Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-07-18
Literary GOssip.-NO. IL.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
Lord John Russell has written a book, besides, it
is said nduiug several articles to the "Gentlemans
Magazine;'' but Lord John Russell would never,
on this account have been famous. His celebrity
has resulted not from literary achievements but
solely from his position politician, the accidents
of time, and his own obstinate immobiity. Lord
John Russell is cadet of the house Of Bedford; he
is the son and brother of duke; and, although
aristocracy is now an obsolete estate which merely
exists in its traditions, the sympathies of Lord John
Russe's nature are strongly welded to it that
he obslinatey and dogmaticay refuses to admit
that this is the year 1851, but holds on to the be-
aristocratic revolution in England took place, to
which the Russells gave martyr, and by which
they won much property and influence.
1t is the biography Of Lord William Russell Of
which his premier descendant is the author; work
which is only remarkable on account of certain fam
lily papers which are interviewer with the text
Lord John Russell is now Prime Minister of Great
Britain,-a position which he holds by sufferance,
but such is his cool, egotiscal pacidty, and salts
fed conceit, that he is content to drag the car of
government along the old beaten turnpike, and to
dispense with majority TO support him in the House
of Commons, if the radicals and protectionists will
have it SO.
When first saw Lord John, from that dog hole
which, in courtesy, is called the gallery of the
House of Commons, he was seated with his arms
folded across his Breast his legs laid over each 9TH
er, and his hat resting, as far could discover,
upon his nose. He is small in stature, and did not
look striking amongst the miscellaneous assembly of
remarkably tall thin, fat, large porty and fashion,
able men who constituted his colleagues, and who
sat beside him, but there was an air Of quiet,
sleepy, petrifed immobiIily about him, which, when
discovered him, impressed me as the perfect type
of his party and policy. At last, however, the little
"Wouter Won Twiller" of English politics woke
mp, took his hat from his remarkably long, narrow
head, over whose surface it seemed as il a bullet
had poughed its way, smoothing the crown clear
through, and leaving the grizzed hair on each side,
and then he cooly proposed the suspension of the
HabeGs Corpus and Coercion Bill for Ireland
1t was in lS49 when Europe was in the agonies
OF general revolution, and when the land of En-
NETT was trembling in the weakness of famine, and
with the passion Of despair that saw this political
4 mo 90 quietly rise in his place. to propose mill.
'y ooeicloh, as remedy Tor porltroal sgs..--
evils' that had been aggravated by English tyranny
since the days of the first Henry of Strong Bow ae
DE Bourgo. Only George Thompson, member 70
Tower Hamlets, boldly and warmly proteste,
against this outrageous act of n;nstca to,yards :,
injured people, but only twelve men in the House
Commons supported him, and coercion had ii
way.
Lord John Russell is reported to have drafted til
English Reform Bill, measure so VIGOROUSLY de
fective, that ten years it fell behind the necess
ties Of English Reform; but SO perfect iii the eye
of its author, that he rose one day in his pride t
defend it from adverse structures, and nsoently an
dogmaticaly told the people of England that it wa
's6ual"
Lord John Russell lives and breathes in the pas
AS the biographer of his ancestor, whom the torie
beheaded as "a traitor, and the Wings gloriGed as
martyr, he has developed his own inner life Th
period of the revolution is, to him. the heroic age
England; the aristocracy who consummated tina
revolution, are his heroes. Raised to the zenith
political power in Great Britain, as an ensign
raised step by step to command, through the deaf
of his superors and predecessors, he now exercise
that power as if society, like himself, had becom
old and supcrannuated, and had not, in obedience
the universal democratic tendency, Outgrown the ag
Of his dreams