Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-08
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer

LONDON, july l.
In courtesy To tho fallen statesman, we must
say Of Lord .IonN RUSSELL That he has resirnea.
but we must he understood ms using the same dec
eorus language in which defeated general an-
nounces his retirement from the field For in
truth he had it no more in his choice to remain.
than the felon who concluded TO iedre through
the window after he felt a rather violent pres, ure
on his coat collar and another place Not that
Lord PALMERsroN sacrificed him to appcase ,ho
storm, for il seems that the Premer,up to the last
moment assured him that if he thought hest 10
remain. he would stand or fall with him The
pressure came from another qnartcr-indcrd We
may say fran all Other qunrters-fpr know not
where Lord IonN could have looked for the sup.
port Of single FREUD On Monday, of last week,
he offered TO resign, bat Lord pALMERSTON lis
sundcd him from doing 81. meanwhile the ciamor
against him grew every day louder: so land at
last that it frightened Lord JOINS own special
friends; the pets of his prosperity. the d,.r x
disciples of his political creed. even his inlin.s
and trusted friends, at his favorte club. o3t #
sheer terror tor their own safety, to sign paper
requesting him To resign. NAY then, farewell
He resigned at once. ! went down Ia the Iina>e
last erening to hear the explanation always OK
peoted after ministers resignation. not without
n hope that Lord JOHN would be able i'll some
measure to redeem that reputation which Mr.
DIsRAELI has nobly said is "one of the brig 5test
warmest friend of the noble Lord-for personal
friends he has, both many aud warm cannot tie
ny THAT his reputation, will not say for honesty,
bat for political wisdom is under Il cloud. He
placed his defence on these grounds: that the
two representatives Of France the two of Inr.
key, and his colleague of England, at the con-
ferences, agreed with him in looking favorally
on the Austrian proposal that neither he nor
they imagined that Russia would nccede to the
proposal, but that they entertained it with the
understanding that Austria would make its re ec-
ton casus beHi and under the hope of thus seeur
ing the desired alliance Of that power that upon
u subsequent understanding that Austria would
not consider it the proposal was rejected by his
colleagues in the confercncc,anA seemed no longer
admissible to himself; aud that in the altered cir
cumstances there no Inconsistency in his urg.
ing on the prosecution Of the war,or retaining his
seat in the cabinet. His failure seems "a be here:
the country is so thoroughly bent on eNacng-
by war if necessary honorable terms of peace.
that he ought not to have been inveiged in
cautiously into giving countenance to the scheme
of counterpoise--a scheme which the country in
dignantly rejects as ignominious and inadequate.
When party exaggerations shall have been forgot
ten. and the excitement of the war shall have
passed by. this will, think, be the judgment
pronounced on Lord John Russell FOR this pocal
error THAT he sacrificed the supreme consider
ton he should have had for the honor and the de-
mands of his own country, to an overweening
estimate of the advantage OF an Austrian ALI