The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-10-07 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE WARRINGTON EXAMINER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1876.  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1876.  in the crimes of oppression, cruelty, and ' corrupt government, and that the inauguration of that policy will assuredly have to come from the Liberal party—has indeed already come—this Eastern question is essentia ly a party question, that is to say a question for the Liberal party to determine. We will not follow Mr. Bright to the East, for every one has read his speech and been touched by its tenderness, and impressed by its justice, and breadth of thought. No man is entitled to speak more authoritatively; indeed on this particular subject he might almost claim to be heard as a prophet. But in Mr. Bright there is little personal vanity, and it was in no jubilant tone, but in a voice of tender beseeching, that he told us some of the results of the Crimean war. To us, an immediate loss of 40 000 lives and one hundred millions of money. "Besides this," Mr. Bright says, "we entered into commercial transactions with an insolvent firm on. the Bosphorus, to whom the people of England advanced large sums which there is no hope they will ever see again—to the amount probably of nearly 100 millions sterling; and it may be said, looking back to those loans, that at this moment there is no ironclad that slumbers on the Turkish waters, there is not a musket, or a rifle, or a bayonc t, or a sword by which a Servian has been killed in this war, or the unarmed men and the hapless women and children were murdered in Bulgaria, that was not purchased and paid for by money borrowed from the credulous people; of this country." , But dismissing the consideration of the Turkish question, excepting in the light of a question upon which we and our Government are at variance, Mr. Bright tells us, in no faltering words, what course we should take to bring about a reconciliation. We must use every legitimate means to compel the Prime Minister to meet Parliament, or to meet the constituencies at once. He has defied the country; he has ridiculed the noblest popular rising since the time when the Duke of Wellington tried to form an anti- reform government, and he has failed to apprehend that the people of this country at this hour demand, and will soon insist upon, a policy in reference to Turkey diametrically opposed to that which Lord Derby has fortunately failed to carry out during the menacing and meaningless negotiations of the last six months. We do not expect Lord Beaconsfield to risk a dissolution of Parliament; that would be suicide and not decapitation. But we the people, have but to petition, in a voice loud enough and in tones not to be raistakeu, for an autumn session; and if we succeed, one may safely hazard the prediction that the last words in Mr. Bright's speech would come true, "that we should have a solemn and irrevocable decision on the Dart of the people of this country—namely, that the blood and the treasure of England shall never again be wasted on behalf of the Turk, that the vote of our Government, the vote of England, in the parliament of Europe shall be given in favour of justice and freedom to Christian and Moslem alike, and that the Ottoman power shall be left hereafter to the fate which Providence has decreed to corruption, tyranny, and wrong."