Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-11-03

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Eagiand hes lost her greatest state.m.n
The news By ~ City 81 Boston, conveyed
g - ~ tale9faph, announces the demise
q 'Lsed RAlmsssten, Prime Minister Of
p9e VicteriA which took plscs, On the
1oening ofthS 18th Of October, be being
within Asbv days Of completing big elst
yeee. Never. einoe the dsatb Of Sir Robert
keel, bas England sustained - severe
l6uo = shs HIS now to mourn. in the calling
away Of one of the most astute statesmen
and axpe r;enced and profound diplomatists
Of m6(lsfn timee. SO differently are matters
cocstitutsd in Europe, that, although it was
netnral 10 expect ct hrs advanced age that
Iord palmerston could not live much long
er. and when the fact OF bis serious illness.
and finally Of his dscsase WAS announced,
the effect upon public securities and fenet-
n commercial business was more noticeable
there, than It was with US here, when our
Chief Magistrate was in IN instant % cruelty
taken from 10 BY the cowardly stroke of On
assassin.
The deceased nobleman, Henry Temple
Palmesston. va born, in Ireland, on the
2oth Of October, 1881, and succeeded to his
title when 10 years Of age. He Was educa-
ted at the University Of Cambridge, and in
1906 elected member of Parliament for
small borough, Horshsm, and became sup
porter Of Government. In 1907 he was
made one a the Lords Of the Admiralty,
and two years Afterwards obtained the office
Of Secretary of War, and In the following
year represented the University Of Cam
bridge In the House Of Commons. About
the year 1925 an attempt was made on his
life, shot having been fired ct him without
the slighest cause, in6icting slight woond,
the perpetrator being ultimately discovered,
and pronounced to be insane. He filed the
important Office for more than nineteen
years. during the stirring administrations Of
Percival, Castlereagh, Liverpool, Canning
and Goodrich. He took q prominent part
80, and aided the Peel and Wellington
Cabinet in the removal Of the Catholic dis
abilities, measure Of which, with all that
has been said against him, he was one of the
cd the first Reform Bill, introduced into
Parliament by Lord John Russell in
1881, nor did he desist from its
support until was finally carried. This fear
less advocacy Of q progressive policy cost
him his seat for Cambridge, but in the
same year he was readily elected for another
place. In 1895, he Was elected for liver.
ton, which he continued to represent up to
the time of his DEATH He held the seals
of the Foreign Office from 1880 until the
dissolution Of the Wing Cabinet in 1884,
which Office he shortly assumed and con-
tinued to fill with . short interval until
1851, when he resigned. The extent Of
his experience as we'll as his consciousness
Of superiority was far from being pleasing
to his colleagues. Shortly after the French
revolution Of l84S, when what was common
~ called "reAction" had set in all over
continental Europe. Lord Palmerston be-
came marked man. AS far As his depart
ment, Foreign Affairs, was concerned, he
was the independent Minister Of the people,
and. moreover, the most dreaded antagonist
Of that tortuous policy, and Of those un-
scrupulous politicians which cost Louis
Philippe the loss Of his crown, and drove
his family into exile His ready and frank
acknowledgement Of the French Republic
was denounced as . crime, and the Meter
nichs, ManteutFels, Guizo Is, the Therses
and the like declared that he should be got
rid Of ~ nm English Minister. It was his
crime that the cruel and pcriured King o.
Naples was prevented from wholly devasta
ting Sicily, and mercilessly slaughtering its
Inhabitants. A motion c0ndemning his for
eign policy was proposed and carried in the
House OF Lords in 1860, but in the House
Of Commons, his conduct was approved Of
by considerable majority. This triumph Of
the people was followed by many public ex-
pressions OF appreciation. This followed the
carrying out Of his avowed liberal foreign
policy, policy which did much TO relieve
European peoples Of the iron pale Of despo.
&c power. II will be in the recollection o
most Of our readers that in l849, 80 and 81
the deceased statesman vigorously and en-
sreetically cxertcd himself to obtain frou
from the Porte the liberation Of KOssuth
who had been in the first instance preserve,
from delivery to the Austrians by his infl,l
ence. In the latter part Of 1851 he succeed
cd in obtaining the release of the great Hun
garian and his fellow xilcs, in spite of tn
opposition of Russia and Austria Soon 81
forwards . deputation from the toroughs q
Finbury and Marylebone waited on him witt
IN address Of thanks containing some stron
illusions to the conduct II the autocrati
sovereigns; and the fact that he did not re
fuse the address, MS we'll ~ some express
ions he made use of, were laid hold Of b.
Austria and Russia, and worked with grea
effect by the Ministers Of these Courts, VIII
demanded explanations which Palmersto
was not inclined to give, and he shortly al
forwards resigned. During his career a
Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, Ldr
Pamerston negotiated successfully some q
the most difficult affairs in the modern Eu
ropean politics To enter into the detail
would occupy more space than the crowde
state ofour columns will permit, but as som
Of his diplomatic acts are replcte with prac
teal lessons, combined with many interest
ing incidents, we NAV take occasions to r,
vert to the distinguished subject oG this yer
brief notice The latest rutnor is that tn
deceased will be succeeded by Lord job
Russell as Premier Of England.-t. Lou
Republican.
What SOnth Ca s'0lfnn lost by IN
WAR.
From the Charleston News
OF $4,000 900 in bank stock, all i
lost. Of $4,000, 900 bills in circulation, tn
market value is not more than twenty pc
cent Of three insurance companies. ne
ther can continue business. Of*2 600, 90
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