"YOUR PUBLIC LAW IS NOTHING TO ME."—Alex. I.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7992, 10 October 1887, Page 4

"YOUR PUBLIC LAW IS NOTHING TO ME."— Alex. I.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — In the course of my reading during the week, the following sentences appeared to be worth republishing, and may interest those readers who care for matters other than colonial : — " We must advance as much as possible towards Constantinople and India. Whoever shall reign there will be the true master of the world. Therefore wo must face continual wars sometimes with Turkey, sometimes with Persia; create dockyards and emporiums on the Black Sea; take possession, little by little, of that sea as well the Baltic, which is a point doubly ixecessary for the success of the plan. We must hasten the downfall of Persia; advance into the Persian Gulf; re-establish, aa far aa it can be done, the ancient commerce of the East through' Syria ; and enter into the two Indies, which are the stores of the world. When once there, we can do without the gold of England."— (Peter the First of Russia.) It is now some fifty years since the following was written by the British Envoy to Persia: — " For one- hundred and sixty years Russia has steadily ' kept ia view the objects of ambition in the East, first contemplated by Peter the First, and . bequeathed by him for his successors. Not less remarkable than his pertinacity and caution has been the ' uniformity of the means by whioh'. her acquisitions have been obtained. The process has almost been reduced to a regular formula. It invariably commences with disorganisation, by means of corruption and secret agency, pushed to the extent of disorder and civil contention. Next in order comes military ocoupation to restore tranquillity; and in every instance* the result has been Protection - followed by incorporation. Such have been' the means by which Poland, the two Kabardas, the Crimea, Georgia, Imeritia, and Mingrelia have been added to the Russian dominion." — (Sir John MoNeill's " Progress of Russia in the East.") To this must be added the Chinese territory on the Amoor, Central Asia, the Caucasus (the bulwark of India), and may it be said, Afghanistan. In 1700 her territory was reckoned to contain 238,000 German square miles, with a population of about 15,000,000. In 1846 it had extended to 343,000 square miles, and itspbpulation had reached 66,000,000. I have no means at hand to state her present state either as to extent or population. In 1867 The Times (always working for Baasia) even when opposing her, wrote as follows, concerning Afghan affairs : — " There is much talk along the frontiers and in our own bazaars and Sepoy lines, regarding Russia, Persia, and Shere Ali, lawful Ameer of Afghanistan. They persißt in believing that the three have formed a leagne under which Shere Ali is to be seated in Ca'bul once ' more ; he is to give up Herat as the price , of this assistance ; Persia is to hold Herat until Russia can advance from the line of the Orus on our frontier, simultaneously with on attack on Constantinople, • and - then, j when Turkey has been dismembered, Herat is to be made over by Russia to Persia in exchange for the Pashalik of Bagdad, in which are the tombs venetated by all Skias. It is part of Russia's plans that she should have the command of the Persian Gulf, as she has already (1867) that of the North Pacific and China Seas." In 1853 the Emperor Nicholas uttered these words to the English Ambassador, Sir Hamilton Seymour. " The principalities are an independent State under my protection. This might continue. Servia might receive the same form of Government. So again with Bulgaria : there seems to be no reason why this province should not form an independent State ? As to Egypt, I quite understand the importance to England of that territory. I can then only c .y that if, in the event of a distribution of the Ottoman succession upon the fall of the Empire, you should take possession of Egypt. I shall have no objection to offer. I would say the same of Caudia : that island might suit you." When this same Emperor Nicholas fold King William the Fourth that he looked upon Lord Durham "as one of his own subjects," the simple king replied : '' The first duty of an English representative was to secure the confidence of his own master." The Times (British public opinion) as usual has shouted with glee over the settlement of the " delimitation " business, and says that "henceforward constitute an unequivocal and timely warning of her true intentions towards us in India." On this Arminiuß Yambery has written a long letter to The Times, dated GossenBaßs, Tyrol, July 28, 1887, from which the following extracts are made :—": — " There are few people who are in want of fresh proofs of Russia's true intentions towards you in India, for she is indefatigable in furnishing ouch. At the very moment when the so-called provisional friendship had to be inaugurated, we see Iskender Khan, the declared enemy of Great Britain, employed as Russian governor of Penjdeb, and actually engaged in stirring up rebellion against your ally Abdurrahman in Herat. 1 In Moscow the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has received a companion in armb in the person of Sheikh Djemal-ed-din, an Afghan Arab fanatic, who, having tried his luck in Stamboul, Cairo, Khartoum, Patna, and Delhi, is now feted at the central seat of Huscovitiam, -where he is full of praises for the justice, humanity, and toleration of Russia, and where he is painting in the blackest colorn the despotism and dire egotism of England. 1 . . England ought not to be lulled into a sleep of doubtful security; and, in spite of the mometary joy 1 venture to say that undoubted vigilance and an unrelenting contir nation of defensive measures offer themselves as the best means to celebrate the newly-concluded friendship." "■-—-I am, &c, E. TUOKEB. Nelson.

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