Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-10-29
WHOLE NO. 291.
You shall hear from me again, pro(usely
too, when tho next Liverpool packet
comes.
THINGS AND MEN IN LONDON.
NO. VIII.

July, 1885.
] must anticipat the order Of things a
little to give you an account Of great
meeting in London, at the Grown and
Anchor, (another pretty name for tav-
ern, but not quite equal to ''the Bolt-in-
Tun, ")-a Public Meeting TO obtain the
repeal Of the Stamp Duties upon news
papers-over which Lord Broughman
presided, and where many Of the British
Lions made figure. A prodigious null
titude rushed into a Hall not SO large as
Faneuil Hall, full an hour before the
time. When Lord Broughman came in
to take the chair, loud and boisterous e.
nough was the cheering, aud hundreds
of hats were houlishing in the air. l
knew him by his nose. There is no mis-
sing that figure, if any one has ever seen
an English caricature,-but really new
or lancied him to be that sort Of an ex--
quiste looking man; thus deckcd out in
the fashion, so sleek, and well trimmed.
The applause there was no quieting.-
I he more he put forth his well-glOved
fingers, as if to hush the storm, the loud
er it was, and the higher up went the
caps. AT last my Lord as all the sub
sequent speakers called him, obtained
hearing admirably well-timed were
a few remarks, so cool and SO fluent, and
80 graceful, that they were just unlike
what | should have fancied Lord Broug-
ham would say. He does not resemble
any of our public men in his manner of
speaking. This day he had the fuency
OF Grundy with the dignity of Webster,
but little action, and no extraordinary
enthusiasm. He evidently did not put
forth half his power, and must see him
again to know what he is. Brougham,
(it is said he would now give any thing
if he could doff his title of Lord)-i act
ing strange part in English politics at
present. Two pamphlets supposed to be
his have lately attacked the nobility with
ferccness that but few pens other than
his, can command-and the consequence
is, that many of the nobility have thrust
him from their society, as it was their
society and manners that he attacked
The English women in particular have
taken him in hand, and he, as you see,
think in revenge, is threatening to keep
them out Of the House Of Lords. Alas
for him in such a warfare! Upon this,
however, he is turning Radical. Radi-
Gals are re-taking him up. The Wing
ministry is distrusting him,-and he by
his measures, is annoying them. Anoth-
er such thorn in their sides as he can be-,
they cannot find in all England. Such
is the partial reason why the multitude
showered forth upon him so much oftheir'
enthusiasm, for the multitude Of Engl land
is a Radical multitude and if free suf-
frage prevailed here, both Wings and
Tories would be tumbled overheard to-
morrow. AS it is, think the Whig Min
stry will 60, for the Tories are growing
stronger, and the Radicals distrust them,
though no Tory Ministry, unless it be by
some cunning meiange Of Peele, who is
not so hot-headed as the silly majority
of his party, can stand year, or hall a
year. The Radicals only want proper
parliamentary leaders soon to get into
power. Now they are wofully deficient
in ability, the aid of O'Connel except,
all whose efforts, however, are palsied
by the fact that he is an Irish Catholic.
Hume was among the speakers to-day.
i HlS WI. ID "Sii WI WI
side of the water as q cutter down OF Law
ish expenditures here. He had much
to say of America and American news
papers in come cction with his subject OF
repeal Of the stamp tax. He unlolded
the immense sheet of the New York
Cou,ier and Enquirer, which the men,
bers of Parliament for some days have
been handing about as monster-cu-
osity-and this he displayed as speci-
men Of what an unstamped press has
done for America. When he said the
price was but three half pence, as he un-
folded the COLUMNS as he called them
(you see these Englshmen always speak
perfect Englishl the multitude, who give
nearly five times as much for smaller pa
pers their price is Ia cents) absolutely
roared with surprise. Hear, hear a
thousand voices were screaming, and
the very roof of the house seemed to
shake. Hear 'hcar,' hear was all
could hear for many seconds. And az
Hume went on to speak well OF A
merca, and Of the progress Of her insi'-
tutions, the applause gathered again.
and when he called them his COUNTRY
MEN, it burst forth in peals Of thunder
never saw a more spontaneous tribut"
from a great multitude than was give"
IN vs at that moment. i was near the
spcaker,-and could have given him
nv hand and heart, the tears gushed
in my eyes, for if there is any thing
sweet to u stranger in a strange LAND,
il is such q tribute 10 ones own home OF