Lord Salisbury was presented on Wednesday with the free- dom
of the City of Glasgow. The Lord Provost, in presenting the Prime Minister with the certificate of his burgess-ship, pointed out that this was no party act, but a recognition that in his foreign policy Lord Salisbury had promoted the interests of peace, and sought to unite the Governments and nations of the Continent in a policy of mutual self-restraint and mutual respect. Lord Salisbury, in reply, declared that the Foreign Office was not anxious to invite needless Parliamentary dis- cussion of foreign policy, whether favourable or hostile, since either one or the other often tends to embarrass diplomatic negotiation ; but that general expressions of cordial approval of this kind, coming from the oldest and most influential Cor- porations, greatly strengthen his hands. He thought it was not to be denied that this country had done her part in promoting the continuance of peace. The main security for peace, however, has lately been, and still is, the fearful risks and uncertainties involved in the new war, which is war with remarkably unlimited liability. He illustrated the dangers to which the peace of Europe is liable by the out- break in the Ionian Islands against the Jews, though the Ionian Islands were for fifty years under the protection of Great Britain, and were supposed to have been imbued with our principles of religious forbearance.
