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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 18.

A THOUSAND years ago, when pilgrims from
many parts of Asia and of Europe were resorting,
year by year, to Kiev—the holy city among the
hills, to which the capital cities of the world sent
tribute—there was d Scatty in providing resting-
pleces for the compel(' which arrived from the
north and nor•h esat. There was • confluences of a
river and two brooks sod • group of two hundred
ponds at one spot in the steppe, which seemed suit-
able fur the purpose; and on that spot a little
solitary chapel wz.s erected, and a priest was ap-
pointed to *rive it. A few roofs soon sheltered the
pilgrims; and the Katcher, which belonged to them
showed Low great was the ffrtili•y. That little
chapel atilt exists, kokirx much es it did a thousand
years ago, and much as it may do when all around
it bus crumbled into rein. That lowly little old.
fuhioned church is usually crowded with worshippers;
and next enouth it will be as full u it can hold, night
and day. It stands under the shadow of the cathe-
dral of the Assumption at Moscow, where the Cur
ALRIANDER is going to be crowned. Around that
little church have arisen seven cathedrals and six
hundred churches, most of which have five or
more cupolas; so that, judging by the appearance
which it presents to the approaching traveller,
Moscow should be the Holy City par tZellalllCll
of the world. While these churches have arisen
round the antique nucleus, the gardens have be-
come a thousand, and the little lakes have by de-
grees been enclosed within parks and p 1
grounds; so that Moscow I. reasonably the boast of
Russians, for its beauties and pleasures, as well as
for the sacred privileges which make it truly the
holy city of the Muscovite. There will a new Czar
be presently crowned, encompassed by delegations
from the powers of the world of Ger day. All the
pomp that the nations of Europe and Asia can
manifest through their representatives will be
there; and close at hand, within the saeloenre of
the Kremlin i!aelf, there will be exhihked spectacles
more calculated to looter the pride of Resale than all
the magnificence wt.ich will be presented es the
homage of the existing generation. In that range of
galleries which all strangers will visit—that place in
which are preserved all the crowns, canopies, and
marriage robes of all the Emperors—there are relics
w►ich the Muscovites show to their guests with
throbbing hearts. The crown of the conquered
kingdom of Kaman is there, and beside it the crowns
of Astrachan and Siberia. The symbols of the
sovereignty of Georgia are there too; and a plain
mown of height gold, with a cams in the centre, be-
kluging toe throne of blue velvet studded with golden
eMre—the crows and the seat of Guiana, Boman.
lad STANISLAW; Allot:rms. Gifts and trophies are
there from all royal cities from Pekin to Lisbon,
hem every country lying between loelaad and
Madegmear. From the day when dwellings began
to rise mead the chapel is the desert to the tees►
doe et the present Clel, every reign has added
something to the pride of Moscow. First, churches
and palaces were multiplied, and then every sovereign
desired and strove to contribo'e some memorial of the
annexation of a new state. From the time when St.
Petersburg arose out of the swamps, it has been the
ambition and the custom of Rusin monarehe to add
to the row of keys of conquered fortresses in the
cathedral of the new capital, and to the display of
ecewee and thrones in the Kremlin of the old.
It cannot be but that this aspiration most be in
the menvey of every witness of the apprombieg

coronation—from the CZAS himself to the humblest
attache of the smallest legation present. The ques-
tion cannot but be in all minds whether ALax•rraza
IL desires and designs to adopt and fulfil the ambL
don of his ancestors, or whether he is capable of the
higher and better aspiration which it met be re.
nerved for some eovereigne to entertain, sooner or
later. The march of centuries must bring on
the change in civilisation which makes it a die-
geese instead of a glory to carry off moves and
throes. by the strong hand, as men wed to levy the
cattle and the merchandio of the caravan, and to lay
waste kingdoms as barbaric chiefs need to harry their
neighbours' land,. Sooner oe later the day must
come which will show to every potentate that the
kingdom which most requires conquering is his own
with its needs and its faults ; that the keys of his
own fortresses are thaw which he had better hang
up, and that the trophies of educe, sit, and popular
welfare, will shin* more brightly in the eyes of pos-
terity than all the barbaric gold, ivory, and isms,
that the famous Moscow galleries can show. The
coming of that day can no longer be altogether ig-
nored. NICHOLAS talked a. ALRIANDER L had talked
before him of the massing deal he had to do ter hie
people, and of the folly of sapposing therefore that he
dreamed of any aggression beyond his own frontier ;
sad yet he kept up two armies, one for boas
and another for foreign service; a vast force for
the interlard service of the coantry, and a yet
vaster foto., the greed Army always moving
about on the frontier where he erected •
chain of fortresses, and stored the. with war-mate-
rial to as amount with which that of Sebastopol
itself cannot compare. The professions of HLIIIAN-
DER 11. resemble those of his father. What will ►is
asthma be P A series of Cure; with profeedoes of
domestic pea-occupation aid pesos upon their lip.,
have lived solely for aggrandisement by war. Already
the new Cz•e hes excited suspicion by certain move
meats in Asia Minor, in the Black Sea, in the Bald,.'
and la Earmark, while all his talk ha. been of intermit
Improvements and t►e elevation of his people at home.
If he is already too like his predecessors is this die,
orepsecy between speech and actiou, it can hardly be
hoped that the associations of Moscow will sot be too
meek for Dim—that the spectacle of the kingdom. of
the world and the glory of them, epitomised in the
Kremlin, will not be an irresistible temptation to
ban. It may be well that, a. the moment of die.
play—the crisis, perhaps, of a &oho between two
methods of ruling his empire—is drawing near,
another spectacle, equally impressive to those who
know how to regard it, is presented in another pro-
vince of his dominions.

Seventy-three years ago Ruda procured by osa.
quest a truly which pat her is passeesioa of as arm
of the is. which had bent widely sekbrated to
sanest times for its comaiselal area Where the
Greeks lad flourished by seams of their great mart
of Hherna, thus stood only the Tartu Tillage of
/attar what Cs imams IL acquired the Wawa.
Instead of restoring the aseint eauseres, the Caws
hare used the harbour of Sebastopol fee military
purees only. When Comings visited it, the,
year after the treaty whisk truelsered it to bar, a
begiesing of this preparation bed bees raw* sad
the great docks were Walked way a few maths

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