The debate of Tuesday was rather dim. Mr. Childers, who
commenced it, made a good point in showing how enthusiastically Mr. Cross was cheered by his party when he said anything on behalf of Turkey, and how blankly that party sat and "fanned themselves" when he said anything of the opposite drift. Lord Sandon was pulpy, as he is apt to be ; Mr. Leatham expounded the peace-at-any-price policy of Mr. Bright ; and Mr. Lowe went back to such exhausted topics as the levity displayed by Lord Beaconsfield last year when he was still in the House of Com-
mons, before delivering a sharp attack on the policy of the British rider to the Protocol and Lord Derby's last despatch, and conluded by describing the policy of the Government as "a series of mis- takes, faults of temper and judgment, and finally, of useless con- cealments." Lord John Manners, who closed the debate, warmly defended such moral support to Turkey as sending our ships to Besika Bay,—a course which, he significantly said, we might have to take again,—and such "delicate attentions" as the ap- pointment of Mr. Lapin' to the Embassy at Constantinople. We were to vindicate, he said, " by peaceful means; if possible,—God grant they may be peaceful to the end of the chapter,—but by any means if necessary, the essential interests, rights, honour, and integrity of this great empire."
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