Show affidi ta haila russian affairs look in a tory baal W way just now new for not only has the th cholera followed t the famine while of co course urs 0 nihill nihilism in still is rAmp rampant sint but moreover the czar the czarina the crowitz czar owita and the prime mini minister ter ia M do de giers are all very unwell tho the emperor and the statesman being really very seriously indisposed As a matter of fact the strength ot of alexander HI has always been gr greatly batly exaggerated because he is big and mu cular he is ia supposed to have a robust constitution he ha has plenty of muscle and st petersburg is always ringing with stories wore more or less true of extraordinary displays playact of the imperial strength lifting heavy weights crushing with his hand all kinds binds of metal things etc but what one does not hear to co much about is that his majesty has comp completely loUly lo 10 loat s t his hb appetite during the past eighteen months and moreover that lis he hu his nervous symptoms which would indicate that he is going the way so 0 o tar far a as his health is concerned of his hia ancestor paul to make matters still worse kis his mosi moat trusted physician professor la is just dinst dead of cholera and the cz czar is rightly or wrongly said to be the th most difficult patient to manage in all europe private priva a information received here in berlin from a most authentic and hig high ix source intimates that a sari series es of events of terrible importance ix is likely to take place in russia perhaps before christmas the vast russian empire may have experienced changes which w will ma affect feet it in all its it length and breadth br edth berlin letter |