Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-08-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

POPULAR HISTORY OF. CLEVELEAD.." _ _ _ , have Ufr 01  *OA  .. A view of the river at tits • entranee," ot serves the FFc. John Brewster {writing in 1825), " w/ ten beheld , the sea, is very magnificent; and it is not less . seen from Sneaton Snook, wine- ti now cons merely of one hillock of •sand, cover ad scantily short rashes, here called .bsats, whict i forms the hem point at the mouth of the river. I have bementioned that the picturesque c x beantifid ary ceases from Aislaby, or Yarm, to the ocean: cy this is true with respect to the immediate vicinity the objects; but the view inwards, fre m the bar, recompenses the eye for the abseil cc of woods 1, rocks. A noble river is-before you, i lot less than n miles in expanse, flowing with a rapid tide, a S.W. coarse, till the view of it i a lost by the coaching mountains .of Cleveland, s rhich apparr close the scene in one vast bay. The hills, 1 the variety af their forans, kbeing eaeily distinhed from each other, give a grandeur to the view; Carlton alum works bending over the vale ot 'eland, the bold fronts of ;Eizby al id Dromanby Is, the table land near the gorge of Bilsdale, the Cone of the well-known Roeetury Topping. Eaton boldly froutingilae sea, andkthe frae promontory meal!, whose foot is washedby th 3 wave, present ith at interesting and sablime a picture as any ; celebrated scenery can supply." /tad good Air Brewster now Fmk from the same A of vision., he would find matters no little altered ing the forty-three years since he wrote the excelAeecripticrn,.just gusted. The noble range of the eland Hills (which no Malvern or other English , can equal for fine variety ofwntline), weal& still his eyes,—as they have done those of the Briton from .his frail -coracle or tree-trunk .i-ont (*zee, and the era*: Viking from his J -sbip bathe bygone; and ac they will do those iir descendants thacsand in ages after we are bered with the sioa2s of the valley.. But how eat  thern  *oaching  eke,  ....duly leaDdiff,  111 odd  teat  ined-ont  in ith ri,  .st wonldhe find the matafal development of Ilistviet ! faltbarn-hy-the-Sea, then an uninal sea-Clift.peering down upon a simple smug. hamlet, already become .a famous watering would astonish his enraptared sight with its A betels and lionseeg Skimaiegrove—then also 'oared retreat of Contraband Commerce—now ml by a sea-wall, and stufded with model tettages, with its‘ospital for those accidents i the poorrminer in only too much,exposed ; and Coatbam—no longer blocked up with ; sand round every doorwayoor defaced with howls in their streets—improling in emu'sith the watoring places of hoth north and andall along the coact proofs.ef useful energy, trating a newaraiu the history of this "land stones are iron ;" oar then thinly-inhabited and heather-egad hills now affording employ' tire means afanbsistence to teas of thousands won, in ling bum the hitherto hidden wealth of old Cleveland; Lofthonse, Brotton, i, Marske, Estan, Normanby, Cargo Fleet, by, Swainby, ant Thornhy, all risen into places d importance ; Gaisbororgh nowbinereased teeny prosperity its ence-famous alum-works lver give; Middleehrougb.—from its one farmaid little-used grsweyard ,(not." well and suffifenced with walls or rails or .plates," but I open to the farm, for "enoraaahments " to ale upon it, by buildings or otherwise,") grown te of the busiest manufacturing and commercial )s in the country, governed by its own mayor, an, and common council, having its own bench Istrates and separate police force, and repreby its own burgess in parliament,; the Tees i with iron-built shipping and steamboats,' alroads for passengers, goods, and minerals on bank; whilst the river and its estuary are lklaminated by the lurid light from hundreds dries, relling-mille, puddling and blast furnaces. nld find Hartlepool, not sleeping beside her d batteries," but roused from her deep sleep of sd become a modern Tyre; Stockton, no longer :et little municipality he knew it, now become I the best of English markets, with ironworks th like, along each side of the river, and with her lawyers, sprung from the loins of neighfarmers, representing her democracy in tent; and, as he &rolled about his snug roc: lEgeleseliff, he would hear that most irrepreall revolutioniFig, the locomotive steam-angine, across the Tees, dragging its ponderous trains ngers and merchandise, to accommodate immense viaduct, worthy of the nineteenth was built at Yarm, in 1839, in the erection seven millions Ind a half of bricks were nied. a genuine appreciation of the beauties of d, and the author displays the peculity of tl; the past and the present—which contrast lgely—in a manner calculated at once to hulks mind and produce a perfect picture.  lied  Bud  ted 's ic r V , urges( a, and a wart al w, n, by 11 at ade  it g the past week there were 14 suicides in 0 fatal accidents, 51 arrests for robbery, and s of individuals " withont a habitation or a