The Portland daily press., 1885-05-08
The English Tories Making a Sharp
Attack on Gladstone.
Newspapers Agree with Lord Churchill
that the Ministry Must Go.
Russia's Preparations for War
Unabated.
Her Troops Now in Possession OF
Penideh.
Lord Dufferin, Viceroy Of India,
Resigns.
Stock Markets Depressed and Less sCOn-
fldence Prevails.

LONDON. May lord Randolph Churchill
IN addressing conservative meeting last night
complained that the shelving of the Komarofi
incident was effected under o ridiculous pre-
tence OF arbitration. He protested against the
removal OF the commission on the frontier de.
limitation to London to be dealt with by the
imbecies in the foreign office. "Russls, =" be
said. "has always objected to the presence OF
General Sir Peter Lumsden, and deliberately
iDsulted him In the face of all Asia by not
sending General Selenoi, the Russian Afghan
commissioner, to meet him. Now the govern
ment has erati6ed Russia by recalling General
L1msdeD." He then asserted that the English
people were being humbugged into national
and imperial ruin. The vote of the credit bill
the resolution to smash the Mahdi, and Mr..
Glsdstone's great speech we're all sham. "The
ministers" he said, "were not thinking of the
country's interests but Of the general election.
They were election agents, not statesmen" He
said 1t was time for the Tories to endeavor to
Orlng about change in the advisers of the
crown by refusing supplies.
The opinion is gaining ground both in Eng
land and in Europe that the governments ar
rangement is, in word, complete surrender
to Russia of all the points she has demanded.
Though the more moderate of Conservatives
condemn Lord Randolph Churchill's endeav-
ors to oppose the war credit the probability OF
defeat for the government is talked of in
many quarters.
The Morning Post agrees with Lord Chur-
chill about the urgent need of ousting the min
istry. and says: Eight independent members
might have turned Mr.. Gladstoue's majority
OF fourteen into minority. After the terri
coming?"
The Standard says that the dignity and pow
ers OF Russia and England were embodied in
General Komaroff and Sir Peter Lumsden and
that M. de Giers will take care that Russian
prestige, in the person of General Komaroff,
a lioh IN,
istry has already decided that in the person OF
Sir Peter Lumsden the prestige of England is
to be extinguished. "a further misfortune, .
says the Standard, sis that we are by DO means
assured that even for an hour the necessity of
raising forces has passed."
The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna pre-
diets that Italy will become estranged from
England by the latter's indeoision of policy
and attitude.
The Daily News says that it is authorized to
DENY that England cannot occupy Fort Hamil-
ton. The News believes that Russia has offer.
ed England positive assurance that she has no
intention OF taking possession of Herat. Gen.
Lumsden is expected to arrive in London the
first week in June.
The progress of negotiations between Earl
Granville and Baron de Staal tends to a simple
declaration by Russia that she is ready to sab
NIT to arbitration. Failing to accord in the in
depreciation Of the convention of March II, it
IS probable that the actual reference to arbi-
tration is remote.
ST. PETERSBURG, May There Is no ap-
pearance OF any abatement in the warlike pre-
parations. The mobilization of the rifle batta-
lions in Finland continues.
LONDON, May Earl Granville, foreign
minister, in the House of Lords this afternoon
replying to q motion by the opposition for pro-
duct1on by the government of the papers in the
Russian controversy, used the following Lam
guage: II do not believe that II England was
going to wage war against Russia we should
wage 1t at disadvantage and with every ad-
vantage in favor OF Russia"
Lord Granville denied that the governments
military policy had been a constant failure and
denied also that Russia would go to Herat. The
motion for production of the papers was then
Withdrawn.
TEHBRAN, Persia, May 7.-Advices from Sa-
rakhs state that small force of Russians with
four guns now occupies PeDjdeh. Tho same
sdsices contain the statement that the Rus
slams have completely won over the Sarakh
Turcomans. The telegraph line is now COM
pleted to point 120 miles beyond Askabad.
There Is an apparent lull in the Russian pre-
parations for war.
The Afghan troops along the Bala Murghab,
not having received any pay for q long time,
are greatly demoralized.
LONDON, May 7.-Lord Randolph Churchill
10 to be made hero by the Conservatives for his
attack upon the governments management of
tne Afghan affair, and a movement has been
started already to secure the presentation of
the freedom OF the city to the young Tory lead
or IN recognition OF his services to the British
nation and Indian Empire"
Mr.. Gladstone, replying to q question in the
House OF Commons this afternoon, said that
although on receipt of the first kilograms Civ
ing an account of it, he bad described the
Pen1deh affair as an act of unprovoksd aggres-
sion, still he had never presumed that the
facts in his possession when he made that
statement were unquestionable.EButa as a mat
ter OF fact within "a hours after wards news
containing an important qualification of that
nrst received had come to hand. Russia had
denied that Colonel Alikhanoff had ordered
the Turkomans under his command to make
an attack. The report that Colonel Alikhauoff
had issued such an order was made to England
by Captain Yate and his party who belonged
to Sir Peter Lumsden's boundary commission
and who were in Pepjdeh during the battle
but 1t had been ascerlained that neither Can't.
Yate nor any of his party were aware of any
other foundation for the report than that of a
rumor. Continuing Mr.. Gladstone said that
Lord Dofferin bad arranged swith the Ameer
OF Afgbanistan the basis upon which the Brit.
ish government had so far proceeded in the
frontier affair.
Being asked il Lord Dufferin as Viceroy of
India approved of the governments course to-
wards Russia in the Afghan dispute, Mr.
Gladstone refused to say whether he did or
not.
The stock market closed depressed owing
chiefly to the news of the Russian occupation
OF PeDjdeh, and less confidence prevailed in re.
gard to a satisfactory settlement of the Anglo
Russian difficulty. Numerous rumors were in
circulation emanating chiefly from Berlin, one
rumor being that Gladstone was about to re-
sign Prices suffered in consequence, although
the rumors were not credited, and Russians
closed 3-8 and Egyptians lower.
LONDON, May THE Morning Post asserts
that Earl Dufferin has resigned his position as
viceroy OF India, in consequence of the dis
astrousiefect on British prestige in India of the
Gladstone policy.