Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 44, 8 November 1894 — England Speaks. [ARTICLE]

England Speaks.

L< nJou. October 2-5 LorJ jRoaeber3' maJe au aJJress to- □ ight at tbe bacquet of the CntIers* Society of ShetheU, in whieh ’ be paid high tribnte to <be Czar. Among those preseut were the Duke of N. rfol k, the Archbishod of York and a Urge number of j men well known in the political | world. Tbe Priiue Minister said that at tbe present moment the shadow i of uncertfintv* clouded the dominion of foreign politics. There was noi a thoughtfal mind in Europe tbat did not turn to Ihe Uiek bed in the Crimea. Great Britain in times past, had had ‘ acnte subjects of ditFerence with Kussia, but he felt certain that there was nobod\' who was aware of what had happened iu Enrope duriug the Iast tifieen \-eare who did uot feel the immeasnrable debt of ob!igntion that Great Britain lay uuder to the Czar. Lord Rosebery said: “ We had in him a monarch whose watchword, who.se reign and whose cbaracter has been a wor»bip of trnth and peaee - '’ He wouU uot say that tbe Czar has rank among the C;cser3 and the Napoleons of histor3 4 , but if.i , peaee had l.er victories not less renowued thau war he wouU reign in historv' as one less entitled to fame than either Ciesar or Napoleon. It vvas due to his i character aud inliaenee as mueh | as to other cause that peaee had beeu preserved. His death wouU mean the removal of one ol the greatest perhaps the greatiist guarantee of peaee in the world. Lord Kosebery then proceeded to ridicule the recent Cabinet eouneil scire, and congrntulated his hearers on the fact that the “silly seasou” was over. He denied that the Cabinet had discussed the question of intervention iu the Cbinese Japanese war, or that circular had been issued or rebutf received. He dilated npon the seriousness for Great Britain of the destrnction of the coutral Oovernment of China, auJ said that a headless China meant such a scene of chaos and horror as the world had never contemplated. Hundrods of millions of a barbarous aud eniel population wouU be let loose with their passious uncoutrolled. This wouU be an appalling danger to everv' Christian withm its roach. After the first Japanese victory news had reached her raajest3’’s Government frora tbe highest authorit3' that Chiua was willing to concede honorable terms pf peaee whieh considerab)3' exueeded the deraands made bv Japan when she entered upon the war. These terms Japan raight have accepted withont any diminution of her prestige. The Government eooki not put this iuformation in its pocket. No Minister eouhl have incurred such a responsibi!itv. The government had eommunicated with other powers, inclnd iug the Uniteil States, and the proposal were well received, but oue or two powers —he thought ouly one, but desired to be within ihe truth—were opinion tbat the iime had oot arrived to submit tbe conditions to the eombatants. It was altogother preposterous to describe this as a rebutf. lu regard to Madagascar, Lord Koseberv said that it was so far removed from tho pnnāew of the I Iast Cabiuet Council that be greatly doubted if the word Madagascar had beeu !ueutioued between the British and Freuch govern- ( ments for the last two years. i While Frauce aJherod to tbe treaty conceruiug Madagascar, ' £nglaud wouU not iuterfere. He admitted. however, that some eolonial questious bad oaused friction between £nglaud and Frauce. Negotiations for a j settlement of these questious were proeeeding, aud there was no doubt that au agreement wouU be arrived ai. He believed that Great Britain was ouited &ud determined iu qnestious of foreign poliej to a degree never knowu before, aud that ihe small party that belived in a degraded, neut~ ral aud aubmisaive Britaiu had Jied.