The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

Fiction of immediate
!" So, the

n, these are the practical benefits

of " all the talents," in

talents

present war ! The galled

brother" is g

to " chattering and gab-

insinuates that Parliament has not

till "

he ran awa

and left it

only partial glimpses, and hear only distorted repre-
sentations. I was not long in his company ere I was con-
vinced that those elements which form the basis of his
mind could never find their satisfaction in mere satire,
and that if the exercise' of penetration had afforded no
higher pleasure, nor led to any more desirable result than
that of detecting error, or exposing absurdity, there is no
person who would sooner have felt an inclination to
abandon it in despondency and disgust. At the same
time, a strong and ever-wakeful perception of the ludicrous
is certainly a prominent feature in his composition, and
Morning Chronicle, which insinuates an
hist, flow of animal spirits enables him toenjoy
we it keenly
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invent it with success. I have seen
few persons whose minds are so much aliv
throughout every corner, and who are so much in t
habit of trying and judging everything by the united tact
of so many qualities and feelings all at once." In the
year after the publication of this work, he was married to
SOPIIIA SCOTT, the eldest and favourite daughter of Sir
WALTER, whom she more resembled in person, features,
and mental qualities than any other of his children. By
this Tnaariage he had several children, of whom the eldest,
JOT'S HuGn, was a great favourite with his grandfather,
and to him " The Tales of a Grandfather" were inscribed ;
this youth, who was very amiable, died in his eleventh
year. In the year of his marriage, LOCKHART published
" Valerius, a Roman Story," full of vigour, and imbued
with fine feeling. This was followed by "Mathew Wald,"
" Adam Blair," " Reginald Dalton," and " Gilbert Earle ;"
and in 1825-8 he published his "Life of Burns." He was
also author of an interesting collection of " Spanish
Ballads," translated from the Spanish. In 1825 he suc-
ceeded the famous GIFFORD as editor of the Quarterly
Review, which induced him to settle in London. Sub-
sequent to the death of his father-in-law, Sir WALTER
SCOTT, LOCKHART wrote his life—a work which, though
large, is deservedly popular. On Friday last, his remains
were laid in the tomb beside those of his father-in-law
and his family in the Abbey of Dryburgh.

Many of the wittols of literature, and some of the most
virulent of political partizans, affect to reprobate the
career of LocxIIA.IIT, and find a morbid satisfaction in
cataloguing the details of his domestic bereavements and
his family afflictions ; parading these before the public,
in glaring juxtaposition with their list of his assumed
delinquencies, unforgetful that a living ass may kick at a
dead lion, which, when alive, he dared not look on. In
the person of Mr. LOCKHART, the last of that galaxy of
genius which originated Blackwood's Magazine has
passed away. The better portion of forty years has
elapsed since these pioneers of periodical literature, in its
highest sense, broke ground in Maga,. Among these
were numbered WILSON, LOCKHART, HOGG (the Ettrick
Shepherd), Sir WALTER SCOTT (occasionally), Moan
(Delta), :HAGFISH (the modern Pythagorean), Maccamr,
and, though last, not least in estimation and regard, Old
Ebony himself, a mainstay and bond of union among the
volatile and joyous band.
Wednesday evening was the time of a great event for
some people in London. On that occasion, the twenty-
of the last Polish insurrection, M.

KOSSUTH embraced the opportunity of showing the
British people how grossly stupid they are in pursuing
the war against Russia. To fight against Russia he does
not deny to, be in itself a right and proper thing; but to
do it in alliance with LOUIS NAPOLEON, and without the
aid of the Magyar oracle, is contrary to true policy, at
variance with common sense, and an outrage on decency.
M. KossuTrt has a happy disregard for the usual political
and social amenities; and, like the Irishman at Donny-
brook, has a quarrel which requires settlement with every
man in and out of the fair. He has, in his own estima-

tion, a right to hit all round, and all round in safe con-
dition he goes. He abuses M. Sr. ARNAUD and Lord
RAGLAN for not attacking the northern forts at Sebas-
topol, and conducting the war as he would have done,
forgetting the fact that, in the only instance where he had
an opportunity of carrying on war, according to his own

He disap-

proves of Russia and dislikes Austria ; he contemns
Prusoia and hates France, although he confesses to a
sneaking affection for Lznau RoLLiw ; he rather admires
English hospitality, but dislikes the meanness which
refuses to go on a European crusade to establish some
wild repub,lican dream, rejoicing in KossuTie for a chief
director. Inc short, he rants and further tears his ragged
fustian till it will fit no place or season, time or climate ;
and so he starhis forth a living illustration of our liberal
sentiments and free institutions, while he unmeasuredly
abuses both.
Among the litera.7 novelties of the da,rie a circumetan-