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      THE CZAR IS DEAD . The Errrperor of all the Hussias is dead . The hazardous game at deadly bowls that he had opened in Biicrope , against the field , ds not played out j the score was running . against ham ; and he is removed before he eould tell whether the will of Peteb the

      G-beat was a dream or a forethought , the charter or the doom of the Imperial house . The war which Russia has provoked has been full of surprises ; but it was reserved for " pulmonary apoplexy" to give us the greatest surprise of all . The event suggests a crowd of . questions , but some will press hard for a prompt solution .

      Is " pulmonary consumption" the real judgment of the physicians , or is it a euphemism for the hereditary malady of the Czars ? A Czar has been described as walking with his father ' s murderers before him , his brother ' s behind him , and his own on each " side ofEini "' r i ^ W "' "tn'C > s ' e ~ "ptiiblic- - iunc *' tionaries of Russia been at their work ? Probabilities are in favour of a departure from the understood rule . [ Nicholas , some few years back , startled visitors by his altered

      aspect—aged and haggard . His health had suffered fearfully from a cause at once shocking and ludicrous—from the effect of displacement under excessive tight-lacing ; but he could not abandon his belting any more than an ominous erysipelas in . the legs could make him surrender his jackboots : and pulmonary apoplexy is the probable end of a frame physically over-strained and exasperated , by imperial angers .

      W hat effect will this sudden event havo upon the Russian succession ? The last demise of a sovereign was the occasion for mysterious intrigues and military demonstrations ; and it was understood that the late Emperor contemplated a course not unusual in his house—the setting aside of the mild Cesarovich and the crowning of the younger but fiercer Constantino . Will that be the

      result ? Heirs apparent , however mild , do not always surrender their pretensions without question ; will St . Petersburg , then ,, be the scene of a civil coutcst , while Russia stands at bay against the legions of Europe ? On the contingency of the succession deponds the third pressing question— 'Whatl will be the effect of this sudden iato upon ! the war ? Will Russia persevere , or yield ? Her official enemies at Vienna would probably aid her to yield : a milder Czar

      might bring a . sudden peace . .. 'Hat wiould n ^ t a CoTSBTAJSTUSTE excelhia . -father inl ) ittexae ^ 8 and presuniption ? 33 he feet is , that fi ^ e elements of the calculation . are too many too potent , too little knowji , even , 'for ' conjectural solution . The events of the few years commencing the second half of thie century have thrown the European powers into new combinations . We have a desperate adventurer placed upon the neck of France ; a young soldier succeeds the imbecile Emperor

      of Austria ; and now we have a feeble and sickly young Czar , inheriting the most presumptuous hopes , andthebitterestjbecause the most recent , disappointments . These be not elements of peace ! But each of these Imperial Princes has stalking behind him a domestic fiend : . Napoleon has a cousin , who denounces his policy in pamphlets ; Francis Joseph is dogged by the ghost of the wrongs which his House has committed on-the peoples that chafe under his bayonets ; behind the young

      j Czar , be it Michulkl or Coqststantine , stalks a Pretender to the throne mined already by disaffection and conspiracy . Prussia will abet any intrigues to shuly » shally into quiescence ; our own puny and paltering statesmen , who never tell us what they do until it be done , would snatch at any presentable peace , if it were only to stop debates in Parliament on the estimates , to save the

      remnants of aristocratic privilege , and to gag Manchester . Peace , therefore , will it be , if possible ; and if not possible , then war , bloody , vast , and uncertain ; for there are more questions to settle than this one , and on that fatal ridge of the Chersonese the honour of England has yet to be affirmed . What is that clod of dust and ashes called a Czar , that it shouldrvex the world with its giant puerilities , and not be laid to rest for ever ?

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      THE MONITEUR" ON THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION . " It is the British Constitution that is under trial . It is on trial not before the British people alone , but before the whole world . Everywhere is it spoken against . It is the jest alike of our enemies and our allies . " Thus spake the Times on Friday , the 16 th of February , in a fit of sincerity , which has since-passed- off- under , the . cheerful influence of a second Ministerial crisis .

      But these words have been amply verified by an article in the Moniteur , which is nothing more nor less than an elaborate attack upon British institutions as contrasted witli the stability and dignity of the Napoleonic regime . To those who have sounded the abysses of that mystification under which France now lies seemingly acquiescent , to those who have penetrated the realities of that misc en scene , it may seem superfluous to examine in some detail this latest

      production of the Imperial pen . In Paris the article is very generally attributed to Loins Napoleon himself ; and remembering that his style lias deteriorated since his accession to power , we see no intrinsic improbability in the authorship . Is it that the freedom of our institutions disturbs the slumbers of the Tuilerios ? No

      doubt liberty is a contagious example ; but the Emperor of the French may be reminded that even independent English journals hare , out of respect to an alliance which all England desires to make eternal , dealt tendorly , and even respectfully , with the existing institutions of France so uncongenial t . n n .. r own . and out of respect and sympathy

      for the French nation haw abstained troiu recalling tho antecedents of the Cluof of the State . Perhaps the Imperial Government might decently have observed equal circumspection and tho same reBenve . Wo wouJJd rather not believe it possible" that iv mail in

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      B .. BAIX , whd -urged * ha t the advocates * of the ? ittee had insisted upon its appointment for the . f Battefying ^ the public anxiety ; and navr proposed ri the pubHc dot of- doors during ^ hefr-Jaqmros . G . Burr tbaught .- durt ^ e / aiiquiry '* flaldjdwt * e £ tory unless it were gublie . , ~ C d Palmekstoic 'had stated his opinion concerning nger that attended ihe inquiry ; but as the House asolved upon- undertaking it , he thought that it t be conducted * with fell publicity . Ifc was imposfco secure absolute secrecy . Portions of evidence transpire throngh various channels , or from the ses themselves , and it was better ta let the public everything rather than allow them to be misled bled and imperfect information . I ) isr £ ei . i expressed his dislike to secrecy , and id that he did not share the apprehensions enterin other quarters' respecting the alleged perils ing the inquiries of the Committeerelative advantages of an open or secret investiwere briefly discussed by Mr . Dnanmoad , Mr . Mr . Roche , Mr . J . Ball , Mr . T . Duncombe , apier , Sit H . Willoughby , and Mr . Bowyer . itely , Mr . Roebuck yielded to the evident wish of iuse , and withdrew his motion for a secret invesi , recapitulating at the same'time the reasons led him to believe- that ^ a : close committee i-would een the best . house then went into committee of supply , and rincipally occupied with the Army Estimates , were gone through .

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      HOUSE OF EORDS . 3 > EATH OP THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA . Earl of Clajtoicarde , soon , after the meeting of use , rose and ^ said : — r lords , I think it my duty to inform your lordf the contents of a telegraphic despatch which I i half-an-hour ago from her Majesty ' s Minister EEague : ¦ he Emperor of Russia died this morning between and one o ' clock , of apoplexy , after an attack of sa . ' have also , my lords , received a despatch from also informing me of the death of the Emperor ia . An hour before this despatch arrived , I rean account firom . Lord John Russell , who ¦ is- at stating that the Emperor of Russia was at . the t death , and that , he had already taken leave of lily . I apprehend , said Eis lordship , although ent occurred at so late a time as between twelve j this morning , there can be ho doubt of the auity of the information . " hen appealed to Lord Lyndhurst to postpone hison the subject of our relations with Prussia , to the noble and learned lord assented . HE CA-VAIJtV CHAKGE A . T BAX . AKXAVA . Earl of Lucax (" who appeared for the first time louse ) , stated that immediately on his arrival in mtry from the Crimea , he had taken steps to L . that his conduct with reference to the cavalry at Baiakiava , shouldT ) e " investigated by a Court-. He should not now , do more than read the jndence which had taken place between himself , Uce of Newcastle , Lord Hardinge , and Lord . The principal letter was that -which has apin the papers , and in which he defends himself Lord Raglan ' s charge of m misconception of the jiven him . Tho other letters -merely showed that declined to withdraw that letter , and that cbn-; l y he hnd been removed from his command . No ion took place on- tho subject .

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      ( By Continental Telegraph . ) Berlin , Thursday Night . 1 John Russell is to remain hero only two : he opening of the Vienna Conference is so approaching it is doubtful if Prusaia will bo ; nted nt the beginning . m Usedom or Count Alvenaleben are , howl csigmited as probable Prussian Plenipoten-3 rumoured that the negotiations between i and France have been interrupted by unoxdifflculties . Boulogne , Thursday Evening . Emperor arrived hero at five o ' clock , after havitcd the camp at Helfaut . Madrid , Thursday . religious basis " of the Constitution has been l > y a majority of 148 . Vienna , Thursday . greater part of tho troops in Bohemia have id orders to move to Gullicin . They are to be sd by several regiments coming from Italy , troops in the Principalities will bo augmented 00 men . French Military Envoy , General Lc'tang , liad srview with tho Emperor , and assisted ' at a LI of War .

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      TO COB ^ SPON ^ RNTS . During the Session ^ of Parliament : it is often impossible tq findTOmttft > reorrespoiKtence , «»©» t « hehriSfest . ? Nb notice can toe taken-. ; of . anonymous- communications "Whatever is iritehdedtfor insertion must toe autnenticarea fey « he nam ^ and address- of the imter ; not aaotmaante ¦ Tor publication , nu * as ^ guiwantee of his go ^ faith . _ Commuriicattons should always be * leggbry WTmen / and . on one aide of the paper only If lolrr , it increases sbhe difficulty of finding space for them v . . "We cannot undertake to returnrej « ete « communications .

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      There is nothing so revGlutionary , "becauaB titereis nothing so vuinatixral and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the-world-is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dii * Absoxd

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2080/page/11/