New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-23


in your Dockets and keep them there as you
stroll along, You can spend no money though
Won could wish to do so, unless you please 10
trv cup of the Strand coffee In company WIN
wonder man of greens, who has halteu ms
DONKEY cart on his way to Covent Garden, and
is swallowing penny worth OF the steammE
stuff furnished him by a dealer ut the corner.
The beer shops by this time may De legalE
omen if not you may see two or three sturdy
English mechanics lettering III the neighb0rho0d,
waiting for the doors to unclOse ana Tor tIle
fOaming pewter of thTeepenny which VIII De
probably the most substantial part OF thelr
breakfast.
lazy proceed, except to read the Signs anu
whoever does not read the signs III LONDON
will miss q great treat. Never shall 1OrgeD Vne
mingled emotions with when gaZeu upon
those which reminded me Of my own country.
What Yankee would not be affected TO see III
foreign land an enormous annOuncemenC OF
" American rocking chairs'f who would not
feel his heart grow warmer as ne ne, peTuseu tIe
placard inscribed American Ice Y lhele was
temptation to find out whether the American
inlep and the real American cock tail could he
procured within. Funniest OF all was sign
which invited the passer by to try the virtues
of Old DR.. Jacob TOWnseDo's Sarsapanlla" /
think that it is quite thirty years since that al
miTabe panaCea disappeared from the medicine
markets of America and the advertising col
umns of American newspapers. HOW inc wars
of Sarsaparia, carried on with true American
energy, ragged IN our Countrywide battles be-
tween DR.. S. p" and "Old DR.. JacObW How
the rival prOprietOrs called each other humbugS
end quacksl And here was, the patrarchal
survivor still boiling and bOttllng, in London,
| and finding a way for his fluid blessing into
| British stomachs NOrwas this all. Going on
| n little | encountered well known HAIR
| hestorer," the product of American ingenuity
| and science; and Mr.. John Bull was invited TO
rub his bald pate with this miraculous prepara-
| tion and to secure, by its lavish use, hyperion
| locks, if not the front OF Jove hlmseH.
| AS these evidences of American enterprise grew
| more numerous, l might have thought myselI
| for q moment again i'll Broadway, while there
! were not few signs in the city which t0TclDy
| carried me back to the money men OF Wall-st
| Whenever was little blue, 1t was comfort to
| 90 down to BedfOrd-st., Strand. 1t is hlghly
Respectable though not very long thorough
| fare and there could read at the door, Office
of THE Newly DIRK TRIBUNE" and feel myself
for moment at least, a thousand miles
| nearer our Printing House Square.
was Just in time TO see the last OF famous
| Temple Bar, which was in process OF demOlI-
| ton, to be set up, believe, elsewhere. II was
| all gone except a small arch on the right hand
| through which | made it q point always 10
walk for could not but remember that, doubt
| less DR. johnson had rolled through 1t, perhaps
! in earnest conversation with Goldsmith or Dos
we'll MS they wendell their way into Fleet-st;
| Hungry and homeless authors nave crOuChGd
| under it for protection from the midnight
| storm. Savage, that coarse strong type OF tne
man of letters of the eighteenth century, might
have passed under it mutterlng curses upon tne
| unnatural conduct OF the woman whom ne
| called his mother. Upon its summit the,ghaStIy
| heads and quarters of many traitor to the
| House of Orange or the House OF Hanover were
displayed-mementOes OF the horrors wh'ch
| make the pages Of history so pleasant. Daniel
| De Foe stood here IN the plllOry, and here that
unspeaLable scOundrel, Titus Oates, was the
spOt of an Indignant population, ana ana not
! get one dead cat or one rotten egg 100 many:
| 1t was sOmthing to have seen even remnant OF
| nIIusiOnS
English literature of all kinds are so frequent.
AS stood there in the quiet of the fresh morn
| ing, and saw all about me the evidence OF Eng
| lisb Observation-Disclosures, material, ana
political-the imagination easily peopled the
| scene saw the grim Templa:s borne to last
resting-place Ill their beautiful church. Close
| by were the Great Inns OF Court, IN whlch thc
| science of English Jurisprudence has been for
| SO many years cultivated, and that common
law perfected to which my own country owes
30 much of its political liberty and social safety.
Here were the gates which were closed even
against the mOnarChs of England demanding
| admission, and which were not opened without
paIley SO Elizabeth stood here for moment,
and then went on In a great pageant 10 give
| thanks to God at ST. Paurs for the destruction
of the Spanish Armada. / do not wonder that
London persisted so long III maintaining Temple
Bar, nuisance prOsaically speaking, as 1t un-
doubtedly was. II it checked the tide OF travel,
| and Occasoned hundred Inconvenience, and
no end of prolane language from caLmen and
| carmen, it compensated for all, or at least Tor
much, by perpetually telling the story OF such
progress from barbarlsm to clVlllzatiOn ana nom
| despOtism to liberty, as the WOrlu HAS 100 Sci
dom witnessed.
The Strand at noon is somewhat different
from the Strand i'll the morning. The gay
| shops are open by this time and the tornado OF
traffic, if may say 80, has begun d anG sue hue
| rying pedestrians, and the roadway Is so
crowded with vehicles of every description
that our little blocks and jams in Broadway
a. V.eVlsfa
| seemed to me nothing IN comparison.
Why there was not constant wreck and rum;
why vehicles were not disabled why hoads
were not fractured, and even life destroyed at
any moment, was an enigma only 10 ne s0lVed
| ly reference to English notions OF the right OF
way, and English respect for it. But If there
were difficulties in the moving up or down,
there was also the frequent policeman, always
| interfering If necessary, ana seldom nndlng 10
| necessary to interfere. If there was Il labyrinth
there was also law; and so the confusion was
much less than one might have reasonably cX-
pected. 1t is said that we must go Il few miles
| away from it to hear properly the roar OF the
| London streets. Then, too, ii you grow weary
| OF confusion and of noise, escape from them Is
| always easy. In the most BUSTING parts or the
| city proper are quiet little courts, anu DTS OF
streets which are almost as still as country lanes;
| alleys which human enterprise has not seen lit
to enter; dim old coffee houses which give you
| almost nerfcct solitude with your mutton chop,
| and The Times newspaper. In Regents Park a
man is almost as much in the country as II he
| were in the middle OF Shropshire. In five
minutes, il the noise of the Strand should prove
| too deatcning, you may secure the quiet of the
| Inner Temple, and stand under the shadow of
that beautiful Temple Church which the
vulgar spirit of restoration, just now too preva.
| lent in England, has not been able entirely to
spoil. There are flowers and green grass. an
cient trees and sparkling fountains; and withal
| a stiffness which 10y contrast seems profound
| There l understood for the first time what
| Burke meant when lie called the parks the
| lungs of London"
| Different still is the Strand at midnight or
| later. As the theatres discharge their crowds
| of pleasure seekers, this thorOughfare is once
more throDged, aud even brilliant Many Of
the shops, and especially those devoted to phys
ica refreshment, are yet open and brightly