The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-10
ENGLAND HESITATING.

THE INDIGESTION AND IEREsoLUTIoS OF TN
MINISTRY IN REGARD TO THE wAR-wHAr
Is MEANT BY REINFORCING THE NEDIrER-
RANEAN aARRIsoNs?
From the Pail Mall Gazette July 81
While peace at-any-price orators are nourshng on
the stump while cockney Journalism is preaching
about "calmness with tho dronc and tho duiness OF
the night flying beetle while the eagerness OF political
partisans "dsh" conservatives "a such that they
readily take the risk OF dshing the country at tho
tme what do we hear from those in whose
hands the destnies of the Empire lie at this most
anxious crisss Not one word good for guidance not
syllable 10 indicate that there Is any guidance, or
anything but mindessness nervelessncss. distraction
in the Cabinet ITSELF The silence Of Ministers could
very we'll DO borne, their abstinence from any
declaration Of fixed policy would DO soler-
able enough, " wo could only feel assured OF this;
that the country is in the hands Of dozen mon,
trained 10 affairs, aware of all that be known,
determinatcly agreed that that line OF conduct
will prove most expcdient for the security prosperity
and honor Of the country. But, beyond all doubt that
is not the That the Cabinet is composed OF men
who Are for the part old and we'll trained polk
tcians rue and II also true, no doubt that these
men know much OF what is going on abroad AZ
foreign governments choose TO mpart to them--that
Is 10 say, TO Cabinet which does not know It's own
mind which suspects all suggestions OF common action
as the temptings OF seducer, and which cannot DO
dopsndcd upon for doing any hing, from hour
TO the But for the rcstwe have said II; they
DO not know their own minds.
MINISTRY PoLrcr.
SO far from their being agreed, us by this time, at
rate, they should be, upon given limo Of policy,
and the means OF carrying out considering this and
that obstruction, they sit gazing at the distractions
themselves when they are not moro actively engaged
in casting their favoritc dliicuiies In each others
teeth Tho country rely upon that this Is tho
actual state OF affairs in the Cabinet aud such OF
countrymen as doubt it are under a plausible but
OF hostile sentiments antagonistic sympathies and
fears drawn from every quarter OF Europe, tho
this drawing abstrusc differences
from uncertain signs or merely repeating the Jocular
court The truth plain on the surface OF all that 10
done IL is revealed by the very mucn more that Is left
undone, ana ~ proclaimed by Ministers themselves
wnenever they find an opportunity OF "rebuktng'
each other, as 1t IS called. Nor need we 60 back Tor
proofs 10 the time OF the Conference, or bring them
out airesh from the speeches OF Lord Salisbury amt
some other Minister'S Look al what was done al Tho
end of last week and at the beginning OF this and ask
whether II signifies that tho government knows what
to be at where they are, or what they haa better
do or what they can do. The answer is mtserably
they had better turnor whether 1t is safe 10 DO any
thing al ALL
PANIC AND iRREsoLUTIox.
The facts are that somewhere about Thursday OF
Friday last the Cabinet OF The more mmedi-
surprise. large Russian army over tho Balkaus tho
people flying in panic from the cities, panic at Con-
generals dsmissed-evory where wild and portentous
confusion That reused them into similar condition.
Immediately orders were sent Tying 10 camps, ports
and arscnals Transports were To be got ready with
out moments delay, munitions gathered together,
troops told of for immediate ombarkation 10 the
of nearly thousand men. What
Tor? To fill up tho Incomplete garrisons Of
Malta and Gibraltar Hardly. For what object
thcn or was there no definite object, or II there
purpose what has become OF ~ Why was II aban-
doned-n obedience TO what protests, or what revca-
tion at the last moment, that II "wouldn't do ~
Some light throwu these questions by tho fact
reported III the Times, that between Saturday morning
and Monday night 'the dates and arrangements win
reference 70 the fitting ont Of the troopshps at Ports
mouth were altered no fewer than three times: and
within the period the dockyard artificers were
and nurrIedly ordered 10 do So" Whatever may be
the precise Tor these vacillat0ns, there they
LANE EXPLANATION
And when turn 10 the Ministerial explanations oil
Monday night and read a plain, downright statement
that This sudden eux OF orders Tor troops and
ports to the number aforesaid meant more lnan that
il was Thought eXpedient the Mediterranean
garrisons 10 their "4uIl complement" what are 10
think Of alS we know Tor certain that this is what
the panc-strcken movement ends TO- But was that
what It begun Tor? lmpossibe These troops
and transports were ordered out with some
other and far wider intention. Aud either tnat
intention abandoned because 1t Occasoned q
'row' In the Cabinet for this reason As soon as
Ministers had made up Their minds TO send troops TO
Gaipo they advised that tho expedition
might become ridiculous, because It would probably
Qnd the Russians there beforehand; because they
had rock0ned with tho Turk who not i'm probably
be allowed 10 land, and that II they did lind tho
Russians they would lind Turkish iron-cads on the
spot to receive them such friends and allies
received. In el,hor case IN any case, here We say
proof that Her Majesty's government tall
abroad" 1t this time OF the day.