The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

F RANCE.

The following is from Galignani's Messenger :
" a can positively state that there is no truth
whatever in a report given in several English jour-
nals, to the effect that the Marquis of Normanby is
about to be replaced by Sir Henry Bulvver as British
Ambassador in Paris."
General Cavaignac was married the day before
yesterday to Mademoiselle Other, the grand-daughter
of M. Oilier, member of the Consultative Commission.
The civil ceremony took place at the Maine of the
3d arrondissement, and the religious ceremony at the
Church of the Madeleine. The parties were attended
by a numerous circle of friends. The General and
his bride persevere, it is said, in their intention to
travel to the south.
The Constitutionnel devotes nearly a page to an
article on the subject of the resignation of Lord Pal-
merston. More than half of it, however, consists of a
notice of the causes assigned by the English journals
for the retirement of Lord Palmerston. We extract
as follows the concluding portion of the article :
" We shall confine ourselves in summing up the re-
proaches addressed abroad to Lord Palmerston, to
quoting the repartee of an English statesman, when
he was congratulated on the tranquillity of his
country. How can England be anything but
quiet ? All our firebrands, all our mse• cous, all
our sour-tempered men are exported by Lord Pal-
merston, and engaged in diplomacy. We must, ho-
ever, be just towards an adversary. In spite of the
incessant attacks of which ha has been the object in
England and on the continent, Lord Palmerston Will
and not
carry with him into retirement lively
his incontest-
merited sympathies. He is indebted foe them partly
to his personal character, and partly to
able talent. It is forty- five years since Lord Pal-
merston entered into political life, and more than
forty since he began to take apart in the manage-
meat of public affairs. No one in Earope has more
experience and practical knowledge of international
policy ; no one is more conversant withAhe text of
eaties and the genersl
interests of nations. If the
tr
impetuosity of his character leads him at times into
embarrassments, he possesses inexhaustible resources
both of words and conduct to extricate himself from
them. Thus, the nnes, which has been hi I most
hitter opponent' recently said, 'lf one could forget
the welfare of the country for a moment, one would
be pleased to see Lord Palmerston mike a false step
for the pleasure of seeing with what extraordinary
dexterity he recovers himself. Lord Palmerston is
one of tie first orators of the House of Commons ;

h is the only man who is able to make head
agl,inst Mr. Disrae:i by the vivacity of his epigrams,
and the abundance, of his sharp retorts. His words
flew clearly and elegantly, and he has wonderful
power of argument; be knows how to win over his
auditory, and to skilfully arouse oWional suscep-
tibilities, and no ono hits ever known how to better
turn to account that honourable and popular sen-
timent known in Franco under the name of Chuu-
rinisme and he his always found, under critical
cireurnstances, a secure resource end an
Wen in it. Amiable, gay, and spritttel, he is, in
spite flail, the favourite of a party in the House of
Com none and of the English nation : no cne is more
insinuating when he wishes to pleL.se—he succeeded
in fascinating M. Tniere, and that after 1840. S-rong
in Me' long experience, and his talent a 3 a statesman
and an orator, and in his popularity in the House
of Commons, Lord Palmerston has always shown
himself absolute in his department. He his never
permitted the slightest contradiction either from his
subordinates or from his colleagues. He exhibited
in the exercise of his functions the most admirable
zeal and assiduity. No:svithst:aLiiing he is nearly
„v,„ty ;,ears of rig?, he was the only Minister who
never kept holiday even in the interval of the sessions,
who never missed attendance at a council, and who
did not pass a day without putting all his business
in a proper train. It might be said that all the
places is the Foreign-dace were so m'.ny sinecures,
because Lard Palmerston never suffered a single
employe to a,,,sist him in his labours. That part of
the character of Lord Palmerston which has made
him the most enemies abroad, is that which has
caused his countrymen to pardon his faults. He is
thoroughly an Englishman. Whatever may happen
in any part of the world where an Englishman is im-
plicated, Lard Palmerston immediately, without ex•
emining into the merits of the cave, took the part of
his agent or his countrymen. He loudly expressed
en -1 obstinately maintained any opinion which he
had once advanced. It was this feeling which im-
pliceed him in so many quarrels, which were at-
tended with different results;. but this ardour, which
could not fail to raise hostile feelings against him,

heal its source in a sentin.e-it which the popular
mt.,,ses in England would readily pardon. An ex-
aggeration of patriotism is a f,ult which the people
readily forgive in a statesman. It would bi premature
to icquire as to what the effect of the retirement of
Lord Palmerston on the politics of Europe may be.
We shall merely say that this s!atesman, whose pene-
tration no one ever disputed, understood from the very
first day the real character and all the bearing of the
events recPutly accomplished in France. While a
portion of Engle.nd vet hesitated, Lord Palmerston
had with sagacity and franko,iss admitted the salu-
tary iufluellce of the revolution of Mc. 2. He has
opened the eyes of his countrymen on this point, and
his judgment has on this occasion been ratified by the
whole of Europe. Perhaps Lord J. Russell may
soon, with regard to Lord Palmerston, repeat the old
remark, that no man can live either with him or
without him.' He could not retain Lord Palmerston

wirhout seeing the immediate dissolution of his
Ministry. Oa the other hand the ex-Minister of
Foreign Affairs served as a bond between the Cabinet
and the Radicals, whose support was indispensable to
it. This bond being broken, if Lord John Russell
does not succeed in forming another alliance, be may
at the opening of the session, that is to say, in six
weeks, find himself under the necessity of quitting
office, or of dissolving the House of Commons. What
a strange destiny is that of a Minister, whose presence
in office or whose retirement from it, is equally fatal
to his colleagues!"