Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.

Boulogne France Nov. 27, 1871.
 Friend Pease: If you could have been landed on the shores of Labelle, France. as we were at o'clock on this brilliant 27th of November, and especially in this quaint old city of Boulogne, think you would have been willing to let the old press remain idle for few days at least, while you could examine with us the crumbling edifices and monuments of other days But the works of more modern date are not to be ignored, even in, these old coun- tries where so many things seem tending to decay. But before dilating further upon 8 country, upon whose borders we have only just touched, allow me to say few words about that other country, from which our nation sprang, and in conjunction with which we are toglve law and Ian guage to the world. This may seem bold prediction, but its accomplishment, in my judgment, is no longer We have spent fourteen days in England, in this month of Novem. Der, proverbially the most gloomy there of the twelve, without experiencing any more than few hours of rain outside of L1n- don, and during these hours, we were with in the old walls of Chester cathedral, some portions of which stood as they now stand, a thousand years ago a fact which almost passes the comprehension of persons from so new country as ours. Think of it people stood within these walls to worship God, in our language nearly eight centur- ies before the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth rock. There are edifices in this old town, which we have seen to day, that doubt not, were erected before America was discovered. But to return to old Ches- ter the whole town is marvel of interest Our ladies accompanied me in trayersing its old walls their entire length, nearly two miles in circumference, and from which, so complete were they, we had no occasion to descend until we returned to our start ing point. They enclosed the old and most interesting portion of the city, and are fanked occasionally by time worn towers that have looked down upon many bloody scene. Here upon one of the loftiest, stood Charles the 1st and witnessed the defeat of his army by Cromwell's. This morning we had spent eleven CID days in London, nine of which to our surprise, were pleas ant and light, on one other, we experienced 8 London fog ; smoke and fog settling down upon the great city so densely, that-at noon day we could not sec across the broad streets. Lamps were lighted, both in the streets and churches, and at o'clock we could not read newspaper only by gas light. Yesterday, (Sunday,) was similar day, but three of our party, through the courtesy of friends, were furnished with tickets of admission into the inner temple of the aristocratic old temple church, which was built in 11S5, and which is admirably preserved from the tooth of time. It was well filled with apparently devout worship CTS, where the exercises were impressive and the music especially good.
 Time and space would utterly fail me tc tell you of the ten thousand things we saw of most intense interest in the tower of London, in the British museum, in,the Kin
 sington museum, in Westminster abbey, ir the parliament houses, in the old Somese
 house, and in the exhibition of wax figures in Madam Tousand's museum. In oul
 country we are accustomed to associate waxfgures with few pale faced abortion'