The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-30

 stantly shrivel with the icy breath of Labrador. A few days ago walked up to Beachez Head, four miles distant to the westward. This great headland Is famous signal station; it Is cliff six hundred feet above the sea, and the view to be had there is a remarka- ly fine and very extensive one. Many outward and homeward bound ships are reported from this point, and the English newspapers daily give per feet fleet as passing Beachez Head. The approach to this celebrated spot Is up a grassy slope, in fact 1t is up hill all the way from Eastbourne, the incline is a slant of fully 45 degrees, and the whole surface for miles around is cov- cred with deliciously soft green grass, save where the white chalk cliffs run abruptly into the cobalt sea, and the white, blue and green contrast beau- tifully in the sunlight. Steamers and sailing vessels of all possible rigs are to be seen here in such numbers as to render the task of counting them en- tirely out of the question. The pillows dash and roar bewilderingly below the cliffs, as if determined to destroy the fact of nature herself.
 It was along this coast that Tenny- son caught the inspiration to write those grand lines so familiar to every English speaking person.
 Break, break, break,
 On thy cold gray stones oh! sea,
 And would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
 And the stately ships go on
 To their haven under the hill,
 But oh for the touch of a vanished hand
 And the sound of a voice that is still"
 Not far from Beachez Head Is the old Church of St. Mary, with .an old arch ! which local tradition states was built | in the days of the venerable Bede two hundred and fifty years prior to the conquest in 1066 A. D. William the Conquerer once paid visit to this an | cient church. Right off Beachez Head a great naval battle took place, when the Dutch and English fleets were bad | ly beaten by a superior French force. | I think it is Sir John Lubbock who re- | marked that ships change greatly with the centuries and the ships of the pers- ent day have been developed from very rude origins, in fact just contrast the superb navies of to-day with warships | of thirty years since. Not so is it | with boats. The boats one sees in England, France and Europe generally bear strong resemblance to the boats | of the old days when Julius Caesar sailed across the Britain.
 | The old fisher boats which are drawn up nightly on the beach a little to the eastward of Eastbourne, are certainly anticipated enough in appearance to have come over with Caesar from the l territory of the Morini in Gaul, and that was In the year 54 B. c. Caesar sailed from their territory "quod in de erat brevissimus in Britanniam trajec- 1 tus'
 1 I sometimes stretch myself on the sands at sunset and attempt to study l the peculiar lines and proportions of these fisher boats about which little children play. I am reminded of Dick ems delightful and pathetic description of good old MT. Peggotty's old boat l llOuoS Wlll heSl III tIlG dlls uIdW up on the beach of Yarmouth and a cer- l tain old fisherman with towzled hair and matted beard, clad in a faded blue | jea-jacket and a red toque, who sits calmly smoking his short clay pipe at sunset seems actually to be good Peg gotty himself, while the pretty girl in cessantly wading in the sea foam seems to my mind verify like little Emily 1 herself
 It is a delightful but simple picture to look upon and hundreds pass by
 without glancing upon it, but is was just such a picture as that which sug- gested to Dickens that beautiful story of the sad tragedy which was enacted on the sands at Yarmouth. That pa thetic tale will possegs it's wondrous charm as long as the English language shall continue to be read and spoken. l It surprises me to see how easily English people are amused here in Eastbourne, all along the beach are lstands or platforms where "the Mo-
 hawks" are daily amusing thousands.
 These are men blackened like "nigger'
 minstrels, singing, dancing and carry HE Ofi III SlSGtIs Hlyle . -I Hey COlleCl considerable money and give three or four performances every day, and they often pass through the streets dancing and singing in front of the houses.
 They act their part very well and seem to delight the people. Scotchmen in
 Highland costume march up and down
 playing horribly discordant bagpipes,
 and stone blind Scotch minstrels sing
 the harshest of hard Scotch ballads
 The amuse vast crowds and of course
 collect many pennies. Fine bands rem
 der fine music, and Christian workers
 are singing and holding the fort in
 grand style. Comic actors, and very
 good ones too, amuse not only hum
 dreds, but thousands for generally dur
 ing August there are about thirty thou
 sand visitors in Eastbourne, and the
 population of the city proper is thirty
 thousand also. Then the Salvation
 army with Captain Billy at their head,
 playing away finely on the banjo, are
 here drumming up recruits. Rev. MT.
 Doddridge from one of the Oxford col
 leges is here with a great red flag,
 preaching on the beach to hundreds of
 children; as the beach is over two miles
 long there is ample room for all who
 may wish to amuse or instruct the pub lie. At one end of the beach is the Radoubt with ten guns; it was built