Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-12-03
Our Foreign Corresp spoatenes.
From raneI's Hump to the Thames.


commerce, the creates, thoroughlare 0
ocean travel in the world suppose, little
of 1t was seen. The first t#o days ont from
New York, running along parallel viii
Long Island and a. near to land as was safe
and the last two days. passing along the
| southern coast Of Ireland, 81. George :.
channel and the Irish sea. most O. the
time in sight of land, vessels were ocea.
sionally seen, and of course near the great
ports they were frequent and of great va
riety but in mid ocean it was rare thing
to see a ship We left New York On Tues
day P m, and on Friday aud Saturday we
sighted one, two or three day. one on
Sunday, and then saw no more until Fri
day. The immeusity Of modern commerce
and trave! : trne enough, and Is folly i'm
pressed on any one visiting the warehouses
and the harhors Of New York, Boston,
Liverpool and london but the rhetorical
llourishes, and the Tcc'cal figures about
the ocean ploughel with keel, ard covered
with sails aad loaiei 10 grpanins. with the
inierchangiug products uf ali c.ime-, are
simply myths and faneies Near the har-
bors Of lew great cities something can be
seen OF commerce. along the great reaches
Of coast very little. but III mil ocean. even
the Atlantic, and in the narrow belt that
lies between the few great c,mmercial
countries oi the globe. l. trackles-. si,ht-
To- Ill
busy world Of man. or oi any other liv-
in- creature, ii this voyage j. g reprcsen-
tatire Of others. We saw 10 whalcs or
sharks. and but lew porpoi>cs y few white
sea gulls appeared daily, seeming 80 follow
the ship and to live on the r,ia~e % the
tables that was thrown over hoa,.i .iul T. very
few Of the stormy petrei, ,--n1,hrr C4Icy'S
chickens, the sailors call them in size and
movement on the wing very much Ike the
swallow. or rather the purple martins.
When ships meet in tie Atlantic ihev
usually pass a L distance of mile or more,
and only report to each ether hy signals,
di~ce-ned by aid Of glass suppose it is
this desolatiUn of the ocean that helps To
make up the intense delight ALWAYS felt on
seeing or viewing the hand, and showed
about equally BY sailors and passengers
TIE first land seen at daylight. Friday
morning, VAS bold rock ou the -lIih-weSt
corner OF Ireland. Soon several other rocks
were seen, all standing hign ont of the
water. Ere long the land proper appcared
For nearly hundred miles, should think.
the c0as; was bold ana rocky. ani the land
appeared 10 be a barren waste, covered with
heath. Approaching k;usale AMI Cork. we
could see cultivated lanl-.and. on the south
eastern coast, what APPEARED I, be rich
and highly cultivated region.
II Queenstown. tie port o. the .itv of
Cork a small steamer came oI; ard tplk the
mails FOX LJaion-ablat sixty lag. each
holding three Ut four ba-hcls and beng a
good load for one mans ~h0ullef--Which
were - be carried y raj, to DaIlin, tlen
by steamer - ll,lyhcsid. and theme ur rll
through Wales - LJnlon. la this way
they get to LopIon as soon as' our steamship
gets to Liverpool. We lc.t QGceu~.own at
dark, Friday, and arrived il the hIs5Jr OF
Liverpool At four o clock on saturday. tar
rieI little for the tide at the bar and got
ashore AZ seven. The customs .ll.cf~ came
on board. iusliring chiefly ior t.5lcc0,
cigars and reprints Of En-I-h ho'S- Only
one ur two passengers were DELAYED av the (
search. and these were English army ,iicer-. /
The hotel 10 which w. directed in /
Liverpool bears the name OF Washington, /
and has fine large portrait OF hin, at the !
head Of the front stairway. Blt in every |
thing else it seems u be thoroughly Eng
.i>h. though taking especial lans 90 accom- |
mldate guests from America /, la> q few /
American parerS from which learned /
nothing ue~. From the English Iapers |
cleaned the least bit Of American news,
ard managet Ia find ai,er rrotr,rrei search.
what | was especially anxious t. learn. the
result OF the elections in Ohio, Wisconsin.
md Iowa, which took lace the day left
New York /
Walking the streets on SIudny. saw
nothing in the looks. dress fashions or man
Ter Of the people 10 remind ne taat | was
10; in Boston or BROOKLYN or Phi.adclyhia,
1r even Burlington Perhaps their speech
va lttle marked, but nothing else.
everything seemed more like home and 10
ne much less oreign and outlsnii.i than
n the streets OF Nes York Ofc.u:sc,
m not speaking Of the build'~-s rave
nents, churches, ani - forth. ;.n.l A .,!.-
atiOus OF age and soiditv ia every work
1 men : hands. and the ~moay atup.~ picre,
nd the dingy. sloty outside OF e,erylhing.
unday seemed 70 he As quiet an! folly kept .
: Il day of sacred rest as have seen iu any
ity Of America. more fully than %. New
.ork, and me Others in our couu,rv.
In the evening was directed by the lsi,s-
NJ crowd into - Victoria Hail" did
OF just then recall what ! have read of it. :
nd WAS boxing for some fine structure, !
nd some finished work of art, worthy Of
: name. found it an imTncn-e building
nd all rough a. country barn. Posts,
illaI>, beams, ralterS and ceiling were all
aked, coarse and rough r. when they came {
-om the SAW mill 1t WIS tac = IIall'' !
rected for MIR. Moody. The SPEAKER was I
lr. Henry NaFey. % LONDON. wh1 was
] Glnah last year. and preached in Bar
um's liippoirone. New York. hat winter. (
nd IN B ,>ton, and perhaps other American
tiles. lie i, man OF medium height,
.out and heavy has short Thick meek wide (
louth. and an exceedingly duh exc Ills
pice was heavy and strong, hi manner
lthcr dHil, his language good aud his
reaching was direct and 40 timc~ impress
We. liIs doctrine and the Joints most
,rcibly impressed We're, think. mach the
ime a. Mr.. Moody '-.--a h -h state of Chris
an peace and j,y attainahIc instantly by
elieying in Jesus Christ the son of God.
nd to be followed by life OF faith and
hriStian activity.
In the course Of his discourse bible in
and he came scrJss the sentence, - BIried
ith Christ e., and showed himself n
sd Baptist, though further uu he di>raimed
Il sectarian feelings ur work. The singing
as OF Mr. Sankey's songs, aud by the con
regation, which = guessed was six or
sht thousand Services we're announced !
II each dag oi the week by Mr. Narley. !
here SEEMS to be remaining much of the
itere-t awakened at Mr.. Moody visit and
lr. Narley'S work is TO aid IN continuing
Ie work and in gaticrin- the be+t possible
suit. +.