Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-07-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

POLICY.  There is small cause for wonder that reports should have been in circulation about serious differences existing between Mr. Disraeli awl Lord Derby reepecting Government policy in connection with the East• em Question. The two statesmen were known to have very little in common in the constitution of their minds and in the general cast of their views on public affairs. It was felt that practical common-sense and theoretical flightiness could hardly be expected to agree when a crisis had arrived calling for the exercise of the utmost oireum. spection and prudence combined with openness and straight-forwardness of conduct. And the charsoteristi differences of the Premier and the Foreign Secretary--apart altogether from the rumoured disagreements in the Cabinet—have been strikingly show, in the opposite courses they hove followed of remarkable reticence oil the part of the one, and unusual frankness of statement on the part of the other. Still ambitious to go down to posterity as the plitieal or official Sphinx, Mr Disraeli defeated all the attempts made in the House of Commons to extract information from him with respect to the foreign policy of the Government; but no soonar did a favourable opportunity present itself, when he was waited upon by a large and influential deputation, representing the most important interest. iu the country, than Lord Derby at once entered fully into the subjects that were causing anxiety in the public mind, and made a frank, clear and open statement which has been received with great satisfaction both at home and abroad. By his straightforward speaking , the Foreign Secretary restored to the Government the oonfilenoe which it was rapidly losing under the irritating style of states manship affected by the Prime Minister. An important result of this frankness is that, whatever oracular utterances the latter may now choose to make, the country cuts hold them for what they are worth, as the Government is known and felt to be committed to that just and sound policy of non-interference which. so far as the struggle between furkey and the insurgents is concerned, commends itself to the reason and conscience of all right-tsinking men throughout the land. The sat.sfactton Lord 1 te. y expressed, in the opening of his spsech, at rectivtng so influential a deputation' and the fulness, succinctness, and weight of the statements he made, vein to justify the inference that he disapproved of the device of keeping the country in the d trk when it coiled for light, and that he was in fact strongly desirous of publicly committing the Govern. ment to a judicious line of policy from which it would be, actor his declaration, a very difficult matter indeed to draw back.  The despatch of a strong British ironclad fleet to Besika Bay after the Salonioa outrsge, and the b est of some Conservative journals that this firm precautionary step was the begining of the " spirited foreign policy" whioh the Premier had promised, had excited a fear and suspicion that, in the event of Turkey getting into trouble with Russie, this country might once more be called upon 1 to draw the sword on behalf of the Porte, though all her previous great sacrifice in the Crimean war had been Leade in vain. 1 The suspicion thus raised was accompanied by a humiliating sense of the disgraceful praition in which Britian would be placed by showing even the sembLince of opposition to the desires and aspirati us of the insurgent provinces on the Balkan Peninsula. Biat the words of Lod Derby at once cleared away the clouds of gloomy forebodings, and lightened the load of anxiety that weighed upon many minds. He explained that the Government only acted in concert with other ma. itime Powers in sending war-ships to the Levant, and that the sole object of this movement was to afford protectron to British subjects in Turkey, should it unfortunately happen that the Salouica assassinations were to be followed up by a general attack of Moslem fanatics on the Christian population. In emp• atic language, the For. eign Secretary repudiated the idea of the t.overument ever having had the intention of intervening between the Sultan and his vassal States. "We underiouk," he said in a happy and memorable phrase—„we undertook twenty years ago to guarantee the Sick Man against murder; but we never under took to guarantee him against suicide or natural death" That is to say, though Britian formerly intervened to prevent the summary extinction of Turkey by Russia, she will not guarantee the Ottoman Empire against dissolution by internal dissention and decay. Equally satisfactory, end uncommonly frank for a statesman, were the reasons assigned by Lord Derby fur hi., belief that the existing war in the East would not develop, as many seemed to fear, into a general European war. tie made di. cut reference to the financial and other Causes of fecting alike Russia and Austria, France and Italy, which afforded the surest guarantees for the maintenance of peace, It is not often at a statesmen has the good fortune like Lord Derby to make a speech whicir is at once cordially approved in his own issen.ry aud spoken of in terms of high tucoinium by the Continental Press.