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memory with &Wender tenacity, so that he could do mole
Wark than most men with much less effort.
Although Mr. Stanley entered Parliament in 1821, he did
out make his maiden speech until 1824. It was on a Man-
chester Gas Bill, and it was so remarkable for its clearness
and ability that Sir James Mackintosh, who followed him in
the debate, devoted the greater part of his speech, as re-
ported in Hansard, to extolling the performance. "No
man," he said, "could have witnessed with greater satiefac-
thin thou himself an accession to the talents of the House
which was calculated to give lustre to its character and
strengthen Its influence ; and this was more particularly a
subject of satisfaction to him when he reflected that these
talents were likely to be employed in supporting principles
which he conscieutioualy believed to be most beneficial to
the country." Mr. stauley, however, made a still more
striking display of oratorical power in speaking some
what later on a motion of Joseph flume's with re-
gard to the Irish Church. At the mime time this speech did
not so well please his political Mends, inasmuch as he de-
clared himself unable to support flume's preposition, which
declared 'that it is expedient to inquire whether the present
Church Establishment in Ireland be not more than commen-
surate to the servioe to be performed, both as regards the
number of persons employed and the incomes they receive."
It is interesting to note that while Mr. Stanley voted
against this motion, Lord John Russell voted in favour of It ;
and that, whereas Lord Russell has now lived to see the
policy which he recommended carried out, the last public act
of Lord Derby was to protest vehemently against a measure
which, when presented to him in the bud five-and-forty
years before, it was almost his first public act to resht.
After this it does not appear that Mr. Stanley was much
before the public until, in the short-lived Administration of
Lord Goderich, he assumml oiliness Under-Secretary for the
Colonies. In the interval he travelled a good deal, visited
the United States in company with the present Speaker and
the late lord Tauuton, married, and built himself a house
upon one of his grandfather's estates in Ireland, where he Is
described by an adversary, however) as listing "in a style
very uncongenial to all Irish notions of living: holding no
Intercourse with the gentry, but pacing rapidly along the
high road with a slouched hat and a thick staff, and known
among the peasants as the 'odd gentleman from Eng-
land." At the same time he changed his seat na
Parliament from Stockbridge to Preston. Ills grandfather
had a mansion in Preston, and nearly every house
In the town, indeed, belonged to him. So it seemed
natural enough that Mr. Shipley should represent it.
Yet, strange to say, the people of Preston soon wearied of
him. Ile was snot conciliatory, and, stranger still, he con-
trived to make himself unpopular by refusing to aubscribe to
the Borough races. It was no part of his Parliamentary
duties, he said, to subscribe to races. Therefore, when he
was appointed to the Under-SecretaryshiP of the Colonies in
Lord Goderich's Administration, and when he applied to his
constituents for re-election, he was opposed, and that nate-
cessfully, by henry Hunt, better known as Orator Hunt. The
family were very angry; the old Earl pulled down his man-
sion in the town, which he would never enter wain and it
may be supposed that his disappointment did not make
young Stanley less eager than before for Parliamentary Re-
form. Another seat was found for him at Windsor, where
Sir Hussey Vivian retired in his favour. It may here be
added that he sat for Windsor till 1832; that then he was
elected for North Lancashire, and that he continued to re-
present that constituency till he went to the House of Lords.
Lord Goderich's Goverumeut never met Parliament, and
Mr. Stanley's remarkable gifts were not fully displayed until,
on the accession of Lord Grey to power, he was appointed
Secretary for Ireland, the Marquie of Anglesey being Lord
lieutenant. It was at this time that he made his chief mark
as an orator. The people demanded Parliamentary Reform,
and Mr. stamley was one of those most ardent in the cause.
There are many still living who speak with enthusiasm of
the dash of his unstudied eloquence, both inn and out of Par-
liament. Ile had all the irresistible impulse of youth, and he
hail the intense love of battle. lie was ready ins a moment
to harangue a multitude. Up he would get ens chair or a
table, and send forth a torrent of declamation that carried all
before it. In the House of Commons he was naturally more re-
strained. lien he had to measure himself in debate with Peel
and with the great 0, as he was called. O'Connell entered
Parliament with a tremendous reputation, and excited not
a little fear. Ile was like the Philistine. Goliath of Oath,
come to defy the Senate. Who could withstand him?
Surely not this stripling, Mr. Stanley, with whom O'Connell
had begun his acquaintance by calling him in his coarse
style contemptuous names. Mr. Stanley liked nothing better
than a tight, anti was quite willing to meet n eConnell on
equal terms, lie went into the corded with the zest of a
pugilist. lie spoke of O'Connell in those days as a "heavy
weight," and of his encounters with him as "rounds ;" and
the universal opinion is that in these " rounds " the great
Irishman, notwithstanding his eloquence, came off second
best. Indeed, O'Connell soon learnt to hold the Irish Secre-
-ev in salutary awe, and showed his feeling in that respect
sunting Mr. Stanley with his haughtiness and scornful
ring, in reference to these taunts sir Robert yea made a
Anted remark. "Of ten," he said, "have I. heard the night
ion, gentleman taunted with his aristocratic demeanour. I
rather think I should hear fewer complaints on that score if
he were a less powerful opponent in debate." This tribute
of praise from the leader of the opposite party may be taken
as proof of a success which could not be gain-said.
Mr. Stanley was then, indeed, the chief delight of St.
Stephen's, and it was the great Parliamentary pastime of the
period to hear him and the burly Irish demagogue attack
and reply to each other,—O'Connell, with his broad humour
and his fervid passion—humour and passion, however, which
were more effective with a popular than with a senatorial
audience—Mr. Stanley, with his more delicate wit, his sting-
ing retorts, and his straight-hitting arguments. Nothing
was more remarkable than the contrast between the man and
the orator. In private he was playful as a kitten, restless as
a child, and one might wonder how such a big boy could ever
be a sober statesman. On the other hand, when he got up
to speak he was collected and calm, at least as calm as any
one can be in the passion of oratory, and there was, with all
ts boyish glee, an unexpected stateliness aind rhythm in his style
amid fashion of address. Then, armin, when he sat down—we
are speaking of his earlier days—he would relapse into restless-
ness, now resting his feet in queer places, perhaps on stable,
and now suddenly, as he felt the blow from an adversary,
curling them under his seat, and moving about. Be his
style, however, what it might, he MIS the delight of his
friends, the terror of Ms foes, and the mimiration of &IL
The best description of him is tube found in the verses of
Lord Lytton—in his poem of the New TtittOli. lord Lytton
probably felt that in, this poem he did but scant juetice to the
powers of O'Connell, and therefore in another effort et his
muse devoted entirely to the oratory of St. Stephen's he en-
deavoured with characteristic candour to repair the wrong,
writing as follows
But not to Erin's coarser chief deny,
Lame if his faults, time's large apology ;
Child of a land that ne'er had known repose,
Our rights and blessings, Ireland's wrongs and woes;
Hate at St; Omer's into mullion drilled,
In Dublin law-courts subtilized and skilled ;
Hate in the marl, whatever else appear
Fickle or false, was steadfast and sincere:
lint with that hate a nobler passion dwelt,
To hate the Saxon was to love the Celt
Had that fierce railer sprung from English sires,
His creed a Protestant's, his birth a squire's,
No blander Pollio, whom our Bar allocate,
Dad graced the woolsack and cajoled My Lords.
Pass by his faults, his art be here allowed.
Mighty as Chatham, give him but a crowd;
Here him in Senates, second-rate at best,
Clear Ins statement, happy in a jest;
Sought he to shine, then certain to displease:
Tawdry, yet coarse-grained, tinsel upon frieze;
Ilia Titan strength nmst touch what gave it birth,
Hear him to mobs and on his mother earth !"
Of O'Connell s great adversary, this is what Lord Lytton
says, not, however, confining his description to the splendid
encounters of Mr. Stanley's youth :
" One after one the lords of time advance—
Here Stanley meets—how Stanley scorns, the glance!
'The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash—the Rupert of Debate
Nor gout nor toil his freshness can destroy,
And time still leaves all Eton in the boy;
First in the class and keenest in the ring,
Ile saps like Gladstone and he fights like Spring.
Elea at the feast his pluck rervaden the board,
And dauntless gamecocks symbolise their lord.
lo where atilt at friend—if barred from foe—
lie scours the ground and volunteers the blow,
And, tired with conquest over Dan and Snob,
Plants a sly bruiser on the nose of Bob;
Decorous leffi, too friendly to reprove,
Suggests fresh fighting in the next remove,
And prompts his chum, in hopes the vein to cool,
To the prim benches of the upper school.
Yet who not listens with delighted smile
To the pure Saxon of that silver style;
In the clear styles heart as clear is seen,
Prompt to the rash—revolting from the mean."
In 1033 Mr. Stanley left this Irish Office and became
Secretary of State for the Colonies, an office which he also
afterwards filled under Sir Robert Peek Of his Colonial
administration there is but one thing to be said—that under
him slavery was abolished. This was a great and good
work to do, and he entered heart and soul into It; yet he
had no little to claim in the origination of this policy and in
preparing the mind of the country for it that his name is not
often remembered in connexion with it. We are reuch more
apt to think of the achievement as the work of Brougham
and Wilberforce and Clarkson. It belongs, however, to Mr.
Stanley's administration of the Colonies, and when people
ask, "What has he done; what great beneficial mea-
sure has he earned ? " this must be set down to his
account. With regard to his Colonial administration
in other respects, the most we can sny is, that there
Is nothing to say about it. But considering the cir-
cumstances, that is, after all, saying a good deal. Lord
Derby was a man without many ideas in statesmanship. Give
him a cause to fight, and he would fight like a hero. Give
him an idea to express, and he could express it with great
force and defend it with uncommon animation. But he was
In statesmanship what he was in literature. He could not
originate, he could only translate, he could only transmute,
lie found the Colonies 1,. existence, and he found a policy
at the Colonial Office. lie could adopt that policy, and he
administered it with skill. But, unfortunately for his re-
putation, the Wlse had arrived when a new policy was
necessary, when the Colonies had become so developed
that some change was demanded in their relations with
the mother country. It was not in Mr. Stanley of Lord
Grey's Administration, nor in the Lord Stanley of -Mir Robert
Peel's to originate the change. Sir Mr illiam Molesworth and
his followers might cry aloud inn the streets, and in the
House of Comments; but theirs was a new blea which had
to make its way, and which huh not yet found an entrances
Into the exceedingly quick yet unoriginative mind of Lord
Derby. So it happens that of his Colonial policy, as a whole,
we have nothing to say.
In this reference, however, to his Colonial policy we have
touched on a remarkable fact—namely. that Lord Stanley
having begun his political career as a Whig, bad veered round
to the Tories, and at length took office under Peel. In 1034,
he separated himself from the Whigs on the question of the
Irish lhurch—he, with sir James Graham, the Duke of Rich-
mond, arnd others, resisting the proposed appropriation of its
surplus revenues to purposes of education, lie lived to see
the Irish Establishment entirely swept away, and no one was
more strenuous than he in opposition to that reform. In
judging of the course taken by a statesman so impul-
sive in temper and so hot in debate as Lord
Derby, we have to look to his training for the origin of
much hi his conduct. His mother was the daughter
of a clergyman, and he himself began his public
life by writing an exposition of the Parables for children.
Lord Derby was one ot those men who can rarely get beyond
what has been instilled into them. It was much the mime in
the matter of the Corn Laws. Ile was a handsome likeness
of his grandfather, whose love of sport he Inherited. This
grandfather did not die till 1834, when his grandson was
thirty-five years of age. Is it to be supposed that Lord Derby
imbibed nothing from his grandfather but midiction ten sport?
Nobody more heartily than the celebrated enekfighting
Earl joined Fox in his oppoeition to the Free Trade
schemes of Pitt, who hail studied Adam Smith and woos
convert to his views. Fox was dead against the French
Commercial Treaty of Pitt, just as Lord Derby was dead
against the French Comm... MI Treaty of .Mr. Gladstone.
And lord Derby, therefore, when he resisted the Free Trade
proposed by Sir Reinert Peel, was but observing the traditions
of his house. In 1834, whin he resisted the Appropriation
Clause, end in 1846, when he refused to join Pectin the
repeal of the Corn Laws, he was only proving his incapacity
to get beyond the Influence of early education.
lord Stant, y, we have said, left office and the Whigs in
1834. carrying with him several friends, of whom the most
able was Sir James Graham. It was with reference to this
secession that O'Connell, in his most humorous manner,
twitching his wig and rollieg his eye, quoted the couplet
after which H. B. made one of his beet sketches?—
" Still down thy steep, romantic Ashbourne, glides
The Derby Dilly with its six insides."
The secession of the Derby Dilly puts stop for the time to
all schemes for the appropriation of the funds of the Irish
Church; and in the end, also, the Derby Dilly Mend its way
into the Tory camp. On the fall of Lord Melbourne's first
Ministry, indeed, when Peel in 1034 attempted to form a
Government, he made overtures to Lord Stanley and his
friends, which were rejected. Seven years later when
lord Melbourne's Ministry could no longer resist the out-
cry of public epode., and when Sir Robert Peel Mr
the second time undertook to form a Government, these
overtures were renewed, and were accepted. Lori Stanley
much too Independent, and too willing
was a tower of strength to the Tory party, though he was
to smite friends as
well as foes, to make its leader feel perfectly at ease with
him. Sir hert Peel was Owl of an exense to ledge lord
Stanley before his time to the Upper House, and he had greet
reason for his distrust. There came a time when the retreat
of the Corn Laws could not be delayed. If Lord Stanley
could have seen his way to starlit by Peel in that emergency
and to accept Free Trade, the Tory party would never have
been brokering', for those who might still shout for Protection
had no chiet of name met influence enough to hold them
together. But in that great crisis Lord Stanley
was bound by all the traditions of his family to
resist Free Trade. Ells hereditary antipathy to the proposed

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change had no counterpoise in any personal sympathy with
his political chief. ills intellect was too playful to sympa-
thize with the earnestness of such men as Sir Robert Peel
and Mr. Gladstone. lie could be grave when occasion re-
quired; but gravity rather bored ,him, and one may be
allowed to doubt whether In his secret heart the awful
solemnity and pompous verbosity of Peel's style when
he was In a difficulty did not appear to him as
something verging on humbug, jut as at a later
period he had no patience and little regard for
the elaborate scrupulosity of Mr. Gladstone. Ile re-
suit in the great conjuncture of 1846 was that Lord Stanley
broke loose from the sway of Peel. The rank and file of the
Tories rallied round Lord Stanley ; Peel fell never to rise
to office,egnin and his immediate followers gradually went

Over CO the opposite party.
This was the turning point of Lord Stanley's career,f or he
was soon formally and by the advice of the Duke of Veelluur
ton installed in the leadership of the Tories. It may have
been observed that there was ;unusual formality in the
transfer of the leadership of the party from Sir Robert Peel
to Lord Stanley, and that Lord Stanley showed unusual re-
luctance to accept a responsibility which no other man could
possibly have undertaken with success. Why this formality ?
Why this reluctance 1 The fact is that the position of Lord
Stanley was one of considerable delicacy, inasmuch as he
was born and bred a Whig, and his alliance wish the Tories
was of very recent origin. If Lord Stanley had been a Tory
from the first, there could have been no difficulty solo his
at once stepping into the vacant place. His claims were pre-
eminent, by reason of his vast influence and his unrivalled
ability. The question was—How could he who had for-
saken the Whig ranks but twelve years before, and who had
jollied the Tory ranks but five or six years before, assume
the command of a party in which he might be regarded as a
kind of alien? Would the Tories accept the leadership of
their convert? The Duke of Wellington, therefore, came
forward in the most authoritative manner to decide the ques-
tion and to gazette Lord Stanley to the lead of his party.
That party was now little better than a forlorn hope. It
was weak in its numbers and discredited in its alms. It
Was, indeed, almost a laughing-stock in the country. In
Parliament there was a tremendous force arrayed against it,
strong, not merely in numbers, but also hi the ability, the
experience, and the repute of the statesmen who were at the
head of it. Lord Stanley, however, found in Lord George
!Wain& and Mr. Disraeli lieutenants of great courage
and force of character, men who could fight a losing
battle with skill and keep the party together. They
held on and fought manfully against overwhelming
odds and every kind of disappointment, until at the
end of six years they actually found their way into
Doe clog-street. They did so, however, not through their
own strength, but through the dissensions of their adverse-
nee. Those adversaries were many and powerful, but there
was no one among them who was allowed to have command-
ing intlueace. In point of fact, Lord Palmerston, who was
really the strongest man among them, and who in the end
rose to supreme power, was then the object of not a little
distrust, was attacked on all sides, and was eventually
ejected from office. lie took a speedy revenge ey turning
out those who had turned him out. By these dissensions
of their chiefs the Whigs were disorganized, and Lord Derby
, —who had succeeded to his title in 1851—WAS, in 1852,
I commanded by the Queen to form a Government. Al-
though supported in the House of Commons only by a
hopeless minority, he was courageous enough to under-
take the duty imposed upon him, and made up a
Cabinets? men almost all of whom were then new to their
work, and some of them almost unknown. Tom tasted the
sweets of office for slew months, but that was all. In these
few months they were compelled to accept the policy of Free
Trade, in opposition to which they had been banded to-
gether. In these few months, also, the opposing chiefs came
to terms with each other, agreed to sink their differences,
and to join in a coalition of "all the talenta " under the rule
of Lord Aberdeen. Lord Derby and his friends, therefore,
had very soon again to relapse into the cold shade of Opposi-
tion. Unfortunately for them, not only were there "big
battalions "against them ; but also they had no policy that
could be plainly put forward—all their policy, was "looming
in the 'Mute." The leaders of the party were in their own
mhids liberal enough; but they dared Ted speak si hat they
believed, for the main body of the party were obstinate and
obstructive.
It must have been a relief to Lord Derby when he resigned
the seals of office, hell on such terms as he had been coin-
I pelted to accept. Ile had paned this, however, by his year
of office—that he had brought a certain number of men into
training, that he had shown them to be capable of routine
work, and that he had placed them before the country as
possible Ministers. the had now to bide his time in opposi-
tion again, encouraging his followers by attacks, by great
field days, and by the usual watchfulness of political warfare.
The chief burden of this work, of course, fell upon Mr.
Disraeli in the llouse of Commons; but Lord Derby also
bore his share of the burden through live more years of
Opposition, at the end of which time he was again
enabled to comfort his party with the spoils of office.
It was still as before, however, through the dissensions
of the opposite party, and not through the strength
of his own following, that he was able to instal them
in Downing-street. Lord Aberdeen had retired, and Lord
Palmerston was in power, but not yet with such absolute
devotion from his party as he afterwards received. There
were still mutineers among them, and one day, on account
of his supposed subservience to France, they turned upon
him, and with the assistance of the Tories, placed him in a
minority which forced him to resign. Lord Derby, himself
In a minority, accepted office in his place, and succeeded in
forming a Ministry which was leas weak than the one he had
collected in 1552. A Ministry which could boast of such
men as Lord Derby himself, Mr Disraeli, Sir Edward Lytton,
Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir High Cairns, Lord Robert
Cecil, Sir John Packhigton, Sir Stafford Northcote, could not
well be described as wanting in Liberal ideas. What it
most wanted was to secure the support of Mr. Gladstone
who just then hung loose from party and represented, if not
sln numbers, yet in weight, a neutral party of not a little
power which would go for to torn the scales in a division.
Mr. Gladstone declined to join Lord Derby's Cabinet; but
he was not hostile to it, and he accepted a proposal made to
him by Sir Edward Lytton, then at the Colonial Office, that
he should undertake a special mission to the lonian Islands.
Ills generally supposed that this evidence of goodwill might
Save been nurtured into a closer alliance between Mr.
Gladstone and the Tory party; but Lord Derby had as little
sympathy with ale Gladstmie as with Sir It. Peel; he could
not help making a poor jest about the fruitlessness of
that niission to Greece; and Mr. Gladstone was lost to the
Tories for ever. Still the Government was more than res-
pectable, and all that It wanted for success was a majority.
One thing is especially lobe noted about it, and that is the
presence in the Cabinet of a father and son, the father
being Lord 1./erby himself, the son being the heir to his
titles and a statesman of proved ability. It was a most
extraordinary combination, bust it may be doubted whether
the father had a mom perfect sympathy with the grave
sobriety of the son than with the poniponeness of Mr It.
Peel or the terrible earnestness of Mr. Gladstone.
The 'rory Ministry of 1850-59 made a good fight. In face of
considerable resistance they carried their India 11111, by which
the government of our most splendid dependency was trans-
ferred from the East India Company to the Sovereign ; and
in a most memorable debate on lord Canning's Indian policy
they completely routed their adversaries. Not only was
Lord Derby's Government successful in its Indian policy, but
in other respects also it made its mark. Thus the Colonial
administration of Sir Edward Lytton showed a vigorous
originality which gave great satisfaction; and the attempt
of Mr. Disraeli to carry a measure of Parliamentary
Reform, although it was unsuccessful, has extorted
the praise even of his opponents The House of
Commons rejected this scheme, and the country when it wag
appealed to failed to give it support. But the real reason
why Lord Derby's Government was displaced in 1859 was the
condition of affairs abrond. It was the year of the Italian
war; we seemed to be threatened with disturbance on all
sides; questions of the utmost complication and of immense
importance were pooling; and it was felt to beef paramount
necessity that the statesman who had shown most power to
deal with foreign States and Courts should have the helm
in his hands. Our representatives night talk and
divide on questions of home politics such as that of
Parliamentary Reform; but before and behind all was one
dominant thought of the time, that our foreign relations
needed the chief attention, and that Lord Palmerston should
he at the head of affairs. Lord Palmerston came lets power;
held it easily for the remainder of his life, and was followed
In eitice by Lord Russell For seven long years the Tories
languished in the wilderness ; and if at leugth they got their
reward, it was once more not throngh their own strength, lint
through the disorganization of the enemy bereft of its great
leader.
In the seven years' interval, Lord Derby began to show
signs of advancing age. It was not in his mind, indeed, that
he showed signs of decay, but in his frame. His walk became
less elastic; his voice lost much of its wonderful tone; we
began to hear often of severe illness; and it was under-
stood that he was dtsinolined to enter again upon the tolls
of ottice. Still he was willing to sacrifice himself to his
party, and was always ready to take his share of work on
any battle-day. No one joined more earnestly than he, for
example, in the struggles of his party with Mr. Gladstone
when the French Treaty, with the financial questions
relating to it, was under discussion. His speech
on tho repeal of the Paper Duty was a wonder in
its way—a marvel of felicitous statement and clear
airangement of financial details; but it could give
those who heard it no adequate Idea of his old
style—its music, its ere, its rapidity, its irresistible dash.
It may be regarded, also, as a sign of age, though certainly
not of decay, that he now reverted much to his books and to
the studies of his youth Ile set himself the task of trans-
lating the Iliad. Ile had been fond of translation in his
youth, and had cultivated the art with some success, as a
recent collection of his minor translations from various
languages, Greek, Latin, Italian, and Frew+, abundantly
proven And now, in his old age, the brilliant chief re-
turned to his classical studies, and found that he could bear
his gout better in company with the Greeks. That he should
undertake the translation of Homer shows that he
had lost nothing of his old self-confidence, anti it cannot
be denied that this confidence was justified. The
translation is full of spirit; does honour both to Lord Derby's
scholarship and to his poetical faculty; and we can well be-
lieve that It gave him great delight in its progress. Ile took
as much interest in it as a boy author; liked to have it criti-
cized, and enjoyed praise of his work. The work had been
a labour of love to him, and he felt that he had been success-
ful in it. We are not going to make invidious comparisons,
nor to say that it supersedes other translations; but it was a
work of which he had reason to be proud, which scholars
may consult with advantage, and which those who like trans-
lations will alwrys read with pleasure.
The later events of Lord Derby's career are so recent that
a word about them will be enough. Ile led his party into
power in the summer of 1866 ; during the next year the great
Tory Chief induced his followers to pass an Act establishing
Household Suffrage, and early in the following one here-
signed the direction of his Government and of his party to
Mr. Disraeli, himself retiriug very much into private life,
and content to serve rather as an adviser than as a com-
mander of the Tory host, In this slew position, only
one year after he had resigned his command, he saw a strange
thing happen —the House of Lords on a question of high
policy voting one way and he himself voting another. ills
possible that had he continued to lead his party he would
have voted for the second reading of the Irish Church Bill,
but having resigned the command he was more free to vote
according to his wishes.
Lord Derby's leadership of the Tory party, which extended
over 21 yeres, shows two things very clearly—one, that never
was the leader of a greet party so wanting in a declared
policy the other that never was the leader of a great party so
implicitly trusted.... Certainly, there was in this brilliant
MA of many gifts, of rare accomplishments, of splendid
lineage, and of immense wealth the very stuff that,
conjoined to his own seleomfidence, his straight-
forward style, and his unfailing vivacity, should command
submission. Submission was the more readily yielded be-
cause his style of command was not arrogant. He Was care-
lessly and naturally playful To see him in private it often
seemed as if he had nothing to do but to be merry. His style
was so natural that it became easy to yield to it; and no
great party in the present century has yielded such perfect
submission for such a length of time to one man as the
Tories gave to their splendid chief, who won all the more
confidence inasmuch as he never seemed to calculate, but to
move straight on with the heroic force of impulse.
We have spoken of Lord Derby chiefly as a statesman.
But, after all, it is the Ulan—ever brilliant and impulsive—
that has most won the admiration of his countrymen. He
Was a splendid specimen of an Englishman, and whether he
; Was engaged in furious debate with demagogues, or in lowly
conversation on religion with little children, or in parley
with jockeys, while training Tosophilite, or rendering
Homer into English verse, or in stately Latin discourse as
the Chancellor of his University, or in joyous talk in a draw-
ing-room among ladies whom he delighted to chaff, or in
caring for the needs of Lancashire operatives, there was a
; force and a tire about him that acted like a spell. Of all his
public acts none did him more honour, and none made a
deeper impression on the minds of his countrymen that, that
to which we have just alluded—his conduct on the occasion
of the cotton famine in Lancashire. No man in the
kingdom sympathised more truly than he with the dis-
tress of the poor Lancashire spinners, and, perhaps, no man
did so lunches he for their relief. It was not simply that he
gave them a princely donation; he worked hard for them in
the committee which was established in their aid; lie was,
indeed, the life and soul of the committee, and for mouths
at that bitter time he went about doing good by precept and
example, Si. that myriads in Lane ahire now blem his Dame.
Ile will longlive in memory as one of the most remarkable,
and inliattl irresistible, nien of our time—a man privately
beloved and publicly admired, who showed extraordinary
cleverness in many ways; was the greatest orator of bis day,
and woo the most brilliant, though not the most successful,
Parliamentary leader of the last half century.
Lont Derby, thee Mr. Stanley, re tie ied in they, 182.5,
1d01i5,5 Gamine 1,C01,1i daughter of Lord ek ne rsda!e.iry
whom he leaves a family of two sons mei a daughter. The
elder son is well known as Lord Stanley. The younger,
Captain Stanley, is Member for North Lancashire, and is
teamed to a daughter of Lord Clarendon. The daughter,
Lady Emma, is married to Colonel Talbot.

Dnring the put week 113 wrecks were reported,
making tor the prefeene year 1,958.

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SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.—An in-
quest was held at Limerick on Saturday on the body
of Mrs. Mary Mackey, wife of a grocer of that city.
For Ronne time deceased had exhibited symptoms of
mental derangement, and on Friday night was watched
by her husband and a servant. Nevertheless she con-
trived to get up early in the morning, remove a sash
from the window, and throw herself out. The fall
was from the fourth storey, and her skull and almost
every bone in her body were smashed by the fall. The
jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
INQUEST AT HARWELL ASYLUM.—An inquest
has been held at the Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, into
the cause of the death of &patient named Santa Nistri,
aged 38 (late a tailor in London), which occurred the
previous Thursday. It appeared from the evidence
that deceased was admitted into the asylum about a
fortnight ago. He then had a bruise on the left eye,
but no other injury was noticed about his body. His
chief ailment was acute paralysis of the brain, and on
admission after the usual bath he was placed in the
refractory ward, lie seemed to have an aversion to
being dressed, and constantly attempted to remove his
clothes, so that it became necessary to have themlocked
on him. He was treated in the usual way by the
medical officers, but on Thursday last, at about half-
past three o'clock, he was found dead in the padded
room, and the doctor, on making a postmortem examin-
ation, found the following injuries about his body:—
The breast bone broken, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh
right ribs, and the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh left
ribs broken, left eye very black and lacerated, and a
small bruise on the left chest. Three patients and
four attendants were examined, but they could
throw no light on the mystery as to how deceased
received the injuries ; but the jury were not satisfied
at allowing the matter to rest at that stage, and the
inouiry was accordingly adjourned for a week.
Two SIDES TO A BOBBY.—The Daily Not an-
nounces that a "Metropolitan Police Vigilance Asso-
ciation," to exercise a general supervision of the con-
duct of the Police in the streets. Punch offers them a
motto, " Custodirc Custodes," and a suggestion—that
not only shall "the members of the Association be
watchful at all times in the streets, especially at night.
ready to acquaint themselves with the facts of any
outrage by the police, and to come forward in proof of
them," but that they shall be equally vigilant to mark
any outrage on the police, and to come forward in
their support. Ti should not be forgotten that, as
there are a head and tail to a bob, there are two sides
to &bobby, and that the situation involves at least as
many kicks as halfpence, if not a good many more.—
Punch.
THE TRICKS or LONDON.— A correspondent of
the Daily News senda the following account of an "old
trick" f,r publication:
I was lately accosted in the vicinity of Russell-square by a
mechanic, seemingly, say a carpenter, going to his work with
a footrule in his pocket As the man Appeared to know me, I
was induced, contrary to sip usual habit, to stop and listen
to his request. Ile simply asked it I could inform him
whether a pair of spectacles, wlAch he produced wrapped
in a bit of paper, were for old or young sight. lie said
that he had picked them up, and expressed hit surprise
that they had not been broken, since the ease containing
them was crashed, and remarked that he thought them
wither old-fashioned. on examining the frame it seemed to
be of solid silver, hall marked, and with the word" Pebbles"
Stamped on the Inside. The man mentioned by the way,
that a certain publican would willingly have given hint bs. for
them had they suited his vision ; otherwise he did'ot seem at
all desirous to find a purchaser. Now as a pair of silver
mounted pebbles are worth Int or lis., the unwary, espe-
cially if the focus happens to suit them, are tempted to
offer as muck as the discerning publican, in the expectation
of securing a great barrel. The pseudo-finder thereon
pockets the tin, remarking with nonchalance that 'twill
gene to provide him and his mates with some beer, and goes
hie way rejoicing. The dupe, on testing the value of his prise
finds ,that the mock silver hi a white metal washed, that the
hall mark is an imitation, that the "pebbles" are common
glass, and the whole article worth Is. or Is. 6.1. From the
number of his victims I have met with, the rascal must be
doing a smart trade, and he acts the part of a simple, unde-
signing working man so well as to deserve success.
MODEL CoTTAGES FOR FARM LABOURERS.—
There have been recently erected by Lord Vernon at
Sudbury, near Deitsy, several model cottages for farm
labourers. Each cottage contains a living room, three
bed-rooms, entrance porch, scullery, pantry, fuel store,
piggery, privy, cesspit, and aahpit. The cottages have
been built with local bricks made on the estate, the
external walls being hollow for dryness, relieved with
bands of dark blue Staffordshire bricks. The roofs
are covered with blue and brindled tiles, having orna-
mental ridge cresting. The porches have projecting
eaves and gables, with large boards and brackets.
The works have been carried out by Mr. Deville, of
Burton-upon-Trent, from the designs and under the
direction of Mr. John Birch, of London, who gained
the Society of Arts premium and medal for such
designs.
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN JAPAN.
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 22.—His Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh has been received by the Mikado pub-
licly, as well as privately, and with marked cordiality,
an event considered as unprecedented and of a highly
gratifying character. His Royal Highness proceeds
by the Tien-tin route to Pekin. A complimentary
dinner has been given by the foreign residents of Yoko-
haina to Admiral Keppel, at which the Duke of Edin-
burgh was present. The French Consul at Yoko-
hama has] announced that appeals from the Consular
Courts of Siam and Japan will henceforth be made to
the Imperial Court of Saigon instead of Pondicherry.
STAG-HUNT AT COMPIEGNE.—A letter from
Compffigne says :
A stag-hunt took place here on Thumday, and was ex-
tremely successful. The Prince Imperial was present, at-
tended by his equerry, the meet being at Etangs Is Saint-
Pierre. After a run of about two hours the animal was
killed, nearly thirteen miles from the starting-point The
Prince was one of the first in at the death, and the Grand
Huntsman presented him with one of the deer's feet. The
Prime do Is bloskowa directed the hunt, as the Emperor was
not present. In the evening a dinner of forty-five covers
was served in the beautiful gallery. known as the Natoire
deem the circumstance that the pictures with which it is
adorned are by the painter of that name'. The Ministers
were present, as well as Baron Haussmann, General Fleury,
the Marquis de Tillers and is l'Aigle, an i other personages
of note, whose names would occupy too much space. Allow
me, however, to mention two deputies—M. Guilloutet, the
author of the famous amendment on the sacredness of
private life, and M. Dammed. The Emperor did the
honours of the table. At ten o'clock the gates of the chateau
were opened to the public for the euree by torch-light, whicht
took place in the Court of Honour.
GRIEVANCES OF IRISH SCHOOLMASTERS. A
deputation of national schoolmasters waited upon the
Chief Secretary, on Saturday, with a statement of
grievances, which they desire to have redressed. A
memorial set forth the subjects of complaint. First,
they are inadequately paid. Their salaries were pre-
vioualy augmented by the pupils' fees, but since the
decrease in the population of the country, those con-
tingent emoluments have fallen off, while the price of
the necessaries of life has greatly increased. They
have not the power of enforcing the payment of fees
from the pupils, so that the receipts from this source
are the more precarious. They also protest against
the threatened application to Ireland of the system of
payment by results, which they contend would be fatal
to their interests. Several of the teachers who formed
the deputation addressed the Chief Secretary, and en-
larged upon the hardships to which they were exposed.
Mr. Fortescue informed them that their statement
shonld receive the best consideration.
HEIGHT OF EXTRAVAGANCE.—Getting yourself
run over by a Railway Van, just after you have bought
your Diary for 1870.—Punch.
A CLEVER Dwritcrivs !—A story is going the
round of the French papers which shows that detec-
tives sometimes know how to look after their own
interests. A legacy of wow francs was recently left
to a lady who had long lived with her daughter in ex-
treme poverty. Unfortunately thins invldenly enriched
couple were nowhere to be found, and the affair was
put into the hands of a young and active detective.
He asked for fourteen days to prosecute the search.
At the end of that time he had been unsuccessful, and
he begged for fourteen days more. Still he was
apparently no nearer his object, and he requested that
the time might be extended to a month. When this
period had elapsed, and he presented himself, unac-
companied by any one, before his superior, the latter
upbraided him with his inefficiency. It was obvious,
the indignant official remarked, that his subordinate
did not sufficiently know his business. "Very well,
my dear sir," was the calm reply, "but I have now to
inform you that I have been eight days married to the
daughter of the lady I have been searching for, and I
shall thank you to hand over the 500,00) francs which
are the property of my mother-in-law."
WISHING HIM EVERY Somme !—The Korth
German Correspondent says that Mr. Richard, M. P.,
has lately visited Berlin for the purpose of inducing
the members of the Landtag to support a policy of
general disarmament. A large number of gentlemen be-
longing to the two great sections of the Liberal party
were present, and the discussion was lively. Mr.
Faucher acted the part of interpreter. Mr. Richard
spoke with warmth and at some length. He explained
and defended his plan, urging that it was the duty
of all parliaments to do what in them lay for the
establishment of international courts of arbitration,
whose purpose would be to settle the differences arising
between various countries. He added that Mr. Glad-
stone had promised to support this Policy, though not
in Parliament, while in France M. Passy, and in Bel-
gium M. Fiachers, both deputies had undertaken to
further the scheme. The members of the Prussian
Landtag who were present did not seem to be entirely
convinced by his arguments; they answered that cir-
cumstances alter cases, and the present position of
Northern Germany is peculiar. Mr. Richard intends
to extend his journey to Vienna, in order to continue
his labours for the cause of peace.
LYNCHING A NEGRO.—A negro was recently
captured at Piscataway, near Washington, eharged
' with having committed an outrage on a young lady, a
school-teacher. While being conveyed, in the custody
of two constables, to gaol. a body of men, with their
faces covered with handkerchiefs, with pierced eye-
holes, overpowered and bound the constables, who
made a determined resistance. They then drove the
prisoner to an adjacent wood, and a rope having been
adjusted to a tree, the prisoner was told to stand up
in the waggon. His head not reaching the noose, the
miserable man was forced to mount on the driver's seat.
The rope was then put round his neck, and the waggon
drawn from under him. A horrible scene then took
place, as the wretch's feet touched the ground, and
one of the band jumped on his shoulders to bear him
down, While some of the others swung him to and fro
until he was dead. The whole party then formed in
line, and fired a volley at the body. A coroner's in-
quest was subsequently held, and a verdict of "Death
from hanging bysome unknown persons" was returned.
THE MORDAIINT DIVORCE CASE.—This case will
come before the Judge Ordinary of the Court of Divorce
and Matrimonial Causes in the ensuing Michaelmas
Term, which begins on Tuesday, November 2. It wil be
remembered that on July 27 a motion was made before
Lord Penzance in the suit of " Mordaunt v. Mordant.
Johnstone and Cole" with regard to the conduct of the
case. There had been several applications inchambera
for the postponement of her ladyship's answer, mainly
on the ground of her insanity at the time she made the
statements which led to the inquiries that resulted in
the institution of the suit; and in support of that plea
of insanity a number affidavits were filed. Count •r
affidavits, more than a dozen in nuniber, were filed in
answer ; and it was upon the conflicting stermens
made therein, that the learned judge committed the