the occasion. The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required⁠—are impediments⁠—in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham⁠—a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman⁠—to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm. In England we have had so few catastrophes since our Constitution attained maturity, that we hardly appreciate this latent excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution⁠—a representative man above all men fit for a great occasion, and by a natural legal mode brought in to rule. But even in England, at what was the nearest to a great sudden crisis which we have had of late years⁠—at the Crimean difficulty⁠—we used this inherent power.