Mr. Gladstone has delivered a long lecture at Hawarden on
the subject of Russians, Turks, and Bulgarians, which is not one of his happiest efforts. Its facts were new to his audience, but they are hardly new enough to deserve to be spread by telegraph over Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone's unfavourable view of Midhat Pasha's character is, we believe, justified by his career, but accusations such as he quoted should be accompanied by the evidence, which he did not produce. The best part of his speech was the last, in which he called on the Liberal party to watch the conditional neutrality promised by the Premier in an attitude of "conditional quietude." If the Government, yielding to pressure, desist from neutrality, the Liberals also wile desist from quietude. Mr. Gladstone regrets, as he has always regretted, that Russia was suffered to go on alone ; but Russia has gone on alone, and if the Emperor is but moderate in victory, he will, in liberating the Christians of Turkey from a debasing yoke, "have conferred upon mankind a boon among the most splendid that history records."
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