Lord Brougham and Mr. Lindsay, M.P., have both spoken on
the American question,—Mr. Lindsay at an agricultural meeting in Middlesex yesterday week,—Lord Brougham in his inaugural discourse at the Social Science meeting at Edin- burgh on 'Wednesday last. Mr. Lindsay's atrocious parody of President Lincoln's Proclamation was in the coarse and libel- lous style which we generally attribute with loathing only to the New York Herald. It meant, ho said, " Massacre your masters, massacre your mistresses, and massacre their children, so that you may obtain your freedom." Lord Brougham's style was, perhaps, a little more polishe 1, but his hate of the North at least as undisguised and deadly, and hecalled his angry passions, which Mr. Lindsay did not, " social science." What we may excuse in a man who has fought his way up in the world from a cabin-boy to the ownership of a fleet of ships we can only condemn in an aged statesman who should be purified by experience from all the excesses of political hatred. Probably, however, Lard Brougham's last intellectual act in this world will be a simultaneous effort to increasa men's knowledge and excite their passions.
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