, 1877-06-08
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
THE TOURIST IN EUROPE.

correspondent, dated at Edinburgh,
Scotland, April goth, 1877, gives an
idea of a tourists experience: 1--WE
spent a day in Liverpool, one in
Manchester and q week in London.
tisa great and wonderful city, and
the sights that we saw in that brief
space of time were enough to fill =
lifetime. The first place of note
was st. Paul's Cathedral. We turned
the corner abruptly, and there the
full glory of that immense edihce
burst upon US. was prepared to
see a large building, but its huge
size and magnificent architecture
fairly overwhelmed me. 1t stands
in St. Paul's churchyard-itself COW
ering four or FIVE acres of ground,
but the plot looks crsmped from the
size of the great cathedral. Its dome
is so #. in diameter; $40 #. to the
top of the cross. The church is
550x220 #. built in the shape of
cross. The inches inside are gener-
ally filed with monuments and stat
ues of famous Englishmen; but they
do not generally rank high as works
of art. In the crypt, which is an i'm
mense vault, covering the under
ground portion of the dome, are
buried the greatest sailor and the
greatest soldier that Great Britain
can boast-Admiral Horatio Nelson,
and F. NJ. Arthur, Duke of We'll
lington.
The next day we visited West
minister Abbey. had former high
conception of the noble cemetery
where rests the dust of more than
twenty generations of illustrious
Englishmen, and / was not disap-
pointed. l spent halliday within
its sacred walls, gazing with in
terest and admiration upon the eff
gies, statues and monuments erected
over the dust Of the great men who
lie buried there. As Fortune would
have it, We entered the building by
the North transept, and the first OBJ
ject that met my gaze was the mon
ument to the idol of my boyhood
days-the Great Earl of Chatham.
He stands with "outstretched arm
and eagle eye, bidding England be
of good cheer and hurl defiance at
her foes" It stands in a niche in
the wall, probably 20 feet from the
floor, the lower part being taken
up with = pedestal in front Of which
are grouped three female figures re.
clining and representing History,
Poetry and Justice. 1t is admirable
as . work Of art. His dust rests be-
meath. At the extreme end Of the
North aisle opposite, stands the mon
ument surmounted by the statue Of
the younger Pitt, who was even
greater as a parliamentary leader
than ''the Great Commoner," his ia
ther. But / have not time or space
to tell Of the testimonials erected to
the memory Of Wilberforce, Can
ming, Sheridan. Fox, Burke, Dryden,
Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Shakespeare, Watts, PAlmerston, and
= host of others. There are tablets
with medallion ikenesses Of the two
Wesleys, and of Isaac Watts; but
I missed that Of the great dissenter,
John Bunyan.
/ saw, in Henry the Seventh's
chapel, the tombs with efigies on top
Of them in stone, marble and ala.
baster, of twenty-one kings and
queens, and several scores of knights
and barons; but they did not inter
est me so much as the monuments
to the great men who won their plac-
es in this abbey BY their heroic deed
and immortal verse. One is being
erected to Macaulay, but it is not
yet finished. To a man who can
spare the time and money, West
minister Abbey is we'll worth a visit
of 5000 miles to see. Westminste
Hall, which stands close by, is =
great building both in size and tn,
beauty Of its design. The Hall Of
the House Of Commons is small and
not imposing. Iii is only capable o.
holding 400 members, whereas ther {
are 600. There are only cushioned
benches without desks. The pan.
pels in the walls of the corridors
however, are filed with paintings
representing scenes in the history
Of the British Empire, such as the
Last Sleep Of Argyle; Charles the
First, of Nottingham; Speaker Pow.
ers Asserting the Privileges of Par
lament. The Departure of the Pill
grims.
Of the Natural Gallery of ATt
can only say with the man who