A letter of some interest from the late Cardinal Newman
to the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian has been published, in which he declares that "the principle of a spirited foreign policy is not a satisfactory Christian rule for the Government of a great country." "Those who make or threaten war," he says, "have the onus probandi on them that they have justice on their side, and so have those who on mere motives of political expediency uphold misbelieving, morally corrupt, tyrannical, and barbarous Powers." Dr. Newman's History of the Ottomans sufficiently shows that he did not believe in the possibility of any genuine Turkish reform, and we do not doubt that, in relation to foreign policy, Cardinal Newman's sympathies were all with Mr. Gladstone rather than with Lord Palmerston or Lord Beaconsfield. There was no trace of the Jingo about Dr. Newman.
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