The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING?. OCTOBER 7, 1848.

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1%0 ofeeklesela illgisoeveld not be taut,-
Me efellegoemity. Pooe old Lord
Orr Askew 00954 in the °ablest,
task %his beg smilied. Another and mare Ma-
thias member d it efee overheard venting his dis-
rig gni begestion, and thus inadvertently and pre-
seeterely Waimea let out the stmt. Lord STANLIT
Mese publicly withdrew. end Placed himself at the
Mao! the aneenwieed and inoonviuceable toryima
ef the
tilisasteme a point of honour to fight out the'
lade of probation to the lest, and for this purpose,
where nothing in reality was at stake bat the charac-
ter et the wading bat for mums and constancy in
ante Ihrtemeet se Bodement could be so useful as
one bisapable of reemeembsoding the force of
any arguments suyisysi by his CIPPOIrtro or
the inherent weelowas of hie own. A fanatic against
floe trade wu wanted--aso whom no odds could
deter, and no ridicule daunt. It was a battle whole-
in, ere a blow was semi, it wan clear what the
issue mud be. Skill and tad would have been am- 1
lees; obstinacy and volume°. were the qualities
most needed for the notelet. To snatch the torn
and sullied flit of torykon from the moat powerful
hand in England, by whom till then it
had been without question or murmur car-
ried, and to hold it aloft amid desertion
mid defeat, was a task that needed a man of
ben awes and headlong resolution—a man loin-
' seeabsredly too much exseriente, or too many ante-
indents. No man who di not possess great quick-
ens of attainment, industry in research, and readiness
to most any and every encounter, would have
eariemed Lord STANLEY'S purpose. He looked
around, and 'Nebulously made choice of Lord O.
BENTINCK.
Tien were also other considerations. Punishment,
unrelenting and exemplary, was to be inflicted in the
name of betrayed and insulted Toryism, on the re
meant chief, who had apostatised to commercial free-
dom, as well as on the menials of his conversion.
Who so fit to wield the pitiless scourge, as one
whose indiscriminate love of personal assault wrung
from the madly bland and cautious lips of the pre-
sent Home Secretary on a recent occasion, the bitter
reproach that he wu one " who was insensible to the
dignity of argument lied the decency of debater We
do not quote the expression as adopting it in its
literal intensity. We do not believe that Lord
OZOILOS BILNTINCieIf temper was tainted with
malice or ill-nature; and that he was as
ready
to forgive personal offence as quick to resent
it, all who came into contact with him concur in tes-
tifying. But the tendency of all his habits and pur-
suits led him to regard with peculiar hatred every-
thing that seemed to border on deception. Politics
were in hie mind a moral and intellectual race, in
which be would submit to be fairly beaten without
murmuring, but in which the suspicion of having
been duped or chested was sufficient to arouse fierce
and uncontrollable impulses of scorn, aversion, and
revenge.

These qualities, however, which made his first on-
slaughts formidable to those he assailed, served rather
to fill his own friends and followers with alarm when
turned in sueocasion against every class and party.
Perfidious Troy having been demolished, they would
fain have been allowed a season of repose and peace.
But the " tamer of fleet steeds," whom they had
agreed to follow in that memorable crusade, loved
crusading for its own sake, and would not hang up
his arms. A casual symptom of returning leniency
to the vanquished on the part of Lord STANLEY led
to bitter taunts and scoffings from his restless and
quixotic lieutenant, and they bad nearly quarrelled
openly within a few brief months of their
original combination. Men grew weary of his
imminent love of turbulence and contention.
English country gentlemen admire what they consider
" pluck," and have no objection now and then to have
a fair stand-up fight, whether the occasion be provoca-
bly adequate or no. Bat country gentlemen don't
like living all the year round in turmoil; and as poor
Lord Groans was seldom out of one political row,
until he had got himself into another, his adherents
were fast evincing signs of weariness and alienation.
Had he lived to squabble through another session,
there can be little doubt that among the seceders, a
new and wide secession would have taken place.
His removal, far from being a source of weakness to
the tory party, is felt by all the shrewd and thinking
men amongst them to be no ordinary relief from dis-
cord, danger, and disruption.