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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 11

EARL RUSSELL.

A FEW words written thirty years ago by
SYDNEY Satre have done more to propagate
wrongful notions concerning Earl Russeu. than
all the diatribes of his inveterate and prejudiced
opponents. SYDNIII SMITH'S wrath nee kindled
when the chief promoter of the first Reform Act
began to meddle with the temporalities of the
Church. Although the former had written,
spoken, and suffered on behalf of Parliamentary
Reform, yet he was toa thorough a clergyman to
brook that the latter should apply his reforming
principles to Church property. Aghast at Lord
JOHN RussELL'a temerity he wrote :—" There is
"no better man in England than Lord Joins
" RussELL ; but his worst failure is that he is
" utterly ignorant of all moral fear ; there is
" nothing he would not undertake. I believe he
" would perform the operation for the stone—
" build St. Peter's—or assume (with or without
" ten minutes' notice) the command of the
" Channel Fleet ; and no one would discover by
" his manner that the patient had died—the
" Church tumbled down—and the Channel fleet
" been knocked to atoms." Smart but reckless
writing like this does irreparable mischief. It
gives a handle to charges which are foundationless.
The words penned in levity are quoted as the
expression of serious convictions. Thus it is that
Lord Ruassm. has been held up to public odium
as a statesman devoid of ordinary prudence, and
delighting in acts of unpardonable rashness. Not
a few sensible persons have been led to believe,
on the sole auth.oriew, of SYDNEY SMITH, that he is
flighty, impulsive, and untrustworthy ; a man who
is always fluctuating between different varieties
of extreme opinions, being "everything by turns
" and nothing long."
It is noteworthy that the same injustice which times" pieces cl
Lord JOHN &mem. suffered at the hands of 14"Inal'ae•
SYDNEY Sutra, his grandfather underwent at Entrees—Petite, bouoheos it la beltemieuue, supteme de
tlets de soles v.htitiennes, vol-au-vent I la Bechareel,
the hands of EDMEND BORE& When the timbales ila mite sax knifes, pates chinch als
latter had become a violent Tory he attacked Richelieu, hotnarcls Ala Hagration. .
the Duke of BEDFORD in a letter which is a Boats de table—Bantam dlerevissse.
model of political vituperation. Indeed, the Punch romain. •
ch.,41..........54. de bLailaincs.;eillLDHlF•eii .: a... .•• ,
p`ogis
fortunes of that noble house have been the Wee Inaxiese sessies. • .
I(libier ataigra mix orrosatede—Semptpes eti brach' Issec
throughout many generations ; its enemies have
always been conspicuous among the foes of change
and the abettors of despotiim. This oirouns41111". dal.-170.P7Z17cAs i rilitirir: 4 arin:ltTesitifiell": u
1
has tinged the whole career of Lord RcilaXl.L. .1:10 ! sit %term ariiellautie i Mistiest's, episode as snore.
has had to uphold the historic fame of his family, as i eatreinct,--mouss• ibessist a limpsrati ice, f
a heritage of the Liberal party. Devoted from his i glace ais Victoria, setae as soarsieein. &wise tri pa-
youth to the study of history, he has always been I risis, Sam' 1"..,.._tet,.L.,•iis Illeinii",,, ''' ,
Im
mure disposed to be guided by precedent, farnisbed I in'lla nwar"eptiVc="." eaceirMits .
by his reading than to legislate for Abe exigencies I ea no--p.• onra—co 611 rt 1 . i
of the hour. It has been his desire to preserve 1 Confitures Graieilks, cerise', ithricots, mindalbs,
Whig traditions unimpaired. His respect fur Cie wins*.
principles of that party is not lees than his admi- I Every dish in the above sumptuous repast,

Row doll it is to pause, to make an end,
To rest unburnished, not to shine in use,
As though to breathe were life.