The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-02 00:00:00

PRI:BLn STATE OF.TUR COUNTRY.

Our unfortunate friends And trilurr,tttz.lui the Tories
are constantly calla I upon to that at the time
when they took ofire, the etete of the c eintry was, In
regard to foreign relations, most unsatisfactory, and that
with no state were our relations most cordial, boc.ausi by
every state we sore under-valued and despised. There
was not • cloud upon the horizon at the thee when the
charge of foreign alai:, was heeled to her Majesty's
present Government. (Cheers) In the Gaited Kingdom
then are some thew-and-thirty millioas of person.; they
are a population less then the population of Francs, lea
than the population of Atritria, lets Coin the population
of Germany. les. than the p .puletion of Itusaie. But the
populations of Francs, Austria, Germany, and Russia find
it quite hard enough to settle their et. n matteis within
their own limits. We have undertaken to settle the
affairsof • fourth, or nearly • fourth, of the entire human
race scattered over the world, and is not that enough for
the ambition of Lord Beaconsfield. (Laughter and cheers.)
But what has been the course of things :or the last three
years I I will run them over almost in as ninny words.
We have got annexation of territory in the Fiji Islende
They have annexed in Africa: the Transvaal territory
Inhabited by • free. European, Christian, and Republican
community. We are now, as it appears from the latest
*deices, about to mks war upon • chief lying to the
northward of the Zulus and Sir Bertle Frans, who was
the great authority for the proceedings of the Government
In Afghanisten, has announced in South Africa that it will
be necessary for us to extend our dominions until we
restch the Portuguese frontier to the north. So much for
Africa. Igo to Europe. In Europe we have annexed the
island of Cyprus—Gaughterl—on which (will say moire at
another time. (Hear, hear.) We have assumed jointly
with France the virtual government of Erypt ; and
possibly, as we are to extend, nays Sir Ratio Frere, our
southern dominions in Africa till we meet the southern
frontier of the Portugueee—poesibly one of these days we
may extend our northern dominions in Africs till we meet
the northern dominions of the Portuguese. This lea self-
governing country. Let us bring home to the minis of
the people the state of fact, they have to deal with, end,
In Heaven's name, let them determine whether or not
this is the war in which they like to bo governed. (Loud
applause) Ui not let us suppose this Is like the old
wise:mien between Whig and Tory. It to nothing of the
kind. .

Mr. Gladstone them referred to the Policy of the Govern-
ment in reference to the Ottoman Empire. sod pointed
out that Her Majesty's Governnent had, as a matter of
fact, come Knurl to the very principles upon which they
corupelle 1 the Liberals to join irsuo with them two or
three years ago. The Government who said they would
on no consideration coarse the Turk end who said that if
Europe atrampted to coerce the Turk nothing but misery
could remit, now expect to coerce the Turk by seading
down an order to Admiral Hornhy at Malts to Hod his
fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean I

I make this complaint. that the shoulders, so to 'peak.
of this nation have been loaded by a multitude cd
gratuitous, muobievous. and disugelum OttinlMOWillete.
(CheMS.) I point to Africa, I point to India, I point to
Afghanistan, to Syria, to Asia Minor, to the whole of
Turkey in Asia; I Point to our assumption practically
(and in alliance with France more critical in its
odure)—our virtual animation of the Government of
Egypt; I point ti our practical annex•tion of the island
of Cyprus (laughter). to all tivt military danzers mid
✓. sponsilelities of undettsking the defence of the Turkish
frontier in Armenia, in fact, to an enormoue increase of
difficulty and labour all over the stink! ; and I chullenge
it in the trot inatance upon thu most modest sal the lo
ground; I challend• it. gentlemen, no the ground of
Its nindolsca: (Cheers.) Common sense,after all,lthe rule,
slot private of public tin ; and it ice rule of common
sense which every one of you would observe in his private
concern, not to undertake now engagements when your
hands were fall. And we had no businms logo into S suth
Africa, into Afghanistan, into Turkey in Asia, into Egypt,
two Cyprus, into so many of thous various c.untries that
one can hardly give a complete and accurate catalogue if
thorn. (Cloaca) We had no busineas to go there with three
gratuitous and unnecessary calls, disturbing confidence,
perplexing Maim's, and unsettling the fabric of civilised
society in the world. (Cheers.) We bad no Wainer to take
those engagements when our hands were full. Bat I con-
tend also that the •MMeements were bad, and. being
mat not tot:iambs= tusdatiksemvall ow toads.inats
of being full. had been perfectly empty.
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