THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 9 June 1881, Page 3

THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

Tho “ Gaulois," a Paris journal, publishes a letter from St, Petersburg on the actual state of Russia. The writer says:—Che on reigns in the public offices and at the Anitohkoff Palace. I do not believe that tho Czar will restore order by genuine reform. Loris Melikoff is kept by him at a distance, and his advice is not listened to. There is no doubt of the uprightness of the Czar, or tho excellence of his heart, but his capacity is open to question. The Czarina is terrorised into madness. Her reason appears shaken by the dread in which she lives. The noise made by the sappers, who are digging a ditch round the Anitohkoff Palace, has a dreadfnl effect on her nerves. This ditch undermines the prestige of the Sovereign in the eyes of the population, who find in it a sign that the autocracy no longer rests on the taoit sanction of the people. It expresses to them the moral isolation of the Imperial family. Tho success of the Nihilists in killing the late Czar has indicted a blow on the Imperial power from which it will never recover. From the lowest Moujio to the Heir to the Crown there was a deep conviction that a special Providence watched over tho Czar's life. Heaven, by the visible protection it extended to the autocrat, ratified the theory of autocratic government, and maintained it on a Divine right bans. The Czar was tho elect of God, a belief which has almost died out in St. Petersburg since March 13th. Baranoff,who in the early days of the new reign entered the Imperial presence with hie hands in hie packets, will be soon replaced by Heintz, now Governor u£ Eocton. The man enjoying the greatest influence at Court, Pobedonoszeff, is honest, selfdenying, ascetic, but a fnrious fanatic, who attributes the murder of the late Czar to the wrath of Heaveny which was incensed at the Dolgorouki marriage. He recommends the Empress to rg«d the ardent devotional works of St. Thomas of Helios, the k Eempis of Greek theology. It is the only book he will suiter his own wife to read. General Ohanzy, who is for an Extradition Treaty, is the only Ambassador at St. Petersburg who has received the Order of Alexander Newsky, the insignia of which, in diamonds, has just been given to him. Princes Woronzoff and Otloff have uphill work in trying to obtain the convention for which Russian diplomacy is instructed to press, so long as the Czar clings to fa's autocratic power.