Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-04
CORRESPONDENTS.


Place ut This Season OF the Year
And the Prices are Crowded, Too
The Coming General RIectfon-The
Outlook Unfavorable for the Grand
Old sInn-Balfour'sP sPopularity-Bits
OF Advice to Those Who Are About
TO Take a Trip TO the Great City.
LONDON, June Is.
To the Editor OF the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
When party has not only got his nose
pointed towards home, but has actually
taken his passage and paid for it, things
on this side seem to dwindle in size, while
things at home so increase in magnitude
and brilliancy that you can almost recog-
nize individuals. A trip from Berlin to
London, taking in Hamburg, Bremen, Ant
werp, Brussels Ghent, Bruges and ostend,
might be described SO as to interest the
reader. But what is Osrsnd Just now TO
Savin Rock; or Hamburg to Prospect
street; or the political struggles of Belgi-
um to the delightfully."- refreshing political
contest so gloriously unfolding itself in
the United Statesi The patriotism of the
United States ia about to be breathed
anew in the purifying eddies of fraternal
conflict; reburnished in the phoenix fires
of economic strife. Which ever party
wins, new and benefcent political princi-
Piles will be evolved. The country will
progress still further beyond the reach of
the laggard policies of the old world, and
| the eagle will scream more deiantly and
| exuberantly than ever. This style from
| povv t;1I tho ath Of Novambar or,bt fo he
worth at least twenty-five dollars a col
| umn But the date of this letter is Lon
don, and London let it be. One small
room, not over fifteen feet square, three
flights up, ten and onehslf shillings; at
tendance, one and one-half shillings; din
ner, very poor and not much of it, seven
and one half shillings; coffee and two eggs
in the morning, three and one-half shil'
lings. The eggs, however, are English
eggs, and therefore perfect In size, con
tour, texture and contents.
London is crowded. 1t always is at this
| season of the year because now is, par ex
ceIlence, the season. Now take place tn,
annual presentations of Americans, and &
few outsiders, to the queen, or to thai
member of the royal family to whom hel
majesty graciously ,legates the august
privilege of repre- 9 herself on thess
awe-inspiring occaa ALI America ID
here to be presented, o gaze with rap
turous and envious eyeA upon those who
are about to undergo, o. who have just
undergone, the apotheosian ordeal. An
other reason for the crowd is that psrlia
ment is about to be dissolved in a week OF
so, and all the patriots of the kingdom ar
gathered together precisely as all the pa
triots of the United States gather togethel
at Washington just previous to an adjourn
ment of Congress; and undoubtedly undel
similar patriotic pressure and from similsi
patriotic motives. Hotels are crowded
Places of amusement are crowded. Traini
on all the railroads leading up TO Londor
are crowded. Eating and drinking places
are jammed. Prices are crowded. Seve
raj prices crowded into one. Streets art
30 crowded that If English people were moi
the most polite, considerate and elf-sacri
ficing people (shemD folks would trampl,
one another to death, and that would b,
the end of them. AS IL is, with the assis
tance of very conscientious policemen, dis
charging very stern police regulations, yor
Just manage to circulate as marbles circu
late in the pocket of the small boy, or Al
| angle worms circulate In the oait oox o.
the angler. All the swellest crowned
heads and all the crack fiddlers, sctors
singers and piano thumpers are sure to b
In London during May and June, as vel
as all the organ grinders. All You have t.
do is to take your pick and pay the price
The divine Sarah is here and the divine
Patti, Coquelin, Jeune and Larissrte, III
one musician who succeeded in stirrin
the musicless soul of New Haven. Tn
list of princes, ETC., in the Times ever
, morning is as long as your arm. TIL
queen, like a very sensible person, ha
gone off to Bslmoral, where she can
Just as she plesses, and where no one ca
interfere with her comfort. The amour
of honest and reverent devotion and loyt
affection that venerable old lady enjoy
I should, and undoubtedly does, fll he
: heart full of gratitude and benign JOY
Two traits distinguish Englishmen: 10y
atty and piety. Churches all over th
r kingdom are crowded on Sundays, an
crowded by people who sincerely believ
in what they are about. In theatrical an
9 practical religion England Is far ahead {
> Ill continental nations and equally fl