RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 129, 6 May 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

In view of England's proposal to hold an inquiry into the recent Pendjeli incident, and her offer to delimitate the Afghan frontier line m, accordance with the views put forth by liusM'a, m condition that the latter power undertakes to bind herself bjr treaty never to seize Herat, ns stated m .Renter's cable news dated London April 30, an esteemed contributor forwards the following a* apropos to the present juncture : — IF ENGLAND TO ITSELF DO REST BUT TRUE, LET US HAVE WAR. " Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead, In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows m our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, ! Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'er, whelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the -wild and wasteful ocean. Hold hard the breath and bend up" every spirit To his full height. On, on, your noblest English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of warproof ! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have m these parts from morn till even fought And sheathed their swords for lack of argument : Dishonour not your mothers ; now attest That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were • made m England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre m your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds m the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's' afoot : Follow yonr spirit and upon this charge." — Shakespeake.