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THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.

There died yesterday morning a gentleman of
whom we desire to apeak kindly, though we must
also speak of him truly. Lord Normanby, who has
now, after 66 years of life, c oasaal his eyes in death,
owed the chief success of his eminently prosperous
career principally to his social qualities. He was a
man to lila e ; it was pleasant to he in his company.
phis implies curtain qtialities of head and heart
which are not to he aeadervalued, and which we do
not overlook when we attribute his success in life
almost entirely to his good manners. Everybody
liked him—nobody
can well say why. In good-
nature and gocd-humoue, the pleasant manner, tho
cheery smile, the ready hand, there is an indefinable
charm. It bound Lord Melbourne hand and foot,
and he could never understand why he was always
behold
obliged to give everything he asked to Lord
the
Nor-
manby, Behold the value of a smile ;
advantage of manlier. It earned a Marquisate, it
earned the Garter, it earned the Lord-Lieutenancy
of Ireland, it earned two SEcretaryships of State, it
earned the Embassy to Paris.
Constantine Henry Phipps born in May, 1797,
and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College,
Cambridge. The first public view we have of him
is in 1818, when barely of age. He then enter ed
Parliament as member for Scarborough, and in his
politics he displayed the originality of youth.
Though these were 'Rory days, and though his family
were decided Tories, Lord Normanby, like Sir
James Graham, came forth as a Whig, and more
than a Whig—almost a Radical. A strong literary
tendency, which afterwards showed itself in novels
and various other works, perhaps directed his
choice, for these were days when Byron was the
god of our poetry, and the youthful admirer of
Byron's poetry would be certain to lean towards
the poet's politics. His maiden speech was in fa-
vour of Catholic Emancipation. In his next
speech he seconded resolutions in favour of Par-
liamentary reform, proposed for the first time by
Lord John Russell. After this, however, he re-
signed his seat and retired to Italy. The reason
commonly given is that owing his seat to the influ-
ence of his family in Scarborough, and differing from
them in politics, his position was not altogether sa-
tisfactory. In 1822 he returned to the House of
Commons as member for Higham Ferrers; still
later he represented Malton, and during his career
in the Lower House he continued to support the
advanced Whigs, finally joining with them in sup-
port of Mr. Canning. In 1831 his father (who had
been a Secretary of State under Pitt) died, and Vis-
count Normanby became known as Earl of Mul-
grave. In the following year the Whigs sent him
to Jamaica as Governor; in the next year he re-
turned to England to succeed Lord Carlisle as Lord
Privy Seal; and in the next he went to Ireland as
Lord Lieutenant. His reception in the sister island
was enthusiastic; his reign was popular; and
O'Connell declared he was the best Englishman that
Ireland had ever seen. This seems to be great
praise, but perhaps it does not mean much. Lord
Mulgrave was, in O'Connell's eyes, not merely Lord
Mulgrave, but the representative of Whig principles
from which great things were to be expected. Be-
fore the emancipation of the Catholics every Vice-
roy was in his eyes more or less a tyrant. Still, let
us give to Lord Mulgrave all the praise due to his
pleasant manner and brilliant social qualities. He
captivated the Irish, and was made a marquis for
his success. Before long, however, his Irish policy
was found to be unsound, the country could not be
governed by smiles alone, and ho was called to
London to see if he could not exert some of his fay.
cination in Parliament, when Lord Melbourne's
Government was every day b; coming weaker. He
became Secretary for the Colonies in 1839, and iu
few months afterwards passed to the Home-office.
The Whigs were stranded in 1841, and Lord
Normanby was unemployed till, in 1846, Lcrd
John Russell came into power. Then he was
appointed Ambassador to Par;s, in which post
he remained till the spring of 1852. It was a most
eventful period ; it waa the period of the Spanish
marriages, of the French Revolution, of the coup
(1 aut. In the affair of the Spanish marriages
England was outwitted. We need hardly now ask
who was to blame. We are only reminded that, in
the cross-fire of recrimination which that busineas
called forth, M. Guizot on ono occasion contested
the accuracy of Lord Normanby's report of a con-
versation, and said of our Ambassador—" Il est bon
enfant, mais it ne comprend pas notre langue." Of
the events of the Revolution Lord Normanby after-
wards gave some account in two volumes, which,
though diffuse in style, are not uninteresting.
With regard to the coup d'etat he has stated that
Lord Palmerston's approval of that act led to an
eternal severance between himself and his diplomatic
chief. Exactly two months after the event Lord
Normanby ceased to represent our Government in
Paris. 11l health was said to be the reason of his
giving up the post, and ill-health may well have
been coincident with differences of opinion. Lord
Normanby was not again employed till 1854, when
he was appointed by Lord Aberdeen to the Lega-
tion at Florence, where he remained till the return
of the Tories to power, and the accession of Lord
Malmesbury to the Foreign-office. Lord Malmes-
bury would not wait for the slow action of the post;
ha recalled Lord Normanby from Tuscany by tele-
graph, yet when he returned to this country he
took his seat beside Lord Malmesbury and steadily
opposed his old friends who had gone through fire
and water to support him. Just before the down-
fall of Lord Palmerston's first Administration Lord
Clarendon had to defend him against charges based
on his notoriously Austrian tendencies while at
Florence. It must have been a hard task for Lord
Clarendon to defend the Tuscan Minister, buthhet
did defend him, and he had his reward ; for t a
Minister's first act after his return to England was
oppose his late chief, who had stood by him m
fully. It is not pleasant to record such things, and
The paralysis
we know of nothing to excuse it.
him has now
which had for years partially disabled
think of
bute a he was in
will
suddenly carried him away, and
him not as he appeared at the last,
sw
his prime.—Tirnes

•••••
THE GREEN Monocco Box.—lt was from the
hands of the Marquis de Gallifet, who so nearly
lost his life at Puebla by the bursting of a bombshell, that
taken from the enemy at
the Emperor received, a few days ago, at Vichy,
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and thirteen Pennants
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corner of the park at Vichy
amidst the acclama-
tions of the populace,
in a gum
not far removed from the chalet inhabited by his ,
3a -
ajesty,
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equally
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irresistible to be thrown
away
; the box is opened, the
epaulets are hastily draw
amidst the congratulatio drawn from their resting-place, and,
immediately transferred to the shoulders of
the oelighted
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