The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

Death of Lord Northbrooke.

To say that Lord Northbrooke has passed away
will give but small information to the majority of
readers. Few among us would recognize the famous
Lord Chancellor, Sir Francis Bacon, under the
highest of his titles—Viscount St. Alban's—and
very few, indeed, will recognize in Lord Northbrooke
the well-known Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
Francis Baring. He died at Stratton on the even-
ing of Thursday last. Ho was 70 years of age ;
his health had for some time been failing, and he
was seized with apoplexy on Wednesday morning.
His usual medical attendant from Winchester and
Dr. Quain, from London, were called to his aid, but
their efforts to relieve him were unavailing. He never
recovered consciousness, and lingered in life only six
and thirty hours.

Lord Northbrooke was one of those men who are
less interesting in themselves than as members of a
great family. When we come to sum up the events
of his public life, we find that, though he filled im-
portant offices in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and as First Lord of the Admiralty, his
name in our history will occupy but a small space,
and his standing as a statesman is not very high.
Yet, undoubtedly, he was a man of no mean mark,
and he wielded a powerful influence. He belonged to
a family of singular ability, with whose fortunes the
English people, the nation of shopkeepers, could feel
no ordinary sympathy, especially as those fortunes
have but recently been made. Mr. Francis Baring,
the immediate founder of this distinguished family,
was but the grandfather of Lord Northbrooke, and
was born in the year 1740. People take less interest
in acknowledged success than in the merit which
before their eyes fights upwards to success. There
are ducal houses of old renown which are less known
to the people of England, and less regarded by them,
than the great house of Baring, Brothers, in the city
of London. They belong to the race of merchant
princes in whom our people take an especial delight.
Sir Francis Baring carried with him into Parliament
and into office the prestige of this family. If it is a
great thing in our modes of Government to be born
a Howard, a Gower, a Grey, a Russell, or a
Grosvenor, it is also a glory to inherit the name
of Baring. Lord Northbrooke, however, had
something more than his name to recommend him ;
he was au able and accomplished man. Born in
1796, he won his Double First at Oxford in 1817.
His name is to be added to that remarkable list of
statesmen who belong to Christ. Church, and who
have taken the highest honours of the University.
Sir Francis Baring, however, cannot be said to
have fulfilled the expectations which his Academi-
cal career and the practical ability displayed by his
family had led the public to entertain. After filling
various subordinate offices in the Governments of
Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, he was appointed
to succeed Mr. Spring Rice in 1839 as Chancellor
of the Exchequer. The Whigs had failed in finance,
and were distracted for a revenue. Was there a
magician among them who could charm a surplus
out of the wealth of the nation ? Sydney Smith had
his heart's content at last, for if Spring Rice did not
actually enter into holy orders, at least he left the
management of the Treasury. If financial genius
was to be found anywhere on earth, surely, thought
the Whigs, it was to be found in the head of a
Baring. Lord Melbourne offered the Chancellorship
of the Exchequer to Sir Francis Baring, as at alater
period Lord Derby, led by similar considerations, is
understood to have offered the same post to his bro-
ther Mr. Thomas Baring. Sir Francis, however, did
nothing to retrieve the reputation of the Whigs as
financiers, and fell before the attack of Sir R. Peel.
The Whigs had done the country good service, and
they might have remained in office if they could only
have paid their way. It was for their bad finance
that they were turned out at last, and Sir Francis
Baring, as the Minister then responsible for the na-
tional balance-sheet, has to bear the chief burden of
the blame which in thisrespectattaches to the Whigs.
It must be remembered, however, that Sir Francis
Baring's fault was not that he had blundered in
finance, but that he was not able to remodel a rot-
ten system which he had received from his predeces-
sors. A complete change was necessary, and the
Whig financiers had neither the wit to devise nor
the strength to carry the necessary measures of re-
form. It needed the genius of Peel to see how a
cure was to be wrought, and the rough energy of a
change of Government to enforce it.

Sir Francis Baring has since then held high office
—he was First Lord of the Admiralty for three
years in Lord John Russell's Administration ; but
here again he had to take the management of
what may be compared to the Augeau stable. Ad-
miralty management is bad enough now. What
was it in 1849 ? Sir Francis_ Baring was not
the Hercules to clean out the stable, and there is
not much to be said for even the best administrator
—such a man as Sir James Graham, for example,—
who could tolerate the confusion, corruption, and
waste of those days. On the whole, therefore, it
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the most difficult of all offices to manage, which, in-
deed, demanded for their successful management
more than ability--something of genius. Our con-
demnation of Lord Northbroke, therefore, amounts
to no more than saying that he was not a genius. He
worked well and honestly in acknowledged grooves ;
bnt he had not the power to strike out a new path.
If he was defeated in his attempt to administer the
great offices which he successively undertook, he
was not disgraced. He never failed to command the
respect of his opponents ; while the Whigs always
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