After a sojourn of some weeks in New York and Philadelphia Lord Morpeth came to Baltimore, and here he takes occasion to entertain the Leed's Mechanics' Institution with his views on the subject of slavery, suggest Of course his lordship is a zealous Anti-Slavery man, and, by reason of his prepossessions on the subject, he tells his hearers "I made it a point to pay special respect to the leading abolitionists-those who had labored or suffered in the cause-when I came within reach of them." who had preceded him, for forming just opinions of our oyster was peculiar to Broadway, but with reference to character as a people-he had been educated a gentle- | Florence and Downing, we can certainly endorse the Earl man. No low or vulgar prejudices might be expected to of Carlisle's opinion. warp his judgment. The heir of a proud title and a princely fortune, his life had not been frivolously spent in Pall Mall, nor had he fallen into the excesses which too generally debase the intellects of the younger members of the British nobility. The figure he had made in Parlia-ed by the fact that Baltimore is in a slave-holding State. ment was more than respectable, it had led us to regard him as one of the most rising statesmen of the Kingdom. If any man, therefore, could with reason be relied upon to take large views of the great and growing empire he had come to visit, it was Lord Morpeth. Our expectations, in this respect, have been dashed to the ground. Of course, we have no right to look for, in this essay, such reflections as might have been embodied in a work in three volumes octavo, but we are at no loss, nevertheless, to gather from it that the author has altogether misconceived us, and gone back contented with an insight into the genius and temper of our fellow-citizens as partial as that "limited "There were some who told me that they made it a buview of society through a key-hole" in which the Mar-siness of their lives to superintend the passage of the chioness, according to Mr. Swiveller, was wont to indulge. runaway slaves through the Free States; they reckoned, at that time, that about one thousand yearly escaped into It may be, perhaps, the best place here for us to say Canada." that nowhere throughout the Lecture does Lord Morpeth for one moment lose his temper, or cease to write like the gentleman that he is. It gratifies us also to add that his style is quite pure and affluent, though never brilliant, and that he has therefore spared us the "inexpiable wrong" of making us read very superficial observations in very bad English. We own that we are not a little surprised to find, on the next page, that this "special respect" was paid notwithstanding the information communicated by these gentlemen that they were regularly engaged in negro-stealing. Observe. On the rail road, en route, an incident occurred of a very affecting character which gives the author an opportunity to become very crushing in his comments: "On the way thither," says he, "I heard a conductor This was my first intimation that I had crossed the borsay to a negro,' I cannot let you go, for you are a SLAVE.' der which divides Freedom from Slavery. I quote from the entry which I made upon noting these words that evening-Declaration of Independence which I read yesterday-pillar of Washington which I have looked on to-day-what are ye?'" The first portion of American soil which greeted Lord Morpeth's view was the goodly and godly city of Boston. His remarks upon this modern Athens are likely to be read by the modern Athenians (whom John Randolph declared it had never been his good fortune to see,) with the We wonder the original draft of the Declaration in the liveliest satisfaction. Boston he found more like an Eng-National Institute did not consume away and the pillar lish town than any he saw during his visit to the United of Washington crumble into dust, at this dreadful invocaStates and an English town being regarded as unity tion. What might Lord Morpeth think of a man who, be(in point of all social and moral excellence,) of course the cause he had seen children brutally whipped in the colle. nearest approach to it was the best and most worthy of ries at Newcastle, or the factories at Manchester, should honorable mention. From Boston he went to Niagara cry out, "Oh, Magna Carta, oh, boasted Reform Bill, What humbugs on paper do ye represent ?" which he saw in the month of October, when the gorgeous suffusion of autumnal tints over the neighbourhood forests enhanced the mere beauty of that wonderful scene, and he describes the effect produced upon his mind with much felicity. It is worthy of remark, however, that he speaks of being disappointed in the American forest trees, and thinks them hardly comparable to the trees at Castle Howard for the reason, certainly a novel one, that they grow too high! After leaving Baltimore we find the anti-slavery preju dice tinging the whole of Lord Morpeth's reflections. He nevertheless, for an instant digresses from his philanthropic regard for the blacks to dwell upon another and a more pleasant theme. In Baltimore he says: "Good living seemed to me carried to its greatest height: toise, and the canvas-back duck, a most unrivalled bird in they have in perfection the terrapin, a kind of land torany country." Returning from Niagara in the direction of New York, At Richmond, we are sorry to say Lord Morpeth saw we regret to say that he saw no such grandeur in the sce-nothing, either in the way of character or of cuisine, that nery of the Hudson as was to be observed in Scotland. was worth mentioning. The country through which he Arrived in the Empire City he took up his winter quar-passed "wore an universal impress of exhaustion, deserters at the Astor House where he met with good fare tion, slavery." The legislature of Virginia, however, is which he seems to have duly appreciated. And we may honored with a passing reference, not of the most comallude to it as an evidence of agreeable versatility, that plimentary kind. "It was full of coarse-looking farmers Lord Morpeth often dismisses the consideration of grave from the western portion of the State; it struck me that affairs to discuss a new dish which his palate has appro- the acute town lawyers must manage matters much as ved, and flies from public schools to scolloped oysters with they choose." a grace that becomes him. Alluding to the oyster-cellars of New York, he says— We might go on to glance at Lord Morpeth in other portions of the Southern States and to quote from him "In no part of the world have I ever seen places of re-what he has to say of us that is favorable. This, to be freshment as attractive-every one seems to eat oysters all day long." We recollect a curious connection established by Sam Weller between oyster cellars and extreme poverty, in the suburbs of London. 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