11 MAY 1867, Page 2

Mr. Walpole has been so much badgered about Toomer, and

Wager, and Mr. Beales, M.A., that he has at last resigned, saying. that his health will bear it no longer. We are not sorry for his resignation, as his sensibility of nature was scarcely fitted, as Earl Russell said in the House of Lords, for an office requiring more than any other a thick skin and a steady purpose. 13ut Lord Derby has explained that Mr. Walpole's Hyde Park blunders were due to the mature deliberation of the whole Cabinet, who conceived that they were high strokes of policy, so Mr. Walpole must not be chiefly credited with that piece of inanity. Mr. Walpole himself has been recently perhaps the only member of the Government who has given it any tone of high feeling, of delicate conscience, of genial philanthropy. No one can hear him speak without a sense of strong personal liking and deference for his character. The present Tory Ministers are, on the whole, whether subtle and acute or stupid, decidedly wanting in the finer shades of political character. But a Home Secretary should be pachydermatous, and that certainly Mr. Walpole was not.