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LONDON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 27.

THE FUNERAL
OP VIZ
LATE VISCOUNT PALMERSTOH.

TO-MORROW,
A DOUBLE NUMBER

OF TES

EXPRESS
will be published, containing a full description
from various sources, of the incidents and the cere-
mony attending the public FUNERAL of the late
Viscount PALMERSTON in Westminster Abbey.

Advertisements received not later than 2 o'clock,

Nuts days of sorrow for the dead, and of
fond lingering interest in all that he has been to
England, have almost exhausted, at least for the
time, the personal element in the emotion with
which the funeral train that is this day to wind its
mournful way through the streets of Westminster
must be witnessed by the most careless spectator.
It may be allowable, therefore, even in the very
act of rendering the last honours to the great
statesman who, in a few hours more, will find a
fitting resting-place among his peers, to let the
mind wander somewhat from the spectacle which
fills the eye and busy itself for a moment with
those wider considerations which such an occasion
as this suggests to ns. What is the feeling
which finds its natural and most appropriate ex-
pression in s funeral in Westminster Abbey! We
feel by a kind of instinct that in answering this
question we may put aside that exceptional per-
sonal popularity which marks off Lord PALMER-
STUN from other great English statesmen. It is
true that his extraordinary hold upon the affection
of the public adds to and intensifies the sorrow
which has been excited by his loss, but it does not
altogether create it. It makes the emotion differ
in degree from that which would be felt for other
great public servants, but it does not make it dif-
ferent in kind. If it had been one of Lord PAL-
Eras-roles principal opponents who had died
instead of himself that fact, taken alone, would have
made no difference. England mourns for her
worthy sons without regard to distinctions
of opinion or party. She recognizes in
them as they lie waiting for the grave
only the one feature which they have in com-
mon—single-hearted devotion to her welfare,
readiness to give their lives to her service. There
is no shadow of political strife about this day's
pageant. The homage to the dead will be rendered
by all alike, and though to the student Lord PAI.-
M LISTON'S name will always be connected with the
exciting encounters of contemporary party history,
his place in the estimation of the country at large
will be in that serener air where the great combat-
ants have laid aside their armour, sad learned to
rejoice in the common affection of the people whom
they have severally striven to serve.
And yet nowhere does the current of party
feeling run more strongly, nowhere are party
contests more warmly fought, or party tri-
umphs more keenly appreciated, than in the
country which thus throws to the winds every trace
of party feeling over the grave of a great states-
man. It is in the first of these two facts that we
must look for the explanation of the second. It
is because Englishmen have fought out their dif-
ferences in the healthy atmosphere of • free parlia-
mentary life that they can afford to think so lightly
of them so soon as death has struck down a leader
on either side. In almost every other country in
Europe • great politician would have left enemies
behind him, sore with a rankling suspicion of in-
justice, fretted by the thought that they had
never had fair play against him, and irri-
tated by the very evidence of the popu-
larity which they had been forbidden to dis-
pute and prevented from sharing. But in
England each man has had the opportunity
of finding his own level in political life, and, if he
fails, his failure will be rather his own work than
the work of his opponents. And consequently the
dead who have made good their claim become the
common property of the nation. They are mourned,
not by • narrow political section, or a restricted
official hierarchy, but by the common regrets of
the whole community, and they are followed to an
honoured grave by representatives of every shade
of opinion. No one will ask to-day to what party
Lord PALMERSTON belonged, no single Con-
servative will feel himself out of place in the funs. i
ral procession of the great Liberal leader. It is ,
in such ways as this that the real working of our
representative system is seen in its true light. It
may sometimes give us • seeming weakness in the
presence of stronger forces, wielded by a single
arm ; but if it makes us less formidable abroad, it
does nevertheless make one people of us at home.
Nor is it only party hostilities which are for
gotten when a great Englishman dies. There is no
thought of any conflicting interests, no question
that his life has been devoted according to his
knowledge to promoting the welfare of the whole
community. Different temperaments will call the
object of their life by different names. One man
will pride himself on the zeal with which he has
laboured for the triumph of • particular cause or i
the spread of a particular principle, while another
will have thought only how best to answer the
Duke of Wittaturrox's question, " How is the
" QUEEN'S Government to be carried on t" But
whichever motive has been uppermost in • states-
man's mind it never occurs to us to doubt that the