RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN ENGLAND.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 52, 28 September 1878, Page 2

RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN ENGLAND.

The following remarkable statements ore from Financial Opinion, a journal I which supports the Bcacousfieldpolicy : " O. K," that is to say the well-known Russian agent, Madame de Novikoff, writing to the Russian paper, the Northern Echo, is kind enough to give us, ostensibly from Moscow, the Muscovite view of the English Cabinet, and most instructive it is. Says Madame do Novikoff—we beg her pardon, "O.K."—"You should always keep in mind that the Russians are not cut off from all access to official information published by your Indian O.liee, and we a'so understand why certain measures are taken when Parliament is prorogued." We quite agree with Madame de Novikoff, and it will be no news to tell her that the Czar having deputed his dear friend, the chief of the secret police, to take the place of Russian Ambassador in London,of course Count Schouvaloff took all the requisite steps to have'the India Otliee at his finger ends. He did more than that; he got himself into the intimacy of Lord and Lady Derby and Lord and Lady Salisbury's families, and it is a matter of notoriety and the talk of London that the documents of the Foreign Office were in tho habit of passing through certain family bands into those of the whilom chief of the secret police of the Czar. It is perfectly well known to our readers that this journal is far removed from idle intrusion into the privacy of families. But the conduct of our statesmen, ospocially at a critical turning-point in the history of this Empire, involves the honour of the whole Cabinet, and threatens the break-up of the drcscnt Conservative party in this country. There are common topics of conversation which, supported by a vast amount of undersigned coincidences, those who are for their country, cannot afford to pais by in silouce. We stato it with tho most extreme reluctance, nevertheless we arc obliged to lay stress upon the fact that tho agreement between Lord Salisbury and Count Schouvaloff is affirmed by well-informed persons to have been entered into behind Lord Beaconsfield's back, and it was this which determined Lord Beaconsfield upon going himself personally to Berlin. It is tolerably wellknown that Lord Salisbury's Circular was not written by Lord Salisbury, but by Lord Cairns, and it is also perfectly well-known that the terras of the agreement published in tho Globe, and attributed to Lord Salisbury on his own hook with Count Schouvaloff, have determined an explosion of grief and indignation throughout tho whole of the Conservative, a large portion of the Whig, and a considerable section of tho patriotic liberal party in the country. ;