Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-29
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, Sept. Ia, 18'

LONDON, Eng, Sept. IA, 1881
Although the past. London season has
suffered from the excess of rain, and
though garden parties have come to grief
and the lawns of the race-courses have
been shorn of their parterres of youth and
beauty, dazzling in summer costumes,
society has taken very good care to enjoy
itself; and when society revels in enjoy
ment trade cannot be said to be utterly
depressed
The thoroughly British custom of dinner
giving has hardly survived the melancholy
influence of the past six months, and
although the chimneys of the Mansion
house have not smoked to any exception
al extent, the city companies have shown
their accustomed and splendid hospitality.
and the Freemason's tavern and Willis
rooms have had no reason to complain of
slackness in the giving of charity ban
quets. Richmond may have suffered
somewhat; but Greenwich has held its
own, and the Ship and the Trafalgar have
mourned no dminution in the patronage
of the votaries of water souchy and lob
buildings, and black and red "devilled'
bait. Society, again, has given and gone to
muItifarious balls, and several really
memorable weddings have occurred during
the season of 1880, of which the solemn
cation has seemingly not melted the tribe
of West end dressmakers, milliners, lace
men, artificial florists, pastry cooks, wine
merchants and livery stable keepers to rend
their garments over the dullness of their
| respective trades.
Finally, society has gone. with an en-
gerness which may almost be qualified
AS fever,h, to the play. Poor old Drury-
lane has been abandoned. it is tru9, to
cobwebs and the rats; but to neighbor-
ing theatre the elite has, these many
weeks past daily and hourly locked, and
the admirable company of the Com edie
Franchise, after delighting us with the
exhibition of their genius and capacity,
have returned to their native shores with
considerably over ten thousand pounds
sterling of English money in their pockets.
Meanwhile two large Italian opera
houses have enjoyed fair amount o
prosperity, and the typically fashionable
London theatres have been well supported
All this, it is we'll to remember, has taker
place in spite of the miserable weather
an acknowledged and widespread depres
sion wholesale trade and manufacture
and cruel wars on the borders of the EN-
pire.
The London Times has published lately
several leaders on the gigantic scale or
which the export of American wheat i
, conducted. 1t endevors to console The
f British farmer by reminding him of TIN
: fact, that if American wheat can be sol
: in Great Britain at fifty shillings pc
+ quarter, he can get that price for his whea
i if he has it to SELL Increased importation
+ has augmented the number of brea
G eaters, and if the present harvest is
. GOOD one the British farmer will get
1t fair return for his product The Time
g even thinks that the days of high pric
have not entirely disappeared for til
British farmer, as America cannot alwaN
$ reckon on series of good harvests.
10 In the climatic sense nothing could
o more exquisite than the autumn days
Of London Through the opaline air tn
is tender blue canopy of heaven smile
v while the countless parks are robed
ne their richest drapery of Lincoln greer
Or the chosen hue of Robin Hood and h
y merry men. TO any one interested in no
n ticulture, even to the simple extent
pc being fond of flowers, the scene at Hy'
eS Park inst now is one Of witching Lowell
= ness. The grassy greenery of the cent?
n swards, broken by the outrageous bosB
n ness of noble ancient trees, under who
u deep, cool shade gather fair herds
10 sheep, with groups by the brookside
IN spotted deer, with large shy eyes-the'
e. form, as it were, picture which is set
til the glowing frame of brilliant band
N flowers, extending all around the par
rs but particularly beautiful on the si
facing that street of palaces, Park Ian