New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-26
RUssIA AND AUSTRIA.

Among the intelligence brought by the Adriatic
is telegraphc dispatch reported as received in
Vieupa from ST. Petersburg, that "the good I'M
derstandpg between Russia and Austria ought
" FEVER to have been interrupted" If this be
official, then we may add to it that fatality
is stronger than the best wishes, impulses, or In
tentions, and events which may bring about the
overthrow of the BourbOns and the Hapsburgs
may make an end of the ROmanoHs also. If the
telegraph speaks the truth, then it is only proof
that Alexander H. is following in the steps OF his
uncle Alexander l., who began as highmlnded,
liberal reformer, and ended as misanthrope and
despot. But the liberal and noble career of the
uncle lasted longer than that Of his nephew; be-
sides, Alexander l. had not the inherited ex-
perience of his two successors, Nicholas l. aud MS
SOD, in repeated Austro. German treachery. Ii
Alexander III. has really thrown himself into
the hands of Germans of the secret police, and
OF the spies of Austria, because Gsrbaldi has
expelled an Infamous tyrant from Naples-if he
believes that this expulsion and the reorgan-
zation of Italy endanger Russia and his throne
then he may be assured that a legitimacy so
coupled with that of the Hapsburgs or Bour-
bous. is not worth a farthing The time is
past for the Russian people to yield dumb
obedience to the whims of their a1tocrats
Nicholas frightened to the utmost the rens of des-
potifm aid broke them forever. Alexander L.,
with all his absolutist and German friends. advis
eIs and generals, will be unable-and this we
assert empbatically-to bring the Russian people,
the Russian army, into line with the Austrians,
to oppose the liberating armies of the Southwest.
The Establishments of diplomacy may have made
him forgetful of Austrian treason in the Crimean
war. But not SO the people; not so the bereayed
and widowed families; not so the masses who bore
the brunt of prlyations Losses and sacrifices. Not
Orlofs and Nesselrodes, but the enduring bravery
and devotion of the people saved the national honor
of Russia at SeyastOpOl. These masses know too
well that Austria and the Germans would prefer
to see the crescent over st. Sophia rather than
tie cross; that Austria is the greatest impede
ment 10 the emancipation of Christians and of the
Slsy from the hdeOus, bloody, degrading sway of
the Moslems. The Russian people know that Gar
ibadi ia fighting for the hottest rights and interests
and that the rule Of the Bombas foIms bloody
P'ko III tno nistoi) VI uosPousM' Dus, aooFo ah,
the Russian nation feels through all its veins that
ii is reaching its full strength, and that it cannot
be trifed with by Alexander Ill. 1t remembers
that the majority of its oppressors now intrusted
with power, the creators of its secret police, its
censOrs, and most Of its spies, have been and
aer chiefly German yagabonds, who came to Russia
TO make, tas am nefas, their fortune The whole
nation will remember that the stains in the ma
tional history, the nightly murders and police
cOnspiracies, are principally of German origin.
And, above ALL the Russian people may suddenly
wake up to the fact that the Romanofs are no
Romanohs at all, but Holstein- GOttorps, and that
in their veins there flows not drop of Slavic
blood nor of that of Peter the Great, their puta-
tive ancestor.