Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-09-02

to Stowe, 5000 persons perished and the famine
in 1858 swept off 10000. Another massacre
OF the Jews happened in 1854 In l348, the
terrible pestilence. which spread from India
over the whole earth, commenced its rayapes in
London, and did not entirely subside for over
nine years. Four years after, in 1869, a SINH
lar calamity again occurred most destruct-
I've rebellion was raised in 1881, by Wat Tyler,
who was killed in Southfeld, by Sir William
Walworth, Lord Mayor, at a parley, to which
he was invited by the King.
The rebellion of Jack Cade, in 1850 was more
formidable, when he defeated the Kings forces.
and was in possession of London for some time.
In 1855, the city was visited by an extraordinary
epidemic disease, called " the sweating sick
ness, which proved extremely fatal. The
plague carried off 10000 persons in the wear
1000; and in the beginning of the reign of
Charles |, another visitation swept off 35 900
more In 1861, the Great Plague as it is call
ed from its extent and fatality, nearly depop-
ulated the Metropolis, carrying off 68,596 per-
sons This was followed by the fire of London,
which broke out on Sunday, September ID,
1866 and was not extinguished until the fol-
lowing Thursday. Most of the churches, cor
poration halls, and l3,200 houses were con-.
sulmed In 1880, the Petition of the Protestant
Association to Parliament, occasioned an insur-
rection, among the populace, known as the
Gordon RIOT, who burnt the prisons of New
gate the Kings Bench, and the Fleet; the Ro-
man Catholic chapels, and many private houses
OF persons of that pursuasion. London was
hrst walled round with hewn stones, and Brit
lsh bricks, by Constantine the Great :; he walls
formed an oblong square, about three miles in
circumference, with seven principal gates but
these have long since disappeared save few
scattered fragments, 1t now includes an. area
OF eight miles in length, averaging five miles in
width and more than thirty miles in circunl-
ference. It stretches itself alonp the river
Thames, which is here not quite quarter of a
mile in width, and empties into the German
Ocean at the mouth of the Medway, about
forty miles below the city.
ot. Paul's Cathredal is the most conspicuous
among the churches, next to which is West
minister Abbey, where the ashes of kings and
heroes, OF sages and legislators, philosophers
anu poets, rest together, and where the sculp-
t'lred marble perpetuates their memory on a
mass Of ornamental grandeur not to be equaled
in any metropolis of the world. And besides
many other churches distinguished for fine archi-
lecture, there are great number Of chapels
for the established, foreign Protestant, Roman
Catholic dissenters Of all pursuasions, and three
large ,sypagogues FOR the Jews The royal pal
aeFnf St. James op the north side af d park
by the same hame, Is an ancient bulding; it is
mean in external appearance, but the apart
ments are best calculated for regal parade Of
any one in the kingdom. Buckingham palace,
the town residence of Her Majesty, is on the
west side Of st. James Park.
Among the most prominent public buildings,
are Westminster Hall, containing the Supreme
Courts of justice; Guildhall: the Courts of
the city the Sessions House the Tower and
Fortress, in which are some public offices a
magazine and arsenal, and the regalia of the
kingdom the Trinity house, and the Mint on
Tower. hill the Horse Guards, the Treasury.
and the Admiralty, at Whitehall. That mag
nifcent structure called the. Somerset House
the National Gallery the British Museum
tho Geological Museum; the Royal Exchange,
Post Office, Bank of England, Custom House,
East India House, Mansion House for the Lord
Mayor, Monument in commemoration of the
great fire of 1866. Nelson Column the Public
Statues London Bridge, and many Others
The numerous Inns for the study of Law the
two universities, colleges, learned societies, sci
entifc institutions, and public seminaries." &c.
&c, are few among the many and to des
cribe them, or such of them as have seen,
will endeavor at some future time, and fearing
that you will weary of so much monotony as
you find in all my descriptions, will close ere
you get SO much tired upon this that you will
not have the courage to commence another. SC
again, goodbye. Most Respectfully,
G. W. B.