27 JULY 1878, Page 2

The Anglo-Russian Agreement published from a surreptitious copy by the

Globe is not to be presented to Parliament. In answer to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bourke said on Thursday night that it could not be laid on the table unless it were accompanied by the explan- atory documents ; and that a foreign Government had been asked, and had either refused, or not accorded, its consent to the publication of one of those documents. Thus it will not, at present at least, be explained why, while we were insisting on the absolute necessity of bringing the whole Treaty of San Stefano before Congress, we were ourselves conspiring with Russia, as well as separately with Turkey, virtually to withdraw from the authority of Congress a large and most important part of the arrangements affected by that Treaty.