New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-08
From the NEWARK Ausertlscsl
Lord Pallmerston.

N The last time saw Palmerston was in the summer
~ 1854 il the House Of Commons. 1t was a leid
day, and he had been running tilt against every
knight thal dared nleah asf ans%ad
His I'VE was bright, and with, the SHOWS 81 seventy
Winters on his head be appeared to me perfect MIR
acle Of intellect There Is age In his hair, his limbs
ntelIset il Unconscious 81 decline; the sword is not
the less sharp that It gradually cuts through 1he
4 8CAbbard. 9s e
Tie late Dr. Maginn, writing Of the mythically old
Mr. Rogers, said that after passing the first eighty
az ninety years OF his age in the designations OF YOUTH
he began to think him of o profession and in the
same way the iustri0us career Of Palmerston COM
unenced when his ordship was attaining half hun
dred years. II is true be was in the House OF Com.
n rnons before be was in q beard but the silence of
s0me twenty wears would appear to intimate his pro-
found conviction that the Romans were right IN ad-
sstting to the Senate only those who had attained
tTle dignity of forty years. But although be came
aste mon the House of Commons arena, his whole
s life had been spent in office.
He has held office nineteen years under the Tories,
aud about sixteen years under the wings. he was
the Secretary of War who signed warrants for the
conveyance 81 Napoleon / to st. Helena and he was
the Secretary Of State who offended his sovereign by
recognizing that Napoleon III. had commenced to
reign. As the English cricketers would say--"he has
had the longest innings on record Ills Offices, too
appear to have been no sinecures. He was Secretary
III War at war time and his sixteen years Of Foreign
ecretaryhp were sixteen years OF attempts to break
& the peace Il +. IS u al fsE
With the pressure Of age he has nothing to do
II the daring and the indifference Of youth are the sa
lient points Of his character to this dayand from
the time when he on behalf Of Canning undertook tc
6 crush The Duke, to that manifesto Of few year.
since, when, lin answer to some Scotch cergymeI
who pettioned him to advise her Majesty to fix da.
fr national fast on account of the cholera and b
~. .gested { they had better look after the tow
l,s;ia.se he has always manifested the same energy
spirit gad humor and now, in 1851, in his seventy
fourth year Che veteran statesman has triumphed il
one Of the ercest popular struggles England has wit
messed since the days OF the great Reform agitation
M The high position Of Lord Palmerston in the Hous
ut Commons is attributable not only TO the fact tina
lie Il rst rate intellect lending the century, but
Y his uost emphatically practical character, polisihe
int5 craftsmanship by the experience OF more ina
Gsyrty years Of responsible office.
He Is said to be the only peer OF pure. saxon q
scent ana he has always to me the intenses
Enqlishman- in English public life. No one has p
rused lis recent Parliamentary efforts. but has bee
struck with the vigor and variety Of his ntellec
Practically comprehending all the details OF Englls
Il gtatesnanship, and thoroughly conversant with Il
political history Of European politics. he is perfe
riant in debate. Cool and sagacous, he IS ev
e prompt and ready at seltdefence. Full OF hume
and Astounding in sarcasm, he il most formidab
adversary in the running tilt Of an ofhand debate.