New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-19

acting belong 10 the the ancient school, and
although many Of them were wont TO swear BY
darkness, and to menace the light with the ire
sistible interference Of the Car, they must now
change their tone and receive new wstch-wOrds. 4
different breeze now blows from high quarters.
The Holy Alliance is dead and buried and happily
for the world and for Russia herself there is for il
no resurrection. The Emperor of Russia has
now recovered the power to act in European az
fairs with freedom Entangling alliances no longer
crarp md influence him. Alexander III. has nOber
aspirations than to settle the disputes between
petty powers and their subjects. As several diplo
matte circulars have declared since his accession,
the Gar does not intend to NEEDLE with the affairs
of other people He does not intend to give up the
interest or influence Of Russia in all great general
international affairs but these her greatness will al
ways render powerful. Russia, if not now the
mightiest, is certainly among the mightest powers
Of the earth: but she will act fairly; she will not
fight through thick and thin for the salvation OF the
principle of absolutism. The overthrow Of this In
Spain is recognized, and diplomatic relations
between the two Courts reestablished. There is
more sympathy for Turin in st. Petersburg than
for vieDna. The present Car has not as yet man
ifested the slightest ambition to act as bugbear
to friehten the people of Europe.
This change of policy has been accompanied BY
change in the most important diplomatic Offices
Prince Gortchakoff, the successor of Nesselrode,
although disciple Of the absoutsm once prevailing
and confessor of its axiOms is ambitious, elastic,
adroit, with mastery knowledge Of affairs and
events, and no small ability. Nor can he ever ac-
quire that influence over the mind of his master,
which half century Of experience gave to Mes.
selrode over that of Nicholas. He will receive the
impulse and conform to it. The secret police is
abolished at home and abroad, and its once con-
trolling influence over diplomacy annihllated. Tie
transposition of Russian diplomatsts throughout Eu
rope was general. Kisseefi, who for more than 20
years bad resided in Paris having risen there from
the place Of second Secretary of Legation to that OF
Minister and Envoy Extraordinary, who had identi-
fed himself with absolutist opinions, and who
was utterly blind to the pOrtents of the Anglo
French alliance, is now in Rome, where ne presents
TO the Pope for acceptance the few Catholic
Bishops required in Russia. His elder brother,
Count Kisselef, for twenty years Minister of Do
mains in Russia one of the few foremost and ntlu-
entail statesmen of the Imperial Government, once
decided liberal and always an advocate of the abo-
litiop Of serfdom reformer of the Domains EN-
bracng twenty millions Of peasants, and who, not
withstaDdiDg his advanced age, is still of active
mind uDprejudiced and uncommitted to any dipo-
matte party of the past, now represents Russia In
Paris. Baron BrinOff, whose name is attached to
various treaties made during the last thirty years,
and who for a long time resided in England, and
was thus at the heart of events, is now at Berlin,
in the highly honorable position of confidential
dplomatist at the court of sovereign in close ai-
ance with bis own. He will have no occasion, as
he has had in the past, to write dispatches innu.
merable and insinuating, but to certain ex
tent authoritative. The days Of his influence,
and of his ambition TO become Minister of
Foreign Affairs, have gone forever. His sue
cessor in London, the Count Chreptowitch, pupil
of his own, and both pupil and son-inaw Of
Nesssrode, represented Russia in Brussels during
the late war. 1t was the neutral ground upon
which to meet Western Europe, and the part was
one Of great difficulty and responsibility ChreptO-
witch did credit to himself in overcoming many
difficulties, and exhibiting the unwonted spectacle
Of o Russian diplomatist dealing respectfully with
liberal opinions and free Institutions Moreover,
the Counters Chreptowitch possesses eminent ability
and holds opinions quite opposed TO the parental
Nesselrodian tradition and example The Baron de
Mayendorf, one Of the great pillars Of absoutism,
and of the system Of meddlesome diplomacy, was to
the last blind in Vienna to the secession Of Austria
fr.u no all ha laar haa
been consoled BY sinecure appointment at court,
but be has sunk forever from the diplomatic horizon
He is succeeded at Vienna BY Baron Budberg,
who is comparatively young man of great
ability, tact cearsightedness, decision and
independence of old and musty routine. Al
most all the new dipOmatists are younger than
their predecessors, and are wholly uncommitted to
the past-men who have gained experience and
been taught much during the last war, which in
itself was 80 Onerous to Russia but in its final and
intrinsic results is 30 beneficial. They will act &C.
cording to the new impulse and tendency Of their
Imperial master, without attempting, as did their
predecessors TO put forward Russia the universal
enemy Of progress and freedom. Finally, these d.
plomatists are surrounded by young men having
wholly new ideas and conceptions; they are sur
rounded by Russians who are continually travelling
in Europe and who are now free from the control of
the old diplomatic police; and all of them anxious
and ambitious to show to Europe that Russia is no
longer the sure defender Of foreign Absoutsm and
bugbear 70 friehten Freedom; and that, in compar
ison with her past the dawn of Liberty is breaking
over her new destnies.