The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-08
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sf Mr.. ThackeIay . taot scStuie. A"s ee.' .
-.saSteeie and the Times Of Queen Anne,
md was handled with great vivacity and spn'
hv the celebrated lecturer. Until Macau'ey'
"a ,ha, most agreeable chapter of bis History
IN the estate Of Eagiand in 1855" gave US
-. ;rs;gh, into the domestic life OF that Pc
,;od the general reader knew not where to look
G., .nv account Of the way in which our great
rrs.,.grandfa,hers ate and drank, and slept
Ia I,was somewhat after the manner
esM.,,,Iev that Mr.. Thackeray went into an
a.;,;o, of the habits and customs of Queen
Anne's reign, with which he associated Steele
=. TYNE of the mdn-ofthe ,eorld class ofthat
a.v Steele was "iast man." who sinned
his life away harmlessly to everybody but him
seIf and his creditors, who wrote the best
paragraph and drank the best wine Of the
town; over whose papers in the Iataer and
Snectntor wits and beauties hung every morn
ing with delight, and for whose foppishly at
tired person the bailiffs were ever on the
watch. Itwas the good fortune of Steele TO
have for head boy" at school the famous Mr..
Joseph Addison, whose influence over him,
though it could not make him pay his tailors
hill or cure him of his proclviy to jolly eve-
nings, was happily exerted on many occasions.
Al school Joe construed the classics for Dick,
and they were sworn friends in manhood
S,eeie's foibles were playfully satirizet-il
could not be disguised that he might have
been much soherer man, and might have en-
tertsined stricter notions Of pecuniary obliga-
,ions but while the moralist must condemn
him on these grounds, much was TO be par
doned TO the kindest heart that ever beat IN
manly breast, TO the gentle satirlsr OF trivoi-
Gus age, who knew how TO lash tiivolity at
the same time that he always commended viz
tue, above all to the first English writer who
had raised woman to her proper position in the
social scale. Woman owed more TO Steele,
said the lecturer, than TO any other man OF his
time. Gallants and men of rank, who welded
the pen at that day, looked upon her only as
the petted plaything of the boudoir and the
firing -room-even Addison regarded her as on
" the ornament of life-Steele saw in her
dewy and sparkling eyes at once, the fire and
the tenderness, the goodness and soul of man S
destined comforter and solace and guardian
angel
In illustration of the different intellectual
characters of Swift, Addison and Steele, Mr..
Thackeray quoted passages from each Of Them,
in which the great problem of the grave was
considered. Swift stamped upon The mould
and CRASHED out bitter inquiry as to what
Of he
dark Republication lifted up his serene
and thoughtful countenance to Heaven, where
the triumph over Death was TO be celebrated,
and we could almost catch upon his features
the beam of the Eternal Day-Steele went
back from the funeral apparatus to the coffin
of his long -buried father, and recalled the sa-
cred tears of his widowed mother, as he, a
faxen-haired boy, stole into the chamber and
struck it, in his childish ignorance, with bat
tledore.
The conclusion of the Lecture was devoted
to the habitude of Queen Anne's day, and how
they fought duels and ate dinners among the
people of quality. On the whole we think it
was Mr.. Thackeray's most pleasing lecture.
The lecturer is now delighting the Charles
tonians.
T The row in Charlestown, Massachu-
sets, of which we have had brief telegraphic
account, was occasioned by the suspicion that
young girl named Hannah J. Corcoran had
been forced off to Canada and imprisoned in a
convent. Her mother was Catholic, and, il
was alleged, had taken this course for some
freedom Of religious opinion exercised by the
girl, who had lived at the house Of Mr.. Car
penter. The mob gathered in the vicinity of
the Catholic Church, Richmond street, and
commenced by breaking down lamp posts and
fences, &c.; but had not attacked the church
when the military arrived, and they were cas-
lily dispersed. The military were armed with
ball cartridges.
Ellen Corcoran, the mother of Hannah J.,
certified on oath before the Mayor that her
daughter was with a private family in the
eountry-of her own free will, and subject to
Mayor that her child should be brought before
him as soon as messenger could be sent fol
her. This promise was made to appease the
mob, who still threatened, declaring in hand
bills about the city that the girl "mast be
found"
The Catholic clergy had exhorted their con
gregations to stay away from any tumuItuary
proceedings, and TO take no part in item.
B MARYLAND RAILROADS.&C. Railroad
meeting of some general public interest has
been heldin Frederick, Nd, at!whichit was re-
solved to take immediate measures to obtain
charters for railroad from that place to Ha
gerstowl, and also for another from some poin
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near ths
Monocacy, to the district of Columbia. TIL,
last named Improvement would greatly shorter
the route from Washington city to the West
u The Petersburg Intelligencer notices
the death OF Mrs. BoTT, of that city, as tn
passing away OF one of its very best and oldes
citizens. She was remarkable for amabiIity
true piety, and 1nostentatious and untirin,
beneyolence.
THE NORTH CARoLIsA COPPER. which wa
sold in New York on Tuesday, brought st RI
rate of $3.50 per ton, or $4,000 for The 100 ton
sold. This copper was mined in the course :
TWO months, at al expense OF about 600 :
Such results as these prove that mining ma
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