RUSSIA'S FUIURE RULER.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 64, 18 March 1881, Page 3

RUSSIA'S FUIURE RULER.

What may be in store for Turkey, Germany, or Austria — indeed, for Great Britain itself (says the London Telegraph), from the moment the helm of the kusaian State Bhip shall be confided to the vigorous grasp of Alexander Alexandrovioh, no man can gay. The Czarevich is a Prince cast in a very different mould from that which shaped his weak, amiable, easily-influenced sire. He is known to entertain fixed opinions, resolves, and projects, and to adhere to them with all the tenacity of a singularly-deter-mined and self-relying nature. Of his fervent faith in the Panslavistio dogmas no doubt has been entertained since he came to manhood by those who know him beat ; and his antipathy to all German men and things is no less notorious than his sympathy with the attractive qualities of the French nation. He is bolieved by his countrymen to be before all else a true and nnoompromising Eussian patriot ; to hold in horror the system of peculation, bribery, and administrative fraud that has honeycombed the Empire during the last two reigns, and brought it to the brink of ruin ; to have set his face in particular against abuses of their high fetation practised hitherto with impunity by certain of his own near relatives ; and to have vo\ved himself to the mission, as far as the internal affairs of his native land are concerned, of extirpating, root and branch, the countless abominations tolerated by his father, with what result the Nihilist movement has only too terribly demonstrated. The Ensaian Crown Prince, under whatever title he may assume the active government of his Imperial heritage, co-regent, or other, is generally expected to come forward as a radical reformer at homo ? and as a vigorous promoter of the Panslavistic programme abroad. Should he realise the anticipations at present entertained on his account, it is more than probable that Russia's neighbors in Europe and Asia will, in the course of a few years to come, find ample reason to regret the Romantio union that is about to lead to Alexander Nicolaievick's renunciation of Imperial sway iv favor of Alexander Alexandrovioh