We do not desire to give much prominence to the
wild talk of the extremists in the debate in the Commons on Thursday, for to do se might tend to provide people abroad with arguments against the soundness and utility of representative institutions. We will only say that Mr. O'Grady, who moved the Motion, and his friends seem to be quite unaware that the teachings of history show that when one nation attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation, the results are always disastrous. - The precedent of our sympathy with the Italians in their struggle to escape from the yoke of Austria and of the Bourbons is not in truth a precedent, for in that case we were sympathising with the whole people in getting rid of foreign oppressors, and not merely with one section of the population engaged in a Constitutional and political dispute with another section. Sir Edward Grey's contribution to the debate was most impressive, both on the Constitutional point raised as to the King being unaccompanied by any responsible Minister, and also on the general question. Here he declared that if the House rejected the policy of the Government, or made it impossible," he would fall with it." "I repeat that of these two policies, one is a peace policy, and the other is a policy which sooner or later would be bound to lead to war."
