SIR GEORGE GREY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 43, 19 February 1880, Page 5

SIR GEORGE GREY.

The'Auokljftnd an article, on 4 «he jMe.^rem^r, aayß:^Sir peor^e ■'#. JfcijJr ll^? ' BfSWlaXhWtPjiK ™* jejy ,w,ea.k, ye.ty oje,*.er and vexy stupid,; very good and not very pood. 'His ainw arjehte^ and „ his conduct noi'al»fa^ He is the most dieappointlnS of men. ', He attracts at op^ tyn^ di^ly to' repel at another. • <of n4fi»By of the f qtJalifiaetion'sJ whioh cone'titute a| statesman, he ii a~ statesman spoilt, be-; cause deficient L m otherj . whijCh ar-ej essential. He ia undoubtedly a man of i ideas— of good (ideas, — but he does not' possess the qualifications to give them' effects-There is much Jq him that shouli^apd;dpes :6onlmand '^(aspect, but i his %f,Bl£ .^J)4|C«-Wthi9f; ;that of an •poaiiS ft "tKa^ rfW K^lfnl^" iliS /. The! calib¥e 'of rorbidr that he| should be spoken pf as ethers of a| "different "standard. He "says that be has been ridiculed l ; a public man is open .to this tfekicnent, but it aeeqas to rus'Tf wo'tild 7 BS 7 ay ! lmpertinence applied ! to Sir Q-eorge (Iray^aod, further, that | 'it ieiould nfot D be'e^ffective , against aoaani he pu^t \ ftp, be able to treat it with scorn. It isj ■mortifying^ that a m&nvrhb might dp so -fiiu'ch 'g^obii'sliould 'fail 'so ep aspicuously i § ih 4l e^eoution; a'n(3^ beanVappily so iuo-j Jn tha creation of enemies. We: know there ara inventors who could; do Qothjpg if not aid.eJ nj* thejpraQtical jnind. -WeJkoow that I Beaumont' anil Fletcher united to write their plays and| w 4 e ibink that if Sir-Gep.l Grey 'is ever i to succeed as a politiciap, it will he mi a partiiiership busineap, i'ri wbicp his|con-: '?li[^JoisiOJ[Ußp.ly .'the biallist and ( him-| self the br»tDß, always provide i that he wjpuld^w.orksin double hJOTness,| which is 1 probably just exactly the thing he would! vot do, fdt Jii&Soii not seem .cut out to _w r ork r with other men. As a capable and! benevolent despot: we believe he could 1 have Earned a r at rtue. It seems to us that not only is bis nature. iojipenouK,! but that he iaan ide Alia; to.ejccesis. 1 We quite .^admi^ '^ttafc Sir GeoYge 3 : G:rey'» ..opportunities- -have -been impaired by w 9 9^jng, j4ift'e,rent jtools;: butjevenj so it is impossible' to escape- the ; vast; "disparity the ideas he pro-i mulgate* : nna the work he has per-; formed. .He appears" to shrink sjome-: times from dealing with matters which! it is essential h^ should notice. ! Wei wisb/ for Instance, that his speech at the: Thames *had contained some ex-; plana,tiftn o|hir apparent failure a|s an! aiiSi^isiiratpr^ !jbgcause it would ihavej bgen plea*aj^t;fco have had a successful! Yinsitf&tipja,jand_alrejaov«l of .the impression on which his' enemies gloat,; andjyhich h.is. frjends regret.j We cannot believe that' so 'really cap-; able ;a man as'-Sir George Gr^y might: not be as successful in the Cabinet as he is ;n excellence of obj.ect and breadth \ of view. Se is a hard worker, and; that is one of the chjef elepients of! fiuccess. • : ;