To this resolution Mr. Plunket is to move an amendment,
proposing an Address to her Majesty to thank her for communi- cating to the House the Treaty of Berlin, the Protocols of the Congress, and the Convention between Great Britain and Turkey, expressing deep satisfaction that the war has been terminated, and hope that the new arrangements "may avail to preserve peace, to ameliorate the condition of large populations in the East, and to maintain the interests of the Empire," And Mr. Plunket's resolution will of course be carried by a large majority, for the present House of Commons is far more jealous of the prerogatives of the Crown than for the prerogatives of the people, is, indeed, very thankful for small mercies,—gratitude for communications so meagre as those concerning the Convention with Turkey, is really pathetic,—and is sanguine of the results of Lord Beaconsfield's diplomacy with the sanguineness almost of second childhood.
