The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

THE LATE LORD MACAULAY.

M. Payret, in the Paris Prism, pays the follow-
ing sesquent Whets to the sensory of the late Lord
Massuley :
"In tab great \Marian England has just lost one of her
▪ sat illsahriees eielnemy end liberty one of bar moat glorious
defenders. Lard Masada, was only fifty-nine years old.
Ma death, thms, Y psamtnre„ and naturally awakens the
nest proirmil vograls et this. who knew him, whether
painwesay, ere lbw& his works. A writer and critic
of dr drat rank, he !erred an erudition as solid as it was
wine; his stand was a gig/pail& admirably ',ranged;
everything wee there, and everything in Ito place.
Mr had that sort of unloenality which chorea
Nelms ruperior saws of all kind., that mid-
den of thought and appropriatemeso of language which
dorm light upon ell salgicts of dimasepion. No one has
man akarly proved that what .tides and obscures the mind
Is ths confusion, not the abundance of its ideas. He
!..sensed in the highest degree the intellectual and moral
"'Atka of the true lairtottea ; he judged men and parties
with an elevation or view. an impartiality and • rectitude
which give • special authority to his eloquent and solid
writings. Ho shows himself in metal severe towards
persona, and tallazible in matters of principle. We hays
sae than awe spoken of his beautiful hissory of England :
bhleings It incomplete. to our Irreparable 1011 S.

"*1 • politician be had won end carried with him
the esteem of all parties. In the coarse of an
active hie he may have bees open to reproach for • few
halts, but serer for • tingle act whloh might give ries to
timbre of the rightness of hie Intentions or the independence
of his character. He always worked, and always by honest
news, to ensure the prosperity and greatness of his country.
In the midst of party struggles and the vicissitudes of for-
ams, la power sad out of river, he wee constantly faithful
On hie party, to ide opinion*, end to his friends. He com-
bated all abeam, sad hie same le connected with the mod
importeet reforms. Iteligione liberty, above all, never had
in say country • more persistent or more brilliant advocate.
♦ liberal in the true and grand acceptation of the word, en
avowed enemy of all exaggeration, profoundly oo•vlooed that
politics all extremes are equally dangerous, be set himself,
In his speeches sod his writings, to prove that despotism and
amereby ere hmeparehie, aced that each tends to generate the
I sew.

" We hese before se, while we write three lines, the pot.
trait of Lard Mersiday, and when our eyes rest on it, we
fancy we an spas enjoying the rapid moments daring
which, AIM years ago, we bad the happiness of seeing sad
boon his. We are sure that no one who ever knew his,
es ewer reed hiss, will dispute the inanee of the homage
we pay ss Ms serstory. Back Isis, whatever country they
'may Isles' ea, ire the glory of the liberal canes ; sad we
behave that it Is for the inland sad the honour of liberty le
grave their assess es the Weans which ootornensorates those
who have sincerely loved aid practically served We."

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