The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-26
SHOWS No FEAR.
Emperor Alexander Calmly
Awaits the Call Of Death.
Lord Rosebery Pays Tribute-Grsat
Britain's Obligation to the Gar.


LONDON, Oct. GA dispatch from st.
Petersburg says 1t Is reported that DIR.
Zacharin Is opposed to an operation being
performed upon the cxsr.
A bulletin issued from Livadia late last
night says: Neither somnolencs nor spas
modic symptoms were observed today. His
appetite Is satisfactory. The odema did
not increase as usual.
The Local Anzioger Of Berlin publishes
an interview with Professor Bergmann,
who was reported as having refused to 60
TO Lvadia to attend the czar. Professor
Bergman declared that surgery was use
less I'm the cars case, because both of his
kidneys were affected, and the removal of
both Of them would be as bad as behead-
ing him.
The Cologne Gazette has the following
dispatch from st. Petersburg: The czar's
strength is daily decreasing, but he awaits
death with perfect composure. In order
TO counteract the depression of those about
him, he has ordered that the band ut the
palace play during lunch time The
czarina, though suffering severely, never
quits her husbands side. She sits for
hours beside the armchair occupied by the
emperor and watches by his bedside when
has made All his arrangements with q
view TO death. He has completed his will,
and has verbally advised the czarewitch
% consult NJ. Dunge, president of the
committee of ministers on political ques-
tions, and also 20 consult Grand Duke
Michael on family matters.
Ii Is reported that the czarina is In q
very nervous condition. She suffered an
attack of lumbago before she reached the
Crimea.
Naturally there Is great anxiety on the
cars account, but there are no apprehen-
sions for the future, except the holders Of
high Offices who fear they may be super
seeded. Ii is expected that there will bc
extensive, though gradual, changes In tho
internal affairs of the empire In the event
of the cars death, but the diplomatic cir
cular from the foreign Office, which it is
customary 10 issue upon the demise Of the
crown, will doubtless announce that there
will be no change in the foreign policy.
The Official Messenger of st. Peters
burg, commenting on the profound sym.
pathy expressed by the foreign press, ob.
serves that France, more deeply than any
other state, feels how differently would
have been the relations OF the European
powers but for the cars pacific influence.
Rosebery's Estimate of the Cxar.
Lord Rosobcry made an address last
night Mt the banquet of the Cutters So
ciety OF Sheffield, i'm which he paid a high
tribute to the czar. The prime minister
said that the present moment of shadow
clouded the domain OF foreign politics.
There was not thoughtful mind in
Europe that did not turn to the sick bed
in the Crinea.
Great Britain, he added, had in times
past had acute subjects OF difference with
Russia, but he felt certain that there was
nobody who wns aware OF what had hap
pened in Europe during the last IL years
who did not feel the isnmeasurable debt of
obligation that Great Britain lay under to
the czar.
Continuing ne said: "We had in him
monarch whose watchword was reign,
rni whose character had been worship
of truth and peace" He would not say
that the ear would rank among the Caesars
and Napoleons. But" he said, ''if peace
had her victories not less renowned than
war, he would reign in history as not less
entitled to fame than either Caesar or Ma
poleon. It was due to his character and
influence, as much as to any other cause,
that peace had been preserved. His death
would mean the removal Of one of the
greatest, perhaps the greatest guarantee Of
peace In the world.