New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-25


po,hp, tia, wsud have excited scandal OK censore.
il everything had gone on we'll even !! VecaBicA0}
ard strictly irregulsr and Unauthorized
Sucb d;ffeolt,ss moe. inevitably grow co. OF or
filse system Of corporation Acics: nesseaef
who /, sppoipted not 20 take care q motley pad IN
or earned. but TO raise money by borrowing,
and who uses mis- own credit 10 bolster Up .na'
cf the Company can hardy ehcih surprise u nc
tbuk be ia entitled in bis turn TO the name OF
The Corporation to prop up BIS OVID. They are both
in one rotten boat, and he hardy let his end O.
IL sink without eDdangeriDg the Other end. AL tals
il wrong admit; but the blame attaching 70 per-
sons dong what the absolute necessities OF tue ial.e
pOsiiOD The system places them IN demsnf, snci'd
he mitigated by much charitable allowance. Our
Whole syst N tf manufacturing by corporations is
false and hollow. If the financial storm which is
broad shall sweep them away, with all their para.
sitc train Of treasures and resident agenS ana
buyipg agents and selling sgents, 70 tho LIMBO OF
Vanity on the backside of the word, II VIII nave
done whole some office to the industrial atmosphere
Of N.w.FDgland aud both Labor and Capini VIII
breathe the freer for it hereafter. vi course, The
manufactures, with their wafer-poWers aud steam
,owers and their admirable machinery, must remain
az they are now. But lei them pass iatO the hands
Of moi, idual capitalists, who will make manut.c-
turing the business Of their lives, WHO will drive
their own bargains chsffer for beir own eOttoG or
wool cheaper their own faciory-grls, oversee with
The scrutiny Of masters eye the work done, and
sell The goods turned OUT themselves, and We shah
hear few complaints Of The badness OF the business.
This is demODstrabe. For II is clear tina. those
establishments which in common times can pay the
salaries and expenses, and no more, would be re-
muperaiiye investments ia men who would save the
ore and reduce the other 10 the lowest point; while
those which now pay b. shareholders dividends from
four TO ten per cent (aLd these last are as few as
angels yisi.s), would be enormously profitable to
men who cid their own business and perceived all
the profits Of it, We must come TO this, sooner or
later and the sooner the better, say.
have made another deviation from the strict
ntss Of my principles as TO Evening Lectures, since
was tempted b. the fair Countess Of Landsfe ldt to
90 and hear her. i have actually been to three,
ard should have gone oil the same had there been
three more. You will not WoDier at my weakness
when tell you that they we're Charles M1ckays
Lectures on the Songs AID Song Writer'S OF England,
Scotland and ireland. This genJleuan certainly is
entitled to speak on this subject, even according ~
the canon which would shut The mouths Of So many
critics, by having written welr enough 10 earn
bis right 10 "censure freely" ia style and de-
livery they were unpretending, but they were full OF
meat al egg is, and were most unequiyOctlY the
productions oil a nan VITO knew what he was talk
iIg abOutwhat perhaps 1t IL no treason ~ say, IS
not invariably the case with cur Pr1itsslOhil lee
turers. They were received with great favor by as
rood an audience as could have been deserved, aud
by az numerous one as perhaps could have been
expected in the present times. The MeOnaOD, or
Lesser Temple, was hot crowded, but reasonably
Well frequented, on each even ng-tlle audience
growing rather than dimlnifhing. | commend hm
10 the attention Of your lecture gong, aud especially
your sODg-Oying population and trust you VIII give
him rousiDg audience. lift be true that he that
makes the songs Of a nation is more mighty than he
That makes its laws, Charles Mackay lie a greater
man than Lord Palmerstop. And if the change OF
times and Of men with them, have somewhat tahen
from IL political power of the sOug-wrer since
Sir Philip Sidney, or whoever 1t was, uttered that
sayrg, at any rate one who, like Mr.. Mackay, has
bfeathed into the minds OF the laborlg classes the
spirit Of industry, patience, hope and faith which
Informs bis songs, has done good and good only, and
that continually, which lie more than can be said Of
most legislators or law-gyers.
The lecturing business has been cut up by the
hardness of the times quite as much as any other.
Popular lecturers who had their Winter all 8ppor-
toned out Elk months ago, have told me that they
are continually receiving letters, saying that the
contemplated courses have been abandoned from the
imptssbility Of selling their tickets. | am afraid
that very small proportion Oi that noble army OF
ltc.uIers theeroll Of which you piluied last Sum
ner, have been able to find service this campaign.
he theaters here, should judge, are doing toler-
ably well. At least, if the newspapers arc to be
believed, the Howard Athenaum and the National
Museum always does better Imam that IN the worst
OF times. Its public is peculiar people, Jealous Of
the good work of gong to it. Mr. Barry, with
quite as good company ON the whole, as h' ever
had, was very much IN the vtcatIve for the hrst
weeks of his season, and had TO put his hands on
short allowance. Mr.. Mathews drew very we'll,
tho Oh not ss well as so cOn;umma q artist III his
range Of character deserved to DO. But the Rcnzan
Ballet Troupe have lill5d the house egain for every
night for fortnight, and they are going on for this
week again. The novelty Of n proper ballet, to-
getber with the excellence OF the principal dancers
and the hvent IS ana prettness OF the women, has
had the effect of drawing people out as III better
days. So it seems if it were not altogether the lack
oi halfdoars that had made the show of empty
boxes so beegarly before. But suppose there is =
point at which the endurance of the Lady Of Lyons
and the Hunchback, and even OF the Rivals and the
school for Scandal ceases to be virtue. l
imagine if managers can contrive TO give the play
going people what they want to see, there is still
money enough to make il d paying business.