17 NOVEMBER 1877, Page 3

Mr. Gladstone returned to England on Wednesday, and was welcomed

at Holyhead by the people of Anglesea, who demanded and obtained a speech. It was in the main a repetition of the old argument that Turkey would have yielded to the concerted action of Europe, which we doubt, unless the concerted action included the shelling of Constantinople ; but Mr. Gladstone dwelt strongly on the change in the tone of the Government evinced in the careful omission of the phrase, " the independence of Turkey," from the Premier's speech. He warned the country against being dragged into the war, and paid an eloquent com- pliment to the Nonconformists for the consistency and unanimity with which they had insisted on justice to the Eastern Christians.