The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-07-29
"Macaulay,s Upfv

when the position of Mr.. Macaulay in Great
Britain was meased in great way. Ona
Wednesday the House and the committees are
sitting at once, and the the building is filed
with scattered M. P's, some at work, many -
looking at those who are at work, but most
lettering about the lobbies and corridors, pick
ing up old acquaintance and feeling for public
opinion. About three, on Wednesday. one
was lettering about too; for talk in the House
was not interesting-on a Wednesday IL sell
dom is--and one could pick up members o.
pinioDs, which is as important as public opin.
ion. You were walking along the committee
loby, wondering which room you would take
next when' asyou pause uncertain, you were
bumped against by somebody. He begged
your pardon, and rushed on, and you looked to
see who it was: member stout member;
man you couldn't conceive in a run; and
yet he's running like mad You are still
staring at him, when two men trot past YOU,
one on each side; and they are members, too.
You are puzzled, and see the door close to YOU
--"Members' Entrance" above it-dashed o.
pen, five members dash from it, and plunge
furiously down the loddy. Why, what can be
the matter! More doors open; more MEM
bers are tearing past you from all points, in
one direction--towards the House. Then
wigs and gowns appear; they tell you, with
happy faces, their committees have adjourned;
and then comes third class-the gentlemen
of the press, hilarious Why, what's the
matter Matter! Macaulay is up; and all the
members are off 20 hear him. You ioin the
runners in moment, and are in the gallery
to see the senators who had the start of Won
IOprsOirinO intn THAR p1a,a T.
lnouncement one hadn't heard for years. and
the passing the word "Macaulay's up"
emptied committe rooms now, as of old it
| emptied clubs.
twas trne; he was up & for long speech:
, not mere squirt but an grafton. He was in
a new place, standing in the second row Ia.
bove the treasury bench) from the table, and
looking and sounding all the better for the
, elevation and the clearer atmosphere for ora.
tors which must be found in that little remove
from the green boxes. The old voice. the
old manners and the old style-glorious speak,
: ing! We'll prepared, carefully elaborated,
contusedly essayish; but spoken with perfect
) art ana consumate management; not up and
down, see saw, talking off speech, but the
grand conversation of man of the world,
, containing his learning and his recollectons.
t and his logic, to party of gentlemen, and
3 and Just raising his voice enough to be heard
J through the room. This was as YOU heard
e him when you got in; but then he was onlv
e opening and waiting for his audience. As the
q House filled; which it did with marvel,ous
raploi'y' ne got prouder d more oratorical; g.
: then he poured out his speech with rapidity,
increasing after every sentence, till it became
e a torrent OF the richest words, carving his
y hearers with him into enthusiasm, yves, for
; dry as was the subject, he gave it granduer bv
: looking at 1t from the grand and historical
o point oil v'ew,) and yet not leaving them time
to cheer. torrent of words-that is the
: only description of Macaulay's style when he
: was warmed into speed-and such words,--
/. why, 1t wasn't four O'Clock in the afternoon. :.
|, lunch hardly digested, and yet the quiet, re-
j. served English gentlemen collected there to
!. near the celebrated orator, were as wild with
y delight as an opera house after Grsi at ten.
o. You doubt it! See the division; and before
& Mr.. Macaulny had spoken, you might have
e safely bet fifty to one that Lord Hotham
It would have carried the bill.
n After that speech the bill was not thrown.
ID but pitched out. Speeches seldom do affec,
e measures; and yet this speech will have alter.
'f ed British policy, on great question, and
ID don't forget that--on Wednesday, in day
J. sitting! People said when it was over, that
e it was suyurb, and so on, and one began to
n have higher opininion of the House of Com
J. mons, though it is querely "led," seeing that
y II the Macuuay class of minds would bid for
e leadership, they would get it, and that per-
> haps, 'he Lord Johns only get it, at present,
d by sort of moral justice, because thew work
II for it. But it wasn't all conrratulation.
e Mr. Macaulay had rushed through his Grafton
d o. forty minutes with mastery vigour: and
t. looking at his massive chest and enormous
IS head, you couldn't be surprised. d.-That is the
e sort o. man who would go through with what
e ever he undertook. Yet the doubts about his
o health, which arise when we meet him in the
e street, Che never meets anybody0 when YOU
IS take advantage OF his sphinx-like revere,
"starting right on, with calm, eternal eyes,"
y :. to study the sckly face-would be confirmed,
= by close inspection, on Wednesday. The
= = great orator was trembling, when he sat down:
= . the excitement of triumph--the massive
!, head, withstanding--overcame him, and
y he had scarcely the self-possession to acknowl-
edge the eager praises which were offered by
> the Minister and others, in his neighborhood.
Evidently he had reasons for being as quiet
as Gibbon was in the House; and, in this
case, too, no doubt, we must think enough will
= have been done fame and for our pleasure, if
!. the History is sflnished.-Reuiew Of Parliament
; arg Proceedings, June 4.
+, CINCINNATI, July 10.
!. A riot occurred last night at an Irish dogg.
cry on Water street, in which four men were
n badly stabbed one man cannot recover.
e AN APPEAL To THE yoUNG.-A younr