The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-30 00:00:00

_THE cu....F. OF ALL TAB. Itp!lgAil.

£Lø.AEDLI 11. -girn;m7d rci;
.in—oones-
guano. of his retationship to old Mich—the Nice-alma I
who caused the Crimean war, we msan—slthough born
to his mother on Apra 19th, 1918, ham sun to be borne
by the world in tbk present year of grace, which he
has done so much to make one of everlasting du-grace.
The old gentleman, papa, will be further pleasantly
remembered as the Our who made order reign in
Warsaw, by the simple expedient of first of all making
it bail bullets,

He characteristically placed hies= Alexander under
the care of • German general named Mosrder, •
warricw who, seemingly, mast hare Instilled principles
in his young pupil of a decidedly " )(airdrome
character.

When its was 16, the Cawywich was pnxdainzed of
age, and was eppolnbsd to a military command; bat
he grew so rapOy out of his uniform, that his strength
failed him, and his father sent him to Germany to
amuse himself till his health was established. Though
constantly on the Spree whilst in Berlin, the young
prince longed for domestic life, and some one to
• tutoyer." even if it were a Teuton. So he married
into the King of Prussia's family.
I n 1855, his father, suocum to defeat and vexa-
tion, made way for his eon, found war such a
losing game, be was soon eager to make it psis. So
Prince Gortecbakoff went to Paris, and, with his
tongue in his cheek, signed a treaty which might have
been made of plaster of Paris, so completely has it
been smashed up since.
Pesos secured, he set himself with much zeal to
correct abuses, coming down with much severity
on the many public functionaries vrito had long been
the public moneys. Before
alLordiseanfiiberla, be 'adrenal than wlthsengt
dignity in this wise: "What you hers been doing it
-is alone my prerogative to do Your Czar can effect
all the misappropriation of the national property that
Is necorsary. Away with you I"
As the news of his magnanimity spread, the
unhappy Poles were filled with fresh hopes. Surely,
thought they, be will not cut us up into quite so many
pieces as his father; and they were thankful in
anticipation for this small mercy. And their gratitude
well grounded when Alexander Issued •
appeared
the return of the exiled countrymen
of Kosciusko to their fatherland. It was not, how-
ever, until the refugees closely examined this document
that they noticed its postscript, which, like that of •
lady's letter, was more important than the decree
itself. The P. 8. made the leave to return dependent
on the exiles' willingeses to fall at the feet of the Czar
and ask his humble pardon for having had their
fathers shot by his. In moreover provided that in no
case should confiscated property be numbed so its
rightful owners. So that lhis Is what this belauded
proclamation of the clement Alexander amounted to :
All tbs evils wrought upon you and yorsonrel,,reff
sainted father I magnanimously consent to
"Bairn-n, Uses, my children, not to year homes,
for I /um oosisoatod Wm, but to mos Mud
whaml ow /ivy tom IP/ yon, end the pall=

be forgiven l'
Alexasithe will not be known out/ as the tietron of
the Foley however. He dames, moreover. the Proud
title of the Liberator of the Beds.
To fully approdate the grand didoterestedness of
this glorious act, It should lee bores in mind that the
Omar personally had nothing to lase by its performance,
whilst, on the other hand, he staved off by it. means a
rising, by which be and his dynasty must
Pr Inevitably have been swept away. He gave away, In
fact, what was not his to give with • right Cur.like
munificence, and boners& his nobility with • true
IRouianoffish unconcern. In fact, it was on the
desperate straits into which oertain of his most faithful
nobles had been reduced by his ukase being represented
to him. that he made, with • grim smile, the only jolts
with which hidoliiredits him.
I "Serf them tI" he exclaimed, "serf them
right I" and, with e same, signed the warrant which
committed two, who had ventured to respectfully
protest, to the salt-tninas for life.
In 067 Russian America was sold to the United
States for something under £2,000,000 darling, to the
mutual satidaotion of the vendor and the vendee. The
population sold having the greeted interest in the
iguanodon was, naturally enough, not consulted In 1
any
way whatsoever • a fact which affords us another
stalking proof of the .01ar's paternal solicitude for the
happiness of his children, is., his people.
11. will be remembered, also, as the
humane despot who so prominently contended for the
observance of the Geneva Convention regulations In
time of wsr. It was but natural that the fatherly
ruler who braided his own subjects, and banished
them es nesse, untried and unoonricted, to that most
horrible death-in.lif • existence in the mines, should be
solicitous of the feelings not only of his own soldiers,
but of those of foreign powers. It outraged his tender
heart to think that explosive bullets should ever be
used in battle; though, in the recent war, the Torkish
wounded have cussed the cruel fate which led him to
be so considerate. "Better far," the poor Ottoman
wretches have thought, AB they have died by thousands
of sheer starvation, kicked and cuffed to the last by
their brutal captors, "that we had been blown to
pieces in the fight, than reserved ire such hellish
tortures as them. An explosive bullet could but have
killed, and that right thoroughly and expeditiously;
but wheel, there to come an end to the agony we are
now made to suffer, because we have fought for our
country and our Faith!"
History, calm and philosophical, will know quite
well, however, how to deal with the unreasonable
outcry of ignorant kfussulmans. As to Alexander,
his effort. to add to the amenities of war will not be
=ten. Nee will public opinion fail to protest
the prejudiced individuals who see in his
merciful endeavors but an attempt to preserve for
future me that very costly article, the common soldier;
who, if smashed up in his battle, would evidently not
be so available for future fighting as he might be made
when only slightly injured.
It should have been mentioned before, perhaps, that
Alexander warn till lately a man of large and strong
physique ; and no one, looking at his portrait with hie
mane and style set out beneath it, would fall to see
that an emperor was before his eyes. Were the same
portrait to be presented for view, with "Alexander
Romanoff, Horewdealer,' Inscribed beneath it, the
notion that he to hed exactly like what he was said to
be would be equally strong in the observer's mind.
To the little ask at Kill's it is eareely necessary
to allude, m frequent ~f late have been the allusions to
this episode. Briefly it oomes to this: the Czar gave
his solemn word to our Government that libiva should
not be retained by his troops. In course of time, it
was duly occupied by the hiuscovitee, and it become •
question which should be kept—Khiva, or the Czark
word of honour.

Of course there was no hesitation in any ordinary
ROMilliel mind as to what was the prover coarse.
Mendacity is instinctive in the Muscovite ; though,
for deoeiving's asks, Alexander declared he was
coerced into yielding, there was no doubt, when once
It came under consideration, that it wee Khiva, and
not his word, which would be kept.
The singular thing is, that after the instance of
Alexander's lack of honor and truthfulnese, that after
be had given Europe notice as plainly as he could that
his word meant nothing and his oath no more. English
statennen should have been found childishly ingenuous
enough to listen to his fair promises. No one has been
more nirprised than the Czar himself at the un-
accountable reliance placed by England on his men,-
anent made to Lord Loftus just as the war broke out;
and, though ordinarily abstemloas, be is said to have
made a night of it at Livadia with General Ignatieff
on learning from London that his tears and pro-
testations had caused the British Government to
promise. on their part, conditional neutrality.
Two attempts have been made oa his life: the
first by a Russian peasant; the second, at Paris, by
the Pole Berezowski. Neither of the pistol shots took
effect, however, perhaps because they were fired at so
wide an intarral—oertainly not less than twelve
months.

Alexander is very fearful, though, that he will not
live to see his sixty-first birthday, and has wasted
away to a shadow of his former s4l. Nor is this very
surprising, seeing how many of his actions have been
undeniably shady'
The part be has filled in the recent war will be fresh
In our readers' minds. He has again posed as the
Liberator, hut that game is about played out, and the
Treaty of San 4tefsno exposes Russia's hand with a
completeness that has probably convinced everyone
of her shamefully corrupt and selfish motives, except
Mr. Gladstone, e Rev. Mslcoltn McColl,
KhAr th
Freeman, and the editor of the Daily Newf.—
/Para .

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their conductor, with a testimonlaA expressive of their
appreciation of his service@ to the society. The testi-
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and bronze, with side ornaments to match. The hese of
timepiece bore the following inaeriptioa —" Wm. P.
Aylward. Kee. from the members of the Sarum Choral
Society in grateful acknowledgment of his fkill, klndli-
new, and untiring care as their conductor. March 18th,
1878 "—Salisbury sad WiNekeiter JounsaL
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