Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-07
English Politics.

The news from Europe by the last two Steam
ers, the Asia and Washington is wholly devoid ot
interest The rejection of Mr. Roebuck' : resou
ton censurng the government, by the uneNpedl
edly large majority of l07 appears 10 have re#
established the Palmerslou Ministry more frm,
than ever in their places. The opposition give
up the fight for the present, and rest content
with having driven Lord John Russell from III.
cabinet His Lordships speech in yndieation
his conduct at Vienna and of his sul!sequen.
course a n member of the administration is an
able and ingenious production, but we have no
space for any extracts from it, We suhion how
ever the exordium of Sir Bulwer Lytton's reply,
and also Lord Palmerstons sarcastic and even in
sultng retort upon the great novelist.
SIR +. b. LYTroN.-Sir. ! do not regret that
the course which the noble lord has taken in re
firing from the councils of Her Majesty, while il
iust6es the course which contested, ho>
transferred the victory withouta struggle 10 The
patriotism of this house and the people itrepre.
sents For if interpret correctly the SENSE Of
the noble lords quotation, it is not before mem
Der of my humble pretensions that he retres-
not before the phalanx of n hostile party-no, II
is before the general sense of the country which
is evinced in the desertion of his own followers.
Nor do think that they deserve the taunt which
the quotation implies, that they could not accom-
pany even so illustrous leader u single step
which seemed TO them TO leave behind il the in
terests and honor of their country.
. But, though the noble lord, second time in
one campaign, has left the field, and this time
parma non bene reictd,yet since he has entered at
length into the yndcation of his previous conduct
so trust it VII not seem ungenerous IN mo If
vindicate also those reasons which induced me to
think that that conduct had shaken, and perhaps
shakes still the confidence of the country IN
those who administer its affairs But,,ander the
altered circumstances of the cause, shall make
my statement as brief and as temperate as will be
consistent with requisite proof that it was not
upon flight grounds we would have brought Il
charge against a man eminent and against n
government so justly entitled to the Indulgence
of compassion. {" Hear hear" and laughter
Sir Edward then entered upon an extended
criticism of the conduct of Lord j. Russell,
Lord Palmeston declared that he had never
heard a speech more full of Inconsistencies than
that Of Sir b. Lytton, who had argued, h,
said, as if Lord j. Russell had, from the day he
arrived from Vienna, continued to be of opinion
that the arrangement proposed by Austria was
proper to be adopted. He gave Sir b. Iytton
his choice between deliberate nsincerity and the
grossest ignorance, when he said that he allowed
credit to Lord Clarendon for his conmmunniea
tons yet regarded him only the organ of hi
individual opinions. Did no believe this !
If so, he must be ignorant as u child. He
denied that there was any division of opinion in
the Cabinet on the subject Of war; all were ami
mated by the same determination to carry it on
with all the ygour which the resources of the
country would supply.