New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-21
ENGLAND.

We
Ips0u an OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
LoNDoS. August 6, 1868
=, ,,.ro ven worth while to a foreigner, wishing to
-, t7,,ri.. life 70 make little summer tour OF
T[,tbinp shores Of this country though there have
I'm few seasons in which they could have been
s.r in such perfection and luXurianoe as III 'ilS'
An tho seaside places have been crowded since the
beginning Of July, to such an extent that four nNe'
six once al Ramsgate saw seven people arc Pu'
simultaneously into a single bathing-machlne sucn
being frequently strangers TO each other VI al se"
side plaecs those of England are the most gioteSQue
BRIGHTON. the most fashionable OF thein' Iemlnueu
when saw it, OF the boys response 10 DIS teach-
or,s question why the Black Sea Is called black.
.. Rocause il is green" Brighton has been Sc
Iected rs a bathing-place, because Of Its utter
,,rGtposs in every conceivable regard TO be
sueh It is located q bare chalk cliff
which falls by pTocpices to interminable line of
eyerrattiug shingles, There is not a gram of sand,
only stones and eyermoro stones There is no vege-
tatiou within miles around. Dr.. johnson, who now
and then went to Brighton to visit Mrs Trale SAID
the city did not furnish tree to hang ones sell
on as one would certainly desire to do after beng
there few days. Alphabetically it is bit OF Bel
crava lin stucco) transferred % the sea- On arriving
at Brighton one finds a number OF small houses eaCh
on four wheels standing out in the water ana anum-
her of darklv shrouded forms moving up and down
1T,
tesoue horror Not far from them arc several hund-
reds of $50 far as appears out of water naked men,
INQUIRY proves that they fg-leaves, at least.
Nothing can be more dull, dsagreeable ugly, and
disgusting than the bathing at Brighton Hastings IS
very much the same though it has the advantage OF
being a quaint old town with some interesting ruins
some historic associations, and queer fishing popn-
lation in one quarter of it. AT Margate and Rams
cate one may see the English system OF bathing IN
4lr
frequentcd by well-todo tTadesmen and their rant
lie. and Rasuate particularly-the largest bathing
shore in England except Brlghton-swarmS win
London Jews. Here one may daily see several thOu-
sands Of nude men emerging from the machines,
at distance of only 100 yards at most from an equal
number of women whose dresses are usually button
less stringless, and semi-transparent The beaches
which at MaTgate and Ramsgate are sandy ana lnuGh
like the large beach at NewpOrt-are olacheheu ually
with the crowds of peoples chiefly men, VINO gaze
upon these mermalds. These are the demoCIauc
bathng-shOTes but they remarkable for the COM
narrative absence of the drunkenness ana HcentOus-
ness which distinguish Brighton. But you may
thank your stars that the English system has not
heen Introduced into America. At LandudnO in
Wales a refOrmer has appeared, who has bullt gOOq
batbinC houses and had good dresses prepared, and
there men and women battle together, all decorousIy
dressed But some of the English think TINS shock
ing. l once read letter from f?teIIanIlllas, III
me Times who was shocked that his nelghbOr en-
Moved "A swimmup-master TO teach his daughters To
swim. The amount of animalism IN England Is lear
full and it chiefly shows Itself perhaps III IhlS pIul
The RAILWAYS have resolved that the seaside hotels
and lodginghO shall not monopolZe the adYant-
ages of the hot weather; so many of them--paLtcu-
larly those which run between London and Brghton
Margate Ramsgate, and other bathing shores1hiaVe
raised their fares from so TO 100 per cent. Where
their lines conceded In any way, the companies nave
combined; so the public Is now the victim oil Holy
Alliance Of railway companies 10 many thousands
this general raising Of fares on August J. IS coup
dfiak The newspapers TEEN with letters from
'VIcimsD who have purchased residences all along
these lines the computation OF the regular cost
of tickets. The fares are so enormously IN
creased that these lines frst,class carriages are
l,.l, 10 M al mn
second-class," of which the poet ClOugh speaks,
will become too grand for many VINO nave q; P pen
went from London to Ramsgate ON aug = there
several unOccupied hTst-clasS carriages II inc
upper midde-cass would agree 20 travel seeOndclass
for time on these roads the companies would nave
to succumb. But alas for the poorest there Is no
fourthclass, and many of them have now double as
much as before pay for going to their work in Lon
don from the small villages out OF town. When IT is
considered that the lines which have combined thus
are nOtOTiOusy the most unpunctuaI, uncOmlortaDie
and ill-cOnducted in England. the general mdlgna-
ton will be better appreciated Ihere Is talh Oh a
new line to Brighton already. The railway com
panies took care TO wait until Parliament had adj
ourned before putting down the screws IL is DOUBT
ful if they are not infringing the terms upon which
their authorizations and concessions originally
obtained from Parliament; Mr. huskln IS out with
by the State He says England is too small and IS
There seems to be no end to the anomalies of En-
lsh law-at least as it is not unfrequently inter
preted by some of the primary courts An inquest
lately held the body of Mrs Elizabeth Brent aged
".
traiia to dig gild but hearing that his father mad
died leaving his mother house he returned swiftly
to this country, where he arrived in October last
Since then he has been perpetually drunk; has done
no work; has eXtOrted money from his mother by
threats; has stolen her property and paWned III Tor
liquor; told her she must hurry into the grave or
workhOuse; pushed her half naked into the street,
and kept her there all night, pouring two gallons of
water mixed with mud on her as she stood IN the
doorway; broke the bridge of her nose; made her
mass Of and bruises-unt at last she died All
these facts appeared on unquestiOnable testimony.
The deputy coroner said that this brute, though
"morally responsible for his mothers death" could
not be sent to trial, as there was no evidence I'M
medately connecting her death with the treatment
she had received James Steer Brent sat smiling
wbilo the surgeon and other witnesses narrated his
conduct and then walked out into London afree man
and proprietor of his mothers house. On the day
following one Thomas Wilson was sent to prison for
eight months for breaking window pane at the
Three Cranes, pubc-hOuse, Bricklane. The infer
ence the relative gulitOt smashing ones mother
and smashing piece OF glass IS obvious
singular scene has been gong on for the past two
days at the Bow-st Police Station. few months
ago one Dugdale, who bas printed and scattered
abroad more obscene literature Than any man uylng
was sent 10 prison, and his stock IN trade seized
Lately Sir Thomas Henry issued an order TO have all
the printed sheets, engravngs, &c, burned. The
dufO-dd6 has Just occurred. The condemned property
consisted of the unbound printed sheets of 5000
volumes. 46 photographic stones. 3lS Impressions from
these, 10 coppeI-plates, and 200 800 engrayings
Tho burning of the sheets IN folded masses was found
to be a slow and uncertain process, the cOnstabes
were engaged several hours IN separating them
Two great furnaces connected with the station used
20 warm and Yeuato the cells. were heated red, and
three large fires built in the station yard these
were all piled mp with Dugdales books and pictures
which were estimated as worth TO him, In money,
thousand pounds. 1t took two days Of steady burning
No sooner had jefferson Davis and his family
landed at Liverpool than The Globe put forth most
singular paragraph saying that Mrs. Davis had ap-
paIenty mulattO blood in her VEINS, and the same
appqared in her children The paragraph has had an