Tux Spectator eulogises Lord Salisbury as Foreign Minister, and shews how 'Ford Derby betrayed him at the time of the mission to Constantinople, Lord Salisbury's instructions were to coerce the Porte into submission to the will of Europe by the threat of the Russian army, then ready to invade the principalities.' But soon after Lord Salisbury had started on his mission Lord Derby's constitutional timidity returned again and paralysed him. He sent a despatch after Lord Salisbury declaring that her Majesty's Government had decided that England will not assent to or assist in evercive measures, military or naval, against the Porte." "This was communicated to the Turkish ambassador in London, and on its being at once made known to the Grand Vizier he telegraphed a reply. in which he said that the Sublime Porte reckoned more than ever on the kind support of the English Government. When Britain did not give the Sublime Porte the assistance on which it reckoned, the Turkish Minister for Fareign Affairs angrily declared that the Porte had been misled by the British Government. The Spectator blames Lord Derby wholly for this, but it may have been that he had passed for a time under the influence of Lord Beaconsfield who was the most pro-Turkish member of the cabinet, was more like him than it was like the timid Lord Derby to give an assurance of the support of England to the Turks. The Spectator looks to Lord Salisbury to guide the diplomacy of his country when the Eastern Question reopens again, and gives the sketch of what took place when he went as Special Plenipotenflary to Constantinople that his conduct there may be better understood. The article concludes reign affairs, and it is no smi aly over cease to have a livd the head of the Foreign Office a Minister has i, on more than one cut ical occasion, not only that his knowledge and comprehensive, but alyg that
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