New-York daily tribune., 1861-02-16
JOHN 2. GOUGHS NEWLECTURE.

Cough tho inimi,able, eyer-genial, evsrpoPusr
Cough gave his lecture last evening before the aer'
eantilo Library Association at Cooper Institute, on
The Streets Of London. The statistics let of under
his manipuations sparkled and flashed and displayed
50 vivdly the points they were intended 70 illustrate
20 fssten the attention Of ho lecturers two three
thousand audtors and npress themselves on the men,
ory in sGch manner that eyol boy could not help
carving them away His slOres old or new, had the
luster which nobody ese could give them. Altogether,
the lecture contained vast amount Of information put
together in agreeable fosn and delivered in s e
| the most captivating.
The metropolis Of London contains nearly four times
the population Of New York, and increases at the
Of thousand per week Ii is GO miles in circumfer-
enee, end has 5000 miles Of paved streets IL its
houses placed in row. they would reach across
| England and France 20 the Pyrenees. OF gas, four
and talf mions Of cubic feet consumed yearly
| which requires nearly half million tuns OF coal. On
coal brought 20 the city there IL a duty Of penny
per tun, and the annual from this source s
$3O0,000. Seventy million gallons Of water are
brought into the city daily by nine companies Land
| in the vicinity Of COTDbn and the Exchange had
sold al the rate of $500O,00O per acre. Mr.. Cough
said in walking through Of the streets Of New
York he thought he might skp that part Of his lecture
which referred 10 the poor OF London for if anybody
wanted TO poverty al degradation five times worse
than II could be found 10 any other city in the world
let hin 90 through some portions Of the Fouth Ward.
He epoke az though the Thames had q very bad smell
he smelt L tir,y miles below the river lie had
all the passages s,arways, aud lobbies Of the House
OF Parliament sprnkled with lime 20 annul the terrible
gtenChbut it would not down, and ont j. drove
bers and committees, reporters IaTllament agents.
biggledy-Pggledy. "Aod, added Mr.. Cough, 81
would that when traitors get together 10 plot some
river Thames would" Che rect OF the sentence was
lost 10 the tumult Of applause with which the zen.
tment vac greeted. The customs duties collected in
London in ono year were $6S,000000. The
fog Of L,ndon had never been adequately
described IL Was an odd sensation, when he was
speaking in Exeter Hail. produced in the course Of
few minutes not to 90 able 10 in the crowded
gaeries-io be speaking 20 people, and see nobody
here If yoq 90 out in he streets, il seems if you
were wsdiBg imam Illuminated iea of pea soup. These
fOgs higher than 200 feet above the city;
they come in December, and are after Feb
ruary, They supposed 70 be caused by ,he smoke
Of tiumino1s coal ifsling from innumerabie chmneys
In describing the scene at Hyde Park, he said that
suIlenly as by word of command all stop; q couple
of grOoms pass nd Immediately behind in a carriage
sits mstrOnly ly, rather stout and in good color
with her daughter OF a servant. There IL nothing
about them extraordinary, but that carriage passee
every head is tared, and toward that carriage every
eye is turned; and an EDglishmaD, proud Of his c0u.
Try, is still more 10 Of ler Queen. In London there
gro about 900 Omnijuses, aud the tax Of penny
mile TO each amounts 20 5000 per week There
are 700 cabs and the fares aiken in public yehclee
amount to 600 annually There 800 churches
and chapels In London.
IA an illustration Of the beDeyOlence Of London the
lecturer Dsanced the amount raised for the soldiers in
the CrimeaS 800 600 in less than six months by sub
scption. in the prisons the prisoners said they could
not give money, bu. they would give their proyions,
and they starved themselves twenty four hours 70 that
the amount Of day'G provisions could 20 into the
fum. The lecturer described the ragged schools of
which there are 10, with 2j0GO pupils; also the va
rions shifts made 10 get a living Nothing iswasted in
Londor-the hoofa and no.tis Of dead horses ser, 10
make fine gelatine, and the blood il med 10 give
peculiarly nice flavor TO catsup, Mr.. Cough closed
with humorous account OF the celebration OF Guy
Fawkee's day, the 9TH Of November.
IL is certainly a treat 10 hear Cough lie VIII prob
ably give another iusaluent iu be course Of couple
Cf week.