Lord Carnarvon on Thursday delivered a long address at Newbury,
which illustrates what we have said elsewhere,—that no Conservative will oppose Mr. Gladstone the less for the Egyptian victory. He quite admitted the need of the Expedition, and the success it had attained ; but complained that we had not" conciliated" the Sultan,—who was Arabi's backer, and who seized Sir G. Wolseley's means of transport. For the rest, he does not see that success abroad alters the fact that Whigs and Liberals have been merged in a party of " Destructives "—with the Cavenclishes and Russells at their head?—that in Ireland, -this party has "patted the wolf," and so set a fatal precedent, and "increased the difficulty" caused by household enmity; that in their hands the public business has "broken down," and that the progress they offer is false progress. Much of all this is quite fair political criticism, but it is offered in a spirit which shows that the Conservative hatred of the Gladstone Govern- ment is not based at all on the "neglect of Imperial interests," so constantly pleaded. The Liberals have fought an " Im- perial " war—that is, a war not demanded by an invasion— and have won it, and are hated as much as ever.
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