, crowning the mountainous rock which
terminates on the west the elevated ridge on which the town is
built. When the Bill was carried, and the People had cooled down to
their normal condition of mind, they were obliged to pay for this
evening's illumination of their wrath pretty dearly. The Duke
mulcted the town and county to the tune of 21,000 pounds, or full
$100,000. The castle was no Chepstow structure, rough and rude for
war, but more like the ornate and castellated palace at Heidelberg,
and it was almost as high above the Trent as the latter is above the
Neckar. The view the site commands is truly magnificent, embracing
the Trent Valley, and an extensive vista beyond it. It was really
the great lion of the town, and the People, having paid the 21,000
pounds for dismounting it, because it roared in the wrong direction
on the Reform Bill, expected, of course, that His Grace the Duke
would set it up again on the old pedestal, with its mane and tail
and general aspect much improved. But they counted without their
host. "Is it not lawful to do what I will with my own," was the
substance of his reply; and there stands the blackened, crumbling
ruin to this day, as a silent but grim reproach to the People for
letting their angry passions rise to such destructive excitement on
political questions.

Hosiery and lace are the two great manufacturing interests of
Nottingham, and the tons of these articles it turns out yearly for
the world are astonishing in number and value. A single London
house employs 3,000 hands in the town and immediate vicinity upon
hosiery alone for its establishment. Lace now seems to lead the
way, and there are whole streets of factories and warehouses busy
with its manufacture and sale. Perhaps no fabric in the world ever
tested the ingenuity and value of machinery like this. The cost has
been reduced, from the old hand-working to the present process, from
three dollars to three cents a yard! I think no machinery yet
invented has been endowed with more delicate functions of human
reason and genius than that employed upon the flower-work of this
subtle drapery. Until I saw it with my own eyes, I had concluded
that the machinery invented or employed in America for setting card-
teeth was the most astute, and as nearly approaching the faculties
of the human mind in its apparent thought-power, as it was reverent
and safe to carry anything made of iron and steel, or made by man at
all. To