The Press.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1857.

Adroitness in dealing with single individuals
is Lord PALMERSTON'S chief accomplishment.
In knowledge of the law and customs of Par-
liament, and of public business generally, the
Premier yields to several Members of the
House of Commons, amongst whom we might
mention Lord JOHN RUSSELL on one and Mr.
HENLEY on the other side of the House. Per-
sonal dexterity,however, will not plan measures,
sway the public out of doors, or rule parties.
The late time of life at which our Premier has
become a leader has militated against his
efficiency. He still occupies a neutral position
and his majority wavers to and fro because it
is known that the Liberals have only a tem-
porary chief with a transitory system.
A Cabinet without convictions must palsy a
large majority. As a Minister for Foreign
Affairs, the public opinion of the country
finally condemned Lord PAL3IERSTON. As a
Home Secretary the Noble Viscount con-
fessedly failed, but the mismanagement of the
war gave him a chance. We are not at war
now, and the commonplace character of Lord
PALMERSTON'S views about military education
and army reform have extinguished the sup-
position that the Premier is a great or-
ganiser. The new Members in the House
observe, also, that Lord PALMERSTON is looked
on as a " Parliamentary middleman," playing
fast and loose with opposite parties, and that
"the House" accepts him only for the conve-
nience of the hour.
Could it, therefore, be cause for wonder
that Lord PALMERSTON'S star should be rapid
in its declension? A name may be better
than nothing. It may also be worse. When
the people see a Cabinet of incapables
propped up solely by the traditional repu-
tation of a single Minister, it begins to wish
that he were less famous, and to doubt the
advantages of a great man who only uses his
power to promote the reign of mediocrity.

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the bookworms of the Pays Latin, and certain
sacerdotal adventurers who are in a con-
spiracy with certain ex-journalists to cheat the
world into the belief that they are personages
of consequence.
Many causes, besides a consideration of
the social and commercial advantages which
have resulted from the friendly alliance be-
tween England and France, will make Eng-
lishmen most cautious how they afford the
least countenance to the efforts of French
factiouists. A Bourbonist policy of the
Charles the Tenth school would find no
favour amongst the ruling States of Europe,
nor would such a dynasty survive a year's
freedom of the press in France.
The manner in which some Democratic
politicians have been put forward by intriguers
behind a screen can deceive nobody. Silly,
indeed, would be the homme (Neat who could
not see through such puerile artifices, aping
the ruse skill of veterans in statecraft. if
aught was required to open the eyes of a
novice as to the personal ends aimed at by
the speculating, contrivers of these counterfeit
demonstrations, it would be the fact that
attacks on the Imperial Dynasty always
appear simultaneously at regulated intervals
in London. " Frascati 's " has been put down,
but the Stock Exchange remains, and certain
English organs carry the system of roulette
into their haphazard politics.
Such demonstrations as have occurred is
these few days at Paris will not tempt English-
men to break through the established policy
of non-interference in French affairs. France
can decide for itself,' and goading inter-
meddlers will not be sanctioned by the state-
manship of the British Empire.