Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-14

1 demon of fire arising from the story of Lon
 don's great confagration but stone and brick are cheaper than here in America, l though we seem to be making havoc with our | forests fast enough. No set basins in the hotels or private residences were seen, and | in one hotel bathrooms on every floor" was
 an unusual indulgence, something new to Americans, whose fine hotels in the best rooms have bath in every room The ele- | yators-they are called 'Flifts"-are like ours, i but unlike ours are intended solely for as- cent, but not at all for descent, except in
 case of the infirm or disabled. The conductor
 accompanies each load and generally, when | all are on board, both locks the door and
 pockets the key and you are his prisoners
 until exit time has duly come and he gives l the word, such is the care and precaution I taken against accidents Another good old I English feature is that restricting omni- 1 buses from taking a single passenger more
 than they can provide seats for. Fares are
 carefully rated according to distance, and
 paynfent is on arrival at your destination. l We notice at Manchester the employment of
 extra conductors all along the line, the extras 1 being simply watchers, who took tally of l passengers at certain points and made re- l ports, the wages paid conductors being small, and temptation to add to the means of
 livelihood, as this watchfulness implies, being sometimes beyond resistance The guardsystem
 on the railways, the guards being in lieu of con l ductor and brakemen, several of them to ] each train, these being the only train officials
 beside the engineer, strikes our Ameri- l can travellers very favorably. The pro- 1 vision by which each car carries the baggage of it's passengers is certainly very con- l venient.
 In London we called at the house of the American minister. The. genial and famous
 author of the ''Potiphar Papers, ''Hosea
 Bigelow," etc., was not at home, but imagine ] our pleasure at seeing old New Haven l friend, MT. s. Nada1, who is first assistant I secretary to Mir. Lowell, and son of thelate Rev. Dr. Nadal, the noted Methodist divine of honored memory, who was pastor some years ago of the First NJ. E. church. MT. Nadal, when we knew him, was in college here, and Tr. Nadal was beloved friend, whose death in the midst of l his usefulness at Madison, NJ. few years ago brought pang of sorrow to many hearts all over the country.
 No one has duly seen London without hay
 ing paid their respects to Madame Tussaud's
 "wax fggers" and certainly we can agree with our fellow visitors that those we saw had very hfe-like appearance. Ameri- cans must of course see the fac-similes of
 'The Father of His Country" U. s. Grant,
 Abraham Lincoln, etc., done in the Madame's celebrated style, while none are more strik-
 ingly life-like than those of the royal family.
 And here just word as to the fee system
 of which travellers often complain. The ex- perience of many is that prices generally enough lower in England for hotel accommo- dations and other essentials to visitors than here, and that the whole expense of travel ing, fees and all, is not greater than in our own land. But don't hurry when seeking drive about Hyde Park. We found on the day of our visit that no common numbered public carriage could answer, and after a half hours delay we procured one of the luxurious ''sweI.' conVeyances which only were allowed in the precincts of this great resort for the wealth and aristocracy of Lon don. But what stir is this, as we come to the depot to take our departure from Eng land en route for Dover to try our luck ? in the English channel Here are swells in- deed with high cooked hats, high-topped boots and gay livery We find that the Lord Mayor of London is at hand, and there are his attendants who accompany him. He certainly travels in state. How would our own honest Mayor Bigelow feel to be thus attended with official pomp? We take a look at the Lord Mayor and find him dressed like any ordinary gentleman and very much like other men generally.
 He found corroborated in conversation with the people, what has often been expressed, viz, that strong sentiment prevails in favor of the Queens mingling in social life. Her retirement casts damper on industry in a hundred forms, which would flourish if pa- geantry reigned, and society circles were.on the qui vive.
 Canned fruit, were to be found exposed for sale; ask where they came from and the word would come American" Bacon bacon, ba- con, 1865 days in year, in England, and in short it is staple article of diet, and it is America which sends a large portion of it. Perhaps while eating English bacon'' in England, 1t was from s. E. Merwin & Sons or Sperry Barnes in our own city. Mine host, when asked for sweet corn, looked in amazement Canned corn he had and could give me, but sweet corn, like our own, raised in good old Connecticut, that, we found, was out of the question on English soil.
 Our trip across the English channel to Calais was not eventful, but it is pity that the tides, currents, etc., dictate the use of such small, miserable steamers, and make the departure of the boats from Paris governed by the tides. We wondered why people will cross the channel by the way of from Dieppe to New Haven, six hours tr1p, when two hours trip such as we took was dismal enough. Three fourths out of 150 passengers on one trip across from Dieppe were wretchedly ill prominent New Haven gentleman informs me that six or seven times he crossed the Atlantic with out touch of sea sickness, but the English channel trip fetched him. One prominent New Haven lady tells me that she always avoids the channel trip by going from Amer ica direct to Havre.
 First impressions of France were rather -unfavorable. We went right from Calais to Brussels, arriving in the great city of the Bel gians at 6 o'clock in the morning. We found it beautiful city and ourselves in good time to see the Exposition in honor of the coun- try's fiftieth anniversary of it's independence. In the mechanical arts we found the exhibit far inferior to what is seen at home. The iron work especially is cumbrous. In the fine arts everything was notably superior, as was to be expected. We paid a visit to the famous Wurtz Gallery of paintings saw the Kings Palace and among other sights the House of Justice (the Belgian Parliament.) Here is the great centre of lace manufacturing. In this city of 3o0,0o0 people, 50,0oo, mostly women and girls, are employed in this deli cate work, and if our ladies should see at what frightful cost to health and eyesight it is produced, they would be well satisfied that 1 costly as this article is, it is not too dear.
 We now went to Waterloo and the guide showed us all over this great battle field and l designated the points of greatest note in l connection with that tremendous conflict. 1 We purchased cane on the battle field said i to have been cut from a tree under which l Napoleon issued his orders. Myriads of | canes, enough for forest, have been sold as mementoes of this famous tree The ancient 1 stone house, scared by cannon and pre- served as a relic of the battle field and filled | with minor relics, was visited
 5 Back to Brussels and thence to Cologne with it's famous cathedral so long in building l