NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TORD SALISBURY made his anxiously expected speech J at the Guildhall on Saturday, and its effect throughout Europe has been very great. He denied the existence of dangers in the Far East ; and while acknowledging them to the full in the Near East, declared four times over, in sentences given verbatim elsewhere, that the Six Powers were in full accord, and, being aware of the "appalling dangers" of dis- union, intended to remain so. This unity, however, did not imply inaction; and in words almost solemn in their weight and their twice-avowed reserve, the Premier warned the Sultan that the doom of misgovernment was a law of Nature, and that if he would not do justice, Europe would " find a substitute" for the Ottoman Empire, which for forty years had been kept up solely to preserve the peace of Christendom. The speech was heard in anxious silence, and followed by rapturous applause in which both parties joined, and which has been re-echoed by the whole Press of Europe. Not a voice has been raised on behalf of the Sultan, whom the German semi-official journal accuses of sacrificing the Empire to his personal fears.
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