The Virginian

Personal Peculiarities.

Mr. Brougham is a thin and sallow complexioned man, strongly characterized by a convulsive movement of the nostrils. When irritated, the expression of his sarcasm is tremendous. His step in walking the streets is hurried and restless—his dress mean. Roscoe, the Liverpool historian, is tall and thin, with a stoop in the shoulders. Washington Irving is gentlemanly and agreeable in his figure, with a very strong tendency to drowsiness when in company, or when walking; we have seen him ourselves dozing, while standing before Molteno's in Pall-Mall. The Duke of Wellington is tall, with a strongly marked bronzed countenance; the warrior every inch.' Edward Irving, the preacher, is also spare and thin, with a tremendous bushy beard, & highly popular whiskers. He carries the puritan with him in gait, voice and manner. Sir W. Scott is a grey-headed, unassuming, elderly man, with a slight limp, but not so much so as is supposed. Lockhart, his son-in-law, is a dandy in person as well as in literature: he is at present the editor of The Quarterly Review. Miss Edgeworth is a thin lady, with a voice as sharp as the chirp of a cricket. Tom Moore is a short and round little gentleman, with a lively eye, and restless activity in his gait. In company, as we have met him at Longman's, his flow of animal spirits is more to be admired than his wit—Captain Morrison was the first whose works incited him to perpetrate poetry on his own account. The Marquis of Anglesea is a fine commanding man, handsome and well-formed. Mr. Scarlett, the barrister, is the very personification of good humour. Mr. Canning is gentlemanly and intellectual in person, with a classical cast of countenance, and noble contour of head. Wilberforce is unostentatious in figure, but, like the Marquis Wellesley, commanding both in voice and oratory. Kean the actor is vulgar and plebeian in his address and person, with nothing to redeem him but his fine intellectual eye, whose expression is restless and versatile. Cobbett is an orthodox English farmer in appearances, rather corpulent, but with an intelligent countenance Mr. Peel is a gentleman in gait, person, and address.