(1858-64.)

Lord  Pat.mrrston  was  a  Minister  for  whom  I  hid  respect
without  sympathy.  lie  was  without  prejudice,  and  without
enthusia.oin.  Mr.  G>bJcii  said  of  him  he  wai  absolutely  im-
partial, having  no  bias,  not  even  towards  the  truth.  This  va»
ni>t  a  general  estimate  of  him,  but  provoked  by  an  incident  as
to  what  Mr.  Paviii  Urquhart  called  the  *'  falsification  of  the
Kurnos  dc.^patchc.-."  lVrs<»naIl_v  L'^rd  Palmcrston  was  capable
of  generous  thinp;s,  but  in  politics  he  was  a  Minister  of  the
stationarii*^,  and  f«>r  years  was  kept  in  <>fricc  by  Whig  andTor>\
because  he  could  bo  trusted  not  to  d  )  anvthing.  He  never  saai
he  was  the  eruiny  of  reform,  but  he  never  "felt  like"  pro-
moting it.
