deeply wrinkled face he espied at the extreme end of one of
the long tables, where it loomed up like a careworn lantern amidst a
cluster of delicately tinted foliage. America, said his lordship,
sought her great men, not from among the effete walks of the
haristocracy, from the more legitimate hemisphere--the common walks of
life. With a strange elongation of the body did our speaker emphasize
the remark. Great men were the gift of an age, and a nation's fortune;
and with which he was more than happy to say Hamerica had been
blessed--would that his conscience and love of truth would permit him
to say as much of his own country! He saw the personification and
embodiment of America's great minds in the countenance of his much
esteemed friend General Flum, whom his very soul joyed at recognizing
present. (We will here add, by way of parenthesis, that the knowing
ones of New York had a less exalted opinion of Flum's talent, which
had remained hid under a pewter pot, but for General Pierce, who
dragged it to the light of day for the purpose of eventually
harmonizing his cabinet). Fortunate was it for the welfare of a great
country that such men existed; they seemed born to a special purpose,
which to him was a medium of conserving and protecting the great
international well-being of the two peoples. That purpose was the
greatest the world could contemplate in this great age of pounds,
shillings, and pence; and with such a mind as he knew General Flum
possessed, and the stronger arguments with which the generous host had
conciliated all differences international, the two countries were sure
to continue in a bond of friendship. To this distinguished compliment
our general was pleased to make an approving bow. Again, his honor, in
compliment of himself, informed those present that nothing could be
more significant of divine will than that at this momentous crisis,
when a bloody war was on the eve of hurling its vengeance over Europe,
and devastating the nations, he should be called to hadminister those
high functions of a nation the duties of his office involved; and,
too, when an opportunity would be afforded him of exercising those
mental gifts with which God had happily and liberally endowed
him. With the full force of this valuable interposition he had not a
doubt but that the peace and harmony of the world would again be
restored. Nor should her Majesty's ministers ever ask in vain his
advice;[*] and, as to the right of imp