30 SEPTEMBER 1876, Page 3

The Pall Mall Gazette has made a political discovery. It

is that Mr. Gladstone's action in relation to Turkey and Bulgaria is due to his sympathy for a certain "corrupt and stagnant Church,"—we suppose, the Greek Church,—and that the violence of this sym- pathy makes him treat the interests of England as "dust in the balance" when weighed against the interests of the said Church. Is that also the secret of the Duke of Argyll's earnestness, or Lord Shaftesbtuy's, or Mr. Fawcett's, or Dr. Abbott's, or our own ? But the Pall Mall has no doubt about it, and speaks not as of a belief, but as of a fact. Has Mr. Gladstone really been pouring out his secret heart to the journal which has so uniformly treated him with candour, ceurtesy, and confidence?