The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-04

may, and does not, use the English accent,
he may stammer, or fall into maunerismsa and
all that, but he Is almost always courteous in
debate, and he generally does his best to go
to the point before the House. There is no
reading Of long extracts, no windy general
defamation, and no speaking against time.
Here they beat US. A fellow like Flanna.
gan, OF Texas, might get for two minutes
the ear of the House, but that would be all,
and then he would have to sit down.
Besides seeing the grand old piles like
Westminster Abbey, st. Patrics's cathedral,
and the like, one is greatly tempted here to
hear and see the great lights of theology.
Some OF my most agreeable recollectiops OF
England will be OF this sort. / was happily
caught by au afternoon service in Westmin-
stcr Abbey, and next Sunday hear9 there the
grand choral service and also great sermon
by Dean Stanley, the head OF what Is usually
called the g. Broad Church" party in Eng
land. Next Sunday l heard Cardinal Man
ming, having during the previous week had
the pleasure Of personal introduction and
interview. l have no time TO speak of the
sermon or to compare its opinions or struc-
tuTe with the discaurses of bis earlier life.
Suffice it to say that it was controversial
the church militant claiming the spiritual al
leglance OF England-and put with power,
conciSencss, and force that formed an inter-
esting contrast with the more emotional and
warm rhetorical appeals OF the Anglican
pastor, fresh from Oxford, whom had read
after long ago. ..
The Cardinal preached from the altar with.
on. railing or using notes, rs one OF the
speakers of Judea might have done afore.
time, slowly, distinctly, and very impressive
ly. The discourse was one plain enough to
be grasped in large part by the unlearned. and
yet affording food for thought for the most
intellectual Audience. He Gne CardinaD IS
tall, long, very spare man. L do not Know
whether he is an ascetic or not, but II bad
my way would put him on Kentucky horse
and make him ride fifteen or twenty miles
every day OF bis life, and eat good dinner
afterwards. He needs something of the kind.
His residence is in the West End, and his re-
ception.room looks out, you will suppose, Oh
flowers, lawns, Shrubbery, and all the sweet
preaching of Gods best and purest gifts Of
beluty. No! nothing of the kind. Behind
it is lorg, %loomy prison-the abode of
crime, vice, and sorrow. / should certainly
prefer other surroundings If had sucl work
Us his TO do.
Much as liked Dean Stanley and Cardi.
nal Manning, if were called on to name my
most pleasant impressions in the religious
way in England they would be two sur
priSes. One was the music OF Temple
church, which attended only yesterday, and
which of itself is almost worth q voyage
across the Atlantic. Not in eighteen years
have heard devotional music worthy TO be
compared with it, and then it waS on the
shores of the Pacific, from one long since
gone TO join her strains TO the songs OF the
b!cst. My other event was the happening in
with the Vicar of Battlefield caurcb, near
the old town of shrewsbury. The church is
sweet, old ivy.covcred pile. 1t has been
restored not long ago, and lies three miles
| from Shrewsbury. 1t was built by Edward
| the Fourth, in 1403, to commem morate bis vic
| tory over the uotSpur and Douglas coalition
| and that ilk, and on the very spot OF the bat
| tie to which gentle Shakespeare has lent bis
pen. | walked out the fines, summer morn.
| ivg have yet seen in England, meeting the
| market people sauntering amid hedges
aud green teldS and some OF the very
sweetest of rural English scenery. Quite
near the church lies the rectory, half hidden
| by roses and ivy-a dainty gem, such as we
read of in books. And there was an Eng
| lish home-music, books, the house.dog, the
|
and | had chat. He showed me his church,
| which he evidently loved, aud his Aderney
| COWS, which he loved also, and pcttei as he
| did the dogs and The children; and 20, talk
| ing Of everything in the world bus OF the
ology, we walked IN together the three miles
to Shrewsbury. He was quite young. q
muscular Christian, with hearty love for all
| that is true. and good, and manly, that was
| very refreshing. In the evening he took me
| to the ruins of Haughmond Abbey, near by;
and so we pissed u large part of the day to-
| gether with yet pota word on religion. But
| if Brother Beecbcr wants to know what
"true inwardneSs is in its highest, purest,
most honest sense, let him try, As | did, the
| Vicar Of Battlefield on a constitutional walk.
| Donn Piatt is here looking unusually well.
| would, had | space, narrate our adventures
the other day in narrow court or alley Of
/ London, where we were nearly half lost,
and our charge of umbrellas upon the host
of ragged urchins who blocked our way.
Colonel Forney and some other American
| journalists are also in London. The most
prominent American living here, however,
is MIR. Benjamin, former Secretary Of State
ior the Contederacy. He has, in spite Of all
prejudice, Won his way TO the very front
| rauk of the English bar, and is one Of the
most successful plcaders in the courts of
GuldhalI and Westminster, making his
10000 year easily, and looking almost as
young aud quite as cheerful as he did fifteen
years ago. But if do not stop your readers
will say, as do, that this letter is already
too long. l.. Z. W.