The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-08
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

New YORK, May 4.-The Times London
| special says: ST do not in tins least believe
| there will be peace, that the ministry has
| actually shown The white feather In seeking
for it. The ministry have had no sense of
perception in planing their spectacular
effect. They went into the Russian i'm
broglio with undue 6erceness and clamor at
the start, out of weak desire to divert at
tention from the Soudan disgrace, and they
have beed handicapped by this event in
their subsequent genuine efforts to make
England's cause entirely just and put all
the blame of aggression on Russia. The
task of doing this, therefore, being doubly
difficult, has involved much which appeared
to be supine, but it has at last been accom-
piished. Yet.even if the proposals are ac
cepted, the debate will only be over the
shells of the dispute. Russia has the oys-
ter, and she assuredly will keep it. Out of
that situation how can peace be restored?
English public opinion will not brook Rus
sian soldiers in sight of Herat. The Russian
bureaucracy and aristocracy, which stands
for public opinion. There can be ultimately
NO logical outcome but war. which diploma
cy may postpone but canhot prevent The
controlling powers OF Russia are primed for
fight. The. are excited and eager for the
fray, and the vast machinery of the army
has been set in motion with cry for rich
Asiatic loot and the occupation of Constan-
tinople, and no Alexander, were he hun
dred-fold wiser and Drawer than the present
car. could arrest it's movement. Russian
officers may not believe in victory, but they
certainly believe IN the profit to themselves
which war would bring. 1t is significant
fact that in the council OF state, which con-
vened at St. Petersburg to-day, the ultra
war party was diitinctly in control
Another cable special declares that France
is for Russia, and will be with Russla if
circumstances should bring what SCENE
safe chance for the venture. De
Freycinet will seize Egypt the first day after
the Anglo-Russian war, about which he feels
certain that no Berlin Vienna Rome combi-
nation will interfere, and the English un-
derstann this perfectly; but they bo. row no
trouble on this score, for italian and Hun
garian sympathy grows daily more marked.
Faith is growing too, that Ronmania, Servia
and Greece are all hostile to Russia in the
present crisis, being equally opposed to the
aspirations of Bulgaria and Roumelia,
which Russian agents are fostering. 1t is
also, that Turkey is all right, Or
will become SO when the subsidy has been
made big enough.
The Suns London special says: The i'm
proved prospect of peace has emboldened
the radical wing of the liberal party, and
they are nov determined to oppose the $55,-
300, 900 war credit when the house goes into
of supply on final passage, The
ball will be opened by Henry Labouchere,
radical member, who is such an ardent lover
Of peace that he is ready to fight for it any
time.
ORDERED HOME. II
LONDON, May 5.-ln the house OF COM
mons this AFTERNOON Gladstone, in answer to
questions, stated that Sir Peter Lunsden,
The British Afghan boundary commissioner
md Col Stewart had been ordered to come
home Immediately.
RoBER SEXES THREE STEAMERS.
PANAMA, May Sit has become known
here that the robber Prestan, who burned
Colon, having made his escape, has since
then seized three steamers at Porto, with
the help of which it is feared he may make
trophla nnleas the TTnited States naval farce
shall capture him and bis vessels.
WASHINGTON NEWS