RUSSIA'S TRIUMPH.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5074, 20 April 1885, Page 3

RUSSIA'S TRIUMPH.

[To the Editor of the Erening Star] ; Sib,—Some 29 years ago England triumphed over Russia. Sevastopol had fallen; a humiliating treaty wan in process of being imposed upon .Russia. The good' Cur Hichola»fv.haTing failed in his - attempt to succour (he distressed Christians of the Ottoman Empire, died of a broken heart. It was England and France that robbed .Russia of her triumph, and of her well-deserfed spoils from the infidel Turk. But England was the leader' no it is but right that England should •offer first; Frances turn may come by •nd bye. Since that time wlrtt a change; the most humiliating parts'of the treaty are so much waste paper. Since that time Bussia has put herself within striking distance of England's great Indian Empire; Bussian troops are within a hundred miles of Herat—the key of India; nearly a thousand, Afghans, England's allies, were slain on the 30th of March last, in a time of profound peace, 60 miles inside their own frontier, and this twenty seren days after an ultimatum had been sent to Bussia, and yet England's greatest statesman (who was one of those who urged on the Crimean War) dares not declare war against Bussia, knowing full well that within a week of his declaration of war the legions of the Czar would be thundering with irresis table might at the gates of India, and that gate once in their possession would be the first ■trp in destroying the whole fabric of British power in India. This is why the Premier of England' appears to show the white feather. This is why he continues to negotiate, hoping—aye hoping, but with a faint heart—that Bussia will not leize Herat. Meanwhile the hosts of Bussia are still ad ran ring, and will pretently.like an avalanche, rush down on Herat. Such is the triumph of Bussia's diplomacy.—l am, &c, ■• . IVAH MOCKA-TODSKY.