The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo. TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1885.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 123, 2 June 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1885.

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I The heavy budget of mail news to-day : and long local reports crowd out leading matter. The feature of the Pacific mail budget is Mr Gladstone's eloquent vindication of the Afghan policy of his Government. The generous comments of leaders of American thought on this subject stand out in marked contrast with the miserable attempts to be-little England—to represent her as accepting humiliation and degradation—wliich some writers w,ho pose as being ultra-patriotic, have treated their admirers to. If these dirty birds who are continually besmudging the good name of their own country because events will not conform themselves to their shallow conceptions and prejudices, are to be believed, the first statesmen of England are fools and traitors, and the majority of tlie English Parliament who support them is also made up of cowards and old women. It. is refreshing to turn from such maunderings to the dispassionate judgment of great American journals which look at the question without party bias or passion. No foreign newspaper has ever defamed the reputation of England, wounded tlie national seuse of honour, or fed the British lion on dirt, as the Jingo press has done, and none has ex- j hibited so narrow and distorted a conception of the interests at stake and the motives which have animated the policy of England throughout the recent crisis.