The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-02-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR SUEZ PURCHASE.  The Standard says :—" The transaction, it is admitted, was unprecedented; hit so was the cause which gave it birth. There has been no attempt at any deception as to the nature of the influent's we have acquired, which it was never pretended we in the direct proportion of the shares purchased. The influence it was our object tolgeuns, and which we have secured, is of a kind not tokatickoned in votes. The Khedive's embarrassments were a grave European difficulty, chiefly affecting England, because England had the largest interest in the passage through the Suez Canal being kept free. In that fact lies the general answer to the string of questions which Lord Hartington, the official leader of the Opposition, declared had not been categorically answered. It was inevitable that in a matter of this kind the Government bhould not give categorical answeroupon every point,op which those who are devoid of the responsibilities even of Opposition are curious. The country must always take sonic part of the policy of &Government upon trust. This does not, of course, &bar the Opposition from requiring a full explanation of all the circumstances of every transaction in which titepublio wour or the public interest haa been engagsB. What the country has a right to be impatient of his criticism of the kind which formed the staple of the Opposition speeches on Monday—criticism directed to technical points of procedure; cominereial objections to a noncommercial policy; demands for information which cannot be given without endangering It. success. Against this the best answer is that with which Mr. Disraeli concluded the debate on Monday night, and with which apparently the leader of the Opposition concurred, for he confessed that ' there was a great deal to be said in favour of the measure from a political point of view.' But it is from the political point of view that the Government asks to be judged. It does not contend, as Mr. Disraeli said, that this is a good financial operation or a favourable commercial speculation. The Government, in buying shares in the Suez Canal, meditated neither a financial nor a commercial operation. What has been done is recommended to the country as a polireal measure— as something intended to strengthen the Eastern influence of Great Britain, to extend her power and to guard her possessions. That Ii a result which is, of course, extremely unpalatable to some of the Liberal leaders, for it is a reversal of their own policy. The country, however, which is led by a sure instinct in this matter, has ior that reason applauded the more the Government measure—applauded it, perhaps, out of an extravagant estimate of its immediate resulta. As for the discussion of Monday, it proves not only that the Government is as strong in the opinion of the House of Commons as of the country, but also, as Mr. Disraeli remarked, that if the member for Greenwich had ben Minister the Suez Canal shares never would have been purchased."  Cardinal Ledoehowsti has been ordered to lenre Lemberg, but he is unable on account of ill he tith.  At fPourport, on Monday, Thos. Jones, ftbwker,,wal remanded on a charge of murdering his wife, by throwing her down stairs.  A telegram from some says that Ministers have given up the hope of bringing the commercial treaty with Austria before the Chamber this session. Another death has occurred from the Eagle), milk epidemic, making the eighth. This last victim is a youth aged ill., Other C&SeS are still reported critical.  Thcteu v. Tuorrneo Hoots. —On Monday, at the A gricultural Hall, Islington, Stanton, the bicyclist, beat four trotting horses in a race of 50 miles, for £5O. ;kenton's time, 36. and nearly thnia., is the fastest on record.  At Liverpool, Ike men convicted of extensive thefts of watches at the Lime street Railway filiation, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from six years to eight months.