THE FALLEN RUSSIAN MINISTER.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4258, 24 August 1882, Page 2

THE FALLEN RUSSIAN MINISTER.

ThePallMall Gazette says:—" General Ignatieff has not been long in following^ M. Gambetta into retirement. Alike on her eastern and western frontier, Germany has been reliered of a secret dread. Russia, like, France, is.now placed under the guidance of mediocrities, and Prince Bismarck is more than ever master of the European situation. That is the first and most obvious result of the displacement of the Russian Minister of the Interior. General Ignatieff was unscrupulous and cunning, but his preeminent ability has been questioned as little as the uneasiness with which his ascendency inspired his neighbors. All things were believed to be possible with. Ignatieff in power, and the relief which his fall will bring to Central Europe will be only second to that produced by the overthrow of M. Gambetta. For good or for evilj the influence of Germany will be Btreugthenei wherever that influence-, extends. The change in the Ministry of the Interior at St. Petersburg will be felt at Cairo and at Paris; nor can it be "a ' matter of indifference to England thfs4he only formidable rival of the,.' Gen^an Chancellor should disappear on/t^e $Ve'of the coming Conference. At the'fjajfcinning: of the year there were three stateaawn in office in Europe who possessed a Eaijkpeaa reputation—M. Gambetta, General Tgaatieff, and Prince Bismarck. To-day Prince Bismarck.aloae remains, and the whole Continent is overshadowed by that solitary and commanding figure."