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London, England, 1857-05-07 00:00:00

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We should have thought it possible to discuss the sub-
ject of "The Past Session and the New Parliament" in
a spirit of sincere regard for Lord Palmerston'e adminis.
oration, without damaging the Liberal cause, or display-
ing animosity to its natural leadere. But supposing the
a free/toy of the present Government to be ever so little
inconsistent with fidelity to Whig principles, a great
Whig organ at least Miget fairly have been expected to
make its election without much difficulty in favour of
the latter. There is something painfully resembling poli-
tical apostasy in the deification of Lord Palmerston, ac-
e impanied with the elaborate di.paragement of Lord
J. Russell, in the pages of the Edinburgh. Review. The
indiscretion, too, of the article we speak of is as obvious
as it sycophancy. While the writer lowers the standard
of Liberalism to the measure of the Minister, he forgets
that he lowers the Minist=r inevitably in the eyes of the
country. He does not depose Lord J. Rin-sell from his
station to make corn for Lord Palmerston, but he pull;
down the eminence itself, in order to adjust its height to
his own estimate of the Ministel ill qualifications.
The reviewer assurees thot oily one sound filled the
public ear during the el,,ctions—the Flange of Palmerston :
that. only one idea occupied the mind of the people of
England—the idea of Palmerston. But the fact is not
so, natural as the mistake is in a writer whose relations
with Downing-street are as obvious act if his paper bad
been given to the public in a red b x, Ced with hoots
of green ribbon. "Toe elections," be says, "have
given back no uncertain response to the appeal : since
the Parliament which laid the foundation of the great
administration of Mr P.tt, England has not seen a House
of Commons elected with so strong and all-pervadine a
confidence in the hands and fortunes of any minister."
True, but only half the truth. Did no other "strong
and all-pervading" feeling influence the contest ? Were
groat public principles so_ entirely forgotten ? Did the
country abandon the cause of reform in a fanatical devo-
tion to the minister ? Where is the proof of this blind-
ness, this infatuation, this base servility ? There is
none. We say not guilty on behalf of. the libelled peo-
ple of England. The composition of the new Parliament
is as much a victory o the L beral party as a Ministerial
conquest. The party and the minister triumph together
—and the strain of the Edinburgh. Review, had it been
faithful to its traditions—nay, even bad it been a more
adroit flatterer of Lard Palmerston— would have been to
exult in the community of the achievement, at the same
time cheering on both leader and followers to the further
successes within reach of their united powers. But instead
of thi,, we find tie fortunes of the party induetriously
severed from those of the minister. An historical paral-
lel is sought for the le nit of the elections, and theEdin-
buivls Review can only find one in the Parliament that
established Mr. Pitt in office.

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Why go back to 17931 Would not 1831 have served
the purpose at least as well 1 The Parliament that an-
swered the appeal of Lord Grey might have occurred to
an Edinburgh reviewer. Was not Lord Grey's Adminis-
tration also a great one ? Why did the writer shun the
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Lord Palmerston, too, was himself a member of the
Reform Caoinet. This was the recollectiou, we should
have thought, for a great Liberal organ to revive. We
shall not du Lord Palmerston the wrong to suppose that
this is the part of his career of which he is most anxious
to efface the record ; but it is impossible to help suspect-
ing that in the reviewer's opinion the reminiscenes of the
Reform Bill were lees likely to please the member for
Tiverton than the member for London. We must for-
get all the antecedents of the Edinburgh Review to read
without the liveliest indignation the treatment in the
article before us of the illustrious domestic statesman
whose name, when we speak of the Liberal party in Eng-
land, is the. first that starts up in every honest and
reflecting mind, surrounded with the glory of a life
devoted to the cause of freedom. Palpable it is,
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rate as much as possib'e those point.. in Lord John's
public cariduct which his friends have not abstained from
censuring, the writer comes to the late election, and
makes the following remarks, which for the sake of poli-
tical literature, we deeply lament to quote from the
pagei of such a journal.
" These facts, which are public and indisputable, bad'
undoubtedly alienated from Lord John RuSsell many of
his former supporters, and raised grave doubts whether
he would retain his seat for the city of London. By dint
of great personal exertions, by one of those energetic
appeals to past services which are never preferred in vain
to the people of this eountry, aed by the • assistance of
the Hebrew community, this election was carried, and
Lord John Russell was placed next to Baron Rothschild
on, the poll. It may deserve to be remembered that in
the course of these proceedings, although Lord John ap-
peared in some degree in the character of an opponent
of the Government, he formally recognised the claim of
Lord Palmerston to remain at the bead of affairs, and he
affected to disclaim all intention to supplant his former
colleague—a sentiment which, if' persisted in, does him
the highest honour."
It was a toil of Hercules, or the up-hill labour of Sisy-
phus, the writer would have it believed, to bring into
parliament a man so fallen, so damaged, so unimportant
as Lord John Russell. Eel en, indeed, and damaged is
the organ .that makes the false representation. "By
dint of great personal exertions?" Lord John was in-
debted, forsooth, to the kindness and compa'sion of
friends, too generous to desert him like the Edinburgh
Review, in the woeful decline of his reputation. " His
past services," to be sure, had some weight, but not
without " energetic appeals" to public charity, "never
preferred in vain," as the advertisements say when alms
are solicitedd for a shipwrecked sailor or tradesman out. of
work. Nor was even this enough ; all the public and
private benevolence of the good Christians of the city
would have been of no avail, had not the griping Jews
come to the rescue. Forsaken by Englishmen, Lord
John. Russell was saved by the Hebrews, and in this
pitiful unworthy manner he scrambled into the House
of Commons. Strange that the testimony of ft person
reduced so low should be of any use to a demigod like
Lord Palmerston. Yet it is carefully noticed that Lord
John formally recognised Lord Palmerston's claims to
remain at the head of affairs, not, however, without
a malignant, insulting, and most unwarrantable imputa-
tion upon the sincerity of the acknowledgment.
Liberal principle', however, are an ill-used as the
statesmen whose names are identified with them. And
mark the skill of Lord Palmerston's advocate. He
complains that some members of the Liberal party re-
fuse their entire confidence to Lord Palmerston, and
then proceeds to show how unreasonable they are after
the following singular fashion :
" But are we tell by some of the malcontents of the
Liberal party that this confidence is excessive, if not
misplaced—that there are many reformers in our ranks
of more tried sincerity and more ample promise than
Lord Palmerston—that he is not identified with any of
the questions of education, law reform, political reform,
or administrative reform which the new House of Com-
mons sill have to consider and det ermine—and that his
lead-rship will be fiercely disputed by those who ought
to be his firmest supporters. To this we reply that Lord
Palmerston has shown throughout his long and varied
career a ready perception of the real wants of the coun-
try. In our present condition there are few changes so
urgent, so grievances so intolerable, that the work of re-
form and redress is to be pursued in season and out of
season, and without reference to the spirit and events of
the time. Nor do such changes rest on abstract principles
of high political obligation, so much as upon the maturity
of any given question in the public mind, the conviction
that the time for carrying it has arrived. A minister
in England has neither the power of forcing reforms
upon Parliament for which the country is not pre-
pared, nor that of resisting changes upon which the
deliberate eel of the eulight-nod majority of the
nation is fixsd. Logit lative um mires in this country are
for the most part hardy plants, they are sown out of
doors; they are trausidanted•into Parliament ; they are
at last adopted by the Cabinet. A minister who should
stake his reputation on rearing products of exotic growth
or the meagre seedlings of coterie legislation
would sig-
nails, fail in the attempt."
The "malcontents" say that-Lord Palmerston is not
identified with any of the great questions above enume-
rated. " To this," says the reviewer, " we reply"--and
what does he reply I Not that Lord Palmerston is iden-
tified with this reform, or that reform, or any reform,
but " that he has shown throughout his long and varied
career a ready perception of the real wants of the coun-
try." And the writer is well aware of the weakness of
this confession and avoidance, fur he proceeds forthwith
to demonstrate that in point of fact the country has an
" real wants" just at present, a'nd consequently, that if
the minister were ever so renowned a reformer he would
have little seopefor his talents. There is an anachronism
in the above strain of observation, among its other
objectionable points. It is the cant of the last par-
liament, quite out of date in.,the present. And, like cant
in general, it is utterly inconsequential, mere verbiage,
intrinsically meaningless, though by no means without
its petty drift. We know of no condition of the coun-
try in which the work of reform and redress is to be pur-
sued without reference to the spirit and events of the
times. The meaning obviously is, that there is nothing
to be done in the way of refuel), there being no in-
tolerable grievances to be redressed, and the country not
being in a state of excitement bordering on frenzy,
which it seems is the proper moment for the statesman
to step in with his remedies. It used to be the
liberal doctrine that it was never inopportue to re-
form proved abuses, and that the calmest times were
the best for the purpose. It was even customary to
taunt the tories with deferring change until the politi-
cal atmosphere grew dark and squally, We havechanged
all that. The Edinburgh, Review counsels the govern-
ment to act on the very woret principles of the old tory
administrations—Wait until grievances become intoler-
able, and while you wait bow can you be better employed
than in sneering at "abstract principles and high politi-
cal obligations ?
When doer; a grievance become intolerable I Directly
those whom it afflicts possess the power to get rid of it.
There is force enough in the new House of Commons to
deliver the country from many grievance., if the force is
only well commanded and well applied. Thee griev-
e anees, therefore, the country ought no longer to submit
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hands to redress them
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that instrument be is bound to employ, and it be post-
pine employing i'. on account of the serenity of the sky,
1 the prediction may be safely hazarded that the public
I will soon deprive him' of his excuse, and compel him to
l do in foul weather what bad better,be done in fair.
Something to this effect would have come with more
propriety from the Edinburghi Review. than a anp!rfluous

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY
_EVENING, MAY 7, 1857,

Pcture on premature improvements. When .e see the
minister dashing at a dangerous speed along the road of
reform, it will be time enough to seize the rein?, and
save the country from his mad charioteering.