The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-05 00:00:00

THE ROYAL SPEECH

ON THZ OCCASION OF

THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

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THE official announcement in both Houses pee-
terday afternoon of the Lord CUL/MELLOR% resig-
nation was a formal and ceremonious proceeding,
which excited no surprise, and was expected with-

out curiosity. The sacrificial majority who had been
got together in the Lower House, not without an
effort, on Monday evening, had vanished into the
country again. Lord PALMERSTON rose to address
almost deserted benches, and his words fell with-
out an echo. It is creditable to the taste and
judgment of the Opposition that the vote of
the House on Monday night was thus
accepted as the sentence of Parliament, and
not of a party. Perhaps our Ministerial
contemporaries would have served their in-
structors more judiciously if they had abstained
from imputing to party tactics a parliamentary
ratification of public opinion. This was no gladia-
torial exhibition before a populace thirsting for
slaughter. Nor could the liveliest imagination pic-
ture the LORD CIiIi.NCELLOR as a Christian martyr
delivered over to the wild beasts in the amphi-
theatre. Doubtless party feeling and party faction
took advantage of the scandal to make a demon-
stration. Doubtless there is something in a public
execution of this kind not entirely disagreeable to
the temper of the House of Commons in the dog days.
But Mr. Bourvziun, as the mover of an amend-
ment which became the motion of censure, was
particularly careful to insulate his distrust of the
LORD CRANCEMLOR from his confidence in the LORD
Casirciriika's ministerial colleagues. And more
than one member of the Committee on whose Re-
port the motion of censure was founded,
rose on the Opposition side of the House
expressly to repudiate any party pur-
pose in supporting an amendment moved by
an influential member on the Ministerial side of
the House and accepted on the other side
by the author of the original motion, Mr.
HUNT. In resisting Lord PALMERSTON'S motion
for the adjournment of the House Mr. Dnutaxia
may have been, more or less, inspired by party
considerations. It is difficult to draw the line be-
tween party considerations and a due regard for
public duty in such a case. Unquestionably
Mr. Disnazu had the feeling of both sides of
the House with him, and the feeling of the whole
country. It was, perhaps, impossible that Mr.
Mina's original motion of censure should appear
untainted with party spirit; but Lord PALMICR-
WON'S motion for adjournment looked not the
leas like a party trick. To interpret the motive
of every lawyer's vote on such an occasion
would be invidious ; these solemn parliamentary
verdicts will not always bear a very close analysis.
Nevertheless, we are convinced that in this in-
stance the House of Commons has set its seal upon
public opinion, and that public opinion, without
hesitation or reluctance, endorses the terms of Mr.
Bouvlaia's amendment which superseded Mr.
HuNr's motion of censure. Our ministerial con-

temporaries, we are persuaded, will be well ad-
vised, even on the lowest grounds of opportune-
ness and expediency, if they desist from the
error of confounding the generous defence of the
CEIANCEILOR by his colleagues with a collective
ministerial interest in his condemnation or ac-
quittal.
In deference to the vote of the House of Com-
mons, it appears that Lord WESTBURY has deemed
it to be his duty, through the First Minister,
to tender her MAJESTY the resignation of his
office. Lord PALMERSTON informs the HOBOS
that as early as the beginning of the pre-
sent year the CMANCILLOR, "stung in his feelings"
by the various attacks which were made upon him
from various quarters, had often pressed upon
him that " his resignation should be conveyed to
" her MAJESTY." But Lord PALMERSTON bad
" upon public and upon private and personal
4! grounds" declined to accept that resignation,
because if the Cusrscexxon had resigned in con-
sequence of these attacks, "some of them ano•
" nymous," he would thereby have seemed to

admit the ehargea made

" even more

" were actually made ;"
maimed st his post there must be a Pas-

liemenbiry ingeiey, whisk would entirely acquit
him of auy corrupt motive. This was • very °ha,
racteristic movement on the pert of the Paulin%

and, had not the publication of the Report and eM-
dance on the Leeds inquiry been somewhat

hastened, one mua almost imagine the Paining
" on public and oil private and personal grounds "
advising the Caancmos to withhold his resigna-
tion, *A least, until after the excitement of the
general election had subsided, and the long vaca-
tion bad quieted the public mind. Such advice
would have been characteristic of a stableman who
has learnt in the Course of a long and various expo-
_

Ammo the all-healing efficacy of time. But we
must do the CaLweaukl the justice to *Arnow-
_

ledge that in pressing his resignation upon the
Parana at the beginning of the year he showed
a jester sense not only of what was due to his own
reputation and convenience, but of what was duel
to the comfort of his colleagues. The CHANCIILLOI4
it seems, wasott a very early period in this sad
eventful history, " stung by the various attacks
" which were made upon him," "some of them
" anonymous." Lord PaLmaaerox of course he
learnt to make light of "anonymous" attacks, and

begged the CHAYCHLLOR to treat them with con-
tempt. The cruel insinuation that the CHLN-
CELLOR had, at the moment of his appointment, got
rid of his own conscience to make room for his
Sovereign's, lit,' we rejoice to find, entirely disposed
of by the fact that he had • conscience as early as
the beginning of this year ; and a conscience so
sensitive as to be idling by " anonymous" attacks.
Lord WiSTBURY seems to have understood better
than Lard PSLMISIISTON that anonymous attacks are
only to be feared in proportion to their veracity.
Anonymous calumnies recoil upon their authors,
and cover thp• with shame ; there is no sting in
slander, except for the slanderer. It is the office
of a free press in a free country to anticipate, and
sometimes to demand, parliamentary inquiries, but
no shield of the anonymous can in our day protect
a journal from the discredit and disgrace of attempt-
ing to assassinate the reputation of blameless public',
men. Lord WESTBURY could not have been
wounded by anonymous assailants, if professional
envy or political malignity only had dealt the state
in the dark. It was the authenticity of facts which
were destined to fill pages in the Reports of two
Parliamentary Committees that lent the sting to
these "anonymous attacks."
For our own part, we are fully persuaded that
no personal, no professional, no political jealousies
and rancour. have struck down the CIIANCILLI.OR
from his pride of Owe, though here and
there, among his assailants in the press
and in Parliament, some private grudge
may have assumed the garb of public vir-
tue. It is the happiness of few men of com-
manding intellect and will to scale the perilous
aummits of professional ambition without making
more enemies than friends. Lord WESTBURY MY
not of the happy few. If blessed be he against
whom all men speak, Lord WESTBURY has
been rich in blessings. Nor have his qualities con-
tributed to his beatification lees than his defects.
All superiority, a charming Frenchwoman has said,
is a sort of exile. Lord WILSTBURY'S vast in-
tellectual superiority to his competitors and col-
leagues has not perhaps been sufficiently dissembled,
and its too frequent and too conscious exhibition has
isolated him from those sympathies which should
accompany the crowning honours of a great career.
AU his honours and rewards were well and hardly
earned by years of unremitting professional labour
and diligence ; by the confidence and admiration
of hosts of clients ; by the assenting, if not the
willing, homage of the whole Bar; and by •
brief but brilliant record of parliamentary services
for which his countrymen cannot be ungrateful.
and which will be remembered long after his family
disgraces are forgotten. But that strong imperious
intellect and that scornful sense of superiority
have lacked the softening and forgiving graces of
manner and disposition which are needed to disarm
the envy of the Gods, and the curious malice of
mortals. His exceeding powers and exceeding
weaknesses have conspired to make Lord W ma-
BURY a conspicuously lonely figure among public
men ; lonely in his success ; and lonely in his
fall.

Yet it is not by the hands of his enemies that
he has fallen, for his most insidious and
unrelenting enemies could not cut even a
momentary stain upon his personal honour. It is
to the busy arts of • band of too familiar, too
trusted friends that he has succumbed ; and it is
the sting of a wound sharper than • serpent's
tooth that has pierced him through and
through. The most malignant wish we find
it in our hearts at this moment to utter
against Lord WYWIIIVILY is that, untrammelled by
the responsibilities and temptations of office, he
may enjoy many years to come of public useful-
ness and labour, as • consummate interpreter and
fearless reformer of the laws of his country, and
that his present misadventure may have been no
total eclipse, but rather the passing cloud that
obscures for an instant a luminary destined to
set in glory. The honour of such men is part of
the honour of England.

tizaaamaLlY
ARRIVAL OF THE GE lA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 5.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Germania, from New York on the 24th ult.,
has arrived with 274 passengers for this port
Havre, and Hamburg; 15,000 do's. in specie for
England ; 85,000 dole. for France, and 11,827 dohs.
foe Hamburg. On the 24th ult. she spoke the
steamer City of Boston off Sandy Hook, and on the
23rd the steamer Borussia.
Her news has been anticipated.

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