RUSSIA'S NEW EMPEROR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 729, 29 March 1881, Page 2

RUSSIA'S NEW EMPEROR.

Writing a few weeks ago about the Czarewitch, who, by the death of Alexander 11., has become Emperor of Russia, the London Daily Telegraph observed " What may be in store for Turkey, Germany, or Austria—iudeed, for Great Britain itself—from the moment the helm of the Russian State ship shall be confided to the. vigorous grasp of Alexander Alexandrovich, no man cr.n say. The Czarewitch is a prince cast in a very different mould from that which shaped his weak, amiable, easily-influenced sire. He is known to entertain fixed ■ opinions, resolves, and projects, and to adhere to them with the tenacity ,of a singularly determined and self-relying nature. Of his fervent faith in the Panslavistic dogmas no doubt has been entertained since he came to manhood by those who blow him best; and his antipathy of. all German men and things is no less notori. ous than his sympathy with the' attractive qualities of the French nation. He' is believed by his countrymen to be before all else a true and uncompromising Russian patriot;.to' hold in horror the' system of peculation, bribery, and administrative fraud that has honeycombed the Empire during the last .two reigns, and brought it to the brink of rain; to have set his face in particular against abuses of their high station practised hitherto with impunity by certain of his own near relatives, and to have bound himself to the mission, as far as the internal affairs of his native laud are concern, ed, of extirpating root and branch the countless abominations tolerated by his father, with what result the Nihilistic movement has only too terribly demonstrated. The Russian Crown Prince, under whatever title he may assume the active governments hislmperial heritage, co-regent or other, is generally expected to come forward as a Radical reformer at home and as a vigorous promoter of the Panslavistic programme abroad. Should lie realise the anticipation at present en tertained on his account, it. is inoi'e than probable that Russia's neighbors in Europe aud Asia will, in the course of a few years to come, find ample reason to regret the romantio union that is about to lead to Alexander Nicolaievich's renueSfion of Imperial sway in favor of Alexander Alexandiwicli."