Mr. Clare Read has been telling his constituents what he
thinks of Turkish affairs, and as he is a very good specimen of the average country Tory, his speech is interesting. He is not prepared, he says, to go to war for the Turks, and he admits the "horrible atrocities" in Bulgaria, but then he thinks the Turks right in sending the Plenipoten- tiaries home. Englishmen would have done the same. Suppose France had undertaken to govern England because of the "Bloody Assize," would not Englishmen have said,—" We have got a new King and a new Constitution, and are going to do better ?" and that was what the Turks said. Mr. Read evidently thinks that an effort to arrest a burglar and an effort to arrest an innocent man require the same rebuke, and would receive the promises of each in an equally satisfied and confiding spirit. We wonder, if he were required to take bonds for his wheat at par, whether he would take Turkish Consolides as readily as British Consols. We imagine not, yet that is what he wishes us to do in the political market.
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