New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-16

-ucre-- ia tl- saiir career al ambition, Int-mich
~ he had ori, one uan 10 plrasr Instead vi
whole tOwrful If trad-sm-n ard small household
eTs Lsunce- sion. fer which be stood. Snd "h"sr
representative in Parliament he has now at lat
hecuin- il,s In thu vock-, Of the Duke Of North
uInto rsud, who seem. TO have taken II Oui ana
presented It tc Sir Samuel Slick.
How Judge Halliburton commended himself TINS
highly Ia the good grac-s of his Grace We have no
means of knowing But we have not much doubt
thst II YVES by Iii. character-wrings and character
talk. II So. there certainly WAS never gre1trr
pruft made on u moderate investment OF capital.
His Sam Hicktrles came Ia . good market. Indeed
if they have made him knight and a MEMBER OF
Parliament. His b,.ks are diyerting unqueston-
ably. not "a much so to 'ae native and tn the an
kee manner born, b. their Inconsistencies and ao-
suriiirs by the eXtIasagance Of their bumor and
the ucca sioDal brightness 0i their wit His hero
stage Yankre such as was never seen on earth or
lea. II il as if u compound should be made up OF
he brogurs Of the Irish, the Scotch, the Welsh,
and with little dash Of YORKSHIRE aad large IN
rr,iiency Of Cockney dom, aud put into the mouth
Of representative John Bull All the provincial
SIns of the South and the North. thc last and the
West, arr mixed up in one canldfon, and the mess
j: served up as the Yankee language. There ini-
ritc fun In genuine Yankee,om, which II will be
pity if the attritiou of change of place and OF
emigration shall have worn smooth before II has
been caught and fixed by master-hand Judge
Halliburton DOES no! stand III the least Ia the way "i
spy one ambitious of mixing his mark on literature
in thi, kind Hosea Bigrlow has done more to-
ward stereoi,ping the characteristics of the genuine
animal than all other writer's put together, and We
hope that he will seize the fanhre dialect and char
actrr and fix them in prose narrative. before their
sharpnessrs are worn on.
Both Judge Halliburton and Sir Allan McNsb
are Tories Of the stapchest kind 0s provincial dug
niiarirs are yer, apt IL br. aud the throne and the
altar would BE- entirely safe, far a. they are con-
cerned had both them acquired the object their
ambition. We imagine very few natives of the
British Colonies have attained to seats in 1T.
Stephens Chapel, while st. Stephen had one We
dn not remember ans Of colonisfs, M onr o't
Colonial times, reaching that dignity, excepting
Sir George Downing aud Gov. I"stph Dudley "t
Massachusetts Boy. And Sir George Downing
could hardly have been born in NewEnglaOd, as
he stands The second in the first class that ever
graduated at Harvard College in 1912. He was
member for Murpeth 10 the Parliament of 1860
which welcomed home that Most Religious King.
Charles H. be- having been before Ia the military
and civil service of Cromwell. He made hls
peace however. with the Restored Court by be-
i 81 - and nc al A.
services. which were rewarded by baronetcy, and
al Embassy to Holland. We do not recollcct Any
account Of lis services as u Senator; but should
nudge, from these circumstances. that he would
have been eminenty worthy OF seat among
the Lecomptonites IN our own Congress-
had he lived IN our times To be Down.
ing was proverbially equivalent to being
scamp, in thVsc days; from which however, We
beg that no seaR .,sh conclusions may be
drawn. There WAS caricature of him in those
days in three characters !. Preaching on tub,
with the inscription - This was" ,. As supple
courtier, and This | am" 3. Hanging on
ebbcl, with This | shall be- This he never
was however aud if he had BEEN the resemblance
between him and an NJ. &. would have ceased
ortyer
Gov. Dudley was native Of New England, aud
was member for Newtown about 1890. Perhaps.
had the British Government had the wisdom to
yr,if, The ambition Of its col0nsts the connection
between the Colonie. and the Mother Country would
have lasted longer. No doubt much of the Ill blood
which was main ingredient in the revolution,
sprang from The feeling the part Of able and
a -
as things stood. But the policy Of the Home Gov
eminent seemed Ia be- I" drpnss the aspirations
and break the spirit OF the c0lonlsts and to try
and make them, LIKE the colunsts I'll Spain.
Instruments of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and enrichment
of the Mother Country. We do not remember any
considerable prcfcrmcnt bestowed upon natives
excepting the GovernOrship of their Provinces in
Il very few insiauccs. We cannot recall even
paltry knighthood or trumpery baronetcy that was
bestowed on any native American with the excep-
ton Of Sir William Phips aud Sir William Peppe-
rel during the whole colonial time The English
Government, al least, has had the merit of profit
ing by experience. and this change in lis policy
NAV be productive of real benefits Of a public
turr a. il ccrtaul, must of agreeable result, to this
excellent gentlemen who profit by il.
THE TOuRNAuENT OF REFORu.
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