The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-06
How the Day Of Rest is Enjoyed in the
English Metropolis.
Excursion xrains and Open Air
Yark Concerts.
Operations OF the English Ma
tional Sunday League.
Honey Changers In the TenpIe-The Slo sf
Sunday Visiting sabbath Amsng the Dutch,
kc., 10, 40
SUNDAY IN LONDON.
DUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.


LosDoS, Oct Q, 1869.
Sunday Aornisg-The City Awakening -EYcrsscsas on
their way-Seamboats and Sta0es for the Counry-Su,-
day at ktdddy- Sunday afternoon on th Road-Ruras
P,easures Of the Peofle- Sunday afternoon he Ryra-
Sssdoy Looal Railoay JSarsl-Fbw Hmdrsd nuins-
TAe Parks On Sunday -Kastc f5v TIC Psapss-rNe PbEc
Houses Sunday Sunday Migas-A Costrax, &c.
Almost the only time Of the week in which the Great
Metropolis be said to sleep before daybreak and
at dawn on Sunday. All the public houses have been
closed midnight the last opso either got 70 his
usual abode or found home In the station house, the last
railway train has either discharged it's living freight into
or taken cargo from, the city; the wheels Of the last
omnibus have taken their last turn; and and women,
horses and dogs have all retired rest some beds of
roses, others perhaps to beds Of thorns-a London n
asleep except the guardians Of Londons and
dons property, whose firm footsteps echoed IN the
distance as each policeman patrols around his "beat
The night cxbman who has remained upon stand N The
hope that he may still ind fare late and weary
wayfarer has dropped of to sleep either upon hs
box inside his vehicle and his stentoan snore chea
in with the heavy tread Of the passing policeman il
may be with the shrin but less felcitcuo
sound of the voice Of wakcful tabby. FIRST
to break this spell Of quietness is the milkman,
with his scnoro cry and with his rafting Of ac
teal compound the joint production Of the female
bers Of the bovine and the s.cow with the IRON
TAIL" The clock will have struck before there will
be any further commoon in the streets, then
meet men and women dressed in thsr nday BOSWELL
TO do mechanics, small radesmen ants in wholesale
and retail stores clerks in banks and merchants oces
having in many with them basket containing their
Sundays dinner and vending their way towards Lon
don Bridge station, the railway terminus the Water
loo road These excursoniss, bent upon enjoy
ing their segh hours at the side, the pleasures
-
from smoke and noise and turmoil.
AS the morning advances the streets begin to have a
animated appearance but they almost entirely
filed by people bent upon trip the country, who
about TO spend the Sunday with some relative
friend in the suburbs. Nobody thinks ming from
the country on Sunday to spend thetsT LJndon.
Others are wandering TO the side nt
highway, the Thames, there to embark n, vt
| for Aargate, at which place, after III ocKin
| upon the waters at the confluence amer
Thames and his tributaries with min Ocean
you arrive just in time 10 return tcta',e the
packet 70 that cockney watering place. rsvesend upon
which packet on your return voyage in the evening you
are invited 70 ''tea and shrmps for nnepenoen and
Others bent upon meeting the waters Of the river upon
their road to the ocean, viii take their paasage for Kew
and its far famed Botanical Gardens for Richmond and It's
magnificent park and for Hampton Court iB palace and
its Picture Gallery. But Of these places have to
say
In the days OF the elder Mr. Weller before the coach
andfour put down by the snortng Of the steed
IN London and at the outlets thereof were several
hostelies whose names Synonymous with four-in
handsm. Though great is the fall, these houses have
still connection with the road " being either the starting
calling places of innumerabe buses and a. such
we'll known spots at the Spread Eagle in Gracechurch
street; the Flower Pot in Bsnopsgae street, the Angel
at lslngton, the White Horse Cellar, in hccadiy; The
nd Tho E1orhan onAN Naoxln
the opposite side Of the river Thames you will find people
oongregated during the forenoon Of Sunday, Just
starting on their Journey, and others waiting for the
means Of communication with the country.
The various railroad stations, having already witnessed
the departure OF some three four thousand
by the excuI sion trains we have spoken Of be-
sieged by those who wish to spend the day less
distant part Of the country than was the desire Of their
| predecessors.
The morning s drawing on at little before eleven
O'Clock the church bells heard inviting morning
prayers, and at this time the streets thronged by
those who going TO the house of God. No railway
trains leave any Of the metropolitan stations between
hours of eleven consequently the excursionists
have retired from the streets before the church going
people enter them, and mus the ultra religious Is
not shocked by Witnessing his less religious brother
the ihghroad to-the country. But few omnbuses run
between these hours, and such do compelled TO
pass the various places Of worship at walking pace.
From eleven until one O'Clock few people are 70 be
seen in the streets Of London.
SUNDAY AT MIDDAY.
At one O'Clock the public houses, which had been
closed the previous night twelve are again opened and
rush TO them ensues; but 1t Is the rush OF the
drunkard Tor his dram-no ardent spirits are now
quired and but very few at the bar that which
they call for The run now is upon London porter that
beverage without which Cockney cannot conceive din
ner complete This borne Eay from the public house
to the dinner table by the head Of the family himself
be is but in humble circumstances whilst ha wife is
dshng up the dinner at home but the family "a stan
higher in the scale Of social position the beer Is then
borne by the everlasting maid Of ali work The dinner
of the radesman who dimes midday or the luncheon
fashionable hour being over the question e then soivs
as 70 "Where shall we gos''
SUNDAY AYTuNoox ON 7Hs ROAD
BY two o'closk all London is In moton-$hat IN sup
posing the day to be now almost every one Of
the three thousand omnibuses perambuate the streets
Jones, with their hopeful son Johnny. who reside
in the far east, must pay q long promised
visit 70 Mr.. and Mrs. Smith and family, who
reside in the west whilst Mr. and Mrs Brown,
whose house is in the NORTH feel satisfied that is high
time that they along with their darling daughter Sophia
Elizabeth should return the visit OF Mr.. and Robin
son, who live over the in the south. The money
making merchant or the man f law or pbysjc having