Mr. Tracy Turuerelli has let the cat out of the
bag. He has explained, in a lecture to an audience at Ryde, delivered in pre. Bence of the Golden Wreath —a lecture which he means to repeat 230 times—why he collected 52,000 pennies. It was be- cause of his reverence for the Premier's satanic qualities. For a struggle with a Power like Russia, Mr. Gladstone was too kind and too good. "It wanted a man with the heart of the Devil himself, and Lord Beaconsfield does not stand at trifles." He offered the Premier the People's Tribute, therefore, because the Premier had a devil's heart. That, cer- tainly, is a description of both Lord Beaconsfield and Mr. Turnerelli which no enemy of theirs, unless he were a Bul- garian, an Armenian, or other tortured Christian of the East, would have ventured to put forward as the truth. According to Mr. Turnerelli, the one is a devil, the other a devil-worshipper.
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