Connecticut western news., 1874-08-28
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
LONDON.

LONDON.
 London is acknowledged to be the head grand center of everywhere. We arrived in the city from bennington at about noon, and repaired immediately to the Grosvenor Hotel at the Victoria Station. This hotel we found to be one of the most magnificent structures of the kind we ever saw. It is a mammoth ediflce, and nowhere in America have we seen a hotel we thought was It's equal in magnificence and grandeur. Great numbers of Americans stop here. Among the Rules and Regulations posted in each room. is the following paragraph: At tendants are strictly forbidden to receive gratuities,' rule and regulation that ey- cry American who has been pumped dry up to thls time by continuous solicitation since he landed; falls in love with it at sight. After good rest we proceed to do the city in manner we think will render the most satisfaction. The first in order on our list comes
 LONDON TOWER
 No one. in whose breast an interest in the annals of ancent England has been awakened, can with indifference approach this venerable castle. As the visitor de scends Tower Hill. the hoary walls of the ancient pile rise before him amidst the sur rounding mass of more modern buildings, grim witnesses of a bygone age. More than eight hundred years ago was this tow CT built, and during these centuries and un- til quite Q recent age, it has been the home of England's royalty. It has also been and is to this day, the depository of the nation al arms and accoutrements, evidence of which is found by continual reference in English history to arms, armour and en- zines. deposited in the Tower of London, from the times of the earliest Norman kings. This tower of London is not as would De naturally inferred by the name alone, single tower, of great dimensions perhaps. ascending heavenward, but IS succession of towers; each of which pos sesses it's distinct name, given to it by its association with certain important events, of which that particular part of the whole
 
 tory as for instance there are the Bloody Tower, the Bell, Beauchamp, Devereaux, Bowyer, Brick, Jewel, Constable, Broad Arrow, Salt and Record towers We joined large party with guide and made the grand rounds of all; visiting the de- partments of ancient armory, containing the most approved engines of warfare of the 10th, 11th, 12th, &c., centuries. Here were great numbers of figures clothed in the steel armours that were actually worn by the ancient kings; also long rows of eques- trian statues clothed, horses and all, in the iron and steel projections worn in battle in early>times. Almost innumerable speci- mems of spears, swords, daggers, arrows, javelins, helmets, breastplates, military fails, battle and pole axes aud all manner of everything used in the warfare of hun dreds of years ago, are systematically ar ranged in these rooms. The ceilings above were decorated with flowers constructed by arranging various parts of guns, such as bayonets, gun locks, &c., &c.,, and in the execution of this work great amount of skill is exhibited, the flowers in form resem- bling accurately those designed to be repre- sented.
 The Horse Armony is occupied by fig ures, some equestrian and some on foot, wearing suits of armour of various periods, from the reign of Henry VI, l422, to that of James Il, 1885. On the wall above the arches are painted the livery colors of the Royal Houses of England, from the Plan taganets to the Stuarts, with the names of the kings during whose reigns the various kinds of armor arranged beneath were in use.