The Bee-Hive. — 1876-09-16 (London, England)

LORD BEACONSFIELD AT THE BAR. • An unprecedented outburst of pity, horror, and indignation, has arisen throughout the country in consequence of the barbarities recently perpetrated in Bulgaria. It is a feeling which does honour to us as a people. Humanity is an emotion so precious that we should always rejoice when it is strong enough to make its Weight felt in politics. I could wish, indeed, that a similar expression of feeling had been evoked as unanimously five years ago, when the highly civilized friends of order and Christianity in Prance butchered twenty thousand working men of Paris, mostly in cold blood, aye, and their women and children also in no inconsiderable numbers; or, ten years ago, ,when Governor Eyre shot lind strung up hundreds of unoffending negroes in Jamaica, and flogged their women with the cat-o'-nine tails; or, nineteen years ago, when British troops where burning and murdering on a vast scale in India, and Sikh and Ghoorka irregulars were let loose on a defenc?less population, just as Circassian irregulars have been lately let loose in Bulgaria. But let that pass. Let Us hope that the present outburst shows a growth of humane feeling in this country if only during the last five years, and that the next time we find ourselves stamping out a real or imaginary insurrection, we shall impose upon our civilized troops the same moderation which we are now preaching to barbarous Circassians and Bashi-Bazouks. Let us, at all events, comfort ourselves with the confidence that any butchers and  women-floggers whom we may produce in the future will not be greeted with banquets by our nobility and clergy, and have grants of money voted to them from the public purse by an arrangement between Lord Beaconsfield and Mr. Gladstone. What I wish to impress upon the readers of this paper at the present moment, is the necessity of not allowing the loaders of the so-called Liberal Party to trade upon this cry of horror and use it as a means of wriggling themselves back into office. If the Liberals arc of little use to workmen even when they, come in pledged up to their necks on workmen's questions, what could be expected of them if they owed their victory to nothing but a generous outburst of Indignation against the sorry jests of Lord Beaconsfield? Could anything be more convenient for our Whig landlords and Liberal Plutocrats than to drown all other cries at a general election in lond denunciations of Mahomet and Sir Henry Elliot? I have taken no part in recent discussions about the Eastern clu. oation, and Ido not mind confessing the reason. I was as much .Lhs.gusted as anybody with the detestable frivolity of the Prime mister. But from him I never expect anything else than dotes_table frivolity. As to the general policy of the Government in the Turkish difficulty, I could not upon the whole say that it was to /a ccmdenmed ; and, as Lam not in the habit of shaping my litteranee merely to chime in with a popular cry, I will not say so 1,1,"?.. daresay I have read and thought about the Eastern ques'lon for many years at least as much as nine-tenths of the people In every market town in England, who, after reading a few letters ir°lll Special correspondents, and looking at a few pictures in the illuetrated papers, are so ready to settle it by "sweeping the Turks out of Europe." But lam not ashamed to confess that my °Pinion is a very ignorant one, and I therefore express it with mo_r_e diffidence.  *Upon the whole, I think Lord Derby was right not to swallow the Berlin Alemorandum at the bidding of the three Emperors. I think he was right to place the British fleet where it could prevent the Russians from swooping on Constantinople and violently (lasting the jurisdiction of the united West. I do not wonder that he should hesitate about handing over the Mahoinctans and