The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 8.

A Neilsen of Members of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, believing that the sentiments of regret and
admiration with which the memory of Lord PAL-
miasToN is regarded by his countrymen ought to
find public and durable expression, have united to
promote the erection of a statue in the open apace
near the House of Commons. This undertaking
seems so natural a consequence of the estimation
in which Lord PaLSII.IIOiToN was held, that it could
hardly have been omitted without awakening a
sense of impropriety. Whatever may be the
judgment of coming ages upon particular
features of Lord PALM ERSTON'S foreign and
domestic policy, history will record that for
many years he enjoyed the confidence and
affection of his country in a degree unknown alike
to his contemporaries and predecessors, and it
would not be creditable to his generation—it would
rather convict it of levity and fickleness—
if, now that he has passed away, his ad-
mirers withheld the honours which have
frequently been paid to inferior• men.
There was never, however, any fear that
this reproach would be deserved ; the
admiration felt for Lord PALM ERSTON was as sin-
cere as it was high, and was certain to forego no
customary mode of expression. We, who often
supported, but often also energetically opposed
him, are nut now about to write his panegyric.
What we had to say against him we said in his
lifetime ; and if faults which we believed wo saw
in him yet survive, they can only do so inasmuch
as they are those of his age. But we trust it will
never become the habit of Englishmen to with-
hold the recognition of high personal qualities and
great public merits on account of differences of
political opinion. If Lord PALMERSTON'S name
recalled no more than public services rendered in
almost every department of the Government,
and with a conscientious industry rarely
equalled and never surpassed, crowned with
a period of eminent success as a parliamentary
leader, his title to posthumous honours would be
sufficient. But for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury he stood out before the world as no other
Englishman has stood since Caostwera.'s time, as
the representative of his country's independence
and authority, while for the last ten years of his
life he was regarded at home as almost the imper-
sonation of the national character. Thirty years
ago Englishmen returning from foreign travel told
stayers at home that in every despotic State of
Europe the name of PALMERSTON was a symbol at
once of terror and of hope. What he did for Bel-
gium,whatwarshe averted,what powerful opponents
he overthrew, how he protected the weak and
disappointed the strong, and finally shattered the
European coalition against constitutional govern-
ment, history• will not fail to relate. What is
now proposed to be done, however, is to
express the feelings of his contemporaries, those
feelings which, kindled by personal intercourse,
belong to this gen.:ration, but which may be re-
presented after they have perished from living
memory. This we understand to be the purpose
of the Duke of CLEVELAND, Earl STANHOPE, the
Honourable A. KINNAIRD, Mr. CHARLES BUXTON,
and the gentlemen associated with them, and we
think they have chosen the right method of fulfil-
ling it. Of course, any one who proposes to add
another to the number of our public statues must
expect to revive a discussion as to the propriety of
this mode of commemorating personal merit, and
provoke some caustic remarks on our numerous
sculptured failures. A statue, however, is the ordi-
nary form which our public memorials take. Lord
PALideasrores most illustrious contemporaries were
honoured in this way, and it is, moreover, the one
which he would have certainly chosen under
similar circumstances for another. Now that the
movement is set on foot it is sure to be cordially
adopted.

THE subject of the promotion of assistant-
surgeons in the Brigade of Guards which, it will
be remembered, caused a considerable stir in the
House a few weeks ago, is at present under the
consideration of the authorities at the War-office
and Horse-Guards. It was admitted by the
SECRETARY for WAR that, by an inadvertence, the
warrant under which it was proposed to make pro-
motion go in the brigade, instead of, as heretofore,
in the regiments, had not been made public. It
would be hard indeed if the effects of this inad-
vertence should be allowed to fall—as they
would fall—heavily upon officers who were as
innocent in causing the mistake, as they were
helpless to prevent it. If any one should suffer
by the omission, it should be those by whom it
was committed. But, as it happens, there is no
occasion even for this. The new system, suppos-
ing that careful consideration should have shown
it to be an advisable one, might hold good for
future appointments, whilst those officers who
entered the service upon a different under-
standing might be exempted from its retrospective
action. And we hare reason to think that some
such arrangement will be adopted.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES
(THLS DAY.) is
THE MOM BELL AND THE 4.:
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The Times reproaches the. pp ' ugefor
mistake they made teat night in allemptingase- catch itib.
government in an ambush—in laying a snare for Mr.
Gladstone—in springing a mine at his feet. It very
much fears that rude observers outside the House of Oom-
mens.will agree with Mr. Bright in tanking that Lord
Stanley's motion was nothing but an underhand attempt
to get rid of discussion. Mr. Walpole's amendment
perished in consequence of it, and, hope as we
may, it is impossible not to know that it will
prejudicially influence the future discussion in committee.
Mr. Walpole had the best of the argument ; but in the
House of Commons, confidence is more powerful than
argument, and the confidence which Mr. Walpole and Lord
Stanley have hitherto inspired is in danger. Owing to the
imprudent if not impudent attempt of the opposition to
catch a victory, no one will for some time be free from
suspicion of insidious designs who ventures to impugn a
single provision contained in the bill. If the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had not at the outset declared the intention
of government to abandon the clause giving borough lease-
holders the privilege of voting in oonnty elections, he
might possibly have carried it also against all arguments
or statistics to the contrary.
The policy of the opposition, says the Daily News, in
their resistance to reform, is a policy of dodges and sur-
prises.

They are inexhaustible in expedients for avoiding
• decision on the main issues involved in the measures of
the government. The Ethiopian cannot change his skin.
nor the leopard his spots; nor Mr. Disraeli learn the manly
directness of an English politician. Lord Stanley rose to
propose his amendment, amid the astonished silence of
liberal members, but the trick was apparent at once, and
the patience and persistence of ministers have been too
much for the ingenuity of their rivals. There is now no
reason to apprehend that the government will be less sue.
medal in dealing with the borough franchise than they have
proved to be in dealing with the county franchise. But
whether they succeed or not, they will redeem their pledge
of standing or falling with the bill they have introduced,
and of requiring a distinct decision thereon by the house.
The Doily News reminds Lord Stanley that his allies are
spending his reputation too rapidly.
The Peat is reluctant to believe that, notwithstanding
the apparent intention of the government to proceed with
the measure, it will not be abandoned, and suggests that
the firing of the first cannon shot in Europe will afford
the government a plausible excuse.
The Herald says that the course of the opposition in this
matter has been singularly clear from anything like
factions or frivolous obstruction. This, indeed, has
been the characteristic of their policy. The majority
against Lord Stanley's motion is partly to be explained,
according to the Herald, by the fact that the division was
taken somewhat sooner than was expected. The majority
of 14 on Mr. Walpole's amendment does not promise well
for the stability of the government, and feeling mire that
the bill must be given up, our contemporary regards, it
says, with complacency the event of individual divisions.
Had Lord Stanley's amendment been written out fairly,
the Teter/mph thinks it would have been written out thus :
—" Desiring, in spite of all we have said, and in spite
of our own bill of 1859, not to reduce the franchise ; feel-
ing persuaded that if we can effect this transposition we
can talk the session away, and prevent you from pasAing
the great and vital clauses of your measure, the franchise
clauses—we move that you allow us to smother your bill,
with those portions which you introduce to conciliate us."
Such • motion would have looked strange on the order-
book, but yet it would have expressed what was in Lord
Stanley's mind. Lord Stanley ought never to have
stooped to such strategy. It the job was to be done it
would have been more pleasant to see an Adullam;te em-
ployed than a statesman who may some day again be a
servant of the Queen, and who was hitherto thought to be
the friend, but not the tool, of Mr. Disraeli.
If the Star is not mistaken the tory managers must have

carried home with them these very uncomfortable convic-
tions—firstly, that in a fair fight on the Reform Bill they
have no chance with the government ; and, peconiuy, that
if they try to mend their prospects by resorting to un-
worthy surprises, they will only incur defeats of still
greater severity.