The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-24 00:00:00

LORD PALMIRSTON.

LOVE AND rOvERTY.

" Generally speaking, it wiiilliefoUnd, notwithstanding
the proverb, that, with persons of a noble nature, the
straitened fortunes which they share together, and manage,
and mitigate by mutual forbearance, are more conducive to
the sustainment of a high-toned and romantic passion than
a luxurious and splendid prosperity. The wife of a roan of
limited means, who, by contrivance, by the concealed sacri-
fice of some necessity of her own, supplies him with some
slight enjoyment which he has never asked, but which she
fancies he may have sighed for, experiences, without doubt,
a degree of pleasure far more ravishing than the patrician
dame who stops her barouche at Storr and Mortimer's, and
out of her pin-money buys a trinket for the husband whorl
she loves, and which he finds, perhaps, on his dressing-
table, on the anniversary of their wedding-day. That's
pretty too and touching, and should be encouraged; but the
other thrills, and ends in an embrace that is still poetry."
A LADY OF SENTIMENT.

....
" His tumultuous reverie was broken by the sobs of Lady
Bertie.

"' By heaven, I cannot endure this!' said Tancred, ad-
vancing. Death seems to me preferable to her unhappiness.
Dearest of women !'
"' Do not call me that,' she murmured. I can bear any-
thing from your lips but words of fondness. And pardon all
this; I am not myself to-day. I had thought that I had
steeled myself to all, to our inevitable separation; but I
have mistaken myself, at least miscalculated my strength.
It is weak; it is very weak and very foolish, but you must
pardon it. lam too much interested in your career to wish
you to delay your departure a moment ter my sake. I can
bear our separation, at least I think I can. I shall quit the
world— ter eve r. I should have done so had we not met. I
was on the point of uoing so when we did meet—when—
when my dream was at length realised. Go, go; do not
stay. Bless you, and write to me, if Ibe alive to receive
your letters.'

"' cannot leave her,' thought the harrowed Tancred.
'lt never shall be said of me that I could blight a woman's
lite or break her heart.' But, just as he was advancing,
the door opened, and a servant brought in a note, and, with-
out looking at Tancred, who had turned to the window, dis-
appeared. The desolation and despair which had been im-
pressed on the countenance of Lady Bertie and Bellair vanished
in an instant, as she recognised the handwriting of her cor-
respondent. They were succeeded by an expression of sin•
gular excitement. She tore open the note; a stupor seemed
to spread over her features, and, giving a faint shriek, she
fell into a swoon.

" Tancred rushed to her side; she was quite insensible,
and pale as alabaster. The note, which was only two lines,
was open and extended in her hands. It was from no idle
curiosity, but it was impossible for Tancred not to read it.
lie had one of those eagle visions that nothing could escape,
and, himself extremely alarmed, it was the first object at
which he unconsciously glanced in his agitation to dis-
cover the cause and the remedy for the crisis. The note ran
thus—

'3 o'Cloch.
The Narrow Gauge has won. We are utterly done ; and
snicks tells me you bought five hundred more yesterday, at ten.
Is it possible.
'F.'
" Is it possible!' echoed Tancred, as, entrusting Lady
Bertie to her maid, he rapidly descended the staircase of her
mansion."

NORMAN NOBILITY.
" Gentiles,' murmured Fakredeen ; Gentiles l—yog ere
a Gentile, Tancred ?'
" ' Alas! I am,' he answered, sprung from a horde of
Baltic pirates, who never were heard of during the greater
annals of the world—a descent which I have been educated
to believe was the greatest of honours. What we should
have become had not the Syro-Arabian creeds formed our
minds, I dare not contemplate. Probably we should have
perished in mutual destruction. However, though rude and
modern Gentiles, unknown to the Apostles, we also were in
time touched with the sacred symbol, and originally endowed
with an organisation of a high class, for our ancestors wan-
dered from Caucasus, we have become kings and princes.' "
ENGLISH CIVILIZATION.
" We ought never to be surprised at anything that is
done by the English,' observed Fakredeen, who are, after
all, in a certain sense, savages. Their country produces
nothing; it is an island, a mere rock, larger than Malta, but
not so well fortified. Everything they require is imported
from other couhtries ; they get their corn from Odessa, and
their wine from the ports of Spain. I have been assured at
Beiroot that they do not grow even their own cotton, but
that I can hardly believe. Even their religion is an exotic;
and, as they are indebted for that to Syria, it is not sur-
prising that they should import their education from Greece.
" Poor people exclalmed the Queen, and yet they
travel—they wish to improve themselves.'"

LAD HENRY SYDNEY (LORD J. MANNERS).
"It was a name that touched Tancred, as it has all the
youth of England, significant of a career that would rescue
public life from that strange union of lax principles and con-
tracted sympathies which now form the special and degrading
features of British politics. It was borne by one whose boy-
hood we have painted amid the fields and schools of Eton,
and the spring time of whose earliest youth we traced by the
sedgy waters of the Cam. We left him on the threshold of•
public •
life • and, in four years, Lord Henry had created that
reputation which now made him a source of hope and solace
to millions of his countrymen. But they were four years of
labour which outweighed the usual exertions of public men
double that space. His regular attendance in the House of
Commons alone had given him as much Parliamentary ex-
perience as fell to the lot of many of those who bad been
first returned in 1837, and had, therefore, been twice as long
in the House. He was not only a vigilant member of public
and private Committees, but had succeeded in appointing
and conducting several on topics which he esteemed of
highest importance. Add to this, that he took az habitual

" Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the policy
pursued by the Foreign Minister of England, with respect to
the settlement of the Turkish empire in 1840-41, none can
be permitted, by those at least competent to decide upon such
questions, as to the ability with which that policy was ac-
complished. When we consider the position of the Minister
at home, net only deserted by Parliament, but abandoned by
his party and even forsaken by his colleagues; the military
occupation of Syria by the Egyptians; the rabid demonstra•
Lion Of France; that an accident of time or space, the
delay of a month or the gathering of a storm, might
alone have baffled all his combinations ; it is diffii•
cult to fix upon a page in the history of this
country which records a superior instance of moral
intrepidity. The buld conception and the brilliant perform-
ance were worthy of Chatham; but the domestic difficulties
with which Lord Palmerston had to struggle place•the ex-
ploit beyond the happiest achievement of the elder Pitt.
Throughout the memorable conjunction, Lord Palmerston,
however, had one great advatage, which was invisible to the
millions; he was served by a most vigilant and able diplo-
macy. The superiority of his information concerning the
state of Syria to that furnished to the French Minister was
the real means by which he baffled the menaced legions of
our neighbours. A timid Secretary of State in the position
of Lord Palmerston, even with such advantages, might have
faltered; but the weapon was placed in the hands of one who
did not shrink from its exercise, and the expulsion of the
Egyptians from Turkey remains a great historic
monu-
ment alike of diplomatic skill and administrative energy."