The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
Lord PalmerstOn's Diary.

Lord PaImerstOn's Diary.
The London Record says of this forthcoming
and anXiously-eXpected work.
The main fact published by the AHlenRum is
quite true, although not to the extent which an
evening contemporary would induce sanguine
readers to believe, when it intimates that Lord
Palmerston's shrewd perception and genial
humor were employed in this diary of his to
analyze the characters OF the great men with
whom for three-score years he was in almost
daily contact Sir Henry Buwer, who is said
to be at work on q biography OF the veteran
statesman will have materials at disposal une-
sualled since the days of Boswell
The diary is to be full of interest, and distin.
Cuished by all the late Premier's finest charac-
teristics. 1t commences when he was sixteen
years of age, and it ends at the close of 1880,
when he assumed office as Foreign Secretary.
But at present no continuation OF the diary has
been found among his Lordshps papers, and it
has none of the attributes of a BOsweian record.
1t is replete in interest; modest, unaffected, and
simple without an atom of gall or ill-nature,
but short and condensed as II the style had been
formed after the model of the sententious bre-
yity of Tactus. 1t seems to have been originally
designed in its present form chefiyto explain
why he left the Tories and took office under the
Whig Earl Grey; q change which, according to
Lord Palmerstons chivalrous sense of honor,
could only be justified by the fact that he was
himself deserted by the party when he was un-
seated for the University OF Cambridge for
voting in favor of Roman Catholic emancipa-
ton, although there had been an established
compact according to which that question was
to have been an open one. This diary will eX-
plain that his long term of service as Secretary
at War was not from the want of many over
lures to accept higher offices. His Lordshp was
importuned by Mr.. Perceval, as Mr.. Pitts sue
cessor at Cambridge, to assume Mr.. Pitts Office
of Chancellor of the EXchequcr. lie twice de-
clined the Governor-Generalship of India, and
he was willing to have accepted, on Mr.. Cam
ning's solicitations, the Chancellorship of the
Exchequer. But George ~ thought he should
find more plant minister in Mr.. Herries; and
Mr.. Canning was compelled, after visit to
Windsor to make an awkward apology to
Lord Palmerston by offering him British
peerage and the GovernOrship OF Jamaica. We
understand that the story of this interview is
full of the most racy humor. The Viscount
burst into an uncomfortable fit OF laughter,
which for moment quite disconnected Canning,
until Lord Pamerston, with his ready good
humor. relieved the Premier by telling him that
he saw that he had not the Chancellorship OF the
Exchequer at his disposal, but that for himself
he preferred the House of Commons to the mig
gers Lord Palmerston's life spans the gulf that
separates the era of Fox and Pitt from the times
of Gladstone and Bright But we fear no diary
will be found to conduct Sir Henry Bulwer over
the thrty-fve years which separates the com
mencement of Earl Greys administration from
the close of Lord Palmerston's.
spiritunlisn, and witchcraft in London.
From the London NetCS, Aug. 20.
case of witchcraft in the Black Country
there are as supersttiOus as the London be-
lievers in messages from spirits. Ann Jones, the
wife of collier, receives divers sums from Eliza
Southall, in consideration of the husband of the
latter getting well of sickness Ann Jones is
wise woman; she mutterS charms, shows a col
le0aion of familiar toads in bottle and gives
certain stuffs to her clients to place in an oven.
When the oven is duly furnished my husband,
says Eliza Southall, as collected and distinct as
if she were giving evidence before the Dialetical
Institute, my husband began to Jump about the
house as if he were stark, staring mad, and l
noticed ut the same time that his hands
and face broke out all over with large pimples.
When the wise woman was informed of this she
took the phenomenon as a matter OF course, and
thus accounted for It'll have drawn all the
disease out of his body into the top OF his head,
but can fetch il right out for another two shil-
lings." Such virtue is there in two shillings;
but in the end Eliza Southall began to suspect
that she was fool, and during the lucid inter-
val she took counsel of the police. The mags-
trates unkindly remarked that they believed
Mrs Southal was the most foolish woman that
could be found in the whole country" This
was a sweeping assertion, though in great
measure justified by the facts; yet we happen to
know that at this hour there are in London at
least three men making good substantial incomes
by casting horoscopes and pretending to consult
the stars.
Adventurous VOyager in n Tiny Vessel,
From the Edinburgh Scotsman, Aug. 49,
Mr.. Empson Edward Middleton, late of her
Majestys 5lst Regiment of foot, who arrived in
Edinburg on the evening of Tuesday last, has
undertaken an adventure which is perhaps with
out a parallel in the annals of yachting. He
has undertaken to crcumnaVgate the coast of
England alone and unaided in his yacht Kate,
boat of three tons burden; and in couple of
months from the time he began his voyage he
has succeeded in performing the larger half OF
his task.
Mr.. Middleton left London in the Kate on the
18th of June and sailed down the Thames in the
face of heavy gale of wind from the northeast.
On the 10th he had good run from Greenhithe
to Ramsgate under close-reefed mainsail. He
had light head winds all the way down the
Channel, and made the Lizard on the 18th, and
Lands End on the 14th of July. Thence he
sailed along the coast of Cornwall TO Lundy
Island and Milfordhaven, encpuntering very
stormy weather in the Bristol Channel. When
off Lundy Island the Kate was kept out all night
by the sea that was running. At MilfordhaVen
she got becalmed. and was detained five days.
On the 29th of July Mr.. Middleton attempted
TO make Scoona Island, but was caught in a
gale of wind, and had to put into North
Haven. On the 3lst he ran over to
Courtown and Dublin, where he remained for
two or three days, after which he made for
Donaghadee, where he was again becalmed
On the 18th Of August a breeze sprang up, and
he succeeded in making Ayr on that day. having
taken exactly two months 10 accomplish the
voyage from London. The wind again falling
away, he lost day at Ayr; and on reaching
Irvine on the 18th of August he took the steamer
TO Bowling From thence he came over the
canal to Grangemouth and took the steamer
for Leith, which he reached on Tuesday even
ing. Mr.. Middleton intends to complete his
voyage, which he hopes TO be able to accom-.
plish, within month; and with this
view ne proposes TO leave Leith in the
Kate on wednesday morning. The longest spell
oi work which lie lad ON the voyage wa. IL