The New York herald., 1876-10-02

atrocities which now occupy attention loud checrs)
THE kSGLIsn PART IN
Lori Bcaconsned proceeded to say that he quito
willing to tell his audience what the government now
thought OF tho prospect OF maintaining peace and Of
maintaining what ne thought was OF inlerior mpor
tancethc vital interests oi this country. Ho recalled
the rejection by the government OF the Berlin
orandum. ''rne government had boen blamed for not
accompanying this rejection by proposal of their
They did, however, make proposal Of their
lord Derby who IS described every day IN tho news
papers as mister VINO does nothing and suggests
nothing. lost no time IN laying down the principles
upon which he thought the tranquility OF the East OF
Europe might DO secured. He iad down tho principles
upon which hc thought that the relations between tho
Porte and It's own Cnrstian subjects ought To be
established. These commun,cal,ons were occurring
constantly, may say, between Her MaJesty's govern
nicnt ana the i've other Powers.
sand here l will ssy that there never was anything
monstrous In invention Than the story which has
been generally circulated that at this time
carrying sort OF with Russia That everything
she proposed opposed and that everything we sug
gested sne circumventcL From the moment that wc
declined, aud gave our reasons why declined, enter
ing INTO the Berlin memorandum, there was on tho
WHOLE should say, On Tho part OF every ono oil tho
great Powers cordial attempts to act with us IN every
way which would BRING about satisfactory termlna-
ton. bot by no Power have we been met so cordially
as by Russia" As the result Of the negotiations It was
the Uoliei OF Lord Beaconsfed that the late spring
pcaccand peace OH principles which would have been
approved by every wise and good man-mignt nave
been accomplished but then came the
BETWEEN sERvrA TURKEY.
s'Serva declared war upon Turkey That is to say,
the secret societies Of Europe declared war upon Tur
key. In the attempt TO conduct the government OF
this world there arc new elements 10 Ue Conslucreu
winch predecessors had not TO deal with We have
deaf not merely with emperors. with princes
and with ministers there arc the secret societies, an
element which must take into account, and whicn
the last moment may banle all our arrangements
societies which havo regular agents everywhere which
counteuance ASSASSINATION, and which, II necessary.
could produce massacre. Well thcre was nm end, OF
course 10 our negotiations. The war went on--"this
outrageous and wicked war; Tor oi all the wars that
waged there never war less justihablc
than tho mado by servm against the
Porte. Tho Porte may have ten thousand
iaults-I will not say ten thousand crimes,
but ten thousand fauts--and those faults It's weak
government and other circumstances may lead unhap
pity TO crimes But still there Is not the slightest
donbt that, regards the re atoms between servia
and the Porte only every principle OF International
law, not only every principle oi pdoe morality, pat
every principle OF honor was outraged. what, bow
over, did 10 government do alter this ata mlstakc
had been madcy
ENGLISH ATTENrTs At MEDIATION
'Thc moment that Hcr MJesty's government ascer-
tanned Servia beaten exhausted ani IN state
oil much despair communicated coailucntiiiy with
Scrvia. We said. we cannot olier TO mediate. be-
that would be iaple 10 isuncrsianding. and IL
mia h hc SAID hereafter IL because OF offering
10 mediate thas did not make tLs defence oi when