New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-22

hi, connection with The Nors ScOtiGx which
he bad sold In lslI and BY the activity Of lbs Pen
and by addressing public meetings IN VARIOUS
parts Of the country, reused The population AaI
Lord Falkland could induce no men OF Influence "
accept tie seats made vacant N the CaoIle.. l.
be wen, into the interior be was everywhere met
BY ho,tile addresses, and ~as at length ecmpeLed
10 retire from the province before the election OF
1.47. 1nwhich Howe with large majority oil The
representative branch at mis- back was triumph
snily returned This political campaign WITH Lord
Falkland elected perhaps the best speeches N
this collection. Certainly, we do not know hner
,pecimen Of stump oratory IN the whole English or
American range than the following passage from
a speech delivered 10 Hants County:
God in his Infinite Prov dence, scs,ers over every
country the intellect required to develop its resources
adm mister its affairs, and secure To lie INHABITANTS
that measure Of happiness which they are htd 70 e.
ioy Rut God is no Iespecer Of persons the blessings
he be.toys are common blessings, 10 which all nave
an interest and in the enjoyment OF which the num-
blest OF biz creatures may be perhn+a the Ii'st
lsrpelv 70 participate. 1ne rver, nch spa-kles
.o1p tie val. stops not to inquire whether the hels
II retrshes OK the heats it gladdens belong 20 the
rich or to the poor. Ire flower sheds as Teet per
fune in the Widows scany garden as IN the marble
men call eenus-that quckenlng principle, that ac-
mates and governs human society. castle may
frou upon cliff overlooking half county the iord
Of that vast domain msy revel in every luxury "hlcl
can pamper the stimulate To Vide range OF
Intellectual activity; the armed retaers may uead
the massive wall, or make the courtyard HHihlg
school Of war the wise and the BRILLIANT may strou
meath Old ancestral trees, or enLVen Tue le7-
tai hall with the flashes Of wit and the boarded
treasures Of experience; a long line OF -ages
an warriors looking down from the walls oi thtt
stately pile, may lure TO elevated thongnt ana hlsh
achievement: and ye. the children born within That
castle thus furnished and endowed, may scarcely pos
sess enough Of Intellect to fold sheep upon the h:.
But far down i'll the valley, beneath the snaoo" OF
that CO e the peaeants cot may ofer Ia us ilnaes
8 scant return for uDremittDg toll AMI YET rom tns
lons Of thst poor peasant may spring TIE youth,
whose ardent foul, fired by oivine Inspiration, may
point TO noblest aims ard achieve tue highest tri-
umphs. Art may to him seem instlnct Sepates may
hang delighted upon his accents, or armies rean tle
pressge of victory i'll his eye. The Constitution oi
England wisely adspts Itself 10 the arrangements OF
Providence II draws from the hunbles, az from the
highest ranks Of life the talent which the nation pro-
duces and enliss it in the service of tie State. PG5hc
departments are regarded a. public trus.s, to when
al may aspire and with the honors, and influence ana
emOlumebts Of which a wise sovereign and grateful
people may stimulate to exertion, and invest patriotic
enterprise with a national character. and crown "
with national reward. The stately halls OF El-
gland forth TO the public arenas the NEST aspn-
ing and energetic spirits they produce; but, when
talent reared in her cottage homes, disciplined IN
her workrhops rising it may be- from the lowest
form Of the charity school, the darkes. recesses Of
the Line. From such Constitution as THE
Our country grandeur springs,
That makes her loved 81 home reyered abroad
Canning's mother wac actress; Pitt was cornet
Of Hussars; BroughaIn commenced life in Scotch
garnet SydeDham in the counting house; Peels father
was cottOn-spinner The biographical history o!
our country lie rich in such Names and furnishes on
every page It's aniInating commentary ON the ice
spirit of our Constitution. Had pubic departments
descended from father TO son. az they did here until
receny had they been held for life, our opponents
desire now, would il have been so rich would these
glorious illustrations have been 30 numerous Under
the one system public spirit would have died, under
the other it would have langushed. Make public
offices heir looms and the Intellect which should DO
found in the service of the Government at once ar
ration must pass away before the ambitious have any.
thing to aspire To, or nation anything TO bestow.
In 1e46, Sir John IIervey succeeded Lord Fslh
land, and in IS4S for the first time in the history
of the Province, the Cabinet was formally dis.
missed by vote of want of confidence, and Mr.
Howe called to power with the Office of Secretary
Of State. This be held until lS54, when he accep-
ted the Office Of Chairman Of the Railroad Board,
that he might superintend the noble system Of pub
lie improvements, which he had matured in the
meantime. From this Office he retired on a change
of Ministry in 1857 but still retains his seat for
Windsor. Mr.. Howe has spoken on two or three
occasions in this country with great effect, and the
lectures and poems with which this work is inter-
spered, attest that love of literature which form
relief and sOlace to the heavier cares of so many
distinguished Statesmen.
Such is brief sketch of man who has played a
distinguished part in the past and who if We mis-
take not, is destined to play still more distn-
gushed part in that future which looms before the
British Colonies on this continent and must sooner
OF later clearly come. 1t is impossible to watch
the career for the past few years Of the British Col
Onies, as typfed in this work, and observe the
growing spirit of appreciation of their rights and
depreciation of their humiliatiDs position which
prevails without feeling that it needs but another
Falkland, whom England in her own good time,
will send, to bring matters to a crisis. Whether
the British Colonies will then prefer TO claim adj
mission into this Union or form another constela-
ton of separate stars on new confederate flag,
Mr. Howe possesses all the qualities that burn into
history mark of q most manly and generous na-
ture, of a masculine and at times most humorous
and pathetic eloqueDce, strong in the sccumu-
lation Of his facts, and close aud crushing ia the
vgor of their application he crowns these qualities
by national love which to his patriot fancy m.kes
out of every cottage in his loved NOva-Scota psi
ace by Lake Como.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.