LORD PALMERSTON AND TORYISM.
The Temples-Lord Palmerston's father and mother-At Harrow, Edinburgh, and Cambridge--Attempts to get into Parliament-A Lord of the Admiralty-Maiden Speech-Secretary at War-The New Whig Guide-Palmerston in Society-His habits, tastes, and disposition-Development of his political views-Attempt to eject him from Cambridge-In the Canning, Goderich, and Wellington Cabinets—He resigns office-The Portuguese speech-Its faults and merits-Final breach with the Tory party.
THE Irish branch of the Temple family, from which Lord Palmerston sprang, was founded in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir William Temple, the grandson of Peter Temple, who was lord of the manors of Stowe and Butlers' Marston in the times of Henry VIII. Sir William, who was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney, and afterwards to Essex, and a typical example of the Elizabethan epoch, withdrew to Ireland after the breakdown of the Essex rising. His son, Sir John Temple, was Master of the Rolls in Ireland, wrote an ultra