The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

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OLIN BROGDIN'S BROOCH'

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-'OHS BROGDEN'S EARRINGS.

(PPM =DAL AWARDED).
ALEN'S PATINT PORTMANTEAUS and
TRAVELLING RAGS, with MUST* openl wit
LAD= WARDROBE aUxis, DP. TAGS,
dim
DENIM M, WRITING and DRENGNO CAM, and
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NO other articlesDO tor hose or eautioestal travelling. Ultintragen
post arre
,mss fres.
Aiwa Allao's B* Parettor• Csitalkorte ef Portable IMP 4
Asada Drawara4.ir Claire Waabbandetands, t..%nteans, Re.,
pod tree. .
.T. W. ALLIN7Watt -ind Mender. V , Walt Strand.
Madre, W.O

OHN BROGDENS CLASSIC JEWELRY.

V
AR's FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL,IB67.
p

OHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS.

GHN BROGDEN'S OEM and WEDDING
LINOS.

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ORIGINAL GOLD CRAIN WAND FACTORY.
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16, HBNItIETIA-STREET, Covent-
gardev.__---------_

FIRST-CLASS CARPETS, DAMASKS &c.
LoWitt NUM
Patt T rs, mut be
the Onastry Free.
VESABLLS a SONSLONDON, L

FIRST-CLASS SILKS 4t FANCY DRESSES.
LOMMT PRIM
Pattern, lent to the Oottntrr Free.
T. VENABLES SUNS. LO. E.

FIRST-CLASS DRAPERY, MANTLES, (cc
LAIIIIST PRIM.
Free.
T. VENABLMIT/NS, LONDON,

FIRST CLASS MOURNING.
LOW W? MOM
Patterns sent to the Country Tree.
T. VEN SELLS & n0:48, IMEDON, E.
Established nearly halt a Century

FIRST CLASS FURNITURE, BEDDING, &a
Loirtiff
An Mustrated Price Last Poet Free.
T. VENABLES ,fe SONS,
)03.1C4, and 105, vihitechaPel. sod t, 4,6, and B, Committal-
street, London.

FIID.—CAUTION.—Order BRYANT and
BItIATA PATENT SAFETY WATCHES, trade mark an
Ark, and Maid upon having them, as Imitations are eta
offered that do not afford PROTECTION FROM PILL

GREAT REDUCTION in CANDLES, Soaps,
itc —M. P. DAVIICS end SON beg respectfully to in-
form their patrons and the public emend, that they have
reduced their prices of candles, soaps, Mb, Arc. All goods are
guaranteed of the bed quality.—dg dt. Slartin'elane, Charing-
creek W.C.—Prioe Mete poet tree.

E N RY BRETT
PURE BRANDY, per gallon and Ser per dm, room-
mended by the medical profearioa. In • care for the country atis.,
luelostve of railway carriage.—Rolhorn bars, and Xi, Regent-rt.
..mew

THE

ration for its hereditary tactics. When, as a young
member of it, he entered the House of Commons
in 1813, he found that in order to produce any
effect it was necessary to employ all the artifices
which were then recognised as legitimate expe-
dients in the game of politics. The Tories were
strong both in Parliament and throughout the
country because they represented the large section
which rejoiced in warring both against the French
principles with which Liberals were supposed to be
imbued, and against the French EeranOltwho was
then the terror of Europe. Those who talked
about reform were met with the rejoinder that
reform in Prams had issued in a bloody revolu-
tion. Earl Omer in the Upper and Lord Joni(
Roseau. in the Lower House were then regarded
with the same mixture of dread and indignation
which was recently lavished on Mr. Hamar before
the Tory party discovered that he was not bent on
abolishing the Monarchy and establishing a Re-
public.
When the sustained assaults of Lord Jane
Ruvum a. had at length made a breach in the for-
tress of venerable abuses, and he became a
responsible minister of the Crown, the peculiarities
of his early training became very conspicuous. He
was prone to employ the old tactics while dealing
with new problems. The days had gone by when
every Liberal was a genuine Whig, an admirer of
Somme, a firm believer in the doctrines of Fox.
Men had grown up to whom Whiggism was nearly
as obnoxious as Toryism. They considered it as
illiberal for a certain number of great Whig
families, on the strength of their services at
the time of the Revolution, to claim •
monopoly of office, as it was for the equally
aristocratic but less exclusive Tories to resist
improvement on the ground that it was innova-
tion. The leader of the Whigs failed to appre-
ciate the intensity and the pervading influence of
the new spirit. Hence the Liberal party, ceasing
to act as a unit, was well-nigh impotent to effect
' necessary changes. Besides, it laboured under the
drawback of having no one in its ranks whose genius
for finance rivalled that of HCBILISSON or PeaL.
When Prime Minister, Lord Joni.; Rossiuz
although willing to legislate in a liberal sense, was
yet unable to carry his measures because he was
not surrounded by efficient colleagues, and be-
cause he refrained from seeking recruits among
the Radicals. He was often blamed for inaction
when it was impossible that he should advance.
So far from being adventuresome, he was over-
prudent. Instead of hastily rushing onwards, he
was p&ralysed at the prospect of the obstacles he
might encounter.
It is not as a great parliamentary loader that
his name will shine in history. His marked cha-
racteristic is to have combined in his person the
Liberal whose opinions are at once historical and
conscientious. If he had been less deeply im-
pressed with the memories of his party his mind
would have had freer scope for working out ori-
ginal ideas. He might have proved a more
thorough-going Liberal had he not been the poli-
tical inheritor of Whig heirlooms. But if the
circle of his political sympathies be restricted, the
sincerity of his opinions and the honesty of his in-
tentions are alike indisputable and intense. It is
this which makes him stubborn when once he has
espoused a side and made up his mind. Having
spared no pains to master the point at issue,
he declines to review the grounds of his
conclusions. Indeed, his merits as well
as shortcomings are peculiarly those of
the laborious historian, who, having spared no
pains to learn the truth, is beyond the reach of
argument when the attempt is made to convince
him that although his facts may be correct, yet his
deductions are open to question. A statesman who
is fond of historical studies, and has as great a
liking for solid literature as for politics, is apt to
deal with living men as he would with bygone
personages, and to treat them as if the motives he
imputes are those which really influenced their
conduct.

Hereafter, certain portions of Earl Russxxx's
career will be sharply criticised, hut no one is
likely to dispute the vigour of his intellect and the
value of his achievements as a legislator. His
aim has been to plan measures which should
contribute to advance the material welfare of
his countrymen by promoting their civil and re-
ligious equality. A debt of gratitude is due to
him which, if it be impossible to repay, it would
be disgraceful to repudiate. Not only have his
services been of exceeding value, but his labours
have been unusually protracted. Fifty-five years
have elapsed since he entered parliament. Age
has nut dulled his energy. He glories in serious
work as other men of his station glory in frivolous
pleasures. If to grasp the bubble reputation had
been his sole desire, he might have done well to
have paused at an earlier period in his career,
and exchanged, as he has now definitely done,
the toilsome post of party leader for the honour-
able office of party adviser. We cannot blame
him, however, for having so long deferred his
abdication, because his ruling principle has always
been that of ULYSSES--