The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-08
A Possible Disagreement as to the As
surances To Be Given by Russia.
Rumored Resignation Of Earl Dufferin, Be-
cause of Gladstones Concessions to the
Czar-Unveiling the Coleridge Bust.
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
The British Public Begins to Realize that TIN
Surrender Is Complete.

surrender to Russia of all the points she has
demanded. Though the more moderate of the
Conservatives condemn Lord Randolph Church
ills endeavors to oppose the war credit the
probability of defeat for the government is
talked of in many quarters.
The Morning Post agrees with Lord Church
i'll about. the urgent need Of ousting the Minis
try. and says Eight independent members
might have turned Gladstone's majority of
fourteen into a minority After the terrible
events of the past week, will they be forthcom-
ingw
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. DeGiers will take care that Russian
prestige in the person Of Komaroff shall not be
dimmed, while the English Ministry have
already decided that that of England is to be
extinguished. "A further misfortune says the
Standard lis that we are by no means assured
that, even for the hour, the necessity of using
force has passed away"
The Neue Freie Press. of Vienna, predicts that
Italy will become estranged from England by
the latter's ndecision of policy and attitude.
An unconfrmed rumor is current that the
Indian departments have been ordered to cease
their war preparations
It is reported that General Zelenoi will go
either to st. Petersburg to London to assist in
the delimitation of the frontier.
The Times, commenting on the attitude of the
Conservatives towards the government respect
irg the Afghan question, characterizes the con-
duct of the Tory leaders as unwse 1t says
Lord Randolph Churchill was not justified in
proposing to refuse supplies to the government
The approaching election will r.ve the Conserva-
tives ample opportunity to arraign the govern
ment at the bar of public opinion, the Times
argues. and the Conservative party will be much
stronger if it abstains from crude and extrava-
CANT proposals. 1.-THE government have mis-
managed AFGHAN AFFAIRS" the article comedies,
''but that is no reason for Lord Randolph
Churchill giving advice which shows that the
opposition is incapable Of doing better"
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under Foreign
Secretary, replying, this afternoon. in the House
of Commons. to the Right Hon. Edward Gibson,
Conservative member for Dublin University,
stated that General Ridgeway, with Captain
Yate and others, would remain in charge of the
Afghan boundary commission, now that Sir
Peter Lumsden is coming to London 'The in
structions sent to Sir Peter Lumsden," Lord
Edmund continued, 'do not cancel his appoint
| ment He has not been summoned to London to
advise the government about the frontier The
boundary commissions escort will remain with
General Ridgeway, who will carry out the work
| of the commission the spot"
| Lord Granville, Foreign Minister, in the House
| of Lords, this afternoon, replying to motion
| by the opposition for production by the govern
ment of the papers in the Russian controversy,
used the following language II do not believe
that if England was going to wage war argainst
Russia we should wage it at disadvantage, and
with every advantage in favor of Russia" Lord
policy had been constant failure, and denied
also that Russia would go to Herat The mo-
tion for the production of the papers was then
Withdrawn.
Advices from Sarakhs state that a small force
of Russians. with four guns, now occupies Penj-
deh The same advices contain the statement
that the Russians have completely won over the
Sarakh Turkomans The telegraph line is now
completed to point 12O miles beyond Askabad.
There is an apparent lull III the Russian prepa-
rations for war The Afghan troops along the
Bala- -Murghah, not having received any pay for
a long time. are greatly demoralized
Colonel Zakriewski, who was with Colonel
Alikhanoff during the Russian movements pre-
ceding and atten ing the battle of Penjdeh, has
reached ST. Petersburg with full report of the
Russian case, and has departed for Gatschina to
deliver the report to the Gear. Colonel Zakr
jewski says that the inhabitants of Penideh are
well disposed towards the Russians
The break in the Caspian sea cable has been
repaired. The Russian government has decided
to push the extension of the Russian railway to
the Amoo Darya, on the Oxus river, as rapidly
as possible, with view to having its construc-
ton completed to Merv by the spring of 1856.
Mr.. Gladstone, replying to questions, in the
House OF Commons, this afternoon, said that al
| though, on receipt of the first kilograms, he had
described the Penjdeh affair as an act of unpro-
voked aggression, still, he had never presumed
that the information in his possession when he
made that declaration was unquestionable; as
matter of fact within twenty-four
hours afterward news containing important
qualifications of that first received had
aid, that when the Earl of Dufferin, British
Viceroy III India, at Lahore, after his return
from the conference with the Ameer at Rawa
Pindee described the Russian attack as an at
tack of unprovoked aggression, without any quail
fcaton, the Viceroys'' statement was war
fanted by the circumstances under which
he spoke and the knowledge in his
possession; but Russia had since denied
that Colonel Alikhanof had ordered