Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON. Eng, June %. 1879

Uur european Letter,
| LONDON. Eng, June %, 1879.
Since writing last week. the report q
he London select committee upon electri
lighting has been issued, and proves TO b
'document of unusual lucidity, although
commercially brief. The views heretofDr,
expressed on the subject are streng,hene,
n remarkable manner by the conclu
lions OF the committee, not only as re
cards the light but also in reference TO th,
Industrial developments likely to b,
'rought about by the economy of force
IT. in other words. the working power o
electricity. 1t was conclusively shown b,
'ome OF the scientific witnesses who were
'alled by the committe, that the sam,
wire which was used to transmit mower ir
he daytime may be used to transmit
Ight at night, thus not only bearing GU
he truth of the experiments in France tc
which referred last week, but actually
going beyond those startling results. In
;identally, the report affords some very
'aluable information for consumers Of
'ght. The committee are of opinion tina.
he gas companies have no claims what.
yer TO be considered as the future dis.
rlbutors of electric light. DR.. LYON
playfair. who is understood 10 have
lrafled the report, which was unapi-
nously adopted, truly says that gas
companies pjssess no monopoly of LIGHT
nS either streets or private houses be-
ond the power they have of LAYING pipes
the streets. This home thrust at the
great distributors of light at whose mercy
he public is so absolutely placed, will not
re very pilatable; but consumers will
eJoice at the prospect of AN alternately
'upply, however remote, which will deliy.
'r them from their present thralldom.
The hun iredth anniversary of the birth
II Tom Moore, the Irish minstrel, has
'een very generally and enthusiastically
celebrated throughout the Engli,h-speak.
'ng world. The bright bard of Erin has
suffered no eclipse from his SUCCESSORS.
What Byron wrote more than fifty wears
Ego is truer than ever to-day
Ihey say, Tom Moore, your songs arc sung
tCan this be true, you lucky mlnO
AT midnight, in the Persian tongue,
Along the streets of Ispahan
Some twenty years ago, when on q
Visit to Bowood, in England, the venerable
iarquis of Lansdowne drove me out to
he border OF his grand old park, one fre
october afternoon, to call on Tom Moore's
widow, then upwards of eighty years of
&c, and bad the pleasure of seeing,
Tough then but withered flower, his
: loves young dream" the beauty of his
life, and the " Bette of his songs. The
,ood old marquis never tired OF talking of
he brilliant wit and genial hunor of his
'oet-protege, and of the wonderful eff. ct.
he rapture of delight, produced in the
rawing room of BJwood when Moore
ang ITO chiefs and ladies bright" his
wn songs, set to his own music. and
ccompanied by himself on the piano
rte. "Tara's Halls" "She is far from
no land where her young hero Sleeps
nd 20. the days are gone when beauty
right" sung with all the elfision of an
Improvisation, anil with an expression of
'ok and nj inner that thrilled men
carts and melted women's, made the
vening of "those days" at Bowool whit
christopher North called noctes ambro.
"tnce. Byron, who was often present at
iese poetic feasts. wrote his "Ad ress
the Ro-opening of Drury Lime Thea
g" in the very room CHANGED to occupy
lring the visit above mentioned. Alas
ow the lights of other days are failed!
The harp that once through Tara's halls,
Its soul OF music shed,
Now hangs as NIUE as Tala's walls
As though that soul were dead
A grand temperance movement has
gently been started in England, which.
ke the anti-treating society in America,
lnnot fail to produce radical reform in
Ne habits of the people. A company has
cen olganized, with capital of one
illion sterling, for the purpose of estab
'hing cheap coffee houses throughout the
ty of London, and all other large towns
take the place of the rum shops. These
aces of wholesome refreshment, where
generous clp of flee and II roll of
cad may be had for one penny, are
ade in every way attractive to the
orking people of til sexes, and they
g already lar5e'y pItronized. while
ose who visit the IL, instead of getting
psy. noisy, headachy and quarresome,
turn to their work refr, shed, strengthen
and cheered. This most excellent
form is enlisting the acting symp,thies
the better classes. and none but rum
Hers oppose it. Another Temperance {
ovement. auxiliary to this, is the effor
ut IS now being made to introduce light
ger beer in tho place of heavy, heady
nglish beer But the coffee movement
the most practicable and effective, The
orking people must have places of re.
TT during the Intervals of work. and on e
lndays and in bad weather, and thou
nds will prefer the coffee house to the
'biic house. especially when books and t
wspapers are added to the attractions.
he coffee movement is not only popular %"
London, it is fashionable. The highest 4
mes In England are associated with the !
'od cause. and predict for it glorious !
volulion in the economy and morals of ;
9 people, and II large dmunition of the v
ewgate Calender.
Mrs. Langtry. the sensation beauty " +
the last three seasons, is going for a t
p to the United States, and has engaged !
passage on one of the magnificent ves- f.
IS of the White Star line. As the lady 1
question has rather used up England in Il