GOSSIP FROM TRUTH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2783, 15 January 1878, Page 3

GOSSIP FROM TRUTH.

Mr Montague Corry, in conjunction with the Earl of Beaconsfield, has practically taken the department of Foreign Affairs into his own hands. The Earl of Derby has become a cipher, who is not even allowed to decipher. Said Prince Albert John,, of Schieswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg, to his mother,>Prihcess Christian, of tbe same ilk: "CTSh'puld like to be a soldier." " But," replied Princess Christian, "when you are a soldier you will have to leave your nurse, whom you love bo much." •• Oh, no, mamma," answered Prince Albert John, " I often see soldiers talking about with nurses." , As Mr. Gladstone was descending the steps of the Bank of Ireland, on the occasion of his late visit, an Orange bystander addressed him, and, pointing to the well; known equestrian statue of the great deliverer, William.lll., on College Green, aaid, "Mr Gladstone, there is the man we call tho People'B William." Do the public want to know what telegrams from Vienna respecting the intentions of the English Cabinet, really mean ? They are the inspirations of Earl Derby conveyed to an editor in London. The editor puffs the earl; m* quid pro qw^ the earl gives the editor what is termed " early intelligence." But the misfortune with Lord Derby is, that he does not know his own mind, and still less the minds of his colleagues, therefore his " early intelligence," when converted into a telegram from Vienna, is only a straw put out to see which way the wind WOWS. r :

Tbat great blaze of animosity, which broke out at Constantinople last week against flobart Pasha, was caused by his distinct refusal to bombard the peaceful towns on the enemy's coast. The Turkish Government is naturally indignant at the destruction of its merchant vessels by the Russians, but is oven more wroth at Hobart's refusal to retaliate. " Let them fire but one shot, and the case is altered. I will do my duty then; but bombard peaceful villages and destroy innocent people, I won't, said the Admiral sturdily,

and he has kept Ms word. All rightminded Euglshnien caunot fail to honor and admire their countryman who refuses to practice reprisals on innocent and peaceful people.