New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-16
BEACONSFIELD'S POSITION.
FRESH EMBARRAssMENTs ARISING.


| CHAN QUARREL-vAGUE CHARGES MADE TO
EXCITE HOSTILITY AGAINST BUssIA-THE PRE-
MIER TRYING TO MAKE PARTY CAPITAL
| IFROv THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rRrBUSBI
| LONDON Oct. 31.-Cabinet secrets arc better
kept it appears, in London than in India Not tho
| least remarkable instance of Lord BeacODsfelds
determination that England shall be ignorant Of
her own affairs is supplied this week. IL IL from
Forbes's telegram from Simla in yesterdays
Daily NeWs that the truth about the Cabi-
net decision OF last Friday was first known.
Certainly there Is something picturesque and
dramatic in such q state Of things. don't remem-
Der previous case in which the English public got
its news from Downing Street via Bombay. And
doubt whether Engshmen like to be reminded in
this way that they are as Mr.. Dunckey puts II in
the November Nineteenth Century, only an lnsular
fraction Of Lord BeacOnshclPs Oriental Empire.
Nor is the news itself much relished by anybody.
The disclosure of it at Simla seems TO be due to An
outburst Of uncomfortable rage. Lord LyttOn cOnd
not contain his indignation when he heard that the
Cabinet had resolved to give Shere All another
period of repentance. Mr. Forbes's telegram re-
fleets the state OF mind Of his informant, whoever
he was IL reflects his own as0 for he IL still what
Sir William Harcourt called him at Scarborough on
Tuesday,-an inpenitent JingO That word CJiDgoh
allow me to say, has now passed into such current
the political nomenclature of the day. that it is no
longer thought necessary here to put it between liz
verted commas.
Over and over again during the last few weeks
the Ministerial press has told us that the honor Of
England required that the insult offered by Shere
Ali should be wiped out in blood. War, and moth
ing but war, could efface the STAIN War, and moth
ing but war, could "bring Shere Ali to his Senses"
OF stay the encroachments of Russia; could make
India secure or restore English prestige IN Asia.
Yet, to-day, these same journals have to take
humber tone. To-day it is not war, but an ultima
tum. the next step preceding war" which they have
to present to their readers the only panacea
for Indian troubles. The Cabinet has faced about.
It's organs have TO execute the same manTuyre. 10
do them justice they make wry faces as they eat
their own words; but they eat them. If Mr.. Forbes
had not shown such an ncOnyenient eagerness for
news, this dsagreeable duty might have been de-
ferred. For is Olerably clear that the decision Of
Friday was meant 10 be kept secret more than four
days. Otherwise, 1t might well have been told at
first.
If anybody but Lord BeacOnsfed were Prime Min
lster there could be little doubt that 1t is the sud-
den stress Of European difficulties which had forced
him to adopts less bclligcrent policy IN India. To put
it in another way, there is danger thar Russia
may be thought to trample too openly the Treaty
OF Berlin. and discredIt this Ministry completely.
Here, agaIn, Ministers will have only themselves TO
thank, should such an opinion obtain possession OF
the country. 1t is they and their organs who have
poured out complaint after complaint against Rus
sian dongs in Turkey. 1t is they who have done
their best to persuade England that Russia is not
Loyalty executing her agreements under the
Treaty. They have filed the pnblic ear
with lamentations which seem to me 10 have but
slender foundation in fact, aud with threats for
which the true source must be sought in the e1i-
gencies of home politics. l went INTO this ques-
ton last week, and won't weary your patience by
a reorganization of the alleged grievances which are
put forward as an for a renewal of the anti
Russian war cry.
more misunderstanding a more ucld-state-
ment of grounds for complaint IL given IN the
Vienna correspondence Of tO-day's Times, which is
in substance this. An insurrectonary move
meut is in progress in certain parts Of
Turkey notably in Macedonia. There has been a
simultaneous outbreak" in almost all districts
south and west of the newly-foned Bulgaria and
East Roumelia from the sources of the Struma and
Nrsta TO MOnastir and the Mountains of Ochrila,
"places which used 10 have no communication with
each other and which did not even know If each
others existence" Such an outbreak, SAYS this
writer supposed TO be an emplOy6 OF the Austrian
Foreign Office, can only have been brought about
by combination. Ard the lingo Imagination, dis
dainful of logical processes, and careless OF evil
dence, rushes to the conclusion that the
combination must be Russian. The fact that
these provinces have been left since the " peace
without government; that their Christian mhabi-
tants are as much as at the mercy of their
Moslem oppreSsors that the spectacle OF an eman-
cjpated Bulgaria north of the Balkans must rouse
hopes of liberty IN the BulGarans dwelling in lands
which ENGLAND preserved to Turkish rule these
pqss for nothing The lingo eye can nothing
but the hand of a Russian agent in every uprising Of
tortured aud pluudered Christians in Turkey. In
the general DISCRIMINATION Of Turkish admlnlstra-
ton ne sees equally the proof of Russian purpose
the proof thar the Treaty of San Steiano IS yet 10
superscde the Treaty of Berlin. And he cries aloud
to HIS rnlers TO brandish the sword once more in
the MuscOvite's face.
The whole of the telegram, from which | have
quoted sentence two, is worth reading. IL con-
tans testimony which can be used both WAYS but
there is no need to weigh ont bits Of evidence on
one side OF the other. Neither need quote the
fresh declarations of Russian papers, which are re-
produced here and rekndle English passions.
pass all that by-iOr the moment, at least-because
none of il touches the heart of the question. IL ~
very possible that England is more Oh
the verge of a crisis. / know people who
think that she may be at war with Rus
STA in a week But what | have To state is
the belief Of the Liberal leaders that the present out
cry against Russia has little more at bottom than tho
wish of Lord Beaconsted to carry the country back
into that state If mird which existed last Summer,
when he brought back peace with honor from
Berlin They believe il to be, in one word an cleo
tioneering manGUvre. IL is known that Lord
Beac0nsfeld wished to dissolve Parliament on his
return, confdont-and perhaps Justly confident
that he might then have had a majority IN new