Lord Carnarvon in his educational address at Derby on Monday
spoke with the eloquence of true passion of the Bulgarian atrocities, and of the duty which these outbursts of savagery impose on the Powers which have to deal with the Eastern Question. He ex- pressed his "utter horror and detestation of the abominations of which we had lately heard so much." "No one who had read the terrible report of Mr. Baring could have read it unmoved
The horrors [detailed in it] were horrors which turned men's blood to flame, and such as made it hard for them to view these things calmly and dispassionately, as they ought to do." The difficulty was aggravated by' the fact that we had "Turkey half dead and the Christians States but half alive." The situation was so bad as to call to mind the saying of the old Romans that it was hardly possible to bear either the evils or the remedies. Lord Carnarvon wisely recognised the necessity of securing the amplest guarantees that these horrors should not recur, but be asked patience for the Government, and "a fair and liberal construction not only for their words, but for their intentions." We can only say that if either the Prime Minister or the Foreign Minister had spoken after the fashion of Lord Carnarvon, there would be no need to ask for patience, or for a liberal construction of either words or intentions. Were Lord Carnarvon at the Foreign Office, the whole nation would be content. It is the people's careful construction of the deliberately uttered words of Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Derby, which makes them so justly impatient of their words, and so profoundly distrustful of the intentions which dictated them.
