THE DANGERS OF A CROWN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 119, 10 January 1880, Page 2

THE DANGERS OF A CROWN.

The fable of the town and count: rats is illustrated in these modern tin.-. tlw. nitondant U|iO.. the lives and travels of King and Emji.1 rors. The Imperial ruler of All the Russia* recently found his capital too h.-t to hold him. After having been fired at once or twice, he bethought him that be would retire for shelter to his beautiful villa at Livadin, in the Crimea. He escaped from St. Petersburg like n thief in the night. His carriage was escorted by triple hedgerows of through whoso bodies a bullet must pass ere it could reach the Imperial person. In this ark be drove to the railway station, which was completely, surrounded |hy police men and soldiers, and thus protected ho made his way to a railway carriage, which was ironclad, like one of our war-ships, with bullet-proof panels, llotachmeiiis of Cossacks galloped up and down the whole extent of the railway, and pine tiros glared at intervals of each hundred yards to impede his Majesty's loving and loyal subjects from demonstrating their regard for their Czar by placing stones or rails on the line. The recital of the old Herman Emperor's journey to Stnishurg and to the Kaiser Parade in his newly acquired province is a modified repetition of his nephew’s method of making his way through his dominions, i he same story is told in thn same terms of the extraordinary precautions imposed hv common prudence upon the police and military. No professions were raised that those measures wore adopted for the protection of the venerable Emperor against the vengeance of French patriots ihe foes dreaded by the Imperial traveller were his own Socialist subjects, the form which Nihilism has assumed elsewhere.—Morning Advertiser Correspondent.