, 1876-03-11

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purchased. The purchase of the shares
had been in no respect a financial specuIa-
ton; if it had been certain that they would
never yield any interest ut all, Mr.. Disraell
would have voted none the less for the
purchase of the shares. For, apart from
the pending arrangement for giving US 9
proper representation in the directorate,
it is idle to say that a Government which
has paid four millions OF money for the
purchase of an interest In such an under"
taking, will have no more influence In
guiding its concerns than it would have
had if it had not bought two-6fths of the
shares. The world is governed by con-
Citation, compromise, influence, varied in-
%terestS, the recognition OF the rights OF
others, coupled with the assertion OF ones
own, and in addition, q general conviction,
resulting from explanations and good un-
Outstanding, that it is for the interest OF
all parties that matters should be conduct
ed il a satisfactory and peaceful manner"
As for the time OF war, England is o great
Mediterranean Power, maintaining q chain
of fortresses (Which she will never relln-
quish," extending almost from the gates
Vi tIlt LllClIODOllS W AuOlui ouQ IA SOSh q
chain the Suez Canal is no mean link.
The purchase was necessary to prevent
the Suez Canal from falling entirely into
foreign hands, aud indeed almost exclusive
ly into the hands of = single Power, aud it
was necessary therefore, for the purpose
of maintaining the British Empire and the
proper policy Of the British nation. In
all this latter part Of his speech Mr.. Dis
raeli's declarations were received with
enthusiasm by the House Ct Commons
Mr.. Gladstone followed Mr.. Disraeli in
a striking little speech, delivered expressly
as the sole remaining representative In
that House Of the British Government
which engaged in the Crimean war. He
declared that the Government OF that day
did not in the least believe that the
integrity of the Turkish Empire could
be maintained except upon conditions, and
that one of the chief Of these conditions
was the condition that the grievances OF
the Christian population OF the Porte
should be redressed. Lord PaImerston
himself admitted that the remedy OF those
grievances was a sine 9ud non OF the restora-
ton of the Turkish power, and he pressed
the Porte, in the very heat OF the CRISIS, to
give the most positive pledges that this
should be done. Hence Mr.. Gladstone
hoped that the British Government of to-
day, in giving in its adhesion to the Austrian
Note, did so not merely for the reasons
assigned by Mr.. Disraeli, but also because
it felt that what was done at the time
of the Crimean wal was provl-
s~ionallv done, and that we are not merely
entitled, but bound to demand the perform
ance of the promises which were the
equivalents for our former aid. The Tur-
kish Government had been sincere in their
promises, as had the able statesmen who
at various times had made similar repre-.
sensations on behalf Of the Porte to our
Government here; but if these promises
had not been kept, it would no longer
be the policy Of Lord Palmerston to bolster
up the integrity of the Turkish Empire
without taking further guarantees for the
same purpose. Mr.. Gladstone's speech
was a powerful stroke for the Christian
population of Turkey, the more SO, for the
careful candour and reticence OF its style.
The Queens Speech contains an allu-
sion to some new title, which Her Majes-
tY is to assume, after a necessary statute
hos hoon oossad in order to mark her