New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-05
November %, 1867.

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LOWE ON Notwithstanding ABOUT
HORACES.
From Our Own Correspondent
November %, 1867.
A black day for England! 1t is 10 o'clock in the
morning, and telegram from Manchester lies on my
desk:
Saw them de-all quiet"
From your correspondent who sent II. you will re-
ceve an account of the hanging | should like to be
excused from saying much aboutit. Disguise it how
you viii, this is a political execution. Allen, and
Larkn, and Gould have been hanged this morning in
order to crush political movement ] will not do
the Government the injustice of believing that they
hanged them in obedience TO the demand of mob,
although that mob comprised a great part of the
wealth, the rank. and even the culture of England.
The passions of men ordinarily above the dominion
of passion have led them to Join the cry. at once
cowardly and fierce for the killing of these Fenians.
The panic has been nfamed by the press.
Better than any other journal The Times knows how
10 cOndense column all that is base and brutal
the popular feeling of the GhOur. That is what II
has done in this The Government NAV be sup
posed TO have Judged in different way. The tradi-
tons of terrorism. OF violence, of ruling with the
strong hand are still rife in the Tory party. Wholly
above the influence of the mob they probably were
not, but they resolved 10 hang the Fenans as "a
measure of policy. They believe Fonanisnl can he
strangled the gallOws. Lord Derby indeed stopped
to insult the men he was going to hang by DESCENDING
tUelI dtldCk on lue ponce Na0 as udNldIull bHt-
rage He knows II was anything hut dastardly. but
his spirit is the same which leads the lltramontane
press of France to charge the Garibadi volunteers
with cOwaIdice In both cases there was heroic
courage, but both were defeated.
VIII not undertake 10 predict the result OF tins
Manchester hatchery. 50 far as Femalllsm Is con
cerned. But have fear IN predicting that the
day viii soon come when Engllshmeu VIII deplore
the unfamess of the trial and the vindictve eager
of the people for the execution. The refusal TO
allow the points of law for the prisoner to he argued
will stain forever the not too pure annals OF the In
glish Judiciary. II Is bad enough to put men 10
death for constructive homicide. Ii Is perhaps more
shameful 10 deny them the right OF appeal 20 the
Court which alone could say authontatiyGlY that
their Otense was even COnStructlycly homicide. $50
copy from an English journal which does not Ike
the negro, the following
During the bestowal of prizes on Wednesday 10
the successful competitors IN the ONtord Middle
Class Examinations, q negro advanced 10 receive
one. and the entire body OF spectators, obe\ng q
noble instinct. cheeTed.'
Would they have chcCrcd HIM al Yale or Harvard
l hope 80. but do not know. Let rs make haste 10
admit that there Is in England a generosity toward
color which IN America We have not attained. I'm
the Continent colOT-pIeJudlce IS even less common
than here; Is IN fact almost unknoWn. European
looks upon the degradation Of the negro III America
natural enough but he regards * the degrade
ton Of class not of race. IL man is Ignorant OF
OF a mean spirit, he is kept down OF course but 10 be
kept down because he is bldck-that n what Europe
does not understand
Mr.. Clarke las kept the Widow Hunt on the 81.
James stage for more than a month, drawing house,
which rather more than pay expenses. Tins IN itself
his bill the School of Reform and as Robert Iykc has
given better notion of his talent than a De Boots.
The Times says the part IS performed M very @Dit
manner, and prOuOunCcs Nj. Clarke mpuestiuuablA
an acquisition 20 the London stage. Ihc I'dN Hd"
considers him good a representative OF the part as
can be found in London. Both these Journals re-
ceived MI Clarke on his first appearance with great
cOldness. not to say hostility. specimen OF critical
contradiction in what would seem To be pam
matter of TACT is worth noticing. One journal say
that Nh. Clarke made 40 effort to render ihf l3lk
shire dialect Of the character another remarks mat
there is n want Of yg0r IN ms grasp of H. Whiic %
third considers that lac has fairly mastered ts dln
Guilty ,
Considerable interest has been excited IN musical
circles by the first appearance IN pu6lc 81 MISS AMY
COyne. the Youngest daughter of the veteran PLAY
wright. Sterling COyne, esq At very early age inns
lady. il IS said indicated singular ablllty "a. pianist
and her performance at scmi-puyaie matinee ~ the
Beethoven Rooms, two years ago, before number oil
artists and friends. induced her friends 10 Sehd gI q
Germany. where she has since been the PuPil oi
Heller Her INST publlc appearance was ~ uic Nl9H-
tai Palace on the occasion Of grand saturday CON
cert and must be pronounced an undoubted success.
The pieces performed were q RundO-C aprcclOs0, by
Mcndelssohu; q NOctImc. in j minor, by Chopin, ana
a BOuuee IN minor. by ). :. Bach. IL was cel-
tainly striking 10 see tins young glr seemingly uh-
aware OF the presence of any immense audlenct-th,
urcly absorbed III the piece she ieh9eicu-anIi
embarrassed only when the Ioud ana Henci'l
each piece. The characteristics ot MISS
COynes play great scnslblbty ana great power
She has the tender touches oil w0manly ana the
nerve of manly performer; ana her Interpretations
are ntirely truthful mindful of the composer S
Thought rather than Of how applause may be- won.
So writes "A competent cIluc.
Considering the amount Of talk and letters written
about Abyssna. there have been fewer books about
! that country than might have been expected Mr..
| John Camden Hotten, who has the advantage OF
being a member of the chronological Society rs well
as publisher has edited one of the best. IL Is cnt-
tied. " Abyssinia OF, Life in the Land OF lrcster
! John" and contains a good map lorginalj and some
cOlOred illustrations. " Just now, SAID one Journal
lately we know very little of Abyssina, and there
| fore dull book, provided IL contains tTlstworihN
I fltt.f rom
eaperness0 The book before me rs not dulI, winnie
! it does not aspire to he brilliant or graphic Its merit
| is that il begins with the earliest explorers and
comes % the latest, sitting and preserving What Is
/ material OF interesting in Their accounts, and
though Of course made 10 fill the demand OF mo
! ment--seems to have had honest work put on II.
Mr. Lowe has printed, IN pamphlet, his immense
" clever speech at Edinburgh on Primary and CLASH
cal Education j call IL immensely clever and II s,
but il is also speech on very low plane rJectlng'
or at least belittng, all views Of Education which
are not included in the modern utilitallan school
speech in the vein of Macaulays vulgar article on
Bacon of which Emerson Justly SAID that II dealt
with the nductiye philosophy as having no greater
aim than the making of better Wine-whey. Lowe is
peryert TO Plilistnism, ana az such hkeiy to De
dealt with by the mcTclless foe OF Pistlnis III In
gland Mr.. Matthew Arnold. IL is difficult not to be
eve that the tone of this speech Is not detcrOrated
by the Reform bill. Mr. Lowe cQniesses that one part
OF his views educaton-the duties of the state III
respect tOlts cltlZeDs-Was changed by that Dill Con
sc0usy OF uncOnscOusly, his views upon the funda-
| mental principles as well as upon the machinery OF
instruction may have been transformed by the same
! cause
Your literary correspondent, into whose pastures
do not often presume 10 stray, has a comment on
YonQes Horace which requires word OF criticism.
OF course II is not true that the text OF tins edition
s the first based not upon n single Ms, but derived
from n careful comparison of allChe general text of
0relli being followed The latter halt of the sen
! fence cOntTadcts the first. The editions based not
! mon a single MS are almost nnumerable-indeed,
mo edition has been published since the Aldine of
I5gl that could be said 20 be based upon single Ms.
Nor ON the other hand. is there any text which was
! :" derived from a careful comparison of al" Ms.