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Spirit of gervility, which cannot last; for a really manly 1857.
sembly {which the House of Commons is) will recover its Ar. 68.
Solf-respect, and the reaction will perhaps be all the stronger
fom the consciousness which will one day flash upon ib
that it hag been prostrating itself before a brazen image, as
bolloy a8 it is impudent. But I am content to wait. It is
brag that Sumner has offered to come sud see me, and if he
ould stay a fow days it wonld be well for his health, but I
*Xpect he will linger in town till he has only a day to give
08. 1 went on Friday to dine at the Bishop of Oxford's
bo meet Lord Aberdeen, and slept there. The old Earl was
looking older and more taciturn than usual, His clothes
lookeq 4, large for his frame. I should far he is wasting
Say, but his northern air, I hope, will set him up again. It
8 the third year I have had a long téte-a-téte with him, and
Lhaye always found myself much interested in a thoroughly
Yuiet ang homely intercourse with him and his host. . . . .
“In answer to your friend's inquiry about Bowring’s
rath falnes, you may content yourself with a general
doseription of the genus sentimentalist. They are not to be
Yepended on in political action, because they are not masters
f their own reasoning powers. They sing songs or declaim
Shot, truth, justice, liberty, and the like, but it is only in
he same artificial spirit in which they make odes to dew-Trop,
 daisies, &e. They are just as likely to trample on one
% the other, notwithstanding. There was Lamartine, the
Prince of the class, who mouthed so finely about inter-Uationa)
 rights; and yet it has come ont that he was just as
Teady ag king or kaiser to march an army into Italy to take
® material guarantee for—liberty. See the exhibition of
Thackerny at Oxford,’ and yet he expressed sympathy to me

th At a bys.election for Oxford city (July 21) Mr. Thackeray stood against
Prasent, Lord Onrdwell, and failed by the narrow difference of 87, in a
Br082 Boll of 5108.