heartfelt recognition from the good men of all parties, than the great Quaker orator, whose highest claim to honour and fame is to be found in the fact that he was through long years the despised and hated advocate of the forlorn, the friendless, and the forgotten. [THE Right Hon. EDWARD HENRY STANLEY, fifteenth Earl of Derby, was born in 1826. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in classics in 1848. Visited Canada and the United States after leaving college, and in 1851-2 visited India. Regis during his absence in America in Elected for Lynn 1849, and sat for it till the death of his father, in 1869. Appointed UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs in March 1852; Secretary of State for India, 1858-9; Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1866-7; re-appointed, 1874; resigned, 1878. Was twice offered a seat in Liberal Cabinets by Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell. Married the Dowager-Marchioness of Salisbury.] LORD DERBY, T is now nearly three years since the IT Liberals of England met in one of the greatest conventions' of our times to discuss the Eastern Question at what was popularly known as the St. James's Hall Conference. Probably no more united or enthusiastic meeting was ever held within the limits of Great Britain. The passionate indignation which had been excited a few months earlier by the full revelation of the atrocious crimes of the Turks in Rou. melia, and by the publication of Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet on the 'Bulgarian Horrors,' had not yet had time to subside; a great part of the nation believed that Her Majesty's Ministers were disposed to view the offences of the Turkish Government leniently, and the influential politicians who took part in this convention were fully impressed with the idea that a strong utterance on their part was necessary in order to save their country from being involved in the shame and degradation of an active alliance with the Sultan. No bounds were set by the speakers to their indignant denunciations of Ministers who were believed to be capable of dragging the flag of England through the bloody mire of Batak; and those who listened were as full of heat and passion as were those who spoke. One man only ventured to utter a word, not of dissent, but of qualification, in the midst of the sweeping censures that were being poured forth. was Lord Shaftesbury, the illustrious philan It |