Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

LECTURE BY LOLA MONTES.

The celebrated Lola Montes has baen lecturing in
Canada, on female beauty. According to the Canadian
papas, the lady proceeded to ask where beauty lay ?
Where," she said, " shall we look for this soarce of
power? Often, perhaps, in a mere dimple, sometimes in
the soft shadow of a drooping eyelid, or again, beneath
the tresses of a little fantastic curl. Ala.," and she spoke
it most impressively, " Alas, I am ashimed to think what
small things will often move the strongest and bravest of
men! Many times in my life, in the company of kings
and nobles, have I been f)reed with sadness to raflect on
the words of the sublime Milton, in waich he speaks of

woman as—
' Fair. no doubt, and worthy well
Thy cherishing, thy honour, and thy love,
Not thy subjection.'
Lola considered. the .English, Irish, and Scotch women to
be the handsomest. speaking of beauties, she gave the
palm to the well-known Duchess of Sutherland, who
moved a natural queen, and was the paragon among the
beautiful aristocracy of England. Lady Blessington was
a marvellous beauty ; kings and nobles were at her fee`.
In Italy they called her La DNA—the goddess. She was
voluptuous, with a neck that sat on her shoulders
like 'he most charming Greek models. the had a wonder-
fully beautiful hand, an i an eye, that when it smiled cap-
tivated all hearts. She was a far more intellectual stele
of beauty than even the Duchess of Sutherland. The
present Duchess of Wellington (when Lola saw her
Marchioness of Douro was an admirably beautiful
woman, with little intellect or animation. She had
a fine piece of sculpture—and as cold as a piece
of sculpture. The most famous beautiful family
in England was the great Sheridan family.
There were two sons, both, said . Lela, known to
herself, who were considered the handsomest men of their
day. There were three daughters—the lion. Mrs. Norton,
well known on this side of the Atlantic through her
poetry and her misfortunes ; Lady Blackwood,. and Lady
Seymour, the latter of whom was ;he I:4lsen of Beauty at
the famous Eglinton tournament. Tbe-ie three were
called the three graces of England. Speaking of French
beauties, Lola first praised the Marquise de is Grange, and
afterwards the Empress Eugenie. When Lola last saw
Eugenie, she (Eugenie) was certainly one of the most
vivacious, witty, and sprightly women of Paris. All the
portraits in this coueitry greatly exaggerated her size, for
.Eugenie was really a small woman. lisfore her =triage
with the. Emperor, and wheat she was the belle of
Madrid, she evinced a high admiration for Louis
Gottschalk, the pianist, who, by the way, had
carried off unwittingly half a million of hearts
from the United States. Eugenie caused him to be
received into the most arietoccadc families of Madrid.
Lola then passed on tosketch the various characteristics of
the beauties of the various countries, and took occasion to
hit Lord Brougham. The Coustantinopelitan ladies, with
whom corpulency was beauty, would, she said, have (mel-
ted from that polished gallant the exclamation, what
quantity." Lola decried all cosmetics. She recommended
three things—temperance, exercise, and cleanliness as
preservatives of beauty. The bath, she said, which was
universal everywhere but in Britian and America, was the
best wash that be could be desired, alth ,ug't, inched, it
was mentioned that tincture of benzine, precipitated by
wa-er, was used by the beauties of Charles ll.'s reign, and
really brought blood
ito the surface. Bran might be ad-
vantageously used n tonne Sion with the bath. A well
cultivated mind was that which gave not only eloquence to
the tongue, lustre to the eye, vermillion to the cheek, and
lighted up the wh, le person as though the verybody
thought. Lola moralised much and well, and whe bon
in.
this vein. 4 or forth the heartiest applause.