23 DECEMBER 1876, Page 1

Lord Carnarvon made an excellent speech on the Eastern

Question at Dulverton on Exmoor, at a farmers' club, on Tuesday night,—only he could not help making a rather unfair hit at Mr. Freeman, who, when he said, " Perish, India, rather than we should strike one blow or speak one word in behalf of the wrong against the right," no more suggested losindIndia, than a man who says he would lose his right hand rather than strike his father could be supposed to suggest his intention of losing his right hand. Lord Carnarvon expressed the utmost confidence in Lord Salisbury, and that he would do all that any Englishman could do to secure that reforms should be granted to the subjects of the Porte in the revolted provinces, and that " he would take care that effec- tual guarantees should be given that these reforms should be true and effective ; that they should not be, as they had been, false, wandering fires of the night, calculated not only to mislead, but to deceive." Lord Carnarvon also expressed his confidence in Lord Salisbury's colleagues. He saw " no advantage in im- puting evil motives. He bated a policy of suspicion,"—re- marks intended, we suppose, to prepare his audience for Lord Salisbury's co-operation with General Ignatieff. When Liberals are reproached with not supporting the Government at the present moment, we reply that our critics are just as bad. There are three minds in the Government,—the Turkish or Disraeli mind, the hesitating or Derby mind, and the pro-Christian or Salisbury mind,—and we are all alike in choosing the one of the three which we approve most to support. No one can sup- port all three together.