New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-01
BEACONSFIELD ASSAILED.
MIR. GLADSTONE LEADS THE ATTACK.

BEACONSFIELD ASSAILED.
MR.. GLADSTONE LEADS THE ATTACK.
THE Ex-pgEurER pESouNCEs THE MANAGEMENT
OF THE NATIONAL FINANCEs-THE TURKISH RE-
FORM JCGGLr.
The British electoral canvass proceeds ac-
lively, although Parliament may not be dis
solved for some time. Speaking In Edin-
burgh, Mr.. Gladstone has assalled the finan-
cial policy of the Government, and its attitude
toward Bulgaria and Roumeia. The circum-
stances under which the British Government
withdrew from the position it assumed in re-
gard to reforms in Asia Minor, and the weak
explanation of the ministerial press, are re-
feIred to in the letter appended.
AN ACTIVE CANVASS IN PROGRESS.
TWO GREAT MEETINGS ADDRESSED BY Mr.. GLAD
STONE IN EDINBURGH.
LONDON, Nov. 30-Mr. Gladstone made a speech
Mt the Corn Market. Edinburgh, yesterday. He de-
nounccd the Conservative finance management as
extravagart and dishonest. The Afghan war ex-
penses he said. like those Of the Abyssinian war,
were moderated and kept secret pending tho cleo
tons Mr.. Gladstone subsequently addressed
10000 persons at the Waverlcy Market. He in
sisted that the independence of the now free Balkan
Peninsula must never again fall under the yoke of
a despotic power, and warned against allowing Aus
tria TO inherit Turkish supremacy.
BEACONSFIELDS DOUBLE-DEALING.
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR BUSTERS AND THREAT
Inns AT CONsTANTINoPLE - LORD SALISBURY
FoREGoEs ALL FURTHER PRESSURE on RECEiv
ING vALUEL-ss PROMISE FROM IURKEY-GEN-
ERAL JUSTIFICATION.
[YRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF r1E TRrBUSR.l
LONDON. Nov. 17.-lnstead of saying that moth
ing but the unforeseen to pass 1t may be more
convenient in future to say that nothing but the in
credible happens. This will be n more accurate for
mula long the present rulers of Great Britain
remain in power A fortnight ago, for example. you
would have said it incredible that the sudden at
tempt TO force the Turkish Convention with
reference to Asia Minor racked it was by menace.
should be as suddenly abandoned. Yet this, if we
may trust Ministerial organs. is what has happened.
fortnight since all Europe was ringing with
the report that England had peremptorily
announced to Turkey that the time had come to put
her house in order. She must enter upon the path
of reform She must give Asia Minor an honest and
efficient government. She must set up police
force with Baker Pacha, ex-c0nyct, to protect the
unprotected females Of Armenia. She must dismiss
Mabmoud. She must break Off her negotiations
with Russia 1t not known then and is not
known now that each one Of these specific demands
presented in a definite form to the Sultan. But
they all publicly discussed. Both on the Con-
tlnent and in England these announcements were
accepted as substantially true. 1t universally
believed that the British Government had given the
Porte TO understand that large measures Of reform
must be entered upon nc once. The Porte
having dalcd with this with every previous
demand an order went TO Malta to put the fleet in
motion for Turkish waters. This not only uni
versally believed it was directly asserted by the
ministerial papers in London and for days the
whole question involved in this startling proceed
ure was debated with great vivacity. At last.
Thursday, November G, came n meek announcement
that Musurus Pacha. Turkish Ambassador in London,
had given satisfactory assurances 10 Lord Salisbury
that Turkey pledged herself to enter upon the re-
quired reforms at once and that the movement of
the feet had therefore been countermanded. In
mentioning this announcement in letter of that
date spoke of il as all but incredible. 1t certainly
was not generally credited. One news agency contra
diced it on official authority. But there was 4
general disposition To wait for Lord Beaconsiields
Guidhall speech, then due four days off. When
that speech had been heard, and the stupefaction
produced by its contemptuols silence the most
pressing topics of the day had passed of, curiosity
about this Turkish business revived. Hints were
thrown ont from day to day tba;. after all, nothing
had occurred to warrant such excitement. And to-
that the incredible news must be credited. Sir
Henry Layard has certainly been clustering and
threatening at the Porte and the Palace. But his
chief in London has more allowed himself to
be paciicd by Turkish promise
All this would be amusing enough if il were not
humliaing. 1t appears from the sermon preached
this morning by one Conservative organ that the
fault lies with that long-sufcring creature, the
public. The public expected too much. The foible
Of the epoch in which we live is exaggcration, and
this last incident has been exaggerated. That is
what we are now asked to believe. The rcmon-
strances addressed to the Sultan by Lord Beacons-
fields order were of far less formidable character
than our hasty imagination conjectued. Perhaps
the Porte itself made the story worse, overstating
the demands made upon it. seeking to excite preu-
dice against the Power that counsccd REFORM
so as TO hide its own shortcomings under the
alarm of Europe at the supposed ambition
of which it was the victim. Russia, Of course
helped She always does help in whatever mischief
is plotting for the moment. No patriotic English
man can dorbt that when n Pacha plumbers PROV
the Muscovite is enriched or that when the Turk
makes n promise it is Prince Lobanoff who helps
him to break il. The Cars minion at CONSTANT
nople is the author of all the dispatches which rep
resent Sir Henry Layard in menacng attitude
including, / suppose, Sir Henry's own kilograms
Anu inus, we are smlllngly toiu, tniiS ne more
credulous portion of the public have come to eeve
that Lord Beaconsied is meditatng a series of pro-
ceedings in the East which must necessarily
leopard our good relations with Turkey, and may
possibly involve us in a fresh controversy with
Russia" Upon which childlike suggestion will
only remark that among the more credulous por-
ton of the public must be included not only the
whole Continental press. but the journal from which
the chidlke suggestion is now quoted. The same
conclusions must be drawn from an insured ObserXa-