, 1877-01-24

BpScC0 on the Eastern QuSetVVn ~ 0uE"
verton on Exmocr, at o farmers club-on.
ly he could not help making a rather un-
fair hit at Mr.. Freeman, who, when he
said, (" Perish, India, rather than va should
strike one blow or speak one word in be.
half Of the wrong against the flght." no
more suggested losing India, than q man
who says he would lose his right hand
rather than strike his father could be sup
posed to suggest his intention OF losing bic
right hand. Lord Carnarvon expressed
the utmost confidence in Lord Salisbury,
ard that he would do all that any English
man could do TO secure that reforms should
be granted to the subjects OF the Porte in
the rsvolted provinces. and that 81 he would
take care that e~fectual guarantees should
be given that these reforms should be true
and effective; that they should not be,
as they lad been, false, wandering 6reS Of
the night, calculated not only to mislead
but to deceive" Lord Carnarvon also
expressed his confidence In Lord Salisbury'S
colleagues. He saw emo advantage in i'm
putting evil motives. He hated a policy OF
suspicion, remarks intended, we sup
pose, to prepare his audience for Lord
Sallsbury's cooperation with General Ig.
natief. When Liberals are reproached
with not supporting the Government ct
the present moment, we reply that our
critics are Just as bad. There are three
minds in the Government,-ths Turkish or
DisraeIi mind, the hesitatiug or Derby
mind, and the pro-Christian or Salisbury
midland we are all alike in choosing
the one Of the three which we approve
most to support. No one can support
oil three together.
The Mahommedans of Bengal are raising
subscriptions for the Sultan, and have ad-
dressed a memorial to the Queen, 10 which
they say they bave heard with apprehen-
sion that efforts are being made in Eug.
land to overthrow the Ministry because
they wish to defend the Sultan, and they
wish to represent that Nhe majority OF the
Mussulmans in India look upon him IS
Coils Vice-gerent. They therefore beg
her Majesty not to alter her policy. The
petition, which is full Of arguments mini
missing the atrocities in Bulgaria, reads 90
lit had been written by some English
Tory 10 Calcutta who had received a hint
that the Lieutenant-G Governor wished to
render the Cabinet some SOFT OF aid, and
the answer to it's prayer is nearly final:
This country expended an army and
thirty millions 10 defending the Sultan
in the Crimean war, and was reward.
ed by a mutiny, having for it's avowed
objeSt the restoration Of the 1ndian Ma
hommedans to their ascendency under the
Mongol House of Timour. and the cxpul-
sion of the British from the Empire. That
MahOmmedans in India wish Mahomme-
dams to triumph in Europe is likely enough
and natural enough, bnt'that their symPa-
thy is more active than the sympathy. say,
of Italian Catholics for the Temporal
Power. is moat improbable. The Waha-
bees. the really dangerous Mahommedans
in India, will. in Arabia, regard the fall OF
the Sultan as the fall of their own most
dangerous antagonist.
President Grant 10 his final Message
takes occasion to defend his extraordinary
attempt to induce the Government OF the
Union to take possession Of st. Domingo:
He says the acquisition Of that island
would have ended the tradee0f the United
States with Cuba, and have forced Spain
to allow the freedom Of the island.
American vessels w0uld have, been en-.