Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-07-07
Westminster HH-Thomcs Tunnel.

LONDON, June |, lsji
To The Ed,,or Of The Ere, Pr,ss
The Library room Of the House is fine room,
beautifully fitted up, but there are yet but few
books NJ enter it except the order Of
member. As the House commences its sessions lat
in the afternoon, and sits in the night time, the
cessities of the member. have demanded refresh
ment room, which is let out to a restaurateur, VIII
supplies many of the members with their dinner
and other refreshments their own expense. Its
fine room, and finely fitted up in the Parliamen
House, and il much resortcd to by the members
1t is for them exclusively.
In many of the foregoing particulars, and for til,
civility of being shown through rooms otherwise in
accessible, indebted to tho kind ciyilty
Sir James Anderson, of the members from elias
gov, to whom had letter from our very excellen
friend Mr.. Kellogg, late American Consul at Glas.
gov, whom l had the pleasure of becoming &C.
| quainted with at your house Before seeing him
! had presumed upon my having letters to anothe
member, Hon John McGregor, far TO send W
my card to him while the House was in session; ana
to his politeness indebted for the opportunity
| to hear the debate in the House. of which | have
spoken. The debate was expected, and it was diff
cult to get orders of admission, the members having
exhausted their privilege. All these things in Eng
land are surrounded with form, and ceremony, ami
| privilege.
The Parliament Houses Gas you know
| having been rebuilt since the FIRE The old West
| minister Hall, for so many centuries known and
cupied as the scat OF Justice for all England was
not destroyed, and that grand Hall, from which 20,
enter all the highest Courts is the grand
| the Houses Of Parliament Westminster Abbey is
| on the other side of the street.
In that venerable pile we attended church our first
Sunday in England, and heard Archdeacon Bentinek
the Dean of Westminster Hall, preach an excellent
sermon to a crowded auditory. All the service is
| chanted there, instead of read in the usual tone
| The Abbey, st. Paus, the Tower shall not now
| describe. can only say that the Abbey quite
| equalled my expectations. The Tower did not and
st. Pau's fell far below them They are all inter
esting, and no stranger omit seeing them but
they have been 50 often described by glowing and
imaginative pens, that unless be rapt into
similar phrenfy, he is somewhat disappointed
found others expressing the same opinion.
| The Tunnel under tho Thames was very interest
| ing You descend through long flights Of stairs to
the floor Of the tunnel and walk through it. There
are persons continually passing. The charge Is one
penny, that Is, about two cents and they take
some ten to twenty pounds a day. We had been
going up and down the weary stairs Of ST. Pauls and
the Tower and therefore determined to walk throu r
the Tunnel to the other side Of the Thames and take
boat (stoamcr up the river to near our re sidence
Having walked over and up the thousand and one
steps On the other ile, found that there wa, no
boat to come ON that side, and no omnibus or cab,
SOW must even walk down aud under and up gain;