As yet, Sir Wilfrid Lawson is the only noted Liberal—for
the Parnellites are not Liberals, but Secessionists, and only speak from hatred of England—whose voice has been raised against the Egyptian Expedition. Mr. Laing, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Leatham, are all typical Radicals, and all have within the fort- night strongly supported the Government. Mr. Leatham, as a rule, prefers a separate course, and if that course leaves hint free to make hits at the Cabinet, he is not sorry ; but even he, on Tuesday, at Huddersfield, told his constituents that he approved the Egyptian war, which he held to be necessary to protect the highway to India, jeopardized by "a bloodthirsty incendiary" and "a military insurrection." We have gone to Egypt "to re-establish a friendly Government on the banks of the Suez Canal, and to restore prosperity to a friendly popula- tion." We have gone also, we may add, in order to repudiate the right of Asiatics when discontented with European interference to get rid of Europeans by massacre, and to protect civilisation against a series of Sicilian Vespers. Few Liberals are likely to go farther than Mr. Leatham in criticism, and the House will, apparently, meet in October with all Tories, all Whigs, and all Radicals on one side, and Sir W. Lawson, Mr. Passmore Ed- wards, and the Parnellites on the other.
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