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Lord PaIn,e,.rton.


his advanced age and the previous reports
of his illness. 1t is but short time since
his old friend Punch had him In caricature
as jaunty as ever, the inevitable straw In
his mouth, and apparently good for many
years to come. His death naturally caused
great excitement in England and also pro-
found sorrow, for he was uBqueetionably
the most popular man inpublic lifc In that
country. Theevent will exercise marked
influence upon the political world, here as
we'll as in Europe, and adds fresh cause for
agitation In the already disturbed councils
OF Europe. ur5E. H svga.L
Henry John Temple Palmerston, Sd Wis.,,
count, a. British statesman, was born at
BrOadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire, Oct.
20, 1854. He descended from younger
branch of the Temples of Stowe, the found
er of which was secretary to Sir Philip
Sidney, and settled in Ireland in 1909. The
celebrated Sir William Temple was his
grandson, and uncle to the first Lord Pal
merston, who was created apeer OF Ireland,
March II, 1922, under the title of Baron
Temple and Viscount Palmerston. The
present Viscount commenced his education
at Harrow, went thence to the University
of Edinburgh, where he studied mental
philosophy under Dugald Stewart, and was
finally graduated M. A. at st. Johns Col
lege, Cambridge, in 1906. Deprived by the
act of union of his seat as hereditary leg
isator in the Irish Parliament, Lord Pal
lmerston, who succeeded to his title at the
age OF lS, had the alternative of taking his
chance of election as an Irish representa-
tive peer in the House of Lords or of seek
ing admission into the House of Commons.
He chose the latter, and in 1906, when lit
tie more than 81 years of age, contested the
representation of Cambridge University
with Lord Henry Petty, the late marquis of
LansdOwne. He was unsuccessful in this
instance, but was almost Immediately re-
turned for the proprietary borough of
Bletchingley, and in 1897 was madea junior
lord of the admiralty in the tory cabinet of
the duke of Portland. Between 1907 and
1911 he sat for the borough of Newport, Isle
of Wig Int, and in the latter year succeeded
In securing the representation of Cambridge
University, which from the outset had
been sn object of ambition with him, and
which he retained for the next twenty years.
His first important speech in Parliament
was delivered in,opposition to motion for
the production of papers explanatory of
the British expedition to Copenhagen in
1907 on which occasion he objected ito
making public the working of diplomacy,
because it is the tendency of disclosures in
that department to shut up future sources
of intormation"-a principle in diplomacy
on which he has since consistently acted.
In 1909 he succeeded Lord Castlereagh as
Secretary at War in the Ierceval Cabinet,
an Office which he filled uninterruptedly in
five different administrations during pc
riod OF nineteen years. The accession of
Canning to the foreign Secretaryship in
1922 inaugurated more liberal policy in
the relations Of England with the Constitu-
tional Governments of the continent, and in
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| CURED, attaching himself theneefOrth to
the fortunes of the Canning party and its
leader and adopting at the same time the
| views of the latter on the subject of Catho-
lie emancipation, parliamentary reform, land
| other domestic questions. He was never
| theless continued in office in the Wellington
Cabinet, which came into power on the
death of Canning, but retired with the
other members of his party when Mr.
Huskisson was compelled by the hostility
| of the Premier to resign. In 1928 he found
himself for the first time in twenty -one
| years in opposition to the Government, and
in March Of the succeeding year, and again
In 1880, in speech on the neutrality observ-
ed by the administration in the contest be-
tween Don Miguel and the Portuguese lib
erals, he ably advocated the propriety OF q
more active and open sympathy with friend.
ly nations engaged In struggle for Con-
stitutjonal liberty. He now defnitively
severed himself from the tories, a step which
brought upon him large degree of ridicule
and abuse from the journals OF that party
and upon the accession of the Wings to
power in November, 1880, was appointed
by Earl Grey Foreign Secretary. He ad-
vocated Lord John Russell's reform bill
and thereby lost his seat for Cambridge
University, but was in 1881 returned fol
Bletchingley. From 1882 to 1884 he repre-.
sented South Hants, and since 1885 he ha!
been regularly returned to Parliament by
the electors of Tiverton. Hewas promin.
ent in effecting the recognition Of the in
dependence of Belgium, and in the fOrma-
tion of the quadruple alliance between Eng
land, France, Spain, and Portugal, for up
holding the cause of Constitutional Gov.
ernment in the two latter countries. Dur
ing the brief administration of Sir Rober
Peel, from December, 1884, to April, 1885
he remained out of office; but upon the
formation of the Melbourne Ministry h
was restored to the Foreign Secretaryship
the functions of which he discharged unit
September, 1S4l. His reputation as fore
ign minister was greatly extended durin.
this second term of office, and over all part
of the continent his name ''becamesy synony
nous with English diplomatic activity
His most noted achievement was th
quadruple alliance with the northern pow
ers to preserve the integrity of the Turk
ish empire. During the second Peel ad
ministration he remained in opposition, at
tacking the administration of foreigl
affairs by Lord Aberdeen with copsiderabl
severity, particularly the settlement of tn
boundary line between the State OF Main
and the Province of New Brunswick, whic
he stigmatized as the "Ashburton capitula
tion.'' In 1916 he returned to the foreig
office in the Russell Cabinet, and in the va
rious difficult questions of public polio,
which the revolutionary movements o
| 1859 evolved, exhibited his favorite polio,
of leading the moral weight of England
opinion to struggling nationalities, but a
the same time refusing any practical assist
ance. OF the usurpation of extreme powe
by Louis Napoleon in December, 1851, h
took more friendly view than was at tina
time, at all palatable to the Englis
court. This disfavor was heightened b,
his subsequent refusal to permit his dis
patches to ministers at fereign courts to b
losubmitted to the revision or inspection O
Prince Albert, which led to his dismissa
from office by Lord John Russell, at thein
stigation of the court. Public opinion raj
J high In his favor on account of what wa
deemed this manly and English-like asser
tion of independence, and he succeeded in
, bfew months in overthrowing the ministr
by which he had been discarded For
time it was thought that with his custo
mary pliability he would have taken th
lead Of the Tory party; but year late
he entered the coalition ministry Of Lort
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