Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-25
BY TELEGRAPH.
FRANCE INTENT
On the Trend Of Affairs in Russia and the
Opinion Of Nicholas.

LONDON, OcC. 24.-Ilttlc Iurtner rcspeoS
ing the car has transpired. The police
now distribute the official bulletins pub
licly. According to advices received by
physicians here from their conferrees at
Livadia the sickness of the car is taking
its usual course toward fatal issue. His
majesty was better Sunday and Monday,
and worse yesterday, while it is expected
that the loss Of his strength will carry him
10 eternity.
A bulletin, dated Livadia and timed
p. m, was made public last evening. 1t
said During the course of the day the
czar was languid. There were slight con-
vulsive symptoms His appetite was bet
ter than yesterday"
The Franco Russian Alliance
Is not, perhaps, as solidly established as 1t
pleases French optimists to believe. 1t is
not absolutely positive that in the eventu-
atty of Germany extending a hostlle finger
toward France, the whole Russian nation
would rise like one man at the voice OF Its
ruler to rush to the defense.
What might have had some foundation
two years ago under Alexander III can be
Justly questioned today, and would be
still more doubtful in the case of another
sovereign occupying the throne of st.
Petersburg.
The Grand Duke Nicholas was wildly
and favorably impressed by all he saw in
England; he makes no mystery of
his sympathy with British institu-
lions, manners, customs and men;
and if the rift between Great
Britain and France deepens and
widens into an open breach, who can say
whether the czarewitch will remember
with keener appreciation the tumultuous
determination Of Cronstadt and Toulon,
O. the welcome he received at naval and
military reviews ON English soil?
The car and his subjects are only hos
tile to the Roman Catholic religion when
1t is
Turned Into a Weapon
against them by their foes. Other
wise they make little difference be-
tween the Roman and orthodox
faith. When Russians are abroad if
they do not find Russian church, they
attend the Roman Catholic services, and
they remain Indifferent spectators of the
support awarded by the pope to the
French republic, and his seeming secession
from the cause of monarchy.
They are too astute not to know that
nothing is stable in politics, nothing inn
mutable in opinion. Leo XIII is slowly
but surely tottcring to the grave; his ten
ure of the holy see is limited, while on the
other hand a new representative, and an
equally legitimate descendant of the legiti-
mate kings of France, is at hand.
The Due dOrleans
is young, asdent hopeful, bred in the be-
lief of his right, and prepared to infuse
new blood into his cause for he is ham,
pered by none of the respectable but fet-
tering traditions of his predecessors.
A young ruler in Russia, also the heir
of an illustrious dynasty, might natur-
ally feel himself drawn to fellow prince
of his own age, and find him more worthy
of interest and support than the govern
ments that have succeeded each
other with such startling and, on the
whole, ineffective rapidity in the land
from which the son of the Comte de Paris
is an exile, and in which his desire to serve
under the flag of France has once brought
him to prison.