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0- -o_ I OUR OUTLOOK. The Revolt Spreading. The revolt on the Armenian question is gaining ground, though the party agitation started by Mr G. W. E. Russell is condemne d on grounds of expediency by leading Liberal newspapers, which hold that a party agitation is Hnltboly to attain the ends it has in view. Meanwhile it is t j be observed that the resolutions which the General Committee of the National Liberal Federation is to be asked to adopt at Liverpool next month indicate a modifi- cation of that complete confidence in Lord Salisbury wbioh has been so loudly professed of late. The Com- mittee is to be asked to express "its profound regret that the attempts ,1ich have been made up to the pre- sent time to bring about such action have beer. so barren of tccsod resultand to assert its belief that the nation wi!l not hold the Government free of guilt unless it proves beyond question that every effort has been made, and L" still being made. to give effect to the view. which the country has expressed at public meetings marked by such. extraordinary spontaneity and absence of party feeling." An influential and representative body of London Nonconformists has recorded its regret that its past assurance to Lord Salisbury to support any action he might take to relieve the distressed Armenian people ha-s-been followed by ineffective action on the part of the Government,"and Dr Lunn, who moved the resolution, described the Premier's speech at the Guildhall as a wanton disgrace, una one which Nonconformists could nst allow to pass without protest." Mr Herbert Glad- stone has recently delivered a passionate and well reasoned speech in favour of England's right and power to act aJune, and Mr G. W. E. Russell, who haa been inter- viewed as to his movement follows this up by stating that supposing it transpires that Russia fca? been offered a free hand and has declined to use it, then this country ought not to be precluded by any private declaration from acting single-handed if necessary. If we pledge ourselves not under any circumstances to act single-handed, we place ourselves in such position that the other powers can disregard us." Mr Russell add, that sympathetic letters have been received from LiberaLs in all part- of the country who warmly approve of the movement. France Awakening. It ii.gratifying to read that at last a popular Agitation onbahalf of the Armenians is catching on in France. Tha Abbe Fremont speaking on Armenia not to hundreds but: to thousands in the beautiful Madeleine Church, before the largest, wealthiest, and most representative congregation in Paris, said, after describing the matftiscres :—" I would like to take you by the hand over the battle fields of 1S70, show you the victims of Woerth, R-iehslioffen, Speiehern, Gravelotte, Mars-la-Tour, Sedan, Bazeilles. Buzenval, Villersexel. If you could see your fellow-countrymen of 1870 in their graves, the horroo: would be such that you might well die from it. But. at any rate, between French and German:* it was a fil.between heroes and heroes, struggling after a declara- I tioin-of war for great national issues—the preponderance in Errope of France or Germany. The total of victims in At mania come up to the united death roil of ail those I great battlefields, but the Armenians were basely mur- dered, and tho survivors have been ruined or compelled to forswear Christianity." The Abbe's description of the massacres was most touching, and for the first time in FT? nee, tears were shed over the victims of Urfa, Sassoun, I Erreroum. and Constantinople, and purses were emptied." A generous collection was made on behalf of the distressed Armenians. Meetings are also being organii-^d in the provinces, and the French Foreign Minister Rtid to be greatly alarmed at the growth of the movement. « # My Lord and My Lord Bishop. <' Whatever they might have heard about rat^-aid," said the Bishop of St. Asaph, addressing the deanery of Wr?xbam. he did not believe it would paw through the presant House of Commons, and therefore they must be prepared for State-aid, which he hoped would put Voluntary schools upon such a basis as ffjuld prevent tii 'ru from being in such a perpetual state of begging as tb.J.'l had been in recently." "Prepared for" is a decidedly peculiar phrase in such a connection It suggests that the friends of Voluntary lichoolf are getting ready to make the best of a bad job. The Prime Minis- ter's son (Lord Hugh Cecil) is still advocating rate-aid, however, and he is even "prepared" b concede popular control in order that he may get it. But what kind, of popular control "He suggested that under such .control the representatives of the ratepayers should haver power to dismiss a teacher, as this would be a guarantee that secular education would be properly safe- guarded, but that the appointment of teachers ,-houkl rcttt.witb the school managers, so that there would be a guarantee Lhat the teacher would be a religious minded maffwho could be trusted with the religious instruction of children." With Lord Hugh Cecil, Chijrehism and religion are synonymous terms. But the Bishop of St. Asaph is right for once. Rate-aid will never be granted by the House of Commons on any such condi- tion.?. London Nonconformists demand as the condition of further aid to Voluntary schools, that national etbtt'Stioa should be liberated from clerical subjection, that local educational authorities, elected ad hoc by thj ratepayers, should be substituted for priestly and diocesan control, and that the appointment and dismissal of toachers should be vested in the popularly-elected manners, the teachers being set free from sectarian religious tests. In this matter the London Noncon- formists express the views of the whole Liber/,I The Leadership Difficulty. Revelations are promised or threatened with regard to the relationship between Sir William H ircourt and Lord Rosebery which are alleged to have caused Lord Kaeehery's resignation. A correspondent of The W p.sbrn Morning News states that The entire corre- spondence is to be published, and some startling revela- t-;o2ii are to be made. It will give the whole details of tiro-quarrel from the beginning, and will contain each of tho statesmen's explanations of his own actions Conse- quently it will be no one-sided statement." This writer goes.on to assert that the correspondence" will show that in resigning Lord Rosebery took the only manly course open to him, that he sought to bring about s, reconcilia- tion; and that his position as leader became absolutely untenable. On the other hand. Sir William fiareourt is not liksly to come out of the affair in a very favourable light. Certainly there is a rod in pickle for Sir William Hrrrcaurt, and I fancy that his chance of continuing to lead the party will be remote when the wtjoie story is published." A" weli-informed correspondent of 'The Mrarahester Guardian' says that a cert air; series of facts in tolerably precise outline and the nature of a number of documents bearing on the r»utic-ao of Sir William Harcourt to Lord Rosebery havi- some months past been the property of a few leading Literals. Rumrrctr?5 of what has been known to a tew BEEN LOW to have, reached injudicious or interested quarters, and it appears to be the intention to press them forward with tbrgr- avowed purpose of injuring the positicr;. of Sir WHiSm-Harcourt as leader of the party ia tin- H xu.v> of Coannoxrs." A Different Tale. Tha Guardian's' correspondent incJi&ab to tL- belief that the suggested publication of the correspondence is tc.tJe made in the interests of the Unionists rathcc than of Lord Rosebery's followers, and denies that Sir William haa-anything to fear from it. The publication L" is, in fadtr, absolutely certain, to strength*?: his Loid on the confidence and appreciation of the party ao a v»hole, and especially of the advanced men in the pa.rty aid of the maii,i,of the party in the country. The correspondence, in. nhort, will completely clear Sir William Harcourt fronrthe vague and injurious suggestions and insinuations which ills personal enemies have tried .-o persistently to disseminate. And especially it will prove that in the main features of the Liberal policy at the periixl covered by tha-correspondence, and in the most striking feature of eii-the policy of making the right niet. pay,' the keynote of the Finance Act of 1894, the !-)("()P- had in Sir William Harcourt the wise and strong defender of the

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