New-York tribune., 1876-11-25
-ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.


-, ,ND EXPLAINS WHY THE BERLIN MEMO
,,.nr,,, WAS neutrality-suspicious. To SUCCESS
At TIE coNFEREScg-A EULoGIsr OF iid-SI-
DENT GRANT.
,.,ox TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBuhE'l
,o,,co1. Nov. Tt is not too much 70 say that
~ tocli,q with which English friends Of America
,or 81 tIe strange scandals about the Presidential
Iat,,, is one of Gisrnay. Whatever be the result,
~ pcr,llc is discrelitod; the enemies OF republl-
-, dos are enjoying triumph. Full particulars
80 t,l,crapbed MS of tho charges and counter
barces Of frand aud Of the violence which Is used
- threatened on both sides to secure favorable re-
- from the disputed States. We are stli OF course
iornnce Of the result and few care to predict It,
Th one thing everywhere said is that no eVfl 10 DC
,,rcbcndcd from Mr.. 1ildcn's election would De SO
1tal AS the election of Mr. Hayes under suspicion VI
Cond Itis no consolation 10 urge that theIe Is
frand on both sides; TO an Amerean "nelhcr i'f VI
oroiust Mr.. HAYES. such plea is an aggraVatioh ol
s;rnroce Bu. whatever needs to be said on this
spb;eet can better DO said next week, ana s'aoiy
postpone it. , .,o,o,,,
Cl,ov, Which occurred on Thursday. We're Mr. san
GER the circus proprietor, aud Lord beacohshei"'
the Prime Minister of England Mr. Sanger con-
tribntod q dozen elephants SO. Lord Beaconsheld
.o ono of his most daring flights on the rhetorical
,ncze which is his favorite instrument oi exercise
He has done many bold things in his time; seldom a
holdertban when he laid before the new Lord Mayors
ots his version of the recent history of the East
er,, question and of the policy his own Government
t.arnrsued. II is not necessary to accuse Lord
ps5copstield of intentional unfairness would not
o,,on car, that he presumed as he so often appears
30 an the ignorance Of his audience. The ignorance
,os more probably his own. During long political
ooroor Lord Beaconsfeld has seldom thought 1t
worth while to blunt the edge of his fine abilities
nv bringing them into too close contact with mere
f+s II is said of him that entering the House one
afternoon at the commencement of an important de-
bate he remarked 20 colleague that he knew
ngtbing of the subject. Then how are You going
10 sneak on il 7" quered his more prosaic friend.
.sOh.7 said Mr. Disrael Il shall pick Up the facts
from the speeches on the other sidcw He drew last
night on much less trustworthy source OF inforIna-
ton. Read his account of the cause OF the resump-
tion of hostities after the first armstice. On the
orpeal of Seryia the British Government Ol,taned
from Turkey cessation of bostihues. and there
mon proposed terms of peace, TO which every
Power Russia included, accCded But what hap
penedi cries lord Beaconsiield
An indieant burst Of feeling in this country, excited
b. horrible events created such sensation and excite
people of Serva really believed thGt the people o! IN
r1i had suddenly determined give UP the tradition
sTv po;c of the country which the eminent statesmen
Of europe only five years ago-ncuding the members OF
HsiS of and scrTa was induced to rctrac what she had
expressed and once more to engage III Sngninary
Struggle which every friend Of humanity must lament
Nothing could be more dramatic than that; no ac-
ousation against Mr. Gladstone and his sympatlrizers
could lee more damaging than the accusation that
they prevented peace and that they are responsible
for all the bloodshed which has since happened.
Unluckily, nothing could be unlike the truth.
TWAS in September says Lord Bcaconsfed, that
the British Government made its proposal. But the
indignant burst Of feeling which he says followed
upon and prevented the acceptance OF this proposal
had in fact occurred during the previous August.
It's full strength was known to the Government
here before they made their proposal. 1t was known
10 Seryia before they accepted the cessation of hos
tilities From the beginning Of the armistce 10 the
making of the proposal tho situation in England re-
NAMED unchanged, except that the agitation was
diving out Yet Lord BeacOnsfeld would have Us be-
cve that the failure of his proposal was caused by
the embers Of an excitement which in its full heat
did not prevent the making of It, DOr the Servians
from accepting the armistice.
Again Lord Beaconsfeld tells us that the British
Government during all this crisis have had two
great objects in view: first the maintenance of the
general peace of Europe; second, but subordinate
10 the first an amelOraton of the condition OF the
subjects OF tue disturbed provinces Of Turkey. But
tenance of the independence and territorial integrity
ithe Turkish Empire-avowed directly orindircctly,
but acted On from the beginning of the crisis down to
this moment He believed, he declares, that peace
would best be preserved by observing existing
treaties especially the Treaty of Paris, which guar
antees the independence and territorial integrity OF
the Turkish Empire. When he comes to explain
why the Berlin memorandum was rejected, he de
elares it would have led to violation of the inde-
pendence and territorial integrity Of Turkey, ana
therefore, we felt it duty to reject the pr0positi0n
T. When the proposition that Austria should occupy
Bosnia and Herzegovina was made the British Gov
erment rejected it because it violated the most
solemn treaties to which England was party, and
that decision again "involved the maintenance OF
this principle of the integrity and territorial indie
pendence Of Turkey"
The only new thing about this is the confession of
IT, that it was the real end and aim of Lord Beacons-
heh has long been only too plain. 1t is lar more
urgent to know whether the same principle is 10 DC
pursued TO the end. A conference is about to meet
LOrd Salisbury goes as Special Embassador, fresh
from the councils of the Cabinet. What is he to dol
What line is he to takei Ihaye no doubt" says
Lord Beaeonsfeld, "that he win use and exercise all
his abilities to bring about that permanent peace in
EWope which all Statesmen agree U can best DE
secured by adhering 10 the treaties which exist
moving well-and none knows better than my
noble friend-that the independence and territorial
Integrity of Turkey are not to DO secured by mere
pen-snd-ink work" If that means anything 1t
Means that England hopes to reduce the Conference
bsnullity tying it's hands by recognition of the
binding force OF the Treaty Of Paris. 1t is safe to
PREDICT that in that view and that purpose England
win stand alone. The Conference which meets at
COnstantinople can do nothing to secure peace, I'M
less it can secure protection to the Chrh-
Tan in fba disturhpd prOyinces OF