New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12

-.is biography q Lord Durham and DR. Shep-
I $ Life of che DuFe Of Cambridge were pub
j - within a short time Of each other. IN
- nr5e's correspondence there is a letter that
ANS much in the career Of Durham or 81
-. illustrates the attitude which the Who
.,,a:cs of the last years of William N and
- earlr years NJ Queen Victoria took toward
4 - s.ro7gest alj most convinced Liberal who
If tn House If Lords in the nineteenth
sur As was noted in our recent review
4 - diary and correspondence of the duke v-ern
I .s.sd win amazing care. Nothing that could
\ ..ssblv give offence in any quarter was Der
i .-ts6 70 appear Ia d.. Shcppard's two largo
j lr7es Yet there was printed an extract
I ,,,n letter # october "a. 1898. in which the
mike Of Cambridge. then Prince George. showed
/ nat he was conversant with the ugly attitude OF
1 -. Wing political leaders, toward Durham and
wong in politics as he then was, nevertheless
| rssrzed the significance OF the mission 10 Cana
NJ that was found for Durham at the time Of
,hs Rebellion Of 1887. You will see by the
,srers" wrote Prince George to his father
that Lord Durham has resigned This. Of
course viii be great annoyance 10 the gov
srnment.'-the Melbourne Administration Of
,ss5-'4l-'Vho i IS said appointed him to this
high station in Canada to keep him away"
After the political downfall Of the Duke of
Wellington in 1880 had made an end TO the
rorv regime that had lasted from the American
Revolution. there never was a time when the
Wings Of the Melbourne and Palmerston school
would not have been glad TO have had Lord
Durham at St Petersburg, at Montreal or in
any other place sufficiently remote for him to
tsvs no part In their political councils. Bv
nth and ny tradition. as well as by family
rnnection-fcr re was son-in-law of Grey. who
Of ?
ri the Reform act Of 1S32-Durharn ought to
hare been a Wing. ard 10 have been as con-
dnuously careful Of what the Wing nagnates
gere wont 10 describe as their order" rs
Grey. Palrerston. Melbourne or any other Of
bis colleagues of the administration Of 1S30-'32
But while Durham was an arist0cret in his
nstes and in all outward appearances. and was
possessed of wealth which admitted Of his graft
fling his love Of splendor and display. he was
by temperament p Radical. He was popularlv
known ali over the North OF England. and es-
peoialy in The County OF Durham where his
landed property and his great mining interests
lay. as Radical Jack" and there IS no reason
70 think that this colloquial expression Of popu-
lar regard was distastefuI to him.
II was as a Commoner that Durham-then
John George Lambton-flrst Went into Parlia-
neat He was knight Of the shire from DIR
q
Gaming But whether Of the House Of Com
mons or q the House Of Lords. Durham vac a.
ways Liberal as distinct from a Wing; and
although his political career covered \ rerfod
q not more than twenty years-for he died ut
ne early age Of forty-eight in 1870 and he was
much aTav from England between 1892 and his
tsath--he did moro for the advancement Of Lib
ssisn1 in England and Scotland and for repro
is14tiTe government on a democratic basis in
he oversea colonies Of Great Britain. than any
nan wno preceded him in the House Of Lords
o. .y peer who up 70 the present time has fol-
bFed him in the advocacy Of. Liberal principles.
Il his House Of Commons days. when the Wings
we're IN opposition. and II seemed that miracles
would have 10 be wrought 10 secure for the
Wing aristocracy the dominance in politics that
vas theirs from the Revolution Of 1883 until
te beginning Of the long reign Of George III
Durham quickly made a place for himself. In
fact as Mr. Reid states, Durham came more
Fzpidly 70 the front than cautious Wings Of
he leisured and punctiIious type relished"
Host Wings We're Of this type They regarded
themselves as q q special order, and looked
upon the government of the Countrywide power.
ne principal Offices Of state and all the patron
age In church and state--as their peculiar mo-
nopoly. II was theirs as a reward for the WING
support Of the Revolution Of 1888: and in the
feign Of George III the Wings had come 10 re-
gard themselves as kept out Of their own by the
Kings VIII TO rule Independently Of the Wing
hagnates whom he found in control when he
came 10 the throne
Like most opposItions the Wings had az
tected popular principles during the Tory
Ngirne Earl Grey had identified himself for
years with the movement for Parliamentary re-
iorTn- He at least was pledged to the reform
VI ne House of Commons when the wings came
ZIG power IN 1890 But Grey's enthusiasm for
,s'ofn soon underwent a cooling process; and
Il mad not been almost a necessity that Dur
A@i' his son-in-law, should be Of the admin
Auston q 1S30-'32. Grey and his colleagues
would have done just as little IN the way Of re-
Drm as would have supplemented the Wing
pEoges Of opposition days Durham's Liberal
principles had undergone no loss Of robustness
'A'4e he had been Of the House Of Lords AS
: peer ne was much q Liberal as when ne
ss knight Of the shire for Durham. once made
: member Of the Grey administration he made
. GEAR 10 his colleagues that there must be 10
so-sIhg Of the issue and that If the Wing min
s'efs I'D not intend 10 give their supporters in
.ls Constituencies a square deal on the reform
:. - ne would retire from the Cabinet, and let
world know why he was the outside
O1ihafn must have been a trial TO Grey In
=. az Turn he must have found Grey quite & bur
- carry for he was near 10 Grey, and
ing the members Of the administration who
really sincere as to reform-such. for in
o'0e' as Lord John Russell--it fell 10 Durham
'ut backbone into the Prime Minister and i'm
- nm 10 make William " acquainted with the
- q the support which the administration
tn expect from him in carrying the reform
1Hougn the House Of Lords What was
go. go from the King at the great crisis Of the
,n, .-" Di-i was an unequivocaI statement of his