ATTACK ON MR. GLADSTONE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 56, 26 October 1878, Page 3

ATTACK ON MR. GLADSTONE.

* London August I.—Tho Tfmn thin morning vohoffiontty attacks Mr.'(JlmlKtnno. (11(1 sink of his -J» .'ill -Tin' Mi't^c of Commons listened with batcjj breath foi \i\ ■■ ntribntiou to the mi il contro- i vus\,and tftncprophotk gtiranuM into

il ire. lb- speaks two and a bail b mi oven columns of our ai< hearers i; f.~-i -rib.v down the torrent of brilliant oratory, but when all is over, and we have time ; . bit athe, to what does il all aim nut Nothing but prolonged invective against the present Ministry. Scarcely j , anything they have done or said escapes denunciation. Peace his I n made, but no thanks to them. They have prefened servitude 111 freedom : have p|vti lid 1 to defend public law and have really betrayed if ; have made o convention, violated existing treaties, brought into question an important perogntivo of the Crown, discredited us abroad and weak, ued us at home. I'ut who arc those Plenipotent'nries whom he denounces with this unmitigated, unrelieved censure s They are not merely Lords Iteaoonsfield and Salisbury; they are the representatives of !%<Apl before Europe and the world. Their wo?** when ratified, is the work of England. They have not usurped power over an unwilling people. Mr. Gladstone himself admits that they command the npprtfjd of their'countrymen. There are other heroes in'the world besides Lord lie.iconslield, and larger questions at -.take than that of the conduct uf the Ministry in the details of the prolonged negotiations. We regret, fo say it, but the whole tenor of Mr. Gladstone's speech is not so much in what it contained, but what it omitted. Ir was inconsistent with statesmanship or generous patriotism, and he must proportionately forfeit his claim to the attention of his countrymen on this great isSU".