Mr. E. J. Reed, formerly Constructor of the Navy, and
now a Liberal M.P. for Pembroke District, made a speech this day week at Tenby, in which he gave a cordial support to the policy of the Government in relation to the Suez Canal. He declared .that in view of the combination of the three Imperial Powers to settle the Turkish question, and in view of the weakness of France, and the isolation of England, the step taken was a legitimate and necessary step, giving us influence where we most -wanted it, and was not to be regarded as a commercial specula- tion. Moreover, he should listen with impatience to any mean imputation on so great a subject. Mr. Reed has recently been attacking with some vigour Mr. Ward Hunt's administration of the Navy, so that the cordial support he is giving to the Govern- ment on this Suez Canal subject should be regarded as a sign of the times, and should warn any of our captious Radicals, that if they are disposed to assail the policy of the Administration on this subject, they will most probably find themselves on the losing side. Mr. Reed is not at all a bad straw to show which way the wind blows.
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