Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-05
European Gossip.

%, says
Upon landing at Liverpool was taken
aback at the following adventure, which /
have since seen is thoroughly English
The smaller articles of the party which
Joined having been examined, we took
them in our hands and prepared to walk
to the hotel, leaving the trunks to follow,
but at the door we were stopped with
"Bixpence apiece, If you pleace, gentlemen"
thinking il was mere pleasantly we all
smiled as gentlemen do when foolishly as
tonished, and saying aha aha "pleas
ant joke" prepared to pass on !; but no ! it
was fact and no joke at all. After keep
ing eighty people herded like 80 many cut
tic in wharf shed, while their luggage
was being examined, they had the impu-
denee to charge them sixpence apiece for
the privilege of being 30 occupied. had
noticed in coming up the river that the
ships all appeared to be walking up town,
and were on q level with many Of the
houses, and on landing this was accounted
for by the fact that they are fioated into
the docks at high water and locked up, so
that the receding river leaves them above
it's level.
APPEARANCE OF LIVERPOOL.
The docks themselves have been 80 often
as FIVE and q half miles in length, built of
solid masonry, with continued locks and
gatewayB for the passage of vessels. In
the evening they give the latter the ap-
pearanee of being put to bed. 1t was
about nine o'clock IN the evening as we
walked to the hotel-the time at which
these old blackened English towns are
seen. The tall churches, grim with smoke
and age, the overgrown monsters of archi
lecture, huge and awful, looking as If they
might crush the earth itself with vastness,
the vistaB of stone arches through which
looked more grimfaeed buildings, the little
lanes where the houses have Jumbled to-
gether as II drowsy over q sermon, all
these, and at such time, were 80 new, so
strange, and so fascinating, that even the
sedate portion of our company went into
small raptures, while the younger portion
arrived OF the hotel with mouths wide
open, and eyes almost out Of their heads.
THE HOTELS.
| went to q second-class one, and knew
nothing of the Adelphi or Washington
Houses, but mine always impressed me
with awe, and never entered it without
feeling as If | was going to church. Every
thing il in perfect order and quietness. -
and ladies attend at the office. The coffee
room is still wonder to mo, for where
ever go it is the same. This one was
finely earpeted, hung with pictures and
drapery curtains, furnished with arm
chairs fas, and three tables. In one corner
stood two devout individuals, with white
neck-ties aud br6adeloth suits, looking
like penitent sinners. One of them imme-
diately began to hop toward me on tip-toe
with his hands under his coat tails, giving
him the appearance of very solemn bird.
He received my order, motioned me to
table, and very quietly proceeded to fulfill
it.. Let US suppose it is lamb-chop. |
sit at one of the tables, and presently it
appears in covered dish. One by one
the side dishes are brought in, and one by
one the covers are removed without so
much as tinkie. In the center Of white
napkin, garnished with mint, lies the
crisped chop three potatoes arc arranged
like pyramid on the one side, and there
is mold of squash on the other. The
butter is garnished with mint and brought
on the table in molds, while the water il
in bottle, the lower part of which are fro
zen, and which are used instead of ice
pitchers.
THE WALTERS.
Pastry is rarely used, the English taking
cheese and porter instead, which is suppos-
cd to aid>digestion. Every waiter wears q
broadcloth suit, with white necktie, and
always approaches you as If he were about
to whisper some fearful secret. II ia the
same in Ireland, and it is positively dis
tressing. You feel awed in the presence of
so magnificent an individual. You invest
him with all manner of secret mystery,
and half suspect that he has heard some
report about you that he will spread and
ruin your reputation. II he would only
make noise, or break something, or fall
down stairs but no, he is always impass-
i've, except when you give him penny
and he touches his hair.
THE SCENE ON THE STREET.
The English stores (Which they ALWAYS
call shops) seemed to be entirely com posed
Of windows. With few exceptions, they
are not larger than good-sized drawing
room, and the whole assortment of goods
seems to be stored in their large window
easements.
These often make as fine display az
those Of the largest houses in Boston,
when the space behind them is not twenty
feet square. Nine out of ten have tho
prices attached to the goods, to save as q
shop-keeper told me, the trouble Of con-
tinually answering questions, and as the
English shop keeper is often surly, and
seems not to care a fig whether he sells or
not; the plan is equally agreeable to the
buyer.
The ladies of Liverpool all wear enor-
nous crinoline, SO very large that it gives
them an unwieldy, swollen appearance j;
this increases as the scale descends, and as
the lower classes wear the dress looped up,
it amounts, in many cases, to gross indie
cency. For the benefit of American ladies.
l will state that during my four days stay
in and about Liverpool, in which time I |
met all classes of people, / did not see one
face. The complexion, even
among the ladies of the higher class, is
nearly universally red and coarse, while |
the feet are universally large and very
broad. The ladies of our party grew pale |
and fragile in their presence, too much 80,
no doubt, for the English girl is the pic
ture Of health.
EVERYBODY LICENSED.
Everybody seems licensed. The hack
men wear huge brass badges on their arms
their name and number ; while |
even the bootblacks have uniform, and |
run about like 80 many organ monkeys,
with red shirts, black pants, and soiled |