Lord. Edmund ritzraartrite, M.P., unveiled a statue to Cromwell at
St. Ives on Wednesday, and delivered an inter- esting address on the character, achievements, and aims of the Protector. CioniWell, he observed,. Was perhaps the only historical character still able to arouse the fiercest political animosities. in and out of Parliament. Yet, granting that the controversy had not been, perhaps never would be, closed, be held that an unanswerable plea could be put in for the commemoration of Cromwell by a statue in his own county. With Wellington and Marlborough he made up the great trio of Englishmen equally prominent in war and peace, great as generals and great as statesmen. He was great both as a tactician and strategist; he discovered our greatest admirals, and anticipated the ideas of naval and military defence agreed Upon in our own day. As a statesman he combined the two salient features of the English political character,—the love of liberty and the love of order; and though both the Stuarts and anarchy survived him, it was .untrue to say that his career was a failure merely because the final settlement was not with him. He only failed because the times were not ripe. Lastly, he *as one of the Statesmen who represented idea and action combined, "who had the divinuna aliquid in their composition which stiried up their contemporaries to immortal deeds, were the inch whoge names got flied" in the historic imagina- tion of the peoPle, and Were enshrined in the traditions Of the In*Lt xace."
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