The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-07
LORD PALMERSTON.


HIS LaboriouS Ambition DOWn TO tb'
CIOsd 6f1iIS Life Secrets OF his sue,
ccss-The Man Characterized.
The London Times publishes a care.
fully prepared sketch, occupying mint
columns, and the Star gives more spac,
still to an account of the life and ser.
vices Of the late Premier. The 2rmel
says:
"He worked hard for success even In
extreme old age. AZ young man he
did less than his friends expected Of
him; as an old one he did far more. II
was amazing to sec how he could sit out
the whole House OF Commons In IL
longest slttings. AT three or foul
O'Clock In the morning he was the
freshest md liveliest man there, ready
with his joke or n clever explanation Il
nppease the irritnbllity Of worn as.
sembly. Besides the toll Of debate md
inCessnnt watching in the House oI
Commons, his office work was enorn'
Gus. His dispatches, all written in thai
line bold hand which he desired TO en-
graft upon the Foreign Office, arc in
Vulnerable. His minutes upon every
conceivable subject Of interest In the
last fifty years would I'LL many vol,
.umes, and It is to be hoped that some oI
them will be published. Moreover, In
private, ho was always ready to write
for the information Of his friends, and
he always wrote we'll. Wemay add, in
n parenihesis, that generally he wrote
standing. To get through this i'm.
mense amount OF work he lived during
the session what most men would re-
gard rs an unwholesOme life. -Four
days In week, when the House sat at
night, he dined ut 3 o'clock; on other
days ut $50. When his dinner wns late
he took no lunch; whenit was early hG
seldom took any supper. WhileyOung
men went of from debate TO enjoy u
comfortable meal, he sat on the Treas.
ury Bench nll night and never budged
from II except TO get II cup Of tea In the
tea-rOom, where he liked gossip with
whoever was there. For, with all his
official labors, he kept his hold on So
clety and enjoyed life like Il youth.
Lord PulmerstOn-and In this Lady
PalmerstOn resembled him-was In his
very nature genial and social. They
loved soCiety-not necessarily their own
society, but all men and women. In
the country, as in town, their hospital
ity was unbounded. A large family
circle continually gathered about them,
reinforced by whoever was remarkable
for political, or literary, or artistic eini-
nence, for sport, for travel, for military
or naval exploits. All were welcome,
and NIL found in both host and hostess
a sympnthiZing audience. Yet they
were never rich until latterly, and even
nj last their means were as nothing
when compared with the OpulencO OF
many who never open their doors ex-
cept 10 the members Of n coterie. All
this was the result Of prodigious vital
ity. Any doubts on that score might
he settled by seeing Lord Pnlmerslon
ut public dinner-he sat down TO II
with the Zest OF mn Etnn boy; or by
seeing him on horseback, when early
nm oclogcnnriun, he would ride some
fiIteen miles TO cover and think nothing
OF Il, His mind never lost its interest
in whatever was new. He was MS keen
M any young man about the coming
Derby, and would rather have won IL
than any political triumph. These
things are worth mentioning, for they
are elements Of political success. Great
us Pitt was, he was said TO have lost
much through deficient sOcinbility.
Lord PNlmerStOn lost nothing in this
way, but gained II great deal. lleowed,
Indeed, 50 much to his social tact, that
superficial observers have seen In II the
whole secret Of his power.