The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-20 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1865.

All the accounts that reach us from all parts of
the country only serve to confirm the impression at
first entertained of the universal regret which Lord
PALMERSTON'S death would occasion. Beginning at
the city of London, the Court of Common Council
moved a resolution to condole with Lady PALMER-
STON on the sad event which has taken place. It
was moved by Mr. MAYNARD, the first member of
the :Common Council, in appropriate terms. He
said that the death of the Prime Minister was a
public calamity, and that he need not dwell upon
those details of his career which were so well known,
but contenting himself with briefly prefacing
his resolution by the remark that the late Pre-
mier had brought rare ability and intelli-
gence to the accomplishment of his task
of whatever nature they were in the service of the
State. The Resolution conveyed in emphatic terms
the regret of the Council, and stated that the Court
regarded the " decease of the eminent statesman
as a severe loss to the nation, and to the world at
large, and in expressing its high admiration of his
talents, his manly bearing, and his great adminis-
trative capacity, which have so materially tended to
increase the prosperity and uphold the honour and
dignity of this country, desires to convey to Lady
PALMERSTON its heartfelt and sincere sympathy
with her in the irreparable loss she has sustained."
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS, on behalf of the Court
of Alderman, seconded the Resolution, and expressed
his satisfaction that the Court had met that day,
because the Corporation of the City of London
would thus be the first of the municipal bodies in
the country to express the sorrow which all felt at
the death of the Premier. The resolution was car-
ried unanimously, and the Lord Mayor was en-
trusted to convey it to Lady PALMERSTON. It is in
all respects satisfactory to find that the City has
thus come forward at so early a period to express its
regret at the national calamity that has taken place.
At a meeting of the Liverpool Town Council
yesterday the Mayor, Mr. LAWRENCE, alluded to the
sad event of the Premier's death. " They had been
accustomed," he said, " to associate him with every-
thing that had life and energy, and failed to re-
cognise the fact that he had already passed the
usual limit of human existence." This is strictly
true, and it may be said that many men half his age
would not have taken the nation so unawares as the
departure of this eminent statesman, who has been
engaged in public life for half a century. Mr.
LAWRENCE declared that there might be men
of greater ability than Lord PALMERSTON,
but certainly no man had been more successful
as a statesman ; and in the present day no man had
ever succeeded in securing to the same extent the
sympathy and confidence of all men of all shades
of political opinion. Ile would be carried to his
grave amid the regrets of the nation, and he would
ever live in the grateful hearts of all classes.
In Edinburgh also due mention was made of the
gloomy event, and at a public dinner, Which took
place in the evening, Mr. ADAM BLACK, late m.p,
for the city, alluded to the melancholy intelligence
before passing to the subject of his discourse. <, A
great man has fallen in Britain to-day," he said,
and then went on to inform his audience of some
of the details of the noble lord's political life, with
which he was intimately acquainted. The amount
of work which the late Premier got through was
really surprising, and were it not certified by eye-
witnesses the public in general might well doubt its
veracity. Re would come to the House of Com-