A Disgraceful Peace
The tidings of the British Government having truckled to the Russians, and accepted the terms dictated by the Czar, will excite in the heart of every true Englishman a feeling of deep humiliation. The English Cabinet has been .satisfied with the condition that Russia undertakes to bind herself by treaty never to sieze Herat. After all the bluster and prepartion, with the bold front that was, shown for a time by Mr Gladstone, the tame submission appears unaccountable. The Egyptian war was die outcome of money lenders wanting their " pound of flesh," and the Afgnanistan scare looks as if a few stockjobbers had been puling the strings in order to create sudden fluctuations in the market for consols. In fact this was broadly said to be the case in a Vienna journal some weeks ago. The only reason which can be surmised, from our present information, is that an insurrection in India is dreaded, and that a " peace at any price policy" is the best. We, fear, however, that the British people wiU clamonr for war, and that a lasting arnvstice will be impossible.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 136, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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187A Disgraceful Peace Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 136, 2 May 1885, Page 2
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