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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 28.

LORD GREY'S, speech on Tuesday evening
recallathe description given of him by a very able
and very friendly critic as one of "the wasted
" forces of politics." In other words, he is prP.c-
tically not a force at all. The great name which
he hits inherited, and the very considerable abilities
which he possesses, have only made his incapacity
the more conspicuous to turn to account oppor-
tunities of distinction and public service such as
have fallen to the lot of few of his contemporaries.
During the five years in which he held one of the
great offices of State, under the administration of
Lord JOHN Roseau., his colonial policy, though
sound in itself, was animated by a temper which
made it a serious embarrassment and constant dan-
ger to the Government ; and the great measure by
which representative institutions were established
in the principal British settlements lost
half its grace and something of its usefulness by
the unfortunate instrumentality employed. Lord
GREY possesses great gifts, which have been
marred by an incompleteness and a want of
proportion, which have converted a man who
has some of the qualities of a practical statesman,
and some of the endowments which go to form the
political thinker, into that worst form of the
modern doetrinairc—the " thoughtful Liberal."
Lord GittY, like most men of his intellectual
mould, does not understand the great working
forces of society, and, therefore, he fears
them ; and devotes all his energies to
fantastic schemes for checking and ba-
lancing powers, which, if wisely left alone,
will find their own natural and stable equilibri
The "thoughtful Liberal" abounds in small in-
genuities and clever contrivances for bringing
matters to a deFul-lock, as a preventive of too rapid
movement, which might have stirred the envy
of the Ablui SIEYES himself, who is the real in-
tellectual ancestor of the tribe.
Lord GREY'S habits of mind have become of
late years almost entirely critical, and his shictures
on public affairs have seldom any direct bearing
on impending legislation. A measure which has
been withdrawn is as good a text upon which to
hang a dissertation as one which is still in exist-
ence ; and the fact that the Reform Bill
of the Government was not, never had been,
and never could be before the House of
Lords, formed no reason to Lord GREY
for libstaining from an elaborate attack upon it.
We do not find in his remarks much which had
not been said before in the other House of Parlia-
ment, and in the Tory and Adullamite newspapers.
The "reckless haste" with which the Government
have rushed into the question of Reform, after it
has been under discussion fifteen years, and dealt
with by four preceding administrations ; the im-
propriety of their bringing in an incomplete
measure ; and the inexpediency of their deference
to MT. BRIGHT, are topics upon which Lord GREY
repeated the assertions of his friends without
deigning to notice the opposing views of men
of the highest authority and experience both in
practical and speculative politics. We will do
Lord GREY the justice to believe that if he had
been in the House of Commons, and witnessed
the demeanour of the adversaries of the Bill,
ho would not have attributed the failure of
the Government to sheer mismanagement. He
would have seen that it was doomed from the first,
in utter disregard of the character of its provisions.
But this attack upon a defeated measure is hardly
worthy of Lord Guy's reputation. It is some-
thing like FALSTATF'S conflict with the dead body
of Honeys. ; and seems to have been inspired by
a similar fear that there might be life in the corpse
yet, and that it might rise again.
Lord GREY excuses his recital of the proceedings
of this Session on the subject of Reform on the
ground that they are full of the moat import-
ant instruction. Two things, he says, are plain
to him—one that a measure of Reform must
speedilybe passed ; thootherthat it cannot be passed,
unless it be acceptable to both the great parties in
the State. Apparently Lord GREY consider{ the
necessity for legislation, though real, to be
factitious, having been created by the gra-
tuitous pledges of Governments and Parlia-
ments. Matters, he inclines to think, are very
well as they are. "It is undoubtedly the fact
" that the constitution of this country has, on
" the whole, worked well for the happiness of the
" people, and that it is, beyond all question, the
" best in Europe." So men much more eminent
than Earl GREY—Bnaxx towards the close of the
last century, and Sir ROBERT PEEL a generation
ago—said in reference to political arrangements,
which Lord GREY denounces as full of grievances
and abuses. Lord GREY is right now, SS BURKE
and Pm were in their day ; but to be better than