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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OUT. 19, 1861.

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The news of the death of the Duke of NEWCASTLE,
although not unexpected, will be received with
general regret. Although a long and severe illness
had, in a great measure, prepared both his col-
leagues and the public for the mournful intelligence,
hopes had been entertained np to a late period of
his possible recovery, end he was still at an age
When many more years of useful life might have
been supposed to lie before him. Although ucver
filling the first rank as a statesman or a politician,
and remarkable neither for oratorical talent nor for
great administrative ability, he was one of those
men who are so ill-spared by any party, more
especially by one which had so many prema•
tune losses to deplore as the Liberal party has of
late years. As in a theatre, it is often much easier
to assign the role of a hero or heroine or villain than
it is to fill worthily tile less conspicuous but hardly
less important minor parts, so it is often in the
political world much easier to find Prime Ministers
and Lord ChaccePors than to support them with
men sufficiently capable for the requirements of the
public service who are yet willing to accept a
subordinate position. Tact, eloquence, and talent
may do a great deal, but there remains the sterling
Benue, the sound discretion, the indefatigable in-
dustry that England requires from her public men,
and in all these qualities the Dake of NEW-
CASTLE was pre-eminent. His public career
was more chequered than might have been
expected from the heir to so ancient a duke.
dom. He opened his Parliamentary
_life by
sitting for South Nottinghamshire, where hie
father, the anti-Reformer, had overwhelming in-
fluence, Little was heard to distinguish him from
the rest of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S followers, except his
appoi'atment as Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests in 1841. Bat the great political crisis of
1845-6 brought the young Earl of LINCOLN into
prominence, since he found himself from conviction
opposed to his father. It was, therefore, not sur-
prising that so bitter an opponent of Reform as the
old Duke of NEWCASTLE should allow political
partisanship to outweigh parental feeling, and
should exert himself to oppose his son's return on
his presenting himself to his constituents for re-
election. The Government was thus placed tem•
porarily in an awkward dilemma, for the rejected
candidate had been appointed Secretary for Ireland
in the new Ministry, The Earl of LINCOLN, how,.
ever, was not long in finding a seat, which
curiously enough he again owed to family in-
fluence, since his father-in-law, the Duke of
EAMILTON, procured his return for the Falkirk
burghs. 'The events which followed are well
known. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S term was brief, and
his death completely disorganised his piny, The
Earl of LINCOLN became Dake of NEWCASTLE
bcfor.l ho fig tin ace?pted cffico under the Earl of
.
F.RDEEN in the memorable coalition Ministry.
Thi„
Ppal
ea_ 8 ntmnt brought him little pleasure. The
ters of the Crimean expedition aroused the it,
dignation of the country, and bitter reproaches
Were hurled at the Ministry. It is always easy
and c 3nvenient to put the blame upon one man in
particular, and accordingly the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE, as Secretary of `Vail was selected as the
victim. He was thrown overbaard to lighten the
vessel and save his colleagues; but thinking men
were not long in detecting the ungenerous artifice.
The; blame, great and heavy as it lastly was,
rested
on no one man's shoulders. It was partly
the fault of an effete system of routine,
Which could not accommodate itself to

tiny emergtnciEs, and more especially was it
owing to the pe,rvcaose and vacillating conduct of
tho Cabinet, which allowed the country, according