LECTURE ON LOUD MACAULAY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5723, 26 January 1876, Page 2

LECTURE ON LOUD MACAULAY.

Tin l'icv John White ilehvcietl his lictme on Loul MaciuLiy last night in the schoolroom Attached to the I'nited Free Methodist Chipel, 1'itt-street. 'Die attendance was not Luge. Though the time advertised for the commencement of the lecture was halfp.Vit 7, the lev. gentleman did not begin till 10 minutes to 8, when Mi. C'oupland was moved into the chan. That gentleman in nitioducing Mr White, expressed his regret at the paucity of listeners. He would not take up any more of their tune by making any reniuks of his own. The rev. lecturer commenced his lecture by adverting to the disastrous results of the great French Revolution, as evidenced dunug the hibt30 years ot the pic&cnt century in a widespread mlulehty and ultra-radicalism which made a mock of all that was most sacred in. religion and most valuable for civil liberty. This produced a re-action, and men of the highest ability entered their protect After a rapid glance at Robert Hall, and the piomment members of the Clapham sect, Henry Thornton, Isaac Milner, Dean of C\u lisle, Thomas Gisborne, William Wilbcifoice — " that great living soul compiessed into a fiauie so slender" — and Zachary Maeuilay, the lectiner came to Thomas Bahington Maeaulay, first and last Baron Macaulay The pi incipal events of his life weie touched upon in an interesting but biiei manner His birth on the '20th October, 1S00 , his entenng Trinity College, Cambmlge at the ago of 18, and cariying off two puzcs foi English \ei so, obtaining the Craven Seholaislnp and a fellowship; his taking the M A degiee at -4, and two veaiu later being called to the Bar. Hib joining the band of coiihibutois to the " Edinbuigh Review," in lSJ."), which led to the Mai (pus of Lansdowne putting him into Paibament foi the pocket boiough of Calne in 1S30 Hn election for Edinbuigh m 1S32 ; his appointment as legal adviser of the Supreme Council in Indu, with a salary of i'l 0,000 a year His return to England and re election for Edinburgh in 1840; his rejection by the same constituency in 1847 for his vote upon the Maynooth grant. His unsought for election for Edinburgh in 1832, and his resignation in 18 jo", owing to ill health, followed, in 1S39, by his death, when the " waud of the enchanter ceased to enchant. '' The lecturer then criti cised his hero's title to fame as a poet, an orator, an essayist, and an historian, giving him the position of "first in the first class "

of essayists. On resuming his seat, the rev. lectuiei was loudJy applauded, and a vote of thanks, pioposecl by Mr. Hemus and seconded by Mr. Parker was accorded with acclamation. The Chairman remarked that had the lecture been delivered in the Young Men's Rooms there would have been a much larger attendance.