The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4305, 18 October 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1882.

The intelligence that the Waly of Merisoona, a town on the border between Turkestan and Afghanistan, has rebelled against the local authority, and applied to Russia f >r assistance, may prove of much more importance than at first sight appears. He appeals to Bussia for support, whereas the authorities appeal to Cabul, the Ameer jof which is supposed to be friendly to the British ; at all events there "is a treaty offensive and defensive between him and England. PoasiWy itis only the revolt of a semi-independent Eastern town against the ruler of the country, to which it owes allegiance, perhaps justified wholly or t© some extent by circumstances; in fact, a quarrel amoDgst themselves. But, on the other hand, it may be instigated by Russian inirigue, which never rests, its ramifications being in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Czars may be assassinated, others may sneak craren-iike io the scene of their coronation ; Russian society may be convulsed in throes of anarchy, and discontent exist amongstthe people to an extent almost without parallel; the poison cup, dynamite, or the secret mine may daily threaten the mighty and harass their existence; a reign of terror worse than that of the French revolution may prevail; great statesmen may be disgraced, and able commanders banished or exiled to Siberia; the Government may be utterly corrupt, but notwithstanding all these, Russian diplomacy keeps the even tenor of its way. J\Jen may come and men may go, but, like Tennyson's brook, it flows on for ever. Whatever elfle may decay, fail, or be forgotten, to fulfil the traditional will of Peter the Great is steadily kept in view, and persistently striven tor Russia's high road to India must be formed, and the same Power which through its duplicity drove Shere AH on to the rocks of a British war, and laid Afghanistan at the feet of England; that notwithstanding the most solemn promises to the contrary, conquered Turkestan, and is now at the doors of the Ameer's dominion, is assuredly still at work there. sowiDg seeds of discontent and enmity towards Britain. He has been very busy in Turkey and Egypt of late, and this is probably another pie which his insatiable finger has been stirring.