New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08

and II our young men work harder, they wasn't more
dath and go moro nature aud life. ID.
TIE terrible miscreant, VIM Palmer, made bis
exit In front Of Stafford jail last Bstnrdsy-stub-
born, silent and game to the last. he speot his
last week OF life st0icAly wearing tho prison dress
lin which be died), seeking nothing in the way Of
extra fox d but salad occasionally, and finally
going TO bis doom master If his nerves. Had the
proof of Cooke death failed, be was to bave been
tried for the murder Of bis vile, who was no doubt
one of bis victims. The town ssarmed wi,h visit
ora ON the mans last morning, and ~, 900 persons
were Assem- bled to see him die. The crowd behaved
welI-an example 10 our OLD Bailey MODS when
are the standing rtprOach Of the metropolis AS
was expected, Palmer made no con'ession, sup
pose in stern defiance Of the public aid with he
With In yex sny of them who might be- haunted by
nisRiyipes. He persisted 10 saying that be . did
mot poison Cook with strychniDe; and some
people think this implied an admission that be
old poison him with something. But copIecturrs
are vain. The world is satisfied OF bis guilt aud
breathes more freely, now that the grave mas
elOted over the blacklist villain Of the age. The
nineteenth century, in spite Of its enlightenment,
can 90 little in the way of villains; and when
such one as Mr. ?. appears, it begins to have
giimmtripg that the devil is still extaDt, will
travel by rail as readily as by the old coach, and
hides his hoofs jauntiy, in patent leather.
l have little bit of literary gossip for you, this
time. John Forster (of Tk Eraminer, aud the
Life Of Goldtmith,) is going TO be married ~ the
widow OF COlburn, the publisher. G. III. Lewes,
the "NiOnin" Of The Leader, author Of Ran
thorpe, &C, is busy on translation of Spinoza.
shall be curious t0 see what the world says to
the grahd old Hehrew-the most misrepresented
of pLilOsophers-w has never appeared in our
language before. The aforesaid John Forster
made speech (for ~ he Press0 at the late Diuner
By the Lord Mayor to men of Science aud Letters.
believe that the affair went of DULY, in cOnse-
quence Of nobodys knowing who or what ought to
be drunk Il don't mean ntOxicated) first Ar
thur Helps spoke for Literature speech
that was 100 long and too slow-yet the author Of
Fri. nds in Council il surely man from whom
one would .Xpect something striking and telcitOus.
After dinher.speaking, however, Is a branch Of
oratory by ITSELF in which the cleverest men fat.
Dickens is thought very good at it; but the same
cen be said VI few.
have seen a new American books History
of the American Prvateers," by George Cogges.
hail. which l dare say will be noticed good deal
in our reviews, from the topic and the time. The
old tar gives US BritOns some hard rubs but he
tells some gocd yarns, and seems an honest kind of
fellow, so will probably be let off cheap.
Sir Edmund L! ons is to be made Peer. A
good natured, clever man; he is even still more-a
lucky one He is of West Indian mercantile
family. Wnen ChPtdiu Ill tne Navy hc so' tne
place Of Minister at Athens, and there, by roman
tic accident married his daughter to tho Earl OF
Arundel and Surrey, now Duke of Norfolk. Sir
Baldwin Walker is to be made BarOnet This
is "Walker Pasha," who served some time IN
the Turkish Navy, and since rose to be Surveyor
in bis own service You will remember his
figuring in the Sy rian War. The controversies to
which our sbip-buidipg has given rise in the pre-.
sent generation, are ipnumerable. 1t is not god
tign in these regions Of life to be man who gets