Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-17


There are many burial places in London, where
hundreds of thousands of human bodies have
been inferred, and an immense number OF burials
are still made in them; but numerous ex'ehsHe
cemeteries having been latterly opened IN the
epyirops burials in the city are constantly u''Lin
;sbino of the MANY burying grounds in London
that of " Bunhill Fields" is one OF the most IN
+oros+in, n visit. Here we saw the graves oil
Jobn Bnnyan. author of the Pilgrims Progress
| 1obn wesley. the Methodist. George Fox, found
50 che society of Friends Daniel Defoe, author
| - pob;nson Crusoe, DR.. Isaac Watts, and scores
of other celebrated persons. This ourylng ground
;sin the very heart of London, and. although it
contains less than four acres, it is stated that more
than ope thousand bodies have been inferred in it
epeyv year for more than one hundred gears and
there are many similarly crowded, fostering spots
in London enough, it might be supposed, to
create rank and fatal pestence in their neigh
borhoods-and were the summers as hot as ours
are, it would undoubtedly be dangerous residing |
near them.
St. Pauls Cathedral, in London, the largest |
church in England. is immense stone edihce,
but without much beauty, either in its exterior or
| interior; although, owing TO its gigantic SIZE its
appearance is grand and imposing. Like all the
buildin IS in London, it looks as if it had been
shut up for months in smoke house. 1t covers
about two acres ofground, and the dome is nearly
four hundred feet high still, large as it lit
could stand IN St. Peters, at Rome, with plenty
| of room to walk around it The streets around
St. Pauls are narrow, and it is so hemmed in with
other buildings, that no good view can be got of
it. A splendid view of the great city might be
had from the top of the dome, were it not for the
thick smoke which always hangs over London,
limiting the vision to less than half mile. The
interior of St. Pauls Is quite plain, compared with
some of the continental churches; having but
little statuary or ornamental work in it, and the
whole has rather a dngy look. 1t is about one
hundred and sixty years since it was completed
and it cost above four million dollars. fee OF
one dollar is charged the visitor for looking over
the whole building Religious services are per-
performed in it three times every day in the
year.
have not the time, neither will weary the
reader with even brief description of the very
MANY places of surprising interest to the stran-
ger which are concentrated in London. Among
many Others may be mentioned The Paftaa-
D,ent Houses, now in course of completion, built
of lime stone and granite, covering eight acres of
1 ground and undoubtedly the most elegant and
splendid pile of gothic buildings in the world;-
!, the British Museum with its vast library of half
d a million volumes, and an immense collection OF
II manuscripts, bronze and marble antiquities, rare
1t and curious geological neurological, and zoolog'
AZ ical specimens, &C., &C., the whole forming an
y enormous collection, much the largest IN the
IN world and valued at above two and half million
lt dollars the ancient and venerable Westminster
III A65ey, with its elaborate tombs and monuments
81 erected to perpetuate the memory of scores o
e kings and queens, statesmen, poets, and warri
n ors the renowned and great of the British ma
u ton the magnificent edifces, st. JGnaes'S, ant
e Buckingham Palaces, the elegant residences o
eu the Queen and Royal family, when in London :
rd the ancient pile of granite buildings, known a
the Tower of London, where saw Victoria
g, crown, with other State regaa, the whole value
nd at fifteen million dollars, together with grea
C. collection of ancient armour stored there;-th
re Bank of England, the great centre of the None
e, Power of the world; low, one-stored grant
heaps as abOfeer hoRes aSEfS TIE RON
no Exchange, elegant edi6ce, where hundreds
le- opulent merchants daily congregate, whose in
90 mense business extends to every part of IL
ex. globe all these, and numerous other rare al
mo interesting objects, which are shown the stra
are ger in London, already better and more full
an' described in the books, than my time or abili
es' will allow me to do it.
'en There are no bank notes of a less amount ths
~ twenty five dollars (e5) in circulation in En-
D.. land; and the scarcity of bank bills, and Il
- redundancy of gold and silver coin, both in En-
~ land and on the continent, seems rather odd,
- first to an American; but, he soon becomes a
:. customed to it, and the comfortable feeling tn
the load in his pockets is occasioned by the pre-
=, ence of the real article itself, reconcles him
- the unusual weight, which, however, is not us
ally very burdensome; and he will soon find tn
his loaded pockets will be relieved of porto
of their valuable contents at almost every tep
- taxes-as, it is an old saying and not far fro
IS the truth that sovereign $50 will go no ia
- ther in England than dollar will in America
-. the English banks they always weigh the col
~ when paying it out, never coun ing it. as we do
=. The London stores, or "shops," as they al
called, like those of Paris, are generally small,
:, than ours, and most of them are not very show
~ or attractive. Some, however, particularly thos
!. for the sale of glass and silver ware, are exper
- sively and elegantly fitted up, and make mo-
in the evening not, however, more so than some
the same class do in our large cities should iudp
ito the rents considerably higher than they al
am in our own cities. One grocer, where called il
oil said the rent of his store, which was on a corne
nc was one thousand dollars (e20o) per year Il
a had cellar and the first and second stories, an
rv the rooms were not much more than twenty e,
m feet square. They still the old fashione
an balance scales and | could not but observe,
81 the shopman held them up with his hands, viii
A.. weighing out my small purchase, how inconven
Ia ent they we're compared with the simple platfor
Nv scales we use The prices of goods groc sries
DC particular, aie much higher than they are wit
l. us ;-sugars, from fifteen to twenty cents, an
y black tea seyenty-fve cents to one dollar pc
pound, coffee, twenty five to thirty cents, &c &c
M s. H c.
or The town Of Woonsocket, Il. l., with popu
lation of six thousand, has a banking capital Q
IN one million and forty thousand doars--a capita
- larger, in proportion, than the city of New York
:" Boston Journal
y There ia no such toton the above named, /
nc Rhode Island. Woonsocket is a local nams {