Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-06

districts of the city the roofs are quie
steen and covered with tiles, the houses oe
inc small compared with those oil our amer
;can cities. Many very fine buildings ure'
bowevcr. 10 be found. But all tie arcni-
tec,nral beauty of everything in London, y
soon spoiled by being actually coa'ea WIN
the black smoke which always nus tue Guy.
The coal used in London, Is iound IN
GREAT abundance in England and gives out
much more smoke than the hard anthra-
\ cite coal which is burned in the cilies OF
/, America which fact partly accounts ior
the GREAT cloud of smoke in which Inc city
is always enveloped but aside from this,
the atmosphere is never so clear as mat OF
America. / have several times been 10
the top of St. Paurs to get view3ot the
city: but London can never be seen at one
view. and | have never been able through
the smoke, to see much over mile IN any
direction. The streets are very crookeu
and complicated, and are baroarously
mixed up with numberless courts, lanes,
and ALLEYS but are generally kept quite
clean, which partly accounts for the usual
GOOD health of the city. The streets OF
London are almost entirely destitute OF
those fine rows of trees, which add so much
to the beauty of our American cities.
The, Thames. winding like serpent
through the centre of London, il black,
nasty stream, little broader than the Con-
nec,icut at Windsor, but of Sufficient depth
below London Bridge to float the Great
4 Eastern, and rapidly widening towards the
sea; but westward it decreases very rap
idly, and twelve or fifteen miles above, it
seems hut a canal, and is damned by locks.
On account of receiving all the sewerage
of the city, the Thames is SO black and
filthy that fish could not be seen three
inches below The surface. This endangers
the health of the city along its bnks, very
much, particularly in warm weather; and
works are in progress for an immense un-
foreground sewer or canal to convey all
drainage of the city Fifteen or twenty miles
towards the sea, before ii is allowed to min
Gle with the waters Of the river, at an ex-
pense of several millions of pounds. The
larger portion of the immense shipping OF
the Thames, is anchored in extensive in
land basin-docks, entirely artificial, which
the ships enter through small canals and
locks; so that on passing down the river
in steamer forests Of masts are seen en-
tirely separate from the river, and appar-
emily clear inland among the massive ware
houses which line the banks Of the Thames.
The tide rises some twelve or fifteen feet,
and as it Gibbs leaves hundreds of fat-bot-
toned boats and harges, high and dry up
on the mud at the shores.
The London Times of the 4th inst.
says" London is wearing out. The de-
cay, happily, is not physical, nor national,
nor organic. 1t is not the living commu-
nity but the material abode, which has
lasted its time. We want new city. IL
is very alarming discovery, but there is
no use in shutting our eyes to the truth.
When London contained but one million OF
inhal itants the city was large enough to
accommodate tn m but now, although the
largest city in the world, il is far TOO mar.
row for its opulalion-about two and one
: half millions. The population has grown
faster than the city. 1t wants The long
and commodious streets and avenues d
New York, to give the people circulation
and room to move about, without jostline
against each other ike sheep in pen; or
to use more classical expression, like
t I" three III bed
\ | had thought, with my residence il
New York, that had seen the worst fea
lures Of drunkenness and dissipation that
could be found,--bu New York is " no
where,'-London is the place for drink
5 drink, drink and is only risalled by Paris
t London will drink New York dead drunk
|, and Paris will put coppers on London;
eyes, and still 60 on drinking and singing,
When shall we three meet again! &C.
The masses in the city--aud / am told i
D is so through all England-would think il
: very odd TO drink water they will langI
at you if you talk of it and when l tell
them / came from country where no liz.
3 uor is allowed, and water drinking is fash
ionabte, they stare, and viii not believe me
S Beer is the drink; but much gin is drank
: Fortunately the beer is not so intoxicating
!, or poisonous as the majorits of liquor;
drank in the large cities Of the States
Much has been said of TIE working classes
Of England being trampled upon but the
|. truth is near this,-that they degrade
themselves fearfully by intemperance; ant
:. this includes both sexes-for the womer
drink very much throughout all England
7 Much tea and coffee is also drank in Lon.
e don; and should mention, as one cause o
n this, that in great portion of the city the
water is very black. But there are a
present, works in progress for furnishing
The people with better water aud there
has been within a few days, several beau
e tiful fountains completed in some of tn,
:, public streets and squares, which it i
r hoped will quench the thirst of some who
n otherwise would go into beer-shop or gin
n palace. w.
n P. S. In consequence Of the defeat OF
:, the LIST inst, in the House of Commons
e OF the Government Reform Bill, Parlia
/ ment is TO be dissolved, and the Qnerr
k sends the members all home with flea il
: their political ears. An election for a new
5, House, is to be had Immediately. Th,
Il Ministry have not resigned.
The ,,oii.ical affa;r, 81 n.