Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-30

1890
The relations Of Lord Beaconsfisld
to the eastern questisn, which cul-
minated in, this complimsnt from his
sovereign arc SO. multitldiuous.that
they. eau heFe be- suly referred. TO.
During the Bulgarian. ACTIVITIES which
led to the RnSso.T urkiAksWar, Lord
Beaconsfeld and his representative
at CONFERENCE.-The devoted t%6sinielves
to enthusiastically supparting the
Turkish cause. That TlfEey.had fair
reason-to believe that Elglsud. would
ceme to her aid in an emergency .can
hardly be doubted, aud tbs keeping
or an English feet in zBGsika bay
during the war was . sufficient init
matisn to that effect, but Al che feet
never did anything the whole ..per.
fermance seems' to +haveztAeh ,deeep-
tive, ....-. ...-...
When Rhssis mada. the treaty Of
San S:efano with Turkey. Lord
Beacons1eld insisted that's Europe
was interested in the settlement df
the eastern question, and he 'backed
up this demand. BY bringing seven
thousand Sepoys. from India to Malta,
apparently. as = threat of. what. he
WOUN ASA SAASt 4u0S
this move was in delegation of the
rights- of parliameat,-a ad-was-ilithe
direction sf athttl'Rersssfl rule
which his opp6esMsf cklfged him
with promoting, 10 tolerably clear.
As . result Of his demands Russia,
yielded, and the congress of Beslin'
was held, bnt on the 6Se Of that con-;
|gress 10 trahspir5d that LoidsBea-
esnsfield had emsds ~ secret sgree-
Inent with Russia to the effect that
England would not press at the con-
fgrsss certain points !abeut which he.
had just been making q great deal Of
noise. He had also; made Q sscret
treaty with the sultan tts integrity
of whose dominiona.Re had pfo3esSehi
to regard as important, by which
England became the .%suitan's tenant,
at the czsrssw VIII Iaf the island Of
Cyprus. It. isa now claimed that his
government had made q third secret.
treaty, s~concsding- Tunis to Francs
wheneversheAwante it. NAy
At Berlin EsfdzBeAeeHsfieldzdFsp-
ped the case of Greece, which he had
fdissusded from attacking TdskSy the
Previous yesrs endswhaSsxehaQpion
ne was theraforHA6pposea to Eks. He
made no tsiistshsG "a RasstEsfAs:
her " ally. Roumania, though.
English arms had taken Bsssarabia
from Russia, and England was %
much committed to maintaining that
disposition Of the territory as she
was to keep Russian men-of-war out
ofthe Black Sea. After all the
APPARENT THREATS o
Of war, and all Lord Beaconsfield's
demands for q revision Of the treaty
of Ban Stefano, the only material
changs made at Berlin was the
Substitution of eastern Reumelia"'
for that Of "Southsrn Bulgaria."
az the name sf tho "sutenomous"
province, creAtedA south IF the Bal
ksns. II was Oh thsestrsngth Of
this achievemeaE thu he told Eng
land that he. brougffR bAek ,frem Ber-
lin ''peace with honer,'fta and 1t was
for that that he received the dscora-
tion of the garter
The discovery that the treaty OF
Berlin accomplished nothing worth
speaking of, the apathy of the gov
eminent regarding the execution of
that treaty-ior it was moi until Mr..
Gladstone became prime Eminister
that the claims of Montehegro under
that treaty we're satisfied, and Greece
has not yet got her share, the useless
ness Of Cyprus, the valueless results
OF the Afghan war, the expenses OF
which were greatly u%nderstated by
the government on. the eve10f the last
parliamentary election. the evident,
determination to do nothing for Ire.
land except to extend charity, and
the conffscation of the Transvaal,
were among the causes that produced
a revulsion of feeling in England, ill.,
dlcated- among other things byg the
retirement Of Lords Carnaryons and
Derby from his cabinet. In accor-
dance with custom. Lord Beaconsfeld
appesled to the county . year before
the statutory expiration OF parlia-
ment. TIE result was the overwhelm-
ing defeat of the government in the
elections of April, 1880, and Mr..
Gladstone became prime minister
with All almost unprecedsntedly large
majority at his back. =.
Lord Besconsfisld,s last. retirement
was marked by scarcely anything ex.
cept his opposition to the so-cxlled
bill,
aud his novel "EudYmiou,'' said to
have>been written more than tw snty
years ago, but which was not pub
lishsd till last winter.