[Sidenote: Lord Palmerston's tenants.]

Unfortunately, just as navigation closed for the season, a vessel arrived full of emigrants from Lord Palmerston's Irish estates.

Unfortunately the last arrived brings out Lord Palmerston's tenants.

He had not been more than a month at home when the Vice-royalty of India, about to be vacated by Lord Canning, was offered to him, in the Queen's name, by Lord Palmerston.

There was nothing cynical in his sense of superiority, but an amiable self-assertion and self-confidence that only made men smile,as when Lord Palmerston remarked that "he wished he was as certain of any one thing as Tom Macaulay was of everything."

Sir George C. Lewis, Bart., &c. &c. &c. Sir G. C. Lewis died before receiving this letter, and the letter was afterwards forwarded to Lord Palmerston.

Some correspondence followed between Lord Palmerston and Airy on the subject of attaching a definite rank to the office of Astronomer Royal, as proposed in the above letter.

(Palmerston particularly.)

The others detained by Lord Palmerston's motion on Portugal, on which there was a majority of two to one, 150 odd to 70 something.

Aberdeen thinks Palmerston wrote it.

Told him I thought, on consideration, that a reply to Leopold would lead to an answer from him, to which the Plenipotentiaries could not reply without entering into an undignified discussion with Palmerston, who would be the real controversialist.

Palmerston was to be made a great man of.

Palmerston was at the last.

He wrote to Lord Palmerston, stating that there were no duties attached to the post, and recommending its abolition.

Dismissal of Lord Palmerston.

Lord Palmerston's Resolutions.

That, on the other hand, other members of deserved weight and influence, such as Lord Palmerston and Lord F. Campbell, had disdained the idea of regarding "the article of the three obscene and impious libels as affording any ground for their proceeding."

On the 16th a chain of sand-banks and islets surrounding a lagoon into which no practicable entrance could be seen, was named Palmerston's Islands; and on the 20th a landing was effected on Savage Island, but as the natives were very threatening, and the country enabled them to approach closely without exposing themselves, the party retired to the boats.

" At one of the Palmerston Group they found, amongst other things drifted over the reef, some planks, one of which was very thick, with trunnell holes in it, and a piece of moulding from some ship's upper works, painted yellow, with nail holes showing signs of iron rust: probably the remains of some wrecked European ship.

It was but an accidentLord Grey's objection to Palmerston at the Foreign Officewhich prevented the name of Lord John Russell from being linked with those of Cobden and Bright, and imperishably associated with both the great measures of the nineteenth century.

In his speech on this occasion, Lord John tried to shield Lord Grey as far as possible from the unpopularity which he had incurred by refusing to work with Palmerston in the same Cabinet.

Lord Palmerston held that, combining social rank with eligibility to the House of Commons, it was the most desirable distinction for a politician.

Palmerino d' Inghilterra, iii. 2. PALMERSTON, second Viscount, Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; black-balled, iv.

PALMERSTON, third Viscount (the Prime-Minister), birth, iv. 232, n. 2. subscribes to an annuity for Johnson's god-daughter, iv.

CARLISLE (39), county town of Cumberland, on the Eden; a great railway centre; with an old castle of historical interest, and a cathedral founded by William Rufus and dedicated to Henry I. CARLISLE, GEORGE FREDERICK WILLIAM HOWARD, EARL OF, a Whig in politics; supported the successive Whig administrations of his time, and became eventually Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under Palmerston (1802-1864).