In his first speech Lord Hartington followed Lord Salisbury carefully
over the track of his apology for the foreign policy of the Government, meeting him in a fashion of which we have given our readers sonic account in another page ; and he summed up his argument by saying that while the whole key to that foreign policy appeared to be the desire to repress Russia, its issue was that Russia had not been repressed, and that our triumphs at Berlin were won at the expense of the various Christian races of Turkey. He declared that the domestic issues raised by the Liberals were not raised for a party purpose, but because the exigencies of the time press them urgently on the attention of statesmen, and because the country has lost all hope that a Conservative Government will ever deal with these issues at all. In his Saturday's speech, the Marquis commented on the financial collapse of the Govern- ment, declaring it a degradation of the term " finance " to call the administration of the revenue by the present Govern- ment by such a name. And no doubt the present Chancellor of the Exchequer's administration of the revenue would be more accurately spoken of as "financing," than finance. But to a great extent, the fault lies at the door of the Conser- vative party, whose enthusiasm for economy, as Lord Hart- ington remarked, breaks out in relation to but one department, —namely, the department of Education. And why not P Between parsimony in education and the prosperity of Tory principles, there is a direct connection of cause and effect.
