The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-24
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'f-eh nv - ttHS w ENSLlcH PARLIAMENT
The following picture Of the two Houses II Par /
lament is from the graphic pen Of Rev. T. L. cns.
Ter, Of New York:
:. "About4 o'clock yesterday went to visit the |
houses OF Parliament. The new buildings are a |
perfect wilderness Of Gothic towers grained cell
ss, ds, superb halls, lined with marble statues of |
oeparteu statesmen and warriors Millions of |
hohey tenough to endow a school i'm every parishl
s'e wa oeen iavished this gorgeous edifice As
tho a,a ,saehea the door of the House of Commons.
Speaker (; ~ thhessed doorkeeper called ont, The
The s,oa,i s h the chair was shown to aseat i'm
oa olli Speakers gallery The hall "a Grand IN
cnlh;, OF oblong shaye with rows Of rsa,, ~.
front of memins on ri either side, and no sks in
ana gown. The members mos. ~tIs n'sa, u hnge Wig
t,ieH mats, except while speak kim ,ha Oh
| Youthful annaoro,ao was ALSO surprised al the
| ieast score OF them seemed like ma,h' ho1se' AT
senior class In college. Considerable lond - VI
s.ion was carried on during the debascs and roan
/ bers were walking about continually "N i'e'n
The speaker of the evening most iistenad =.
hr. uiadstone, OF oxford He is an easy ,1oncL1
liant conyerser. with no elaborate language bnt RI
style was very attractive. While he was snoatin
| there was constant cry OF hear hear' wbicb
sounded like 'feh-yeh-yeh' After him followed
| the Chancellor of the Exchequer graceful. auent
statement maker. Lord palmerston pulled off his
hat and spoke in a slow careless tone for half an
| hour. lie does not look so old as | expected Sir
| James Graham is huge, easy country gentleman
who sat like man of leisure in coffee room. The
| only outer and shabby member in face figure and
dress, is the radical Roebuck of Sheffield He was
| a waspish, petulance in his tone and is the man
| Tor inquiries and investigation. The old heroes
| Sir Charles Napier and General Williams of Kars
| attracted much attention. As body of men, the
! House of Commons is not SO impoSinp in annoar
arance rs our American Senate Lord John Rus
sell sat smiling and silent. Disraeli looked sarcas
tic and sullen. lie is the sharpest debater of them
| all.
! From the House of Commons we 90 by a splendid
hall tn the HOUSp of Lords Their iS he
superb in the kingdom. 1t is blaze with crimson
and gold. As enter the noble Lord Shaftes-
bury the red cushion by the door. Beside him
that handsome youthful face, under the thick pol-
den hair, belongs to the Duke of Argyle the rising
hope of Scotch Presbyterians. Old Lord Aberdeen
sits next i'll deep reyerie. Across the floor in front
of the woosack,' walks feebly an old man in green
coat buff vest and check trowsers with short white
hair, and that unmistakable turn up nose. As We
look at the bent decrepid veteran, it is hard
cognize in him the once gallant Harry Brougham' ;
of the House of Commons. lie sits down by Aber-
deen-two antiquities together. We hear speeches
from Lord Camden, Lord Granville, and the dashy
Duke of Newcastle.
Those magnificent women in yonder gallery are
the wives and daughters of the Peers. l do not
know enough of millinery to describe their .srig'
for your lady readers but it may be some gratica-
ton to American ladies to know that the lace and
peaIled bonnets the heads of the Dutchesses and
COuntesses were fully as large q saucer, Their
faces were generally fair and brilliant in beauty
l came away from the House of Lords (which
contains many able and noble characters in nowise
converted to beliefin hereditary houses Of legis
lation. Among the forty ar fifty Lords present.
could recognize in Lords Brougham Lyndhurst
Belper and Campbell, the only men who have at
tanned seat in that splendid chamber by any 9th
er than the accident of birth. came home last
night An,sric0n to Tie c01e.'
SUBMARINE AND OVERLAND TELEGRAPHs-It ap-
pears from statistics published in the New York
Herald that of overland and submarine telegraphs
| . -,
ton OF the present time
United States (overlaud) $1,000 miles
South America, (overland) 1900 =
Europe, {oycrland) 1890 3
india, toyerland) 5000
submarine, Europe and America) $50
Total. 1880 miles
This aggregate will be increased 100 miles by
the completion of the Atlantic telegraph. OF the
Europcan and Indian teIegIapIis not more than
from six to seven thousand miles of the lines COM
mencsl are unfinished, and the next six months
will probably see them all i'll operation.
The statement OF few facts will show the won
deriul effect which will be produced by the snc-
cesstul laying of the cable of the Atlantic tele-
graph. The London Exchange closes at 8 O'Clock.
and the difference in time between that city and
New York is four hours and forty five minutes, We
will receive the report of the price Of consols at
o'clock in the morning. The British Parliament
may sometimes sit as late as l o'clock and their
sessions occasionally prolonged till 2 in the
reach about 10 o'clock of the preceding eve
ming. Then, again, our mercantile firms can send
their orders through it to different parts of Europe
and countermand them with the same rapidly
should they find it their interest to do do. 1t is
hardly possible to calculate the effect of this stu
pendous undertaking, and when accomplished
there cannot be doubt of its success IL pecuni.
airy point of view. When il is considered that il
will be connected with the variOus land lines Oh
both sides of the Atlantic R0ic ereRdg Uirty-eqhf
hotSdRd mites an Ehrope, and hrty-s,ree ia Ht
tHit>d States. and S00n 10 be c0RHectet Nth line,
StfetcInJ To AfrtcG 4Std ard AltSTdljG it's immense
value will be seen and its wonderful results fully
appreciated.
BRIGHAM YoUNG PREPARING TO RESIST GENERAL
UARNEY.-The Interior Department has received
intelligence from reliable gentlemen and fugitive
Mormons, that brigham Young is preparing to re-
sst General iarney, that he has relap5ed into the
grossest iniidelity and Atheism, aaA continues to
hold up the government of the United states to the
supreme contempt of the Mormons.
WHY DON'T HuSBtNDs WRITE WHEN AWAY FEas
HoNEl-A few days ago a man returned to Lowell
after four years absence in Australia and found
ms Wlle married again with child by her second
husband. The wife justifes her second marriage
on the ground of the supposed death of her first
husband, to whom, now that he has returned she
is ready to unite again. This second husband has
taken possession of the babe. and the other parties
will take legal proceedings for its recovery.
RAPE CAsE-We learn that some two months
since, a negro man tslavel committed diabolica !
outrage the person Of little white girl not
than eleven twelve years old, in Alexandria |
county, tirgi the west south end of the
Georgetown aqueduct; and further, that Justice. |
Drummo9d, of that county. promptly issued war |
rant for ths of the miscreant, who, owing
the subsequent interference of some parties ha. |
not yet been taken into custody H;tsa. Sar.
ROBBERY OF AN EXPRESS OFFIcE.--The express Of |
flee at Quincy, Illinois. entered few nights |
since and one of the safes rified of several thou |
and doll I1a mt nm in L
ages and was to have been forwarded east the next
morning. What is somewhat remarkable Il larger !
safe the premises, containing much more money
was entirely untouched by the burglars.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAN |
R0Ap.-The morning train from this city, going
westward yesterday, on the Michigan Central Rail-
road. ran over and instantly killed a man at the
crossing. ten miles east of Marshall, The man WAS
driving horse before buggy, and in attempting
to cross the railroad, when Just fairly upon the
track, the horse became frightened and stopped
short the train coming up at speed of course
dashed man, horse and vehicle into mass Of
ruins. The remains of the man were taken 10
Marshall. but up to yesterday afternoon they had
not been dentihed.-Det Adr, 20h.
INTERESTING ro DENTISTS AND THEIR PATENTS
A dentist Of Philadelphia has invented what be
calls a galyanic t0rcep which is intended
lief to the pain of extracting teeth IT is a c0mb
nation of the ordinary forceps, with galyanic
arrangement attached, whereby the nerve Of the
tooth may be charged with the galvanic influence
and its susceptibility be suspended. In this condi
tion the extraction will be without the pain usu.
ally accompanying the drawing of tooth in
high state Of iuflammation.-fnf
PROSPECT FOR PORT AND MADEIRA DRiNKERS-Nine
bibbers, says the New York Post, must be eatefui
how they clay in" their customary supply of
port this year unless they wish to be laid out for
our adyices from Oporto assure us that quail-
titles of deleterious and poisonous mix tures
have been sent from England to the latter place to
lie converted into 'tawny' port wine. The grape
from which what we call Port has hitherto been
made has almost entirely failed and doubt If a
single pipe Of really honest wine he sent from opor
TO this year.
Iow4-It ia generally understood that the new