The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-18
LETTER FROM EUROPE.


ituated on the right side Of the Mer
ey river, and contains about 5OO,0OO
Inhabitants. 1t is second only to Lon.
on in the United Kingdom. Its site
! low and unhealthy. 1t is the great |
,ort in England, for the reception Of
he raw material in trade, as we'll as
he point from which the exports of
goods are chiefly !
to all parts Of the world. 1t
does a great commercial business, but
its manufactures are not very import
ant, The Liverpool docks are con-
structed on a most stupendous scale.
Thew consist of wet, dry and graniPg
docks. erected in connection with ez-
tensive auays and large warehouses.
The wet docks themselves occupy an
area of one hundred and seventy four
acres. and reach fourteen miles in
length. The dry docks occupy an area
of twenty acres. The country around
Liverpool has many elegant farm
houses.
Leaving Liverpool we next stopped
off at Birmingham. which IS a large
commercial and manufacturing city IN
the north east corner of WarWickshire.
England. From very early period
this place has been celebrated for its
manufactures. Its trade In steel, iron,
&C., is now carried on TO an extent
nowhere else equaled. The principal
branches of this trade are plate and
plated wares, ornamented steelgaOds,
Il ackoo1
elry, pdpter ntdche, Japannery, but
tons, cast-iron articles, guns and pis-
tolls, buckles, steam engines, toys, &c.
Your correspondent had the pleasure
of visiting the very extensive electro
plating establishment of Ellington u
Co., working about four hundred
hands. Also, che famous steel pen
factory of Giilett & Co., where all the
Gillett pens are manufactured, work
ing about FIVE hundred female opera
tives. Also, the. celebrated pin and
wire mandatory of Elliott Il Co..
tho most extensive of the kind in
England. While at Birmingham
we visited the old Holt mansion
in ssAston Park, in which were de-
/ posted, for public amusement,
az great number of ancient and
modern curiosities, among which is
a throne of the King of Siam. This
mansion was attacked by Oliver
Cromwell, who sent a cannon bal
through the outer wall, shattering
/ the stairway and lodging in one of the
partition walls, the track of which is
| plainly visible through the building
On the route from Liverpool towards
l Birmingham we passed through the
1 town of WiRSf0FeJ. whose salt-works
turn out one hundred wagon lbads
of salt per day.
Thirty-three miles from Liverpool
We pass the town of CrelOe, the most
noted place in England for the man
ufacture of steam engines. 1t was at
/ this place that the famous driving
wheel " Cromwell, seven and hall
l feet in diameter, was manufactured.
| From Wolverhampton to BirmiRg-
ham, distance of about fifteen miles,
including bridgeport, there is one
continuous scene of iron furnaces on
both sides of the road This Is the
most extensive iron works In Eng-
land, and extends over an area Of
thousands of acres.
| AT the town of Warwick, in War
l wiekshire. we visited the old st
Mary's Church, containing Beau
champ Chapel, erected about the yea,
1889, in which are deposited the sen
ulehral figures of Robert Dudley
first Earl of leicester and his wife
| Richard Beauchamp, the founder o
! | the chapel, and Ambrose Dudley
FL WdrlCicLs Castle Is another of thos
magnificent old baroniai structure
which wore called into existence b
the circumstances of a former age
but which having played a bold par
! in the fierce times of their erection
, now lift their worn heads and stated
forms as grim evidences of a perio,
and state of society that have lon
since happily passed away. Thi
81 structure. like most others that
have seen, is built In the shape of
!, quadrangle, with an open space.
the centre, about one hundred fee
square. some times called an inne
court. This inner court has no GOV
ering, but is entirely surrounded b
the castle, which usually contains tw
tiers or suits of rooms, with .larg
gateway for the main entrance, and
tower on or near each corner. Thi
castle is Ia good state of preserya
ton. The highest is the Guy tower
12S feet in hight. On the top Of tn
buildings there is a substantial wal
constructed from one tower to aCo The
around the quadrangle.
Some Of the rooms are Splendid
furnished. Among the rest is Tia
State bedroom containing the bed, fur
niture, and trunk of Queen Ann. /
5 other parts of the structure are room
{ containing different kinds of ancien
+ armor, both plain and inlaid shield;
armoral bearings, and other instru
nents 81 Warfare, together with paint
q lbgs, statlary, &c. In visiting thes
s ancient cltaoels, whose massive struC
lures consumed a quarter or perhap
halt century In building. the min
u is naturally carried bach 70 ~ tboeo -
r times, when the sword va H. -,
IS preme arbiter of right, and 81 81 -
salty and even the lUrury Of I ~
= arch or a sovereign, consisted nail Il
n if not entirely, In that security FL:
g enemies which the moated castI
n with its massive walls and ponderoT
gates, could give. Could those oj
dtoeliers of that period be permitte
at this day, to rise from their centur
S bound cloisters. and lift their heac
/ above the erumbling towers whic
: they regarded as more powerful the
J. war and more enduring than tim
e with what astonishment would thu
!. behold the radical and sweaniy
) changes which q few hundrf
= years have wrought The frowl
n ing cliffs, around whose brows Il
n lightnings have played for thousan,