Show THE SULTANS BEQUEST aska th to an speech brighton 19 lard salisbury the prime minister addressing the annual conference 0 the national union 0 conservative associations here toy said among other things allow me to say word in answer i o 0 spon dent if may term him so who requested me to make statement in a speech to alie country this correspondent spon dent ie no lees a person than the sultan of turkey nothing would have induced me to reed this august message here except the distinct commands of the sender in that speech at the guild hall on the occasion of the lord mayors dinner I 1 expressed the opinion that I 1 had little confidence that the reforms promised or the turkish empire would be carried into execution the sultan sends me a message saying this state ment has pained him very much as the carrying out of these reforms ig a matter already decided upon by him and further that he ie desirous of executing them as soon as possible he then proceeds 1 I have already told my ministers this and so the only reason why lord salisbury should thus threw doubts on my intentions must be due to alie intrigues of certain persona here or else false statements mus been made to cause such an opinion the liben proceeds after some intermediary observations 1 I repeat I 1 will execute these reforms I 1 ill take the papers containing them and see myself that every article is put into force is my earnest determination and I 1 give you my word of honor 1 I wish lord salisbury to know this and I 1 beg ana desire that his lordship having confidence in these declarations will make another speech by virtue of the tri erdly feeling and disposition he has for me and my country I 1 shall await the result of this with the greatest anxiety lord salisbury then concludes these last words will acquit me of any impropriety in what I 1 acknowledge to bo a very unprecedented course the reading e a message of this kind at public meeting I 1 could not abstain from loing what I 1 have done without discourtesy to the potentate from which this feesago is lenued but of course it would nofle seemly for me to comment directly upon those words great britain forms part of concerted europe which baa resolved so tar as it acts to act with unanimity some persons seem to imagine that we the people of great britain can dispose of all the decisions of all the european powers that is crediting us with more influence than we possess whatever is done must be done with unanimity and we can only peak in of the powers which will concur if the powers do concur in any action which may bo taken I 1 will not admit that the of any of alie decisions taken reals entirely or mainly on this country alie responsibility is upon us and upon all the powers in common all those who have this responsibility must act together eo althere are others who cannot abreo to act with the powers those others cannot have their own way but I 1 am in no wise desirous of intimating that the grade 0 disagreement up to this moment ha arisen between the powers the present problem could not lie solved by the external action of the ad pen en this lord salisbury pronounced a clumsy device at best 1 I have no doubt the a era will do their best but do noti maKine that deep geared disease in an empire can bo cured by the wave 0 a magicians wand the results of long beare of error will have to be paid for and duel and inexorable li the law that those will pay who were not originally of the of tenses I 1 haag taken you for the moment into the unaccustomed field of policy nothing bat the which I 1 have explained would have persuaded me to do so for I 1 maintain that a foreign minister above all others ia bound to value and cherish the virtues 0 silence lord salisbury then turned to domestic fairs and aid alie conserva alve victory woe mainly due to the fact that the magnetic influence 0 a treat which had been exercised in a einleger ein leter spirit had been removed in conclusion be dwelt upon the divisions among the irishmen and eaid if ahry were left alone they would cut their own throats |