. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . thenational councils. Lord Derby at once undertook the task, andproceeded to form his cabinet. The one man who was essential toit was Lord Palmerston; in spite of the faults which he made noeffort to conceal, and which made it so difficult for both super-iors and subordinates to get along with him, he had some veryessential powers of mind in these troublous times. He certainlyknew his own mind, and saw his way clear before him; he pos-sessed a fund of common sense, which was not to be baffled bythose artificial beliefs that have grown up in
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . thenational councils. Lord Derby at once undertook the task, andproceeded to form his cabinet. The one man who was essential toit was Lord Palmerston; in spite of the faults which he made noeffort to conceal, and which made it so difficult for both super-iors and subordinates to get along with him, he had some veryessential powers of mind in these troublous times. He certainlyknew his own mind, and saw his way clear before him; he pos-sessed a fund of common sense, which was not to be baffled bythose artificial beliefs that have grown up in the minds of theworld; when he was Home Secretary, for instance, the Presby-tery of Scotland had sent to ask him whether it would not beadvisable, in view of the cholera which was threatened, to ap-point a national fast day ; Palmerston replied, with all the grav-ity which the occasion demanded, that the laws which Provi-dence has ordained for the government of this world require usto avoid such diseases by rigid attention to the cleanliness of our. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES VISITINGMR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE The Ministry of All the Talents. 149 habitations and their surroundings, and advised them that if thecities were not kept in proper sanitary condition, all the fastingand prayer would not suffice against the dreaded scourge; andthere are many instances of such answers, which, while they arebased on truth and good sense, were yet offensive to the personsto whom they were addressed, and often shocked the minds ofothers. Lord Palmerston was clear-sighted and far-sighted; butin that involuntary adjustment of the mental sight to the dis-tant object which he was engaged in examining, his e3Te failed totake in those particulars which require a shorter range of vis-ion. In ridding himself of prejudice, he had unconsciously, andperhaps unavoidably, done violence to those sympathetic facul-ties which enable us to judge the acts of others most equitably,by finding what their moti
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