The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-30

Owen, who had been . gentleman's gatekeeper. Hap.
pening to have good voice for singing bottle songs hd
Of Tie pesDy cast Great was Ss in Pan IN
"ndas;" and there never was an hiebman yce Who,
against Apollo, would not have conceded In the Judgment
Su. We believe that S! sydney owsnsos Vor !:
his namc-how sydney came II is dficuIt 10 say uncss
through some stage vsgary) began life as governess
apotbecaIy named Morgan WHO suffered ,he penalty of
kngbihood from some acetoas Lord Lieutenant which
accounts Tor Ter ladythp."
There great deal Of exag sera;ion in this Londsn
friendly journal says" Her father musician of no
INSIGNIFICANT merit while his intellectual gifts euabled him
70 his daughter into the cultivated society Of
which she subsequently became 30 eminent q member
she first met Sir Charles physician Of rome note
at the touse Of Marquis Abercorn and they
aerraIds married II Is worthy Of remark that her only
married another Dublin physician, also knight,
sm Arthur Clarke man OF great emnence in his profess
son. Who died in 1857 Her father both actor and
musician, and Lady Morgan the daughter inherited his
taste and talent for music ana song fourteen years
ond afterwards Ibe Lay OF the irish Harp, and seec
ton Ct twelve irish melodies with music One of these
Is the fopuar song of"Kate kearney" lyric which will
probably outye all she has written While yet in her seens
she beoame novelist, aud published EST Clair and tina
Of nge and these ucubralions ght be expected
crude bit In 1901 (when she eighteen years OF age
she publ the sWd hish Girl when at once ragged
her 90 ohspcuops petition il exceedingly popular,
and wtnt IL oueh seven editions IN two years. and
The means OF introducing the authoress TO higher grade
OK sccey than that IN which she had been accustomed 10
mlge she continued her labors novelist and wrote
"Iairotic sketches "lda'' and "rhe NissicnMy."
80 Donneh' soon followed, and succeeded by
iloenee Mccarthy" Tin 1879, and srhe oBrieas and
ies 9 Re On lss1 repusshsd hers in lss in
mertal novels, and, Ike Mas Etgewortn, portrayed
national manners. Sir Walter scott Ono authority
testimony to "O'Donncli," that though deficient az
story al has come striking and beautiful passages Of
situation and description and in the como part very
rich and en,eitalning.'
The vvacity and variety Of deHneators constitute
their chief attraction; for, whether 1t was review OF
volunteers at the Phunix Park, or party ~ the Castle,
or masquerade, meeting Ct United lrshnen, riot in
Dublin, or jug day at Bog hoy, in every change Of
scene and situation she welded the pen Of . ready
writer. The chief complaint against these sketches
their PERSONALITY, the gifted authorizes iotmatIg that
some Of her porras az the vice regal courts and those
moving in the "bcst society'' intended for we'll
known char acters. she paints them as INDUCING in
coarse and prurent i guase, no. I'll cr ears polite But
charaCerscs OF her nation, their bopndess mrsh their
love of iroc, their via srie and their curious cid
customs
On france end Italy after travelling on the Continent
she wrote Two graphic woke-he former defended NepO
leon the Great and ELECTED order from the Bourbon
kng that she should LOT be permitted ID enter France
With her usual however she the
date and came home from Italy by way Of France whsre
she soourned for some lime. To the merit Of her Saly
Lord Byron bears decided testimony but tourist she
100 ambitious Of being always ne ard striking. Among
her ether writings are The Book OF the Boudor Tbe
Beck without Narne.' Woman and her Aaster,n
philosophical history Of woman, which sne only carried
Cow from Eve 70 the lall OF The Roman empire.
shc much censured for the latter by her poll
ics orpopents who accused her Of holding Indirectly
admiration such characters Jezebe and Nessaiina
siS she had sharp controversy with Cardinal WISE
on the chair Of ST. Peter. Her last production WAS
her DIARY published within last few months in
london, and just reprbiahed in this country. II Is My
for the years 1918 and 1919; but es far Gs goes,
very amusing book aud highy characteristic; tn ugi
published now, written forty years ago. she re-
taIed her mental vgor 10 The end Duri1g the adm mr.
traton of Earl Grey she received the literary pension o.
$500 81 ,5c0) per annum.
Her style Is sashng, vigorous and JSs,;7re and Wtf
little OF female lo'lh or deiicacy. IL Is full o.,
rough fun, vivachy and point, and is httt1'
sued for the milton than for the highly edoca I'd
OF the ia which she "became feL Al3
politician without knowing it, she says:-"For mysen, Ht
least bern and dwelling in Ireland amidst my counrymen
and their suneripgs, reasoned described, felt and
PLEADED; and if political bias ultimately taken, IL
originated in the natural condition Of things, and not in
malice aoI ehough OF the writer Her political antago
nss accused her Of being ugly trenchied old woman
who denied her age and claimed 10 be always thirty five;
Of wearing paste damsno in wig Of luxurant rirglet
painting her with colsr de and wearing antique
dress at her literary sorees Dublin aud her
saziones in the British metropolis.
Died al Jaa Syria January S, 1862 YAcouB SERArroS
MuElp for nearly twenty years Consular Agent Of the
United States for sa and Jerusalem. Travellers from
this country, who have visited those cities within that
tme will remember with pleasure the Kind attention
ceved from Mr. Murad and his brothers, Simeon and Iaza
rus, sIa III ~ mpathe deeply With hts afflicted family
in their siose