Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, in a speech at Reading on Thursday, in
svhich he described Ireland as recovering, the Closure as abso- lutely necessary, and the country as contented with the Ad- ministration, put the argument for extreme moderation in Egypt very forcibly. He said the Expedition showed that the British Government possessed a very terrible power. It could, almost without notice, despatch an army of 30,000 men, com- pletely equipped, to any port in the world, without fearing resistance en route. That was a power the Continent recog- nised, and if we did not use it under strict conditions—if, for example, we pleaded disinterestedness, and then took selfish advantages—we should become objects of suspicion and dislike to the whole world. That is most true ; but then, is not that rather a reason for submitting Our arrangements to the decision of the European Tribunal, than for making arrangements so 'disinterested that they will not work ? A physician may promise
• to cure a patient without pay, and still insist that the patient shall take his medicines ; and, moreover, that if the disease is acute, he shall have the right of seeing that they are taken. He might go home feeless, and still be a Mare.
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