Mr. Gladstone has made two speeches in eight days,—one to
the Greenwich Five Hundred, and one to a deputation from Leeds. Both were received with enthusiasm. The points of both were that the war had been one acceptable to Providence, as it had over- thrown an evil Power ; that there were details, such as the cession of Bessarabia, and the western boundary of Bulgaria, on which Russia ought to give way, but that no reason had occurred to justify Government in plunging into a guilty war. Mr. Gladstone added that he did not believe that the country would plunge into it, be believing that the change of feeling on the subject was only apparent, and that it•commenced as soon as the risk of war for Turkey seemed to be over. There seemed then no risk of war, and the expression of feeling among the people changed, though not their sentiment. He strongly animadverted on the injustice of expecting Russia, while treated with such suspicion and insult, to display the highest Christian spirit.
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