The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

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OntimarioNS.—On Sunday last the Lord Bishop
of Chester admitted the following gentlemen to holy
orders : —Deacons : Joseph Ford SIMMIOISS, 8.A., Lincoln
College, Oxford, to Christchurch, Southport ; Francis
Cooper, RA., St. John's College. Cambridge,
to At. Paul's. Southport ; Augustus Wise, Geo.
Moors, BA., St. John's College, Cambridge, to Tar-
porky ; James Richards, B.A. Sydney Seism College,
Cambridge, to Cheadle; Charles Isaac Stephen, 8.A.,
Christ College, C•tobridge, to Frankby ; Henry Jones
Alcoa, B. A., 'Trinity College, Debts, to St. Thomas',
Emission ; George Harrison Robson, ILA., Trinity Co:lege,
Dublin, to Vauxhall, Liverpool ; George Reed, RA., Trinity
College, Dublin, to St. Mark's, LiverpooL Priests :
Frederick Barker, BA., Braseoose Ccalege, Oxford; John
Ashford Hartahoroe, ILA., Christ Church College. Oxford ;
Matthew Pltterworth Moorbouse, M.A.. Queens College,
Oxford; Jchn Ward, BA., Queens' College. Cam-
bridge ; Frederick Briedley, B A., Trinity College,
Dublin ; John Jeetin Drearier, 8.A., Trinity College,
Dublin ; Thomas Meadows, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin,
Ito Trinity Church. Runcorn ; George Turner Birch, Lk.
Theology. Bishop Hattield's Hall, Durham ; William Sheard
Norris, I.ic. Theology, Bishop Hatfield's HaIL Durham;
James Taylor, Lie. Theology, B:shop Hatfield's Hall, Dur-
hatu;James Vaugbao Crispin, Aseoc;ate. Kizig'sCollege, Lon-
don ; Charles Jones, Queen's College. Birmingham ; Samuel
Literate.—Toe Armour Lirate.—Tbe Lord Bishop of Glonc,e-
, ter and Bristol, on Sunday last, held a general ordination in
the Cathedral at Gloucester. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Jame. Davies, M.A., rector of A henhall and rural
dean. At the conclusion of the sermon the following gen-
tians° were admitted into holy orders :—Deacons : Bed-
ford Hartnen. M.A.. St. Jobn's College, Cambridge ; Va.
leotine Catherwted Knight, M.A., University College, Ox-
ford; Dui& Forbes Smith Marriott, M.A., Trinity College,
Cambridge ; Baker Morrell, B. A., St. Johs's College, Oxford ;
William Pinder Went, LL.B.. Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. Priests:—Hilton Bothamley, M.A., Trinity
College Meredith Lane, M.A., Trinity College,
Cambridge; Alexander John Wcodfoede, licentiate in
theology. Durham. Immediately after the ordination the
Vahop licensed the following to caroms in the diocese :
The Rev. Bedford Hannon. to St. Pleura, Cla-
tter ; the Rev. Valentine Catherwood Knight, 'to
I.rdner ; the Rev. Hugh Forbes Marriott, to Chris-
tian Belford ; the Rev. Baker Mbrrell, to Bed-
miuster ; the Rev. William Pinder West, to St.
John the Evangelist, Clifton. The Manchester ordination
took place in the cathedral for the first time during the
last 14 years. There was • very large congregation to
witoess the ceremony. The Bishop of Worcester announces
that for the future he will bold an ordination on the Sunday
after the Ember days at each of the four HOMO' in every
year. He wishes to have three months' notice from ell can.
dilates for eleacoe's orders.
THE TUBS-OCT AT MII.I,LESDOHOCC:H. This
affair has led to some rather alarming symptoms. There
has been a meeting, attended by between 4,000 end ".00;
workmen, and altogether matters have looked so dangerous
to the peace of the district, that a detachment of the Bth
Human have been sent down from York ; and the rest of
the regiment are held in readiness to follow by special train,
if their services should unfortunately be required. Twenty-
three persons have been arrested.
Sorni KENSINGTON MCSErM,--In accordance
with the usual practice of the museum in receiving valuable
works on loan, a collection of choice ell paintings of the
Dutch school, 56 in number, has been lent for exhibition by
Mr. John Walter, M.P., and is now arranged on the walls
of the gallery from which the Mulready pictures were lately
removed. The collection consists of works by Bereberu,
Both, De Hoop, Du Judie, Gonzales Cirques, Hobbema,
Maas, A. Ostade, T. Ostade, Paul Potter, Ruyadael, Via
Stry, Wesel:, and other celebrated masters.

The great age to which Mr. Landor attained
affords some sort of presumption that certain at-
tributes of his by which he was best known to the
multitude were qualities of style rather than of
soul—we do not mean of literary style only, but
style of expression by life and act, as well as by
the pen. Contempt and bitterness are not condu-
cive to long life. As the ancients said, they dry up
the vital juices. As we moderns say, they fret the
brain and nerves, and intercept the complacent
enjoyment of good humour and benevolence, which
eminently promotes length of days. As Walter
Savage Landor was born in 1775, and
has only now departed, it seems that, after
all, be bad not any fatal proportion of contempt or
bitterness deep down in his nature ; and the ques-
tion remains bow he came to be so markedly known
by as much as he had. The truth is, he had in
him a strong faculty of admiration ; and a deep,
pure, fresh current of tenderness and sweetness ran
under the film of gall which nature unhappily shed
over his existence at the fountain. This was one
of the contradictions of which this paradoxical
being was made up ; and it is, with the rest, wor-
thy of some contemplation ; not because paradoxi-
cal persons or the paradoxes they produce are
choice objects of study in a striving and practical
'age like ours, but beanie LaMar actde►ed some
things that were great, and many that were beau-
tiful, in spite of the paradoxical elements of his lite
and character.

The young of thirty years ago, to whom litera-
ture was an important pursuit and pleasure, were
often seen in a transport of admiration, amazement,
and anger, when rising from Landor's books. They
were quite sure that nothing so noble, nothing so
tender, nothing so musical was to be found in our
language as the "Imaginary Conversations" be-
tween Pericles and filophocle., between Demosthenes
and Eubulides, between Asthma and Lady Jaue
Grey, and plenty more. The patriotism, the mag-
nanimity, and the sweet heroism of the sentiments
call up the flush or the tear ; and the familiarity
with the ancients, in their habit of mind
and speech, enraptures the youthful scho-
lar. After a time, he relaxes in his reading
of Landor—still declares, when he is talked of,
that his is a grand and beautiful fragmentary
mind, but he no longer reads his later volumes ;
and at last, grows so weary of his Jacobin doctrines,
his obtrusive spirit, and senteutious style, that
when the well-known name in large letters appears
in the newspaper, at the foot of a denunciatory
letter, or a curse in stanzas, it is a signal to turn
the leaf. The standard criticism of the country
seems to have undergone something of the
sante process as the individual student. The
Quarterly Beni* is once despised everybody
who could stop to notice Landor's faults, and elo-
quently described the process of the eleva-
tion of his fame, till it should become
transcendent among the worthies of England :
but it may be questioned now whether the Quar-
terly ihrieu has any more expectation than the
IT Ili that the writings of Landor will survive,
except as curiosities iu literature. The fact seems
to be that, with some of the attributes of genius,
Landor fell just short of it. Belied not the large
spirit and generous temper of genius. His egotism
was extreme, but it was not that of genius. He
has been called a prose Byron, and certainly he
complailied abundantly of man and life, and ab-
horred tyrants, and lived long in Italy, and fought
for liberty abroad, and especially, he was at once a
Jaoobin or democrat in literature, and a man of
family and fortune; bnt there the resemblance,
seeps. !Moore Byron moaned., Lawlor &misled,
Landor had no patience with royalty, or any rule
but the popular, because it stood between men and
their happiness ; whereas Byron looked upon tyranny
as a mere symptom of huwau corruptness and
misery, aud saw no happiness on the other side
of it. Byron was an embodiment of the groaning
spirit of his time, which uttered it6eli through him
because his lips had been touched with fire ; but
Landor's utterances were almost entirely personal
and constitntional—expressed no prevalent senti-
ment or need—not being even tie utterance of a
party in politics or literature, but the presentment
of an unchanging egotism, undermajeatic or grace-
ful disguises furnished from the stores of his learn-
ing or the resources of his imagination. It is oce
of the paradoxes about Lauder, hot that he should
have but one style—for that might be
expected ; but that that style should have
been the dramatic. Well as he succeeded
in hitting the mode of thought of many of his dis-
coursing rersonages, it was by means of his learn-
ing and not of his sympathies that he did so. They
were all raised from the dead in their habits as they
lived, but it was in order to be possessed by Lau-
doe in every case—his spirit speaking through their
brains, perhaps, as well as through their lips—but
always his spirit and no other. Hence his failures
in the case of Milton, and partly, even in that of
Cromwell, though there he might have been ex-
pected to succeed pre-eminently. Yet more modern
English persouages fail more and more conspicu-
ously, in comparison with old Greeks, and nit:di:eve'
Italians, and far away Spaniards, for the obvious
reason that the former, living amidst modern
associations and represented by a writer who
is too much of an egotist and a mannerist to have
genuine dramatic power, must be simply Landor
himself, cramped and debilitated by the restraints
of his disguise. These are the token. and proofs
of his falling short of true genius. Yet there is
so genuine a force of liberalism in his writings, so
constant a vigilance against the encroachments of
tyranny, as may neutralise a large admixture of
self-love and self-will ; and it really is so rare to
see theclaitus of the democracy so presented, amidst
the music and the lights reverberated and
reflected from the classic ages, that the
man who Las done that service may be
fairly considered an original of high mark, if be
be too paradoxical, and too measured an egotist
to be entitled to the high honours of genius.
But paradox carries away others than the inven-
tors:and titterers ; and we have been commenting
on the mind of the vigorous old man who is gone
from us, before we have glanced at his life, which
was, from first to last, as characteristic as his wri-
tings, as characteristic as his face and form, and
everything pertaining to him. We may be called
paradoxical ourselves if we say (but it is true), that
never was anything more of a piece than the mind
and life, the surroundings, the utterance and the
acts of this wonderfully sane, yet thoroughly incon.
sistent, being. His tall, broad, muscular, active
frame was characteristic ; and so was his head,
with the strange elevation of the eyebrows,
which expresses self-will as strongly in

some lisses as astonishment in others. Those
eyebrois, mounting up till they compre- I
bend good portion of the forehead, have
been otaerved in many more paradoxical per-
sons than one. Then there was the retreating but
broad forehead, showing the deficiency of reasoning
and speculative power, with the preponderance of
imagination, and a huge passion for destruction.
The massive self-love and self-will carried up his
head to something more than a dignified bearing—
, even to one of arrogance. His vivid and quick eye,
and the thoughtful mouth were fine, and his
Iwhole air was that of a man, distinguished in his
own eyes certainly, but also in those of others.
Tradition reports that he was handsome in his
youth. In age he was more. The first question
about him usually was why, with his frame, and his
courage, and his politics, and his social position, he
was not in the army. One reply might be that he
could neither obey nor co-operate ; another was
that his godfather, General Powell, wished it ; and
Lander, therefore, preferred something else. As
for that something else—his father offered him
4001. a year to study law, and reside in the Temple
for that purpose, whereas he would give him only
1501. if he would not ; and of course, he took the
1501., and went as far as he well could from the
Temple ; that is, to Swansea. Warwick was his
native place. He was born in the beet house in the
city,- wins the Ana old garden.
_with its
noble elms and horse-chesnuts, might have
influenced his imagination, so as to have
something to do possibly with his subsequent
abode in Italy. His mother was of the ancient
family of Savage ; and hereditary estates lay about
him in Staffordshire and Warwickshire, which had
been in the possession of the family for nearly
seven centuries. These he sold, to shift himself to
Wales, and nowhere did his spirit of destructive
waywardness break out more painfully than in the
sale of those old estates, and his treatment of the
new. He employed many scores of labourers on his
Welsh estates, made roads and planted, and built
a house whisk cost him 8,000/. He set his heart
upon game-preserving (of all pursuits for a demo.
cratic republican), and bad at times twenty keepers
out upon the hills at night, watching his grouse ;
'nut, with 12,000 acres of land, he never saw a
grouse on his table. His tenants cheated him, he
declared, and destroyed his plantations ; and,
taough he got rid of them, he left, not only Wales
but Great Britain, in wrath. Then, the steward
in charge of his house cheated him, when he not
only got rid of the steward, but had his splendid
new house pulled down—out of consideration, he
declared, for his son's future ease and convenience,
in being rid of so vexatious a property. His flat-
terers called this an act of characteristic indigna-
tion. To others it appeared that his republican
and self-governing doctrines came rather strangely
from one who could not rule his own affairs and
his own people ; and who, finding his failure,
could do nothing better than lay waste the whole
scene.

He had obtained some of Lis scholarship at
Rugby, and somewhat more at Oxford, where,
however, Lis stay was short. Having fired a gun
in the quadrangle of his college, he was rusti-
cated, and, instead of returniug, published a
volume of poems, when he was only eighteen. While
at Swansea, he studied, and wrote " Gebir." On the
invasion of Spaiu, Le determined to be a soldier on
his own account, raised a small troop at his own ex-
pense, and was the first Englishman who landed in
aid of the Spauiards. He was rewarded for this
aid, and for a gift of money, by the thanks of the
Supreme Junta, and by the rank of colonel on blare-
turn to England ; but he returned his commission
and ,be record of thanks when Ferdinand set aside
the constitution. Among many good political
acts, perhaps none was better than this. At thirty-
six years of age he married a French lady of
good family ; and a few years after, in 1818,
fixed his residence is Italy,—first, in the Palazzo
Medici, in Florence, and, when obliged to leave
it, in a charming villa, two miles off. That
villa Gherardesca was built by Michel Angelo.
Few British travellers in Italy fail to go and see
Fiesole ; and while Lander lived there he was the
prey of lion hunters,—as be vehemently complained
on occasion of the feud between him and N. P.
Willis, the American, who lost a MS. confided to
him for his opinion. Such a subordination of the
full, ripe scholar and discourser to the shallow,
flippant sketcher by the wayside, might seem to
deserve such a result ; but it did not tend to recon-
cile Lauder to lion-hunters. While in Italy, he
sent to English newspapers, and especially to the
amines, frequent comments ou passing events in
the political world, in the form of letters or of
verse. He was collecting pictures all the while; and
when he returned to England to pass the rest of
his days, as he supposed, he left the bulk of his
collection in his villa, for his son's benefit, bringing
only a few gems wherewith to adorn such a modest
residence as he now intended to have in his own
country. That residence was in St. James's-square,
Bath, where he became an octogenarian living for
a while in peace and quiet—still commenting on
men and measures through the liberal papers, and
putting forth, in his eightieth year, the little
volume called "Last Fruit from an Old Tree." The
spectacle of a vigorous, vivid, undaunted old age,
true to the aims and convictions of youth, is always
a fine one ; and it was warmly felt to be so in
Landor's case. His prejudices mattered less, when
human affairs went on maturing themselves in spite
of them ; and many of his complaints were silenced
in the beat possible way—by the reform of the abuses
he, with some unnecessary violence, denounced. He,
for his part, talked less about killing kings ; and his
steady assertion of the claims of the bumble fell in
better with the spirit of the time, after years had
inaugurated the works of peace. About many
matters of political principle and practice he was
right, while yet the majority of society were wrong ;
and it would be too much to require that he should
be wholly right in doctrine and fact, or very angelic
in his way of enforcing his convictions. Nature did
not make him a logician, and if we were ever disap-
pointed at not finding him one the fault was our
own. She made him brave though wayward ;an
egotist in his method, but with the good of mankind
for his aim. He was passionate and prejudiced, but
usually in some great cause, and on the right
side of it. He was of aristocratic birth,
fortune, and education, with democracy for his
political aim, and poverty and helplessness for his
clients. All this would have made Walter Savage
Lander a remarkable man in his generation, apart
from his services to literature ; but when we recal
some of his works—such pictures as that of the
English officershot at the Pyramids—such criticism
as in his Pentameron—and discourses so elevating
and so heart-moving as some which he has put into