New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-07
wa. one Of shem-~hicb is their greatmodern 1l,-

"a, nm. q ,hen-whicb 10 their great modern 1is-
tinctiep in the eyes Of men Of sense.
IfRu,Ga ,eIls us after all-snd there are able
men here who expect as much-tto tell you the
,rutb-though we don't own ia find Of banker.
ing notion-unchrrtian you Know, but human
II axe. US feel zee ought to conc better out cfa)-h
,be plays false, every eye will be turned - the
Baltic. They Say Lyons goes there. He is our
popular hero at present. ] dined with him once,
some wears ago pleasant shrewd, very hearty
and hOrnely man he IL. he owes mucn, but not
everything 10 his merit. Not everything, say
for when he was Minister at Athens (where your
humble servant saw HIM, the Earl of Arundel and
Surrey (heir Of the Duke OF Norfolk Tell Ill IN DIS
bouse and recovering, married bis daughter. And
this connection has no doubt gone for something IN
bis career.
NOW for literature Macsulay's History hangs"
q little. say the booksellers He is more Whiggish
more preiudiced-mt re Macsulay-ish than ever
The worst OF il IN. that you can't wiring cOrrec-
ton out Of him. lie sticks 70 IN error az If il was
a merit. There wis Hepworth Dixon who tackled
him Oh Penn No reply. In the eleventh edition
Of tie frat two volumes all the false charges
against Penn are retained. So, Dixon has lost
patience and as he is going to bring out a new
edition Of his Life Of Penn IL also going TO handle
Macaulay again in a new preface The book
il not 10 be out for week but as | know your
American interest in this question, have procured
a sight Of the proofs. You are aware that the
heaviest charge was that Of eXtorting money
:. from the Taunton girls for the benefit of the
"Naids Of Honor" Mr. Dixon has shown that
William Penn did no such thing, and that the real
offender was regular pard0n-broker Of the
period-one George Penne." This is proved by
An extract from the books of the Privy Council.
What can one say more ! shall transcribe
paragraph or two from the proof Of the preface,
which il lying before me, that Penns biographer
may speak for himself:
In the belief that Mr.. Macaulay would withdraw
biz accusation az an error-when popular edition OF
William Penn wa. passing through the press-l with
drew the extra chapter from the public eye. =:
This abstinence il 10 longer just toward the public
ChaIeoer-, Ike that Of Penn are sacred Inheritance
In the third and fourth volumes Of the History
Of England the Fan principle OF incessan' accusation
prevails. Every reference TO Penn Is accompanied ~
an epithet Hs conduct is spoken of a. 'scandslous
Lis life uniavOrable to moral punty-his word a.
O fasehood Yet from first 10 last, not one Iact IN
consistent with the highest character and the purest
principle is proved against Penn
Mr. Dixon does not even allow that the hlstO-
riaa ia original as libeler lie charges him with
borrowing libelOus facts and adding to them
." color emphasis and exaggeration."
understand that Macaulay is going to reply to
his assailants; for he is thin-skipned IN such mat
ters-mOre so than you would fancy. He has re-
tired from Parliament. The fact is he sufersfrom
asthma 10 distressing extent Apropos OF Ma
caulay, they say or used to say, that nothing has
kept old Croker alive for some years but the hope
of ma.sacring bis third and fourth volumes in
The Quarterly. ] will believe anything OF the spite
of Croker, of course. But whether The Quarterly
is still open TO bin for private purposes doubt
much. You may see new hand IN The quarterly
this last number.
Touching new books-ve are to have Rogerss
Table TaLL, very shortly. II is compiled by Dyce,
from the old potts conversation. l hear on good
authority that it VIII be piquant. Rogers was the
author of what Byron thought the best epigram in
our language-that on Lord Dudley and Ward
THEY say Ward hs, no heart, but deny IL;
He has shesrt-snd gets his speeches by it,"
For long time, Rogers used to get the credit
of all the good bOns .nIOts-j ust as Lord -- gets
the credit Of all the clever natural sons Our
greatest colloquial wit now il Douglass Jerroid.
Here is mot of bis which has never been printed.
The ponderous 7. c., well known publicly as
writer and privately as butt, had been heavily
"chaffed" one evening at certain club. He rose
to reply. "What l want" said he" what l
"want-is common sense" E1deay,' cried
Douglass, as quick as lightning Rogers had much
of this felicity in talk, and anticipate an amusing
book Of his Ana.
There is not, however much going on in litera
ture, which has been damaged good deal by the
war Publishers think peace will sell boob and
every tradesman thinks it VIII sell MS go0ds; ana
the poor find everything dear and the rich don't
know what it may lead to; and all these notions
swell the chances Of settlement. 1t will take
wears. however for commercial nations to become
as potent as they were before the war began. 1t
has ruled the roast during its sway tyrannically.
Hence, not even the shameful blunders of its man
agement have availed to feed powerful agitation,
and the " Administrative RefOrmers' confess their
failure with melancholy wall.