THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1495, 1 March 1887, Page 3

THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

The Czar's menUl condition was the ■abject of a good deal of interesting discussion m the London press at the time of the departure of the last mail. The Vienna correspondent of the Times wrote: The Czw'a condition is openly discussed In Vienna, and the people talk of the ohaaoes of peace and war as though everything depended on the whims of a man who is hardly responsible for his aotlons., A great deal more than npp9ars m news* papers is said In diplomatic circles about the Cztt's doings, and if only come of the stories told be true, it would not be surprising if the Russian Imperial family were soon to concert measures. for relieving the Ozar of duties which he can no longer discharge. There may have been Czars as unsound m mind as Alexander 111 , bnt they did not live m days when newspapers and telegraphy gave a dally pnbliolty to their acts of folly. Taking only the published account of the Czir's recent doings, whioh oannot all be inventions, there is enough to show that the largest empire m Europe may suddenly be hurled into a war that may cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and thti simply through the headstrong impulse of a despot who is never sufficiently calm to be reasoned with."