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Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2845, 10 June 1879, Page 2

A sr/KCiAi* cable despatch in another; column announces that.the Viceroy of India! has declined to receive an envoy from the Kiug of Bnrmah. The telegraphic intelligence to hand by the last San Fransisco tnail represented that the brutal despot who now wields the sceptre of Burmah was in one of his bellicose fits, and had with a great show of braggadocio threatened to reject any proposals submitted by England. !he population was also represented to |be; eager for war, and troops were beingmmssed i on the frontier. Later 'intelligence by the cable represented {a more peaceful aspect of affairs. The policy of England as declared ] by the British Resident at Rangoon, is to avoid an open rupture with-Burmah, and merely to take measures for the protection of British interests and the lives and properties of his countrymen living there, The refusal of the Viceroy to receive the Burmese envoy, does not clearly indicate any departure from, the line of policy laid down, but may rather be interpreted as an avoidance of interference in the internal affairs of Burmah. ■England has had more than enough lately of those " little wars," which the Iron Duke regarded as fraught with danger to her power, and a war with Bunnah, following so closely on the Afghanistan and Zulu campaigns, from which Great Britain has reaped little glory or gain, would imperil the stability of Earl Beaconsfield's administration, in the present commercial condition of the mother country. For these reasons it is extremely unlikely that Eng^ land will engage in hostilities if war can bo avoided with a due regard for the nation's honour.