Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-08-24
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON. Eng, August 9, 49,

Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, August 9, 1881.
II has been often said that good Amer
leans when they die go to Paris. Probably
a large number who have not mastered
the charming French language would be
sorry to do so, but a great many living
ones go to the Langham Hotel in London.
Among the oaravansaries of the world
the huge house that frowns over Portland
Place and by its very proportions renders
the ecclesiastical structure in Langham
Place not merely dwarfed, but ridiculous.
occupies position of vantage. 1t is not
only big among the biggest-it is also the
biggest hotel of the biggest city. and
perhaps have really no data wherewith
to build comparison-the most roomy
and best filled to be found anywhere, from
Shanghai to Calcutta, from Bombay to
Boston, from Melbourne to Manhattan.
They boast some grandiose diversoria Mt
Chicago and SIN Francisco; have heard
tiC uON VI u COlbSStl llOltl III Nlt St1 Oily
of Paris; New York is famous all over
the world for its hostelres; and there is
not capital in Europe that does not afford
lodging on an extended scale to the weary
traveller. You may pit the Langham.
however, against each or any, and on the
whole you will have to admit that no.
where does the visitor get such good value
for his money, that nowhere is comfort so
thoroughly combined with luxury, while
both are rendered none the less acceptable
because unaccompanied by that vice of
m ost hotels-overcharge.
The season is riotously brilliant now, as
it always is just before it takes its final turn
and begins to.-RtEaW very dull. The one
pace of certain rendezvous for all the
fashionable world, and all those who
want to look at the world of fashion is
Hyde Park, from to O'Clock every
afternoon. Yesterday the crush was
simply magnificent. The Four-in II nd
club had meet, and the admirers of the
mail coaches which leave the Hotel
Brunswick at 8 o'clock on pleasant after
moons should really have been on hand
here yesterday to see the original thing.
The Prince of Wales was on the box of
the Earl of Macelesfield's coach, his lord
ship holding the ribbons. The prince
never drives mail coach in town.
1~''"ue one Of the unwritten laws of royal
propriety forbids it. Inc Princess of
Wales came, like the rest of us, to see
The sport. She was in a superb, high
open barouche, drawn by four spanking
bays, OF brilliant action, but sound to the
core, and gentle rs kittens in the hands Of
the accomplished coachman who drove
them. She used to have a plentiful crop
of nut brown locks, but now there is n
decided bondish tint, which art, not
nature, has thrown there 1t is really
quite amusing to observe the youthful
experimentation girlish-of this mother
of five children.
Bradlaugh's latest exploit has served
one point-though left handed one-in
his favor. He has succeeded in making
the House actually kick him down stairs
and go far place itself on his low level.
The kicking, as matter of course, was
an the side of the big battalions, but it was
none the less disgraceful scene, and in
appearance, at least, cowardly act.
When it comes to n tussle between one
man and the house of commons, aided by
the police, and the one man, who, after
all, was lawfully elected, gets his coal
torn Oft his back in an honest endeavor tc
| fight his way to a seat he was sent to fill
by Il large and important English constit.
uency, atheist or no atheist, outsiders are
disguised at the whole proceedings, and
inclined to sympathize, at least, with TIE
torn garment, for such is human nature
| Hot as the weather, the season shows nc
sign of waning. This is the month o.
garden parties for those who have the
delightful additions of gardens to theil
residences. The Prince and Princess Of
Wales give one to- morrow, and the queen
and Princess Beatrice are coming to town
on purpose to attend it. Lady Burdette
Couts has invitations out for TWO garden
parties next week, which will probably
form the finale to the series of splendC
entertainments in honor of her marriage
which has added IA large share of brlliancy
to the season and for which invitation.
have been sought by host of the " bes
people. AUGUST.