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Russell and PaImerstOn.

Of the debate on Mr.. Roebuek's motion Of
eensure on the msmbefs Of the present Pal
merston and late Aberdeen administrations, Of
the rejection Of which BY the large majority Of
one hundred and seven votes the telegraph
from Halifax had already advised US. The
resignation Of Lord John Russell bad, as an.
ticipated, saved the government from the more
dangerous motion Of Sir BulWer Lytton. which
on his retirement was withdrawn It's with.
drawal. however. occupied a night thick with
scenes and with sharp and lively skirmishing.
The little hero Of the occasion aud author Of
all confusion made an effort Of rather ponder.
Gus sOlemniiy to draw bis robe around him and
fall decen!ly. Like Wolsey and BolingbroEe
and Captain COstigsu, and many other people
who get into scrapes and are left in them BY
their friends, Lord John with bitter sadness
mourns over the depravily and false 6ckleness
Of man, dwells on the sweetness Ofretirement,
points with pleasing pride to some small SER
vice to liberty, makes the usual grand appeal
to conscience and to country, and so passes 81.
ently away. The remains of the greatest
criminal may be converted into benefit to SCI
euce and to his fellow man; let us hope that
Lord John Russell's doom may be lesson to
his fellow. statesmen. At his grave they may
learn the danger Of sacrificing principle to par
ty. They will find themselves, as be describes,
'in the first dark rub, deserted by those for
whom they make the sacrifice.
! So was it With this departed statesman. He
was not, it seems, by any means willing vic.
tim. He would have cluug tO.!he ship to the
last, and the Captain, Palmerston, mindful Of
some past passages of protection to himself,
galantly professed readiness to shield him
and show fight. But the crew mutinied.--
Those very 'Wbigs' whom Russell had led SC
long, and with whom he had so often shared
the tolls and spois Of party, signed a round
robin declaring they would not give battle land
desiring that the dangerous member should,
for the common safety, be cast overboard.-
The trial was too severe for human friendship
Among that band of mutineers were not few
to whom a change from Palmerston to Derby
would be change from splendor to want
They loved Lord John Russell much, but the!
loved their quarters salary more. Mr.. Bou
, verie, beloved pupil of Lord John who ha'
| his political feeding from his LOrdshiP's owl
e hand, undertook. as be declares, from pur
: and disinterested regard, the ungratetul par
of candid FRIEND and submitted the mutt
n nous demand. This last blow was too bitter
! Lord John, who up to this had defended him
7 self, cried out EFT tu, Brute and expired.
r Having thus escaped the imminent DANCE
r in which by the motion of Sir Bulwer Lytto
they had been placed, the Palmerston minis
: try rode lightly and triumphtly over that
Mr.. Roebuck. A resolution of censu.e, S
4 broad and unfinchiDg as his, gathering in tn
leaders of two parties in the House, and som
individuals of third, could not command SUI
" cess, no matter how strongly set in truth. BI
: some of his structures we're destitute of eve
this element Of strength. Those who remen
g Der the starting of the fatal expedition to s.
vastOpo and the state of public feeling
d England which proceeded its departure, knO
+" that it was undertaken by the Government fs
o less in obedience to their own conviction tha
l. to the popular pressure from without. Wit
e that delight in war which is too apt to 6ll tn
heart of the multitude, until they feel the tai
mans gripe upon their purse, and hear II
beating of Deaths wing above their home
from one end of England to the other ran the or
Whatever guilt lay in the expedition belon!
: to he people. The errors in its conduct aloI
= lie at Downing.st. doors. But even here M
III Roebuck relieves many of those who have ha
hitherto to bear the largest burden of II
blame. The Duke of Newcastle, who ha
been cast into the wilderness with the SINS thi
belonged to centuries on his head, is now REP
resented to have been a laborious and faitbfu
y minister, untiring in his devotion to the bono
and interest Of his country. Similar extract
8 ing dashes are cast upon the stains of 81
James Graham and Mr.. Sidney Herbert. UE
;. on those who escaped the wilderness and ST
. browse in the pleasant pastures Of office, M
- Roebuck lays the deepest guilt. The variet
;, and multitude of their arraigued associate
!, however, helped them to escape this time.
% But the evil day is only deferred. II
hour must come when even the proud Paine
:, ston. of iauntv Joke. and bullying bluster, an
pompous platitude, must bend. With cou
of decided, though discreet, hostility Pa
liamentary majority against him whenev
combined and Ministry which, with the e.
cepton of Lord Clarendon. presents one de'
level of dullness, it is impossible he can lOT
maintain his place. Bereft of the man Wh
up to recent events, gave the most characte
to his Government, as Louis Napoleon was