, 1877-11-11

:. anything, and who WIS an ordinary man e
said that Mr.. aud Mrs. John Austin-who ha
Just returned from Malta, where mr. Austj
: went to reform tue law,-would probably ccas
9 to DC reformcrs, having experienced the nrarti
T! sAl ditcult!es OF reform, and would retire dis
heartcned from the cause. In malinr th;s -
mark marx, he obviously intended to allule 10 SUP
pu Nv "ana na,t oi perseverance and resolution
. ner aI Lansdowne house, he said, wa!
) | great cure for radicalisrn. lie tl,ough
J Ballantsne fmd refutcd Lockhart, and tLa
roe .atteT as @ me aS Scott would suffer it
point. The Illness OF Lord Derby. Of which W. VT
received thu cintclllsence todag, aud bis expccted
death, he characterized as great news. fors
@ sa'a t,,, ne, NED @ Stanley goes 10 the Lords' Il
expressing himself always with force, correct,
ness, and facility unriraled; but, / mnst say
with manner not only far from refined. butp
even even vuigar; He had no gentlcncss or suavity;
t.E nelntI o,a he snow anY OF the delicate attcn-
tons Of tue past. He professed IN interest in
America, but did not seem to care to speak
about it. Hcsaid that he. should certainly visit
us, tor, with the present facilities Of inter
course, u were shame in an Enslishman to be
ignorant Of the practical working OF our instlt1-
lions y am republican, said he, .or rather
l am Tor intrustins. the people the largest nos
style degree Of poweF.' doubt it he knows much
a,'out our ni1airs M or our public men. When
h,entloneo We9steF's name, he said, Yes,
anu Ciay's did not seem to call up any partic,,-
! lar ldea. lie did not speak Of the law, though
whch !! saw hl.n at his house iu Bclgrave square,
ne haa sald, Tome and see me- and we will
| LAX ABOUT c0diEcatiun und the law,-though
! ! NH never opened mi. mouth to him
| ABOUT cltneT. -. think that e is about
throwing himself again among tic people, and
accepting tlcir leadership. He spoke to me i,l
Tue 5 most disparagns terms OF the aristocracy;
tut shall be afraid that he will not speak SO
! much tor TRUTHS sake as to promote his own
| tame anu power, or to crafty personal pique
Ientalnty, in the society in wl,icil have moved,
have heart but one opinion expressed with re-
| gard to the dishonesty aud matevoience which
have characterized his late conduct aud his sDitc
coward Lord Durham is represented as diabo1-
lcal. Last winter it was supposed Tor awhile
that an Invention had been found out which
YOU'D Supsrscue the use Of coal, upon which
Lofu Durhatl's fInHuuse income depends.
brougham is said to haYe gone about telling Of
IT, and rubbing uis hands, saving: 'Old Dur
nam IS q tcggar! Old Durham, is beggar!'
rerhap5 all these idiosytlcrasles may be better
It Is Known, as it is not generally in England
that Brougham's father died insane, and that
ile has d sister who is SO still. am disposed
70 believe that there is in him nervousness and
immense activity which is near akin to insanity,
ond which ut present jansles the otherwise
even measures OF his character.n
1h15 is the most favorable explanation of
Hrougham,s conduct, which Maca,llay aud liar
ret Martlneau have denounced in much
stronger terms than the amiable and moderate
young american felt at liberty to use.
Miss Martineau, in writing to Mrs Chapman
after Summers death in 1874, said that, 'tAiy
mother NJ, and had the pleasure Of introducing
SireS soe;rte sumner 4hat into some Of tue hest
especially Lord Carlisle. SUI Sumner reaeheG nae,,ei
London June |, 1885, and within a month (ap-
parcntly without seeing Miss Mart!ucau at al) !
ha1 been admitted to the "Garrick," the
breaklasted with Lord Denman, dned with Lord |
lansuo,ync, and attended a great ball at Lord /
titzwilliams'. Lord Lansdownc had sent him |
ticket to Queen Victora's coronation, he had
and had metH,osr OF the prominent liternrv men,
Including Landor, Macauiay, Talfourd, Hallam,
Allman, and Carlyle. He was, indeed, over
whclmcd with attentions and had to decline half
;Morpeth, aud instead Of being g yiccrpy OF Ire
LIANT" as Miss Martneau calls him, and as he was
at a later period, was Chief Secretary for Ireland
Sumner met him in London early in the sum-
mer OF 1883. and was his guest in Dublin
acr introduced Daniel Webster to Lord Nor
}Gth who wrote to Sumner at Vienna that he was |
mitch struck with Wcbstcr,-'t there SEEMS to ]
y colossal p1acdty about him" Webster at
hat time spoke TO Lord Morpcth "with great
aspect OF Sumner" but was every reserved and
solemn" In January, 1S39, Sumner wrote from
london:
"Rogers says the most ill-natured things, and
Toes the best He came up to me ut Miss Mar
1ncau's, where there was 4 little party Of very !
lever people, and said: MIR. Summer. it is 4
,reat piece OF bcnevoeucc in you to come hcre.' I
Determined not to DC drawn into q slur upon
ny most, replied: Yes, Mr.. Rogers, Of ben
VIOLENCE to myself As We were couling away,
logrrs B;,b5agc, Horne, and myself we're walk
ng together down the narrow Street in which I
lss slartinean lives, when the poet said: :
Who but the Alnrtineau could have drawn us d
lto such holc?' Aud yet doubt not he has 9
sincere liking for Miss NJ; for have met her '
18th the greatest kindness. . Brougllan S
bused Hiss Martiucau most heartily lat din b
cr ut Be1endcn kcrr's, January, 1885, Hc .
fought that She excclIcd i'll stories and in d
othinE else; and that she Was u great ass q
'r pronouncing SO dognatically on questions {
policy and Government" n
Lord Durham, with whom Sumner dined, B
ons with Charles Butler, told him that hc had
ever seen lockhart, but from all he had heard
Sir Walter SCOTS sou-in-law, 'thc thought
Ill one Of the greatest blackguartis III En- | Z
and" Butler told Sumner that Calhoun was =,
&c most striking public min he had met whcn -
sitting America, -"rcmurkable for his case, se
implicitly, and the readiness with which he un- G.
ldcd himself" Van Buren,, said Buller, had | n
C handsomest shoes and stockings ever saw.1' n,
>rd Jeffrey told Summer that George Cabot, =,
1ofn he saw III Boston in lSl4, '' was shrcwd, J"
werfut man," and SO was John Lowell. nc
grc> that Jeffrey 4 thought it his duty, in is
to say something III behalf Of | Or
en-" Jeffrey. thought 7. 6: Otis .qutc a pr
pcrtical man, - md mentioned another Bos- | an
n person, s'with very handsome wife, who, | VI
would venture to say, was quite fool" IT re
ppllcd the name at once, and his lorushfp | tic
:ognized it," says Sumner to Hillard. Happy pa
. town whose fools are soeasiiy distinguished DC
8, 600 miles distance! au
4 I observed to Lord Jeffrey that thought i,
r}yle {iu 1881 had changed his style very tn
lch since he wrote the article on Burns: arl
ot ut ALL he said; Il will tell you why this til
lifercnt from his other articles; altered It, crs
riytc was quite ycxcd at this interference. CO.
Carlyle lives in great retireueut-1 in
1885 London aud its mighty r1i,
20 Of society are nothing; neither tie | ne
his writings are known. Carlyle said the Mi
angcst thing in the history OF literature was Iay
recent recciot OF ESQ from America, on az
mt Of his sFrench Kcyoution,' whicl had bu
er Yielded li,u 4 farth;ng in Europe. and | wi,
badly never would. II went to Uamp- ri,
nd to lunch with Joanna Bnillic. 1 | I'll
ce her next after Lord Broucham's bu1
tt1cr. She IS Is, neat, tidy, de- I'll
ltlul In her personal appearance: and in pes
vcrsation simple, interesting, and agreeable. Wh
affected me III the same way as did Words gas
til. thought that Prouideace Should haze to
tyht them together as man aud .oife. Was 1t yar
strange thAt should be put to inquire at pay
ozcn doors in that village to know where s.b
S Baiilfe lived? In my yexation told one | stri
son, who lived within stones throw oi der
It afterwards found to he the simple roof ! ueu
no hat had M krDw fhn rrSf- | oh