Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-15
Especial European Correspondence sG the
Herald
"Waifs From Abroad.s-NO. 3.
BAD HoMRuRe, July Dist, 1867.

lA1usltTi one ahu halI miles rom
Chester is an aristoorstic, If not palatial
mansion, with gardens, lawns and an
extensive park in 'front.' 1t is we'll
worthy q visit from the tourist, although
the agreeable associations connected
with 1t are somewhat marred by the re-
membrance OF a severe rain storm at one
of our visits, and an apparently I'M
hospitabie retreat under the all.portico.
Formerly no fee OF admission was re-
quired, but now one shilling each is paid,
the notice Of which, informs the visitor
that after paying certain expenses the
remaining portion of receipts is for the
benefit of some charity. Leaving Liver
pool at 10 a. m, from the Lime street
station, our large family of eight
persons, (oLly one LADY, we were
en- route for Rotterdam, via Hull, Eng.
The railway passes through a most
pleasing agricultural district, and many
important manufacturing towns. Coal
mines are worked in many localities
along the route, and every portion of the
soil and country is made available in
the cultivation, or other industrial pur-
suits, The landscape scenery in the
northern portions Of England is exceed
ingly interesting and picturesque. The
high state Of cultivation makes perfect
garden, almost, Of every rod of ground.
There are no fences, the fields, when de-
sirable, being divided by hedges, and
furrowed bikes. The peculiar style and
arrangement OF the farm houses, build
ings and yards, with the long symmetri-
cal hay-ricks, nicely capped with thatch-
ed straw, the bright red wagons and
farm utensils the strong, muscular
horses, pasture groudns, with the "short
horns" cows and cattle, grazing in the
luxuriant meadows, and the south
downs" of prOdigiOus size appearing as
monster snow-fakes in the distant fields,
all in harmony, form picture Of fasci-
mating beauty and enChantment. And
amid the black smoke constantly ascend
ing from the numberless tall chimneys,
which causes dense, murky atmos.
phere, almost imperious to sunlight,
there is a symmetry Of forms and con-
struction, which make these circular,
towering structures an agreeable feature.
The manufactures are built Of stone so
firm as might defy the innovations Of
time and use. The more modern estab-
lishments are generally surrounded by
high walls, OF many acres In extent, en-
closing the the tenements of the opera
tives, the mills and the little gothic
church Of most pleasing pretensions,
The county Of Lancashire is very billy
and abrupt Railway tunueling is fire.
queut and sometimes TWO aud three
mi les in extent. The cost of COnstruc-
ton is almost fabulous compared to our
own, Notwithstanding the cheapness of
la bOr and material. And the HOOsic
tunnel in Massachusetts, has many
rival in England, far more successful in
its beginning and ending, ~ equal, if
not more elaborate, in The difficulty of
construction and persistenCy OF effort, if
not in conception and development. The
rolling stock Of their railways is 50
familiar to ali at home, that any descrlp,
ton Of it would be prolix and uunec,
essary. At Hull, four and half hours
ride from Liverpool, is one Of the best
hotels I have met with in England. 1t
is the Royal Station Hotel and con-
meets with the station, being in fact,
part OF the same. The lower floor is a
large circular, tesselated marble flooring
with cOlonnade, and has the coffee read
ing, dining and reception rooms The
upper floors having the usual arrange
ments of halls, parlors and bed rooms,
all in excellent order and keeping. Three
separte times we have been its guests,
and each stay justifies my cordial rscom-
mendation of it to the traveller. The
bill Of fare is good, and charges less
than the same class ofhotes in the larger
cities. Once we embarked from Hull to
Fl amburg, twice to Rotterdam.
The passage across the North Sea is
always attended with more or less Of
dit1iculty on account Of the shifting
shoals Of the very light sand Of the bot
tom. 1t is seldom beyond sounding in
depth, that portion of it at least be-
tween the English and German coasts.
Violent gales are not unfreQuent, as
memory recalls the passage from Hull
to Hamburg in the steamer "Helen Nc
Gregor' in 1863. when attending Off
cially the international Agricultural
Exposition of that year. The time of
transit is usually forty, eight hours, but
at the time referred to we were seventy
two. And in crossing from Antwerp to
London in 1865, in the steamer Baron
osy," so violent was the storm that we
remained at anchor at the mouth OF the
river Schpl1t 5urinor tba r,iuh+ % Crr