopped for hall
hour at fine cemetery from some heights Of
which caught my first real view of the town
in all its Industrial grandeur and smoky mag
nifcence Within these grounds we encoun
tered the Beadle, in all the pomp Of his parish
livery He was a stout man, of course, digni
icd to solemnity, and in person greatly like
our friend General Houston. Seeing him un
occupied, ! yentured to make some converse
ton with him, and must acknowledge that he
met my advances in n most gracious and un
Bumble-like manner | asked him if the,
buried the common people one upon another
"Yes mem" he replied, "but it often appen
quite agreeably that members of the same fam
lily 90 into the same grave. Whenever we can
we lay them together, or not many bodie
apart-,ce try 10 make them comfortable, mem
forgot to tell you that saw Il cricket
match last night. This fine old English gam,
has been rendered classic by the poetic descrip
ton and eser-fresh- enthusiasm of dear Mis-
Milford The match saw was unusually ex
citing, for being between club of young mcr
and some sch0ol-boys of the town Your boy.
will be gratifed to hear that the younger par
ty came off victorious" happy and glorious
distant sight beheld on our drive thi,
afternoon, was new monastery, occupied
solely by renegade clergymen from the churcl
of England haunt OF priestly owls scared
by the light and freedom of the time back int
the clustered gloom of the dark ages. VIVA
n precious set of cowled conservatives.
Tomorrow ] visit Warwick Castle, Keni
worth, and it may be- Strattord upon Avor
Splendid stuff for dreams, such prospect. S
good night Ever yours,
, GRACE GREENWOOD.
CLEVELAND, July 1, 1852.
Mr.. EDIToR: For one, | must say that
cannot fully understand the last article from
"P.,n your Cincinnati correspondent. hat
hoped from the fact Of his being a correspond
ent of the National Era, and making higl
pretensions to definite Anti Slavery charac
ter, that he had no sympathy with the two
great political parties of our country-th'
Wing and Democratic; and that he had with
drawn from all active cooperation with them
and felt prepared to condemn them, standing
as they do by the terms of their platform in a
position adverse to freedom and the true inter
ests of the country But from his own re-
marks, it seems that Vas mistaken He
passes his censurc upon the members of that
noble Convention, for advocating the propriety
af seeding from those political parties instead
of remaining in them for the purpose of puri-
| fwng or reforming them. ] had thought, MIR
Editor, that long before 1852, the true, con
sistent, devoted friends Of freedom had des-
paired of the work Of publication, and had
considered it expedient to form a new party,
called once the Liberty Party then after
wards the Free Soil Party" of the land
would like to know whether your correspond
ent :" Pr is in connection with those old par
ties, which, with the fear of God before my
eyes, ] have no hestancy in saying are cor
rupt apostate, and hopelessly welded" to Sa-
very, or whether, having seeded from those
parties he is now cordially and practically
identified with the Free Soil or Free Demo
cratic " movements of the present day
IL Mr.. p" will inform me and your intel
ligent readers what is meant by - right posi-
ton and n faithful testimony" in regard to
political action, he then will not be much at a
loss TO guess what the members of that Con-
yenton and the Cleveland correspondent meant
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