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LORD STRATFORD DS REDCLIYFE remarked last
night that Europe is now undergoing greater
changes than any which have taken place since
the first French Revolution. On this point moat
observers will agree with him. He thinks that
under these circumstances great danger may arise
•if we keep silent. But if silence would be so
dangerous, it would seem that speaking must also
have its perils, since it is always possible that we
may say not tho right word but the wrong one.
The noble lord has a theory, that while it is the
special business of the House of Commons to look
' after the resources of the country, it is that of
the House of Lords to guard its great principles
of duty and policy—s, division of functions
which the noble lord certainly did not learn from
history.

Looking at the state of Europe, Lord STRATFORD
DE REDCLIFFE sees a dissolvent principle at work,
effacing old landmarks and destroying old rights.
That is true, but can he not see a constructive
principle at work I Vast populations, conscious
of a community of character and interest, which
diplomatists have persistently disregarded, are
overturning the barriers which kept them weak and
insignificant, and are joining one another, in order to
realise a nobler and more fruitful national life.
We should all have been glad if the wise and
great diplomatists of our times had understood
this prime necessity of Europe—the consolidation
of interests which never ought to have been
divided—and had honourably associated their
names with it. A few have done so, and history
will repeat their names with honour. Others have
preferred to spend their lives in propping up worn-
out States, held together by the sword. These
latter, in a state of perpetual anxiety for the pre-
carious work of man, are the first to cry out
against that of Gov and nature.

Lord STRATFORD DZ RIDCLIFFB think' that it
may not be possible for us to arrest the progress of
events ; but if it were possible, is there anyone who
would take the responsibility of doing sot Prin-
ciples of morality, he says, have been violated by
Prussia. That is only too true. The mingled
fraud and violence which have marked Count
Bismaacx's policy can neither be concealed nor
excused ; they are open to every eye and revolt
every mind. But he must have taken a very su-
perficial view of recent events who can see in them
nothing but a plot of Count BISMARCK'S. The
occasion, the time, the manner, may be of his
arrangement; but the forces at work, and the end
to be attained, were neither created nor appointed
by him. Germany has been for years waiting and
calling for union, and it takes it when it can get
it—even from Count Bismaitcx. As long as pub-
lic opinion tells every petty sovereign that he will
dishonour himself if he gives up his rights, however
necessary their surrender may be for the welfare
of mankind, so long will war be the only means of
effecting such a union as we now see taking place
in Germany.
Lord STRATFORD DR RIDCLIFFE asks when the
new principle of nationality is to stop I At the
line where the nation stops. We thought the
Prussian Government had sufficiently answered
the question the other day when it declared that it
could not make the cession of Bohemia a condition
of peace because that country was not German.
But Lord STRATFORD DR REDCLIFFIS sees another
danger. The principle of Nationality leads to the
invocation of foreign aid. Italy has called for
the dangerous assistance of a foreign Power. And
what of the principle of Anti-nationality
Can that maintain itself without similar
help ? Look at Austria, prostrate at the
feet of Russia in 1849, and of France
a fortnight ago. A nation may need aid in
attaining unity ; but in that unity lies the seat of
the strength by which it afterwards maintains