14 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 2

On foreign policy, again, Mr. Morley was most courageous. He

declared that Egypt is a source of weakness to us,— whether it be so or not, it is certainly a source of unalloyed blessing to the valley of the Nile,—and concluded by associating a curious eulogy on the non-intervention policy of Cobden and Bright with attacks on any foreign policy which fails to stop the iniquities of Turkey in Armenia. Mr. Morley does not find it easy to reconcile his non-intervention principles with his sneers at the probable humiliations of a "baffled, balked, and frustrated" Foreign Office.