text:  But now that all these subterfuges flimsy as they were at best have been utterly dissipated by this undisguised declaration of Lord Palmerston that the real object of the war was to seize and hold the country on our own account the attempt of the _Globe_ to claim for Lord Auckland the credit of having from the first contemplated a measure thus vehemently protested against and disclaimed by the late official leader of his party is rather too barefaced to be passed over without comment