The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-18

| room arc 26O feet IN ienRtn py W. pioeu''
with neither post nor pillar. The court rooms
are on one sido OF the main hall Tho Courts
OF Common Pleas and OF the Queens Bench
wore in session. There were three Judges
and twenty nine lawyers In each. and not 80
| many spectntors. The lawyers and Judges
wore that curious relic Of the past, gray. pom.
derous, ill.ntting wigs. partially covering all
manner OF heads and all colora OF hair The
general aspect was ludicrous An argumen-
tatiye conversation was kept up all the time
between the Judges and the counsel who were
| addressing thcm.
In the Court OF Queens Bench, Just as the
court was closing. a seedy. aulck-talkinR
woman addressed the two remaining Judges.
| and set forth case which she wished them to
| consider but which they did not seem to sec
| in tho same light che did. The Judges wore
scarlet robes. They were not seemingly
either shocked or offended at the disorderly
intrusion OF this voluble female
| Went to the Tower OF London which wo eN-
plored. Found the oak timber OF the ceiling
OF tho Denuchamp Tower. now 600 or 100 years
old. perfectly sound and good. In tho YARD
among the captured trophies Is 0-inch bore
hrnsscapnon. twelve or fifteen feet long. which
was con structed for solyman the Great, over
| 400 hundred years ago. to be used In his inva-
| sion OF India.
Devoted day to the Dritish Museum. Tho
| points Of interest ut this visit were the auto
eraph department. the library OF 100000 vol
umos. the splendid reading room with its
grand DOME tho Elgin marbles. the Roman
statunry. the Egyptian and Assyrian antique
| ties, the Rosetta Stone. tho Portland vase. the
| samples of metcoric stone and iron. the FOSSIL
remains, Including the human skeleton from
Guadaloupe. anu the great American masto-
| don from New Jersey. Tho natural history
| 4, ~ Ia In m rngppCtS rich, but tho
| prernruti ion q do not equal those OF tho museum
| Mt Ieyieu. The Eo-etta Stone and the Fort
| land Vase being wholly unique. are viewed
| with great interest.
TIL, collection OF aerolites Is very complete
| and shows great variety In their compost
ton, tho largest specimen being ninety-flve
| per cent. iron and bearing high polish;
othors being wholly stone. and OF all sorts.
| The fossil osteology OF tho British Museum
| Is deemed the greatest. most varied anu most
| complete in existence.
1t has a fossil fox OF GninGen. n unique
curiosity But to undertake any detailed de-
scri,t;on OF what is to be found OF interest in
| this noh,o institution would require volumes.
| 1t embraces collections OF inestimablc value.
| and unfailinG interest to travellers as to stu
| dents and connoisseurs.
| It's reading room attached to the Library
Department is the finest in the world. and all
may enjoy its luSuries.
| JUNE haven't down the Strand and visited
the house whore Goldsmith died. in tho TEN
plc." n court Just inside Temple Bar. What
were dwellings in Goldsmth's timo are now
| Offices, but otherwise tho promises look wholly
unchanged The buildings are old-lookng
| brick houses of four and five Stories This is
near Bolt court. wherc we saw the garrett at It's
| upper end. now Cough square. in which john
| son flashed his Dictionary. and also the site Oh
| tho house. close by. where he diod.
| In this court the ancient coffee house where
| johnson and Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds
and Topham Bcauclcrk and Boswell and tho
remainder % that brilliant company used to
meet still stands. thanks to the Interchangeable
ness Of British people and customs. Its doors
| were still open to the passing travel
Ter. tho landlord. however. innocent OF all
knowledge OF it's departed clories. While
taking our coffee By gas light in tho dim
| apartment what apartments are not dim In
London on misty day?l. and communing
with the departed shades OF the place. we had
! occasion to sound tho depths Of our host in
! formation. In reply to our inquiry about DR..
| johnson and his friends. he was at first vague
and confused. but ut length. cleaning his
! mind, he assured us that it was the same
house that was formerly kept by Mr. Johnson.
and that the prices remained unchanged.
The Thames tunnel Is quite unlike an ordi-
| nary rail no Id tunnel. OF which overy traveller
nowadays sees moro than he wants to see. 1t
is rather pair of tunnels side by side. each
the shape OF the longitudinal section OF an
egg. with tho large end uppormost and cut of
two-thirds OF the way down. They are
whitewashed md lighted with gas along
| the gaps in the partition which are made by
the pillars OF tho centre The roadway on
each side is hardly more than ten feet wide.
and the whole arch is SO small md compact
that the iden OF its being crushed by the
waite. above is. on a FIRST inspection, immedi.
ately dissrated. especially after being In.
formed that the exterior wall. above and be-
low and around the tunnel Is nine feet In
thickness The tunnel can only he entered bJ
| descending n perpendicular shaft over sixty
feet, Il circumstance fatal to its being exten.
slvely used. even as footway. There seems te
be little or no travel in It. except the curiosity
travel and one side is cluttered and entirely
disused We were RECALLED by trumpeter
who gave us Yankee Doodle" and Hal
Columbia" at penny apiece.
JUNE la-Strolling over into st. James'i
Park we went round the famous residence o
the Duchess OF Sutherland. one OF the largest
in London and admirably situated directly
opposite and In full Wow OF buckingham
Palace the Queens town residence. 1t faces
! ~. James arm ou Ouo siuc hhu Hicoh a.
on tho other. There is hardly such another
site in London.
Further on. and fronting Green Park. Ii
BridRewater House. excellent in Its archltec-
ture but without extensive grounds Hero IL
the celebrated private picture gallery OF the
Duke. worth million dollars
The whole range OF houses all the way ur
tho park to Pccadllly. are among the fines,
town residences in Europe. and impress the
traveller with the wonderful stability and
wealth OF the ancient families OF Britain.
JUNE 20.-We went out to Kcnsington Mu
scum more especially to see Hogarth's pic
lures. We found only his portrait and the
originals Of his Marriage In Mode. We
found. however, some pictures OF Sir Thomas
Lawrence especially his celebrated ones Of
John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. and also some
OF Sir Joshua Reynolds. and n number n
Landscers. They have here what they cal
1.-THE English school" OF painting.
The fact tina. you seldom find the English
artists in tho galleries OF the Continent shows
| In, hnf asfi Dnot ion thau haIl ohr nul