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From the Savannah Courier. Letter from Abroad* Rome, Dec. 26,1852. Teeterda? being Christmas I had the pleasure •f seeing die Pope. I had seen him many times before, but never in important functions. He is a good-natured, pleasant looking man and repu ted to be so among the people by whom he is much loved. The liberality of the government fa 1848 is credited to him ; its returning despot ism to the influence of others who overruled him. It may be doubted if he have the wisdom, decis ion and nerve necessary to a good ruler. His goodness, love and sympathy with all men make him unsafe and imprudent. All say that, did it depend upon him, the people would have every thing they desire. He is thought to have very little to do with the present government. The Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State, a pale, •ilent, thoughtful man is the ruling spirit. The Pope apparently fifty years of age, about five feet nine inches high, of full habit and round fat face. If it have an v expression it is that of extreme good nature and simpleness of heart.— Worldly cares are doubtless irksome to him. He is precisely what you would expect a good | man to be who, as priest, bishop and cardinal, had spent his life in close retirement in the little town of Sinigaglia. His election was so unani mouee that, considering each vote in the holy Conclave was giving without the knowledge of the other, it is quite miraculous. The Pope was oeither rich nor of high birth and, a plain, simple man, makes no claim to aristocratic pretensions, flis family relatives and early friends and neigh bora, however, ara said to be ambitious and con tinually pressing him to do something to put them on an equality with those of other Pope’s. Though kind, he is said to be quite unwilling to indulge them in a course of fashionable folly and profligacy. He has, however, done much for his native town in encoraging shools and Mtablishing a college. The lommon Popal dress is a white flannel gown, with sieves of the same material, not un like a morning-wrapper, and fastened around the waist with a wollen cord. The stockings are of coarse wollen also, white and well knit. The shoes are of good thick leather fastened with a buckle and marked with the sign of the Cross. His head is shaved in token of prest hood. A small skull cap covers the part shav ed. St. Peter’s ring is on his finger and the keys of heaven and hell hang from his side.— The whole wardrobe of his holiness would not ®ost fife dollars. This is his common daily dress when receiving visitors and meeting the Conclave in his Cabinet. He drives out each afternoon, escorted by outriders and a troop of horse. The Cardinal Antonelli is generally with him, also his private Chaplain and Secreta ry. All poople seeing or hearing the Papal eortege coming, kneel and with bare heads bow 1 6 the earth till it is past. The Pope blesses the erowd on one side with two fingers; the Cardi nal Antonelli salutes those on the other with a gracious bow. His Holiness is very fond of the oountry. I suppose when a few miles out he descends from the carriage and picks flowers tnd does like other men. He is said to be a good botanist. The proper state dress of the Pope is very gostly. The triple crown is the richest known. It is in shape like a cone and has three circles of precious stones, set in a ground of white silk.—- In the entire one is very costly ruby, though not so large as that in Queen Victoria’s; in the up per circle a precious amethyst. The robe is of white silk very richly embroided and flowing gracefully to the ground. The train is carried by two or four priests, sometimes by Cardinals. Sis slippers are of white silk, richly worked aad marked with the sign of the Cross. From the N. Y. Evening Post. The Art ol Social Intercourse. Oar author lays down, as a general principle, to “avoid the appearance of form.” The tone of modern society is easy and unceremonious. Never undertake to go through with a bit of fine manners when the intention is transparent one should be natural, acting always as if one could not have done otherwise. Perhaps the great secret of a good manner is to forget your self. Conspicuous people must find it hard to •void awwkardness. One formality is practised in this favored land to a fearful extent. The further south you go, the worse it is. We mean that of introducing. Smith of Mississippi, meets his friend Brown of Alabama,walking with Jones of Tennessee. Brown instantly cries, “Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones of Tennessee!” They ad vance, shake hands, fall back and touch their beavers. Come, gentlemen, let’s take a drink! What shall it be ? All drink. Jones then sees Thompson approaching—Mr. Smith, Mr.Thomp son, of Texas—more shaking of hands, more tWching of beavers, more drinking, and so on through the entire thirty States. A traveller ftnee told me that he had undergone fourteen in troductions and fourteen invitations to “liquor” in one evening at a club in a southern city- At the north, he gets off by the shake of the hand— another odious custom. The hand should never be given except to a friend or a pretty woman. “The true rule is never to introduce unless there is an express reason for making two people ac quainted.” We must add, on our own authority, that present is the proper word for this kind of aequaintance-making. The MS. is discursive on the subject of con jugal relations. We will quote an extract or t*o: <# A bachelor is a person who enjoys every thing and who pays for nothing. Nevertheless, most men marry, at least in this country. Being married, they should never trouble the enjoy ment of the bachelor by fondling their wives in his presence, or bestowing any manner of pub lic tenderness upon them. There is nothing in worse taste. The bystanders are sure to be either envious or unhappy, for it is a bitter thing, as Shakspeare tells us, to look at happiness through another man’s eyes; or they think the sentiment misplaced, and are disgusted. Every Benedict should economize the exuberance of his affection, and keep it to sweeten tete-a-tetes. He will want it before he gets to the end.” And we add our directions to the •‘afflicted,’’ •ever to talk about Mrs. in public, nor about any other near relative. It is a secondary form of egotism, and equally repulsive. *Th system of making a parade or proces* sion of a marriage; going to Philadelphia in a white bonnet, wearing orange flowers and bridal lace to balls after the wedding, is unmercifully quizzed by French people. I think with great justice. It is very well for John when he mar ries Susan, to take her to Jersey City and back, for a “pleasure ride,” as the Westerners call it, to sit with her hand in his all the way over and back again, but gentlemen ought to know better and stay at home, “But the way, too, my countrymen, when you send out your wedding cards, do not put your name and hers in the left hand corner of the paste board—as if you had entered into a com mercial arrangement, and wish to give the names of the firm. “If a man has to convey his wife and mother in-law, (poor fellows!) thereby making what is called in Massachuseetss, a Lynn couple, “two , gals and a feller,” let him beware of offering an arm to each, and walking sandwitch between them. An offence against appearance which could not be tolerated, even in a serious male, accompanying two strong minded sisters from an anniversary meeting at the Tabernacle. “The French have a happy phrase for this me thod ; they call it going en panler. The allusion is to the ass between his two loaded baskets.” © )t ©roes xmb Bmimd 1 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB 26, 1853. TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel. Mobile, Feb. 26, 4 o’clock, P. M. New Orleans Market.— Sales yesterday 14,000 bales; market closing firm. The demand to-day has been limit ed. Sales up to 1, P. M. amount to 1000 bales. We quote Middling at 9c. Mobile. —Mr. Sands, post office clerk, who was prose cuted by the government on a charge of embezzlement, was released this morning, and O. S. Bears, Postmaster, has been arrested; examination takes place on the 14th March. Cotton Market. —The enquiry has been light— 2000 bales sold at prices a little easier. The Southern School Journal. The second number of this inestimable Journal is on our table. We use a strong adjective, for no other will convey our meaning. In a Republican Govern ment, the education of the people is a matter of indis pensable necessity. The people, whether educated or uneducated, moral or immoral, pious or wicked, are the depositaries of all power. Our lives, our liberties, our property, are iu their keeping. They pass upon them at the ballot box ; they give them or take them in the jury box. Go where you will and you are in the hands of the people. They press upon you in all the avenues of life—in trade, in business, in social intercourse, in the court room, in the legislative hall, they give “form and pressure” to all the issues of life. Our families, our school houses, our churches, cannot be elevated above the reach of the people. They constitute public opinion, of which we may well say the highest is not too exalted to brave its power, nor the lowest too abject to escape its notice. It envelopes us like the circumam bient air. A debased people ! how terrible in anger ; how mean in calamity; how grovelling in lusts , how abject in purpose ! To-day they will parade the head of a monarch on a pike ; to-morrow they will kiss the foot of a victorious despot; to-day—but read the history of the reign of terror in France, and learn to dread a debased people. It is the fashion in this country to attribute all vir tue, all wisdom, all purity, to the people ; and none are more ready to do so than the heartless demagogue who makes no pretension to either. Os course there are many good and many wise men in the U. States ; but it is a lamentable truth, that there are a great many bad and silly people between the two oceans. Indeed, there is an amount of ignorance at the South which is alarming. In our own State of Georgia, containing in her borders 408,694 white inhabitants, there are about 50,000 who can neither read nor write; and only 24,- 061 pupils in all the schools and colleges in the State or something less than 1-7 of the children between 5 and 20 years of age. This is ample guaranty that the race of uneducated and ignorant people will not decrease iu the State unless she put her shoulder to the wheel of public education and propel it to a successful issue with the indomitable purpose which sent the steam en gine from the seaboard to the mountains. Let us compare the condition of Georgia with that of Massachusetts and New York. The amount expended by the State of Georgia per annum, for the education of the people, is $23,096. The amount expended by the State of New York per an nam, for the same purpose, is $1,681,316. In Geor gia, there are only 1-7 of the children between 5 and 20 years of age who are receiving the benefits of an education. In New York 1-4 of the entire popula tion are receiving the education that is to fit them to perform their duties as eitizens of the Republic. And in Massachusetts, it was the boast of Gov. Clifford, in his last message, that there was “no child of the two hundred thousand living within her borders who mav not, and there are few who do not, receive in the com mon schools of the State, the rudiments of a common education at the public charge.” It is thus apparent that Georgia is literally doing nothing for the education of her children, worthy of her high character, and that her present system is utterly inadequate for the wants of her people. What shall or can be done ? This is the great and important question which the Southern School Journal proposes to answer. We must know what our wants are; what are the defects of our system ; what other States have done in the cause ; and what success has crowned their efforts. On all these important points we have found very valuable information in the two numbers of the Journal which have been issued ; and look with confidence to the subsequent numbers for a full and complete developement of the whole matter. We verily believe that the success of the efforts now being made for the education of the people of Georgia, is involved in the circulation of the School Journal. It is, therefore, the duty of every patriot, of every Chris tian, of every business man in Georgia, to become an active agent in the circulation of the work. It is published in Columbus, Ga., and is edited by the Rev. Tiros. F. Scott, to whom all communications must be addressed. Price, $1 per annum. Jethro Cotton. Twenty-two bales of Jethro Cotton, from the planta tion of Wilds Robb, Esq., of Morgan county, were sold in the Augusta market, on the 21st Feb., for 16 oents per lb. Peculiarities of Northern Society. We notice that Miss Antoinette Brown has been stumping the State of New York in favor of the Li quor Law. Singularly strange must be the state of society which cau tolerate so wide a departure from the laws of na ture and of manners as is implied in a woman’s becom ing a stump speaker. We will suppose that Miss Antoinette is a blooming virgin, with dimpled chin and cheek, and on the sunny side of twenty whoso ; smiles and tears can win admiration or elicit sympathy ; whose beautiful tresses are adorned with flowers, and whose voice trills with melody as her ivory fingers trip over the keys of her piano. What a pity that such a crea ture should desert the hearthstone and all the quiet joys of home, where her affections would bless father and mother end her kindly care guide the tender hearts of the little ones to purity and love ; and fling away the modesty which is the chiefest ornament and the maidenly reserve which is its greatest attraction of her sex; and burning with rage, contend with bearded men before a rude populace, which can but laugh at her folly, insult her helplessness, and rob her of her fair fame and gentle virtues by their rude jests and brutal sarcasms ! And what cau she hope to ac complish by her eloquence ? “A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming and bereft of beauty.” True, crowds will assemble to witness her performance, not, however, to be instructed by her logic, or persuaded by her eloquence, but to laugh at her im pertinences and mock at her failures. The just and good who truly reverence woman can but hang their heads and weep, that there should be an end of all per fection. There certainly is a class of women at the North, who are stark mad- Not content to wear the hat and pantaloons which belong to the male sex by immemorial usage, they have seized upon the scalpel of the physician, and the stump of the demagogue ; and we presume they will not be satisfied until they clothe themselves in the ermine of the judge and the robes of the Senator, and their husbands put on the flowing skirts and rock the baby’s cradle. Thank God ! our Southern woman is content to occu py the place assigned her by nature, as the presiding genius of home and the Queen of hearts. God bless every one of them, and give them hus bands, fathers, brothers and children, worthy of their love and heritous of their virtues ’ As long as the Bi ble is read and respected among us, we may have no fear of this most loathsome of all fanaticism. Stir among the Mechanics. The City Council of New Orleans, some time since, imposed a corporation tax of $lO upon the mechanics of various kinds residing in the eity. On the night of the 21st instant, a meeting was held in the Arcade to organize opposition to the measure— such a meeting as was never seen before in the Cres cent City. * The resolutions adopted pronounce the tax unjust, unequal, oppressive and in violation of the true princi ples upon which taxation should be based—unjust, be cause it taxes labor—unequal, because it confounds the poorest workman with the richest manufacturers —op- pressive, because it takes from the poor man a portion of the pittance he has earned, and which is barely suffi cient for his support. The resolutions further assert that in all civilized States of the present enlightened age, the taxation of the labor of the artisan who has no capital has been abolished! We confess that these are novel, strange and unre publican doctrines to us. The fundamental principle of freedom, and upon which our fathers founded this fair Temple in which we live, is, that taxation and represen tation are correlative rights. The man who votes must pay his taxes, is as sound an axiom as that the man who is taxed shall vote- “Unjust because it taxes labor!” and is not all property the result of labor and’ its repre sentative ? How are fortunes made but by brain-sweat or body-sweat ? How can you tax any one without taking from him a portion of his earnings ? The doc trine of the resolutions of the mechanics of New Orleans are agrarian, if not Fourieritish. Once assert the principle that a man must be taxed because he is rich, and must not be taxed because he is poor, and you destroy the bulwarks of property and place the hard earnings “of every honest industrious citizen in the hands of the dishonest and lazy vagabonds who would do nothing but vote if thereby they could transfer their neighbors’ money into their own pockets. We will not deny that the tax may be too high. We cannot say whether this is the case or not in reference to New Orleans. Such a tax is now levied, on a dif ferent principle however, upon the mechanics of Geor gia, and like good citizens they have cheerfully borne the burthen the State has imposed. A man who will shrink from his share of taxation, will surely love his own pitiful self too well to bear the brunt of battle if he is ever summoned to the field. The right to pay taxes is part of our heritage of freedom. It was won at Bun ker Hill and Yorktown. We would as soon refuse to ■upport our father or mother as to refuse to pay our taxes. It gives a man consequence. He feels that he is a citizen and that the tax collector’s recipt is a certificate of citizenship. lie is useful to the State. Shame on the mechanics of New Orleans ! The Stature of Men. N. P. Willis, in a very graphic description of Sa vannah, indulges in the following remarks in reference to the relative size of Georgians and Cubans: “Beginning with mine host of the Pulaski, who would cut up into quite a committee of the largest men in Cuba, I was immediately struck with the contrast between Havana and Savannah, in the stature of the men. A few minutes after our arrival, the gong sounded and the crowd poured from all quarters of the house to the Sunday evening ‘tea and the sudden change in the average level of the heads I around me, affected my comparative consciousness, in a way which, for a moment, I was at a loss to understand. I felt suddenly pulled under, like a cork with ‘a bite.’ It is curious how soon the general angle with which one looks at people becomes a habit. Most of the faces I had met for a couple of months had been teen down a declivity of forty-five degrees. I now felt strange at being obliged to look off at my own horizontal and above it—almost every man in the house standing six feet and over, in his stock ings. The Georgians are doubtless a tall race —walking : rifles to the little pistols of Cuba—and, with so slight a dis- 1 ference of latitude and longitude in the respective soils that produce them, it would, by the way, be a pretty study of physiology to inquire into the reasons of the contrast.” i South-Western Circuit. The Albany Patriot fays; “While we believe that we have in the Circuit many other gentlemen of the legal profession competent to fill the office with credit and ability, we think a better or more judicious selec tion could not have been made. Mr. L)'on is emi nently a sound and practical lawyer, and an honorable, high-minded man—every way worthy the trust which we believe will soon be committed to his hands by the voters of the South-Western Circuit.” Death of Col. N. L. Griffin. This estimable citizen died at his residence, in Edge field District, S. C., on the 19th instant. He was high ly esteemed, and at the time of his death, represented his district in the Senate of South Carolina. Jenny Lind, It is announced in the New York Commercial , that Jenny Lind will visit the United States next season, and remain here two or three years, giving concerts in the principal cities. Homicide. A dispute about a trifling affair between Capt. Jones and Col. Ware, both of Greenville District, S. C., re sulted in the death of the former. Ware was his son in-law. Thackeray. This distinguished writer will deliver a series of lec tures in Charleston, S. C., on the 7th, 9th and lltli March next. Texas Items. The Legislature has adjourned sine die . The apportionment bill has become a law with out the signature of the Governor. The internal improvement bill was indefinitely postponed—ayes 28, noes 26. A bill was passed making an appro priation for improving the principal rivers in the State. This law will have to be ratified by a vote of the people, at the next August general election, before it can go into effect. Several new railroad charters were granted. The Legislature refused to pass the bill allowing S4OOO per mile to railroad companies for each mile of road built ; but raised the land donation to six teen sections, each of 640 acres, or 10,240 acres for each mile of railroad actually constructed. — This is certainly a munificent donation, and must tell favorably on our internal improvement questions. The Light house at Matagorda Pass, sixteen miles from Indianola, is noA\ seen at all hours of the night. It has been seen, we learn, at the dis tance of thirty miles. The light revolves, and is seen about once per minute, to distinguish it from the light at Galveston, which is stationary. Later from Havana. Baltimore, Feb. 23. —The steamship Black Warrior has arrived at New York from Mobile via Havana. She leftjthe latter port on the 18th inst., and was fired at as she was going out before she could hoist her colors. The bark Martha Ann, from Savannah, for Havana, was fired into off Cuba by the British frigate Vestal, on suspicion that she was a slaver. The general health of Havana was good. The Hon.W. R. King was no better. He had gone to Matanzas, and despairs, it is said, of recov ery. Prior to his departure he had a slight mis understanding with the Captain General, who, waiv ing etiquette, agreed to visit him, and appointed a time for the interview, but failed to keep his ap poir.tment; whereupon, Mr. King reminded him of the circumstance, and General Canedo immediate* ly called, but was refused admittance. Before Mr. King left for Matanzas, however, cards were inter changed, thus settling the difficulty. The contract for the erection of a Telegraph line in Cuba, has been a warded to Mr. Kennedy, of Philadelphia, at $225 permile*, Thedemand for Sugars a.t the departure of the Black Warrior was good, and the stock on hand comprised 30,000 boxes. Baltimore, Feb. 22. The brig Emily, Captain Davis, from New York for Charleston, has been ashore off Sandy Hook* She was got off, however, on Tuesday, and her cargo is not damaged. Baltimore, Feb. 22. The President Elect. —Gen. Pierce keeps him self very retired in Washington He was closeted on Tuesday with Messrs. Guthrie, Douglas and Everett. FOREIGN ITEMS. LATER FROM EUROPE* Insurrection in Austria. Baltimore, Feb. 23.—The British steamship Arabia, Capt. Judkins, has arrived at New York from Liverpool, which port she left on the 12th inst. The Liverpool Markets. — The demand for Cotton has been moderate, and prices since the 4th inst. have declined nearly one eighth of a penny. The fine qualities however, were unchanged. The sales during the week comprised 50,000 bales, of which speculators took 20,000, and exporters 3000. Fair Orleans was quoted 6 l-2d, Middling Orleans at 5 7-8d ; Fair Upland at 6 l-Bd, and Middling Upland at 5 5-Bd. Flour had advanced 6d. per bbl. of 196 lbs. Rice was in moderate demand, and prices were in favor of buyers. The Money Market was unchanged. Consols were quoted at 99 1-8. Another dispatch says, 98 1-8. We presume this decline was caused by the Austrian news mentioned below. Havre Cotton Market. —Cotton is unchanged, and the sales comprise about 2000 bales daily. Middling Orleans was quoted at 91 francs. Austria. —An insurrection took place in Milan on the 6th instant, which lasted uutil the 9th. The Austrians eay that the revolt was quelled with the loss only of five of their soldiers. The insurgents, on the contrary, affirm that 300 Austrians were killed, as they attacked the bar racks and massacred the garrison. Proclamations from - Kossuth and Mazzini were posted in the city. The latter j has gone to Switzerland to watch events. A rising is ! looked for elsewhere. Austria and Franee are sending troops to Lombardy and Rome. The latest advices state that order had been restored.— I Many arrests had taken place, and three persons had been shot. The M linese generally took no part in the insur j rection. The Commercial Treaty between Austria and Prussia has been ratified. England. —Advices received in London state that in addition to the insurrection at Milan, risings had taken place in other towns in Italy. Consols in London were quoted at 98 1-8. Turkey. —lt is believed that the Montent gran war will be speedily ended by negotiations. India —The British have formally annexed Pegu, and threatened to take Ava, and depose the Burmese Mon arch, if he do not quietly submit. / Later from Mexico—Resignation of the President”* Recall of Santa Anna. News has been received from Mexico up to the 9th inst M. Santiago Blancj resigned his post of Secretary ofW tr on the 2d inst. On the 31st ult., Generals Robles and Uraga met at Arroyozarco, a town some miles from the capital, and agreed upon a plan for governing the country On the night of the sth, they entered the city of Mexico and repaired at once to the Palace toeonfer with Cevallog The garrison of the city having ascertained the nature of the conferences, sent a commission composed of Blau* co, Carrera and Revilla Y. Pedrequera, toeonfer with th.> Generals. After long conferences, the parties came to an agreement, and proclaimed the Guadalajara pain, with additions of the following purport: That the Executive to be elected under this convention will enjoy, until the promulgation of the.’new Constitution the powers requisite to re-establish social order, to organ ize the public administration, to create a national treasury and mark out the powers of the judiciary, without altering its independence. That a popular election will take place, and the Government will, before the expiration of a year, convoke the National Convention alluded to in the Jalisco plan. Juan B. Cevallos, President of the Supreme Court of Justice, is to have charge provisionally of the Executive power, and on the 17th of next March he is to count the votes for President. As soon as the Provisional Government will be estab lished, the article in the Jalisco plan, which solemnly re calls Santa Anna, is to be put into execution. A general armistice is granted for all the purely politi cal offences committed up to the day of the signing. In case Juan B. Cevallos refused the mission given him under this convention, the Generals of Divisions are to meet and appoint his successor. The garrison at Mexico, which had promised to support the government of Cavallos, abandoned him by sanction ing this plan, and Cevallos refusing the semblance of powd er thus given him, presented his resignation on the 7th, and retired to his home as a private citizen. On the night of the 7th, Uraga, Lombardini and Robles proceeded to the nomination of a President ad interim in place of Cevallos. Lombardini voted for Theodosio Lares and Uraga and Robles voted for Lombardini, who entered upon the discharge of his duties on Shrove Tuesday, and is to continue in office for forty days. On the 7th, Uraga issued a circular to all the Gover nors and military chiefs, informing them of the events of the 6th, and, on the Bth, the firing of cannon and milita. ry parades celebrated in Mexico the installation of Lom bardini. Vera Cruz has pronounced for Santa Anna, and the garrison to accept. Nothing will be done in Mexieo until his return. Anew commission to recall Santa Anna left Vera Cri z on the 7th. From a private letter received by the editor of the Nue ces \ alley, from Chihuahua, via El Paso, we are in pos session of some important news. The Jalisco movement or the plan of Guadalajara has not been acted upon there. The sentiments of ninny Chihuahuans of weight and in* fluence are favorable to peaceable annexation, and perhaps some movement of the kind will be acted upon in a short time. The crops have not been very favorable. The Indians, fia ye, been very troublesome. In Durango they -bsvcr'appeared in greater, than their usiyilnumbers. Further by the Steamer Pacific. New York, Feb. 23. The advauce reported by the steamship Ameri ca in the Liverpool market has been lost, and the cotton market is again quiet. The sales for the three days previous to the sailing of the Pacific amounted to 20,003 bales, of which speculators took 6000 and exporters 1000. The quotations are, Fair Orleans 6£, Middling Orleans fid. Trade in Manchester had slightly declined since the departure of the America. The demand for cotton in the London market had been active, with prices rather in favor of buy ers, although quotations are unchanged. The Havre cotton market has undergone no quo table change since the last advices. The sales ok the sth inst. comprised 2000 bales. Good Mid dling Orleans was quoted at 92 francs, and Mid-\ tiling Fair at 95. Thackeray , the Author.— The Richmond Ex aminer gives the following description of Thack eray : He is about as tall as Gen. Scott, with a fair round waist, long ugly legs, arms too short, and hands too small for his size. His gestures and attitudes are awkward and slow. His hair is grey, he wears spectacles, and when first look ed at, one might think him verging on sixty, though a more deliberate examination wouid place him ten years nearer the cradle. The head and lace are large, and the bust would be great, but for the most unfortunate little nose that ev er was surrounded by massive features, and set over an ironjaw. It is almost incredible that na ture has stuck such a nasal organ on such a coun tenance. His forehead is not very large or re markable, but the back-head is powerfully de veloped. On the whole, however, the impression made by the external man would not be pleasant, but for the dignity, sobriety and independent manliness of his carriage and presence. These are very remarkable—verging, perhaps, onhau teur—but not tinged with the slightest shade of impertinence or affectation. He reads his lecture in a deep but not strong | or clear voice, which did not vary enough for j the shades of his ideas at first, but which be | came more expressive though not less quiet and i composed as he proceeded. Its cadence fre j quently had a melancholy tone, and it never ! expressed gaiety, either good or ill-humored, j Both in contempt and admiration it was equally serious and grave. Indeed, Mr. Thackeray, in person, is the least like a “funny man” of anv person that we ever saw. He looks and speaks like one who has been rather disappointed than pleased with his past life, and who has no ex travagant hopes for the future, but who is too much of a man to become either maudlin and sen timental, or careless and indifferent. I*.Vou don’t wish to get angry, never argue with a blockhead. Remember, the duller the razor the more you cut yourself and swear.