RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 3 June 1885, Page 3

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

'„'*■'.•■•.-:.•' (Per Mail Steamer). The latest London cable to the New York Tribune says that the St. Peters-burg-and 'Moscow papers all the week have baen saving that arbitration is a comedy. Kalkoff remarks m the Moscow Gazette that arbitration is simply a respectable means of closing the incident to which Russia has asseuted m order to find an- honorable issue for Mr Ghadstonci out of his difficulty m consideration ot his feelings and former policy towards Russia. The continental press, tlioßtf h. pimlad to know what arbitration meant took a similar view, and the Berliu and Pans papers agreed that England had given way. Vienna, the one European capital, except perhaps Rome, which/ hitherto had shown a friendly spirit- to England, regards this ajjreenient as a surrender. E^-erybody , rejoices over the prospect of peace. Few seem to retrret that it has .been obtained by' what they, regard as a huuiilitation , foj, England. The feeling m England, w^ich at fir*t was. one of perplexity, is daity haedsnutg into one. of hostility and ftnxiety about the ultimate result of the peace obtained m this singular manH§r^ r .} : ; ■;;.»•. ... ■■' - ■ • ; ■ ' ; A .communication from the Russian Government defines the scope of aibitratwn.. It includes the military question, butis to be limited to the consideration of explanations * with reference to the alleged violation of the .convention. Theterms: of the, arrangement indicate that the: arbitrators' functions will be to find »>fonnula«»f conciliation consistent with thfe* 1 * Amour Propro" of both sides. The Globe says the so-Called adjustment'of the Russian disputes a poor shift. The Standard 'says it includes the surrfender of Peniden to Russia. Despatches ■$y jibe English people are enraged at Sir '.Glailstone, while Lord Randolph is the favorite of the hour.