Excerpt from Reply by Lord Derby to a Deputation From the Meeting Held at Guildhall: Received at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, September 27, 1876

N ow, Gentlemen, I hope that no one who has spoken here will think me wanting in respect to him if I do not take up one by one the various points which have been touched upon by this deputa tion.

I think I could very easily explain those words of mine to which Mr. Morley has objected, though I do not remember the particular occasion on which they were uttered, and I have not them by me for reference. I conceive also that not a very fair con struction has been put by one speaker upon an ex pression used last week by the Prime Minister. But those, after all, are small matters. (cries of no) I think it is considerably more important to know what are the views of the Government, and what the course to be adopted by them will be in reference to this great European question, than it is to wrangle over the accuracy or the fitness of some expressions used upon a former occasion. (hear, hear.) With regard to the first subject to which you have adverted, I need not say very much in reply, partly because in principle we are all, I apprehend, agreed as to what ought to be done, for it is a simple, matter of justice, and one which involves no difficulty or complicated considerations and partly also I am spared the necessity of referring to it at any length because I shall be able in a few days to make public a despatch which has been sent to Sir Henry Elliot, in which you will see fully detailed the view which the Government take, and the demands which they have felt themselves authorized to put forward, with regard to these Bulgarian outrages.

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