New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-20
BEACONSFIELD AT BERLIN.
COMPACT, BUT WHAT is TT

means to sleep at Calais again at Brussels again at
Cologne, and reach Berlin Monday; that an apart
ment has been taken for him in the Kaiserhof aud
that Lord Salisbury, a younger man, will start on
Monday. and go straight through to the German
Capital where the Congress is TO meet these and
these only, are the undisputed facts of which the
British Parliament and the British Nation
are in possession with respect to the policy which
they will presently be called upon to acguiesce
in for the settlement of the greatest questions that
have arisen in Europe for more than sixty years.
Yen may add, if You ike, that AIr. Montague Cory,
the Prime Minister'S devil devil in the sense IA
| mihar to the Bar, not 10 the Church., and half
dozen other UnderStraVVcrs are 20 accompany their
master. What Lord Beaconaield win do OF say,
what has been agreed on between him and Russia,
what future has been settled for European and
Asiatlc Turkey, whether anything has been really
settled, whether Prince Bismarck and Austria are
parties to the bargain if bargain there be, whether
the Turk likes it not whether he VIII resist 1t or
not, arc matters Of pure couicctuic That is what
Parliamentary Government in England IN she fourth
quarter of the nineteenth century has come 70.
IN the dcarlh ot facts, Vuesscs aIr picHtIfai
scrtIuu8 based on Lucsscs are not ic7a p.raiiul
Alroyt the only point CIR which they agree Is that
compact Of some kind IA been made. Ii is believed
on both sides that Lord BeacoG-iall would not go
90 Berlin unless he we're sure oiuis game. The mo-
mcut you asS what his game ia, speculation takes
the place Of knowledgc. Tie Torres, Whom hc has
encouraged for two years past 20 shrek for Turkey,
dread THAT they are 10 De thrown over. The Lib
erals, Mr. Gladstone their head, who have riskcd
their political future By prncaiming lie Upitne5 Of
the Turk Tor rdle over Christian nayIouaiics, con-
template in q kind of dumb ,tuppr the adoption of
theiryicws by tbcmau Nhohus don. h:s best t0maSCe
them odi0us to all ENGLAND and oil Europe The
talk of the town points TO the announcement OF
some large settlement 81 the Eastern question at
Berlin wllch shall take account of every interest
and every jealousy and every susceptibility except
the interests and joaousies and suScCptbi,iifs OF
tho nation Of bgigauds now mhng on the
Bospborus whom Lord Bcacousfcd has steadily
cNtollcd, N whose behalf England has oHce broken
up the European concert, and whom size has brought
TO the brink Of run apparently FOR the pleasure ui
tumbliug them more oOumodiorsly into the abyss
which yawus to receive them. The blow given, tie
riycr is TO come back to England TO ENJOY his
triumph, dissolve the seryr instrument Of his am
bitiou which still calls itself a Parliament, make
himself duke, aud rrtiIc amid a blaze Tor which
the best institutions and most cher shed traditions
OF his adopted country % supply thr fuel Lib
erals who know the man say all this is credible
enough except Lord Braconsfold's withdrawal from
| public life. Whether Ec goes or ays, tEcy look
forward to q dissolution with very gloomy fore
holdings. If the Berlin business offers any samhlancc
Of triumph, If any agreement is CONC 10, and war
avcrted at any price, they count on Tory ma
0Gity being returned, and will feel comparatively
happy if 1t do not exceed hundred. Neither MS to
the prospect at Berlin uor to the prospect here 10
I England, am ! expressing any OPINION Of my own.
What is the use Of pretending to have opinion on
events which political coujurcr is allowed tDd.icct
or TO influenced | am only recording the notions
entertained by people vino had access TO inforna-
ton so long rs English foreign policy was in some
measure governed by facts and principles.
This morning, to be sure, there comes q hint from
France that the scope OF the Congressional pro.
gramme at Berlin viii be limited, IL France is able
10 limit it, NJ. Waddington made hIs long expected
address in the Chamber Of Deputies yesterday The
gist Of It lies in th, suEgcstionIt j, nothing moro
than q surgcstIOi-that Egypt, Syria and The Holy
Places should remain outside the discussion. They
may or may not II they DO not, If they are dragged
in ifFrench interests are tIamplcd uu and French
! pride has to endure another humiliation, France
| will have only herself tu thank for it,. French Re-
publcau5 will be able TO trace the origin Of TIE
blow dealt ar their fouu Of government % no less
source than VI. Gambctta himself. For month, past
the selfish TOryi,m of The British Cabinet ha, found
ts best support IN Che Liberals 6 France. VI. Cam
betta has PLAYED tail 20 Lord Bcacousicid's Kite.
| The leading Republican Journals OF France have
| been content to De the echoes Of TIE Irac-
tionary press. of the very court and club
organs of England. Day after day The H'oHdqrd and
! The PaH Nal GG.eite have quoted the E'pHlbIne
Franeaise and the Journal dies Dthas. Day after day
the Liberals Of England have been mocl,ingy con-
fronted with the declarations Of the Liberals Of
! France. The orraus OF " Gambptta and of NJ.
Leon Say have thought 10 praise too high for L"d
| ecaconsfcld; 40 abuse too low FOR Slr Gladstone
| 4. il "A
| which has outlivcd its once great influence IN
France but ia still quoted with ignorant respect IN
England It's politics are the politics OF the BOusr,
and where they are not purely financial are purely
| Hebraic Generally they are both together. NJ.
Leon Say ia the French Secretary of the Treasury,
the financial confederate of tho Rothschids and as
| honorable man as circumstances permit His pa
Dur reflects more often the stress OF the influences
which surround HIM than his own best qualities. As
for NJ Gambetta, he has theory Of foreign politics
with one pivot-tho ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of his party
| and his country. Tho Eastern Question TO him Is
| not an end, but means. lie Is less
| anxious for such a solution OF 1t as
shall be Intrnsicaly reasonable and just, than for
solution which shall promote what he sincerely he
Iieyes TO be the interests Of France, and Of the
party which now governs France. HIS English
admirers aud natural allies have borne with him
| long and patiently But even their patience has
| limit, and The Daily Ners has at last warned him
that he is going too far. lie is, in truth, sacrificing
bis friends here in the interest Of party which
! uses him and hates him.
The literary question Of the day is, Who wrote the
| Political Adventures of Lord Beaconshcld l-thrce
numbers of which have appeared in The F0r'ngbitg
The first two you must have read; whoever cares
anything about English politics must read them;
and the third is not inferior to the first two IN bril-
Hancy or III solid merit A. studies Of political his
tory during the last fortyyelr5 they would take high
Of OH Win