The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-18
Great Britain and Russia.
PROSPECTS OF PEACE
Sir Peter Lumsden Recalled |!
The War Credit Vote !
A X BIT TX A TJO ~ !
A Political Crisis Imminent +!

The news by the Australia last
night brings war news up to date of
May 10th. The latest previous des-
patches to May 1st mentioned pro-
posals of arbitration which had been
made by both governments. On
the first of May, a London despatch
reported communication from NJ.
de Giers. the Russian Foreign Min
lister to Sir Edward Thornton, Brit
ish Ambassador at Constantinople,
to the effect that Russia would send
the British Government
| FULL STATEMENT
of Gen. Komaroff's position, and
asking England's consent to mutual
inquiry of the convention of March
18th. limitations from the Car,
through Baron de Stael, expressed
earnest desires for peace. Another
despatch stated that the Czarina had
absolute control over the Car, and
was making every eXertion to secure
u peaceable settlement of the diff
Guilty. Mr.. Gladstone, on the 4th,
stated in the House of Commons,
that the resumption of commune
cations between England and Rus
STA "would be much facilitated by
the more full and exact knowledge
which the Government now possess
ed of the Ameer's views since the
meeting between the Ameer and
Earl Dufferin at Rawil-Pinde, and
valuable topographic information
which has since reached England,
and that the dispute of the Penjdeh
incident had never been a question of
the trial of any officer, but one which
concerned the honor of the two gov
ernments involved in the March
agreement. Subsequent dispatches
show that the Penjdeh incident was
not brought about, as was repre-
sented, by Kamoroff going beyond
his instructions.
THE CLIMAX
of the whole business will probably
be the overthrow of the Gladstone
Ministry. The war excitement of
last month has rather suddenly
turned into fever of political agita-
ton. Tory members were being
summoned from their retreats at
home and abroad, and change of
ministry was looked for within a
fortnight. Up to May 9th the public
did not really know what the previ-
ously mentioned arbitration was in
tended to settle. And Mr.. Glad
stones explanations in the House of
Commons on the 4th inst. failed to
throw light on the question. Sir
Stafford Northcote's question put at
the close of the prcmier's speech for
definite information as to what was
to be submitted for arbitration, eli
cited no reply. General Komaroff' s
forward movement of March so was
in accordance with his instructions.
He had not been forbidden to adj
vance, but only forbidden to occupy
Penjdeh. Russia takes upon herself
the
of Komaroff's action, but is willing
to submit to arbitration the interpre.
) tation of the agreement of March
10th. Katkoff, in the Moscow
Gazette says that the arbitration
proposal was only respectable
means of providing an honorable
issue for Gladstone out of his diff
culties in consideration of his former
policy towards Russia. The CONT.
mental press took q similar view Of
the situation. There is much rejoic
ing abroad over the prospect OF
peace, but the rejoicings in England
if there are any, are very family
expressed, and are practically inau
dible in the din of
EXPRESSIONS OF DISGUST
and veXation that the blowing owe
of the war cloud leaves behind it
lull secured at the expense of wha
is generally understood to be sur
render. Russia's pledge of the l6tl
March not to advance, the subse
quent advance on Penjdeh, her un
| satisfactory explanations coupled
| with her affected ignorance of TIN
| affair afterwards, her occupation O
| the disputed territority, and now thu
| avowal of the Gear that Komarot
| had acted according to instructions
| and the
| REFUSAL TO APOLOGIZE
| in any form, leaves Russian diplo
| matists really masters of the situa
: ton. A despatch from London o
the 9th May says:-"The averag
Englishman finds it difficult if no
absolutely impossible, to disabus
a himself of the feeling that whateve
!, Gladstone and Granville may say L
J. the contrary, the Russian Diploma
. lists are getting the better of thu
' British. Every delay in the nego
: tiations has redounded to Russia
V advantage. While the