The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-06
Intended Visit OF Lord Br0ughan 10 the
United aIales.

1t was rumored some time age, and The rumor is
now confined by The party mainly interested. that
Lord Brougham will shortly visit the United States
Excitement is essential TO the existence of this &C.
ceniric and extraordinary man. Notwithstanding
his years, which have already reached the allotted
period OF human life, the vlgor of the EXCHANGED
ior hardly knows diminution. A man SO learned
IN the law, so famous as an orator, possessed of
snch varied and extraordinary attainments-for
there is hardly branch Of human knowledge in
which Lord Brougham does not excel-will, of
course, receive In America marked and general
attention The bent of his will necesstaies the
performance OF extraordinary antics but it is
undeniable that he will please, perhaps astonish,
The transatlantic world. Lord Brougham never
does anything by halves. If his reception on the
other side of The Atlantic exhibits 1.-THE of the
thuslasm which awaited popular novelist who is
held, according 10 American opinions, to have
made an ungrateful return for the hospitality which
he experienced, The House of Lords will resound,
on his return, with brilliant defamation in favor of
republican institutions, and the working of the
American constitution. Punch is fearful that the
learned funcnonary may insist upon being natu-
razed, and enjoying the privileges of an American
citizen and our facetious contemporary refers to
the claim which Lord Brougham made in the in
fancy of the French republic for a similar honor
Our transatlantic friends will laugh at the idea
but the noble parsonage himself is hardly likely TO
prefer such claim, seeing that il would cost him
some ca or G5, 600 year in hard British sovereigns,
the amount of his retiring pension as Lord Chan
cellor of England Had il not been for this trifing
drawback, there is no foreshadowing the extent to
which his lordship would have gone in regaining,
under the stripes and stars, the popularity which he
has forfeited under the union-jack. But whatever
may be Lord Brougham's iollies, ii is useless TO be
veXed with them. They form part of the man
we cannot have one without the other His splen-
did talents have always been acknowledged, but
his sta bihy was always questionable. He never
could be relied Years have not diminished
his mercurial buoyaDcy, nor, let us add, his eccen-
ticites. II has been said that "genus TO madness
is allied" Had Lord Brougham been less gifted,
the probability is that he would have been more
sedate. Taking him altogether, he is the most ex-
traordinary enigma of the age-a mystery to his
friends, and an unfailing object of caustic merri-
ment TO all who do not come under that category.
Lord Brougham and the late Sir Robert Peel
commenced their political career about the same
time-some forty years ago. They were, ofcourse,
thrown into very dissimilar positions but the
of each, rightly considered shows how talent,
worhily employed, is superior to genius, unaccom-
panied with ballast While the empire, from one
extremity TO the other, is mourning the loss of
the great practical reformer and progressive states
meanwhile subscriptions are being raised in every
town and city to erect monuments to his memory,
and thousands regard his withdrawal from the
stage fife in the light of personal aflistion the
other is destitute of all moral influences, is without
party in parliament or the country, and has long
since outlived the popularity which his early efforts
in favour Of education and law reform created
How is this to be accounted for Did the relative
powers of the two men produce so marked con-
trast? The mystery is solved in word-the one
but left the work unfinished. On the score of at
tanments Lord Brougham was Peel's superior,
but on the score of utility, and the power of i'm
pressing his mind on his age, the two were "wide
as the poles asunder."
Ii is painful to see a man of Lord Brougham's
great mental capacity so utterly bankrupt in moral
influenced In his better days he climbed to the
highest point of dignity which British subject can
tsin-that OF a cabinet minister and the chairman
of the Peers. His head seemed TO become gddy
by the elevation, until at last he became positive
nuisance TO his colleagues, who were obliged
rudely to discover the connection; since which
Lord Broughsm has been busily engaged in fight
ing with shadows and phsntoms of every imagina-
bic kind. We are not sorry that he is crossing the
Atlantic. He is still no ordinary man. There is
enough in him to arrest the attention of qudnuncs
enough 10 afford scope for the widest of his ex-
ploits-the highest soarDgs Of his oratory. He
cannot fail to attract perhaps TO please, and 1t may
be, 10 asonisb, as we have said, the grave citizens
Of the great republic. t'Ts blsss s-..4 JILL
The Expedition to Central Africa.
The following information, derived from letters
addressed TO the Chevalier Bunsen and Prof. Karl
Ritter, by DIR. Overwes. the geographer attached
to the expedition now on its way TO Lake Tchad,
may prove not uninteresting 10 your readers.
These letters, dated Mursuk, 18th of May, and ac-
ccmpanied by an excellent map, describe the route
from Tripo to that place, through tract of coun-
try hitherto UNEMPLOYED by any scientific traveller.
The direction of this route is almost due south
Mursuk; and beyond the Garian Pass-whch is
about thirty hve miles from Tripol, and near
which is Mount Tekut, having an elevation of
200 feet-the country consists of continuous
table-land. As far the Well of Tabonia Tin
about 30 deg. % min ~ lst) many deep wads in
tenect this tabe-land, and the ruins of several
Roman monuments and columns were discovered
by the travellers Beyond No the south Of Tabo-
MIA is the table-land of the Hamada an immense
desert OF considerably greater elevation, and ex
tending about ITO geographical miles to the south
AZ far the eye can reach, neither trees norwels
are visible, and the scanty vegetation which oc-
ours is TO be met with only here and there in the
rifiing irregularities Of the surface The ground is
covered with email stones; pyramids of which,
erected with great labor, serve road marks to the
intrepid camel drivers by day-while the Polar Star
and Antares are their guides by night After six
long days journey, the expedition reached the
southern edge of this table-and which descends
in perpendicular walls to the Wadi Ell Hessi Tin
about Sdeg. 30min n. lat) From hence to the
Wadi Shall Is about sixty geographical miles, over
another plateau ef less elevation and extent tn an
that OF the Hsmada, but Of equally dismal aspect
the general direction Of the route being 5. ). e.
IL is composed of black sandstone, the dsintegra
ton Of which forms coarse yellow sand, covering
the inequalities Of the stony surface and from il
stands ost prominently the black rock, in high
cones Of the most fantastic forms, much reserl-
bling basaltc rocks that DR.. Overweg' companions
were often led TO exclaim-" This must be a ba-
saltic rock" He himself was frequently obliged
To examine the rocks closely in order not 10 be de-
ceived. The monoiony Of the dreary black rock
was relieved by the yellow sand, without which
the whole Of Fezzan would be lifeess wilderness
AS il is 10 the sand that the palm trees grow and
in The wnds filed with il that the wells are found
Ia The great Wsdi of Fezzan the expedition passed
through a complete forest of palms. as well as
through cultivated fields Of wheat and barley.
Another small table land traversed by the ira
ycllers before they reached Mursuk, ri which place
they were awaiting the arrival from Chat Of the
Tuarck escort, headed by Hata, who calls him-
self " the friend Of the English" from having es-
corted Oudney and Clapperion to Chat. The party
wefe ell well, aud in high spirits.
OF the varied oral information collected by the
travellers respecting the interior OF Africa, the
most Interesting. probably, is the statement made
20 Dr Oyerweg, by Baphirmi negro, that south
Of the laiicr's country, is nation Ut kars (Which
means that they do not profess the Mohammedsn
rehcion), who are clothed, possess large herds Of
cattle, and have iron weapons (war-axes) Of their
own manufacture. Their country is mountainous,
and Il royercd "A It'll snow eycrv urinter