Connecticut western news., 1871-12-08
OUR EUROPEAN


 Liverpool, England. Nov 18th, 1871. Friend Pease.
 The perils of the-ocean, if there are any, have been encountered its discomforts have been experienced, and it's enjoyments,- which it is not entirely des- titute,-have also been participated in by at least portion of our party, but the word enjoyment as applied to the ocean would not escape the lips of others. To two of them it has been scene of sore trial. But the sea has been crossed, and the good ship "Wisconsin," with her hun dred steerage, and thirty eight cabin pas sengers her 50, 900 bushels of wheat; her 4OOO bales of cotton; her hundreds of barrels of flour and her tons of miscellane- ous merchandise was docked yesterday noon, and in less than an hour, eighteen of our pleasantest ship mates were rejoicing in the comforts of hotel on land. The voyage from Queenstown (formerly Cork harbor) to Liverpool, 200 miles, was full of interest, and was made on the loveiiest day that we have experienced since leaving America. No lovelier day ever shone on this island, will venture to say, in Novcm- Der. The Irish coast was beautifully green. Its forts, light houses, palaces, islands, and the ships and steamers in the river and harbor, Cor more properly, St Georges channel,) were doubtless presented in their most inviting aspects. The magnificent stone docks of Liverpool at once attracted our attention, of which there are some IS miles in length, enclosing in the course of six miles along the river front, some 254 acres As the tide rises and falls some 26 feet here, much of the shipping is docked here to load and unload upon a uniform level. The city, like everything else in England, is solldly built, and has world wide commerce.
 Chester; Nov. 18th Evening. We came to this ancient and remarkable city yester- day noon, and have spent the day and a half as never expect to spend another. We have wandered for hours through its immense cathedral, now more than thous- and years old, and built up on and over the foundations of a church erected in the year '6l of the Christian era. The cathedral walls, erected before the time of William the Conquerer, are eaten by the tooth of time into deep Assures and its images look like skeletons. We have walked the entire circuit of the old Roman wall, some two miles in length, which surrounds the an- cient portion of the city and is complete in its entire length, having of course had re- pairs made on it from time to time as the wars of past centuries have caused brooches in it, but the large majority of it standing as when it was erected by the daughter of King Alfred think about the year zoo. On one of its loftiest towers, Charles the 1st stood in l645, and witnessed the defeat of his army by that of Cornwall. We visited old Roman baths; walked through its quaint old streets, where side walks are constructed over one class of shops by the sideof another class, some of them quite elegant, and still over these and the walks the buildings extend to the street, making long covered ways, sheltering from the storms. Time would fail to even refer to its many ancient land marks and curiosities. The city has become large manufactur- ing district and an important railway cen ter. The surrounding country is beautiful and like almost all of England, beautifully cultivated. An hours ride at evening brought us back to Liverpool, from whence we came yesterday, after II o'clock to the city of London, from whence now write. We had another charming day yesterday, and nothing can exceed the beauty of the cultivation of the two hundred miles over which we were whirled along in all express train, over roads as smooth and solid as the Hartford and New Haven, which I consider one of the best in America. We passed on.our way hither, many large and hourishing villages to which in their manu-.