The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-09

and liberties of the guilds, burgesses
freemen, and corporation of London
The Conqueror, pleased with their jeal'
Ousy of their rights, added many privi'
leges not heretofore enjoyed. The new
charter was reduced to writing on pareh.
| ment, signed and sealed by the King
whereupOn the drawbridge was lei
| down, and the King and his cavaliers
crossed the London bridge and took
possession Of the Royal palaces. This
charter from William the Conqueror is
still preserved in the archives Of the
city.
London has grown in numbers, mag
nltude, and consequence, with the
been the capital for more than twelve
centuries. London is now the political
capital of an Empire of 25O,O0O,0OO of
souls, and it is the financial capital of
the whole AnglO-Sazon race, including
the United States. It is a curious fact
that the Revolted Colonies" are the
| largest customers of the Mother Coun-
try" and the largest borrowers of the
London money.
When speaking of London" the an
clent corporation of that name must
not be understood.
THE CITY OF LONDON PROPER,
ruled over by Lord Mayor and Board
OF Aldermen, is only mile long by
twO-thirds Of q mile broad, containing
450 acres, and less than $4,000 inhabi
tants. 1t decreased, between 1851 and
1871, more than $1,000 in population.
The old London, a couple Of centuries
ago, contained 100000 inhabitants. But
the family population have nearly all
moved out Of it, and it is now given up
to banks, insurance offices, wholesale
stores, book and newspaper publishing,
government offices, lawyers offices, any
! such business as one sees in New York
one mile from the Battery up Broadway
and the cross streets.
But what the world calls London,
consists of ten districts, the smallest Of
all the others being much larger than
London proper, viz: Chelsea, Finsbury,
Greenwich, Hackney, Lam beth, Maryle-
bone, Southwark, Tower HamIets,
Westminster, and London. Three or
four of these districts contain each more
than 100000 souls. The whole are
known here as the Metropolitan Dis
trict.. Old London is the only division
that is governed by Mayor and Board
Of Aldermen. The other districts have
Boards of Vestrymen, whose duties are
as few and simple as those of the Town
Board OF Illinois township. They have
very little to do except to look after
the paupers in their districts. J. M. NJ.
CARE FOR DAUGHTERs.-WOu You
show, yourself, really good to your
daughters Then be generous to them
in truer sense than that of heaping
trinkets on their necks. Train them for
independence first, and then labor to
give it to them. Let them, as soon as
ever they are grown, have some little
money, or means of making money, to
be their own, and teach them how to
deal with it, without needing every
moment somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or will
bequeath to them, not, as is usually
done, on the chances of their making
rich marriage, but on the probability of
their remaining single and according to
the scale of living to which you have ac-
customed them. Suppress their luxuries
now il need be, but do not leave them
with scarcely bare enecessaries hereafter,
in striking contrast to their present
home. Above all, help them to help
themselves. Fit them to be able to
aid for their own means rather than to
be forever pinching and economizing
till their minds are narrowed and their
hearts are sick.
Giveall the culture you can to every
power which they may possess. If they
should marry after all, they will be the
happier and better forit. If they should
remain among the million Of the un-
married, they will bless you in your
grave, and say of you, what cannot be
said of many a donating parent by his
surviving child, My father cared that
| should be happy after his death as
we'll as while was his pet and his toy.''
MORAL INFLUENCE oE MILL1NERs
IN UTAH.-What missionaries have
been unable to effect milliners are in a