Connecticut western news., 1875-09-17
Across the S9Os

FRIEND PKAsR.-In the absence of any other necessary occupation, and for the purpose of giving little varety to sea life it may do to write few lines to the CoN- NEoroUT WESTERN NEWS, as we say in our country, Your widely extended and highly useful paper But who of your readers will care to peruse anything coming from the monotony of the sea? Here we are ploughipg our way day after day, through the wide waste of waters ln a sea so com prehensive that although there are thous- ands of vessels upon it,you scarcely see on an average two per day. We have the lar = gest ship afloat except two-the Great Eas- tern and the Berlin, and yet with her three thousand tons of freight; her two thous- and tons of machinery, we continue to mark daily over 300 miles by the log.
 We have clean sweep of 45O feet on deck on each side of the sky-lishts for a promenade, the boat being 475 feet long and one of the steadiest ever put in the sea. Steady as she is however, she tumbled pas sengers, furniture. crockery, etc., about by day and night at lively rate, ,dashing a sea on to ono of our doctors, and tumbling the other in company with his deck chair and some lady companions down against the side of the ship; but no harm resulted. The other gentleman of the party, being more of salt escaped such by-play by taking to the lee of the wheelhouse.
 With the exception of this escapade of the sea our voyage was almost as calm and bright as summer morning. Liverpool we found wearing it's usual aspect. A sol Id city full of busy life, holding more com. merce with the world than any other city on the globe. Its adorrments are few and modern its business solid. A run to old Chester presented quite contrast. One of the oldest towns in the kingdom. Its walls l of two miles in circumference afford a fine promenade and enclose the ancient portion of the city entirely, except the goteways These walls are in some portions yer, old, as it is known that repairs ere nude upon them A. D. 73. Some portions of the ca l thedral within the walls are more than a
 
 unique to degree.
 One of our party left us at Liverpool, and the other, with your correspondent. found the next place of interest, especially to the invalid gentleman, to be the old border l town of Lancaster. It's old castle and the magnificent country that surrounds it, at tracted us; but an otj"ct of more interest, and which should be and may be described by another. I will simply say that the h. stitute for the care of imbeciles, founded more recently than ours at Lakeviile, is 6 palatial establishment, designed for the ac commolation of GOO patients, replcte with every possible convenience.
 l If our new State House in Hartford is made to approximate it in architectural beauty and extent we shall have occasion to be proud of it. spent couple ot hours with the two medical gentlemen (oul now and the residenD looking through the establishment, visiting the school, etc.. and then in listening to the first professional discussion had heard on this side of the water. was proud of my countryman His sound head and clear expression ar rested the attention of the foreigner. Tht latter however, pleased us much, as he is gentleman of good mind and high culture I do not think from what saw and heard that the English pay as much attention t, education, properly speaking, as they do t training for some useful employment. Dr Knight surpasses them in educational of forts.
 The more l see of our doctor the nor do wish that he may be restored, physi cally. to what he was two years ago. Well on we drove in the awkward and lncon venient rail cars through magnif1cen country to another border town famous il history and border warfare-Carlisle. It old castle is more of fortress than Q cas tie, though combining both. A regimen is stationed here, which we saw whil promenading it's lofty walls.
 The English Lake District occupied ou time for another day, and SO occupied that my enraptured companion thought worth the passage across the ocean to visi this alone. But you must enlist his nor graphic pen for an account of it. 1 an happy to report that his health is improv ing. H.