29 JULY 1882, Page 14

"WHAT IS JINGOISM ?"

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In your illustration of the characteristic tendency of Jingoism "to exalt material interests over, moral obligations," you have othitted what was, perhaps, the worst offence of all com- mitted, by the late Government, after Lord Carnarvon and Lord. Derby had. left them,—viz., the handing-back the great province of Macedonia to Turkish lust and oppression, after it had been.

set free by Russia, under the Treaty of San Stefano. This act of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury at Berlin, which was never repudiated by the Tory party, ought to make it impossible for politicians such as these ever to be entrusted by a freedom-loving people with the conduct of their foreign affairs--I am, Sir, Sze., Es LIBERAL,