RUSSIA'S FEELING TOWARDS ENGLAND.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 444, 20 October 1877, Page 3

RUSSIA'S FEELING TOWARDS ENGLAND.

The auger of the Russians against England, if we may judge by the language used towards us by the ' Golos' and the St. Petersburg press, grows fiercer every day (says the London correspondent of the Melbourne 'Argus'). Some of them insist that they are already at war with England, seeing that English gold equips the Turkish armies and English generals command them. All the sacrifices, all the mortifications endured by the Russian armies in Turkey, are laid at the door of England, and it is England which must be punished at all hazards. The other day there was an elaborate treatise published in St. Petersburg by a Russian officer, proving the necessity of utterly destroying England in order to secure tke peace of the world and the ascendancy of Russia. The process is to beyin with the Australian Colonies. the ' Golos' counsels giving up all other objects of the war to the one purpose of pushing forward in Asia to the injury of the English interests in that quarter. In Europe, it is argued, England is not to be touched except at Constantinople. But in Asia she is vulnerable at a thousand points from the Persian Gulf to India. " We must open the roads from the Caucasus," says the ' Golos,' " to the mouchs of the Euphrates, and from our provinces in Central Asia to the borders of Hindostan." The Russian journals are unanimously of opinion that Armenia must be conquered in order that the British power may be discomfited, and the pride of the British lion lowered. These effusions of the Russian press cannot but have a certain interest for us in England. In the first place they demonstrate clearly enough what has been always in the minds of the Russians —what is the true secret of their policy in the East. They fully justify the policy of those whom it pleases the British fanatical mind to call " Russophobists." They prove that the weak point of England's position is supposed to be India in the eyes of the Russians. In the next place they prove the utter hollowness of the pretences on which this war was undertaken —that its real object was not the amelioration of the lot of the Christians in the Turkish provinces, but the extension of Russian dominion in the East.