New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-28

the most striking articles on Indian, Colonial
and party politics have beer forged in his brain.
The interest they excited and the influence they
exercised made him naturally ambitious Of find.
ipg for his abilities higher and broader sphere;
and through the influence Of Lord Ward, an old
pupil Of his at Oxford be was returned in 1852
to the British Parliament for his pocket-bor-
cugh Of Kidderminster.
Mr. Lcwe has, however, not won much dis
tinction in the legislative arena. His speeches
were strong in the accumulation of facts, but
Of too plain and unornamentsl construction;
and they always derived their chief strength in
the House rom the kno wledge that he repre-
sented the opinions Of The London Times, the
perfume Of whose thunder stood around him.
Upon his entry into the House he attached him.
self to the Peelite section, to which his patron,
Lord Ward, and most Of the distinguished
young men Of HE day belonged, and on
the assumption Of Office by that party he was
municipality in consideration Of his ability,
partly Of bis position on The Times, bet
which and Lord Aberdeen there had been for
years most cordial understanding and thorough
vi iV'O gu 'iO"s ChuOi-Sc'sC-
tary to the Board of Control for the affairs in
India. But little opportunity is ever offered to
men holding Office outside the cabinet to earn
paIlitmt ntary fame, as they are only permitted
to speak to order, but such as was afforded Mr.
Lowe he did not improve. Whatever weight he
carried or ever will carry he owed to his position
as journalist, not as politician. As Mr. Drum
HI - &C 49, "a of ba-
laisisn wit, ave have listened to the hon. gentle
"man (Mr. Lowe) without any special terror or
"awe, or sometimes even without any partica-
"ar instruction or delight; but when to-mor-
crow this same gentleman says the very same
citing clothed in the terrible we,' men re-
"tIact their votes ard forget their conscience
"and tremble at lis nod" Shortly before the
downfall of the Coalition Government the
strange anomaly of an official of the Govern
ment writing articles strongly condemnatory OF
the policy that Government pursued, and Of
particular individuals composing it, wore 80
ridiculous an aspect that Lord Aberdeen issued
an interdict foi bidding all officials connected
with Government from writing in the public
press. Mr.. Lowe at once resigned. The pres
ent less scrupulous Premier has removed the
interdict restored the Thunderer to Office, and
turned against his enemies those bolts which
had been through his whole political life direct.
ed against himself
This elevation of journalists to Office is
not the least singular sign in the present polti-
cal heavens of England. 1t is true that many
men holding high office have contributed tOthe
press, but they have always done 20 with the
secrecy and stealth Of an Illicit pleasure. In
his political youth Mr.. Disraeli wrote the let
ters Of GsDymede to The Times as we'll as con-
tributed to ether journals, and in debate not
lot lOrg since, with skillful flattery to the feel
ing Of the hour, spoke Of himself with pride as
member Of the order. 81 too," said he,
"sm gentleman of the press and have no
"other escutcheon." Lord Clarendon, both
during his reign in Ireland and subsequently at
the Foreign Office has contributed regularly to
The Times Mr.. Cooley, Director-General of
Stores, was writer on The Morning Chronicle,
as was also Mr. Hayward the Secretary of the
Poor Law Board. Mr.. Fonblanque, the bril-
liant editor of The Examiner for so many YEAR,,
was appointed to lucrative Office under the
Board of Trade. STILL notwithstanding these
exceptional cases, the feeling of aversion which
Napoleon so often expresses in his let
ters to admitting journalists to office was
shared ia England with still deeper inten-
sity. 1t is only in the appointment of Mr..
Wilson the editor Of The Economist, 10 the post of
Financial Secretary of the Treasury, and still
more in this recent nomination of Mr.. Lowe, that
this feeling has found it's doom and Journalism its
triumph.
Neither birth nor beauty, certainly, lent its at
fractions in either of these cases Mr. Wilson,
who was a halter in Southwark and became
bankrupt in that trade, is man of such marvellous
ugliness that il is matter of wonder how features
of such quaint form and contradictory shape could
possibly have found their way into combination
or remain together without incessant fight Mr..
Lowe is an albino, with pupils of more than usual
dimness of discernment and pinkness of color