MADAME DARUSMONT'S LECTURES ON SOCIAL REFORM.
CURIOSITY and the fame of FRANCES WRIGHT led tts to the Free- mason's Hall on Thursday evening, to hear this clever champion of female independence, who now bears the matron name of Madame DARessioNr, Its ture on Social Reform. The great room was about one-third filled with a respectable and attentive audience, among whom were several literary men and many Indies. At the upper end of the hall, on a raised platform, stood the lady, dressed in black, with a white muslin kerchief tied over her hair and under her chin. She is of good stature, and mature age, with handsome and expressive' features; and she spoke iii a soft and musical voice, with clear and deliberate enun- ciation, from a little book in her hand; employing, as occasion required, free and natural gestures and appropriate expressiou to enforce her sen- timents. Her discourse lasted about an hour and a half, and was faintly cheered now and then : but the scanty applauses were elicited rather by the earl. ,aciess and eloquence of the lair speeker, than the substittwe of her ad,:r :s. Her observations were indeed more remark- able for justness than novelty: her ideas were more gracefully ex- pressed than lucidly arranged : the lecture, in short, was little better than a string of truisms dressed in flowery language. All we could gather from it was, ulna the speaker possessed a remedy for the illness of society, %thief] she proinised to propound in another lecture. The only clue to her specific that we could lay bold of was, that mankind should not be content to live "under the reign of printed speech, 'but seek to know the whole of things." How this knowledge of the universe is to be obtained without books, we have yet to learn.
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