, 1865-02-02
lOhD On.
J. B. Coughs Third Lecture Before the Toun2
Mems kspdatious

John B. Coughs third lecture before the Youn
Mems Association Wus giyen last evening In Smiu
q Nixon's Hall. Every seat in the auditorium
Lao been secured on Tuesday. and plAcards wer
consgtenously posted announcing that only st,ad
ins room could bc obtained. Tho popularity o
MI. Cough IS truly wonderful, notwlthstandln.
the fsct that he combines abilities OF high OF
der. A stage cxpeiicuce OF twenty two years h.,
Enhaccd TO give him the secrets Of effective AMI
pleading delivery. In the ennnciaaon of erant t
and puro Iii eisssea at once eompsshead s 9,isf5 Si,
bic % admit OF yents1loquial effects In The 1eia
ton Of incidents. In rechng dialogues, his tslen
in th.s 1es|psst i, 1s st5iking,y tn apparent
sreat met4eposthe wera of Tas BrtanMP5e
der Of civilized eociety-the enigma of hum.r M
conglomeration-a Subject which, at least IL
Segsn hangs Ss1e Sni':r neyeE rlng
turn The grcat kaleidoscope and show rapidly yc;
eieaf1y nc 1nhntnae OF phases Of cxisfcnce ex.
Libltsd X different & combinations aud arrange
repertoire Of msteial Tic precmInentv aesrIi.e,
Tive powers Of Cough ind fn this theme Y1ote
onq ap ct hra as e,p M 1sld L. fo5 display not
home viii. him. making them feel ~ i in the verv
ntdet Of the scenes he so graphically nortray. II
!; H. VII Known tat no report can do h:m Justice
tahle Of contents Mnn 6, nopsis Of the lccture:
In spcsEing Of lond.n, he spoke of the mctron.
Oils OF the British Empire, the scat Of its Govern
bends within It's area The cities OF London ana
Westminster, and tho boronshs Of Narylebone.
t1nsbnry, ToWeT-Hamlets, Southwark and Lam.
heih,haying absorbed, and now containing with
II its limits, The villages and ha.nlcts or Kcnsig
ION, Chelsea, Hampstead, uammcrs1iih, and ma
my others, which arc here united in one grand
metropolis ttutins By Ear the most cxten-
lation, wealth and commerce in the world.
London increases at the rate OF I, 600 weekly The
births arerage o0c every six rnilutes, and the
siz dc in public inststutions. IN circumiereEce' M m
London is sixty mcs. II has t. 600 paved streets,
extending 1000 miles. II conta1ns Sc, 900 houses.
you'd reach across England and France 70 ths
PyFcnees. It has 900 mice Of gas pipes. In 1850
two ships suf:ccd for the coal lraac Of London;
ns T. m,ners = coo sa,Grs, and hundreds Of
SIMPLY daily aggregate Of ftf1y nlll,oa gallons.
tty q the Bank OF England II has been sold for
To give general idca OF London, vast a,noun.
Of the commerce OF En~land might be said 10 be
carried on in the Poultry. Cornhi!t, Thrcadnccdlc
were also located tho Rank Of England, the Stock
E5shange. Tie coai Ezchsnsc, &c.
with :ailo1s; Whitechapel, with its Jews acd
butchers; Bethual- -Green and spitalaelde, with
their poor bik-We3yers: on the north are ls1ing-
ton, Holloway md Camden Town; on the Surrey
Nnnxhall; towards the west arc Westminster, tho
Strand, Regent Street. the Clnb Houses and Royal
Palaces further etill are Chelsea, Brompton, and
Tun,m; many Of the upper ten thousand reside
The poets called the Thames .sthe silver
Thames" He ehould call II the black and putIid
through London, and Is the great sewer OF the
metropolis. The sewaee Of three million inhabi.
tants, and the refuse Of slanghte!-h houses, gas
lismenf Ind been compelled to adIourn on account
OF its stencil. lie had smelt II thirty miles below
London bridge
he II estae2 sesita ef & biz 1'deea dess.p@ys f. be M
s. he had aeep Il liz wall in ss n|dst of ths the
other lie haa seen all the rus IN the city lit np
u.s. at night It might be called thick yellow
mist ills combination Or coal, smoke. damp
The phenomenon is said TO be caused BY the mil
lion Of titumlnors frcs-the smoke FROM which
minelcs with the rapor ardeins from imperfect
The sun at times shines beautifully.
In Hyde Park or kensinston Gardens, on fins,
sunny afternoon, more notabilihes might be seen
hsa i sas ys G sSs
iour1h Of the population attend church bat there
IS much outdoor preaching in the SIMMER months.
y a1a aes
Many necd1ewomen work from o'clock In the
morning.to 10 o'clock at night for from IS cents
to 81 per week. IabprtnE men often work from
early morn to far into the night for fifty cents per
day.
The Pathological differences of tie races scat.
tered over globe are hardly more manifold than
arc the distinct modes Of speech peculiar to tbs
inexhanstihlc. 1here /. no less than 19o sling
words for the different coins.
He found there was not that intellectual pro-
eress In the middle classes required BY the cir
cumetances OF society and the spirit Of the age.
The Times rules England, OF forms the public
opinion Of its middle classes. The conventional
ism Of London - positively fdghtfnl. Few men
have universal reputation. They must be cou-
tent with the control Of a clique.
Mr. Cough will revisit Chicago within brief
February II and Is, he Is announced 10 deliver
lectures on - Fact and Fiction md .*Temper-
nnce-" As the latter subject Is his legitimate
tnrcef