Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1854-10-24
Letter from London.
SIGHT sERING-THE british MUSEUM.

The stranger who comes to this city
should furnish himself with map Of ill.,
This he can readily do, as there are several
city maps published-all reliable, all cheap,
and put up in marrow compass. BY study
ing the map, a stranger may, save himself
many long walk, for The streets, as you
know, are very irreeullr-in many paris
perfect labyrinth. If ons's stay here, be
shors. he should provide himselfwi,h asmall
pamphlets, published at sixpence, and enti.
tied, "a week in London, or how 10 View
sshe Metropolis in Six days. This will be- a
good guide to The chief objecIs Of attraction,
Including national establishments, exhibi.
sions, etc, If his stay be longer he may
provide himself 10 advantage with Bohn's
large Hand Book Of London. Without any
uids Of this kind, however, a stranger may
findshis way in London by The poliIeness Of
~ police, who are the bes, looking, most
civil. and intelligent set Of officers have
ever met with. can walk about here at
mi lnign, as at midday, with sense Of secu'
etity tha, | scarcely feel 10 any other city;
because can 60 no where without being
within the bea, Of a viglan. officer, who is
no, only ready bu. cheerful TO give me both
protection and direction. The police are
A5yessed in neel uniform Of blue, and they
wear while gloves and shining black boots,
so that they may be readily distinguished;
one is visible from almost every point
They assume nc airs, they seem 10 employ
no arts, and yet,I am told, they are as we'll
Informed concerning tho halnls of sin and
all The agents OF inquity, conceraing every
stranger and every plot, as even the police
Of Paris, who demand ones passports a.
almost every door he enters, and seem TO
watch you with an eagles eye and drawn
sword from every point. Here the stranger
feels that he is under cipI government
there, under martial law; and ye, his sense
Of security, as we'll as his freedom from sur.
veillance, is greater here than there. AT The
Ieurice Hotel, in Paris, was particularly
charged 10 lock my door when left my
room, and to leave the key with the porter,
or rather por,ress-for there, as here, the
porter is generally lady. Al the London
Coffee House. where write now, the lock
OF my door is out of repair. SO tina, while
/ can belt myself in can no, lock the room
when leave il. mentioned the circum-
stance at the porer's quarters, and asked il
it was safe 10 leave my room unlocked, 20,
perfectly" was the reply.
Bui fur the sights. did not follow the
guide have referred to, for vas determin.
cd 10 Iningc business'wi,h pleasure, turning
aside when Ishad leisure hour TO view an
object Of interest in The region where hap.
pencd,o be. The frs. public establishment,
shat visited was the British Museum. As
you approach the building you are struck
with beautiful, lofty iron railing, no. less,
fudge, than eighteen feet high. The rails
are'bronzed except at the head, where they
are gilt; they repose upon massive stone
piers ard pillars. Behind this railing you
SOS the southern front, which exhibits an i'm.
posing columnur from. OF the Ionic order;
passing through court yard you descend,
by twelve stone steps 1876 feet in length, a
ponico formed Of double range Of columns,
eight in each range on either side of which
is smaller range Of three columns. On
the right ofrshis por.ico, at the east and west
angles, are projecting wings with columns
making the columns of The whole from, A.
This front is $40 lee. long. The entire
building is quadrangle, The sides facing the
four points Of fihe compass, and incIosing 0
court 800 by 240 feet, which is beautifully
adorned and well cultivated. The height
from the pavement of the courtyard to the
top OF the en,abalure OF the colonnade is &C
feet. learn that upon this building abou
G700, 900 sterIing-S3, ,500,O ,O00--have been
expended. and Il is not yet finished. Pass
ing through the por,ico we enter magni6
cen, hall with ceiling elegantly painted in
encaustic .colors, coffered into square com
parments Of various tinls. Around thi
hall are ranged soma Of the largest speci
mems Of the famous Nineveh sculptures
among which the winged lion and bull will
human heads, at once fix the strangers ey
land move his heart. We passed Iron
ahis hall into the various sculpture galleries
/. The Egyptian Saloon, within who's
lofty walls we move through a crowd O
Egyptian gods and heroes, and ranges O
ssarcophagi and mummy tombs, all wroueh
in basalt. granite, or syenite, and imposn
alike by their colossal proportions, thei
polished snno,hness, ,hev grea. antiquity
dneir hieroplyphic inscriptions, and thei
historical associations. Among them ar
the head Of Rameses, the statue OF Amanopf
abe figure Of Bubasiis. and the Rosetta Slon
with its triple inscription recording The iii
of Plolemnus the Fifth, and which afforde
DIR. Young The key TO Egyptian hieroglyphic
Ill. The Phigaleian Saloon, SO name
because it contains a series Of bas relic
which once encircled the upper part Of tn
Temple of Apollo at Phigaleia; ii contain
however, besides these, others from Seun,
Halicarnassus and various other places, b
side casts from the Temple Of Jupiter Pei
AhelleneUs at Egeria. a
stA III. The Elgin Saloon. named from Lo
Egin, who procured It's chief contents whit
areCragments Of sculpture from the Parh
non,pr Temple of Minerva, at Athens
One oIihese-tbe Theseus--has been v,
ned .. yer $4,000. Here, 100, are mo
els o. TN Par.henon, by Mr.. Lucas,
~. Ne Lycian Saloon, so called
cause y cohains the Lycian sculptures di
z covered bY Ir Charles Fellowes in l8;
among which are several ,ombs--reco
sirucied In the manner Of the originals
which are suPPosd to be two thousand, 70
hundred years oh,
,t. Not the lelsi interesting is the Mi
rod Saloon, contaninp the sculD,nfes nr