Show retirement of mr macaulay from parliament li the bli fil billowing folio lowing A ing farewell address by mr macaulay was published to his s in in edinburgh on tuesday the 22 qaid id Janu january arv ary to the Elec electris tois tors of edinburgh gentlemen very soon after alter you ou had done me the high honor 0 of f choosing me without any solicitation on my part to represent you in in the present parliament I 1 began to entertain ampre hen heh slona siona that the state of my health would make it impossible for me to repay your kindness by efficient service during some time I 1 flattered myself with the hope that I 1 might t be able to be present at imbor tant division and occasionally to take a p part pirt in important debates dut but the experience of the libl two years has convinced me that I 1 cannot reasonably expect to be awain again again capable of performing even in an imperfect manner those duties dulies which the public has a right to expect from every member of the house howe of commons you vou meanwhile mean while h hive borne wi wih h we nse ina lna in a mann manner entitles entities you to my warmest grat linde vade had even a small of my constituents hinted to me a wish ahti would vacate my iny seat 1 I should have thought it ws coy duty to comply with that wish but from not one single elector have lever I 1 ever r received aline allne a line of reproach or if I 1 were disposed to abuse your generosity and delicacy I 1 might per par continue to bear the tile ho mirable tile ille of member for edinburgh thi the dissolution of ef parliament but I 1 feel opel that by trespassing tres tre passing longer on your andul g nce nee I 1 sh jd gid prove myself unworthy of it I 1 lave livi jre gre determined to dissolve our connection tion and to iut put it in yur your power to choose a hutler hitler s arvant t than ian tan I 1 have been I 1 hare have applied to the chancellor cf of the ex c CL i aier nier q ier ler lr fr tha of the chiltern hun run deeds and I t have levery lrea Irea reason gott sott to believe that the new writ will issue on the first day of the ap api 1 preaching session this notice will I 1 trust be long enough to enable you to maee maae a thorough lil irl ly satisfactory choice clio cilo and now rny my friends with sincere thanks hor tor all your y our kindness and with fervent wishes lor for the peace honor lionor and prosperity of your noble city I 1 for fur the last time lime bid yoli voly voli fa farbell farewell rbell T B MACAULAY MACA ulay london january ID 19 from the london news I 1 MR ain AND ills nis SUCCESSOR by the retirement of mr bir house of Comi commons loses one ot of the greatest of its literary and not the least of its oratorical celebrin cele bri ties exactly coeval with the century mr air mr 1 macaulay recedes from public lile life at the ripe age of filly fifty six rix an aoe aae age at which the llie faculties of the statesman may generally I 1 ie e supposed to be in the lite highest state of efficiency and vigor at that age the dreams of youth have long been dissipated the hard scorn with which earlier ai er manhood sometimes some tines take lake a pride in showing itself superior to such dreams is toning down into a mellowed justness of a perlor fu im wisdom is dom and the mind which has thought and the heart which has suffered through m amny nv phases of a variously active life may fairl fairi fairly y be ie supposed up posed to have arrived at that stage of experience when the active energies of both may best contribute to llie tile welfare of m mankind at such a period it 1 is that macaulay quits tile the arena of politics for the calin calm seclusion of the study we do not say that he is wrong wrong the first announcement indeed of or such a change almost unavoidably carries the mind back to the days of or his earlier triumphs to the days when the crack article on milton filmed in the forehead of the edinburgh review for october 1825 and when some six years later the crack speech of the you young rig member lor for calne caine in the pil phrase rase of i honest horest lord althrope fairly electrified the house in those days of innocent enthusiasm when astow was supposed to have returned to this planet for the express purpose of or inaugurating gu rating a millennium of whigs young macaulay was everywhere spoken of as the man of the epoch brilliant indeed for many a year was the dust and light scattered about his chariot as he went season after season reason the intellectual treat odthe of the day was macaulay s last article in in the edinburgh Macau lays last speech in the he house at length the inevitable nemesis prevailed dull writers believed to be profound because they were felt fell to be obscure hinted in the circles that the essays owed sparkle sparkie to their shallowness leaden stutter ers ersi the torment of the house when A lien llen on their legs the oracles of or the clubs chenin their armchairs arm chairs accused the speeches of being mere spoken reviews the feli feill 1 cilous product of laborious art and a retentive memory As is always the case these strictures had a sufficient bass of truth to render them plausible profundity as a thinker and spontaneous neEs as a speaker were not the most prominent characteristics te of mr air macaulay and the tile circles never thought of inquiring whether their want of pro ini nence might not in some degree be owing to 0 o the marked superiority of this distinguished man inan in almost every other gift that constitutes d a fine writer and an accomplished sp speaker eliker still in a practical assembly like our house or of rhetoric ind and not over tolerant lerant lo of intellectual supremacy it cannot be denied hat that the brilliant essayist and orator was bame same somewhat what out of his element latterly booen gage gaaei in an absorbing L task comparatively fail ing in health and feeling it may be the increasing increasing growth of that epicurean indolence in which men of literary temperament when not stimulated by the he spur of necessity or the tile prom pt odthe of the highest genius are ever prone to indulge in mr air macaulay had long shown a growing disinclination to take an active part in public affairs for these and other reasons his retirement though it may have taken the general public by surprise has been for some time anticipated by those more familiar with the current rumors of the day let him retire the best wishes of england go with him into his retreat grounds it has often been our lot to differ from him but we have never failed to recognize the keenness and polish of the hlade blade chos whose p brightness we have not allowed to dazzle us and against whose glittering sweep we have some bome times limes felt called upon to oppose the homely shield of common sense argument on literary grounds we have found less scope for criticism or dissent and even when most freely indulging in both have always felt that the great work on which he is now en engaged g a ored cred is intimately connected with the literary ren renown own of our country feeling this we can scarcely re gret the announcement that henceforth having less concern with the present interests of the tiie ex min win asting z g generation he may have more leisure to devote to the development ef of En glands story in the past and his own fame in the future |