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OBSERVATIONS IN EUROPE,

PRINCIPALLY IN

FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN

BY

JOHN P. DURBIN, D.D.,

PRESIDENT OF DICKINSON COLLEGE.

IN TWO VOLUME 8.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Embark at Ostend.-Approach to London.-The Thames.-Custom-house

-Registry of Foreigners.-Mr. Randall's.—Mr. Everett.-House of Lords.

-Brougham.-Wellington.-House of Commons.-Corruption.-O'Con-

nell.-Protestant and Roman Catholic Politicians.

The Tunnel.-How to know an American.-The Docks.-East India Docks.

-West India Docks.-Commercial Docks.-London Docks.-Tobacco

Warehouse.-Wine Vaults.-St. Catharine's Dock.-The Tower.-Horse

Armory.-Raleigh's Cell.-The Regalia

The Queen.-Royal Procession.-Appearance of Her Majesty.-Want of

Enthusiasm.-Duke of Wellington.-Marshal Ney.-Prorogation of Par-

liament.-Newspaper Accounts of the Court.-Prince Albert.-Fondness

of the English for Gossip about the Royal Family

Blue-Coat School.-History of the School.-Boys at Dinner.-St. Paul's.—

Ball.-Gallery.-Monuments.-Westminster Abbey.-British Museum.—

Mr. Horne.-Number of Churches and Chapels in London.-Impressions

of London.-Vastness.-Wealth.-Contrast with Paris

METHODISM IN ENGLAND.

City Road Chapel.-Introduction to the Conference.-Mode of doing Busi-

ness.-The Legal Conference.--Mode of stationing Preachers.-Church

Edifices.-Worship.-Liturgy.-Style of Preaching.-Comparison of Eng-

lish and American Methodism.-Efficiency of their Financial Measures.-

Funds.-Missionary System.-Education.-Circulation of Books.-Com-

parison.-Social Intercourse.

METHODISM IN ENGLAND.

Origin of Methodism.-Origin of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ameri-

ca.-Question of the Sacraments.-Relation of Methodism to the Estab-

lishment. Recent Modifications of that Relation.-Policy of the Establish-

ment.-The Factory Bill.-Dr. Dixon's View of the Position of Methodism.

-The Free Church of Scotland.-Political Importance of the Methodists.

--Relation of Methodism to the Working Classes.-Attachment of the

Methodists to the Establishment declining.

LONDON TO MANCHESTER.

Outbreak in the Manufacturing Districts.-Rapid Spread of the Discontent.

-Mobs.-Queen's Proclamation.-Departure from London.--London and

Birmingham Railway.-Birmingham.-Wretched Appearance of the Oper-

atives.-Manchester.-Mob-law.-Chartists.-Their Proclamation.-The

Workmen. Messrs. Wood and Westhead's Factory.-Suppression of the

MANCHESTER TO NEWCASTLE.

Sheffield Railway.-Wesleyan Conference.-Mr. Montgomery.-Hull.—Mr.

Cookman.-Great Thornton-street Chapel.-Placards.-Worship.-York.

-The Minster.-Law Courts.-Wigs.-Lord Denman.-Cathedral Bells

ringing for the Races.-The Clergy.-The Stage-coach.-Newcastle.-A

Coal-mine.-The Miners." Honest John"

A lying Agent.-Annoyance of Servants in England.-Bolting a Breakfast.

-A dirty Village. - Alnwick. -Arrival at Edinburgh. - General Appear-

ance of the City.-Origin of the New Town.-The Old Town.-Holyrood

Palace. The Barber in the Abbey.-Bones of the Kings.-Queen Mary's

Apartments.-Rizzio's Closet

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