Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-14
OYER THE DEEP.
Lecture of Walter NJ. Leman on England,
Ireland and Scotland.

Pioneer Hall was well filed last evening
by highly representative audience of
! ladies and gentlemen to listen to an inter
esting lecture of Walter NJ. Leman, the
venerable author and actor. His subject
was Over the Deep" or what be saw
during recent visit to England, Ireland
and Scotland. The lecturer is a well-pre-
served man of five and seventy years, has
fine physique, his locks are as white
as snow, his voice strong and clear,
has apparently all the vitality of a man of
forty, and reads well without the
aid of glasses. He said during
his recent European visit, cover
ing seven months time, he travelled
l 500 miles in the British Empire and over
$500 miles on the continent He describes
Cork, the third city of Ireland, as not be-
ing especially clean. Among the objects
of interest in that city, the most striking
are the Father Mathew monument, St
James Cathedral, containing the famous
bells of Shandon, and Barney Castle. In
the latter edifce he saw the original
Barney stone, which was placed i'll posi-
ton in 1446 and another that was put up
in 1903. It is stated that the person who
kisses those historic stones become en-
dowed with sweet persuasive Cork elo-
quence. He says he did not kiss the stone,
for he thought there was already enough of
that sweet persuasive Cork eloquence
now in America, especially along about
election time His description of the
lakes of Killarney was very interesting.
The woods, the mountains, the islands,
form picturesque scene of which no de-
scription can convey any idea of its sur
passing beauty Dublin is a beautiful city,
exceptionally clean, imposing public build
ings and beautiful parks. Phoenix Park
contains l $50 acres. He gave a graphic
description of the squalor, poverty and sad
condition of the poor of Ireland. How
ever, he said, it was a lovely land whose
women were modest gentle and attractive,
and whose men were honest, frank and
sincere. He described Manchester, in
England, as the only city that had
preserved in tact its walls of olden
time. They were two miles in ex-
tent, built of solid stone masonry. The
promenade around those walls was pleas
ant, and brought to mind many scenes of
the wars of centuries gone by. The River
Dee winds about the city, and yachting and
boating are the chief pleasures. This
city, unlike any other in England has up
stair streets. This upper street is lined
with gay shop windows, and has all the
activity of the one beneath. In the Chester
Cathedral he saw in good state of preser-
walton the colors of the Twenty second
Regiment that were carried at the battles
OF Bunker Hill and Quebec. The chief
objects of interest at Liverpool were the
immense docks and the outgoing and in
coming steamships and sail vessels from
every portion of the habitable globe.
1t is city of great wealth,
great ignorance, great penury and
great crime. Its inhabitants, as a class,
were reckless people. Liverpool. Lon
don and Glasgow are wicked cities and will
have lar more to answer for in the great
hereafter than any Of the great cities of
America. He called at the birthplace of
the poet Burns, and wandered among the
" banks and braes of bonnie Doom" He
met and conversed with the only living rela-
tive Of the gifted poet-a niece, who is 70
years of age Glasgow, Scotland, is the
third city in size in Great Britain The
Cathedral in this city, which is over 500
years old, is in an excellent state OF preser-
Walton and one of the most beautiful
churches in the United Kingdom. His
description of Edinburgh was most
interesting. He described it as
the most beautiful and picturesque of all
the cities of Great Britain. His descrip-
ton of the churches, cathedral, towers,
monuments, cemeteries and dungeons,
luihInS Win II the history OF the rise and
fall OF the Kings and Queens, especially in
cldents IN the life of Mary, the unfortunate
Queen, was full of interest. The lecture
closed with description of what he saw
in three weeks visit in London. He said
in order to see the real inner life of Lon
don would take keen observer months
and years. He gave graphic descriptions
OF Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Lon,
don and st. Paul's Cathedral
His second lecture will be given in the
same hall Friday evening" when he will
describe what he saw on the Continent of
Europe.