The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-15

DR.. Douglas remained at General
Grants house the night of June 18th,
and was once called to paint the
patients throat with cocoaine. The
night, however, the doctor said, was
a good one in point of rest, and the
General was feeling unusually com
Portable in the morning. If the
then favorable conditions continued,
General Grant would travel to
Mount McGregor on June 23rd,
THE ENGLISH DERBY.
The greatest event on the English
sporting calendar, the race for the
Derby stake, was run at EPSON,
June 3rd. The winner was Lord
Hastings colt Melton; Capt. Bow
ling's colt Paradox second, Mr..
Chadwick's colt Royal Hampton
third. Nine others started. The
famousl jockey Fred Archer, rode
the winner. The attendance was
enormous. Archer has ridden the
winner of three big races, viz. Two
Thousand Guineas, Derby and the
Oaks. When in the States during
the winter he told all Americans he
met that Melton would win the
Derby
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
Mr.. Gladstone stated in the House
of Commons on June 9TH that Russia
and England had come to an agree
ment concerning the points of diff
ference between them, which were
to be referred to arbitration. He
also stated that the Governments of
the two countries had likewise agreed
upon an arbitration, but as the per-
son chosen as arbitrator had not been
formally asked to accept the. duty,
he was unable to say further upon
the subject then. The chosen arbi-
traitor is the King of Denmark.
The correspondent of the New
York San emphatically, and with
official authority, contradicts tele-
gram from Constantinople, given
unusual prominence in London,
asserting that Russia had rejected
the Turkish proposals for an alliance.
He says it is not only false, but
absurd, for it is Russia and not
Turkey that has been suing for an
alliance, and it is Turkey and not
Russia that has declined the propo-
sails. M. Nelidoff, one of the widest
and most persuasive of Russian dip
lomats, was sent many weeks ago to
Constantinople to tempt the Sultan
with every bribe that Russia could
offer to conclude a treaty giving
Russian war and merchant vessels
the right of way through the OAR
danelles. Russian anxiety was so in
tense that Nj. Nelidoff was en-
powered to offer, and did offer, the
cancelment of the indemnity which
Turkey was ordered by the Berlin
Congress of 1873 to pay to Russia
in consequence of the Turco-Russian
war. The Russian proposals had
the powerful support of Prince Bis
marck, and for tine seemed GER
tain to succeed. All tins time Eng
land was making counter proposals
to the Sultan, and using the Soudan
as a bait. If Turkish troops were
sent to garrison Suakim and other
points in the Soudan their expenses
would be paid by England, either
directly or by taking up n new
Turkish loan, which amounts to very
much the same thing. The Porte
wavered for long time. The re-
ceipt in full for the indemnity to
Russia had n very tempting look,
but then that debt had been so long
overdue that it had ceased to trouble
the conscience of the Sultan, and
on the other hand England offered
him the accession Of territory, the
rehabilitation of his power in the
eyes of the Moslem world, and,
above all, the ready cash. In the
end British influence and British
gold won the day, and the proposals
of Lord Granville were accepted
just one week ago (from June 9Th. J
Sir Peter Lumsden has been talk
ing all the way home. At Constan-
tinople he said there would be future
complications from the boundary
having been brought across the
desert. Russia is now able, through
the possession of the Penjdeh dis
trict, to provoke fresh complications
whenever it suits her policy to vex
England. Russia wants an ethno-
graphical frontier. Sir Peter pro-
posed geographical one. The
Amer has now 10, 900 men at Herat,
but when the Russians first advanced
that place was quite open and it
would have fallen at once, for the
population were, and even now to
some extent are, siding with the
Russians.
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