New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-22
LErrEK FROM LONDON.
Special Correspondence of the New Orleans orescentl
LONDON, Sept. %, 1866.
ST. PAUL's CATHEDRAL.

Special Correspondence of the New Orleans Crescent
LONDON, Sept. %, 1866
ST. PAuL's CATHEDRAL.
feel in the humor to write about old st.
Paul's-seen by all European travellers, and read
by everybody that likes to read. How many
strange dramas have been enacted in and around
its walls. It is supposed to be founded on the site
of a Druidical temple, for when Sir Christopher
Wren examined the ground to rebuild, he found
the remains of ancient Britons, Inferred in stone
cofins in funeral vases of Roman sculpture.
Fire that useful servant but fearful MASTER twice
entirely destroyed it, and once partially. Two
creeds have here held their sway-and IN tune OF
Cromwell, all but the choir was used for stables,
shops and barracks for soldiers. Each succeed
ing architect strove to make the pile more worthy
of the religion it professeds but Sir Christopher
Wren was the only one who commenced and saw
it finished from foundation stone to the apex OF
the cross topping the mighty dome. 1t is SIN
gular fact, that one architect one master mason,
and one prelate, DR.. Comprehension of Lon
don-saw it commenced and finished, being thirty
five years in the doing Not often is one able
to record such facts. Queen Anne's statue
by the way stands within the palisades, and both
houses of parliament opened it-at least so say
the chroniclers I am not going to tell you how
long, wide or high it is, how many monuments it
contains, get guide book yet must speak of
two-Nelson the hero of the seas, Wellington the
hero of the land, Nelson-what great little man
he was, in more senses than one. A giant in
energy, a pigmy in size, hero as sailor,
weak as man. How often haveI wished-as
read of his exploits, and again as !
stood by his sarcophagus-that his whole con-
nection with Lady Hamilton could be blotted out
suppose we must look on it in the light that but
one man was perlect--the Redeemer who died for
all.
1t is said the sarcophagus he lies in was origin
ally prepared by order of Cardinal Wolsey, fol
his own interment, in st. Georges Chapel Wind
sor, but falling in disgrace with Henry VIII it wa
laid away in vault, and only brought forth fo
Nelson.
The grand monument of Wellington's is fittDl
in its massive proportions to the character OF tn
mighty dead, for he was great and good man
fulfilling all his duties both publicly and privately
most conscientiously. A brave soldier, lovin
husband and father, true friend and steadfast t
all who deserved it. l have great yeneration 70
the man Stern and inflexible whilst on duty
= gentle and faithful to those who asked his proteC
:, ton or charity in private. The sarcophagus
made of porphry. 1t is plaeedin circular chan
:, Der, the walls Of which are polished marble
whilst four pillars, surmountedbya ball, also mad
of marble, hold some gas jets that illume it. Th
!. imposing catafalco that carried his remain
~ through the streets Of London from Chertsey
~ made of the metal of cannon he had won. l
- weight is twenty tons and cost I'll 900 for castn
-, All the vault is heavy with the hangings whel
!, his body was laid in state. Twelve horses move
:. this immense structure to St. Paul's. AS l stoc
Ar there thinking Of his wondrous past, wondere
~ if England should have war thrust on her OF m
10 ment if she would not be as badly off as the fe
eral government was at the beginning of their wa
10 fancy the commander in chief, the Duke of Ca
~ bridge, is little else than a carpet warrior.
Of After ascending from the cryp t-service abe
an commencing-I entered the choir and endeavor
Il to abstract my mind for time from the wor
h Here, as everywhere in Europe, be
"a. form the choirs, and l can't say l
Ia. partial to entering service. One man had love
be tenor voice-and he sang a solo beautifully. Y
10. have been to Niagara: call to mindhow strang'
the voice sounds by its waters so sounds
No. chaplains voice in prayer at st Pau's, caused
ne, the mighty heart Of the city as it surges past
,ar foot, in omnbusses carriages, carts, vans, e
ar You hear no sound distinctly, but roar, and in
not semblance to nothing but Niagara. am keen
ro1 hearing and stroge to form one sound of tn
10 alone in vain, nothing but that feeble voice
companied by that mighty roar.