Mr. Hanbury's speech was nominally seconded and really answered by
Sir H. Drummond Wolff, who comes back from Rounielia a reformed diplomatist, and the most effective of all the witnesses against the abominations of Turkieh rule. He spoke of decentralisation as the only chance for Turkey,—of the corruption at Constantinople as "appal- ling," and he insisted on the positive mischief which would result from finding any new funds for the Turkish officials to squander. Mr. Gladstone, in a very fine speech, played off Sir H. D. Wolff very effectively against Mr. IlanbuiT, so making the seconder of the amendment extinguish its mover ; and was replied to by poor Mr. Bourke, who had the difficult task allotted him of at once reproving the Turks and apologising for them, which gave his speech a curiously feeble and pendulous air, in which each remark undermined•the effect of the one previ- ous to it. In the end, the debate was adjourned, but it was one so much the more injurious to the Government, that the shaft which struck deepest into their policy had been discharged by their own best trusted and most experienced agent.
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