The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-10


denunciation. Indeed, it is doubtful if any orator
ever possessed the power or vituperatve eloquence
connned within parliamentary bounds, yet bitter
and singing witha, that he did.
After the dismissal OF the whig ministry I'm 1878
Lord Brougham appears to have ceased his connec-
ton with the wing party but he did not ally himself
with their opponents. He took rather an active and
independent position in the House OF Lords and was
found at times defending or attacking wings and
remained steadfast to the cause OF the people
and his zeal for public education, the repeal
sackened. He, however, opposed the popular aeita-
ton then rife In England and denounced the Anti.
Corn Law League as revolutionary and unconstitu:
tional During the troubles In Hyde Park he went
among the rioters unattended, recommended modera
ton and urged them to dispense quietly and return
an effect upon the mob that the vast crowd ceased
its riotous proceedings and dispersed
Lord Brougham never held an ONCE under the gov
eminent after the dismissal OF the wing Ministry,
although he was certainly one OF the most active
and energetic OF statesmen. writer referrlng 70
that This power OF labor and OF production In all the
various departments OF knowledge ana &C.
ton In 1 which he has been engaged hay. have
speak longer, louder, more energetically and
more vigorously than any man OF his time. AS q
working politician, member OF Parliament and lawyer
he could do more work than three other men put
together. He has been known to go without sleep
Tor several nights and to possess the happy faculty
OF choosing the lifting time to sleep without check
for as many consecutive hours were SUFFICIENT to
restore his strength. AS Judge in the Court OF
wore out the best trained and most drudge-ke prac-
titioners before him. His faculty for composition
politics and science on which he has not written.
Again he took q prominent part in the movement
~ M he as Se me-
the Society for the Diffusion OF Useful knowledge,
composed several treatises for the series Of works
published by the society," rs well as articles in the
Penny Magazine and Penny CVclOpBdid. He edited
and expanded Paley's "Natura Theology" has pub
shed "The Lives OF the Statesmen of the Reign of
George Ill.," three or four volumes on political phi
and In the Senate"
In 1889 Lord Brougham purchased the beautiful
villa Louise EleonOre, situated on an estate
in the South Of France, near Cannes, and overlook
ing the Mediterranean. Here In later years he spent
the greater part of his time The climate being mild
and saubrOus suited his constitution, enfeebed by
the weight OF advancing years. He greatly admired
the French people, and during the revolution Of 1913
applied to the provisional government to furnish
him with instructions for becoming French citizen.
The reply being that he could only become one
upon resigning his English peerage he abandoned
the idea. While in England his London residence
was No. Grafton street, his estate being Brougham
Hall, Penrith, Westmoreland. For many years past
he has only occasionally appeared before the public,
almost the last time being on the occasion OF his in
sallatiOn as Chancellor of the University of Edin-
burg in 1850. During our recent rebellion he was an
interested and attentive observer of the conflict His
lifelong enmity to negro slavery naturally led him to
sympathze with the Union cause, and the final sue
cess OF the Union arms and abolition OF slavery must
have given him much pleasure He was seadfastly
were wicked and fruitless and always retarded CIV
ilizaton. soon after his last public appearance at
the Manchester Congress last year he wrote the fol-
lowing letter In French to NJ Berger, OF France:-
CANNES, Decem er %;
Of he which Delivered
. and as was IN my MI year almost
public thought incumbent on me to express my
%s aS s y 5
that his neEew Napoleon III has great merit for his de-
~ my Tor s
was S y 4s By s applause III
A few weeks before his death Lord Brougham's
memory became weak and frequently failed him. He
1t was but natural that his end should approach.
But few men who lived as long as he did have re-
tanned their faculties so long and so WELL Naturally
of strong constitution, he fought death for years,
and appears to have yielded only when the last
power OF resistance was gone.
In personal appearance Lord BrOugham was very
singular and ungracous. He was tall, thin man,
with pale, inexpensive face. But the most re-
has been happily described as "a marvel-pro-
tuberant aggressive nquirlng and defiant; I'M
lovely, but intellectual This feature was most I'M
Incredibly caricatured by Punch, and on one occa-
sion he was so exasperated at the cartoon that he
introduced the subject into the House OF Lords as
breach of privilege. Lord BrOugham married the
eldest daughter OF Thomas Eden Of Wimbledon in
| 1s19 The issue Of this marriage was one daughter,
who died before she had attained her seventeenth
year. Lady Brougham died many years ago.
II Is difficult, in brief newspaper article, to re-
count all the history of the deceased Lord No man
| of his age was ever prominent actor In so many
| historical scenes as he was. Commencing as an
| advocate In slender circumstances he fought
| his way up TO peerage by means OF his
gigantic intellect alone. That he never became
Prime Minister Of Great Britain may seem singular,
but IL can easily be accounted for. Lord Brougham
| was too aggressive a genius for an Office that
quires much political craft and management. lie
ever ignored policy and always openly expressed his
sentiments whether they pleased his party colleagues or
offended them. His reputation as statesman must
upon the great measures OF reform and for
the ameliOratiOn of the people that he introduced or
aided to carry through than upon any act in the eX-
ercise OF government performed by him. II Is true
that these things Of themselves sufficiently great
for him is undeniable. But it must be evident to
all that the greater part Of his fame rests upon his
immense power as an orator, as eXamplihed In his
defence OF Queen Caroline and his reform speech,
and upon his great abilities as barrister. These,
addict to the prescience which could look into the
future and see that the day would come when the
people would be the positive rulers Of his country
are the great monuments to Lord Br0ugham's fame.
Before he died he saw another and more sweeping
reform measure adopted quietly and almost without
opposition by tory government, led too, by man
who like him, had won his position by merit and
hard work. and not by the accident OF birth or for
tune.
Although in the world Of politics and Of letters,
Lord BrOugham has for many years been
silent and scarcely Needed his death will be sincere
ly regretted throughout She world wherever genius
left name behind which can never die, but must
live forever to teach to coming generations the les.
son of how genius unaded by birth or fortune climbed
from the lowest step of the ladder to the topmost
one never falling once, but ever onward.
AN ALLEGED swINOlEB