the Mohammedan power--and last, not least, the getting
rid, to a great extent at least, by the help of Indian leverage, of 'the
embarrassment of the chambers.' For the last eight months, at least,
English policy has evidently been borrowed from 'Tancred.' The monarch,
for anything we know, has been 'magnetised.' The Cabinet assuredly have.
Lord Derby and Lord Carnarvon have been treated much as the Emir in
'Tancred' would have treated 'Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel'--thrown aside
as two 'ruses.'"

England has indeed adopted an Oriental policy, and forward she must go to
execute Jehovah's purpose. Russia is preparing on a gigantic scale. In
Prussia the most flourishing branch of trade among the Germans at present
is the manufacturing of arms for Russia. Though the late war be over,
still Russia is buying ships, and fitting them out in this country. She
feels bitterly her defeat through English diplomacy: England taking
Cyprus, assuming protection over Asiatic Turkey, and making Russia yield
back to Turkey 30,700 geographical miles which was contained in the
original Treaty of San Stefano. The following from the Government organ
of Russia will give you some idea of her chagrin.

The St. Petersburg _Golos_ says that the Treaty of Berlin has produced an
almost crushing impression on the Russian public. "It is felt that
Russia has not attained her object; that she has been deceived by her
friends, and that she has foolishly helped her enemies with her victories
. . . What is the reason of our failure? One-half per cent. of our
population have perished in the war, hundreds of millions have been
expended, and yet the Eastern Question is not solved and the Treaty of
Berlin is merely a truce. The last war has clearly shown all our
national peculiarities as well as our moral and material strength . . .
All the military requirements which depended on the inbred qualities of
the Russian soldier were brilliantly carried out; but where knowledge and
preparation were demanded we were not equal to the task. It was probably
for this reason that we felt so much hurt on reading of the boldness of
Lord Beaconsfield, who doubtless reckoned on the superior culture of
Englishmen to that of Russians. All classes of Russian society are
responsible for this. We do not estimate culture and knowledge at their
true value. Most of us say that mental work does not bring money, and
that culture is a means of corruption . . . In Western