WRETCHED LIFE OF THE CZAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 25 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

WRETCHED LIFE OF THE CZAR.

Most wretched indeed must be the life o f the Czar, if even a tithe of the stories related by usually trustworthy St. Petersburg correspondents may be credited. In the harbor at Peterhof all the vessels have, it is said, frequently been alarmed and searched three times in a single night, while the Imperial yachts are constantly kept with anchors weighed and steam up to facilitate the instantaneous flight of the Romanoff family if occasion demanded. And the belief is current that the Czar has ordered all his movablo property, of every sort, to be moved and safely lodged in some foreign land. Meanwhile the Boyar aristocracy, 'zealotis adherents to the Romanoff, throne, unceasiiigly _ urge the necessity of immediate coronation. This ceremony, they say, would allay the uneasiness in the provinces, stop disaffection in the army arid navy, and greatly add to the Emperor's prestige among the masses, who will regard his authority as having thus received the stamp of' Divine j recognition, • So impressed is Alexander by these arguments, it is said, that he is secretly preparing for a sudden coronation, either in the Kasan Cathedral, St, Petersburg,It'or 1 t 'or in the Palace Chapel, Peterhof, the announcements regarding a coronation at Moscow being made merely to throw the the.track. The reception ol almost endless gratulatory deputations after the coronation is also a source of terror to the Czar, and it is reported that these will be postponed until a safe place and time can be found,'