Year: 1878

fourth may be added, if the Bishop OF winchester
| assemblage of the clergy who are in London ioI


cOnvOcation can be hkened to these other mere


secular festivities. Everybody was Mt one OF them,


or more than one, and in every group of men-no


matter how high up in public life-there was tho
! same confusion and discord of opinion, on every
| possible point save one the warkc feeling of the


nation. Nobody doubted the Government might


now do what they liked with the hearty support
| Of the people, provided only they liked to oppose
| the Russian.


II Is in reliance this unrc1soning, but genuine


and general feeling that the Government have sent
the fleet 10 Constantinople. They have done 1t In


violation of that reay-law to which they have all


along been appealing; in spite of the protest OF


Turkey; and in spite of the expectation that it


would be followed by Russian occupation of Com
stantinopc. At last they have the nation behind
them, and they have taken step which month
ago might have prevented war, and which now may
possibly enough provoke war. They have put the


peace of Europe at the hazard Of street scuie, or
a tavern brawl or of some fanccd insult to either
| flag. And the Liberal papers say Amen. They sent


the feet up on the transparcntly false preext OF
looking after the police Of the Turkish capital.
They profess to keep the peace in the streets OF
Pera with 23.tOn guns The only result of this


particularly foolish piece Of diplomatic skirmsh-


ing is TO give Prince GOrtschakof an unanswerable


argument for marching his troops into the city. If


English fleet is necessary to insure the safety OK


English subjects in Constantinope, Russian army


is still necessary to insure the safety Of Chris


tians in general, exposed to the fury Of Turkish


fanatIcism. In point of fact, the presence of the
English fleet is a standing menace of war.


Nobody prctends to know what is to come next,
and am far from meaning TO risk guess never
knew time when people who know most werc less


agreed, or when IT more difficult to know at a
given moment what story was true and what false


/ was told Thursday evening by attaches of three


foreign legations that they know Lord Derby had


resigned One OF them added that he had set out


that afternoon for Osborne to place his resignation


in the hands of the Queen. For some hours this


was generally believed in London. Tho only fOun-


datlon for the story seems have been the knowl-


edge that the feet had been ordered TO pass the


Dardanclles Ii was inferred that Lord Derby would
not agree TO this; and these are times when infer
enccs rapidly harden into assertions. To-day it is
said with equal confidence that Lord Derby Is now


one of the most beliicose Of tie Cabinet equally


good authority and probably with Just rs much sup


port forhe fqcs. Tory cabal was organized early in


the week 10 get nd If the Foreign Secretary, as an
obstacle to the war policy these gentlemen mad at
heart. Some of the same men who got up the Ia


nous dcputation to Sir Stafford NorhcOtc last Jan


uary were concerned in this fresh cii0rt-Sir Robert
Peel Sir Drummond Wolff and their ike. They


put a less known man at their head, Sir Lawrence
Pail.-less known, that is, to the English world at
large as a politician known mainly rs Z Devon
shire BIIonct of vast possessions and solid con-
srryat.sm. Their organ, which Is aSp the organ Of
fashionable life, one morning advised Lord Derby


To resign, and the next advised that he should be
turned ont. HEY threatened to mutiny If the
Government did not take more rcsoute line. 1t Is
. believed that Sir Robert Peel went down to the
House Tuesday evening tO propose the impeachment


Of Lord Derby. Some of his sane friends got hold


of the hot-hcaded member for Tamworth, and


stalled off his rush; but not without difficulty 1t


must bo said that tie discomfort with Lord Derby's


mana cement at the Foreign Office is great and pret-


ty general. Ii Is not confined to England. Prince
Bismarck is SAID to have pronounced him man
with whom il is ia impossible 10 do business. lie


may be superseded, bat the Torres have really no.
body 10 put in his place. Lord Beacon,ted Is
thought To desire to be his own Foreign Minister,
but Lord Bcaconsield knows next To nothing of


foreign affairs and nothing at all Of tie language
OF diplomacy. He would not suit Prince Bismarck
at all. have heard Lord LyOns's name mentioned.
1t is very doubtful whether Lord Lyons would care
TO exchange his embassy at Paris for the Foreign
OAce at D0wning-5t. Nor has he been thought a
very strong man. He Is certainly q trained and ac-
complishcd dpomatist-if that be what IS wanted.
Perhaps the abcst man in tho service Is Lord Odo
Russell. but Lord Olo cannot be spared from Ber-
I'm. And it happens that both Lord Lyons and Lord
Odo Russell are Liberals.


The hopes of such members Of the war party as


are not led by merely blind impulse rest on an


Auglo-Austran alliance. Very confident things are
said ranging all the way from good understand


ing between Vienna and London on certain points


(,uch As Constantinoplo and the mouths of the Dam


ubc to an offensive and defensive league between
the two Powers against Russia and the allies of
Russia. Ii is enough to say for the moment that
there is no evidence OF such an alliance, or of any


substantial progress toward IT. There is some evil
dcnce moreover that is wholly inconsistent with


such a state OF things. may quote what was said
10 mo Thursday by man versed in diplomatic
affairs. lie knew as n fact he said. that the dis
patch of Count Andrassy which conveyed what is


parts of the Russian terms of peace went by way of
Berlin, aud reached st. Petersburg with Prince
Bsmarck's marginal notes on it. There could
hardly be more significant indication OF the close


relations still subssting between the three courts
Note, ALSO that tho tono of the French press has
lately and suddenly changed. The organ OF the


French Foreign Olico (which is also tho organ of NJ.


Gambetta) not long since was egging England on to


war; 1t now views the dispatch of the fleet with


ALARM and advises modelation. G. .ws.
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ANOTHER VETO By GOVERNOR HOLIDAY.
RICHMOND, Va. March 1.-GOvcrnOr Holiday


today vetoed bill which provides for the payment OF