The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-10
RG, COLUMBIA COUNTY PA. THURSDAY. JULY, TO, 1851.

The Government needed his services IN
the Cabinet, and offered him a respectable
post-as respectable as it would be proper
to offer TO plebian. He replied 10 the Of
fer of the Prime Minister that he would not
touch the office.
"What do you wanta" was the question.
81 will be Lord Chancellor, or nothing W
was plain Harry Brougham's reply.
''But you are not peer, and cannot slt in
the House of Lords"
III have given you my reply" said
Brougham; and in one day he was made
peer and Lord Chancellor, for the Govern
ment must bribe the grea; leader of the peo-
pie over TO despotsm, at however great a
price.
Only few days before at a great public
meeting he' had denied the rumor that he
was to be made peer, and told the people
never to believe that he would desert them
until they sas0 it. They did see it, and ever
Stree then Lord Brougham has been detest'
ed by the great masses of the English ma
'tion.
1t would seem as if ever since that dis
graceful desertion of the popular cause, that
Brougham had lost some of his greatest
powers. Since then he has been an cratic,
peevish old man, and yet at times his won
derful genius tciH break forth and astonish
the multitude. Perhaps this age has no 9th.
er man who can boast of so many acquire.
nrapuhapo Ha pf tho
creates, orators of the world, groa, lawyer,
severe student of the physical sciences;
and a skillful political economist.
He was born in Scotland, was admitted TO
the Scottish bar in 1900. In 1920 he was
appointed Attorney General TO the unfortu.
nate Queen Caroline, and mado speech
which lasted two days, in her defence, so
eloquent, so mastery that Lord Liverpool
abandoned the prosecution against Her Ma
jesty. The fact was, that although Caroline
was imprudent in her conduct, yet no one
can doubt her virtue, and it was the devilish
disposition of her husband, the king, which
set on foot all the projects to crush her.
For many years Harry Brougham sat in the
House OF Commons. He was elected Lord
Rector OF Glasgow, by the casting vote OF
Sir James Macintosh, in opposition to Sir
Walter Scott, the great novelist aud poet
lie now enjoys a pension of $4,000 a
year as retired Chancellor; is a Privy
Councillor, President of the London Univer-
sity, Member of the National Institute OF
Frarce, where Cat Caunes) he has coun-
try seat, sc. When just after after the Rev
oluton in '4s he applied to the French Gov
eminent to be made citizen of1the Repuo-
lie, and all the while member of the House
Of Lords, he set Europe into roar OF laugh
ter-yet it was onl- sample of the man.
He seems positively insane on some points
His conduct from day TO day is strange
Sometimes he dresses in the very height oil
foppishness, and then again he is careless as
any clod-hopper IN the streets. He is pro-
dizzy in law matters, and ye: in some divorce
cases that have come before the House Of
Lords, he has conducted himself in the
coarsest manner, SO as TO disgust the natlop
1t is difficult to understand such man, for
he seems to be a compound of the sublime
and ridiculous; the very good and vilely
bad; of refinement and abominable vulgar