Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-11-16
The Late Viscount Palmerston.

The worldwide reputation of Henry John
Temple, Viscount Palmerston. whose death
has recently been announced. demands at our
hands brief sketch of his remarkable career.
Lord Palmerston was born at Broadlands,
near Romsey, Hampshire, England, October
1854, and at the time of his death had nearly
attained bis eighty-frst birth day. He com.
menced his education at Harvard, went thence
to the Edinburgh University where he had
Dugald Stuart for tutor, and finally graduated
in his twenty second year at Cambridge. He
succeeded to his title at the ago of eighteen,
and, after leaving college, he stepped at once
into the political fell as contestant (with the
late Marquis of Lansdowne) for the represen-
tation of Cambridge University. He was
unsuccessful, but Immediately after was sent
to the House of Commons as representative of
the borough of Bletchingley, and in 1907 was
made junior Lord of the Admiralty in Port
lands Tory Cabinet. After sitting for the
borough of Newport for time, in 1914 he
again ran for the Cambridge election and was
chosen, and this representation he retained
for the ensuing twenty years. Palmerston's
first important speech in Parliament was de-
liyered when he was only twenty-three. in
opposition to motion for the production of
papers explanatory Of the British expedition
to Copenhagen.
In 1909 he succeeded Lord Castlereagh as
Secretary at War in the Perceval Cabinet, an
Office which he filled uninteruptedly in five
different administrations, during {. period of
nineteen years The accession of Canning to
the Foreign Secretaryship, in 1922, inaugu-
rated more liberal policy in the relations of
England with the Constitutional Governments
of the Continent, and that policy Lord Pal
merston readily concurred, attaching himself
thenceforth to the fortunes of the Canning
party and its leaders, and adopting at tire
same time the views of the latter on the SUBJ
iect of Catholic emancipation, parliamentary
reform, and other domestic questions.
In 1928 he found himself for the first time
in twenty-one years in opposition to the Gov
ernmcnt, and in March of the succeeding year,
and again in 1880 he advocated Lord John
Russell's reform bill, and thereby lost his seat
for Cambridge University, bat was in 1881
returned for Bletchingley. From 1882 to
1884 he represented South Hants, and since
1885 he has been regularly returned to Par
Lament by the electors of Tiverton He was
prominent in effecting the recognition of the
independence of Belgium, and in the forma-
ton of the quadruple alliance between Eng
land. France, Spain. and Portugal, for up
holding the cause Of constitutional Govern
ment in the two latter countries.
In 1843 he returned to the foreign Office in
the Russell Cabinet, and in the various diff
cult questions of public policy which the rev.
olutionary movements Of 1889 evolved ex-
hibited his favorite policy of lending the moral
weight of Englands opinion to struggling ma
tionalties, but at the same time refusing any
practical assistance. Of the usurpation Of ex-
treme power by Louis Napoleon in December
1851, he took more friendly view than was
at that time at all palatable to the English
Court.
In the death of Palmerston Queen Victoria
looses her most confidential adviser, and his
demise will hardly affect her less than the
death of Prince Albert.