| Show ON FOREIGN SHORES The Experiences of our Uncle In the Old World LIVEUPOOL JUPC 20 1600Special correspondence respondence of TIlE HEHALD Since my last to you wherein I spoko of the great ovation that I received from tho people of Lowestoft I have visited the cities of Ely and Peterborough and viewed the antiquities an-tiquities of their cathedrals and have considered sidered with the bishops By the way here js not much of a similarity between them and our bishops especially some of our rustic and rural bishops At Little Downham Cambridgeshire on invitation of Charles Starling Esq and lady met a number of ladies and gentlemen gentle-men in the parlors of a Mr Harmon amongst whom was Mr Cook a wealthy farmer Ho is the father of five blind sons of most rare accomplishments the oldest of which is editor of a magazine in circulation amongst the blind of Great Britain They write print and issue their magazine are very industrious and are very gentlemanly Amongst their immense im-mense accomplishments they are excellent musicians This was a very interesting study to me The next thing that must give a word about is a visit on Derby Day in company with my friend Mr Frederick Starling 10 being a prominent official of the Royal hospital for incurables On his invitation I preferred oldest Hill Puttney Heath where this institution is located than to take a trip to the Derby races I think I was right for the words of the poet faced me viz There came before me in that vision I saw full many a form oC woman and of man And as they passed I hid my eyer with fear For none was straight or fair I looked again At touch or his white wand that led mo when Each shape had changed to one of heavenly grace Tho wand was Lovo I hail not seen till then Gods sign impressed on every human facer face-r wandered and sweet pity made me weep apace Now of all tho sights that I have seen in my sojourn on this mundane sphere this is the study of studies which engaged my attention Imagine the afflicted pronounced pro-nounced incurable by physicians from every hospital in this lime being taken in cared for like ladles and gentlemen the balance of their lives with every appliance of locomotive power and comfort furnished them with attendants etc etc Well I cannot describe too immensity of benevolence benevo-lence the study tho patience the labor the many attentions that the directors and I officers of the institution bestowed upon these afflicted ones which continue upon them during their life time Somo few of these patients have been the I recipients of these goodnesses for thirty years a few upwards I cannot give you the accurate statisticst but if my memory I serves me there are indoor patients 37b outdoor 500 besides a few pensioners All of these are supported by voluntary contributions con-tributions The Duke of Portland is the I president of tho institution for this year From this place of tho afflicted I visited Woolwich dock yard where 12000 men are engaged in the manufacture of articles of death What a contrast of thought and study instead of the physician tho nurse tho attendant and the sympathetic we behold be-hold the officer the sailor soldier and the mechanic manufacturing and testing em plements of death One day found me in the houses of Parliament Par-liament I aid not take my place I had a good seat but no place was allotted me to put it f r Next came Westminster Abbey I stood upon the tomb stone where to the day twenty yrars priorI saw the great Charles Dickens buried I visited St Pauls cathedral cath-edral in which I saw the Iron Duke of Wellington buried in November 1852 But enough of London the city of the the world Everybody writes about t her It would require volumes to do justice to her institutions museums galleries I hospitals law and civil courts and her I thousands of places of study attraction amusements etc So farewell to the city of five millions I find myself in Birmingham amongst I the Brummagem Buttonsthe hardware city of Great Britain which claims to be I ho best governed city in the world and that it is there can be no doubt For proof of this see Jlarpcrs JfonMii of June 1890 In it there is much get up and dust The mechanics are paid well and as a rule they know how to spend their wages to advantage ad-vantage I saw less intemperance in it than any place I havo visited for its size I once more lifted up my voice in the chapel built for the Latterday Saints many years since What a change in every respect has come over all these cities and towns New street once the bon ton street now plays a small second fiddle amongst streets here 1 Bazaars markets etc have made immense strides New Street railway station is more than double the size of years past It it claimed to be one of the largest in the world I must not notice Stafford the town of plates and dishes or say a word about its potteries nor tarry in Crew or lay over in Runcan but speed on to Liverpool the cosmopolitan shipping port of the world I met a number of our Utah friends who are at this season coming and going on almost every Guion steamship which sails Job says Asironsharpenethiron so does the countenance of a man his friend if you dont believe this come over here and try it How pleased I was to grasp the hand of my friend George Teasdale and others On the 17th ult fortyeight Utah excursionists excur-sionists arrived at Glasgow some of which came up to Liverpool Amongst them was our our old townsmen P Pucsley Spicer Poulton Meredith Mrs Hayward and portions of their families They all felt i that they had struck a friendly bonanza when they set foot inside old 42 Islington I On afternoon of the 20th in company with Walter Hodge of Bear Lake we steamed down tho Mersey river about eigteen miles to meet the Wisconsin which we afterwards found had on board sixteen Utah proselyters Perhaps they were not glad to receive a welcome to the elands e-lands Oh no rather They landed and passed the custom officers with their grips and arrived at 42 about 11 p m fourteen remaining on the British Isles one sent to Scandinavia and one to the German and Swiss field I June 21st at 1 p m tho steamship Alaska weighed anchor in the Mersey haying I hay-ing on board fifteen bound for Utah They were saloon and intermediate passengers I I herewith give you a few figures Saloon pajscngera u T 93 I Intermediate > 1tB g I Steerage V53 Officers and crew sit Total 833 This does not include infants birds dogs and other things more prominent amongst the steerage passengers I leave you to guess tho kind and breed My next will bo about Ireland the ocean and homeward trip UNCLE |
