Lord Hartington delivered a speech at Blackburn this day week,
on the more important part of which,—the Irish part,— we have said enough elsewhere. We may add here that he laughed at Lord Salisbury for saying that the Russians had planted their outposts at Merv, and that a railway had been made from the Caspian Sea to Askabad, when he ought to have known that neither event had happened ; and remarked that the Russian advance into the Turcoman country was simultaneous with our advance into Afghanistan, and was not affected in the slightest degree either by our successes or reverses in Afghani- stan. He commented on the curiously unofficial and offensive boast that the Government to which Lord Salisbury belonged had "hunted the Russian Mission out of Afghanistan," and remarked that it was the rightful ruler of Afghanistan whom they had really hunted out of Afghanistan into the arms of Russia ; and that it was an Afghan prince long resident in Russia, a Russian pensioner. on whom the late Government had fixed to take his place. The late Government had "scuttled out" of Cabal much faster than the present dovernment scuttled out of Candahar ; but the present Government had esteemed Candahar not a gain, but a danger, as well as an ex- pense, and had consequently evacuated it. And Lord Harting- ton was satisfied that England is not less content with the terms on which it had escaped from foreign complications, than with that escape itself.
