The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-11-08
Death OF Lord PaImerston.

The steamship CITY Of Boston, brings che
intelligence Of the death Of Lord Palmers.
ton, the great British Statesman, and head
Of the British Cabinet He has been longer
upon the political stage than any man in
Europe or America, with the single excep-
tioB OF Lord Brougham. 1t is nov sixty
years since he entered the English House OF
Commons, and be has been almost if not
continually member ever since. For near
ly half a century he has been prominently
and officially connected with the Govern
ment. He has been a member Of different
political administrations, as Home Secretary
and Secretary Of Foreign Affairs, tho posi-
ton now held by Earl Russell, and he has
been again and again the Premier, under
the title of First Lord of the Treasury.
Originally tory, he veercd around to the
Wing or Liberal party; but through the
whole course of his career, party tics set
loosely upon him, and were only made aux
iliary to his personal advancement. His
Whigism was of the most moderate kind,
and he had no sympathy with that branch
the party which, represented by Golden
and Bright, styled itself Liberal.
He is a genuine Engishman. naturally
conservative, averse to change, and looking
with suspicion and dread upon all political
movements that threatened to sweep away
old political landmarks. That party which
proposed to make radical changes in the
British Constitution had no more effective
enemy. OF temperament bold and ar
dent, passionate and choleric, he was
thoroughly imbucd with a high sense of
the honor of his country, and in his politi-
cal administrations he aimed to be consider
ed as the special champion of high-toned
and vigorous foreign policy, one that should
enhance and not lower the standard of En-
glsh glory. In this respect he was a most
excellent representative of the genuine
British sentiment; and it was the main ele-
ment Of his remarkable popularity with the
people for so many years. The frosts of
age did not tame his ardor or ameliorate
this peculiar characteristic. He was n
statesman of the order of Lord Chatham,
to whom the country always turned when it
was in difficulty and trouble. Who does
not remember the vigor which he infused
into the British Cabinet in 1855, during the
Crimean war, which languished under the
feeble administration of Lord Aberdeen.
He Immediately put the movements in exc
cution which led to the fall Of Sebastopol
and to the humiliation of Russia.
He was the early and consistent friend
Of Louis Napoleon, and alone of all the
British statesmen had the nerve to justify
coup d etat usurpation, by which he became
Emperor, in 1851. The remarkable alli-
ance between Francc and England, the re-
verse of policy Of centuries, was mainly
his handiwork. He was jealous Of Russia,
and not extremely cnamorcd of the United
States. The note sent by the English Gov
ernment in regard to the seizure of Mason
and Slidell, on the Trent, hot and offensive
as it was, would have been much more SO,
if the Queen had not softened and modified
its expressions. His death will have a great
effect upon the future of politics in Great
Britain, and will undoubtedly be of advan-
tage to the Radical Reform party, which
really aims at the overthrow Of the British
Constitution. No successor he can have,
will have that moral power and prestige in
the upholding of the old order of things