The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-22 00:00:00

Foreign Secretary were ranked amongst the really in-
dependent representatives of the people of England. At a
moment when his fortunes as an administrator, and
his fair fame as a statesman, were threatened by a
malignant conspiracy of intriguers, Lord PALMERS-
TON had the gratification of finding his policy sus-
tained, and his reputation vindicated not by place-
hunters or partizans, but by men thoroughly indif-
ferent to the smiles of those in office. Such was the
pervading characteristic of his most earnest panegy-
rists in the Legislature. Such likewise was the
prominent characteristic of those who, on Saturday
evening, celebrated by their presence in the Reform
Club the late triumphant discomfiture of his anta-

gonists.
Of ail political movements those of intrigue are
the most abhorrent to the feelings of the English
population. Duplicity in Parliamentary tactics,
complicity on the part of sworn foes for the purpose
of securing their own mutual aggrandisement,
drawing room plots, and backstair interviews in re-
ference to the conduct of a Legislature, find no
accord whatever in the mind of our insular multitude.
They regard with emotions only of unmitigated dis-
gust and indignation the covert schemes of those
wilier aspirants for power who endeavour by nefarious
tricks and mendacious treacheries to oust from his
Ministerial position a dauntless and patriotic states-
man like Viscount PALMERSTON. That such efforts as
these should have been attempted in this country " by
politicians with characters and without characters, by
ministers in place and out of place, by kings with
crowns and without crowns" (to employ the felicitous
description of them given in the House of Commons
by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Middlesex),
is, of course, a matter of profound regret, viewing it
simply in reference to the question of political mo-
rality. Nevertheless, we cannot but acknowledge to
a certain coincidence of sentiment with Mr. BERNAL
OSBORNE, when he almost exulted in the circumstance of
this conspiracy, beholding the decisive and triumphant
manner of its discomfiture. Another reason for sa-
tisfaction, moreover, was indicated by the Gallant
Cluireaan, when he exclaimed, "But I also rejoice
that the Noble Lord has been exposed to personal
attack and vituperation, because it has given to the
world and to future ages that great intellectual effort,
that enunciation of great truths, that lucid array of
facts, and, above all, that calm and Christianlike for-
bearance from recrimination, which will be handed
down to after ages as a monument of eloquence, to
be studied by the philosopher, and taken as a model
by the statesman." No wonder that impassioned
tribute of eulogium upon the masterly speech in
which Lord PALMERSTON vindicated his foreign policy

from the charges of its assailants was received with
a rapture of applause befitting those who had
to express in some faint manner at least the ardour of
the popular enthusiasm. No wonder that the ap-
plause was yet heightened in intensity when the
Chairman, by one of those master strokes of pane-
gyric which in periods of strong emotion sometimes
seem to give voice, as it were, to the throbbings of
the national heart, repeated those noble lines from Sir
BuLwiat LYTTON'S Ring Arthur, where " one of the
greatest and most varied of modern writers describes
the greatest and most accomplished of modern states-
men" :

" Warmed with the instincts of a knightly heart,
That roused at or:ea, if insult touched the rehlm,
He spurned each state craft—each deceiving art,
Arid met his foes, no visor to his helm.
This proved his worth ! Hereafter be our boast,
Who hated Britain, hated him the most."

Among those whose oratorical participation in the
banquet of Saturday evening more peculiarly ac-
corded with the feelings in which the entire de-
monstration had originated, we must particularly
refer to Lord CA3IOYS, who remarked, when
returning thanks for the House of Lords, that whereas
it had been said on previous occasions, " Thank GOD,
we have a House of Lords !" the more appropriate
exclamation on this occasion would be, " Thank GOD,
we have a House of Commons !" In a kindred spirit
of earnestness, the speech wherein Lord DUDLEY
STUART proposed " The People—the only source of
Legitimate Power," was entitled to the cheers which
it elicited, abounding as it did with tokens that the
patrician blood of England is not alien to that
of the toiling multitudes, scattered though they
might be over the remotest regions of the globe—the
Noble Orator asserting that the recent triumph of the
noble subject of his commendations "had gladdened
with consolation and hope every patriot, in
whatever country, who had struggled or who
sighed for liberty." In reference to the
scornful comment pronounced by the Solicitor-
General upon those renegades from liberality, who
had pitifully connived at the conspiracy of the ene-
mies of freedom by opposing the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman the Member for Sheffield,
we might be inclined to expatiate at some length,
taking into account the heinous conduct of
such turpitude and tergiversation. As it is, how-
ever, we can content ourselves with echoing the
allusion of Mr. COCIEBIMN^

"Among the faithful, faithless only they ! '"—

satisfied in so doing, because as participators in the re-
cent victory we can " afford to be generous," and
because also the completeness of the triumph accorded
to Lord PALMERSTON admits of no room for acerbity
or recrimination. Besides, we have no leisure to de-
signate the insignificance of mere political intriguers
—our attention being more worthily engrossed by
the contemplation o► a great statesman and an il-
lustrious administrator.

Equally felicitous with the remarks already quoted
from the speeches of Mr. O.3BORNE on Saturday
was the incidental encomium previously passed
upon the illustrious guest of the evening by
the Chairman, when, in proposing the toast of
the Army and Navy, he observed that its 01 jectf, the
maritime and military officers present, had some right
to complain of and find fault with the Noble Lord
on his right, as it was through his policy that the
army and navy had not found that employment
which they anticipated ! Nor was that beau-
tiful compliment which Mr. OSBORNE paid to
his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT less
eloquently emphatic, when, in coupling his name
with that of the heir to the Crown and the other
members of the Royal Family, he observed, " I shall
content myself with saying, and I am sure I express
the feelings of this meeting, that we hope the Prince
of WALL'S will imitate the private virtues and the
public worth of his Sire !" Indeed throughout the
whole of the festal proceedings of Saturday even-

ing, Mr. BEaNAL OSBORNE evinced, in his ca-
pacity as chairman, qualities as felicitous of
their kind, as he had already long displayed
in his character as a popular representative. In
allusion to the gallantry of his political conduct upon
all occasions, we might say of hint too that
" He meets his foes, no vizor to his helm ;"
and, appreciating to the full the vigorous consistency
of his independence, we are satisfied that the men
of Middlesex have reason to be proud of him, just as
the men of all England have reason to be proud of
the illustrious subject of his eulogiums. Of that
great statesman the people of these Wanda not only
have reason to be proud, but are proud—
they are proud of his courage never quailing for an
instant before the intimidating intrigues of Despotism,
of his genius ever vigilant in presiding over the in-
tricate mechanism of diplomacy, of his patriotism
ever alive to the minutest particular affecting the
honour, the interests, or the. dignity of Great Britain.
They behold in the long and glorious record of his
Ministerial achievements cause for felicitating the
empire upon the possession of a statesman so bold
and yet circumspect—one who, while adorning
with his name the list of our Parliamentary
orators, is still ever keeping a watchful eye upon our
relations with all foreign countries, and who, while
maintaining lith a strong hand the grandeur of the
name of England, has yet acquired for himself ae
glory of being one of the noblest and truest conser-
vators of the tranquillity of Christendom.

While England was lamenting the premature
death of her greatest statesman, America was mourn-
ing the sudden loss of her most popular PRESIDENT.
Exactly one week after the death of Sir ROBERT
PEEL occurred the death of General ZACHARY
TAYLOR, the President of the United States of
America. As opposed to each other in position, in
disposition, in manner, in education, almost, it might
be said, in thought and in feeling, as it is well, pos-
sible to suppose any two men to be, yet each occupied
virtually a nearly similar position in their respec-
tive countries, and the premature death of each
will necessarily occasion important political changes,