Star.
London, England, 1826-01-05 00:00:00

lof his brother the GI and Duke Nicnot AS, perhaps, in
order to transfer to him the Viceroyship of Poland.
The stay of the *Emperor Cortrtirirtuz at Warsaw,
h btersgA-. forward by some Joni as confirming
the report Ithathe had resigned the crown in fav'bur of
his brother; but really. we see nothing extraordinary
in it, unless we were to suppose that the Russian Prince'
was as eager to seize the crown as our Fifth Harry is
represented to have been. The new Eurznoa has
succeeded to the throne without the slightest opposition,
or even the murmur of discontent, and we see ao reason
why some of the first measures of his reign might not
be organized as well at Warsaw as at St. Petersburgb,
particularly when we consider how frequently the late
EMPEROR was absent from his Capital without any in-

terroption to the affairs of State. The following are
extracts from the Hamburgh Papers received this
morning :

ST. PETERSBURGH, Dr.cafissi 17.

Her Majesty the Empress Mother, has been agreeably
surprised by the return of his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke Michael, from Warsaw, who; following
the voice of his filial affectionate heart, hastened to her
immediately on receiving the news of the death of the
Emperor Alexander.
His Majesty the Emperor Constantine was at War-
saw in good health.

Bulletins are published daily of the health of the
Empress Mother. That of yesterday morning, ten
o'clock, announced that her Majesty, notwithstanding,
her great affliction, was rather better than on the pre-
ceding day.
It was not till the 7th that reports of the Emperor's
indisposition began to be spread abroad. On the 9th,
notice was given that prayers would be put up in all
the Churches for the recovery of our beloved Sovereign.
In the Church of the Convent of Alexander Newsky,
the principal Nobility, Ministers, Generals, Officers of
the Guards, and a great crowd of people assembled.
Suddenly, before Divine Service was ended, Major.
General Niedhardt, chief of the Staff of the Guards,
entered the Church; his face, overspread with a deadly
paleness, but too surely announced the fatal news. He
went up to General Weinow, Commander of the
Guards, and communicated to him the unhappy event.
It was immediately known to all present. The temple
resounded with lamentations, and tears flowed from the
eyes of the brave, who had gone to meet death in the
field with a smile.

All hastened to the palace, where they learned that
at the moment they were putting up their prayers in
the Church, in the presence of the imperial family, an
express had arrived from Taganrog, and that the Go.
vernor-General had communicated the fatal news of
which he was the bearer, to the Grand• Duke Nicholas,'
and then to the Empress Maria.
.• - .•
As soon as the oath to the Emperor Constaigala daa
been taken in the Church, first by the GraUcl Poke Nis
cholas, then by the Council of the Unitirese-Syrrod,,,
the Ministers, and the pancipal Ofilisiti of Sate, till
Generals and Colonels of the regiments.of ihe turd:,
went to receive the oath from their mbn. The colours
having been brought out, each regiment was drawn up
in a square, and took the solemn oath as faithful sub-
jects of his Majesty, with a firm mind, but with tears
for their loss, so that the reading of the form of the oath
was accompanied by the loud sobbing of the soldiers.
The St. Pete? *burgh Gazette corrects an error of the
Press. The late Emperor died, not of the yellow (gel-
ben), but of the bilious (galleys) fever.