The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-12


of performing la Imperfect manner those duties
which the public has right expect from every member
| OF the House OF Commons
4 The Right Hon. Spencer Horato Wapee has accepted
the Office Of Archbishops Church Estates commssoner
vacant BY the lamented deeease of the Right Hon Henry
Gouburn The income attached 10 the Office s COOS
year al af
The Admiralty have given notice The Gazette that Dr.
Rae having claimed the reward OF tt0o00 offered TO the
rst person who should discover the fate o the OF
the Erebus aud Terror they viii adudcate upon his claim
within three months from this lime,
The Queen has been pleased 10 constitute the colony Of
Western Australia be bishops and diocese 10 DO
called the bshopric Of PERTH and TO appoint the venerable
Mathew b. Hale archdeacon Of Adelaide 70 be ordained
| and consecrated bishop OF The said et
1t said that Sir John Dean Paul Bart, and Mr. Sra-
ham the convict bankers busy employed inepsob,
the former at tailorng aud the latter al cair-uakng
in aid Of the Nightingale testimonial fund
The coronefs jury has returned verdict against VIM
Palmer that be murdered his brother by prassc acid.
An unusual number III murders un record in the
English papers just present Among others Of notice
that of 4 London lawyer McWaugh, shot dead in tho
street by hunchback client, sa~ aaE eastaH
I RETIREMENT on NAcAuLAf 5t.a4
n We copy the following from the London News:
BY the retirement Of Mr. Macauay the lIouse of Com
loses Of the greatest Of its literary and not the
least OF it's oraorica celebrities Exactly coeva with the
" l ass u rheh ss euea o s
generally be supposed to he in the highest state Of e
hcency and vigor.
nv
pated the hard with which earlier manhood
times takes pride in showing itself superior to such
dreams toning down into rnelowed business OF
l~rior wisdom, and the mind which has thought and the
heart which has suffered, through many phases OF
riousy active life may fairly be supposed % have arrived
at that stage oexperence when the active energies both
may best contribute TO the welfare Of mankind. Atsuch
period is that Macaulay quits the arena Of politics for
the calm secusion of the study.
We do not say that he Is wrong. The first announce
men indeed Of such change almost unavodaby carries
the mind back to the days Of his earlier rumphsto the
days when the crack article Milton aned in the fore
head Of the Edinburgh Review for October ls25and
when six years later the crack speech Of the young
member for Calne in the phrase OF honest Lord Ailhorp
In those days of innocent enthusiasm, when aAstra Re-
dux supposed TO have returned to this planet for the
express purpose of inaugurating millennium OF wings
acaulay was where spoken Of us e man Of
the epoch Brilliant indeed, for many was "the
dust and light scattered about bis chariot as he Went
Season after the intellectual treat Of the day
Macaulays last article in the Edinburgh Maeallays last
speech in the House
ers believed to be profound because they felt TO be
obscure hnted in e circles that the essays owed their
sparkle their shallownes leaden Sufferers The torment
Of the House when their legs the oraces of the clubs
when their arnchars accused The speeches of being
spoken reviews the icous product OF laboous art
and a retentvc memory.
Asis always the case these structures had sufficient
basis Of truth to render them plausible. Profundy
thinker, and spontaneousnes as speaker were not the
prominent characteristics Of Mr. Macanay and the
circles" never thought Of inquring whether their
of promineuce might not in degree be owing 10 the
marked superiority of this distinguished ia almost
every other gin that constitutes fine writer and
compished speaker. gta. z E%
STILL in practical assembly like House Of Commpns
nolerant Of rhetoric and not oyeroerant Of intellectual
supremacy II be denied that the brilliant essayis
and oratsr somewhat out of his element ianerly
engaged in absorbing task comparatively failing in
health and feeling may be- the increasing growth of
that epcuroaa Incidence in which Of literary tel-
perament when stimulated by the spur of necessity
the prompngs Of the highest genius are ever prone 70 n
dulgs Mr. Msszlilay had long shown growing disnc-
nation take An active pubic affairs, &
For these and other his refinement though IL
may have taken the general public oy sarprse has BEN
current ruulors OF the day Let him retire The best
wishes of England 80 With him into his retreat On
political grounds il has often been lot 10 differ from
him. but we failed recognise the keenness
and polish OF the blade whose brightness we have al
lowed dazzle s and against whose gitterug swe2p we
have sometimes felt called upon TO oppose the home shield
OF comnon-scnse argument
On literary grounds wo have found ess scope for cri
csm or diseoat and even when freely nduging ia
both have always feat that the great work on which he Is
now engaged is intimately connected with the literary
OF our country. Feeling this, eau scarcely
gre the announcement that benceforh, having less
with the present interests OF the existing generation
he may have leisure devote 10 the development
OF Englands story in the past and his own fame IN the
future.
The suboiusd clcgraphc deapatch from London re-
ceived Liverpool the morning Of the 2Gth ulmo,
just before the departure Of the Persia:
.a ENGLAND AND rE rsAcE rnxEIGsAnIEs
Tho Vienna correspondent Of the Times that in
that capital the most strenuous efforts making
duce England insist the dsarmng of the Russian
fortresses on the eastern shores OF the Black
Great complaints made OF the inconeeivabe ohstine
cy Of Sir Hamilton Seymour in this matter IL Is feared
that the British government will not consent 70 sign tho
preimnarics of peace until perfectly clear Interpretation
has been given 10 the fifth proposition
The Monenr of Friday gives account Of the banquet
which followed the presep of the Queens houos 70
the French officers on the 23d Lady Cowley sat Prince
Yapoleons right and Lord Cowley opposite 70 him The
Prince proposed the Queens health and, in doing So said
elf devoted as we 10 the most just Of causes
needed any encouragement recompense should end
il In the brilliant testimony of the favor of august
creipn and gratitude Of great nation ally. Let
us drink in the Of the army to the Queen Of Eng
land gH.
Lord Cowley proposed sentiment in favor Of the early
conclusion OF peace and that the negotiations might
give to the allies and particularly 10 the English people,
the satisfaction Of seeing the evils OF war. ~ E
The Moniteur says that this es will cement the a-
Of France aud England which reposes the future
peace of the whole civilized world
private letter from ST. Petersburgh, quoted by the
Paris correspondent the Times that the public
ing surprising in the fact of outbreak.
MrsSEsorA-We copy the following from the Sauk Rap
Ids Frontierman OF the ~ ultimo;
We understand expedition Is being fitted out TO
plore the country 10 ascertain the practicaby OF road
In direct line from Sauk Rapids TO Fond du Lac Lake
Superior. A direct line from Sank Rapids 70 Fond %
Lac will Rum river about fifteen miles below Mile
Lac
From all the information collect we are sa,is-
fed that better ront. be found 70 Fond du Lac from