New-York tribune., 1878-11-09
ENGLAND WATCHING RUSSIA
BRITISH DIsrRUsr UNABATED.


IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON, Oct. 26.-0Dce more the week CLOSES
anxiouslv. . with little or no improvement on the
financial side and with the political prospect ciS-
tinctly worse than it was last Saturday. Caonet
Conpcil was he'd Yesterday 1t is omnous that the
secret Of rs deliberations Is so much better KEPT
than usual that the leading articles III today
papers show few or no traces of inspiration" Ihe
business must be very grave which does
not ad oit of such hints being @ven as
commonly reward the useful servhty OF
the Ministerial organ There are hmes
when there is nothing to reveal, but TINS is not one
of them The thing clearly understood Is lha'
the English Government look with suspicion and
alarm upon what they consider the failure Oh nus,
sia to carry out her obligations, under the Treaty OF
Berlin. Pressing as the Afghan business is, 1t Is
believed that the topic most seriously discussed
Yesterday was not the lnsplcnce" of Shere All or
the rash incompetence of Lord Lytton, but the en-
croachment of Russia i'll European Turkey since
Lord Beaconsield chooses TO regard 81 EN- as en-
croachmentS, hc has 10 decide how they snail DC
resisted. If any decision was come to yesterday
in Council, il is hidden. Diplomacy is once more
busily at work. but by what means it hopes to con-
cihate the hostile pretenslons of England and Rus
sia nobody processes to know. 1T is no little proof
of the peaceful disposition of the present age, re-
marks the lead ng organ, that matters should have
gone as far as they have without leading TO down.
right rupture" That is strong language. what
can the matters be which have already brought tDe
two Powers once more close to a collisions
One of the chef members of the Cabinet, Sir Staf-
ford NorthcOte, had made half dozen long speeches
Just before the Cabinet met, and you might hopefor
hint of the real trouble from him. But nothing
eau be made out of all his talk. at one tine he APP
peals TO the Sultan. as if it were the Sultan who
10, viii tha trpa dutps At
other, be assas Russia, warns her in school
master tone, but vaguely, and with no exact sDecl-
fcation of the wrongful acts she has committed.
You must look TO tue Ministerial press and what Is
going on between Turkey and Russia for an eX-
PLANTATION; and first of ALL TO the continued pres
ence of Russian troops in Turkey. No doubt
there are Russian troops on Turkish soil, and
what worries the English is that they have
right to be there. The Treaty of Berlin hXed the
time within which they should withdraw from BuI-
gana and Eastern Romelia but there was, 1t ap-
pears, lamentable oversight" with reference to
other parts of Turkey, the neghhorhOod of Con-
stantinople especially. And the "Jingo" is now
growing because the Russians do not perform an
obligation wlich be thinks ought to have been in
serted iu the Treaty of Berlin, but was not.
Then there is the indemnity: Turkey agreed Ivy the
San StefauO Treaty to pay some $2OO,OOOOOO, ana
this obligation was left uncanceled at Berlin,
where it was thought sufficient to exact pledge
from Russia that her claim should not lie deemed to
have priority over the claims Oi other creditors.
But she is now, it appears. demanding guarantees.
That she has right to den ana them is not dis
pnted. but the demand, none the less, constitutes
another grievance in English eyes, because II sup
plies Russia with an excuse for keeping her troops
near the Capital.
1t is alleged further, that Russia does nothing TO
facilitate the work of the European Commissioners,
who were to organize Eastern Roumea. Here the
complaints get hazier than ever The Commission
has been appointed but has been dilatory IN It's
work which by the treaty must be completed be-
fore November 3. The Sultan ought to have APP
pointed GovernOr=General for that province. and
the Commission ought to have defined his powers.
and devised the other necessary machinery for the
administration of Roumelia. They have both neg
lected to perform these indispensable preliminary
duties and Russia held responsible for their neg
lect ;-on what preteXt cannot be made out unless
one turks under the general allegation that Russia
is plotting tn re-cement that union between
Bulgaria and Lord Bsaronfeld's OantlIng, Eastern
ROumelia, which the Treaty of Berlin tore asunder
These are the main points of the indictment but it
is complained, also. that Russia does not make as
much haste as she ought to in concluding that
defnitive treaty with the Porte which Is to re-
place the preliminary Treaty of San StefanO, so far
as the latter was not superseded by the Treaty of
Berlin. This would remove, it Is argued, all
excuse for the presence of Russian troops except III
Bulgaria and Eastern ROumcla, where under the
Berlin agreement itself, she is entitled to keep
$4,000 TIL next May. 1t is assumed that this
delay is the fault of Russia and of Russia only; the
Turk being VIGOROUSLY the most prompt OF man
kind above all in his diplomatic dealings when the
bargain is gong against HIM.
lean see little or nothing in this catalogue of
orievopces hevoud incurable Suspicion of Russia,
one point excepted. 1t is not TO be supposed that
Russia will execute those provisions Of the Treaty
of Berlin most unpalatabe TO her. with more rapid
ity or zeal than she is strictly Obliged by the Treaty
to show The Englishman mas found cut that the
Treaty is less stringent than he thought. and he Is
trying TO put kind of pressure ON the Muscovitc
for which 10 warrant can be found in the inStru-
ment itself That is Lord BeacOnsiield's way of
meeting the dIscontent existing in England-and
among his own supporters most of all-with the
practical working Of the treaty he claimed as tn
umph. Aud there is one reason which goes deeper
than this Russian relations with Afghanlstan. No
body knows what they are, but nobody doubts
that they are mischievous. In the alb
sence of better evidence, the statements
of the Russian press are eagerly quoted, and If
Won believe all the Moscow and st. Petersburg
Journals print you might come to the conclusion
that Russian renforcements were already on the
road to Cabul The tone of the Russian press Is
certainly not friendly to England-why should 1t
be7 But nothing is palmer than that the GOlos and
Rask Mir and The st. Petersburg Gazette itself, are
deliberately drawing" their English contempora-
ries They see with delight the anxiety which
the Russian mission has caused, and they take
malicious pleasure in publishing all sorts Of
rumors and all sorts Of taunts and vague
meuaces by which the disquiet of English writer's
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