Exit Kossuth : Enter Palmerston. It is a well-known rule
of dramatists and novelists to postpone the appearance of their hero until the action of the piece is fairly on foot. Othello does not en- ter on the scene until Roderigo and logo with the angry father, and Cassio with messages from the Senate, -have set all Venice In commotion. As soon as the real hero shows himself, his bustling precursors sink into subordinate positions or disappear. Upon this principle, Louis Kossuth, after raising a perfect storm of popular demonstrations, has shipped himself at Southampton for America, and leaves the stage for Viscount Palmerston to bustle on. The re- sponse of the oracle of the Foreign Office to the admirers from Fins- bury and Islington is "ample prologue to a swelling act." Lord Palmerston compliments the getters-up of popular demonstrations on Hungarian affairs in the metropolis and provinces ; gently re- bukes his auditors for some rude phrases they have let drop; and reminds them that though they have been able to raise the wind, it needs a man like himself to "ride on the whirlwind and direct the storm." He winds up with an en- comium on "secret diploniacv,"—against which Kossuth vainly protests in a parting growl at outhampton. Nor does the debon- noire and lively Secretary appear disposed to confine himself to words. Scarcely have his accents died on the ear before we hear from Spain, of respectful attention being paid to the representa- tions of the British Envoy in behalf of Englishmen implicated in Lopez's affair and arms forwarded to Cuba; from Constantinople, of a defeat of the Russian party, and a spirited remonstrance pre- sented by Sir Stratford Canning about some consular squabble; and from Greece, of an irritating Palmerstonian note, and the con- sequent triumph of the Russian party. A storm is brewing, and Lord Palmerston, like the stormy petrel, flutters his pinions in eestacy. In the language most familiar to his Islington admirers, he is "as busy as the Devil in a gale of wind."
