THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ELECTION AND THE TURKISH ATROCITIES.
(To THII EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR:1 SIR,—The clergy of Buckinghamshire have just now a terrible responsibility thrown upon them. Lord Beaconsfield, with all his cleverness, is singularly slow to understand the force and in- tensity of popular movements which spring from generous and self-forgetting impulses. it will take many more meetings than those which have been so meagrely reported in the London Press to convince him that his Turkish policy and sympathies are stink- ing in the nostrils of the nation. And it may unfortunately happen that a heroic people may be sacrificed and England irre- trievably disgraced in Christendom before the Premier has realised the loathing caused throughout the land by his flippant apologies for crimes which, it has now been demonstrated, can only be paralleled by the atrocities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
There is one argument which would pierce Lord Beaconsfield's imagination at once, and save the helpless victims of his pet lambs, the mild Circassiana and long-suffering Bashi-Bazonks (it is thus he has described them). That argument is the loss of the seat which he has occupied for so many years. Let Mr. Fremantle be defeated for Bucks, and Lord Beaconsfield will understand speedily that England has put a veto on his Asiatic policy. The issue before the electors of Buckingham, therefore, and before the clergy especially, is, not Mr. Fremantle or Mr. Carrington, but the maintenance or abolition of Turkish rule in the Christian provinces of Turkey, which is but another way of saying that it is a contest between Christ and Bella The Turkish Government has now proved itself to be an enemy of the human race, and therefore,—Delenda est.—I am, Sir, &c., CLEBICUS.
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