RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 39, 14 July 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

i •■;■ -(English News Letter.) Ndw that-the dispute has taken siicb a favourable turn it naay be worth whili to'pljj^QXfc-record some remarks- made to me, says a correspondent of the Chronicle, by a very- eminent statesman at the Bpyal. Castle at Buda on Sunday last, which now have quite a special significance. " Bussia,"- said my informant, " would certainly hare advanced on : Herat-had the. diapute^taken turn. Now, however, there are several • reaaons.- which will cause her to act '< with utmost prudence. Even if she accepts the frontier laiddbWh^r-M^Les-sar, however, she will hove scorid a 3ecidecPsuecess; as^the adoption of this limit as her southern frontier brings her into^tpuch^direct or;indirect with England; ajciiou^J3tancjb;th;e polilicaj* impprfenee : of?whioh it-would "Be difficult Jo 1 magnify. ! England'his,, therefore,' now ceased to be an island', ■ arid will, mv 'consequence, have to give up an insular- policy. She wiUjhence^prth* be a'fe 'flfte/J.tlc assailable »s any jpther|^iir.o£eai| Pow^r, and dnca Bussia."obtainsa firm fodtmg^Mthe'Parapamisus region she will. no| be long be* fore ishe succeeds m "msi^tt^^he'numerous Afghan tribes play the same part m affording-aii excu'aejfor &ftirlh§iflElussian advance/'as)'did-tfre f Wplgfymm, Servians, and' Armenians m giving her a . pretext for. cafi ./^advance , on- Conatanti,iiopl6j j^pr^S^^^W W m 7 inf6rman^^a%>trar reason woj^Bassia should content ijPrgelf for the present with a smaHte? ctoncession so long as she can securif'ftpe'^^fcaiid that is the extraordi^a^X^e^flN 8 an<* solicitude whicliC(&eErhSny^|(Sß*)B^)wn towards her throu^h^M<th^lcQ^ri^rßy. It looked, m fao^'-^v^if v.^erntfts^TO,3 desirous of huriyJ^S^^el^^l&fe-pVj and conse(luontiy tlfe^ußpi^ig^^ussian statesm^i were rea* mtea" tionß>bf (&e^^^l^ therefore, decided tolt&fe^^ifel^ le could m safety and "withojit^ijTO,|^m so fer an her futuce,iact^|!ii4|€^|p^ Asia is concerned s,hewiUi)ot^|^fe'|^ely to undertake anything Tfithp|l%p^ing to a previous arranjgemejQt^y^fe^prmany and Austria, •dntbjsfi^cco,^^," concluded my informanty^.^tti^vj^tgetirig of the three Emperors^s^^f I'emi-official denials, will be ceirta^d^Jfi^LlSl place m the course of the comi%;^iin^n>r, "and will be of the utmost importance to EnSland, inasmuch as on the r»si|[|B of decisions.come to at, the mofiiinjf'ynil depend Bussia'a further actipnj. m |i^hanistan." " Bussia, JVsays the 'Odessa correspondent of the Daily News, " it must be admitted is not very well prepared lor war. She is at present masking her military weakness. Her million of troops are a nwe expression. Her reserves now being mqbilisedi are; a horde-pf unkempt pea«anlf youths 1 whb *aie partially ignorant of jthe; use/ ofr Rifled, weapons, ■ which aoine of them can scarcely; xJitrry.' '-Lopk.ingTpn £he Qther darrAtjthe-dep^rture of some 500 of tliese troops fp^'the Caspian, an English,captain, leaning over the rail of-ids quarter-deckj' remarked, "They nta^h'aye ' quantityj?f>bu^fheo«ei-t^nly haven't much -quality.' This observaMfa %.t]y; desci^i^elß'/the fgeneßal fnliysique of the.' Biisßian reserves^ 1^ may be that the old 'roguishrltsoinEffiiialiat officialism ; jpopi^ boys>of 4hoi^ pr,pper equipment. 1 k'ndw 3ot,r^but trenielj- dirty appearance is something worse thaii^ tljat_.;p.f the convicts who periodiQally"leave this port for Saghah'en." v .-./■ '}'.- : _.: ;y . .• -