One Cabinet Minister, Colonel Stanley, has made a speech this
week, but there was very little in it. He said little about Afghanistan, except that we could not allow a neighbour who happened to have a key to our house-door to hand it to an un-
friendly one ; and nothing about Turkey, except that the negotia- tions going on would turn out all right. He admitted, however, that the destiny of the Government bad led it through troubled waters—which is like saying that the destiny of the cuttle-fish leads it through ink—and was very anxious to show that Cyprus would, in the end, not prove more unhealthy than the Greek islands we had formerly possessed. If it did, however, "troops existed for a purpose, and if it was necessary to send them to any part of the world, it must be done,"—which is true ; only, when a place is alleged to be an Aceldama, the necessity of encamping in Aceldama should be clearly shown.
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