New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-14
NOTES on NM GREAT DEBATE.

STRONG ATTACKS MADE BY THE LIBERALS on THE
PIsEMER's PouCY-THE GOYERNMENT FORCED
10 EXPLAIN - THE observation-disclosures
CONTROVERSY.
lFRoM OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE.l
LONDON, Aug. 3.-These are happy days for Lord
Beaconsfeld. Last Saturday night he was enter
tanned with a great deal of parade by the Carlton
Club at a banquet, and such was the demand for
tickets by his excited followers. that the Carlton
was unable to find room in its palatial home in Pail
Mall capable of holding them all, and the club
had to borrow for the evening the Duke Of Yelling
toms hiding school at Knightsbridge. Here, under
the presidency of his quondam enemy, the
Duke OF Buccleuch, and surrounded by all
the great guns OF the territorial arstoeracy'
the concentrated Tpryism of England did honor to
it's chief, Or IA of the ministerial speakers in
the debate which has just ended poetically put it,
played the pipe of peace" Early this morning the
vote of censure, moved by Lord Harrington, in the
House Of Commons, on Monday night, was defeated
by n majority OF 10. and tonight the corporation
Of that part of London known as The
City, gives 10 him and Lord Salisbury
its freedom, and the Lord Mayor invites them 10
dine at the Mansion House. All this tinsel display
is cleverly managed and it is not at all unlikely
that for the moment it may answer its purpose and
carry away the people, whose eyes easily dazzled
the vortex of lurid enthusiasm.
Bnt while Lord Beaconsfeld is being feasted,
Lord Salisbury praised aud the Government
generally hailed as one which looks after Imperial
interestsn debate has been going on in the House
of Commons which. though the Ministry have come
out of il with a majority unprecedented in its own
career has vet left them with a furnished reputa-
ton which as soon as tho tax collector round
for the cost of thoir policy, will become more
visible TO the eyes Of the public. The secret policy
Of Lord Beaconsfeld, its surprises and its
utter unscrupulOusness have been mercilessly
viviseoted and held up to scorn No impartial
listener or reader have come to any other con-
clusion than the Ministerial speakers have utterly
failed to answer their opponents. Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Lowe made the two best speeches in the
debate-the ones 6ery and passionate eloguence
and the others characteristic cynicism were
unanswerable; but the discipline of the
Tory party is 80 good that no amount
Of arguments and no eloquence could mako
il possibe 10 catch a vote. They will endure
anything they will do anything in order to keep
themselves in power. party composed of men
who have hitherto been supposed to have high
sense of honor, which can bring itself to approve
polcy of trickery and double-dealng, of duplicity
and secrecy and ia short containing every element
which has hitherto been excluded from its political
creed can bring itself TO any thing But If the Tory
marty has been thus educated" the country
may be more farsoeing aud they cannot continue
long TO support q man, VINO Mhlio processing 10
stand up for public law and the faith OF treaties
who demands on these grounds that there snail De
no private agreements, no understanding winch IS
not sanctioned by Europe. and who yet goes TO %
con gress which no demands with two secret agree
ments in his pocket by one of which he has sold his
own party and by the other he endeavOrs TO atone
for his by selling Europe itself LIS lleutonantS
bcaf
way to Russia The country ~ worked To fever
heat against the Car and everything Russian. One
~ t5ted almost 10 think that the Russian army is
on tho march 10 London 40 intense Is the indigna-
ton which they have succeeded IN. working up
against that power Nhen IN . osnons, tn9
fine light of day should by any mischance
break through upon his plot-as It dd-he
goes to Russia ana agrees 10 manu- o'ei 10
This has no sooner been done than the secret mine
il laid in another direction. Again are his own
countrymen to be deceived and once more sur
prise awaits them. The solemn comedy of the Con-
oress is gone through in which objections are made
and discussions taken on matters that have been
uriyatey arranged beforehand, and when this farce
has been nearly completed, the British Plenpoten-
tiares slowly drag from their pockets convention
which gives portion of Turkish territory TO Eng
land and comedies her a right Of protoetOrato over
the other An Englshman NAV well sigh ana thlnk
that the days Of the open-handed fairness and hon
esty of his diplomacy are gone; that IN the hands OF
pohtical trickster his fair fame stands the chance
of complete shipwreck, and that duplicity and de-
oeit have taken the place of honesty and straghtfO-
wardness. And this Is not all. He suddenly finds
himrolf by this same process wedded forever to
a policy which il utter departure from the line
OF British policy for generations past, but which at
the will apparently of single man, he ~ COM
pelled TO throw over, and which he has not had
chance of saying aye or nay. What after this, can
he say 10 the boast that the English a self-goV-
eTning nation.
There were of course, many other points OF de-
tail which were made by the Opposition, who were
not ungrudging Of their praise Of the points on