An Armenian deputation had last Monday an interview with Mr.
Gladstone at Hawarden Castle, in which the ex- Premier expressed his profound sympathy with the Armenian Christians in their sufferings, while reminding them that as a man of eighty-five who had retired from public life, they must not expect too much of him, though he still felt it a Christian duty to do all the work in their service that he could. But bearing the name he does, can he do anything, unless it be anonymously, which is not weighted with the authority of his great public career? Indeed, without that authority he would be as powerless as any of us. Even the remark that the Armenians should not let them- selves be put off with promises from the Sultan, "which were not worth the breath spent in uttering them," will inevitably have some effect in accelerating the course and stimulating the demands of the British Government, as well as in quickening the zeal of the Gladstonian Parliamentary party.
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