Lord Beaconsfield himself apparently kept his mouth as with a
bridle, when he proposed, on Thursday, the second reading of the Bills providing a credit of six millions for the Naval and Military Services. The only suppressed threat he permitted himself to use, according to the Standard, Daily News, and Daily Telegraph, was this,—" whether England is to enter into Conference or into campaign, it is of the utmost importance that under either circumstance she should do so with the support and in- fluence of a united people." (The Times does not report the word " campaign " at all, and consequently in the Times Lord Beaconsfield's speech contains no subdued menace.) On the other hand, Lord Beaconsfield certainly spoke hopefully of the prospects of peace, and Lord Granville contrasted his speech favourably with that delivered on the first night of the Session. It seems pretty clear that the friends of Turkey are at present losing heart, and that their threats are rather of the nature of those mutterings with which the storm rolls away. But the danger is certainly not over.
