New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-17
BY GREELEY & McELRATI
voL. EH. NO. e91.


enters the ring in good condition, and after long
and severe training, yet he's he lost every battle
His hackers are never con6dept-yet ia casual
turn-up, must be allowed that he is an ugly Gus
toner.
TICKER. Notwithstanding the truth of ell this.
| am great admirer of Brougham. He is IN
questionebly of great and versatile talents.
NORTH. Yes--and to hear his licks pittles
speak, you would think that of great and
versatile talents was miracle; whereas there are
some thousands of them publicly acknowledged in
England at this day. We hear of his wonderful
literary talents-wberein exhibited
'T1cgLER The Edinburgh Review.
NORTH. Very wcll-many able papers in the
Edinburgh Review no doubt-which are his? Let
US suppose all of them, and that the trash is JEFF
frey's, Smiths, Mackintosh's &c; are the best of
those papers astounding, prodisious, miraculous,
prophetic of the Millennium | read them with
out awe-my hair does not rise-my knees do not
tremble. No cold sweat overs spreads my aged
frame-I read on-on-on--am pleased TO see in.
u;ively the fallacy Of all he withstand fall
asleep with calm conscience.
Here's a touch of Philosophy about Libels from
Christopher North Mayhap it will do no harm
to copyitin these days; many luckless dog there
like that conveyed in the alegory that followelh:
T1cKLER. The newspapers have been lately
filled with contemplate libei-actons, observe,
North How does Maya escaped
North. A dog of any sense, finding kettle
tied to his TAIL sneaks into close in town. or lane
in the country, and sitting down on his encurn-
bercd and .iinging rump, whines on some benevo-
lent Howard to uste the tin 1t is done, and the
cur repairs to his kennel, without farther ye p TO
the public. A dog of no sense scanpers aepg the
street, himself whole band of instrumental music,
knocking the kettle against every shin that meets
him, till his master greater fool than himself insists
on reparalion, and summons the impugner of the
cync system 10 court of justice, savage for dam
ages. 1t has SO happened. that the ours have &C.
casicnay so treated have been OF the former class
and have found their advantage in such conduct,
for thenceforth spared them and they all know
me when they meet me on the street, some OF them
even waggng their tails in appreciation of my past
severity, and gratitude for my present forbearance
BILE Shepherd-again as he sits, as he would say
soliliqueesin' So}us in the fine Southeast Draw
ing Room of Pcardy Place. How finely he moral
ICES about everything he sees--the Goals in he
CRATE, the figures on the clock, SC. Thus he be-
gins:
sPerfec enchantment! Ae single material coal
fire multiplied BY mirrors into O. unsubstan-
tial reflections, ka image burnn ava as BRIGHTLY
up its ain shadowy chioley, the original Proto-
teep! Only, ye dinna hear the phantom-frcs muir
muring about the bars--ther Pickering tongues
are a sient-they might seem to reek at puff o
the prototeep,--but sic seemin' wadna dim the at
mosphere o. this splendid saloon. The refraction
and reflection O. light $ q beautiful mystery, and
wus understood the sceenco o. optics. And yet
aiblins it 5 better mol mightne then WI sic
shudder O. instantaneous DELIGHT, nacthing short
O. religion, glover upon the rainbow. the apPari-
ton o. the storm. Let PHILOSOPHERS ken causes
poets efiecks. Ye Gamma ca him an lgnorawmus
that hens efecks-and then in the moral world
which belongs to men O genius like me and Burns
there 5 for the msist part confused but no an OBJ
sc~ure notion q cause accompanying the knowledge
O. efFecks-dlfficult to express formally, like 3
preacher in his poopit, or professor in his chair
but coloring the poetry O. effccks wi the i!nge o
the pheelosophy o causes, sac that the reader al
ZOOS that reason ard imagination are ane, and that
there ), nae truth like fiction. o, We bit bonny
BRIGHT burnin' fires there's only among yea that
eies uny heat! A the rest but deluson-just
as whea the eening star lets loose her locks TO the
mountains has its EidoIon sac that the eah sec ms
strewn with stars, yet a the while there 5 IN rea!-
~ but ce star and her name is Veaus, the deilcht
o. eods ard men and universal natur. Ma faith,
YOU re a mast magnificent timc-Piece, towerln
there on the mantel mair like palace wi thae
ivorv pillars, or the vera temple O Solomon %
what HEIGHT man has carried the mechanical ARTS
till they become imaginative! There poetry
in that portal-nercy on US, twa figures comm out
baun in haun, frae the interior O the building int
the open air, apparalled like wee bit Christians,
vet nne bigger than fairies. Weel, that beats
frs, the tame AID then the ther, wi its tiny si
Ter rod. seemin' TO strike the chimes on sheet o
,insel-asd then aft and ava in amang the hicks
the clockwark Pur creturs, with a their iantas-
tic fri.kincss they rnaun lead slavish lite, up and
out to their work, every hour . the day and nicht
Sabbaths and a, that they haena time even 10
finish dream. That $ waur than human lie IT.
sell; for the wee midshipman IN ran-o war IS
ave allooed four hours sleep at streatch, ana
air than that is tke lot o the puires herd Gallant
VIVA, hacn nae pawreotS, Is glad 10 sair haiu
master, withouten ony wage-a PLAID, parrltch'
and caui.bed. Mony certes, is the CURIOUS con-
trivsnce for notin' time The hour slass-to my
mind, the maist impressive, perhaps, o them y
as We see the sand perpetually dreep-dreePin' ava
r,omentarily-and then a dune Just like life.
Then, WI touch O. the haun, or whawmle in
which there 5 aye something bath o ieslin and
.hocht, there begins anither era, or epoch OF an
hour during which ane o your ain BARNS, VIVA has
been larg in a decline, and visited By the doctor
only when he S been at ony rate passin by, g!es
sroanlike SIGH, and We ken in a moment that be 5
dead-or an earthquake ,umbles down Lisbon, or
some CITY in Calabria while a the folk, men, wo-
men, and children, fail down on their knees or are
crushed aiblins by falling churches
And SO he rambles on for three pages farther,
stopping only TO sing song to a cracked fiddle he