Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-08-14

Royal Exchange, a stately ediice, with
the inscription, in gilded letters: 'rThe
earth is the Lords and the fullness
thereof" Somebody should add: "And
we, the British, think we are the
Lords agent in this business"
THE TOWER or LONDON.
The gloomy state prison which is
generally known as the Tower OF Lon
don is really not one tower, but an
irregular mass Of buildings, erected at
various periods and surrounded by a
battlemented wall and a deep moat.
1t is the most interesting edifce, his
torically, in the great city. 1t is still
kept as a fortress though, OF course, il
is OF little practical use.
In one room are kept under strong
guard and behind iron cages some if
teen million dollars worth Of crown
jewels. Queen yictoria's crown, st.
Edwards crown and a dozen other
royal headgears are on display. The
chief interest Of the Tower does not
center in these jewels, rich and pre-
cious as they are, but rather in the
s0-called White Tower, the most an
cient part OF the fortress. and In the
nelghboring grounds and buildings.
In the White Tower Richard ii alb
dlcated. Under a staircase the bones
OF the two young princes whom their
uncle, Richard III, murdered, were
found. In one Of It's rooms Sir Walter
Raleigh was a prisoner. A splendid
collection Of ancient armor now occu-
pies the upper rooms. Near by Is the
site OF the scaffold where so many
famous Englishmen we're put to
death. In the Towers on the grounds
occurred many cruel incidents. Here
kings and queens were imprisoned and
here much that was dark and bloody
was enacted To mar the pages OF Eng
lish history. Cemeteries are always to
rs Of interest and none more SO than
the small burial : ground on Tower
Green. Here are buried Anne Boleyn,
Sir Thomas More, the Earl OF Essex,
Catherine Howard, Lord Somerset,th the
Protector, Lady Jane Grey and many
other notables, who had been beheaded
upon some pretext. eIn truth, there
is no sadder spot on earth than this
little cemetery writes that master
of English prose, Thomas Darlington
Macauley. Death is there asSociat-
ed, not, as in Westminster Abbey and
st. Paul's, with genius and virtue,
with public ~Yeneration and unperish-
able renown; not, as in our humblest
churches and churchyards, with every
thing that is most e~ndearing In social
and domestic charities; but with what
is darkest In human nature and
human destiny; with the savage trl-
umpb Of inplacable enemies, with the
Inconsistency, the iegfatitude, the COW
ardice Of friends, with all the mis-
cries Of fallen greatness and Of blighted
SOME OTHER GREAT SIGHTS OF AL
GREAT CITY.
London Is the center OF the British
empire, the most populous Of cities,
growing more rapidly than any other
great city. There are sights enough
here to occupy more time in naming
than those Of most cities would re-
luire for seeing. The visitor stands
almost staggered at the amount and
number that be would like 10 see and
The British museum, the
gigantic institution, which outranks
al others in its colossal collections;
he South Kenslngton Museum, which
ire the varied outflow from the Brit
sh museum; the National Art Gal
cry, rich in Turner'S and L~andseers
md Reynolds; the National Portrait
Gallery with its 1900 portraits Of great
from the days OF Alfred;
buckingham Palace and other palatlaI
.esidences; London bridge, with its
hundreds Of thousands Of passengers
the port, the docks and a hum
red other sights which might sur
ass those Of any other city In the /
Forld. For this Is the city which is
be central figure In English history !
nd English literature. Here Shake Z
peare, strolling player, wrote; here
found the figures which be 4
ut upon lmperishable pages; this was I
De home Of Wellington; here Wesley ,
'und assurance Of salvation" here =
Iilton wrote Paradise Lost and gave r
away; and here but we can not 4
rite the history OF England on a sim /,
e page. II
There are moreJegE in London than
Jerusalem, more Scotch than 10
limbaugh, Esore Irish than IN Dublin
ID more Americans than IN jefferson G
~ and Columbia combined. Otherb
have two or three streets at o
est where the tra1c is large and the