The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-04-07
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PHILADELPHIA, April 2, 1860.

MOnuay evening stnere was announcer meet
ing of the Philadelphia Institute, held for
the purpose Of collecting money to prose-
cute the suit now pending before the Court
of Nisi Prius. This meeting assembled
pursuant to adjournment from the Monday
evening previous The time was spent in
discussing topics growing out of the car
question.
On Tuesday evening, Mr.. Edward Pa
IRISH lectured before the Philadelphia Lii
brary Company, on "reminiscences of
Voyage to Europe The lecturer drew
vivid picture Of the various objects which
he saw in travelling through England. He
said "After leaving the vessel at South
ampton and entering hotel, you are
struck with the difference between that and
an Americana hotel There female meets
you at the door, and shows you to your
room, and you are made to feel as though
you are in private house. There is no
general table spread for the boarders, but
they eat in groups, or in friendly parties.
The railroads are fenced in, and the ground
outside the track rented for tillage. The
houses are built in hamlets, and have a
very old appearance, not like some of our
neat little frame buildings, which appear to
be only built about forty eight hours, and
Just painted The locomotives are not
like ours; they are not only different in
appearance, but they do not whistle like
ours, the whistle being very weak" AZ
ter remarking that London was the most
civilized place in all the world, he proceed
ed to describe the city and its inhabi-
tants. He said: est. Pauls Cathedral
and all the buildings have adusky appear
ance The streets (some of them are
narrowly contracted and filled with Vehi-
cles, and particularly Cheapside, the most
notable part of London. Lombard street
is where the greatest money transactions
are carried on between England and the
world. One striking popularity of the Eng
lishmen you meet in the streets of London
is the tall hats they wear. They do not
adopt the French fashions, as we do. You
cannot travel through the streets of Lon
don without a map, unless guided by
chaperon, person whose business it is to
conduct strangers from place to place"
The lecturer noticed Guild Hall, the resi-
dence Of the Lord Mayor, where all the
silver, &C., belonging to the city of Lon
don is kept He mentioned the fact that
the Lord Mayor is elected once year,
and described how. upon his election, he
drives out in state, and that it is the custom
of the Queen to drive with the Lord May
or on his alaetion to office. The River
the lecturers attention in passing. The
former, he said, is an insignificant stream,
not wider than some of our creeks, though
very deep. The latter, though it cost ma
ny millions of dollars, is utterly useless.
He mentioned that in the Tower of Lon
don there are representations of ancient
knights on horseback, really curious and
interesting, and also Madam Tausand's
wax works, which consist of some two or
three hundred figures as perfect as the liv-
ing persons, and it not unfrequently hap
pens that persons in passing through the
room mistake them for such, and beg par
don should they tread upon one of their
feet In one room, called "the room of
terrors,n all the celebrated criminals-in
wax-are on exhibition, many of them
having in their hands the very weapons
with which they did their deeds of murder.
In this room is also the very guillotine
used in France and so celebrated as an in.
strument of death during the reign of ter
Tor. The parks of London, he said, cover
an area of 800 acres of land. They are
beautifully laid out, and in one of them
the Queen has summer residence. Her
majesty has also a magnificent residence
in Windsor Castle, about twenty miles
without the city. The lecturer described
the Botanical and Geological Gardens. In
the latter, he said, every known species of
animal is to be seen. In, Westminster
Abbey, where the scientific lectures are
delivered to the medical students, he saw
group standing together, and among
them was colored man. In this connec-
ton he remarked that while the English
prescribe no man on account of his color,
yet those of one cast will not associate
with any one below them. The lecture
was ended about halfpast nine o'clock,
when the following question was discussed
by Messrs I. c. Wears and John G. Bow
ers: (Which exerts the greater influence
over the community, the pulpit or the
press 7"