Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-02-02

he hns SO happily akctchcd. M honor can wo
conceive more in accordance with What we know
Of hi own feelings. Addison. at tho fost ~ vhoee
monument Lord Maca5loy lc~, mofalix 4 IN his
Inc the Abbey in That eloquent nud t0uritg
J. .nege wltth * hueNn Wh"teseI thc tn5L,h
language is read. II Was with peculiar hre's
that he was IN his turn laid in tho spot whi'h 10
had hclped to conseorate with his geni"s. ~
with Macaulny. In his Writings he repeatedly
nlludcs to the great burial place ot Engllshnen.
in terms which show how nuch his feelings aud
inncy moyed by this kind of nntiounl cah-
onization. Yesterday, those whose praise ho val
ueh assembled To pay to him that tribute which
he looked upon as the last and highest crown Of
fame
The funeral of yesterday was. pcrhnps,n moro
touching ceremony than iithc decease hnd taken
place during the session of Parliament, and pub
liz inicrmcnt bud been proposed and resolved on
hy tho Legislature. II il more consistent with
those habits of reserve which are natural to Eng
lishmen TINT public funerals should take place
only rare occasions. such US tho death of SOW
creign or Of some very eminent citizen, liko Pitt,
or Nelson, or Wellington. Lord Macaulay WAS
indeed, public nun. that is. he hid held high
oilco in tho State. aud had taken his seat in tho
Cabinet but it is as II man OF letters that he will
liz chiefly remembered and thls being tho case,
tho spontaneous honors paid by those of kindred
pursuits more fitting than any formal attcn-
dance oi the two Houses, any insertion OF tho
funeral expenditure in tho Estimates" Lord
Mncaulny's pail was, however, borne by tho Lord
Chancellor and the Speaker Of the House Of Com
mons, who may be looked upon ns representing
the two assemblies over which they preside
Otherwise tho funeral wns in all respects private
one, attended bv II number Of men Of cminentc
Who admired the genius and held TO Tie principles
oi the deceased. Aud gratifying ia il that honor
can be 40 quietly aud yet so grnndly ruid in this
country. The funeral Procession Mas plain III
e1hnst IT, mcagrencss hearse three or four
mourning conrhc~. nnd then tho empty carriages
Of those who wished to show respect after the sim
guiar fashion which usage has consccratol Nune
oi tho pon,p of sorrow Which we arc accustomed
to associate with the in,crmcnts of great men
was to bo observed Yesterday. Lord Macaulny
was borne to his resting. plucc like private cit-
zen. md liko private citizens his friends aud I'D
nlirers received his remains to be laid in The earth
amid their heartfelt sorrow.
Snrrow they needs must both for tho sake Of
the departed and of his country. How much Inns
been lost by the premature death of this gifted
man we can never know 1t is Ms ira unique
museum or n library OF precious aud uncopied
mat usrrpts hnd been suddenly destroyed Lord
Marauay has giscn ns ia his history the narrative
of the Revolution and the Reign of William Ill
| How complete. how graphic they IRE, wo all
know; and yet there is reason to believe that tho
author had hardly we'd ut the period which he
! had principally studied nnd which lao would
| have treated with the most consummatc ability.
If he had been spared to write tho wars of Marl-
| borough, the Accession OF the House of Hanover,
and the Administration oi Walpoe, To criticize the
literature Of Queen Annc's time. and sketch tho
rise and progress Of colonial America we might
have possessed pictures even more striking than
those which represent the fall OF james nnd tho
| struggles between William and the French King.
All the accumulated materials of 80 many years
| have pcrslc1, for they wcro preserved, ~ they
only could be, in the brain Of the hisor The
lore of Macaulay resembles in nothing tho
'no'cs" Of average writor for it consists not in
mere isolated facts but in nnuloge.. parallels,
aud inductons, which can devcopo but
he who has orr rginatel them. Tho lss is not
Ehglnnd's alone | is n cl,i"f glory oi the de
ceased that his principal work much read
and perhaps, more sud uJi nd thun at home.
We III this country, thou.a .ny volumes told us
much that was new. .nad previously n pretty
clear notion Of our Eryolutjun and Ito spirit ia
which it was CARR Il out; hu' + tho first IN nd On
the Continent IT WIS little rhIrt Of nrevonton..-
Tho Two volunes which recount the errors aud
the fall of James appeared at time when Europe
had been just eonsnl-cd hy revolution, and
! short period o anarchy about to bc succeed
cl Iy ii de-pnti.m moro heavy and unsparing