The retirement of the Russian Ambassador, Baron.. Mohienheim, who has been, appointed a member of the Imperial Council of State, is now close at hand.. His successor, Prince Ourossoff, Minister Brussels, is to go to Petersburg next week and will arrive here early in the New Year. Baron Mohrenheim has been here thirteen years and hss helped to bring about a Wonderful change in the relations between France and Russia. When ko was first appointed, French foreign policy, w direction of MI. Jules Ferry, simed at the conciliation of Bismarck and opposed Russia on the ticklish question of Bulgarian sovereignty. From 1884 to 1886 no two Powers were on worse terms thea France and Russia, and behold them now! Baron Mobrenheim's experience ought to be of great value in the councils of the Empire. He has witnessed the fall of M. Grévy, the murder of M. Carnot, the abrupt resiznation of M. Casimir-Périer, and the election of M. Felix Faure; and he has negotiated with no less than seventeen Ministers of Foreign Affairs. He is said to have at first opposed the Franco-Russian alliance, on the ground of the instability of government in France, but of late years he did much to further the desire of the late Czar for the alliance.
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