54 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



the project is favoured by intelligent, practical, religious men, 

 is gratifying, and the remarks they are reported as making in 

 public meetings on the subject, indicate a hopeful apprecia 

 tion of the effect of circumstances upon character. 



Tired of waiting for the ship, and a good deal fatigued 

 with our tramps on the pavements, about half-past twelve we 

 went back into the town, and by the very obliging assistance 

 of the policemen found lodgings in a &quot; Temperance Hotel,&quot; 

 still open at that late hour. We were a little surprised to 

 find a number of men in the coffee-room drinking beer and 

 smoking. The subject of their conversation was some pro 

 ject of an association of working-men to combine their 

 savings, and make more profitable investment of them than 

 could be made of the small amounts of each separately. 

 There were late newspapers on the table, and we sat up some 

 time longer to read them, but they were still at it, puffing 

 and drinking, and earnestly discussing how they could best 

 use their money, when we went up to bed. We had good 

 beds in pleasant rooms for which we paid twenty-five cents 

 each. 



The next morning we got our trunks from the ship, the 

 custom-house officers searching them before they left the 

 dockyard. Books, letters, and daguerreotypes were examined 

 minutely, but the officers were very civil and accommodating ; 

 so also were the cartmen that took them to the inn for us. 

 The expense of getting our luggage through the searching 

 office, and carting it a mile, was only twenty-five cents for 

 each trunk, and &quot; tuppence for beer.&quot; 



We went to a small lodging-house that we had examined 

 last night, and found neat and comfortable, and kept by an 

 agreeable woman. We have a large front room, comfortably 

 furnished, and down stairs is a quiet parlor and dining-room. 

 We breakfast in the house, and dine and sup at eating shops. 



