The remainder of the debate was not important. Sir Wilfrid
Lawson amused the House by saying, "If a man shakes his sword in my face, I call him a barbarian ; if he shakes his fist in my face, I call him a bully ; if he shakes his purse in my face, I call him a. snob," and intimated that the vote of credit was a policy of the last kind. Mr. Beresford Hope was ostentatiously impartial on behalf of the Government. Mr. Bright made a speech, which Lord Sandon evidently regarded, and not perhaps quite unjustly, as-showing more tenderness for the Government than any other Member of the Opposition, but which contained a very eloquent. plea for the complete liberation of the Christian provinces of Turkey ; and Mr. Herschell pointed out that the order for the despatch of the Fleet to the Dardanelles would not have been declared "most secret," if it had been intended simply to protect the lives and properties of British subjects, but was evidently regarded as a grave anti-Russian demonstration, till it became convenient to defend it as a mere humane security for endangered citizens. The debate was again adjourned till yesterday.
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