With the great St. James's Hall meeting held on Monday the Armenian agitation, so far as public meetings are concerned, has practically come to an end, The ball was crammed and there was no lack of energy in denouncing the atrocities of which the Sultan has been guilty; but Lord Rosebery speaking at the annual Colchester Oyster Feast on the following day, declared that he could find no practical suggestion in any of the speeches, Meanwhile it has been left for a Unionist member—Mr. Leonard Courtney—to go one better than Sir William Harcourt in his attempt to solve the Eastern Question. Sir William suggested that we should denounce the Cyprus Convention. and give up Cyprus. Mr. Courtney thinks that we should not only give up Cyprus very pertinently: "If renunciation is but evacuate Eeypt. But the Thnes asks to be a preliminary condition. of trust, why should this country be the only one called upon in this sanctimonious style to buy confidence by surrenders
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