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NEW ENGL.'^ND FARMER. 



FEBRUAUY »7, 1839. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



WHAT A FARMER WANTS. 



The Farmer wnnts a stable minil, 

 A purpose sure and steady, 

 To jxiticnt industry inclined — 

 For business always ready. 



Good careful liabits well infixed, 

 And judgment acting clearly, 

 To sift out truths with error mixed, 

 Though it should cost him dearly 



Ho wants a neat and prudent wife, 

 Who when he earns, can save it ; 

 Who kindly soothes llie care of life, 

 (Best gift of bim who gave it.) 



He wants a snug and tidy farm, 

 And health and strength togetlier ; 

 A house and ham to keep all warm 

 In cold and rainy weather. 



Heaven's blessing then must crown the whole. 

 Or all his hopes are blasted ; 

 But with this resting on bis soul, 

 The purest joys are lasted. 



He then enjoys a bliss, unknown 

 To those the world calls greatest ; 

 Known only to the good alone, 

 The earliest and the latest. 



(From Dr Humphrey's Tour ) 



Thames Tunnel. The great want of a thorough- 

 fare across the Thames, somewhere between Lon- 

 don Bridge and Greenwich Hospital, suggested the 

 idea of a Tunntl, under the bed of the river, which 

 was conin)enced several years ago, about midway 

 between the two. From various adverse causes it 

 has advanced but slowly and irregularly ; and il 

 was not when I visited it, more than half complet- 

 ed. Two or three limes, the superincumberit wa- 

 ters have broken tlirough, to the great discourage- 

 ment of the company, and even threatening to put 

 a final stop to the enterprise. 15nt by great labor 

 and e.xpense, the breaches were stopped, and the 

 water was pumped out. 



It is agreed on all hands, that if this immense 

 work could be finished and secured against the 

 irruptions of the river, it would be a great conven- 

 ience, as the navigation of the Thames will not 

 permit the erection of a bridge in that part 6f the 

 city ; and the river is so constantly choslied up 

 with all kinds of water oraft, that to keep a ferry 

 open would be quite impossible. When the work 

 was first undertaken, it was regarded by many as 

 visionary and impracticable ; and the hopes of the 

 most sanguine wfl;i« nearly anniljilaled by the first 

 cataract, wliicli drove out the terrified workmen, 

 and in a few minutes filled up the vast excavation. 

 The undertaking has proved much more costly 

 than was anticipated, and for a very considerable 

 time the work was suspended entirely for want of 

 funds. But at the last session of farliamont, a 

 handsome grant was made to liilp carry it forward, 

 and wlien 1 was there, the long arches again re- 

 sounded with the heavy blows, and busy hum of 

 the workmen. 



Vou can see the Tunnel as you see every thing 

 else in England, whether finished, unfinished or in 

 ruins, by paying your shilling, more or less, at the 



gate, and buying a guide book at twice its value — 

 though the latter condition is not quite imperative. 

 A shaft is sunk to the depth of fifty or sixty feet, 

 on the south bank of the river, over which a tem- 

 porary building has been erected, and you descend 

 into the Tunnel by a winding staircase. Before it 

 can be opened, the excavation nuist of course, be 

 carried out a great deal further from the river, to 

 get a convenient slope for heavy transportation. At 

 the bottom of the stairs the Tunnel commences. It 

 is ten or twelve feet in height, and wide enough 

 for two carriage ways, and side walks, and separat- 

 ed by a row of massive pillars and arches. The 

 sides and transverse arclies, as you stand at the en- 

 trance, and by the help of lamps, look down these 

 subterranean galleries, being built of the most sub- 

 stantial masonry, have every appearance of being 

 perfectly secure, as far as they are finished, which 

 is about COO feet, nearly or quite to the middle of 

 the river. Some even now doubt, whether this 

 Tunnel will ever be finished ; but I can see no in- 

 superable difficulty in the way. As I have else- 

 whore reinarked, our English kinsfolk are common- 

 ly nuich less in a hurry than we are ; but they pos- 

 sess the virtue of perseverance in an eminent de- 

 gree ; and I have little doubt that some half a doz- 

 en years hence, they will be passing under the bed 

 of their largest river with as much composure and 

 safety as they now pass over London bridge. When- 

 ever that arrives, the Tunnel will be of immense 

 value to the lower part of the Metropolis. 



It does not follow, as I am quite well advised, 

 that, because every American who visits London 

 finds a great many things to admire, or to marvel 

 at, he can put them down upon paper so as to make 

 them equally interesting to his countrymen at home. 

 But I have ventured just to mention some half doz- 

 en of these trifles as specimens of the thousand 

 nugae which arrest your attention in your daily per- 

 ambulations of that vast Metropolis. 



The drat hokses of London are animals of 

 prodigious size and power. They resemble ele- 

 phants, more than they do the ordinary breed of 

 horses in the country. A gentleman told me he 

 had three of them, that were worth at least a hun- 

 dred pounds, that is about fve hundred dollars, 

 apiece. The best of tiiese noble animals, especially 

 those owned by the great brev ers, are worth even 

 more than this. How lamentable that they should 

 be unconsciously employed in the distribution of 

 poison to so many thousands of families ! This 

 leads me to say, that some of the breweries in Lon- 

 don are immense establishments. In their vats a 

 strong swimmer might find abundant room to tire 

 liimself I shudder when I contemplate the prob- 

 ability that a single one of them will destroy more 

 thousands, than fell in both the battles of Anster- 

 litz and Waterloo. When will the governments j 

 and people of Great Britain and the United States i 

 be convinced, that it is as badat least to kill a hun- 

 dred men with strong drinlc, as to take the life of | 

 one man with a pistol or a dagger ? How will pos- j 

 terity wonder at the obtuseness of our moral sen- | 

 sibjlities in regard to the making and vending of! 

 alcoholic poison ! Let but the meanest citizen of] 

 cither country be murdered in cold blood, and you j 

 shall see the whole community roused as one ' 

 man, to pursue and bring the criminal to justice ; 

 but let thousands perish under the slow tortures of 

 intoxicating drinks, and where is the posse comitatus 

 to arrest those who sold them the deadly poison .- 

 Where is even the public opinion, which effectu- 



ally frowns upon the trade of dealing out "deati 

 and damnation" to the high and the low, the ricl 

 and the poor .' 



Thb Police of London is very numerous an< 

 extremely well organized. This useful corps 

 amounting, if I was rightly informed, to four thou 

 sand or more, are found in the streets at all hour 

 of the day, as well as the night. They arc dis 

 tinguished by a plain blue uniform, with a litt]' 

 trimming upon the collar. Vou meet them at ever 

 turn, and judging from my own experience, the' 

 are very civil to strangers. As I often found i 

 difficult to make my way from one part of this vas 

 city to another, I soon learned to inquire of thi 

 first police man I rpet, as I was quite sure he wouli 

 be both able and willing to direct me. If yoi 

 speak to any other person whom you happen t 

 meet he may be as much of a stranger as yoursell 

 And if you step into the nearest shop you may, o 

 may not, obtain the information you want. I ough 

 to say, however, that if those whom you address 

 ran address you, they will. I very rarely rcceivec 

 a sliort and gruff answer — and not unfreqOentl' 

 would the person spoken to, insist upon going witi 

 me into the street, or to the next corner, to mak 

 his directions more definite. Such attentions i 

 the midst of an immense and bewilderinor city yoi 

 cannot but appreciate and remember. You have 

 map, it is true, and you can, if you will, study it si 

 as to get a tolerably correct notion of all the prin 

 cipal streets and squares of the town, — but I neve 

 could have patience to sit down and find the plac 

 wanted, just as I was going out to meet an engage 

 ment — and then, one half the courts and cms 

 streets are not to be found upon the map at ;il,' 

 There is nothing which cools the wrath of coacli 

 men, carmen, and omnibus drivers, so effectuallv 

 when they find themselves jammed together, jiell 

 mell, in Cheap. side, or Black-friars, and begin t 

 vociferate, and brandish their long whips — notliin 

 brings down their high temper, like the appearanc 

 of a police man : " Do yon stop there, and do i/oi 

 turn a little to the right, and you a little to the lefl 

 and you, sir, go with me to the office yonder." Thu 

 he clears away every obstruction almost in a mo 

 ment, and the waves roll on as before. 



TO BE IsV.T. 



The subsciihcr offers to lease for the term of three, five o 

 seven years, his dwelling house and gardens in South Salem 

 either with, or without any portion of the adjoining farm 

 lanils. The gardens, &c. contain about six acres, ni a high 

 state of cultivation, well stocked with flowers, fruit ami or- 

 namental lives ; two green houses, filled with the choicest 

 green bouse |ilanls, and grapes in full bearing ; a forcing 

 wall, with seed and tool rooms, a convenient gardener's lodge 

 and a large ice house; sufficient may be sold annually from' 

 the garden to pay the whole rent. The dwelling house is 

 large and convenient, commanding a fine view of the sea 

 and is within three fburtlis of a mile from the centre of the 

 ity of Salem The ahove offers a desirable situation eithei 

 for a gentleman's residence, or for a public garden or board- 

 ing bouse. 



Also, to let for three, five or seven years, the farm houst 

 and barns, which are large and commodious, with the whole 

 or part of the fiirni, consisting of over two hundred acres ol 

 land of the best quality, with a large orchard of grafted fruil 

 — it is aliundanlly supplied with sea manure, and located 

 near four market towns. The whole estate has a full sup- 

 ply of pure water. Applv to the subscriber on the premises. 



Jan. 23, IS38. ■ E. Hl-'.RSY DERBY. 



THit: NEW e:ngl,a.>d farmer 



Is putiiishcd every Wednesday Evening, at $3 per anniin 

 payable at the end of the year — hut those who pay williia 

 sixty days from the time of subscribing are entitled to a de 

 dnctionof 59 cents. 



TCTTLK, DENHETT AND CHISHOLM, PRIMTFRS, 



17 SCHOOL STREET B08T0K 



