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London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23.

Tits premature death of Sir William MOLa.
wows leaves a void among our publio an that win
act easily be filled sp. Is the Cabinet Sir Wl:Luau's
presses@ has been little felt; and in Parliament be
attracted Wm notice than may pretentious indivi-
duals of thithitely inferior qualifications. But all
who have studied the deeper workings of our politi-
sal system since 1830 will be ready to acknowledge
the important and enduring swims which he has
rendered to his country. His was one of thane
telleete—too rare among our public men—which
'Abair to grasp the science of politics as
a whole, and subject every particular principle,
and its bearing upon the rest, to the scrutiny of a
stern and searching login. About the time that the
Reform Bill became law, there was among the @spi-
rants to Parliamentary humours a not very nume-
rous but accomplished highrited band of
young MO, who sympathised and co-operated with
Sir WitLiast. They had hear mere or less trained
in the school of Bitirrinet and MILL, though they
by no mesas eubseribed to all its meets with a blind
sad implicit faith. They :were for the most part
elegant scholars and macerate reasoner& One by ono
they have dropped away. Some, like Mr. Gaon, have
'lsnot from the rode conflicts of practical politics,
and devoted themselves to the promotion of enlight-
enment by their labotin as recluse students. Some
have been reft from us by death. Too large a pro-
portion have had their generous aspirations dulled end
deadened by the practices of Arial life, Sir WILLIAM
mad Mr. Round, perhaps Mr. Cam= Vituna
—for we have never been accustomed to regard him
as ass of the clam we anode to, although pommelled
or many of their best qualities—alone remained
usenspromisingly true to the principles of their
youth, and now Mr. Annum is left alone. It is not
our object to write a biography of SirWthrux Mom-
wow= ; we can only hurriedly indicate sows of his
most prominent services. His talent for conducting
Bayless and impartial investigation was shown is the
part be took in the inquiry into the Orange Lodges;
his philosophical grasp of mind, in his expoeure of the
system of penal transportation, and in his labours to
promote systematic colonimatioa. As as advocate of
free trade, of extended reforms in our electoral and
administrative thetitatioee, of a more rational and
coherent system of international law, he was unser-
pissed smog his contemporaries for the comprehen-
dresses, the perspicuity, and the logical sequence
of his views. His labours ia the liberal sans
were not weaned to the spasmodic efforts
of the Legislature or the hustings. The munificent
editor of the rely complete edition of the works of
Bosnia, and the zealous co-operator in the attempt
to establish a philosophical Quarterly Review, inde-
pendent of sect or party, conferred lasting benefits on
our national literature. As a man of action he was
lees seeessidul than as a pioneer of liberal opinion.
This may be attributed in part to the constitution of
his mind, in which the reflecting overbalanced the
active faculties; partly to habits of literary indolence
apt to beset an intellectual man born to the inherit-
ance of a large fortune. Bat while he lived we had
one who moved among the men of maven-
tioosl rank on a footing of recognised equality,
and compelled them to tolerate the avowal of opinions
• which they affect to scorn as those of mere abstract
thinkers among the unprivileged classes. By Sir
Wazures fearless and consistent avowal of their
principles, the " philosophical" or "educated Radi-
os*" as they have been Galled, were materially aided
in keeping their ground against the supercilious dis-
like ef the privileged classes, sad the imperfect sym-
pathies of the numerous class of Liberals whose
Liberalism is more a matter of sentiment, or
accidental social position, than of deliberate
esevistion based upon extensive inquiry. Of
Cornish lineage, Sir Wituart, while he yet moved
among as, was a living proof that the districts of
Ragland which gave birth to the Itautioss and
Camara of old have not degenerated. And yet
when we look back to his parents we are strangely
tempted to regard him as &justification of the popular
prejudice that men of genius most frequently inherit
their distinguishing qualities from their mother&
It would be easy to say mere of the lameated Is.
foamed if we felt his loss less hastily. This vely
adequate tribute is all we can pay at present toe sue
who will be most profoundly and enduringly regretted
by those who had the high privilege to know him
most intimately.

:bt Court.

WINDSOR, Oar. 22.

The Queen, eceotopenied by tbe Princess Royal,
walked is the posed, adjoining UM Castle this ambit.
Prises Albert, sthattled by GC esyssoar, left Whales
at 10 o'clock this Ammo= tot Aluisbott, for the pupas* et
Wrestle' a draft of the Orsaadier thuds oidersd tee is
media*, rabsikstioa Ls the Crimea.

Vadreat Paleteretos, Vincent Herding', sad Lord
Penmen leek their departure bp as early train for
Loados.

Tie Kiwi at Climates sad the Bight Hes. Sir Itislasd
Muslim lam beat tasked, sad ors =petal this situ-
SOW

A Cabinet Omen wee held yesterday afternoon at
the Foceign-altee. The roioistere present were
Viscount Pahnenten. the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne. Earl Granville, Sir George Grey,
the Earl of Clerendes, Lord Pawnor', the Chancellor
of the Ezelvtivir, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hoe.
R. Verses Ssith. the Budd Harrowby, andVisount
Canning. Tin Council met two hours and a half.

The Bight Hes. B. Vines Smith arrived is tows yester-
day aft moles from Northampton, fee the wins of mend-
ing the Cabinet Conseil.
Melesworth expired about twelve teflon
rwarday, at his faddism@ is Batas•plaee.
The Chaneellor of the limisayser arrived in Leaks yes-
lona, from Ba►ptes-eonrt, Hinson, Berefted.

Vieouat Psin;erstou end LoriPanaanre arrived la town
yesterday trout Windsor Castle.
♦isso.nt Hardinp returned to Londe. yesterday hen a
Jett to ler Majesty at Windsor Castle.

'rho Earl of Llll6Olll, the Hoe. William Hear,
Jolla North (sow of Coloael sad t►e thrones North). Lord
Soma (sea of the But of EdIN/hu), sad Vieseast
Vasetaa (sea of the But of Weans) ate pun's( their
Odin at Christ Chants, Wore.
Viacesat C.anning's sooreawx to the head el the
rest.elLes aspartasrat mot ha motored this work.
Lord Beery Thyme, is at prolog staying at Logi-
-11114 House, -*here he hasten raffssiari wader iodisopoeties,
hosseht ea by • eget.

Tie Rev: Goer Hall, M.A.. bee Dem violated
by kis Grow tit* Archbishop of Outtoilmuy to tits Tinny
of nollisibmars. with Hoskins.