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THE SON. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, ooroBER 27, 1833,

LONDON, TUESDAY, Oen 27, 1863.

It is not often that a great master of rhetoric
like Mr. GLADSTONE, obtains here in England the
opportunity of reading an elaborate oration from
paper. in the British Legislature, whether Com-
mons or Lords, it is un-Parliamentary to do so.
Whereas, among. our French neighbours, it is very
nearly the reverse. It is at any rate so far the re-
verse in France, that the speeches delivered from the
tribuue that are not read, are the rare and peculiar
exceptions. During the period of the Constitutional
Gocvernment under Louis PIIILLIPFE, M. TRIERS
shone conspicuously among his political rivals
or colleagues, now as leader of the Govern-
ment, now as leader of the Opposition, by address-
ing the Chambers, fluently and often with brilliant
eloquence, by the hour, without the aid of
evem one scrap in the shape of a stenographic
memorandum lying before him on the shelf of the
tribune. Recently, under the imperial rule of
NKPOLEON 111., one of the very few indeed in (what
there is yet left of) the French Legislature, one of
the very few who could yet do the like there, was
the late distinguished and lamented statesman
orator, and administrator, M. BILLAULT. To an
Pfiglish debater, particularly to a great Parlia-
mentary athlete, like Mr. GLADSTONE, the reading
of a deliberately written discourse must, we cannot
but think, be a very tame affair indeed. Accustomed
to the free utterance of the thoughts and opinions
rising from his heart, or descending from his brain,
to b_islip3 tube poured out from thence in that golden
coin of words of eloquence in their musical ring and
intrinsic value far beyond the fabled rubies and
diamonds by spoke,
the Arabian Princess—Mr.
G
must, when reading a carefully written
discourse (as he did yesterday down at Burslem,
in Staffordshire, in honour of cld JOSIAH WEDG-
WOOD, the patriarch of the Potteries thereabouts)
Ir. GLADSTONE, we say,
must surely have
felt as though ho were hampered in his move-
ments, as though he were,bf r g
broaching for a while
a closer atmosphere ! Yet,
his address,
slow that it comes to us in its printed form, (as it
must have done had it been spoken by him
yesterday quite spontaneously) it is unquestionably
very beautiful. It is full of thought, virile,
fresh, abounding with originality. if it fetus_
as it does, beyond a doubt, and, indeed, it could
hardly have been otherwise—to take rank among
the ruisterpieces of oratory to which Englishmen
m GLAD^
have become accustomed fro Mr.

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it is, at any rate, in many respects, quite worthy
of him. And as an address spoken by Mr. GLAD.
STONE (whether impromptu or merely read, it mat-
ters little), it has a charm about it, this speech of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's down at Burslem,
a charm that we have not for a long while past been
in any way called upon to recognise and appreciate
in the Parliamentary speeches of Mr. GLAD-
ATONE down in the Legislative Palace at
-Westminster. The charm we speak of is the charm
geniality. Session after session the Chancellor of
the.tzehequer's eloquence has been marred either by
his a5....r..
, ~;z bay or byhis arrogance. His sentences, fora
long while Pest, have had about them something of
the swish 0, the
...
administeritt,gierule. He has been, alternately,
severe chastisement to some political
opponent, great or
Small, as the case might be—or
he iias been still more severely lecturing the whole
House of C,lnamona, as House of Commons, we take,
never was lectured before
'the debates, there, must
npparentiy (whensoever he The
e himself
partaken somewhat of the
self at least has been
Pn.,?-,aged in them) have
monotony, for him,
of the perpetual
aF,istri, repetition of
the Second declension - -
rnagiate
CQJ :s and , , down to the doleful vocative magistro,
ablative. The
pedagogue has so far gained upon hi...', nature (as his
favourite 7-61 e) that 4, has harshen'd his
once melo-
dious voice and seamed his once handsome
ten ance with lines of premature age and inflexible
severity. Geniality seems to be about the last
thing thought of, whenever Mr. GLADSTONE airs
his eloquence, or shall we sey gives himself airs, in
he House of CQulmons, Insomuch has he habituated

hima elf there to "assume the god, affect to nod, and
seem; to shake the spheres," that, on his rising, some-
times, one would almost fancy the members gene-
ra ly —like naughty schoolboys, or tim'rous hares—
trembling on their Torras. For once, however, as
he was wont to be in times gone by, before be grew
cross-grained e,nd took to scolding—while, in fact,
he was yet known as Handsome GLADSTONE, while
he stood at the head of his class as one of
PEEL'S Boys, while MACAULAY was patting
him or, the back with the Edinburgh, as the
model Student of Christ Church, Oxford—for
0nc,12, as he was wont to be in those far
Lippier early days of his when all was " promise
and not "place," Mr. GLADSTONE was yesterday
se3ial, for once again, and that, moreover,
English
nhisihs
two characters rolled into one, as a writer and as
a speaker. Discoursing upon one of our old Egl
Worthies, he, for that one rare interval, resumed
his almost forgotten geniality, speaking, us he did
so, in a manner worthy of himself and of his simple
theme, the life andlabours of our English PALISST,
good, honest JOSIAII WEDGWOOD, the Father of
our English Potters, the Founder of our English
Potteries.

Manchester has always been famous for public
meetings and addresses, as the annals of many hard
fought political struggles may testify. The so
called Manchester party has always expressed a
good deal of sympathy for American institutions
and laws, and has more than hinted that it would
be well for England if she were to copy them a
little more closely. It was not therefore to be sup-
posed that so decided a Federal as Mr. BEECHER
would quit this country without delivering an ad •
dress in that city; and accordingly on Saturday
morning the Manchester Union and Emancipation
Society invited the American speaker to be present
at an entertainment given in his honour. Mr.
BEECHER, of course, took the opportunity of ex-
pressing his views on the state of affairs in his own
country, which were mostly received very cordially,
although one or two awkward questions occasion-

ally broke the spell of unanimity. According to

Mr. BEECHER everything Northern is colour de rose.
The Federal finances are flourishing as they never
flourished before, and thriving, moreover, on a
sound and satisfactory basis. He does not deny the
possibility, or even probability of a great
financial crash. He looks upon that as the
best and shortest way of setting everything to right
and clearing up old scores. "In America," he
says, "we need a financial judgment day once in
ten years, and we get it." He is perfectly satis.
fled with this state of affairs, and he probably re-
presents the feelings and opinions of a good many
of his countrymen. A new country, he says, must
have credit, and with credit comes the evils of spe-
culation and the mistakes of over sanguine men.
Once in ten years the thing comes round in a kind
of crash. The bubble is broken, the paper is gone,
and the property remains. The man that yester•
day says " This is my house," don't say so tomor-
row; but the community is not hurt, the property
is there, the difference is in its shifting owners.
This cool and comfortable sort of reasoning comes
very well from a speaker of that country where
a failure is thought nothing, so long as it is large
enough to be creditable. However, whatever the
end of the road along which the Federal Govern-
ment are travelling, Mr. BEECHER declares it to

be very smooth and pleasant, and so long as the
day of reckoning is somo way off, the profusion
of capital afloat is quite sufficient to satisfy Ame-
rican financiers. But fiscal questions were not
the only ones to b 3 discussed at the Manchester
A.c:senably. Mr. BEECHER declares his great
object to be the promotion of a better under-
standing and a lasting peace between this country

and his own, and in pursuance of this end he wished
to make us understand the American view on every
question, or, as he terms it, "The American stand
point." Accordingly he endeavours to realise to us
the Northern aspec, of the famous Trent, but he
does not succeed in making out a very clear case.
In the first place he says the Federals looked upon
the transaction as altogether comic. They were
extremely amused at the pretentious embassy
terminating behind the bolts and bars of a Northern
prison. After they had sufficiently enjoyed the
joke they began to inquire about the law, but a
search into English precedents confirmed their
previous impressions of being altogether in the
right. Still \lr. BEECHER affirms that there was
a universal readiness to acknowledge that they
might be in the wrong, and that any delay in the
surrender of the two prisoners was only
occasioned by the courteous desire to wait

for the expression of the wishes of the English
Cabinet. When the final decision was arrived at,
although it excited surprise, Mr. BEECHER affirms

that it was at once agreed to, and that he cannot
recall any occasion on which it was spoken or
written against. This may be very true, so far as
Mr. BEECHER'S experience may go, but we cannot
so easily forget the bombast about sweeping
Eng:ish commerce from the sea, which is repeated
at every opportunity, and the general ill feeling so
persistently shown by the North. We fear that
the orders which despatched British troops to
Canada, and put the navy and dockyards on double
labour, whatever offence they may have given to
Mr. BEECHER, had more to do in procuring the

liberation of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON than the
courtesies of diplomacy or the search for precedents.
Coming to the great question of slavery, which of
course could not be left undiscussed by the guest of
Emancipation-Society, Mr. BEECIIER had a good
deal to say. The matter was introduced in the
worst possible taste by Mr. PATERSON of Liverpool,
who thought fit to denounce, in most unworthy
language, one whose name every right-minded
Abolitionist must honour. It is easy to stand up
now at a meeting of Emancipationists and to speak
of Lord BROUGHAM'S views on the American ques-
tion as
's words of unparalleled baseness," and to
sneer
at himself as "a poor spoilt old man ;" but it
Was
not ao, e"Y ...... „ .
to fight the battle of Emancipation
years ago when the name of HENRY BROUGHAM
was foremost in
the van. This is not the way to
argue a great question
closely entwined with all the
complicated ramifications
ucit of a vast social and
political system, s
unreasonable extremity,
vehemencet of language and
obstacles in the way of settling views
put additional
a most momentous
and pressing matter. It any attempt be made to
consider the question of slavery in a practical
light with the object of sr„,„thi
the formidable difficulties in the ,a, ng away
ay, not only
of
compensating the slave-owners, bat of
providing
fur the emineipated slaves themselves—if a„
doubt is expressed as to the
wisdom and k --T
Indue„,
of immediate wholesale abolition, a dozen entlan,
siasts are at once ready to denounce the speaker „„
a traitor--a foe to the cause, ar friend to slavery
and ell its attendant horrors. There is, perhaps,
no subject cn which the great body of the English
people feel more strongly than slavery, and it was
this feeling that American Unionists counted on to
support them. But they did not reckon on Eng-
lish cleansightedness. Englishmen were not going
to believe, however specious the arguments or
eloquent the periods, that what is right in one
State is wrong in another; that it is the height of
virtue and the triumph of freedom to declare those
navesfree over whom you have no influence, %ail'
..,loyal" plantation owners may have as 1333 DY
°'/VVet' as they like. To our plait old-fashioned

notions of right and wrong, murder is murder,
whether a black man assassinate his master or a
slave.driver flog a negro to death; but North and
South seem to view the matter differently. We
entertain no reasonable doubt, that an offer to re-
turn to the Union would secure any terms the
South might choose to dictate on the subject of
slavers
We cannot find in all Mr. BEECRER'S
pr
ofessions any contradiction of a fact which is
rofessions •
perhaps too well known to bear contradiction—
the ill.-treatment of free negroes in the Northern
Stites. It was easy to turn from the awkward
question as to whether blacks were treated like
whites among the virtuous abolitionists—easy to
denounce a traveller who commented on the harsh-
ness and injustice shown them, as a serpent" and
"a son of the devil"; but the audience who re-
c,ived such denunciations with enthusiastic ap-
plause might perhaps find a week in New York a
curious confirmation of such accusations. It is not
by such intemperance of language and such incon-
sistency of conduct, that Englishmen will ever be
won to the Federal cause. They must be a little
more convinced of the sincerity of the professions,
and see a little more of humanity in the practice,
before even Abolition can enrol men in its ranks.

Mr. LAIRD'S remarks are always worth attend-
ing to. On the occasion of his addressing the volun-
teers of Birkenhead the subject to which he alluded
at the close of his speech was naturally one that
excited attention and interest. He alluded to the
confusion that has prevailed with regard to the
Alabama, and corrected some of the misstatements
that have prevailed to so great an extent with re-
spect to that world-famous vessel. In the first
place, he contradicted the report that she had made
her escape in a surreptitious manner, the fact being
that she sailed in broad daylight. He next de-
clared that the rumour respecting the captain in-
forming a sailor of his intentions was altogether
unfounded. It is astonishing how often reports are
circulated with the greatest confidence, and the
utmost credence attached to them by persons in a
responsible position, and all the time there is really
no foundation for their existence. Doubtless this
affair of the Alabama has given rise to a hundred
statements, differing in complexion but similar in
exaggeration. Mr. LAIRD is quite justified in tak-
ing every opportunity that presents itself to him of
making public all that he has to tell concerning a
vessel of which he says with becoming spirit that
he is not ashamed to acknowledge that some of his
family have had to do with it. The assertions, then,
that have been made by the member for Birkenhead
ought to carry weight with them, and impress those
who have hitherto been prone to believe all that
interested parties or prejudiced politicians have been
ready to say. Mr. LAIRD was very happy in his
exposition of the Solicitor-General's contradictory
opinions with respect to this vexed question. The
eminent gentleman was very explicit in respect to
the impossibility of stating that the Alabama was
sent out of this country as a ship of war. It is well
known that on a recent occasion Sir ItouNDELL
PALMER has modified or altered his views, but his
first reading of the matter is the one most in ac-
cordance with the general tone and temper of the
country. Also Mr. LAIRD pointed out the discre-
pancy that exists between Lord PALMERSTON'S
and Earl RUSSELL'S views on the subject.
It is really remarkable that the two lead-
ing statesmen of the Cabinet should so materially
differ on a subject that concerns national honour,
and involves so many important interests. Lord
PALMERSTON stated to the House in last March
that had the Government proceeded to stop the
Alabama, they might have been liable to heavy
damages. This observation is curiously contrasted
with the spirit which animated Earl RUSSELL in
Scotland the other day. The Foreign Secretary
completely contradicts the opinion of the Premier
in practice, if not in theory. He announces his
intention of straining the law to the uttermost,
and if the powers vested in it are not suffi-
cient, he undertakes to go to Parliament for an
indemnity. Mr. LAIRD'S bold address and out-
spoken declaration expresses the latent conviction
that is in the minds of all high-minded and inde-
pendent Englishmen. When he asserted that
Parliament would not indemnify any
man, how-
ever powerful, who tried to transgress the law,
load and protracted cheering followed his remarks.
There is no doubt such will he Droved to be the
case, and not a!l the eloquence of Mr. COBDEN,
nor the vehement denunciations of Mr. BRIGHT,
will convince or coerce the members of the Legis-
lature. No statesman made a greater mistake than
they who tried the introduction of the Conspiracy
Bill ; but the present proposal is even worse, and
Lard RUSSELL may count on a yet stronger and
fiercer opposition, if he put his professions into prac-
tice next session. Doubtless the Americans are
now exultant at the prospect held out to them of
coercing English statesmen, and sacrificing English
interests at the shrine of arrogance to suit their own
grasping demands. Mr. LAIRD truly remarks that
the lawsof this couutry were not made for the Admi-
nistration but for the people, and that no Minister
has a right to call for obedience to those measures
which may hereafter become law, but are not so
now. If Lord RUSSELL gain the admiration and
applause of the Government of Washington, and
forfeit the respect and confidence of the people of
this country, he will have paid a dear price for his
bargain, Inconsistency is a quality that is always
obnoxious to the tastes of a nation, and it is pre-
senting that feature of a character in a very dis-
tasteful form to maintain a neutrality that has cost
us so dear, and occasioned in some parts of the land
a distress that has been unparalleled in its extent
and intensity, and then to turn round and favour
one side of the combatants in a way that is particu-
larly injurious to our mercantile interests, and de-
rogatory to the honour of the country. These things
generally right themselves at last, but meanwhile

it is annoying to find men in a responsible position
influenced by such mistaken views, and led astray
by the representations of parties who only seek to
gratify their own desires without regard to the re-
quirements of the country.

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. Ger-
man Reed, in a few days, intends presenting to the
public a perfectly novel entertainment, and one which, if
we mistake not, is likely to produce most important results
to the musical profession and the public in general. With
a view to promote the interests of music and musicians, Mr.
Reed intends producing an " Opera di Camera"—namely, a
work of simple dramatic form, requiring for its execution a
limited number of vocalists, with the accompaniment of a
pianoforte, in a manner altogether without a parallel in
the metropolis. The united exertions of Messrs. Mac-
farren and Oxenford have been secured, the former for the
music, the latter the libretto ; and the result of the en-
gagement is the production of an opera of the description
mentioned, entitled "Jessy Lea." Mr, German Reed has
our beat wishes for success, but of that there cannot be a
doubt, recollecting the good things he has already delighted
hie patrons with
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LITERATURE.

Poems and Translations. By Edward Vaughan
Kenealy, LL.D. One Vol., pp, 460. Reeves
and Turner.
As Judge Blackstone-wrote his Farewell to the
Muses in a poetical outburst, so far like the song
of the nightingale that it was at the least " most
musical, most melancholy," so, likewise, has written
Dr, Edward Kenealy. With this difference, how-
ever—that in Dr. Kenealy's Farewell the pathetic
is at times strangely, almost, one might say, hyste-
rically, mingled with the humorous. The sobs are
not unfrequently interrupted by wild shrieks of
laughter. As a collection of poetical pieces of a very
miscellaneous character, the volume before us is, in
many ways and for many reasons, very remarkable.
It is in one sense, if so paradoxical a phrase might
for a moment be just barely tolerated, a sort of a
posthumous book published during the author's
lifetime. For it is so—partially and actually—in
this way : it is posthumous in regard to the
poet's youth. These Poems were, as Dr.
Kenealy tells us in his preface, originally
intended to precede the publication of his
New Pantondow. Many of the productions here
collected together are manifestly enough the effu-
sions of that happy "golden age" for us all—la
jeunesse. That sweet spring-time in the Year of
Life for each ! The time—hcw often wistfully looked
back to now !—when we went a-maying ! Poems
like these of the vernal season, of the early morn-
ings, when the flowers were opening, and the dews
sparkling, and the delight of life was new—may
be found here by the reader scattered up and down
the volume very refreshingly. That is one of the
peculiarities we have alluded to, as especially no-
ticeable in this book, published as it is by its
author during what Longfellow tenderly speaks of
as " the winds of autumn and the first fall of the
snow." Another curious particularity here on the
part of the writer is visible at the first momentary
glance at his title page. The word translations
being far more conspicuous, there, than the word
poems—meaning, by the last. mentioned word, poems
of an original character. Yet, strange though
this is upon the surface, when we
come to look more closely into the depths of the
current of thought flowing down these 460 pages—
far more for the most part than a mere rivulet of
rhyme running (according to Sheridan's droll alli-
teration) through a meadow of margin—the empha-
sis, so to speak, laid upon that ordinarily subordi-
nate word translations on the title-page, becomes in
no way at all so very surprising. For, what are
these same translations by Dr. Kenealy ? Transla-
tions they are such as render the book almost a poly-
glot edition—translations so various that they might
have amused the leisure hours of a leviathan of lan-
guages, like the late wonderful Cardinal Mezzofanti.
Upon the mention of whose world-famous name as
the very Paragon of Philologists, we may avail
ourselves of this first opportunity to relate what we
may at once entitle,—
AN ORIGINAL ANECDOTE ABOUT MEZZOFANTI—as
told to us by an accomplished Welch gentle-
man ncently returned from Rome—a Welch-
man, not only as born in Wales of Welch
parents, bat as heart and soul a descendant of the
ancient Britons, speaking the Welch language, a
cumstance not very general among the more highly
educated and patriotic of Welchmen of the upper
class. Our informant, by the way, as a- native of
North Wales, speaks fluently and familiarly the
dialect of North Wales—finding it to this
day, however, a matter of extreme difficulty
(though himself a Welchman) to understand, or
be understood by, a native of South Wales
—so widely different are the two dialects. Yet
upon the testimony of ouc Welch friend, how stood
the matter in respect to those two diametrically
different dialects, in the instance of that most mar-
vellous of linguists, Cardinal Mezzofanti ? Mezzo-
fanti—remember—never having, all his life, been
in Wales, either North or South ! Why, the matter
stood simply thus—that Cardinal Mezzofanti could
converse with perfect facility, (whenever circum-
stances threw them together), either with John
Gibson, the great sculptor, or with Henry Williams,
the eminent landscape painter, the one a native of
South Wales, the other of North Wales. The diver-
sities of dialect b Mug an accomplished riati re of
the land in which they occur, proving no difficulty
or impediment whatever to one so rarely endowed
with the gift of tongues as his Eminence Cardinal
Mezzofanti.
Returning to Dr. Kenealy, however, and his
translations, we find the latter introduced afflu-
ently upon these pages from 271 to 459—from
the Greek, from the Latin, from the Swedish, from
the Danish, from the Spanish, from the Magyar,
from the Italian, from the German, from
the Portuguese, from the Irish, from the Arabic, from
the Bengali, from the Persian! Translations, among
others, from Homer, and Catullus, and' Mendoza,
and Petrarch, and Victor ifigo, and Camoens, and
Goethe ! As a pretty little preliminary pastime,
the introductory "Sonnet" (reprinted, as a footnote
tells us, from an earlier volume of verses published
originally several years ago) is translated by our
author himself, not only into Latin, and German,
and Irish—the former we may venture to say most
gracefully, the latter, we must confess, being utterly
incomprehensible to us—but, in addition to
all that, Dr. Kenealy must needs give three
distinct versions of that one sonnet, on page
3, on page 4, and on page 5 in Hindostanee.
We suppose there are are but two or three men in
this country, who could, with ease and pleasure to
themselves, conn these manifold " translations"
(from and into English) by Edward Vaughan
Kenealy, weighing all them discriminatively against
their respective originals, in the balance of an
appreciative judgment—there are, let us repeat it,
we should suppose but one or two in the whole
country who could really do this with ease and
pleasure to themselves, Dr. Bowring let us say, or
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. Yet it is a man
as accomplished as Dr. Kenealy, a ripe scholar, a
writer gifted with no small share of eloquence in
rhythmical composition—who can nevertheless have
the exceeding bad taste to mix the true grain
with so much mere draff and husks—husks
and draff that nearly choke us in our
endeavour to swallow them. What possibly,
for example, could have possessed Dr. Kenealy
to write, to correct the proof-sheet, actually to
publish, such mere lyrical jibbering, as that song
poem, doggrel, what shall wo call it ? (pp. 264-5)
—entitled " The Three Wolvee," with a burden or
refrain at the axle of each stanza, for all the
world like that inarticulate baby-talk, familiar iu
the nursery, when the palm of the hand is rapidly
patted against the little rosy lips-
4, Wine, wau, wau, wau, wau I
Wille, woh, woh, woh, woh I
Whit to whoo 1 whit to whoo I woh I "
But the "Nursery Rhymes," as here actually
preserving for us, to the number of nine—one
a-piece for the Muses in their second childhood !
those, in truth, are very marvels of effrontery, put
forth gravely, as they are, by a learned adult like
Dr. Kenealy for indefinite preservation. Shall
we so far partake of the silliness rampant in these
same Nursery Rhymes as to give one or two of them
in the way of quotation ? Take the following—
Little black Bob
Was a desperate snob—
His tongue was as sooty as grandmother's hob;
But the brain that he had
Was so hopelessly bad,
There wasn't in Bedlam one equally mad.
That, we take it, is a case de lunatic° inquirendo,
Or, read the following—
There was a man,
He took his knife,
And ho said to a lady—
" Will you be my wife ?
For if you wo'nt,
I'll have your life"—
" Sir," says she,
" I'll be your wife?'
That being clearly a case for the Court of Probate
and Divorce. If we venture upon giving just one
more—say the following
LITTLE JACK SNIDE.
Little Jack Snipe,
He found some tripe,
And didn't know how to cook it,—
So a cat came up,
And gobbled it
/cook it—"
" Mat' s thew uaPY
we can only say if such morceaux are specimens of
our author's taste, whether of rhyme or reason--,

this sang of the snipe and such like nonsense-verses
—de gustibus non dispu'andum. Nevertheless, it is
impossible not to recognise in Dr. Kenealy a scholar
with very rare gifts and accomplishments (many
of them, it is true, as in this instance, deplorably
run to waste)—a poet who has already evidenced the
blending in his handiwork of the gold and the clay,
as in that extraordinary production, touched here
and there unmistakably with true touches of genius,
yet so much of it, the bulk of it in fact, of the earth
earthy, some of it even devilish of its kind—ne
New Pantomime !