A BLACK OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 38, 13 July 1885, Page 2

A BLACK OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA.

.; The Vienna correspondent of the Times i says" that: Russia has an obviou^ interest m keepingsundry side questipns open as long a& possible, because she-wili^e confronted by, serious internal difficulties as as these questions are closed. The glajßmir of dipolomatic> triumphs will, .as it is remarked, last only a shortiame. '■: Afterwards new taxes wifrhaye to be ,leviea io pay' lor ,the hea-sy arma'm^nts'in -- . I which the Government has been Maul^•ingjand if- the Czar be. not ready to - promulgate some drastic scheme^p'f, ad? ! " ministrative reform to check the extortions and dishonesty of the Tclunovniks the revival of revolutionary agitation may ;b'e confidently predicted. " This prospecti the correspondent continues, is clearly -present « before- the minds/ of Eussiau istatesmen, and the uneasiness whicb it causes findsf.'exprassion in> all the Ens* - ;siaji' newspapers that reach-iiias-ooTOitryr"' iTKo passed to !the whole of the Press; to MepaUve the jcombative sentimpnts of the people by 'insisting that England is arming, that a war is ineyitacjjle m "the near future, and ;that-;all*loyai sußjecttf Imust bpjprep^l; ;to. make sacrifices m view of this struggle.; - Alludinsr.-to- some !couched ! ?in: <this strain, > the iiDembaf g IPrzeglond ironically observes that perhaps, the British Cabinet could deal no 'moje-effeefcjive blow at • Pussj* than:that of grantmg her aU that W diplotna^i I seem to desire, the possession of Afghan^ istan, included. Eussia might thsen, be left to'deal as she cbuld with her' Central , A^iaii • Poland,, and England, n^ight look oniri quiet while her enemy wkstea 1 ' ncr strength ihisupprejsing rebellions, which would soon spread throughout Turkes--itanflifcbithe Caucasus, arouse Persia, ;an!cl jend m the (expulsion p£ the- Eussian genjerals from all the lately-Minexed territ(?r^ e^: wOa to Russia," addat the newspaper,' •• they would ; find: pfeiiiy 'to do m suppressing Nihilist outbreaks."