Connecticut western news., 1885-11-25
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1885.
LONDON TO NEW YORK.


 we bethought ourselves of the places we had not visited aud the sights we had not seen.
 We sailed on the swift steamers up and down the Thames, passing the beautiful House of Parliament and the extended buildings of St. Thomas's hos pital, and dividing our attention mean while between the noted and historic structures, and the little smokestack of our steamer as 1t bowed itself before the frequent bridges.
 We visited the Greenwich park and climbed the hill where the noted ob- servatory stands. There we enjoyed simultaneously a wide view of London with the Thames winding back and forth under expanses of white sails; and ouI own happy reflection that we had attain ed the spot of no longitude at least from one earthly dimension. The sky was blue. The white clouds sailed pence fully above. The sheep and deer fed under the trees. It was sixteen o'clock We had time for pleasant walk amid the double rows of large chestnut trees, which adorn the avenues This park contains one hundred and seventy-fom acres. On our return we saw groups of children of the Royal Naval School One thousand children of English sea men are here educated.
 We visited Greenwhich hospital. which occupies the site of an ancien, place. In that old place Queens Mary and Elizabeth were born; and there thu young Edward VT. died. This hospita, IS for aged and disabled sailors. Be. tween three and four hundred reside here, while over three thousand more re- ceive help from the institution. The Naval gallery of pictures and portraits Is in the '' Painted Hall, so called from the beautiful pictures which adorn the ceiling. The Nelson room contains pic lures and relics of the noted admiral In the Museum are models of ships and mementoes of the Franklin expedition.
 On the Sabbath days, we attended church several times that We might heal more than once, Sturgeon, Dr. Hall, Canon Farrar, Canon Siddon, Burke and Dr. Parker. In Spurgeon's church, the thousands of voices were raised in song without the leading of instrument tal music In Dr Parker's church, Mr Minshall the organist, played so feel ingly that his organs music thrilled the heart. After the benediction had been pronounced, the sweet music would rise like prayer or psalm. Many waited silently to hear, till the last wonderful strains died away into silence Through MT Minshalls kindly and talented man. agement; free concerts are given ill Dr Parker's church weekly through the winter. At these times the "City Tenn pie " IS usually crowded to overfowing.
 One perfect day, we went to Kew Gardens. The grounds are beautiful. The greenhouses make Q fairy land of beauty and fragrance. There are sepa- rate buildings devoted to tropical ferns, temperate ferns, palms, cacti, orchieds ! and varieties of delicate and rare plants from all lands, making bower of beauty and of bloom. There are also four botanical museums on the grounds There is also an elegant little museum containing six hundred and twentv-seven pictures of flowers and plaDts of various lands, painted from nature by Miss Merianne North, and given by her to the Kew Gardens; one hundred and seventy two different kinds of ornamental woods form the panelled wainscot below the pictures Near the Botanic Gardens,
 
 two hundred and seventy acres extend ' lng to the Thames. In these grounds IS the Winter Garden, @ large green house filled with fragrant flowers. Not far away pagoda rises in ten stories to height of one hundred and sixty-ive feet, and gives q picturesque feature to the landscape. Shady walks diverge iu all directions from the pagoda. One cal, Iyy T than to study botany for few weeks in the Kew Gardens, with the help of the houses of plants, museums and Miss North's pictures.
 We passed through some picturesque localities between London and Liver pool. In England, one does not tnd waste lands along the track, given over to clods, biamble5 and rubbish Ali i. made beautiful as a garden. The island Is small, therefore all the land can be utilized and beautifed.
 In Liverpool the chief objects of in terest are the immense docks. But Liverpool is wicked city, and we were warned that certain streets were unsafr. especially for foreigners, after nightiall. Liverpool has many fine buildings, a large library and q very interesting OL Aftbtlltt 1IlSbOI OHc Ol the largest organs in Great Britain, is in St. Georges hall In front of this hall are equestrian statues of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, and two colossal lions
 In about twenty hours from setting sail, our boat was moored in the beau tiful harbor of Queenstown. Here we had fine view of the town with its at- k.oa Ca, zhol Tt indeed "beautiful for situation," ex- tending up the hillside and fronting the sea. Around us were the fair hills of "Green Erin" covered with fresh yer dure aud with the yellow blossoms of the furze. A tender came alongside bringing hundreds of emigrants. We stood on the upper deck and watched them crowding in below. Most of them looked sad, for 1t was no pleasure to them-this going across the sea. It was earnest work, leaving the home of their childhood and seeking a new home in an unknown land. One old woman, (very, very old she looked, and bowed down by the weight of care filled years), sat weeping, with her face turned away from shore She did not look up or back. She had seen her native land for the last time "Nulla vestigia retrorsam. Mean time at the other end of our boat, some interesting events were transpiring. Men and women were crowding around in little boats. bringing chairs, canes, cook ies and oranges to sell. These Were handed up in baskets and the money for the commodities returned in the same way. Nearer crowded the boats, swaying fearfully on the high waves. They tried to run one another down. One woman became wildly angry. She seemed picture of a fury, as she sat perched on the edge of her swaying boat,