Litchfield enquirer., 1855-09-27

walks were formed and tho trees planted in
 the years I7l7 and l7ls. Ss. Pe,srs or
 Peter House. the oldest of the Cambridge colleges. vas founded y Hugh Bassham. Bishop of Ely, about tho year i260. Glare
 Hall was founded by Lady de Glare. a granddaughter of E.iward I. in 1896, and is next to Peter Hosse. in antiquity. The lUnivefsisy corposasion is of itself m im- mense establishment. The town, inclading the colleges, contains about 25,0OO inhabi- tants. ssessse
 Leaving Camhridge whh sad feeling of disappointment at not being able to prolong
 our stay, we were soon en roste for the great city of London, son.e fifty miles distant.
 Gliding rapidly through beautiful coaa,ry,
 the eyer-shifiing scenes could not fail to charm us with thsir variety and novelty. All nature seemed clothed in her richest
 holiday attire. and l an. sure the old world
 never looked more glorions Q the eyes of strangers than it did to ours. The wind
 mills re-appeared on ,he hill-tops, swaying
 their long arms in the fresh morning breeze i;
 neat but aged farm-houses, crowned with a straw ihatch and surrounded by profusion of flowers and vegetables, gave an air of comfort and taste to the landscape; and the stately mansions, in the midst of extensive and beautiful grounds, indicated the wealth of ,heir: :lordly occupanss. The seat of Lord
 Brsybrook. al Andley End, in the county of Essex, near which we passed, struck me as one of ihe noLlesi that we had seen. As we approached the metropolis, the seats of the gentry and nobility increased in number and magni6nence, often sorpassing all that our fancies had conceived.
 At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 9th of July, we had found convenient quarters at Mrs. Cookers Commercial Boarding Honse in . Charterhouse Square," in the very heart of London. The square consists of a beautiful and extensive park enclosed by high iron fence, around which passes a broad street. The outer side of this street is bounded hy solid blocks of dwelling. houses, many of which are dingy from age. The locality is only approached from the main streets by three or four iron gate. ways. which are closed at eleven o'clock at night, when all ordinary communication with .ou: side" l. cut of if, however. resident of the square is acciden tally shut out, orif al. outsider has any special business to transact within the gates, acce ss can be gained by calling up the ga,e-k eeper who lodges near by. As we kept . regular lours." we had no oecasion to try the experiment.
 In the course of an hour after our arrival, we commenced our explorations beginning with St. Paul's cathedral. which was but . short distance from our quar.ers. This is tho largest Protestant charch-edifce in the world it heinz five hundred feet in length, and covering nearly three actes. The ais. tance from the vaul.s to Inc top of ,he cross measures four hundred and four feet Some sixiy years since, the plan was adopted of creating monuments and siat,ies in the in- terior of the cathedral b the memory of the iliusirious dsad--as had long before been pfacliced in Westminster Abhs. The first erected was to the memory of Howard. ihe phiIantl,ropist. in :7c6. h now contains those of Lord Nelson, Sir William Jones.
 Lord Cornvallia, Lord Collingwood. Sir Ralph kbercrombir. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Sir John Moo.e, Sir Christopher Wren, Benjamin West, Generals Dnndas. Pon- sonby. and Mackenzie, Captains Burgess, Moss, DutT. Faulknrr, and many other esai- nent personages. The remains of most | Of those above named are deposited in ihe vaults under the building. The cast iron. fence which surrounds ire cathedral cost 465 .OOO. Wi,hin the enclosure, facing on Lodga.e stfees, stands the statue of Queen Anne. holdiag h her hands various embIems of royalty, and accompanied by fgurss representing Great Britain, Ireland. France and America. Within the dome and
 nave afs suspended several flags which were captured by British valor from the
 Dutch, the French, the SPaniards, and the
 Africans of the Cape of Good Hope. fsaw
 none which purporied to have been taken in ths United Stzses,- ,-ior the reasonl sUp.
 pose, that the few trophies which here fell
 into the British hands. were ne-capfarsd be-
 fore they had left our coasf. Tne enormoas clock on one of the sowers has % often been described that need hardly allude to 1t
 here. The face of the dial measarrs nearly Inineteen feet across !; the minute-hand is Ieight feet long and wrighs seveniy i've pounds, and the houf hand is proportion. sbI5 long. The length of each figure on tho dial is two feet. two and | half inches.--- The bell which sfsiiss ihe hours has been Idissipetly heard at distascs of twenty