The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-18
Lecture by Lola Mon too.

Lecture by Lola Montex.
| JOHN BULL AT HOAA THE COMO sIDR or ENGLISH
| CHARA0rER ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CHARACTER.
IsTOs-THB REAL ORIGIN OF MA fI0sAL RoGysaY-
| ENGLISH PHILANTHROPY UNMAsKRD-A rEEp AT
! ENGLISH GALLANTRIEs, kTC., ETO.
Mozart Hail crowded Thursday eveang by . very
numerous respectable audience, listen 70 lecture
tho subject s'John Bull ss Home" BY Lola Montez who
has lately returned from visit 70 Europe where dis
sectcd American life, American customs, and American
pecaarcs for the edidcaon OF English audiences Last
night she the picture by presenting New YORK
/ audience with detailed and humorous view or English
pecuartes Her pictures OF English life embraced every
| diverse and extensive neld, aAd were characterized
throughout by that humor aud piquancy for which the
| fair lecturer Is SO celebrated.
Long before the advertised hour the door and ticket
Office were besieged by eager throng seeking admits
sion and Is the time for the lecture approached every
seat was occupied chairs aud benches in
great demand Nearly three thousand people were pre-.
sent fair proportion OF whom were ladies' Both the
gallery and the body OF the hall were densey crowded,
and the passage ways between the settees flied with
| those who had arrived too late to obtain seats
Almost precisely eight O'Clock the lecturer appeared
amid the pisuds Of the audience, and her place
hind the the platform She neatly atred
dress OF black velvet relieved ~ the neck by white lace
collar. Her hair bore charming nsec which did not
seem at eli out place. She seemed the enjoy
attenuation Of tho features, probably the OF
harships and severity Of her recent voyage After bow
response to the applause OF the audience enc began
| her lecture:-
She hopea she would not be accused for what she had
to Of the English character Abuse at no time had
formed part OF her design. She hoped one would
her Of injustice prejudice If she TOOK peep at
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fact that they oien laughed most at those they owed the
| best In England she had many and warn friends
She had met with hearty reception In British cities.
| 10 abuse the English character to Americans, tho
American character Engshmcn, would be like abusing
the father TO the SON. aud the son 70 the father The
newspapers here have not ceased 70 call England the
mother country, and why to call her 80 All their
troubles no matter of what nature, could never wipe out
tho fact that their being was received nom Old England
They might tell her that German and other elements
rredomnaed but stthe type of evers thing English,
arged and improves ~ laoric Of human skill butthe
spirit and type existed THIS fact had escaped the atten
ton Of English travellers Mr. Dickens for Instance had
So much had been written in England about that Amsr
can nstltution-the spttoontha, her opinion on tho
matter looked for She had confessed that the spit
toon feature OF this country, and she furthermore
confessed her admiration for the Institution. there
Lo spttoon IN the American would open the
nearest WINDOW ana spit out to the detrment Of any
cloak or dress within twenty rods distance. But
splitting into tin box, or even out Of the win
COW, was preferable to syly and secretly splitting
into ones handkerchief, like the English In nations
much alike as England and America, ii was hard to
find peculiares opposed as TO distinguish them Hence
writer's compelled to note some popularity very
trng IN its character to make the distinction. The cha
racerstcs Of the human the where
AS to the formation Of character from the character Of
government, she bad been led believe from whAt she
had that the national character arose, from the
political nature of the government but from inherent
moral impetus given by political revulslons. The
English have ever been the most busy and
also marked the American. II was NO metaphor
to call England the workshop Of the world The driving,
busy Yankee very like the English No part Of the
United States was SO like England New England, With
its manufactures aud machine Shops Nowhere 80 many
people hved by their wits as in England The smarest
of burglary, ali English But they should limit
smartness to rogues alone It ran through all classes
nnere was nara paper 10 me United states which dd
went to England they would find that all the smart
men had not come to this country. The drst IDEA
which would impress visiter to England was
the fewtess OF idlers. There was business and
professional air in everyboiys step and countenance
The English essentially doing people. 1t was gene.
rally supposed that the Yankee character was an original
one She argued that the Yankees not old enough
yet to possess a and original naonal character
They had only improved and modified that which they
had received from the mother country The blending Of
diverse national characteristics In this country would
The different sections Of this country bore dissinc.
marks Of the people who originally settled them
81 g great na!ionaes which hare all been ToEked int
were characterized by the different marks which distn
gasned each o. the original nations composing them
the abogiucs Thoroughly English that they oouia
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than to see the manner in which the English laugh
at New England pecularities which peculiares were
essentially English. Nowhere in the world did she
know Of so much ofncious intrusion in the bust
nees and private matters Of strangers as in
England 1t exceeded even the prying curiosity OF New
England She had, during her late visit 10 England
ceived about I've hundred letters asking assistance
to make all kinds Of fortunes in every conceivable
ne and in nconcevaby short periods of time (She here
read several specimens Of these etes She had
national modssty Of which England boasted. England
was full Of modest adventurersmen who lived by the
among the unfortunate Mormons two to one OF thea
we're EnglRhmen. This disposition towards Mormon
doctrines was confined not merely to the lower
were now busy meddlng with aboltonism, while the,
were at the same time fostering the cruel sysem cooe
sn and committing atrocities the poor native Of India
the horrors Of which Impossible convey In bel
famous lecture in England slavery She occasion
Intimate her desire nations mindng their own bust
ness and she had lost her head in Engand for say
ing she would at least have had the pleasure inesti
nabe to every woman, of speaking out her mind (Ap
pause aud aughter) As TO me iica quackery nowher,
was there so much of it as in England. The teachers
English this 'oqpy rno ws'o ,,a Es h.s
from The Royal College OF London, bearing
ported to have been made years after the iemise
that gentleman turned up in London, during her visit,
an oser With patent machine for subduing refractory
horses She had all England plasered with pacard
OF certain kind of ozenges whose healing powers were
most wonderful and Of love powders by which subdut
the stotesf and coolest heart enabling poorest
women TO marry the richest Of men. In domestic aut
social life she found the English very admirable and praise
worthy. The love OF money, however, was great The
Scotchman would love his bonnie assie because she
bonnie The Irishman would love his lass her beauty
and accomplishments But John Bull would rathei
love her if she had gold in her purse and land.
for her dover Observation had shown her everywhere
that money inspired affection The gentry and nobility OF
England for the most part pracccd the refined an
he most wicked arts OF gaantry. To the affections OF
ayoung and artess girl and leave her TO misery was a
matter Of boasing at their clubs. At some watering
place the villain would begin his campaign The poor girl
read in novels Of condescenson on the part of the high
born to love such herself and sho expected to be
come great lady. In this way she became an easy
ments Of the wealthy in England In fact it was a
common pastime with them. She had seen In New
York papers advertisements for wives which she re-.
garded as nets only set to catch foolish girl To
see the reign OF the mighty god Cupid all his greatness