The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-05-13
TERMN-BY NAIL,
WAR RUMORS.
Preparations for the Diplomatic Set
tlement of the Dispute Between
England and Russia.
News From China, Egypt, Asia and
Canada, Showing That q Warlike
Feeling Prevails. s


LONDON, May SIN the House O.
Lords to-day question was asked
regarding the condition If the Brit
ish troops serving in the Soudan.
The Duke of Cambridge, Com.
mander-in-C Chief of the army, in
response, said that the troops never
have been better cared for In any
campaign than they have been in
the SOudan. &
A RUSSIAN NOTE. !,
The Russian ambassador has i'm.
parted to Earl Granville the sub
stance of note from De Giers with
reference to the basis of the Afghan
frontier negotiations. It is reported
that it is not satisfactory to the Brit
ish Government. A conference on
the frontier question will be held on
Tuesday. The differences between
the two Governments as to the terms
upon which the question shall be
referred to arbitration is becoming
greater. The statement of the Official
Messenger of st. Petersburg that the
dispute shall be submitted to arbitra-
ton only in case Of necessity, is semi
officially declared to be inaccurate.
Granville, in his discussions with
De Staal, holds that Russia's accept
ance of the arbitration must be abso-
lutte.
NORTHCOTE WANTS MORE LIGHT.
In the House of Commons this
afternoon Sir Stafford Northcote
gave notice that he would on Monday
move that the House is entitled to
the fullest knowledge of the Govern
ment's action in regard to the Al
CHAN dispute and the uses to which
the Ell, ,OOO,0OO to be voted will be
put. The wording of the motion will
be substantially al. follows:
Resolved, That the House, having
shown it's readiness to vote supplies,
will refuse to assent to the vote of
ELL 100000 until it has been In
formed of the Governments present
policy and of the purposes to which
the money granted is to be applied.
1u0 OOuSc1 tdVAVV0 Will A4uoS0A
their full strength in the Commons
on Monday to support Northcote's
motion of censure.
THE vICEROYsHIP.
The report published in this morn
ing's Post that Earl Dufferin had re-
signed his position as Viceroy in
India in consequence of the disas-
trous effects on British prestige in
India of Gladst0ne's weak and timor-
GUS policy, is denounced by the Gov
ernment officials as utterly untrue.
"On the contrary" they say, Earl
Dufferin counsels with and approves
of Gladstone's present action re-
specting the Russo-Afghan question.
IN QUEST OF GORE.
A special dispatch from Calcutta
to the Times says: The news of
peace arrangements created dismay
here. for peace so obtained is con-
sidered dangerous and humilltating
Reports which reached here from the
Northwest provinces are from Az
ghanistan, and agree in representing
the vacillation of the Ministry as
ruinous to British prestige"
BEATING AROUND THE BUSH.
ST. PETERBURG, May 8.-The Mos
cow Gazette with reference to the
submission Of the Afghan frontier
difficulty to arbitration says: ut
was only possible to permit the cor
rectness of our action to be certified
to by a third party. Such course
as this is not arbitration in any
proper sense of the term, but simply
q respectable means of terminating
the incident"
THE MISCHIEF MAKER.
The Nave Vrenai0 explains that
Sir Peter Lumsden, who, they say.
made all the mischief, has been re-
called to London.
Colonel Patrick Stewart arrived at
Herat, but had started before the
summons for his return to London
reached him.