New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-17

feeling or an allusion to religious truth occurs IN
his biography, except indeed in some general
official way, when be felt himself called on to
utter protest against too rampant an explosion
Of iJfdelty on the part of Jeffrey or some other
compstriot. Not bat that he professed to be a
good Christian, and doubtless supposed that he
came mp To the regular ecclesiastical standard.
His fret experiment. in the Church vas as a
eurate in the midst Of ssury Plain. With his
ca.t Of character, conceive Of the famine of the
mind that came over him when planted in that
great waste of Nature. He Jared little better
as respects the wants of the body. Meat could
be obtained only once week, aud he often
dined on a mess of potatoes sprinkled with
little catchup. But good luck was in store for
b IN in spite Of his forlorD condition. The squire
of the parish took a fancy to the lively CITRATE,
AID after two dreary years invited him to take
charge OF his eldest son, who was TO complete
his education on the continent. The youthful
pair set out for the University of Weimar, but
before reaching their destination Germany was
disturb by var, and "in stress of politics they
put into Edinburgh" where Sydney remained
five years.
This was in 1897 Edinburgh, at that time con-
tanned several men who became highly dlstln-
guished at a subsequent period, jeffrey, Hor-
ner, Playfar, Walter Scott Dugald Stewart,
Brougham, Allen Brown, Murray, Leyden, Lord
Webb Seymour, Lord WoOdhogselee, Alison, Sir
James Hail. and many others. The little foibles
of the Scotch afforded q fund of merriment
to the eatirical stranger. " II requires he
used to say, ga surgical operation to get a
Joke well into a Scotch understanding Their
only idea of wit, or rather that inferior yarie-
ty of this electric talent which prevails occa-
sioDally in the North, and which, under the name
of wUT, is so infinitely distressing to people of
good taste is laughing immoderately at stated In
tervals They are so imbued with metaphysics
that they even make love metaphysicslly; over
heard young lady of my acquaintance at dance
in Edinburgh, exclaim, in sudden pause OF the
music, What you say, my Lord, is very true of
love in the abstract, but Here the fddlers
began fddkDg furiOusly, and the rest was lost"
The original of the well-known joke about the
North Pole dates from about this period, AMI is
too good not to be repeated. The reigning bore
tie subject, the North Pole. 1t mittered not
how far south you began, you found yourself
transported to the North Pole before you could
take breath; no one escaped him. My father
declared be should invent a slip-button. JEFF
frey fed from him as from the plague, when
possible but one day his arch-tOrmentOr met
bin in a narrow lane and began instantly on the
North Pole jeffrey, in despair and out of all
patience, darted past him exclaimiDg D. the
North Poler My father met him shortly after,
boiling with indignation at Jefirey's contempt
of the North Pole. 'Ob, my dear fellow said
my father, never mind; no one minds what
Jeffrey says, you know; he is a privileged per
son; he respects nothing, absolutely nothing.
Why, you Will scarcely believe it, but it is not
more than a week ago that / heard him speak
disrespectfully of the Equator ="
After residing two years in Edinburgh, the
sanguine Sydney returns to England to marry a
lady, to whom he had been long engaged. This
was Miss Pybus, whom he had known almost
from child. She had a scanty fortune, sufh-
cent, with the sale of valuable pearl necklace
to set up housekeeping. This was lucky for
SydDey's only contribution toward their future
mtn0ge (saye his own talents and character)
were six small silver teaspoons, which, from
much wear, had become the ghosts of their
former selves. One day, in the madness of his
10y, he came running into the room and flung
these into her lap, saying, "There, Kate, you
lucky girl, give you all my fortune
The fret child Of the marriage was the author
of this biography. She gives pleasant account
of her introduction to the literary world. As
the time approached for tae birth of his child,
he constantly expressed his wish, first, that it
might be daughter, and, secondly, that she
might be born with one eye, that he might never
lose her. The daughter came in due time, ac-
coIding to his wish, but unfortunately with two
eyes; however, in spite of this unpropitious cir
cumstance, she was very graciously received,
and the nurse, to Der horror, daring five min
u,es' absence, found he had stolen her from the
nursery few hours after she was born to intro
duce her in triumph to Jeffrey ana the future
Edinburgh Reviewers"
About the period in which he was thus en-
gagged he was likewise employed in arranging
with Messrs. Jeffrey, Brougham, Murray, and
his other friends, the preliminsries of that Pc
riodical which, under the name of The Edin-
bHrgh Reris,c, has grown into such Importance has
produced such useful results, and has bestowed
on its chief contributors European reputation.
He must state its origin and results. " To-
ward the end of my residence in Edinburgh,
Brougham, Jefffey, and myself happened to inset
in the eighth or ninth story or fiat in Buccleugh