The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-24 00:00:00

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It Is Wee that Bari Rue el ha, seen immense ervice,
an) now that Lard Palmerston is gone, it will be REIM II
who will be the vet la Premier. He was bo,n no the
18th of Align •t 1792, so that he is ” no chicken," and
alih.nigh we walnut forget seven (*Hums, as his "Vienna
Mimi m," his R.aelee &sliced Titles Bill, and his recent
attimpt at "Reform," perhaps the ehoice of the
Sovereign, as a temporary arrangement, will be viewed
with trmpamtive satisfac•ion throughout the country.
Tiler° is, however, no denying the fact that the death
ef Lord Palmerston is a severe lose to the Libera's and a
great gain to the Conservatives. The present House of
Commons was emphatically elected for or &gaunt
Palmerston, and his name was perhaps not absent from
a tenth of the election addressee; so that, now he has
gone, come of the popularity of the Government will go
with him. The Conservatives have ahem felt that to
oppose a Government beaded by Palmerston was far
more difficult than to oppose one headid by a more
decided Liberel. From this fact will now arise far more
spirit in opposition, and more spirit in endeavouring
to maintain ministerial policy. Hence we shall probably
have a most animated session.
Parliament is to be called together, ills Paid about
the third week in Jantury, and then the swearing in of
the members and the choice of a Speaker is to be
Immediately proceed with, so that the ordinary business
of the session may commence about the usual time.
Thar o as rumour that Parliament will be called together
earlier than the time above mentioned on arsonist of the
death of Lord Palmerston; but I do not think it likely,
as the new ministry will no doubt be formed without any
permanent hitch. 'Me next session will be a very
active one. There is an enormous amount of private
busisess on hand, some 500 b lb having to be canvassed
by committee, end I should not he at all surprised if
BOUM alteration in the present dilatory system of com-
mittee business were proposed this session. We now
of "thin session" for we are beginning to look
vd to it eagerly. At all events, private business
't bowies ill lot very heavy, especially railway

partial goad, from. De want of a judiciono i, ic'sra of
the youtbiul orators Thew- meetings d,d, it raw true,
frequently develope self-relianoe, hut they also en-
couraged a fli-lly declamatory st)le, which orejudiced
ninny thoughtful inen agatnst attempts to cultivate the
art of public apeaking. The college chapels, in-tea lof
being normal schools for Church reeling, weie practi-
cally the reverse ; for the chaplains generally recited the
players as if the object were to get the duty over in the
shortest time and the seholara, profitina by t •
examp'e, red the lessons rapidly, indistinctly, wi Ii
lit In attention to pawl,' or emphasio ; and they were
seldom corrected for mispronunciation, monotony, pro
vincial accent or any error, maims Indeed a false
quantity should have offended the ears of the classical
tutor. The university and college antliorities seemed to
take it for granted that men comirig into teddetice were
fully masters of the English language ; that they re-
quired no °nurse of study in an elementary a matter am
the art of reading. writing. and spi eking thee native
tongue ; and that they must jest .do as others had done
before theta in prepanitiou for the prayer-desk and
pulpit —trust to the 'light of nature in writing and
delivering seim .no • or, if liarl pres-ed, they might
compile, 'adapt,' borrow, hog, or hire! Cimsequently
little or no encouragement was given to any propmuils fo
supply these defects. Several iintessora of divinity hod
tried, but in train, to gee their me r to de chat was don.-
in all the Scottish Univereitini—write and 4. liver Cid!
worms. An eminent elocutionist, Mr. Plumptre
member of the English her), had jot commence I work
at Oxford,rsed an English lecturesnip had been founded
at Cambridge; but both were of origin ton resent to be
at present taken into acoount. Certain it was that,
while those in influential positions spoke of e'ocntion as
mere *limiting,' while undeigraduat a had every me-
du .einent to devote theme-Inca exclusively to cla.sics
and mathematic., and while the most aecomi fished
English 'scholar found himself no better off in examine
tions than the nice who sent up lila papers full of errors
in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, there was but
little hope of any extensive wixasure of improvement in
our University system."

and eatitfying bevera ea for dinner or other
men's, while at the same tune they are cheaper
than lx•er. It will be seen that Messrs. GilbYs
circular is eminently worthy the attention of the
middle-class c,,tisticuttr, and no doubt obtains it,
since they send out per tliy 2,159 bottles of wines
of Spain, 1.140 of those of Portugal, 1,035 of
France, 895 Marsala, 620 Germany, 368 Cape of
Good Hope. Madeira, eta.. 1 063 brandy (foreign),
887 gin, 514 whiskey (Scotch and Irish), 209
rum, and 77 Hollanda and other spirits and
liqueurs.

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tory4,proin

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Cholera la to be stopped at ftembemplitriMis future.
I,ll64tubffrne Porte has seceded te tlie 'frilliest of the'
a .c/Ftiernment for a uOMlllilliioll to Inquire Into
t
' 'Pose remedies for the evils of Mecca
are supposed to incubate the disease which has
mimmtly destroyed Co many lives in European countries.
lilompay we bare escaped the scourge this year, sad
Uses Is aciregevoisy appreciable fear of its approach.
but we re'Stflf 'Pot musts less interested than other
countries ikremoving the prime cause of the disease in
It. native Isome. I trust tbe matter will be found really
capable of amendment, and that Europe may thus be
spared such fearful visitations. It may appear late to
take action after the cholera has spread all over the
South of Europe; but it is not too late to lock one's
stable door even after losing • sifted, if there ars plesty
more behind to lose.

One by one our classic table., and even our ancient
English stories, are being proved fallacious, and now
classic, ground is being invaded by railways, tunnel., ka,
so that not only the traditions a the past, but those

loelebratiod territories which

mill to mind the beautiful
&Mons of our sobool-boy days, are disappearing. The
Maui is made to turn mills; Mount Olympus is about
to be clesred away h) work a seal mine; and now an
Buglish company is about to establish an omnibus
service between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. I have even
seen a French map which marks out the Holy Lend for
railway enterprise, with stations at Jerioho, Joppa,
Bethlehem, he. Nothing ean stop modern enterprise,
and It would not be advisable to &UNDO to do a; but,
all, all these things do great violeneeto our feelings.
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Ministry to present conspirators from Andrei a safe
lam In England. The motion was rejected, the
haiesston ltiniatry was overthrown, and Lord Derby
„manned the reins of lice. SOO 11 afterwards the
Derby Ministry introdu 13 I a R'-form Bill. To several
.4 the provisions of tt at Mtasnre the Liberals icrmk
.-xsapioe, and a immolation. moved by Lord Joan
Eu is I and supported by Mr. Bright, placed Lord
D,rby in a minority, and he in turn appen'ed to the
country. Toe popular Verellat wan against him. It
was thi, time the Nemo* Rooms, corm act osa
muscle between the Whige and advanced Liherahs, which
enabled it vote of want of endd fence in Lord l)erby's
Government to he Tarried, on a pledge by Lords Palmer-
;ton and Russell that the introduction and passing of
an honest Reform Bi:1 would be the first care of the
new Ministry. How that pledge was carried out the
?pantry known. The people, however, were not exact-
ing, and the veteran was never more, popular then be
was during the last Fix y. are, when almost nnelmaimged
be enjoyed the proud din, inction of being Premier of
England. Time teatralmty which was maintained in the
American war sill always entitle the Mmistry to the
gratitude of the people of bth countries. The Premier
now rests from his long life of labour, semi the country
will long leek bmk with interest upon the varied and
wonderful career of ileury Juhn Temple, the 44 Lord
PAinersten.

11L-sara Booting and Son, of St. James's-street, have
d instroc.i.ms to carry out the arrangementa Inc
L r 4 1".1m r.ton's funeral.

Of the flfty.ei ht year during which Lord Palmerston
A member of e Honpe forty-eight hail been spent
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in. office. and Vat. we think.. i can be said Of no

nther Enlih ratv;inan, dead or living.

Lord Palmerston lisd sat in 'lateen Parliaments,
and been eectel to it in the seventeenth. He served
in oci,l positions four monarchs—George ILL, George
IV., Witlttrn IV., and Queen Victoria.

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At the these{ his tleocute Lord Palmerston was the
oldest member, or " Fether," of the HOW% of C•smrnons
haring hell a peat in Ht. Stephen's sines 1807, with the
interruption of ooly three months in the winter of
1.834 5.
The Court of Common Gionell of the city of London,
os Thursday, psPitud a reeolaVon es prelusive of regret II
the low the nation had sustained by the death of Lord
Palmerst and to expro a oondulenoe with Lady
Palmerston.

Doing about the year 182) Lod Palmerstoa Wee
beat known an the Man ot Fashion," agreat repute
at Almack's and famous in the waits. At this parisulae
t,period, Lady Cowper, destined at a later period to
Il_weeme Lady Palnnuston wag one of the leader

I,f.shi.a in peuuliarly exoludive taut* ul fame.

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Is 1832 Lord Palmerston was created a Knight Grand
Cross of the Bath, in 1811 a Knight of the Tower and
Sword of Portoga and K. (1-. in 1367. Is 1961 he was
appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Forks, and
G ,eernor of Dover Castle and was elected Lord Rector
of Glasgow in 1862. Had his lordship lived till Friday,
Ihe would have attiined his 81st year.

The household at Brockett Rail was not prepared for
so swift an end. Lady PalmerAon, however, has been
wonderfully supported; her loss ii, of course, felt to be
irreparable, but she has her two daughters with hee—
l...Ay Shaftesbury and Lady Cowper—and she is very
liensib'e of the spontaneous and amen feelings which
mingle with her own intense regret from every part of
England.
It is a curious fact that to the end of his days Lord
Palmerston was not a graceful public speaker. lie wasted
that fluency of speech which is often but the mask of a
weak mind, but without which no man can be an orator.
To the 1.4 there was a hesitsney about his address;
fastidious search after the felicitously exact word,
which repaid the audience when it came, but which was
often painful in the search, and was acoompanied with
an odd gesticulation as if the minister was milting the
phrase out of himself.
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Besides the toil of the debate and ineessant watching
in the House of Commons, his office work was enormous.
His despatches, all written in that line bold hand which
he desired to engraft upon the Fereign-offioe are innu•
ruerable. His minutes upor every conceivable subject
of interest in the last fifty years would fill many
volumes, and it is to be hoped that some of them will
be published. Moreover, in private, he was always
, ready to write for the information of his friends, and he
always wrote well. It in said by a writer in the Tinto
that he geaerally wrote standing.

The Herald says there never wee an English Minister
who was so thoroughly the idol of his countrymen
because there never was one whc so perfectly understood
their character and secured so largely their confidence.
No regrets that may be offered over his tomb will be
more sincere than those of the political opponents who
honoured the man even while they opposed his policy,
and who never doubt d that, although the means might
be different, the end of both was the same, sod that
Lord Palmerston in all his actions had the honour and
Interest of his country at heart.
With all his official labours, be kept his hold on
society and enjoyed life like a youth. Lard Palmerston
—and in this Lady Palmerston resembles him—was in
his very nature genial and social. They loved society.
In the country, as in town, their hospitality was un-
bounded. A large fstmily simile continually gathered
about them, reinforce I by whoever was remarkable for
political or literary or artiatie eniinence, for sport, for
travel, for military or naval exploits. Yet the host and
hostess were never rich until latterly, and even at last
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their means were as nothing when oompared with the
opulence of many who never open their doors except to
the members of a coterie.
Lady Palmerst .n, it is said, bears her loss with more
fortitude than it was at first expected she would do.
She has the warmest sympathy of her Majesty, who has
all through the illness of the Premier been constantly
informed of his condition, and who, upon hearing
of his death, instantly wrote to his widow, assur-
ing her of "her liesotfelt and deep sympathy with
her under this deep trial." Similar assurances of con- '
dolenos have been received by her ladyship from thel
Prir.oe and Princess of Wales, as well as from high
quarters abroad, while the testimonies of private
aympathy are constantly pouring in. From all parts of
the country we bear of the sorrow felt and expressed at
the death of the veteran Premier.

I The Pall Mall
.oasette, in a thoughtful and philo-
sophioal article, gives the following as • leading
eharacteristio of Lord Palinerston :—.` And if, in fact,
we recall Lord Pahaers'on's great career, we cannot
!avoid noting this marked characteristic of it, that he
has achieved his slow but marvellous success as a
politieiao, like the English nation itself, if we may be
allowed the paradox, by not being too poZitied—by being
to a considerable extant impervioue to the agitations of
politics, even when he was applying the strongest
impulse of • strong character and will to politics, and
when politics were most agitating. Hence, we think,
his remarkable success as a War Minister and Foreign
Secretary, each of whom most, if he is to succeed, have
a head which keeps clear above the danger of immersion
in diplornatio tangles or pease negooiations, • head as
strong and vigilant for considerations outside the parti-
cular interests involved as for those within them. And
hence, also, still more, Lord Palmerston', greatest
success—his seeress ae • Premier in a time of keen
political jealousies but cool political desires."
The Times observes that it is impossible not to feel
that Lord Palmerston's death mark/ism epoch in English
politics. Other ministers may carry into effect success-
ful organic reforms from which he shrunk—others may
introduce • new spirit into our foreign relation; and
abandon the system of secret diplomacy he never failed
to support. Others may advise her Majesty with equal
sagacity, and sway the House of Commons with equal
or greater eloquence, but his place in the hearts of the
people will not be filled BO easily. The name of Lord
Palmerston once the terror of the Continent, will long
be connected in the minds of Englishmen with an epoch
of unbroken peace and unparalleled prosperity, cherished
together with the brightest memories of the reign of
Q.reen Victoria. The same paper mentions, as an in-
stance of his generous and kindly character, that when
an attempt was made on his life by a crazy officer at the
War-office, his first act was to draw a cheque for the
expenses of his assailant's defence.
The Express, in • discriminating article, after
referring to its own differences of opinion from the late
Premier soca on to remark:—' He was the Minister of
a transition age. His sympathies 'naturally adapted
themselves to the prevailing colour of events and of
opinion. Though he held office under Percival and
Liverpool, he cordially and sincerely embraced the
foreign policy of Canning. Though be had resisted
reform at home while resistance was practicable, he
early saw the approach of the time when it became Im-
practicable. And there is no reason to suppose that
when he accepted he regretted the inevitable. But, on
the other hand, he was little disposed to accept any-
thing but the inevitable. He never professed principle.,
he based every propomition upon expediency. And thus,
when the public became diseased to allow prinolples to
rest for a time in abeyance, Lord Palmerston was the
consistent abettor of such a desire. In his eyes no im-
provement was worth having unless It was strenuously
demanded, and in his recent inaction he only redacted
the temporary reluctance to action on the part of the ,
nation. Had it insisted on advancing with greater
rapidity, he would, with equal consonance to his regu-
lating system, have supported its progress. To do
nothing unneeessary was his maxim, and it was perfectly
ifi aoaordanes with this maxim that when a thing was
plainly necessary irthon'd be done."
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The following iallwe think, not an unfair estimate
of the deceased Premier's personal tact and public
conduct :—" Undoubtedly he pomaseed to a greater
degree than any stateamsn of his day, or perhaps of any
other day, the art of exactly adapting himself to the
,general temper and judgment of what we may call the
average Faglishmai,. Whatever Palmerston said or
did on any given subject, that, it might be at once
assumed, the ordinary Eoglishman would under similar
eiroumatancee, and by a spontaneous impulse, have said
or done. Lord Palmerston net er professed or cared to
lead his age. He neve-, we should think, desired M he
for a moment in advance of the general tone of publio
opinion on any subject or at any time. But he always
earned to lead, while in reality he only followed. He
spoke out in good time and with characteristic emery
just the word which he knew to be a vague thought in
the minds of the majority; and people took for an
oracle that which was only an echo. Nor must the
ability which enabled a statesman to do this with
somas be undervalued. Lord Palmerston's power of
divining the secret of Engliah Kibbe feeling was some-
thing marvellous. It was wonderful, if only an In-
stinct; far more wonderful if actoally a science.
The Standard eapreeaes the Conservative view of his
character as follows:—" The Conservatives have lost in
him whet cannot be replaced, a Liberal Minister, in
whose hands they could feel that the great interests of
, the country, at home and abroad, were substantially
secure. Lord Palmerston was, in the best sense of the
word, a party man; a man thoroughly loyal to his
party, and as incapable of the conscientious desertion
of Sir R.,bert Peel as of the vulgar ' " co meaner
politicians. He was a Liberal, too, school;
,of the school of Fox and Canning and y. But
he bad no • with that kind of which
is now arratistn ; with, agita
soliemes of the S.
no very decil
-: he was ,