Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-01
England Not Altogether Satisfied.

An exciting debate is going on in
the English House of Commons over
Beaconsfeld's part in the Turkey
Dinner (Congress). Gladstone makes
a severe arraignment OF Beaconsfeld's
craftsmanship. He charges that
Greek interests were betrayed, and
that Tuakey was partitioned off all
most as completely as Poland was
some years ago by Russia. The ocean
cable brings the following summary of
the debate on Tuesday:
? LONDON, July 3O.-The debate in
the House Of Commons began by
Gladstone reading letter which he
had addressed to Beaconsfeld, asking
him to cite instances in support of the
accusation. of Gniustifiable and reok-
less attacks. He declared he never
attacked the government without a
deep sense of responsibility. He had
never assigned any dishonorable mo-.
tives to the Premier, and his attacks
upon his policy were based upon an
irreconcilable and fundamental differ
ence of opinion and feeling. He made
a long review of the results of the
Congress. He regretted the selfish
jealousy of some of the powers in re
gard to Greece With Servia aud
Montenegro independent, Bulgaria
practically so, and Bosnia and Herze-
govinia irrevocably annexed to Aus
tria it was impossible to deny that
the partition of Turkey, if not as COM
plete, was as great as that of Poland.
He desired the elevation of the native
races instead of the suppression Of
Turkey by another power, and COM
planned of the governments policy
from first to last. He said they must
feel some shame when they look upon
the results obtained and what might
have been obtained without so much
bloodshed if they had not jealously
severed themselves from Russia two
years ago. They had left Russia the
finest possible field for working
against the present arrangement. The
British plenipotentiaries had through
out the Congress done their utmost
to prop up Turkey and keep down
the subject races. For the first time
in history their attitude was not in
accordance with free institutions.
The assertions Of Lord Beaconsfield
relative to British efforts in favor of
Greece were not supported in the
protocols. The conclusion of the
Anglo Russian agreement was prac-
teal contradiction of the high sonnd.
ing pretensions of Lord Salisbury's
note. He had been associated with
all the greatest statesmen of England
for halfa century, and he did not hes
itate to say that none of them would
have imposed such responsibility on
the country. lie could not regard
such policy as within the limit of rea.
sonable craftsmanship. He asked
what the government would have
done if a foreign power had concluded
such convention as the government
had in ratifying the convention before
Parliament was made acquainted with
it, pushed the power of the Crown to
an extreme which had been avoided
by the greatest statesmen. A new
phase of the Eastern question was
opened by the startling novelty
which set the law of Europe at
naught, was unjust to the other pow
ers, OVERRIDE the rights of Parliament,
and laid new burdens on the people.
BEACoNsFIELD, REPLYING
to the letter read by Gladstone in the
House of Commons to-day, says the
compilation of the list of offensive ep-
ithets used by the gentleman would
entail search over period Of two
and one half years. Beaconsfield
cites the expressions of Gladstone
that he (Beaconstield) had degraded
and debased the great name of Eng
land, that he had sold tho Greeks,
and that he had been guilty of unsur-
passed acts Of duplicity.