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    out of house and home , awimnucg across a river at night with his pistols between his teeth , and returning with Dyafca led by his coolness and skill to a terrible refanbution . look at the story of Skeihe and € k > BDOsrin the round tower of Jhansl . They fought the mutineers , Skuioi's-wife loading his rifle for him . and thirty-seven of the enemy fell before

    their steady fire . But ladders scaled the place ; the Sepoy ruffians surrounded them j Fbank Gordon fell dead . ' Then SxmE knew it was no good to fight any more j , he kissed his wife ,, shot her , and then shot hiniself . * Kiss of love and anguish j in famous story or trua record of love and death , no kisa like that has ever heen recorded . "Would to God w& had only to tell such tales from India I

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    LOBD MACAULAY . Eoed PALMJTRSTO 2 T may lay claim to "being ; the first English Minister who has made a , man distinguished for his authorship a Peer , of the realm . Macattlat is a . writing statesman , and he seems to be introduced into the House of Lords for the purpose of assisting that assembly with speeial reports on measures and their historical antecedents . The recognition of literature as part of statesmanship is not unprecedented in the European countries that rival us in importance . Prussia ,

    of course , is intellectual and bookish in its , official predilections . 3 S " iebuhb ; the historian , in spite of his democratic opinionsand , as his enemies said , in spite of his wanting all statesmanlike qualities—in spite even of his being a Dane , was made Under Secretary of State in Prussia , and , Ambassador to the Pope , solely to mark his merits as an author . Bunsen " , the pupil and Private Secretary of Niebitite , is a Prussian-Macatjlay— ' a very Prussian Maca-HIAY . * HiiEBiG , born of humble parents at Darmstadt , and , enabled to study through the liberality of the great scientific statesman

    HtjmboIiDT , was raised without solicitation to an hereditary barony by the Grand Duke of Hesse . Bach , the all-powerful Austrian Minister , has- not exactly been raised by his literary talent ; but , of humble birth , practising as au attorney in a small town of the Xiower Danube , he first , some ten years ago , attracted attention by works which he had written , and so became Home Secretary of the Empire , Baron , and all that sort of thing . In Prance many-of the most eminent men of the- present day , as . well as of the past—TiiiEns no less thau Micknet , and Guizot no less than either *—were of obscure

    if not humble origin . Yillemaitst was raised in 1832 to the dignity of a Peer of France , and from 1839 to 1844 was Minister of Public Instruction , solely on account of his literarytalents . Literature has not done so much for the public men in this country because in our free constitution other channels are open ; quite as much also because public opinion

    compels Government to pay more attention to ¦ wealth than intellect ; and yet as much because the free action , of arbitrary Governments " enables them , when they please , to jump over the barriers of hereditary rank , and distribute honours according to the -will and pleasure of the supremo ruler . We have been in fcrior to some of our continental rivals ; and Lord Palm guston is the first to remove tho

    inferiority . lie has chosen an object for the earliest exercise of this honour-distribution , which will bo tho least calculated to shock prejudices , and the moat profitable to tho Minister . Mr . Maoaulay had already been admitted into ' tho best society , ' and people have

    become so accustomed to regard him na belonging to tlmt upper hemisphere , that they will almost have forgotten anything poculmr m his being niado a Peer , excepting that ho is known not to bo rich . Mr . Maoaulay is art independent man , but exceedingly safe ? a Whig and something more—in tho official direction . Although ho has not been

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    sell is appointed to that "boroug h * The Duke of Bedfobd writes to the electors to request that they will not vote for Mr . EirssEiii . unless they like him ; of course not ; but they will vote , and the Bedfoed half of -the borough—failing Mr . Miam—will keep up the balance against Sir John Treiawih ? . The Duke , however , is recommended to take a note of this objectionable yielding to the influence of his property , and . to beg as a favour from Lord John "Russell that he will set

    administration . There is something tragic in the fatuity of Mr . Teuton Smith ; but it is a comedy to see him at the helm of our Indian Empire , while Attsten Layabd , without a seat in Parliament , is talking reai statesmanship ( mixed up with some extravagance ) at Aylesbury . "We sincerely hope that one or other of the open , constituencies will remedy a state of things so anomalous , and restore to the House of Commons some of the best members of the old Parliament ^ who were deposed as much by secret-service money as by public opinion .

    down Taviatock as a constituency that requires a little stretching . Supposing it were to become unnecessary for the Duke to circularize his friends , begging them not to vote for his relative unless they please ? "Would that be agreeable to the Lord of "Woburn ? If it would , it would exactly suit the Reformers . Mr . Arthur , we fancy , goes in for the borough , although the show of hands is for Mr . Miall , and there will be one more of that illustrious connexion in the British Legislature .

    G-reenwich will probably have a seat vacant , although Mr . Towstse : nt > ¦ seems to shrink from stripping himself of his senatorial robe and plunging into the cold depths of security . But he can scarcely be permitted to give up Greenwich wholesale to the military companion of the Prince of Wales , by clinging to a dignity which is really no dignity to him , since , ivith . M . P . upon his card , lie has been a dummy in St . Stephen ' s , and by no means a credit to his constituency . We advise him , in a friendly spirit , to back out of a ridiculous position , and

    attend to his local business , varied by parish meetings and oratorical thumps upon a vestry table . As to his successor , the repentant Liberals are wooing Mr . Montague Chambers , who makes a show of sulking in Child ' splace , but who really ought to go dovn and take his old place , which we are sorry he ever quitted . Of Lord Campbell's son , nothing being known , little is to be said . Alderman Salomons may have a claim upon the electors , but we cannot see it . Baron Hothschild represents the protest against religious exclusion ; then why should another Jewish member be returned before

    the Oaths question has been settled ? There is a talk of a new man ; of him we say nothing until we know who ho is . New men . maybe useful ; but if we might offer a hint to Greenwich , let it be warned bytlie example of Mr . Townsend not to select little local popularities , who , after running the gauntlet of ill-mannered doorkeepers , are led up to the table , sworn , and allowed to take their seats , after which they make no sign , until another General election comes round .

    Oldham has a seat to offor to Mr . Cobden , Mr . Milne it Gibson , or Mr . Fox . It would be an act of grace to reinstate Mr . Fox ; but then we want Mir . Cobden" and Mr . Milner Gibson in the House . John 13 iugiit is thero already ; we can spare neither his colleague nor his friend . The three must bo in Parliament before , the constituencies can atone for the disgrace of Manchester . And what does Aylcsbury think of its choice now that Mr . Layaiid , who thoroughly understands the East , has hit Mr . Vernojt Smith

    NEW ELECTIONS FOR THE NEW PARLIAMENT . Middlesex , G-reenwich , Oldhatn , and Tavistock , are called upon to make a new choice of representatives , vice Lord Roeebt Grostenor , promoted , Mr . Townseitd , swamped , Mr . Platt , killed accidentally , and Mr . Brcra , transferred . Lord G-rosvenor—Qros Veneur—has had ancestors who were noble before the Norman came . He is- better in . than out of the Peerage . Mr . To > wnseni > , as a senator , has been made and unmade by aa accident , and no one seems to care what , in . a public sense , becomes of him . Mr . Platt , the young representative of Oldham , was a promising member of Parliament , whose early loss has caused deep regret wherever he was known . Mr . Btng has our congratulations upon being lifted out of the little Bedford pocket of Tavistock into the great Whig niche of Middlesex . Because it seems

    that Middlesex is a niche wherein the "Whigs may set up a scion , unchallenged by the free and independent . " When the vacancy was announced , a . cloud of names fluttered for a few hours in the daily j ournals : —Mr . Cobden , Mr . Gibson , Mr . Macaulay , Sir "William Clay , Mr . Raises Ouurie , Mr . Henry Fitzroy , and Mr . Wakley , were unofficially and officiously nominated by their

    friends ; but to each and all there were objections . Mr . Cobdets * and Mr . Gibson were too fond of turtle-footed peace ; lMr . Maoa . itxay had retired ( it was not known then that his patent of peerage had been made out ) ; Sir William Clay had no chance ; Mr . Haikus Currie was a stranger ; Mr . Fitzroy could got no supporters ; Mr . "Wakley was unmentionable . Then who but Mr . George Byn& , grand « nephow of old G-eorge Bxno , who was hated by King George , ayIio represented the constituency for fifty years , and who was , in all respects , a good man and true ? "We have a liking for young Mr . Byng . Ho professes Liberal principles . He is better than Lord Chelsea . He is for the ballot , a large extension of the franchise , the abolition of a property qualification , and tho admission of Baron Rothschild by a resolution of the Commons . Here wo have very proper vuiea

    promised , coming , thoy would have been quite aa influential as comin g from Middlesox , with young Mr . Btng for its representative . This , however , did not suit tho Whig book . Middlesex belonged to tho AVhigs , and they vrould do what they pleased with it . An awful list of committeemen was prepared—tho heads of the great families numbered in it—and all competitors woro warned against attempting to poach on tho political manor of Middlesex , liiero was no chance for anyone ; no one j ned , and tho housoholders and freeholders iound the matter very pleasantly arranged ¦ WAt Uout their interference . The "Whigs have Middlesex , and they will probably kcon Tuvistock . Mr . Aimiim

    lfcvsso hard a blow that tho official organs , which cannot answer , are forced to insult him ? He , perhaps , might visit Greenwich , vlicro , wo feel assured , he would not appeal in vain to the sturdier and more intelligent electors . Should he find lus way iato tho House of Commona , ho may have next session to handle Mr . V . HUNON Smith , unless , indeed , that pet of the Whigs , uninitiated oven in the alphabet of his duty , has already been snufl'ed out by the Indian crisis , and ia going to ahare tho reth'emont of Mr . . F . Picrcr * and tho other discarded mediocritios . late of tho I ' at ^ ikrston

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 855, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/15/