New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-19

fortunes Of his country have only widened the
sphere of his instructions and made him expo
nent Of the better era to Europe at large. Those
who wish 10 form an idea of his mind could not DO
better than to read bis sketches Of the Italian Mar
tyrs in the Peoples Journal They viii find there
on one of the most difficult occasions, an ardent
friend speaking of his martyred friends, the purity
of impulse, warmth Of sympathy largeness and
steadness of view and fneness of discrimination
which must belong to a legislator for CHRIsTIAS
commonwealth.
But though have read these expressions with
great delight this school was one. to me- still more
forcible of the same ideas. Here these poor
boys picked up from the streets are redeemed from
bondage and gross ignorance by the most patient
and constant devotion Of time and effort. What
live and sincerity this demands from minds caps'
lie Of great thoughts, large plans and rapid pro
eress only their peers can comprehend, yet exceed
rg great shall be the reward and as among the
fishermen and poor people Of Judea were picked
UP those who have become to modern Europe the
eaven that leavens the whole mass, so may these
poor Italian boys yet become more eiiicacicus as
missionaries to their people than would an Orphic
poet at this period. These youths have very com
monty good faces and eyes from which that Italian
ire that has done so much to warm the world CLOVIS
ont. We saw the distribution of prizes 70 the
school heard addresses from Mazzini Pistracci,
Mariatti lonce resident in our country and an
English gentleman who takes great interest IN
the work, and then adjourned to an adjacent room
where supper was provided for the boys and other
guests among whom we saw some OF the exied
Poles The whole evening gave true and deep
pleasure, though tinged with sadness We saw
planting of the Kingdom Of Heaven though now no
larger than a grain OF mustard seed and though,
perhaps. none of those who watch the spot may
live to see the birds singing in its branches
have not vet spoken Of one of orr beneiactors,
Mr.. CARLYLE whom saw several times. ] ap-
preached him with more reverence after little
experience Of England and Scotland had taught
me to appreciate the strength and hight oil that
wall of shams and conventions which he, more
than any man. or thousand men,-indeed. he almost
alone-has begun to throw down. Wherever there
was fresh thought generous hope, the thought OF
CARLYLE has begun the work. He has torn on the
wells from hdeous facts he has burnt away foolish
illusions he has awakened thousands TO know
what it is to be a man that we must live and not
merely pretend to others that we live. He has
touched the rocks and they have given forth must
cal answer; little more was wanting to begin to
construct the city.
But that little was wanting, and the work OF
construction is left to those that come after him
nay, all attempts of the kind he is the readiest to
deride, fearing new shams worse than the old un.
able to trust the general action of a thought, and
finding no heroic man, natural king to represent
it and challenge his confidence.
Accustomed to the infinite wit and exuberant
richness of his writings, his talk is still an amaze
ment and a splendor scarcely to be faced with
steady ewes He does not converse-only har-
nngues. 1t is the usual misfortune OF such mark
ed men happily not one invariable or inevitablel
that they cannot allow other minds room to breathe
and show themselves in their atmosphere and thus
miss the refreshment and instruction which the
greatest never cease to need from the experience
of the humblest. Carlyle allows no one chance.
but bears down all opposition, not only by his wit
and onset of words resistless in their sharpness
as so many bayonets, but by actual physical supe-
riority raising his voice and rushing ON his oppo-
nent with torrent of sound This is not the least
from unwillingness TO allow freedom TO others on
the contrary no man would more enjoy manly
resistance to bis thought but it is the impulse OF
mind accustomed to follow out its own impulse
as the hawk its prey. and which knows not
how TO stop in the chase. Carlyle, indeed,
is arrogant and overbearing, but in his AFRO
gance there is no littleness no selilove IT Is
the heroic arrogance OF some old scandinavian
conqueror-it is his nature and the untamable I'M
pulse that has given him power to crush the dra-
CONS You do not love him, perhaps nor revere
and perhaps also, he would only laugh at you
if YOU did but YOU like him heartily, and like to
see him the powerful smith, the Siegfried, melt
inc all the old iron in his furnace till II CLOVIS TO
sunset red and burns you if you senselessy go too
near He seemed to me quite isolated lonely as
the desert vet never was man more fitted TO prize
a man. could he find one to match his mood. He
finds them but only in the past. He sings rather
than talks. He pours upon you kind OF satlrcaL
heroica critical poem, with regular cadences and
generally catching up near the beginning some
singular epithet which serves as refrain when
his song is full or with which as with knitting
needle he catches up the stitches if he has CHANGED
now and then to let fall a row. For the higher
kinds of poetry he has no sense, and his talk ON
that subject is delightfully."- and gcrgeousy absurd
he sometimes stops minute to laugh at it himself,
then begins anew with fresh yigor-for all the
spirits he is driving before him seem to him as
Fata Morganas, ugly masks, in fact, if he can but
make them turn about, but he laughs that they
seem to others such dainty Ariels. He puts
ont his chin sometimes till it looks ike the
beak of a bird, and his eyes fash bright in
stinctive meanings ike Joves bird yet he IS
not calm and grand enough for the eagle
he is more like the falcon, and yet not Of gen
tie blood enough for that either. He is not ex-
actly like anything but himself and therefore you
cannot see him without the most hearty refreshment
and good will. for he is original rich and strong
enough to afford a thousand faults; one expects
some wild land in a rich kingdom His talk, Ike
his books is full OF pictures his critical strokes
mastery allow for his point OF view, and his sur
vey is admirable. He is 4 large subject cannot
sneak more or wiselier Of him now, nor needs II
his works are true to blame and praise him. the
siesfried of England, great and powerful, II not
opits invulnersbe and OF a might rather 10 destroy