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London, England, 1865-05-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 2.

LORD PALMERSTON'S absence from the House
last evening was to be regretted for its cause ; it
will not, perhaps, be so much regretted for its
effect. Whatever official weight might have been
added to the occasion by the appearance of the
Mums bimrstan as the mover of an address to
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the Crown expressive of sorrow and indignation at
the assassination of the President of the Cramp

STATILS, was amply compensated by the manner in
which the solemn duty was discharged by the Bs-
MIZTILRY Of STAYS who represented the Govern-
ment in the Paramm's stead. There can be no
doubt that Lord Pius/acme would have played

the part—as he playa all parts, grave or gay—with
excellent tact, spirit, and propriety ; but some-
thing more and better than all these qualities
might have' been wanting ; and that is,
a word spoken from the heart. The great orator
of the Administration, who aspires, it is said, to be
the future leader of the popular party, had un-

happily shut himself out from the sympathies of
the British nation towards the Government and

people of the United States, by an incontinent
and untimely burst of exultation at the disruption
of the Republic and the establishment of a slave
power at a moment when, to minds blinded with
prejudice and passion, the cause of union and
emancipation seemed hopeless. Not one single
generous word on behalf of the Government and
people of the United States, or of that cause of
free labour which cannot but be very near and

dear to the large majority of the British people,
has escaped Mr. (haymows's eloquent lips since
the civil war began. In the midst of the agony of
that desolating war, when fortune seemed to favour

the conspiracy of the alaveholders, Mr. thuogrows
loudly and ostentatiously exulted over the birth of
a "nation " with Mr. JIRYFERMON Davis for its pro-

genitor. Since then he has been as silent as Lino
in the last act of the tragedy on the greatest event
in modern history. So it was not to the foremost
statesman of the Treasury bench that the sad but
not ungrateful office of speaking in the name of
the House of Commons could be entrusted on this
occasion. It was reserved for a member less con-
spicuous in fame, and in eloquence less com-
manding than the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUE; but armed for this particular
emergency with a heart that had never har-
boured hasty vows, and with • comicienos void
of offence. There could be but one opinion of the
graceful modesty and simplicity, the quiet earnest-
ness and good feeling with which the HOBFE
Sscitcrcay prefaced the motion for an address to
the Crown. If for • moment he was betrayed by
his love of truth into the utterance of an opinion
unwelcome and disagreeable to a bitter and
abashed minority, he at once disarmed any irri-
tation or impatience by a generous appeal
to common humanity. And when Sir
GEORGIC Gary mentioned that her MA-
JUT; out of the depth and fulness of her own
lonely and sorrowing heart's compassion, had
addressed a letter of condolence to the widow of
the murdered PRESIDENT, be touched • chord of
emotion which will assuredly vibrate from shore
to shore of the Atlantic. The Queen of ENGLAND,
happily removed to a calm and tranquil height of
dignity, far from the mist and noise of selfish inte-
rests and factious animosities, has by this pathetic
message of peace and consolation once more proved
to the people of both worlds her right to reign in
the affections of a free people, when some of her
statesmen, and even of her advisers, were eagerly
prophesying the downfall of • Republic, and re-
joicing by anticipation in the triumph of an
oligarchy of slaveholders.
If, however, Sir GIOROR GARY fulfilled • melan-
choly yet an enviable duty last evening with a fer-
vour of sincerity not unworthy of the interpreter
of such a Sovereign and of such • people, it is due
to the character and credit of the Tory Opposition
that we should congratulate them most unfeignedly on
the unexceptionable attitude anddemeanonr of their
leader in the Lower House, at a moment when the
attitude and demeanour of parties and of the
leaders of parties become a part of the history of
their country and of the world, to their honour or
disgrace for all time. Mr. Durrtsxm, it must be
confessed, is remarkably felicitous in these critical
situations ; be is not only sure to be equal to the
exigency, he is invariably superior to his party.
It is in these occasional evidences of a supe-
riority even more of character than of intellect
that we recognise the gross disproportion between
the leader and the party, and understand at
once the difficulties of the one and the impa-
tience of the other. It is not only that
in these particular solemnities Mr. Datums
almost always says precisely the right thing in the
right plane, weds the happiest, justest, and largest
thought to the aptest, choicest, and cum•
pleteat words ; for this is only to say that he is •
speaker of rare and refined power. It is that, as
on the death of Mr. COWIN the other day, so on
the assassination of Mr. :mour last evening, Mr.
Dutatma speaks with • nobleness and dignity, a
breadth and elevation of thought and feeling that
exalts him beyond the reach of the displeasure of
one party or the envy of another. It may be said
that the concise and pregnant speech in which he
seconded the motion last evening, was nothing but
an intellectual exercise ; an el•borately-finisbsd
composition. Is it not in that exquisite finish and
elaboration that • high and statesmanlike self-
respect may be discerned 1 Let the silence of his