Evening star., 1895-08-16
ENGLAND'S FUTURE POLICY
Lord Salisbury, the Premier. Addresses
the Lords.
Attitude Regarding the Recent Chi
ncse OutraEes and the Massacres
in Armenia-Rosebery Speaks.

In the British house of lords yesterday
afternoon Lord Rosebery, the Marquis of
Lansdowne. the Marquis of Ripon, Earl
Spencer and Baron Tweedmouth were pres
ent when the Duke of Marlborough moved
the address in reply to the queens speech,
approving of its contents. The duke added
that he was happy Earl Cadogan was in
stalled in Dublin as lord lieutenant of Ire
land, and expressed the hope that he would
continue that firm policy which was
red out by the Rt Hon. A. ]. Balfour
when the latter was chief secretary for
Ireland. He also remarked that he trusted
the government, during recess would con-
sider the question of husbandry, and make
a serious attempt to relieve the distress eX-
listing.
When the Duke of Marlborough took his
seat, the Marquis of Salisbury grasped his
hand and shook it heartily.
Barren Ampthill seconded the motion and
said he was confident that if foreign COM
plicatons arose there would be master
hand a the helm. and he was sure the gov
ernment would do justice to Ireland in re-
gard to the landlords.
Lord Rosebery congratulated the Duke of
Marlborough and Baron Ampthill on the
able manner in which they had fulfilled
their task. Referring to the queens
speech, he said that the policy adopted in
regard to Bechuanaland was that of the
late government, but, he asked, what meas
wanted details as to how the massacres
had occurred. The ex-premier also ex-
pressed himself as being certain that the
Marquis of Salisbury thought 1t as neces-
sary as did the late government to obtain
guarantees from the Sultan of Turkey
against a recurrence of the atrocities in
Armenia, which the marquis must now
know officially were terrible, and could not
be tolera ted.
He hoped the governments decision to
continue to occupy Chitral was not defini-
consideration of the subject, had arrived
at directly opposite conclusion.
Reviewing the elections just held, Lord
Rosebery dwelt upon the fickleness of eiec-
toral results, aid admitted that the pres
ent government was supported by large
majority. The elections, he claimed, had
shown that the creed of lifetime Cannot
be put into the manifesto of a moment.
The eX-premier also said that though the
policy of the liberals must have altered,
their principles were unaltered. He was
not prepared to adopt the view that the
elections settled the Irish question. The
schism existing among the Irish party was
regretable, but that would not prove that
the question of self-government for Ire
land would have to be granted.
The government, Lord Rosebery contin-
ued, would be forced in time to acknowl-
edge that the best means of conducting
Irish business is through the Irish.
II am convinced" he concluded, that
you will see home rule extended not only
do not even limit the evolution there"
The Premier Replies.
The Marquis of Salisbury, the prime min
lister, then arose to reply. He said
1.-The noble lord complains of the brevity
of the queens speech Where there is not
much to be done it is not necessary to
spend many words describing what is to
be undertaken at this session. The gov
ornment holds that the abandonment of
Chitral is unwise as a question of moral as
well as physical strategy. 1t is useless to
follow Lord Rosebery through the wide
area of his disquisitions. 1 will not de-
scribe our intentions in regard to the con-
stitution of this house or in respect to the
adoption of home rule. When I'VE intro
duce bills touching these matters It Will be
time enough to discuss them"
Regarding the massacres of missionaries
at Ku-Cheng, Lord Salisbury said:
There is every reason to believe that the
Chinese government is sincerely deSirous
of Furnishing the perpetrators of the out
rage, and those who connived it. Should
any lukewarmneSs become discernible 1t
will become our duty to supply its defect.
the policy which our predecessors initiated,
and cur efforts will be directed to obtain
ing an adequate guarantee for the carrying
out of reform. We have received the most
loyal support from both France and Rus
sia. The permanence of the sultan's rule
is involved in the conduct he pursues. If
must realize that Europe will become
weary of appeals, and the fictitious
strength which the powers have given the
empire will fail it. The sultan will make
a calamitous mistake if he refuses to ac-
cept the advice of the European powers
relative TO the elections"
Lord Salisbury then compared the late
appeal to the country to the appeal against
Pitt ITO years ago. when then, AS ow, the
nation emphatically declared in favor of
the house of lords.
1T is defect of the constitution" the
premier concluded that we have no spe-
cial protection in the organic laws upon
which the constitution rests and which
could be destroyed in a night by the house
OF commons, If the house of lords was not
able to uphold it,
The Sultan Warned.
Lord Salisbury exhorted the Sultan to re-
member that his independence is of a very
special kind. 1t is the creature of an agree
ment, and Europe, which conferred upon
Turkey facetious stability. has long been
uneasy as to the moral burden which its
joint action involved. 1t fears that it may
be upholding a mechanism which does not
work for human happiness and progress
but has rather tended to perpetuate the an
tagonism of creed and race, which have so
long been the curse of the Turkish prov
inces.
How long the present state of things can
continue" the prime minister proceeded, 81
confess appears to me mere doubtful than
1t did twenty years ago."
The advice he was rendering. he said, was
the advice of a party most friendly to
Turkey in a friendly nation, the neglect of
which Will expose his domnions to dangers
which no treaties and no sympathy will
prevent being fatal in the long run to the
empire he rules.
The house of lords adopted the address in
reply to the royal speech.
An editorial in the London Times saws
that Lord Salisbury's Armenian statement
Is the welghtiest and most pregnant heard
In parliament for long time. The sultan
will, indeed, make calamitous mistake
the Times adds, if he rejects or ignores this
admonltion.
OUR FARM EXPORTS.