The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-27

Financial. commercial, Legal ana miscellaneous
news, &c.
March Of Mrs. Uncle Tom Stowe and STAN
through Ensland-StaHord House solem-
mites.
The contemplate and the ludicrous have
been so evenly blended in the accounts Of the
triumphal procession of Mrs Uncle Tom Stowe
through Great Britain, that it is hard to say
whether our annoyance ought to get the better
of our merriment, or our love of fun to steal
the frown from our brow, Before we have
time to grow indignant at her misrepresenta-
tions, some comical incident disarms them of
their barb and we find ourselves heartily en-
joying the scene We are rather annoyed that
a countrywoman of ours should wander through
England to beg for pennies; but the compacent
air with which the browns are accepted and
pocketed by the Reverend Stowe and Reverend
Beecher, who carry the bag, has an irresistibly
funny effect, and we are almost sorry that the
mendicant tour of the trio did not last longer.
Fashionable paupers are no novelty in England;
but we doubt whether John Bull was ever more
successfully gulled than by Mrs. Stowe and her
ecclesiastical companions. Wooden nutmegs
and white pine hams are outdone. Clever as
Sam Slick was, Mrs. Stowe surpasses him both
in the extent of her operations and in the mar
vellous sang .froid with which they are per-
formed. To realize the joke we must fancy
that Dickens, or Ainsworth, or Reynolds, or
some other popular British author has arrived
here brimful of pride at the success of recent
work of fiction; that few Of our exclusives,
having bagged the foreigner, have set on foot
a subscription list for his benefit among their
friends and the public the subscriptions being
limited to the muni6cent sum Of one cent that
on given day the said Dickens. Ainsworth, or
Reynolds is called upon to receive the cents
aforesaid, carefully enclosed in leathern bag
and that, having confded them to the
hands of trusty companion, the recipient has
acknowledged the boon in speech of an hours
length. in which the orator medestly set his
own merits and those Of his work before the pub
lie. The analogy. it is true, ceases to be quite
correct in this last particular Mrs. U. 7. Stowe
does not always blow her own trumpet. That
pleasing duty is occasionally assigned to her
worser half" who poor fellow. seems keenly
sensitive to the inconvenience of his subordinate
position and tries hard to conceal it by abiding
to Uncle Tom as " our work :" position, n
truth, in which evangelical doctrine and the
common law go far to sustain him. At other
times the amiable Mr.. Beecher oAiciates as horn
blower to the expedition. Though at manifest
disadvantage, when compared with Professor
Stowe, Mr.. Beechers natural ingenuity enables
him to make the most of his subject, and he sell
dom allows his hearers to depart without remind
ing them that the blood of the Beechers runs
through Uncle Tom. All three observe the
same scrupulous regard for the interests of the
lady and her publisher. Whether it be Mrs.
Uncle Tom Stowe who condescends to enlghten
the British public on the talents and virtues of
Mrs. Uncle Tom Stowe, whether it be the Pro
fessor who pays a smooth compliment to his
wife, or the parson who aludes, in a touching
strain of fraternal Affection to the genius of his
sister the key is always the same, and the note
equally sonorous. At all this John Bull stares,
open mouthed, and asseverates with character
istic energy that since the Mysteries Of the
Court Of London and Paul de Rocks .4mant
de ma femme, he has read nothing equal to
Uncle Tom.
The authoress pleads for penny, does she !?
She shall have it. Honest John, who has paid
for wooden nutmegs and pine hams-paid to en-
slave the negroes in South Africa, and paid to
emancipate those in Jamaica-paid for parks
for the rich, and penal settlements for the
poor-paid for setting up new governments.
and paid for pulling old ones down: who pays
for episcopal extravaganza, and pauper misery
pays for military pomp, and seething harlotry
pays for kings mstresses and royal aims pays
for pampered aristocracy. and starving
mob pays for his friends, and pays for his enc
mics pays for honest men, and pays for rogues I:
John, in short, who pays everybody anything
he is asked, and whose browning, undying merit
has ever been and shall ever be, the accessi-
bility Of his breeches pocket, pays Mrs. Stowe
her penny without grumbling, and feels, he
knows not how, that he has done a good action
The picture is not without its attractions or
its moral A successful hoax even when prac-
ticed on SO easy subject az John Bull is al
ways amusing. Have we not enjoyed our Bar
mum, and may we not take an equal interest in
his female rival? A parallel between the two is
not devoid of instruction. The Snowman was
wary. cunning, and adroit: the authoress is
bold, energetic, and profound He exhibited
dwarf end crammed his audience with stories
filchea from the heather mythology: she cX-
hibits s monster, and illustrates her own posi-
ton, as another Frankenstein, by quotations
from the Bible. He crouched under the royal
arms she backs in the glitter Of Stafford
House. He appealed to the love Of the marvel