SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7179, 3 June 1885, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

• ADDITIONAL NEWS. '[' ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. ' A communication from the Russian to ,rfche British Government defines the scope of the arbitration on the Penj-deh 'matter, It includes the military question, but it ia to be limited to the consideration of explanations with reference to thealleged violation of the conventionJ:^at was subsisting at the time of .'General Komaroff's attack on the (Afghans. The terms of the arrangement indicate that the arbitrator's functions will be to find a formula of coni"" '" i consistent with the amour of both sides. 9 is apparently a lull in the l preparations for war, but from Sarakhs state that a small if Russians, with' four pieces of y, now, occupy Penj-deh. Tories are indignant at what they ' another slap in the face from ," and the belief ia general that is playing more of her treacherIclcb, and that the Czar ib fully on having Herat at any price, ecial despatch from Calcutta to mes says, "The news of the arrangements between England ißsia has created dismay in India, icillation of the British Ministry sua to the prestige of England." ble' message received in London j 9th sayß, " The St. Petersburg jscow papers have been all the jy ing that the arbitration between and England is a comedy ; that it ly a respectable means of closing dent from which Russia will not whatever may be the view taken by England ; and that Russia d to the arbitration in order to . honorable escape for Mr Glad* jut of his difficulty, in consideraf his good feeling and former towards Russia." Continental Press, though puzzled 3W what the arbitration meant, . similar view to the Russian . The, Berlin and Paris papers ■eed that England had given way, inna, the one European capital, perhaps Rome, which hitherto own a friendly spirit to England, s. the agreement between England issia as a surrender. The Vienna say in effect, " Everybody s over the prospect of peace, l a few seem to regret that it has btained by what they regard as a atioh f 6r England." feeling in England at first was . "* perplexity, but daily it is hardenJf ing into a feeling of hostility and _A| anxiety about the ultimate result of fl ipeaoe obtained in this singular manner.