The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-10-27

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A. Journey 70 London aglsa ,esqtAsr Ari.toers-
biify- Farm homss and slsras-- agiis n Rail Road.
N Cost Of consfrueting-- Ihames funae-Knoscn a.
an Anerican--Up Upder ground Raiiroad in London
English omnbuses-D'nkeysi in Engiand--Streets o
London-C Cabs-Streef ballad singing-The Austri
an en- rome for America or some sohere else. .'t
4 a'o1' es9H q han''9 LosDos, Sept 9s, 1853.
4 Having disposed Of Liverpool, Chester and
Manchestsr-and Of my interesting .arry Al
all these points forbsar now to speak--I
Sc, out for the great city, The day was a,
favorable as could be expected in England al
this season Of the..year. The experience Of
English weather hus far is new to me. A
gentlemen on the Great Eastern remarked ia
praise Of the climate Of England that bo had
never seen a day 10 some part Of which be
corld not 60 Out Of doors comfortably.
might say that thus far have s,arcely seen
a day in some part of which il would not be
very comfortable 10 be out. The weather il
full Of tricks and treachery.s A bright sun
shine invites You cut only that the rain il
twssty minutes i'hs'erfeo. may give you q
thorough drenchiug. Since the raining Of
the 2lsi have never once~ cultured out with
out an umbrella in hanl ready 70 ward off an
unexpected attack. A shower is soon follow.
el by sunshine that 10 Michigan would moan
-" no more rain today" but woe beiide the
one who should thus interpret The sua slime
of an English September. In a single walk
1 have experienced three "rght smart" show.
ere, interIuded by as pleasant n sunshine "a
you could ask fJr. Hf 'ai p
The brigh, days of England, however, { for
we have had one or two) are not so bright as
those OF America. / can understand what
my Quaker friend Robinson said on board
ship-that his eyes could not endure the
bright glare of American sun shine. There
is haziness here that takes off the glare al
ways Our ride from Manchester was most
exhilratiug one; a fine day, pleasant wea, her,
pleasant company and marvelou. landscape
beauty unrolIing itself in Que grand panorama
Of 600 miles in lepgth and extending in
breadth to the very horizon. 1t lie a vision
to be remembered. The fields, of beautiful
green, and divided into lots Of Two to twenty
acres, by picturesque hedges, that make the
whole land seem like ono grea garden Not
a rail fence-not board fence-not q stunnp
on the whole route A stumpi the Eoslish-
man does not live perhaps, who remembers
ever TO have seen such thing as respectable
stump. They have old castles in r,ins, ard
they ars to be reveronced, bu. the Curious old
ruins which Western farmer may find in the
unsig lily remains Of some venerable tree that
was monarch loug before King John signed
Magma Charta, they have not! Nor do I
ina CINE that my Western readers will feel
much like condoling with them over their sad
destitutiou in this particular But if you look
for the neat, comfortable, home.like and real
lily handsome farm houses and out buildings
which We may see everywhere in the North.
ern States, neither will you find them. And
.nieea there ara few buildings of any kind in
proper ion TO the amount Of land; and the
clusters Of houses that you do see here and
ther, are. many of them, scarcely superior in
app p'arance TO the better class OF Negro quar-
,ers that you may find in the South. Not
that | would compare the condition Of Ia
borers in England with that of slaves in
America; there is an infinite difference
but when our English brethren boast Of their
superior free lom, | must say to them that it
is impossible for them TO know the highest
type Of freedom when the very soil on which
they tread is itself in chains9 q / never hated
Aristocracy before rs hate il now. / can
only think Of the accursed law of primoyeni.
ture with an ,in,lignan. .loathiog. for you will
remember that iaP tho greater part of all
the lands 10 England are ipalienable-dcsc
ing to the oldest son in perpetuity: and hence
'hs men that tlll The soil are not the men
that own il. iart.,cs ~ ai.sli4 .'1sof os tsf
q the beauty Of broad landscapes with hedg
es and herds aud flocks England may have,
but the other and higher beauty of whole
country divided Into small, aud yet no,
too small estates, cultivated and beauiifisd by
the band and head of the Independent free
holder himselfshe cannot have confess to my
Democracy. Ride through HilIsdae County,
snd fod thousand farmers with their 40 10
200 acres each, and living IN their own beau
tIful aud bad almost said Injurious homes
and you sec a beauty which all England can
not present. BY the inexo able law of pri
mogenilure the whole land, well nigh, is in
bonds. .u,f
So little land is there Of which you could
obtain the free hold. that have found in two
hundred aud ff y miles ride that not an Eng
lishmsn whom met understood the question
when asked" What is this land worth r.
I asked the editor Of the Liverpool Post with
whom rode 10 Chester. Hs answered.
Three or four Pounds sn acre. that SIS
10 $40. What thought l., only that SO
noar the g great citiesf From Liverpool TO
Manchester asked the same question Of sew
eral-" From two to four Pounds" was the
answer. Next day again Of several on the
road to London: still the same answer. ]
marveled exceedingly, and at leog,h gave ex
preston to my surprise. "Oh! said they,
you don't Understand us; that is the price
of rcnt--none Of these lands are for sale
they cannot be scld!" 1t was all plaip what
had only known before from books was now
all real. The Grown, and the MaIquises and
Dukes, and Earls, and Lords and Bishops are
the Free-holders, and the others are The rent
ers. This is true OF by FAR the largest part OF
the whole country. ..... go, e.. f,
What resuli.i Why Of course that the few
immensely rich, the many bitterly poor; and
all, except the few, burdened with a heavy
land tax, The working farmer, paying $40
to sec year for all the land ne plopgbs and
hoes, Is a condition far from being enviablo.