EVENTS IN EUROPE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 55, 15 August 1877, Page 2

EVENTS IN EUROPE.

The London correspondent of the, Argus writes by tko Suez, mail :— The rumors of peace hnve been, very persistent of late, -11101. being traceable, to Hussion sources, are naturally suspected iv ( this country. \ may tell you on the best authwrity, tlmt they are not beliey^rl 1,0 Ipy the English Unl>iti.«?t, winch believes Mint, under cov,er of this moderation , Hussia i» getting read^y (or $ coup dc main on Constantinople, ]t is certain that our Government is quietly taking all ' possible. measures for putting an Knglislj corps «1c arraee in a state of disponsibilite, I heard, the other day that fifty thpunand . licadstalln, and picketing chains for cavalry had been ordered from a private firm in the north— articles which cannot be wanted for any peaceful purpose. '■ I have said from the first that the. tru,e 1 object of Russia in this war was to upset 1 the. Treaty of Paris— to put her in the same position as she was in before t^e Crimean w^ar. The whole scheme of Rus> sian policy sipce that event bas beer 1 framed bo as to recover the ground sh< , lpst through the unexpected alliance 0! > , Great and, France. If her presenl : preljensions are admitted, it is clear thai \ ; Ruwia does recover, and more than re. t \ cover, al^ that she baj" lost by the Treaty j of Paris. She. resumes her title to be ; , considered as the special charnpioa, and 3 l protector of the Eastern Christians. She 1 is reinstated, in her old ; path of aggression 1 '■ and conquest, especially in the djrectipD 1 oft ( he.East. She is stronger than, eyei ; she was tor purposes wbicji may be legiti< t mate in themselves, but whiph arc > certainly antagonistic to Eqglisb interests, ■ : That seems to me to be tb,e common- , ' sense way of looking at the qpstion, \ without any. undue, suspicion, much less •dread, of Russian, policy, and without any j unit of sympathy with. the. oppressed , Christians in, Turkey, The % attitude of the British Goverqment at tjbe present moment, though not without signs of divided counsels and I timidity, is one w.hich is certainly approved of by the.country at large.