Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-08-06

DO you Know, MT. BultOI' HHal cOnbutuUeB
city in this old land 2 II Is not inhabitants nor
agc, nor fame-it is the possession Oft Cathe-
dral and living Bishop Of the Establishsd /
Church. Many a town with scarce 10000 peo- /
ple Is a city, and looks down with supreme |
baughtiness on these upstart places whose
Churches are without Bishop In the Angli- /
can sense. What becomes Of the city rights, |
! If the Bishop dies or the Cathedral is burned
down during the interim I'LL the place is flied,
| tradition saith not Yet our English friends
have a right to use titles as they please and
forsooth. had rather call LiverpOola borough
than style ms cities some of our western ham.
lets, with pcrchance dozen houses, which
bear the name. London is a city, or rather
there is n city OF London, embracing one sixth
part, perhaps Of the Metropolis, and al other
CITY of Westminster, and several bOroughs Or
whatever they may be, that together constitute
one wilderness Of houses and streets, which is
styled London. And it is indeed wilderness
of which there seems no end. New York is
not a very small city (; l have known smaller
but New York could be placed in one side of
this Metropolis, and then three New Yorks adj
ded, ere this wearying space of buildings and
CONFUSION WOulu DC tONClId' hlNC anu a hdli
million of inhabitants; we must leave the com
putation TO the census taker, the figures are too
large for our grasp but we should have be-
lieyed the book, if ii had said seven miion-
We have walked and wandered, and rode and
wandered, and rode and walked, till London
has seemed to be everywhere. Were are
thankhl that Steamer can bear US beyond
this seemingly endless reach, and that even as
we write, the German Ocean is opening before
US.
Not that we are glad to leave London. Our
short stay in the City has been one succession
. of enjoyment, and we could spend weeks pleas
urably, were itnot that we are in haste to press
/ forward, that the sooner we may turn our face
toward home. We have seen the Crystal
Palace, and Westminster Abbey, and ST.
. Pauls, and Buckingham Palace, and the Zoo
logical Gardens, and Hyde Park, and the Bank
OF England, etc, not quite lad infinitim," as
our Mathematics say, vet the catalogue fLon-
don sights is but begun. We went to tue
Crystal Palace. and spent six hours. l bslieYe
six weeks would be spent with pleasure and
profit 1t is a perfect maze of beauty in all
variety statuary at almost every step hun
QrCub Vi pdlutlupbi tuC pIdHtS anu UCCo nom
many climes, from the stately palm down to
our humblest house plant, growing beneath its
D. roof chambers in bronze or gilt or costly moza
ic, in Egyptian or Tersian or old Tompecal
style And then the building itself with it
domes and navcs and arches, all OF glass.
might give you the figures Of its length ant
breadth and hight and copy the catalogue o
j. its contents, still you would know nothing o
its gorgeous beauty. had often read of il
but it mmeasurably surpasses my anticipation
Westminster Abbey. though less gorgeous
is wonder of architectural beauty, worthy 0
the study of days And while destitute of tn
light and cheerful variety of the Palace, it pos
sesses surprising interest in its statues OF tn
IN great of the past centuries in its tombs wher
lie England's most honored dead, ard in ii
wondrous, almost werd-like history. Besd
&c these two. which place together, though thei
beauty and interest are of as different types a
can well be conceived, scarce anything, eve
in London, seems to merit description. Ther
is ST. Paul's, with its solid grandeur, but it !
nothing beside Westminster, and Museum
and Gardens seem poor and homely after
visit to the Palace. l have spent an hour or S
stone and Disraeli The Parliament building
are rich and beautiful externally, but in &C
80 commodaion, and suitable arrangement the
bear no comparison with our own Capito
The Speakers gallery will accommodate abol
200, and admission can be gained only throug
the permit of z member; each member bein
obliged to limit his permission to one pcrso
attended Surgeons Tabernacle on Sal
bath morning, and listened to plain poInte
sermon from this preacher of wide fame.
was disappointed, yet gratified. found lit
Of the oratorical greatness which I anticipate
but it was delightful to look on 5000 peop
listening 10 the plain truth as it is in Jesus
D" Mr.. Spurgeon has been compared with M
as- Beechcr, but consider the two as different
ILL can well be conceived. There was no dsplt
- of vivid imagination-no description wha
'ur ever, mo anecdotes, and but few of the We
ou simplest illustrations. The sermon was mer
{" ly clear sharp and direct presentation ofChr
er- tian duty. The only explanation of MI Spu
uu- geons fame which can give, is his carne:
) IL ness, and direcness, and the exceeding fam
'ui' iarty of his.style and manner. In our countr
'ui- | do not think that he would have gained
oh wide fame. In England his influence is beyoi
~, that of any other clergyman, and he is wiel
ANU ing it Cor immense good.
s You will ask what think of the Engli
pen people. l am happily disappointed in the
ore and my travelling companions bear the sal
" !" testimony. have found them in my short
i'' tercourse cordial and polic-ready to becoI
10 acquainted and to give any information ask
for. have seen nothing Of the John Blu
u disposition l presume it may be here, but
'e'- has not manifested itself Not in my o'
country have met with more constant poll
'e.' ness and kindness in little matters. True, th'
in is at times, an amusing fOrmalty. There
NV forms and uniforms which to an Americ
"i0 seem ridiculous; Judges and barristers, a
clerks with wigs and gowns; beadles W
: III cooked hats, and the many paraphernala oi
nc nc decaying aristocracy seem to us trifling-eV
oei the guides in Westminster Abbey wear
ill' mense black gowns with velvet collars.
."n- these relics of the customs Of a past age c
'oN' well be forgiven. There are customs wo
NY than these Which England needs to rid hers
I,,c In nf mn off