This was a very delightful town. We saw a great many things which it is
now too late to describe, the sharpness of the first impression being
gone; but I think I can produce something of the sentiment of it
hereafter.

We arrived at Conway late in the afternoon, to take the rail for Chester.
I must see Conway, with its old gray wall and its unrivalled castle,
again. It was better than Beaumaris, and I never saw anything more
picturesque than the prospect from the castle-wall towards the sea. We
reached Chester at 10 P. M. The next morning, Mr. Bright left for
Liverpool before I was awake. I visited the Cathedral, where the organ
was sounding, sauntered through the Rows, bought some playthings for the
children, and left for home soon after twelve.


Liverpool, August 8th.--Visiting the Zoological Gardens the other day
with J-----, it occurred to me what a fantastic kind of life a person
connected with them might be depicted as leading,--a child, for instance.
The grounds are very extensive, and include arrangements for all kinds of
exhibitions calculated to attract the idle people of a great city. In
one enclosure is a bear, who climbs a pole to get cake and gingerbread
from the spectators. Elsewhere, a circular building, with compartments
for lions, wolves, and tigers. In another part of the garden is a colony
of monkeys, the skeleton of an elephant, birds of all kinds. Swans and
various rare water-fowl were swimming on a piece of water, which was
green, by the by, and when the fowls dived they stirred up black mud. A
stork was parading along the margin, with melancholy strides of its long
legs, and came slowly towards its, as if for companionship. In one
apartment was an obstreperously noisy society of parrots and macaws, most
gorgeous and diversified of hue. These different colonies of birds and