The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 25.

TEE death of the Czaerwaren will startle multi-
bodes who think all men mortal but the :ponsessori

or the heirs of sovereign power. It Will strike
them as an interruption of the order of na-
ture, a defeat, by some unseen supremacy of
evil, of the providential dispensation that places the
destinies of millions of mankind at the disposal of
a single family, and removes the lives and fortunes
of a few majestic and lonely beings to a prodigious
height above human troubles and vicissitudes.
There is no democrat, no revolutionist, no leveller
so uncompromising, so regardless of nice distinc-
tions, as Death ; and yet, perhaps, Death is never
more merciful or more considerate than when it
snatches away from the vain skill of science stand-
ing guard around the bed, and from the wondering
despair of courtiers, the unfulfilled promise of a
ParNee's youth.
There was a time when it might have been re-
lated as a strange and happy freak of fortune that
the heir to the Russian Empire had died a
" natural death," if indeed a death from infirmity
or disease could be called "natural" in such a
case. Time, and that " progress " which, after all,
is something better than the jargon of a sect, have
given even the moat exalted deathbeds that one
touch of nature which makes the whole world kin
even to an Emperor. All the sad circumstances
of this young man's lingering illness have become
familiar to thousands of common homes, where
fifty years ago the death of the CZAREWITCH would
have passed as little heeded as the rumour of
an earthquake in the Tropics. In these days St.
Petersburg is but four days' journey from Nice,
and Nice but a few hours' journey from Paris.
All the cities of Europe feel at once one shock of
emotion. The English are an affectionate and a
domestic people, and when they hear of a mother
sleeplessly watching at the pillow of her dying
child, of a father hurrying night and day across
half Europe to receive a son's parting sighs, of a
gentle girl for whom the most aplentLi nuptials
in the world are waiting, called away from her
quiet home to be the bride of Death, it concerns
them little that this was the deathbed of an heir to
the mightiest of thrones. There is one circum-
stance, indeed, in this great affliction which arrests
the sympathy of the English public. The
gentle lady who was summoned from Copenhagen
to Nice to press the hand of the dying PRINCE to
whom she was betrothed, is, it is known, the sister
of a lady very dear to England, and whose joys
and sorrows belong to her second country. And
this sympathy, we need hardly say, is entirely un-
mixed with any political consideration. Dynastic
marriages are out of date ; to the English public at
least it is a question of the slightest possible interest
whether the daughter of a King of DENMARK
is to marry a future CZAR. We are glad
to hear of any Princess of a royal
House so nearly allied with our own
marrying well, but that is the beginning and the
end of any particular interest a dynastic marriage
can excite in this country. Few among us care
to look far enough into the future to discern
any change in the destinies of one governnent or
in the policy of another from a dynastic union.
This solemn meeting and parting at Nice has
made the marriage that was not to be, infinitely
nearer to our sympathies than any marriage that
could have united the sceptres of the greatest
and the smallest monarchy in Europe.
Nor, in truth, do we know enough of the cha-
racter or the capacity of the PRINCE who has been
cut off in his twenty-second year to warrant us in
speaking of his death as a loss to the empire and
to the people he should have lived to rule.
We cannot undertake to say what promise for
Russia or for mankind will be buried in this un-
timely grave. Flatterers and courtiers no doubt
will shake the fringes of the funeral pall with
loud lamentations over godlike virtues and capa-
cities cruelly extinguished. For our part, we plead
guilty of a little scepticism concerning the unac-
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complished destinies and untried virtues of sove-
reign Princes. History warns us that the qualities
which make heirs to absolute power popular are
apt to degenerate into dangerous weaknesses when
the careless boon-companion or the disinterested
voluptuary becomes the irresponsible ruler of mil-
lions of his fellow-crestnres.

Almost all Crown Princes are liberal ; it is so
easy ! Very few liberal Crown Princes fulfil the
promise of those years of ease. The Emperor
NICHOLAS was the hope of the people; the present
CZAR is still remembered for his promise as the
Czarewitch ; yet the two hundred thousand Poles,
men, women, andchildren, who have been mannered
or banished within the last three years will tell
you that the difference between Ai.xxsations and
NicaoLss is the difference between the man who
has the strength of nerve to do deeds of cruelty
and the man who has only strength of nerve
enough to let cruel deeds be done. The one can
sit out an execution ; the other can hardly
sign a death.warrant without loss of appetite.
The happiest epitaph for a young man
doomed from his birth to the unnatural and
inhuman isolation of absolute power is perhaps
the Tu Marcellus eris. Better to be reconciled to

humanity by an early death than 111111 ye to be
pampered and corrupted by the idolatry and im-
becility of mankind, and to be worshipped as
being exempt from mortality. Dorris 'Whew wilk
so wild and blind • rage, day VOW doff, the
beautiful, the good, the tender and true hearted,
while it spares the selfish, the wretched, and the
vile, that we need to be assured once
and again that this mysterious indifference
is a sublime impartiality. Compassion is • balm
of which the gods themselves were said to
be bereft. Happy, perhaps, is it for monarchs
when common human sorrow overtakes and com-
mon human pity reaches them !