The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-22 00:00:00

THE GOVERNMENT SURPRISES AND
FALSE PRETENCES.

The Poole Telegram
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In a former article wei brought down the of
Government surprises to the commencement of ths
Russo-Turkish war, which the empty be, sad
threata of the Premler's Guildhall speech had Wad te
avert. That war, in its course, developed Cuofom*.
tion manes surpassing all previous modem, both in
darilu n
th.ddetallOtl".y bulanr:gd c°hEt4linam. ha fell of
intopi"the"knoth.Twiedgefeeeoiolamle4then""Bousgriactdi&cid.
Commons despatches which revealed tims fact that,
months before, Russia had proposed, through
acceptable terms of peace, but of this the natiattli
nothing until too late. During this act of the &elm
drama our Government displayed a vacillation pod
tiveiyamnuntingtolmbecllity. Like the Ki"
and forty thousand men, who marched op time bill sad
marched down again, our fleet sailed to time Dar.
&none, and then sailed back again. At length,
however, the fleet advanced, and this time it steamed
up the Sea of Marmara almost to the Gold.. Ham,
The Government had a fit of spewoodic coursgs, mid
astonished the nation by real romenres of intervention
The vote of six millions was taken, the ressevos went
called out, and when the representative' of the psopie
had left St. Stephen's for a short TICA4O4, ma fell
assurance that the 11061201 would not be shit ted is their
absence, the curtain rose on the great surprise of the
season, the Indian troops were summand to the hell
f action ; the sums of the Eastern races were brought
to redress the balance of military power in the Wm.
But all this se ist-enacise appeared too late—tis Ragan
army was already in the suburbs of Conetaatiaopla
The Treaty of San Stefano embodied the tares of
pesos which Ikeda had dictated to a vanquished foe,
and the country was again surprised, this time term
ably surprised, by the appearance of the &fishery
circular vigorously denouncing this Deny, sal
boldly demanding a modification of it. The maple
greeted Wm document with 'pleasure, as they mewl
to recognise a =tic ring in its trenchaat IMIWBOS;
but their p wee soon to be disipsei.
This wholesome circular proved 'to be a greeter false
pretence than those which preceded ii—its heave
words declined to the mouthing' of a moustehsak.
The secret Treaty between Lord Salisbury sad
Count Schouvaloff was revealed. An amended
world discovered that the protector of Empires, than
dignant denouncer of the rreaty of San aim" aid
the
_European dispenser of International jai**, had
secretly bargained for and obtained the price of Its
Intervention. The impartial judge of national
obligations, and the unbiassed arbiter of the rights of
rams, had sold its birthright for len than a mem of
Mrl2e. England, posing as the im•it lead..,
M her eyes on the Island of Cyprus, and the
Berlin Congrem thenceforth became a INWOOD COD*
elusion, and the Salisbury circular an empty sham.
The capitulation of Berlin, rewarded with Stan
and Garters as a triumph, wee completed. It cm
summated the policy of surprise and false misses,
and ended this chapter of European history,
otunglguitEng.d.hindlaiinEvengtlddenb:MittthiiePUZlle:Ministliemt°l!dis°°:."ligingirßernoti7AlgliaPrin°vQameaw:hir:s:
him what she had already conquered by hat mem.
Either Shire All, the present, or any other AMC of
Afghanistan, would doubtless at any time lads* M
with a war at the rate of sixty thousand re& Ywr..
Is the Prime Minister meditating a did parehw, is
Eakin's& The Zulu Chief must have e xperisseetiarest.
meat of surprise to find that the decision of anartiesetst
could be set at nought by a nation which er.e. , lag
of savages on our borders must have heard -see always
hitherto regarded as • just cud fair-diejing people.
The Liberals In this country view the pecematim of
an unprovoked war in Africa with a grief and shams
which is Increased by the deter.ainatioa of time
Government to pursue their fatal system of "Mao
in the conduct of it. The G mrarnment would Del
supersede Lord Chelmsford when the bladed of the
I nation pointed to Sir Garnet Wolasley as the Peri
1 general to command the army; they reread In
nomination to be sprung on the country after wool
months of inactivity in tie field at a miticd worst.
had done, perhaps, 4-reparable mischief. Tree le tier
system, they have lastly illustrated it tiv
all through the swim an Irish Univerritf 7:t
at the last moment introducing one of Mar, °.inL
Flashed upon the House of Commons by lam!"1,
of the Crown, at the end of a long smock 00"111;
long debate, this proposition must have electrifwi
members altivist 0111C11 tf,
Erpreklielcltt proposed to favour the weedily with !
song. It proves that the Government no:kflt
surprises is inexhaustible, if only the
continue to owe the oast of them. We 477:
cost" became the taxpayers have mire
pay for them. The entertainment' me WOed!
credit, but this will searcely lasses the mama
debta occasioned by abortive wavy will mdmitaff,....
prove an unwelcome surprise to the oxintrio•••,.,
to be hoped the constituencies in their tom
ths general election, surprise the Gamuts/at VT
leg a majority of Liberal members to the sat
meat.