Lord E. Fitzmanrice, who, though nominally a Liberal, has proclivities
to Jingoism, and who is sure to resist the Govern- ment policy in Ireland, bears, in a speech uttered at Glasgow on Wednesday, strong testimony to the justice of its Eastern views, which he had studied as the English member of the Com- mission for Reforms in Turkey. He praised Mr. Goschen in decided language for his firmness, tact, and patience throughout recent negotiations, which had ended in the surrender of Dulcigno, and declared that in the States freed by the Treaty of Berlin he" found the germs of new life springing into existence." Even in Bulgaria and Roumelia, where so little time had been given, "the condition of the countries was infinitely better now that they had got the Turkish Government out of them." He believed that although the Bulgarian priests would like to hunt the Mahom- me,dan population out of the country, the condition of that popu- lation was improving. In Roumania, material progress was ad- vancing at an astonishing rate ; and in Bosnia, the Austrian Government had at least opened up the country to explorers. He trusted entirely in Mr. Gladstone's leadership with regard to Greece. This is the testimony of all the well-informed : that throughout the Balkan peninsula there is much to be done in each State, but that each State is alive; whereas, under Turkish rule, it was in a condition of catalepsy. That is sufficient justification for the Liberal policy.
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