New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-01
ENCL.yD,s OPPORTUNITY.

ENGLsSD'5 UPFOKISNhah'
These ure he grand days Of disiliusion.
Th, reu.ors lees Civil War is digging the
graves Of zen pretty traditions, aud swal-
lowing scores of sugarcandy sentiments.
Taurus, which some of us have so long re-
carded IA tie moat amable of consultations,
is coming out in IT'S old, original character-
Aldebarsn. the Pleiadea, aud the Hyades. no
longer rain sweet Influences. Dear Mother
gupland-what close relationship Yankee poets
and orators we claimed 10 her Was she
NOT our a. 'ostress, ard do we not-mark you
that speak the language of Milton and Shakes
peare For the rest see paSsOn, the delight
full speeches made at the dinners of the st.
George Society in New-forb. It's very droll
la these days. We must laugh at son etbDg,
and why not laugh, till our sides crack, at
~. ..~,is stem IS champagne which ~"
Princes visit cost us And, If anybody re-
members them, why not laugh at TuPPers
yerss.-.' England 10 America" Why not
at the Dickens ovation the Canadian celebra-
ian in Boston, the Atlantic Telegraph iLlumina'
finn, Why not laugh, for that matter, at the
lo.d.d .Jamestowns visit at mercy to ireland
WHY NOT laugh at the return OF that stra!
Arctic ship. aid the speeches made anent the
same Laugh away, reader Nobody hinder'
Won Ru1. are no, always the same. The
animal r..e.crowned an gentle, which bore
the raft Europa over the ~>'eS' was dihei'
.ut creature from this British Dun WIN Dis
head down aud his tail up. will hi, norn' a'o
iideous below. British honor Briti,b magma
limity, British generosity, British this |nd
British that--where are you Have We talked
about Agincourt. and Greasy, and Magma
Jharta, and the Nirgin-Queen, and Milton and
Shakespeare, and the Matron. Queen, only to come
% this y Tie dear Lioa-is he, the pride of
he public mepaeerie-is he mean, selish, sus-
)iciOus after all
Nice gentlemen in their studios are sur.
,rsed. But if the gentle scholar who wonders
hat the land Of Milton, and Shakespeare, and
upper, should turn out so badly had been Al I
freshman, aud had seen--as Orrery relates
. forty three notable rebels hanged for u break.
= fast or if he had seeE--stlll we refer 10 .
)rrey-" three Irish children eating their
dead mother If PhilO-Tupper had seen
bis-or il he had seen the performances of
Warren Hastings in India, of which account |
nay be found in Burke's speeches-why, We
hink that Pbilo-Tupper would have discovered
ust this: that the Lion is not the most con-
iderate OF beasts, in spite of Milton and
shakespeare, and We may add Bacon; that the
ion means money; that he kes virtue and honor
md philanthropy exceedingly well-when they
Jay good dividends And yet he talks, with
liph upliited nose about our Yankee love OF
proluse, magnanimous Lion, or
}ull-Lion, as if it were glory to adore guineas,
nd shame to be fond of doars--ss If Bull
ion a. be- is, he would hot give Magma Charta,
iilton, Shakespeare-and even Bacon-with no
nd of "Dggers thrown IN, for the cOnye-
hence and profit of single cotton crop! o
}ull !-Obadiah's Bull you have been long
Inspected, and now you are found out For
ii tue virtues which you have heretofore ex-
IbteJ infinite be yonr credit! No light task
must il have been for Clarkson and Wilber-
orce aud Buxton and Sharp TO have tanned
ou into a show Of justice to man, aud TO have
baped you into the semblance of Christian
east. After LIES fever they sleep well;
nut very wakeful would they be, did
hey know how this Reformed Bull las
elapsed into his original beastness. 1t is the
addest tumble in national reputation which We
Think OF the Bull with his lit OF
on housekeeping his massive
ront to earth in shame at the wicked spectacle
Il American Slayery-passionately bawling for
ree.lsbor Notwithstanding with oil
,hristlan Powers on the suppression OF the
lave. trade-going like good gentcel, Clap
lam Bull to the Sutherland breakfasts to meet
Hrs. Stawe and Frederick understanding
ver bless his tender heart Mr.. George
Thompson to enlighten us--tbink Of him then.