Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-06

introducing the conspiracy to murder bill
shortly after the attempt of Orsini on the
life OF the Emperor. In June Of the sue
ceeding year he again formed ministry
which is still in power, and In which pc
occupied the position of First LORD, OF the
Treasury. Although previously commit
ted in favor of maintaining the Integrity
of the Austrian Empire as a necessity In
the European system, he advocated Don-inTU
tervention in the Italian struggle of 1853,
on the ground that in its relations with the
Lombardo-V Venetian Provinces the lmperi-
al Government had exceeded it's legitimate
authority. The overthrow Of the Bourbon, 4
dynasty in Sicily and Naples in 1850 In like
manner received his sympathy, but no d. I
rect assistance from the British Govern
ment. The long career of Lord Palmer
ston, extending through period Of ffty-a
seven or tifty-eight years, during more than
forty-five of which he had held office, is
due not less to his industry and talent for
craftsmanship, than to his shrewdness and
skill as Parliamentary leader, to his ap-
probation of the English character, and to
his merits as public speaker. His OratOryy
possessed the rare quality of adaptability
which rendered him as effective ON the
hustings as on the floor of the House of
Commons, and was impregnated with q
light and good-humored sarcasm, seldom
exerted without effect upon unwary OPP
ponents. For clear and forcible statement,
without needless verbiage, his speeches are
described as unsurpassed by those of CO.
temporary statesmen; and although he sell
dom rose to eloquence, he was never in any
sense heavy. His appearance, nOtwith-
standing his advanced age, was cOmpara-
lively youthful, and his personal habits
were those of great physical activity and
nrufoa un fan a nd
erect in his carriage, walking usually with
vigorous strides, and carrying his years in
every respect most gallantly. His face was
round, and his scanty hair a mixture OF
brown and grey. He devoted considera-
BILE care to the establishment of his personn
and his clothes were in the extreme of the
fashion OfsOme twenty yParssince. Unlike
Canning, Disraeli, Russell, Gladstone and
others of his contemporaries, he won his
way to power without, the aid OF literary
prestige. His views and opinions are to be
found in detail only in Parliamentary re-
| ports and blue books, and in his occasional
addresses to the electors of TivertOn, but
multitudes of dissertations on his foreign
policy have been published both in England
and on the continent, among which may
be mentioned the publications and speeches
of David Urquhart accusing him OF being
secretly and treacherously in the service OF
Russia, and of having betrayed the inter-
ests ofEnglandin the Eastern question, and
| Count Ficquelnont's Lord PQlmerston
| I Angleterre ct Le continent 1882. Lord Pal
merston married, December 16, 1880, the
dowager countess Cowper, daughter of the
first Viscount Melbourne; but the union
being without issue, his title expires with
| him.
| During our civil war Lord Palmerston
occupied negative position, awaiting with
his customary caution the turn that affairs
would take. His friendship for America
was by no means ardent, but he deemed 1t
prudent to suppress, as far as ne was per-
| s0nally concerned, any feeling for or
against us, permitting other leading men to
go as tar as they chose in directly hostile
action, without rebuke or countenance from
him. Although seriously ill from the only
| enemy that was ever long successful against
him, the gout, he went gallantly through
the excitement of a new Parliamentary
election, and triumphed over most of the
obstacles placed in his way by his oppon-
ents. Evidently he looked forward to many
years of power, forgetful of his great age
and the feebleness of his body. Since
Louis Napoleon's accession to power Pal
merston has managed affairs between Eng
land and France with much shrewdness.
| IC pOoIpUnCu duy OpCu Wai anu ~ hio
personal relations with the Emperor main
tained an outside friendliness which an
swered all practical purposes of peace
while it maintained acreditable position for
England in the eyes of the world. His
social qualities, readiness at repartee, i'm
periousness in council and thorough knowl-
edge of the idosyncrases OF the British
i people, gave him great strength and rem
l dered him an object of fear TO his rivals
and affection to the mass OF Englishmen.
Altogether his career was a successful but
not brilliant one. He was demagogue
rather than statesman, man of cunning
rather than of talent, and a swaggerer and
bravo in politics rather than fearless, up
right, independent representative of pow
erfGl nation, one able to ask no favors and
fear no foes. If Russell succeeds to his
place in the present critical condition ol
matters between England and America, we
may fear complications which the little. Earl
has not the deXterity to evade nor the liability
to grapple with. Perhaps, however, Palm
erston's death may cause such a new deal
of the political pack that friendly settle
ment Of our weighty grievances against
Great Britain may be achieved, though the
chances of such termination are indeed
remote. Meanwhile, England will occupy
itself with his funeral pageant, her news
} papers announce his services and virtues
} and he will pass into history for what he II
, worth, and no more.