New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-01

L
ys. John Rail ooAs py.n ;hese Jverfed monsters WIN
ip., mparsble pnde. Did not Shakespeare think
n,oph.,;csuy OF the present British army when be
,ad "Id rather be tick IN sheepe' wool than such
valiant ignorance
The Grea; Western Railway every railway in Ire
Iard i. "ere.t1 40 far as hullDgsr, runs along the
cana, of the same name ascending the valley frs. OF
III. Ijf,v and then of q small river flowing mo It
The country is Of that quiet, but pleasant uniul'tng
character seen IN great portion OF Englandi but the
luNuIsnce Of vegetation which disue CUISINES
gives il a peculiar charm Besides, the atmosphere IS
decidedly pqrer the blue of The sky deeper, the asmp
yapois better col nra.d irto clouds than IN Ing
land. In the South and West OF lrelaod, tue dhR
azure OF tie sky often reminded me OF the heol
terraneap 81 of Italy Toe railway itself i' IN excel
leLt coDctoD; nowhere in England IS the permanent
way in such good repair or the caTlages-al ieas''
first and second cls decent ard conforaoie. lhe
station buildings exceed those Of Eogand by Tar 10 neat
and sohd appeasnoe; they are all built OF TIE capita
blue limestone found in the DeghborhoOd, and laid out
with little gardens with display taste immensely
superior 70 the similar attempts on EoglIsh Ines
In fact az soop as you have left Dublin behind you,
YOU begin TO enter Ireland Everything stiff, monoto-
nous reserved eHRHyeak, all etiquette spleen, bad
toste, at disappear completely You enter
country where people at least laugh and tax, and
where in ell places inhabited by man the native taste
of the Celtic race strikes you in every object from
hovel to town. If the fret English painters pos
ses ed half the taste displayed by the poor Irish rad
way porers in decorating ther stations, or that IN
ous taste by which the inhabitants of every
Irnh town make its site look pleasant were ths, site
in the midst Of the bogs, the English school OF art
would old different place in the estimation OF the
world though perhaps not in ts own.
Up 70 MulDgar the country is very pleasant snd
well wooced The to Fns villages nearly hid
dep in Il midst Of foliage thick and luxurious even
in the middle Of Msy. Here and there bog occurs,
but such bcgs exit in the midst OF Lane ihire.
Msynooth i passed -Msypooth, rendered celebrated
By Peels Government grant to the Roman Catholic
College THIS College looks indeed like monastery,
with wall around il so high aid so long that the
virtue Of wtnty nunneries might find refuge there;
otherwise the placeoOks quite innocent o, the huobuo
il has given lire to 10 the British Parliament Behind
Hulnpgar on the hight between the lrny and the
SherDon, the desert Of the bogs commence. Nothing
but turf al heath all around the horizon with here
alc there hill in the far distance. The Shannon Is
crossed at Athlope; tLi towD, again, forms complete
oass in the desert, With the verdant, wooded, sunny
hlsides among which it comfortably neStles itsel,
Ike q child IN heap OF soft and elastic cushions But
bey ond there Is again long, long desert, Interrupted
b, rae towns and ilagee; and fortunately night set
In to spare US the continuation Of this view, more
wearing out than darkness itsef At last, after SIX
hours journey from Dublin, we landed at GALWAY