For the Continent, the Tinas still embodies the English Press,
and in the Times of the 8th inst. Lord Derby, in his celebrated defence, is said to have stated that "Austria, with an army which could not be trusted to fight against the Slays," was a poor ally. The sentence naturally exasperated the Austrian Army, which, of course, whatever its political feeling, would obey any order, and on Tuesday Lord Salisbury explained in his place that if Lord Derby bad said anything of the kind, which he did not think, he spoke for himself alone, and not for the Govern- ment. The objectionable sentence is not to be found in other reports, and if uttered, it is most remarkable that Lord Salisbury, who was watching every word, in order to make his fierce reply, should not have heard it, or that so many reporters should have missed it. Our own impression is that something like it must have been said, but that Lord Derby meant, not that the Austrian Army would hesitate under any order, but that a knowledge of Slav feeling would disincline the Austrian Govern- ment to give the order for an attack on Slays.
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