2 SEPTEMBER 1876, Page 2

This Government is incurable. On Thursday, Mr. Saul Isaac, Member

for Nottingham, read to a public meeting a letter from Mr. Bourke, Under - Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in which he admits and blames the atrocities, but insinuates that the insurgent Christians had sanguinary intentions and performed sanguinary acts,—a statement directly denied by Mr. Schuyler ; declares that Sir Henry Elliot has done all that diplomacy could do to arrest the bloodshed and punish the guilty,—Sir Henry Elliot having done nothing except " remonstrate ;" affirms that the Austrian and Russian Ambassa- dors were as ignorant as the English one,—which is true, if Sir H. Elliot knew everything, but is specifically denied by General Ignatieff, in his interview with the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph; mentions that " the first duty of English statesmen is to regard the interests of this country,"—which is exactly like say- ing that the first duty of a good man is to take care of number one ; and concludes that the " Government of England will never suffer tyranny, oppression, or crime, wherever it may be found," while it is certain that Lord Derby did suffer them in Crete. We trust this letter, which conclusively proves that the Government, though ready, like the Turks, to promise, will not move a man or fire a shell, will be read at every public meeting held to denounce its conduct.