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Show The Czar of Kussia, having aecoui- j plished his object in the opening of, the Euxine to his navy, is for the pres- ent on the most amicable terms with! the Sultan of Turkey. lie has per-! niitted himself to be decorated with a' Turkish order, trod the u?nat felicitous speeches, meaning nothing,, wero delivered de-livered on tho occasion. Aiexauder may not be so stubborn a man as his : father .Nicholas, but he is evidently! more astute.. lie stopped the bloody Crimean war as soon after his father's death as he could with any degree of honor, lie accepted the" humiliation of the treaty of Paris with the best gratis possible. Ho has fostered the commerce and the development of the resources of Ids vast empire; and when cue of his former antagonists was engaged en-gaged in a death strugt.de with an overpowering over-powering foe, he quietly set aside a leading provision of the id-noxious j treaty, and w;ts Mibsequeuily sustained j in the act by a confTe:xv of the great powers. Now he has gone to Berlin,: after showing u-is amiability to Turkey, that he may strengthen fraternal relations rela-tions with his '"illustrious brother" ol Germany. Verily Alexander is a shrewd man, and Europe and the world will hear more of him should his ' spun of lit e be continued a few years longer. |