Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-18
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The Experiences of Journey from
London to Liverpool.

London to Liverpool.
Leaving London, that eternal labyrinth
of straight and crooked streets, with end
less lengths of vehicles, light and heavy,
fleet and slow; that bewildering wilder.
ness of bricks and chimneypots, dust and
smoke, with its 100000 of men, women
and children, every one of whom has, &C.
lively or passively, to conjugate each day
the verb to be. TO do, or 10 suffer: leaving
that centre of worldwide commerce and
correspondence, that Babylon, Athens,
Rome and Jerusalem all in one, that ag-
gregate of untold good and untabulated
evil; leaving all this and these behind us,
we turn our face towards one province of
the ''GreaLer Britain" whose progress In
self-government, self-edueation and self.
improvement has contributed so i'm
mensely TO make the lesser Britain truly
great.
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY Is
our route from London to Liverpool. This
line is faVorite with both Britons and
Americans. "Honour to whom honour is
due" First to run third-cass carriages
on all their trains, thus providing for the
convenience of the poor; first to carry
Pullman cars night and day, thus consult
ing the comfort of the rich; first to intro.
duce the admirable system of checking
baggage, thus securing the property of all
alike; the Midland line deserves as wei
as receives, very large proportion Of
public patronage. Besides, it's trains
travel easily, rapidly and punctually;
passing through some of the most pIctur-
esque and charming districts in England;
and at every station the student of English
history finds his reading so revived that
the pleasures of memory transform the
journey into a continuous mental Joy.
Here we are at st. Adams, so named
from the first British martyr, who was
born here, and who died during the bitter
persecution under Dlocletian. Nor can
we forget that hard by is the site of the
ancient Nerulam Of the Romans, the
scene of two battles between the rival
houses of York and Lancaster. In the
parish church of st. MichaePs rests all
that is mortal OF the "wisest, brightest"
but with due Difference to Pope. surely
not the "meanest of mankind,7 Francis
Bacon, first Lord Verulam, and after
wards Viscount St. Adams. Now we
have just lett Luton, with its busy thou
sands of straw-plaiters; and anon we are
in Bedford, the town of Bunyan's shame
full imprisonment and glorious dream.
Here is Kettering
STILL TRADING IN BOOTS AND SHOES.
AS 1t was in the year 1892, when Will
liam Carey, the ''consecrated cobbler,"
offered himself as the first missionary off
society which began the spread of the
gospel among the heather nations on a
capital of f13 %. Sd. But human feet re-
quire stockings as well as shoes, and 10!
this Is leicester, so noted for its manu-
facture ofiworsted hosiery. Here may
have dwelt that widow Hannah, who
wrote as her husbands epitaph.
'He left his hose. his Hannah and his love,
To go and sing HOsdnna in the realms above"
Here in the brave days of old, stood the
Roman town of Rat9, and here at later
period the powerful Simon de Montfort
abode in his stronghold, some parts of
which yet remain. Net far off is Leices-
ter Abbey where In 1880 died the ambi-
Jious Wolsey. Now we are in the vicinity
of the Trent, not many miles from Bur
ton; and the thirsty Imagination scents
the famous bitter beer. At Derby, where
in 1T17,
ENGLAND's FIRST SILK MILL
was erected, we have FIVE minutes for re-
freshment. 1t was In Derby where we
once heard OF a hungry traveller who
rushed into the refreshment room, and,
beginning TO devour whatever he could
lay his hands upon, gasped out, 'How
long have Ir' The waitress coolly an
swered, Fifteen minutes, sir" Then"
said the traveller, Il needn't choke my
SELF" She, with unrippled placidity,
added: mo, sir; you need not choke
yourself If you haven't 10 minutes" Feel
ing that the young lady was too far north
for him, he subsidized and left. We, too,
have left, and are in the midst OF
The wooded hills and grassy daies
OF Derby's lovely county;
Where Natures efforts never fails
In beauty or in bounty.
Romantic Matlock sleeps there in the
hollow, and this is ROwsley, where.
thanks to the Midland Railway Com
pany's desire to please their patrons, all
who travel between London and Liver
pool may break their journey to visit
Chatsworth, the superb seat of the Duke
of Devonshlre.
The same may be done at Miller's dale,
for view of beautiful Buxton; and in
fact at any station, the through tickets
being good for several days. Such regu-
lations show sound sense, and are steps
in right direction. We stop a moment
at Stockport, where cotton is manufac-
tured on large scale, and then the rapid
race is run as we gain our goal in far
famed Liverpool. We have done the 200
miles in five hours.
WHAT A STRIVING, DRIVING, THRIVING
TOWN
this Liverpool has become. In less than
200 years, IL has multiplied its population
a hundred times. In 100, when its first
dock was constructed, it numbered OLA
souls; in 1881 it contained 573, 202. In
1900 the tonnage of vessels entering its
port was about 5000. Now IL is about
100000. In 1885 it had no mention on
the map Of the kingdom; now Il appears
in capitals as a mighty city, Boosting
most attractive suburbs, majestic build
ings, and magnificent docks. It's re-
nowned landing stage, nearly a quarter
OF a mile in length, is approached by
floating bridge, which is the finest of its
kind in all the world. Here come and 20
the ships Of Europe and Asia, America
and Australia, from and to the utterm Ost
parts OF the earth. Here are daily landed
large c0nsignments Of the cotton ana tur-
Dentine, sugar, rice and tobacco, pro-
duced on Southern plantations: thus LiV-
erpo0l is linked with the interests Of those
fertile States which are capable of grow
ing and exporting in the raw material the
means TO clothe and feed, sweeten and fu-
migate the world.