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oli us in the same course (though she has rather given 1851.
Symptoms of following our bad example), and then the Zr. 47.
Word ¢ Stop’ addressed to Russia would have the force of a
thousand cannons.
“Ihad, of course, a good deal of private talk with him
all fn the same strain, and distinctly told him that I had no
Other hope for him but in the general adeption of the prin-“ple
 of non-intervention as a public opinion of the civilized
World, And certainly he has done his part nobly in putting
forward that principle in its fairest aspect. He tells us
be Goes not want help, but he wishes us to secure him fair
Play. We say we wish fair play to him and all others strug-Sling
 for what they hold to be their rights. Is not such a
Wan, then, to have our sympathies? Aro we to let him be
Yaughiered here by the Times, and stand silently by whilst
Worse than ‘Turks sre assassinating him morally? No;
YOu are not the man to say so. But then you are afraid that
Others will push our doctrines to the point of physical force.
Bven if they do, that is no reason why we should cease to
8lve moral power its only chance, by boldly proclaiming the
ght and justice of the Hungarians to settle their own
domestic affairs, Now I am satisfied that if public opinion
0 England can be shown to be unmistakably against
Busgian invasion of Hungary, the Russian Government
Would no more think of risking a collision with the two
Mosh powerful maritime states, than Tuscany or Sardinia
Would; for she is, if possible, more at the mercy of those
Powers, 'Iherefore, to avoid the possibility of war, let us
Rive the fullest development and expression to sound public
Opiniog,
. f My own opinion is that we are on the eve of a revoluton
 in the diplomatic world ; that the old régime of mystilication
 and innuendo and intrigue cannot survive the growth
of the democratic principle; that diplomacy must bo a