The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

THE NEW PEERS.

(From the Times.)
Of the various peerages which are about to be created,
the public will regard with most interest that which ele
rates Mr. Macaulay to the House of L ,rds. It is an
honour which belongs peculiarly to the man, and which
a fitting, if not an adequwe return, for a life spent in
the public service, and de,oted to li erary labours of the
most dignified or ler. It -is much to say that he is the
tno3t popular author of the day, but we have to say
more. With a style that compels attention, with a cAlm
wisdom that tiommands assent, he has interpreted Hog-
hitt ,ry to ourselves and to the world. us the
history which he has indiw ed is worth a so, ,re of cbart(rs
and a cartlead-of laws ; it is our Bill of Rights and oor
code of political duties. We know better what we are,
we know what our fmhers fought for, we can sympathise
with the aspiraq ins of Whigs, we !ear') to respect the
endeavours of Tories, we are less of
,partisans and to ire
of patriots. To Europe Litt history is worth all the

constitutions that have yet been clevis-ed. It his been
.rans'a+ed ii,to many languages and widely read over the
continent. Who does not remember the appearance of
t esti volumes in that year of revolution when all the
penples of Europe were maddening with fury about
thrones that seemed to be tottering to their fall ? It
was with profound gratitude that, amid the universal
wreck, Englishmen Saw, a.. Ve historian described, how
in their country liberty came to be linked with order,and contentment and fraternity were made eonsi,tent
with the inequalities of al aristocracy. If it was a les-
son which we shall never- forget, it was a-lesson also
which, we have little d iula!i, will one day bear fruit in
every ki,•gdorn of Europe, making sovereigns more wise
and making subjects tremble for that crisis sbadoweo
forth by the historian, in which " it may be necessary t
saix flee even liberty in order to save civilisation:" In
this view, if we except Lord Palmer: ton, there is pro-
bably not an Englishman living avh has more power
fully influenced the'Aestin.ies of Eurepe than Mr. Macau-
lay ; and as for his influence upon ourselves, those who .
are fon i of quoting the hackneyed saying of Fletcher of
Salt.iun would have a stronger and more intelligible
case if they would give the preference over the maker of
laws, not to the writer of ballads, but to the phill:ophic
historian who leaveth his mark as palpably as the great
sutbnr whom her Majesty ie now about to honour.

There can be no more welcome addition to the debates
of the Upper House than the orations which we trust
Mr. MacAulay will occas'onlY contribute on the few
great occasions by which the Lords every session vindi-
cate their position.- AlthouA at one time he took a
proininent part in the discus-ions of the House of Com-
mons, his tone of thought and style of speaking were
'never quite suited to tits bustling representatives of the
people. It is in the Lower 'Dose • hat Cabinets rise and
fall, that public moneys are disposed pt, that toe chief
busitiess of the country is transacted. The members are
thus t to strictly occupied Nish pas-ing affairs, too intent
upon the result of a division and the fall of a party, to
care much for philosophy or history, even if the philo-
sop'ty be adorned with :all the eloquence of Burke, and
the hisitory be presented with all the brilliance of
Macaulay. But, While the Commons are all fur the pre-
cent, on the other hand, prescription is the vital air of
the peerage, and in the House of Lords a philosophic
historian will find an appropriate audience for that stately
eloquence which carries with it so much learning and so
touch wisdom. E ipecially et the ,present tn nrietit mutt
we rejoice At his elevation, in the hope that when we
have crushed this Indian mutiny, and the time comes to
consider calmly the future of our Eastern. Empire, the
views of one who has described in most glowing terms
hot!, England became possessed of that glorious prize,
and who, in the preparation of a code of Indian law, has
shown that he has. most profoundly studied the wants of
the Hindoo, will be exprett-ied as he alone of living
speakers can express them. Not -only on our India,
‘iifficoltv, but on all qUestiors of high policy, there Lot
a man in the • country whose opinions are entitled to
more weight, and who will be inure illAdly beard. An
historian is :a statesman on his travels ; and, while Mr.
°iacaulay will still travel from century to century awl
from country to country, we may expect now to have
aim sometimes at. home with us, giving his advice in
the present need.

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