Lord Drilling (Sir Henry Bulwer) is dead, after enjoying his
peerage for only a single year. He was a skilful diplomatist, but partly from weak voice, and partly from the more general de- ficiency of weak health, made no figure in Parliament. Never- theless, the country will lose something politically by his death, for he had only issued two volumes of his life of Lord Palmer- ston,, a work for the execution of which he was particularly well fitted. Nothing could be more lively than his picture of the tussla between Lord Palmerston and M. Thiers in relation to the
Syrian business,—a negotiation, in which he was personally con.. cerned. Louis Philippe's naïf remark, made after he had dismissed Thiers, to Mr. Bulwer, that no doubt he (the King) had said he would go to war,—" Mais, parler faire in guerre, et faire is guerre, M. Bulwer, sont des choses hien difftirentes," will long connect the late Sir Henry Bulwer's name with one of the most picturesque episodes of Lord Palmerston's foreign policy.
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