Lord Derby's speech was, of course, an effective and brilliant
attack upon Lord Russell. Slightly altering the Roman phrase, he said of the Foreign Secretary, that he left nothing untouched, and touched nothing which he did not throw into confusion—nihil intactunt religuit, et nihil tetegit quod non conturbavit. Instead of non-intervention, " Meddle and muddle " was his maxim. He was Snug the joiner and Bottom the weaver com- bined. He was ready to play anything, especially his accus- tomed part of " Moonshine." But his favourite part was that of the Lion. " I will roar so that it will do any man's heart good to hear me. 1 will roar so that I will make the Duke say, 'Let him roar again, let him roar again!'" He knows, too, how to "aggravate his voice," and "to roar as gently as any sucking dove;" and, moreover, he had more than once had recourse to the ingenious device of letting his face be seen through the lion's mask, as if to say, " For all my roaring I am no lion at all, but only Snug the joiner." After this personal banter Lord Derby, of course, touched as unpleasantly as he could on the use- less offence given to Russia on the Polish policy, on the offensive manner in which he held that the Congress was declined, and finally, on the helpless policy, as he chose to call it, in the Dano- German question. It did not, however, by any means oppear that Lord Derby much differed from Lord Russell on tb Danish question, or that; if he had been in office himself, he woild have
acted differently, He deprecated, as every one must, tli ul calamity of a sanguinary quarrel between England and the whole of Germany, "in a case in which, whether rightly or wron y,the feelings of the people of Germany are enlisted on one side.": BLit he deprecated still more earnestly "the betrayal and aba ent of an ally who has trusted to our support," and ha jade an
earnest and eloquent appeal to Germany, especially r aria,
to pause before she is stopped in that constitutional u grow- ing prosperity which she has so wisely begun by the m reer of ambition on which the German Powers appear to be uctantly but certainly entering. Lord Russell's reply we have a lyzed at length in another column.
