Show The t Petersburg correspondent of I the London Times speaking of Rus sias purported sinister designs to take advantage of English prooccupation I In Africa says the only ascertainable facia which the war bruitcra have been too busy to notice aro that the Rt Petersburg Government has declined the DOe appeal for Intervenllon end that Russian authority was recently exercised lo prevent another rebellion In Afghanistan by keeping Isaak Khan the pretender to the Ameers throne In Russia out of temptation I further fur-ther says that so far as hostilities between be-tween Russia and Japan are concerned nothing of the kind has ever been feared or anticipated In Sl Petersburg The Japanese attack on a party of Russians Rus-sians at Tusari has been settled eo amicably that the Russian newspapers arc praising the Japanese Government for Its conduct while the formidable navy demonstration AVlth which rumor tom us Japan was lo fire the martini ardor of Russla proves to have been a plan of several months standing as far removed from iorea as possible |