New-York tribune., 1867-07-16

this great work Is the end Of English life to be
ometers and penitentiaries if 30, all our public ins
tutlons Will turn to gasometers, and every home DO
penltentiary.
In the course of the lecture which abounded in su-
perb imagery and exquisite poetlcal statement-the
audience being stirred more than any 1 have ever
seen7y Mr.. Ruskiu took occasion to allude to the
statements recently made by him concerning the be-
havOr of the roughs Of London. which had been
denied. All will now say is that there are other
reasons than their inaccuTacy why do not publicly
defend themp There is q considerable sympathy for
Mr. Ruskin in this matter just now, for il is generally
believed that no is an uncomplaiMng martyr TO his
tenderness for Caryes feelings. Carlyle sometimes
given TO wrathful mOmeDts in which he exaggerates
tres which, when he them in print, he feels to
be rifes, and don't see how he could ever have said
We have also had q speech from Charles Dickens.
1t was made as Chairman of public dinner IN De
half of the Railway Benevolent Society" Mugby
Junction having made Dickens the great toast of
railway people Dickens presides at dinner better
than any man in England, and can extract Wit ana
Ss TCm he cy with
mense dramatic effect which fairly conyulsed hlS
audience: - ,, sr,ona
American captain and therefore II Is qlee
unnecessary to say his story was quite true S
captain and part owner of large American mefcnar r
liner On certain voyage out, IN exquisite Sumner %
weather he had for cabin passengers ono beaunlu
lady and ten more or less beautiful young Dase WAS
Light Winds dead calm; PTSy9g sss wSn the
slow They mad made na MI sdIx s1 in love with the beau
ful Young lady. They had all proposed 10 h ndnS the
shed among the rivals seeTSs ass Extremity the beautiful
young lady confded in my friend 9r tn9 aecons are dis
her discreet advice he SAN ae v5Une gentlemen whom
YOU ike the best and settle the question 20 TINS
M dne tbst hecause sV like them all equally we'll
My friend, who man OF resource, n. upoin tns
mid day when lunch Ia announced. do you plunge bodily
overheard. head foremost will be ALONGSIDE IN boat
your rescue and then you afterwar have him. Inc
beautiful young lady highly approved and qua accord
ngy But after she plunged n nine out OF the ten more
or less beautfuyoung gentlemen plunged In AFTER her
loud aughter and the tenth remained and shed tears
loud langhter looking the side OF the vessel They
were all picked and restored dripping to the deck
The beautiful young lady npon seeing them s2d Wnat
nm 10 dOf See what "a sight they are IN. How can
possibly choose because every them isoquy wetP
Then said my friend tho captain acting upon sudden
laughter am sorry to cay that she did sc and they
lived happy ever afterward Now gentlemen, IN my my
friend the captains anecdote, and | entreat the
public in looking about to consider VINO no are NJ sun, sun
something in It, and not to award dry hand TO the
And would ask any with doubt upon this subject
consider what his experience OF the railway servant
from the time of his departure TO his arrival at his dest
nation. what mine is. Here he is, in velveteen
In pOlicemens dress scaling cabs stOrmng carlages,
finding lost articles by a OF instinct binding up lost
urnbrelas and walking sticks wheeling trucks, counsel
ing old ladies' with wonderful interest IN their Affairs
sorts Of articles look around-here he is in station
masters uniform directing and overseeing with the head
of general and with the courteous manners OF gentle
man. and then the handsome figure of the guard,
who inspires confidence in timd passengers glide out
of the station and there he again with his flags in his
hand at his post in the country at the level CROSSING
at the cutting at the nne mouth and ut every station
road until destination Is reached In regard
therefore, to the railway servants with whom we do come
in contact may surely have some natural sympathy,
and il is their behalf that this night appeal to you
The London ReriesC has had an ext ended notice
of Wak Whtman's works. Ii SAYS
%" careful pertsa OF these remarkable productions has
convinced that the vague impression we have now and
then encountered that Walt Whitman Is Kind OF learned
pig far from correct; cannot pretend TO name his
species exactly but Is certainly winged That there IL
these Is sunquestionable yeth dcuit 10
assign their author any place in literature unless indeed
may the veracty OF metenpsychosis, ana say
that here is Haz again, only drunk with Catawba wine
instead OF the Saoma and wOrshipng the Mississippi
River instead OF the Saiavat which having Nied up IN
Persia may be supposed to have westward
Nevertheless the 0rienasn OF the book Is unconscious
really meant to be, and is intensely American IL ~
lust however to that the America 1t celebrates II
related TO the world aud the distant
stars,
"He is far more chaste than Mr. Swinburne, whom he
resembles in many parcuars he s not more
than Shehey he is in some points more dramatic han
either and far less hurtful There is wild natural
exuberance Of animalism displayed by Whitman OF
thoroughly original kind. and openair Abandonment
weird and exalted rccepvity embracing the good and
the bad the vice and the virtue OF e with power ana
comprehensveness striking as 1t Is novel II he Will
but learn to tame little America will at last have
genuine American poet" .
Nevertheless. / hope Walt is untameable!