Earl Russell died at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, on Tuesday
evening, at the age of eighty-six. He first entered Parliament in 1813, and has been a Member of the Legislature, therefore, for sixty-five years. He has held at various times the offices of Paymaster of the Forces (his office at the time of the great Reform Bill, when he was not a Member of the Cabinet), Home Secretary, Colonial Secretary, leader of the House of Commons, First Lord of the Treasury, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, President of the Council ; but out of his long official life, he was Prime Minister for less than seven years,—namely, from July, 1846, to March, 1852, and next from October, 1865, to July, 1866, about a year longer than Mr. Gladstone and than Lord Beaconsfield. No other public man of his day can be mentioned who has given effective aid to the popular cause through so long a stretch of time, for even Lord Palmerston was for a long time rather a Conservative than a Liberal, if in domestic policy he were ever indeed anything else. Lord Beaconsfield has done himself honour by offering for Lmd Russell a public funeral. Indeed, though he Once in early youth assailed him very savagely, throughout his Parliamentary career, and also in his novels, Lord Beaconsfield has always shown more respect and deference for Lord John than for any other statesman of the Liberal party. Probably he respected both his blood and his indomitable pluck.
