THE EASTERN QUESTION AND THE POLITICAL SITUATION AT HOME. Ar the present time the solution of the Eastern Question is a subject of absorbing anxiety. The following pages are the result of a diligent examination of the voluminous papers presented to Parliament. They are published for the information of my constituents at Hastings; and the opportunity has been embraced for adding a few remarks on affairs at home. Russia. The conduct of Russia cannot be commended for Conduct of singleness of purpose. While among the peasantry, and to a certain extent among the aristocracy, a strong feeling for the Slavs exists, it cannot be seriously maintained that the policy of Russia has been influenced purely and simply by those sympathies of race and religion, which will always command respect. sell's de The policy of Russia must be criticised by the light Earl Rusof history. Viewed in relation to the past, it has been spatches. marked by a consistent disloyalty towards Turkey, which was vigorously, but not too severely, con B |