Mr. Hardy on Monday addressed a long speech to the
Con- servative Club at Bradford, on which we have commented suffi- ciently elsewhere. We need only say here that its main thesis was the duty of England to uphold European law—which he cared nothing about when Germany took Alsace—that he ex- pressed his feeling against Turkey being "truncated and dismem- bered," as if he would heartily like to set Turkey up again, and that he concluded a speech perfectly choked with spread-eagle- ism thus,—" That is the great England to the Ministry of which I have the honour to belong, and which I desire to see maintained in all its grandeur and in all its majesty,—an England human- ising the world, civilising the world, bringing to every part of the world her religion and her laws, showing herself every- where, as she does at home, the friend of freedom and of justice, and not prepared to stand by and see a great overshadowing cast upon the nations of the world." Just imagine that as a defence for a war the result of which must be to place Mussulmans above Christians, to re-establish Chevket Pasha at Batuk, and to punish Russia for having liberated the Christians of Bulgaria!
