The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-14 00:00:00

ALEXANDER 11.

BRUSSELS, Masten 12.
All eyes an now directed to Vienna, where it is
supposed the temper of the new Czar will first be
made known. Meanwhile, since nothing has yet
been done there, attempts are made to deduce his
probable intentions from the few acts of Alexander to
which it is possible to attach any signification. Now
that the text of the Czar's manifesto has arrived,
people are complaining of the very unfair manner in
which the Konigsberg abstract of that document was
draws up. Although some particular names and
phrases contained in the summary, and calculated to
rhake an impression, are also to be found in the
manifesto, it is nevertheless certain that this mea-
sure of verbal accuracy is more than counter-
balanced by the compiler's disregard of the general
tenor of the document which he undertook
to epitomise. There appears to be nothing in the
manifesto itself fairly looked at to entitle it to be
called a defiance to Europe or to modify the situation
am it stood at the death of Nicholas. Another object
of speculation is the probable influence of the Czar's
character on the policy of the Empire. There is a
general impression that Alexander is a good easy man,
and therefore we shall have peace. It is well, how-
ever, to remember that, good easy men are those lent
able to impress their character on contemporary
events, and most likely to be carried away by the
current. The policy of Russia is not a thing yet to be
invented. Alexander, like every Czar possible just
now, has his work before him. This time last year
England saw • set of ministers whose talk wee all
of peace " drifted towards war," and may
not Alexander, supposing him to be the peace-
loving monarch represented in some quarters,
be subject to a similar force of circumstances?
I must here, bo*ever, observe that persons who have
good opportunities of judging of Alexander 11. differ
from the popular estimate formed of him in the
west chiefly upon the statements of one or two tra-
vellers. Alexander has not the violence and coarse-

nese of his next brother, but those who know him
say that he has judgment and firmness, and, with
the inspiration of a great cause, may display an
amount of energy which will astonish those with
whom, as with his brother Constantine, refinement is '
synonymous with weakness. Remark his prompti-
tude on the 2nd of March ; the pro-
clamation issued on the instant; Count /tn.
diger, the first soldier of the empire, called
to the side of the new Sovereign, and entrusted
with that high militag command which his Majesty
was resigning ; and Laden also, another neglected
general, appointed to an important command. The
nomination of the two generals just mentioned has
been held up at Berlin u a triumph of the German
or peace party; bat the appointment of Rudiger,
especially if it be true that he takes also the war
ministry, may signify simply that Alexander will not
be hindered, like his father, by old Muscovite pre-
judice hem employing the first soldiers of the empire,
=if German rue, in the war to which he has
No one asnerioned with the career of
Redly' WM deny that 'at present none of the Slave
gestate, Mentcliikadr, or Gereshakoff, has shown
stranosseletalent or suessefal malts such as he ex-
hibited In the wee with Poland, for instance, in
1831, when he stayed the progress of the viotonoss
Janowski? and turned the tide of victory in favour of
the Rosman arms. Rudiger, of course, feels a con-
cern proportioned to his merit for the military repu-
tation of Russia, and it out hardly be supposed that
the Emperor has recalled him from the military go-
vernment of Wainaw, and a ahem in the lieutenancy
of Poland, without intending to employ his talents
directly, or indirectly, in the war. These are a few
considerations suggested by the intelligence of the
past week. They are not offered as decisive of the
intentions of the new Czar, or as predictions of a cha-
rade, yet to be formed under powerful influences.
They will rather fulfil their purpose if they. show
that the same facts are, in their present incom-
pleteness, mole of opposite interpretation, and
time place the pelltile on its guard against premature
conclusion.