The most remarkable speech, however, was that of Mr. Gladstone,
who, while defending the Six Points and the action on the treaty, was stilldreadfully puzzled by the analogy of Italy, and at last escaped from the dilemma by affirming that "for governments nothing was righteous that Was not attainable." The suppression of, crime' for example Mr. Gladstone ? He repudiated Earl Russell's declaration that Great Britain would under all circumstances avoid war. His words were, "My right hon. friend has referred to a speech delivered by Earl Russell in another place, and couched in terms hardly credible. I am satisfied that whatever was said by my noble friend was stated in terms in entire conformity with those of the de- spatches on the table, and that my noble friend never sur- rendered the liberty of England to decide, at any of the stages of any great European question, upon the course which it might behove this country to adopt." We do not understand these words to mean that the Cabinet is thinking of war, but only that as a collective body it reserves its right to act.
