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	HENRY JOHN TEMPLE PALMERSTON - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY JOHN TEMPLE PALMERSTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Palmerston was no orator; his language was unstudied, and his delivery scmewhat embarrassed; but he generally, found words to say the right thing at the right time, and to address the House of Commons in the language best adapted to the capacity and the temper of his audience.
		Lord Derbys second administration of 1858 lasted but a single year, Palmerston having casually been defeated on a measure for removing conspiracies to murder abroad from the class of misdemeanour to that of felony, which was introduced in consequence of Orsinis attempt on the life of the emperor of the French.
		Palmerston had learnt by experience that it was wiser to conciliate an opponent than to attempt to crush him, and that the imperious tone he had sometimes adopted in the House of Commons, and his supposed obsequiousness to the emperor of the French, were the causes of the temporary reverse he had sustained.
	67.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALMERSTON_HENRY_JOHN_TEMPLE.htm (4129 words)

	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lord Palmerston never was a Whig, still less a Radical; he was a statesman of the old English aristocratic type, liberal in his sentiments, favourable to the march of progress, but entirely opposed to the claims of democratic government.
		Lord Palmerston was no orator; his language was unstudied, and his delivery somewhat embarrassed; however, he generally found words to say the right thing at the right time and to address the House of Commons in the language best adapted to the capacity and the temper of his audience.
		Palmerston, irritated at her Egyptian policy, flung himself into the arms of the northern powers, and the treaty of the 15 July 1840 was signed in London without the knowledge or concurrence of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston (3806 words)

	Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784 -- 1865)
		When Palmerston's father died in 1802 the young man was left under the guardianship of the Earls of Malmesbury and Chichester until he came of age; on the death of Pitt the Younger in 1806, he stood as the Tory candidate for the Cambridge University by-election and came in third.
		Palmerston's attitude was that the army had to be kept in a state of readiness because of its now-increased responsibilities in maintaining peace in Europe as well as the British colonies.
		Palmerston agreed to the Committee of Enquiry, precipitating the resignations of Gladstone, Sir James Graham and Sidney Herbert.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/palmerst.html (2079 words)

	The Dolphin - July 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Palmerston was a colossus of the nineteenth-century political scene.
		Lord Palmerston was not only a famous national figure, he was a prominent part of the local scene of Southampton and its region as well.
		Lord Palmerston is the subject of an international conference at the University of Southampton, 11-13 July.
	www.dolphin.soton.ac.uk /July2003/palmerston.html (1252 words)

	Lord Palmerston, politician
		A biography of Lord Palmerston, the early Victorian British statesman and exponent of liberal politics and gunboat diplomacy.
		The famous Lord Palmerston, leader of the liberal party in mid-Victorian England, was in fact the third Lord Palmerston, two ancestors having been minor political figures in the previous century.
		Palmerston suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Bismarck's Germany, over the independence of Schleswig and Holstein and his willingness to stick to methods which had served him since 1830 was shown to be quite a mistake.
	wawa.essortment.com /lordpalmerston_pbu.htm (1081 words)

	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston : Lord Palmerston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) (October 20, 1784 - October 18, 1865), the third and last Viscount Palmerston, was a British Prime Minister and Liberal politician.
		Palmerston began his career as a Canningite and served under him (and Lord Portland[?]) as Junior Lord of Admirality from 1807.
		Palmerston continued to serve as Foreign Secretary in the succeeding Whig governments of Lord Melbourne (1835-1841 and Lord John Russell (1846-1851).
	www.termsdefined.net /lo/lord-palmerston.html (1137 words)

	Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Henry John Temple Palmerston
		Palmerston, an Irish peer, was a career politician with a long list of accomplishments have served in numerous capacities and within several governments before heading two of his own as prime minister.
		Palmerston sent a fleet to blockade Piraeus in Greece, in support of a claim by David Pacifico, a Gibraltarian and English citizen, against the Greek government.
		Palmerston made an impassioned speech in the Commons, defending his right to defend a British citizen's rights anywhere in the world.
	www.britannia.com /gov/primes/prime34.html (584 words)

	Lord Palmerston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Lord Palmerston was English through and through; there was something in him that expressed, with extraordinary vigour, the fundamental qualities of the English race.
		Palmerston's whole life had been spent in the government of the country....
		He was very bold; and nothing gave him more exhilaration than to steer the ship of state in a high wind, on a rough sea, with every stitch of canvas on her that she could carry.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/men/palmerston_bio.html (410 words)

	The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston by Karl Marx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In spite of the great opposition of the noble lord, the King compelled him to lend the authority of the Foreign Office to their publication, so that the editor who took the charge of revising them for the press, published not a single word which had not the signature or initials attached.
		Lord Palmerston was compelled to place the documents in the hands of Mr.
		Finally, Lord Palmerston gave his approbation to the treaty, and it was forwarded to Lord Ponsonby, the Ambassador at Constantinople.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1853/palmerston/ch06.htm (1879 words)

	Lord Palmerston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lord Palmerston can refer to any holder of the peerage title Viscount Palmerston.
		It most commonly refers to Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, two-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 19th century.
		For other holders of the title, see Viscount Palmerston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Palmerston (108 words)

	Viscount Palmerston
		A charismatic and popular figure, Palmerston did not become PM until he was 71, making him the oldest prime minister in history to take up the office for the first time.
		During that period, Palmerston was chiefly known as a man of fashion, a junior minister without influence on the general policy of the cabinets he served.
		Palmerston was finally forced to resign as Foreign Secretary after approving Louis Napoleon's coup in Paris in 1851.
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	William Ewart Gladstone (1809 -- 1898)
		Following the defeat of Lord Melbourne's government in 1841, Sir Robert Peel formed his second ministry and Gladstone was appointed to the post of Vice-President of the Board of Trade; he accepted reluctantly on the grounds that his lack of knowledge of trade made him unfit for the appointment.
		Aberdeen's handling of the war led to the ministry's downfall and in 1855 Palmerston formed his first ministry without Gladstone who resigned in protest at Palmerston's acceptance of a Committee of Inquiry into the conduct of the war.
		Following the death of Palmerston, Gladstone served in Lord John Russell's ministry as Leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/gladston.html (2422 words)

	John Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Supported by Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston and William Huskisson the bill was passed with a majority of forty-five.
		In 1836 Lord Russell was responsible for several new reforms including the establishment of the civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, and the legalisation of the marriage of dissenters in their own chapels.
		In December 1851 Lord Russell sacked his foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, after he had recognised the government formed by Napoleon III in France without consulting with his fellow cabinet ministers.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRrussell.htm (1904 words)

	Palmerston's London During the 1850's -- A Tour of the Human Multicultural Zoo
		Palmerston was first a Tory, then a Whig, always a disciple of Jeremy Bentham, and for 35 years there is scarcely a cabinet without Palmerston as foreign secretary or prime minister.
		Lord Palmerston is engaged in a campaign to make London the undisputed center of a new, worldwide Roman Empire.
		Lord Palmerston will be the evil demiurge of the American Civil War, the mastermind of secession, far more important for the Confederacy than Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee.
	members.tripod.com /american_almanac/palmzoo2.htm (7216 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - London and Londoners in the Eighteen-Fifties and ...
		I heard that Lord Palmerston with his Cabinet were coming down by steamer from Westminster that evening, so took care to be on the spot.
		The third or fourth was Lord Palmerston, and he was greeted with well-sustained cheering.
		Palmerston - he of "the silver tongue, the hand of steel" - believed in England and England believed in him.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications5/londoners-15.htm (2188 words)

	The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston by Karl Marx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The noble lord resisted this resolution to his utmost, and succeeded in bafffing it by assuring the House that "peace could be preserved only by the House reposing confidence in the Government," and refusing to accede to the motion.
		Lord Palmerston strove to convince the House that, according to the assurances of Russia, the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi was to be looked upon "as one of reciprocity," that reciprocity being, that if the Dardanelles should be closed against England in the event of war, they should be closed against Russia also.
		Simultaneously the noble lord took good care not to quench the suspicions of his Tory opponents, that he had "been compelled to connive at the aggression upon Turkey by Mehemet Ali," because France had directly encouraged it.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1853/palmerston/ch05.htm (1860 words)

	SIR ALEXANDER BURNES - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ALEXANDER BURNES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soon after his return to India in 1835 he was appointed to the court of Sind to secure a treaty for the navigation of the Indus; and in 1836 he undertook a political mission to Dost Mahommed at Kabul.
		He advised Lord Auckland to support Dost Mahommed on the throne of Kabul, but the viceroy preferred to follow the opinion of Sir William Macnaghten and reinstated Shah Shuja, thus leading up to the disasters of the first Afghan War.
		The calmness with which he continued at his post, long after the imminence of his danger was apparent, gives an heroic coloring to the close of an honorable and devoted life.
	85.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURNES_SIR_ALEXANDER.htm (457 words)

	Lord Palmerston by Muriel E. Chamberlain, 0708309739, Lowest Book Price Finder
		The book tracks progression of Lord Palmerston's career which was slow, by the age of 44 it appeared he was destined to remain a minor Tory politician, especially in relation to the time as those who rose to greatness usually did so by an early stage.
		The author demonstrates how Palmerston was not exclusively a member or follower of one party or political orthodoxy but was a Tory who socialised in Whig circles, and eventually became a Whig, and whose views on Catholic Emancipation placed him firmly on the side of Canning against the Ultra-Tories.
		The young Palmerston took his academic life seriously even at Cambridge which was supposed to be a social rather than academic experience.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0708309739 (1025 words)

	Henry John Temple, 3. Viscount Palmerston - netlexikon
		Palmerston stammte aus dem alten Geschlecht der Temple, besuchte mit Byron und Peel die Schule zu Harrow und dann die Universitäten Edinburgh und Cambridge.
		In der Angelegenheit der spanischen Heiraten, durch die Besiegung Sardiniens und die Niederwerfung der Revolutionen in Sizilien und Ungarn, die er begünstigt hatte, erlitt Palmerston ebenso viele Niederlagen und überwarf sich der Reihe nach mit Frankreich, Spanien und Österreich, während seine Parteinahme für Dänemark in der schleswig-holsteinischen Frage ihn zu Preußen in Gegensatz brachte.
		Der Titel Viscount Palmerston erlosch mit ihm, da seine 1839 mit Emily Mary Lamb, verwitwete Countess Cowper, geschlossene Ehe kinderlos war.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Lord-Palmerston.html (855 words)

	Lord Palmerston
		Palmerston was eventually sacked for congratulating Napoleon on his coup in France.
		Palmerston’s second period in office was when he was at the ripe old age of seventy-five and during this term it was he that had to deal with the strain of the American Civil War.
		The result would arise not merely from the number let in, but also from the fact that the influx discourages the classes above them from voting at all; and then these working men are unfortunately under the control of trade unions, which are directed by a small number of directing agitators”.
	www.britain.tv /ukpolitics_prime_ministers_lord_palmerston.shtml (518 words)

	Lord Palmerston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Palmerston became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and for the next two years was preoccupied with persuading France and Holland to accept that independence of Belgium.
		Palmerston believed the main objective of the government's foreign policy should be to increase Britain's power in the world.
		Palmerston was totally opposed to any extension of the franchise and during 1864 came into conflict with William Gladstone, his Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was a strong supporter of reform.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRpalmerston.htm (1196 words)

	Lord Palmerston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Palmerston Review: Palmerston, he evoked an era of gunboat diplomacy.
		Because he understood the British empire rested on its ability to deter aggression and his gutsy vindictive nature of sending the royal navy anywhere it took to protect the honor of England.
		With the exception of churchill, Palmerston was a great defender of empire, uniquly british.
	www.textkit.com /0_0586037225.html (77 words)

	Darnley, Henry Stewart, Lord -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Darnley was the son of Matthew Stewart, 4th earl of Lennox, whose pretension to the throne of Scotland was contested by James Hamilton, 2nd earl of Arran.
		Except for a few months in 1835, Lord Palmerston was a member of Great Britain's House of Commons from 1807 until his death on Oct. 18, 1865.
		William Thomson, who became Lord Kelvin of Largs (Scotland) in 1892, was one of Great Britain's foremost scientists and inventors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028801 (789 words)

	Tarpley B4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tarpley B4 Speaking from the vantage point of Lord Palmerston's British Empire circa 1850, Schiller Institute U.S. President Webster Tarpley chaired the panel on "Lord Palmerston's Multicultural Zoo" at the Schiller Institute's conference on Feb. 20.
		When Napoleon joined Palmerston in attacking Russia in the Crimea, it was the first war in 400 years to see France and England on the same side.
		When Palmerston ranted his "Civis Romanus sum!" in the parliament here in Westminster just a short time ago, he thought the empire was made, and that there would never be a reply.
	www.abjpress.com /tarpb4.html (9009 words)

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