The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24

contains the remains OF so many dis
tinguished people, aud few places where
AN American of education can spend a
day with greater interest.
/ Taking the cars on the Metropolitan
or underground railway, which makes
| the entire circuit of the city, few min
utes brings us to the South Kensington
/ Museum and the Albert Memorial Mon
umeut, at one corner Of Hyde Park.
The museum, while it is not so large as
the British, is yet a fine one, scientif-
cally arranged. Il has lately been dis
I tinguished for the art school connected
with it, What interested me most at
my last visit was DIR. Schlieman's col
lection Of Trojan antiquities, which has
been on exhibition here since last
| Christmas. The memorial erected to
/ Prince Albert by Queen Victoria is very
/ fine aud in undisputed taste, excepting
the gigantic gilt statue of the Prince.
AS a whole, the monument has gen.
eral resemblance to the Scott monu-
ment at Edinburgh.
We ride back toward the center Of the
city for more than a mile along Hyde
Park, one OF the many breathing places
which London is fortunate in possess
ing, by Buckingham Palace Gardens
and the palace itself, a large, but by
no means striking building, the city
residence Of the Queen of England,
down the mall beside the beautiful st.
James Park to Charing Cross, the center
of the west end, the fashionable part Of
London. Near here are many Of the
finest reside noes in the city, and most
Of the aristocratie club-houses.
At Charing Cross in Trafalgar Square,
is magnificent monument to Lord
Nelson, and along one side Of the square
is the national art gallery. From Char
ing Cross, the street is called the Strand,
aud is one Of the most prominent thor.
oughfares in the great city. At Tenn.
pie Bar, which was formerly a cOnspie.
uous land mark, and could be seen from
a long distance from either side, the
name again changes to Fleet street
The Bar was a rude arch thrown acros:
the street, where 10 early times stood
the posts or bars which marked the
boundary line between London and
Westminster. 1t was removed about
two years ago, and we miss its familiar
arch and the rusty iron hooks on which
the heads of criminals were exposed
only a hundred years ago.
Just as We enter Fleet street, on the
right, is a former palace of Henry VIII.
and Cardinal Wolsey, which is now a
hair cutting establishment. Fleet street
was formerly a resort of literary men.
Ben JOnson, Chatterton, Dryden, Mil
ton, Goldsmith, aud a host of others are
associated with this historic street. The
well-known Mr.. punch" also has hi.
office here. At the foot of Ludgate Hill
the street again changes its name tC
Ludgate Circus, which extends to St
Paurs Cathedral, the place where W,
commenced our sight seeing.
If we now take seat with the driver
of an omnibus on Cheapside, we car
ride through Newgate, Holborn, anC
Oxford streets (the same unbroker
street, but with different names), dis
tance Of many miles back TO Kensing
ton, and will have seen the entir,
length Of the city, in course, i'm gen
eral, parallel to that taken from Kin
sington to st. PaUrs On Oxford stree
we are near the British Museum, abou
which we can only say here that il i
the largest and best museum in tn
world, and is worthy all the time on
can give it, if il be a month. 1t was re
Gently proposed to issue a catalogue O
the museum, but the plan was fnall,
abandoned because to simply name tn
different things in the collection woul
=, make several books as large as Wet
! ster's Unabridged.
= The limits Of a single letter will pei
. NIT mention Of only few Of the places
and those the most prominent, whic
we had the pleasure Of visiting. To an
one boru to the English language, tbel
is no city in the world equal to LOndO
= for Interest or improvement, and f
weeks the traveller can wander throug
it, familiariziug himself with place
persons, and events which have bee
/, prominent in our common English hi
- tory for the past thousand years. A
=. though London is dingy and smok
~ often obscured by dense fogs, and raj
:, are so sudden aud frequent that it seer
as il the inhabitants are born with Ut
brellas under their arms, she is a city
- he loved by every American travel,
and to be left with regret.
O. r. BURCHARD.
= \ CITY STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
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