THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2955, 5 August 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1878.

Thb Conservative party in the House of Commons have gained a great victory over the Liberals in the division on the Marquis of Hartington's motion censuring the Government for undertaking reponsibilitiei not authorised by Parliament, the majority against the motion being 143. The vicious attack of Mr W. E. Gladstone, and the motion of the Liberal leader have been insufficient to induce the House of Commons to withhold credit to the Premier and his colleague the Marquis of Salisbury for what they have accomplished at the Congress towards maintaining peace and securing advantages for Great Britain. On the employment of Indian troops in Europe Mr Gladstone has inveighed in no measured terms —

not only,in the House, but in speeches outside, and in his public writings. Of the latter, following is a specimen, which haa been characterised by the Press at home as positively treasonable and without excuse: —"It is very much tosay to India as we hare said, we will measure, raise, and

direct, and you shall pay, the army which is to defend you from the foreigner. It is now, in the light of a sublime discovery, to be said, we will raise, manage, and direct, and you shall pay, the army which is to be kept ou a scale that, besides defending you, it shall be sufficient to add largely to ourEuropoan force, and make up for the disadvantage at which we stand in the struggle with any Continental Power. Is it possible that this can work? Will India be content ? Can India be contend ?

Ought India to bo content? In distar/j, and to her children ungenial, climes, :ti lands of usage, tongue, religion, wholly alien, the flower of her youth are to bleed and die for us, and she will have no part biri to suffer and obey. This is injustice, gross* and monstrous injustice ; and those who are parties to its preparation must prepare for the results to which injustice leads." The victor/ will be more gratifying to tl:o Government considering that in the f::ce of the constant attacks of Mr Gladstone and others they have carried their point abroad aud secured public approval at home. Earl Beaconsfield was able to assure his hearers at the Mansion House on Saturday that he believed a durable peace had been secured, and the Chancellor of Exchequer, who was reported a few days ago to have given an evasive answer to a question respecting a secret treaty with Turkey, was able to deny the existence of such a treaty.