Mr. Gladstone, in summing up the debate, exerted himself to
show that England had repeatedly interfered with independent countries in order to produce results acceptable to the world, his principal instances being Belgium in 1832 and Turkey when we helped to call Greece into existence ; and that Turkey, so far from. being "an indomitable Power," had always yielded when war ap- proached her capital. She had ceded anything rather than allow it to be occupied. The war, in fact, might have been prevented by the coercion of Turkey. Now, if Russia were but successful, as he trusted she would be, she alone would be left to make arrangements which, though they might give peace to the East and liberty to the Christian, would leave many Powers of Europe, and especially England, in a most unenviable attitude. He sat down after a most noble peroration, in which he summoned Russia to complete her work in a spirit that would procure for her undying renown, amid enthusiastic applause, his entire speech, made at the close of five days' of weary debate, having been listened to with undeviating attention and respect.
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