The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-23

| masted by the same gale.
1t is reported that several of the schooners recent
| ~ sunk by the gale at Prince Edward Island, h sd
as many as two hundred barrels Of mackerci on
| beard. The vessels belonging to Gloucester
insured for eighteen Thousand dollars, exclusive
Of their cargoes.
George Zimmerman, the prize fighter, was killed,
and another person is supposed to have been fatally
stabbed, in a yesterday afternoon, at Baltimore
Full particulars Of the bloody ARRAY are given under
the telegraphic head.
The last news from Europe has given quite an
impetus to the New Orleans cotton market. Six
thousand bales chsnged hands yesterday forenoon,
at steady prices
John N. Sullivan, Assistant Surgeon in the U. s.
Navy. was yesterday shockingl crushed bet veen
two railroad cars at Baltimore that his recovery is
considered doubtful
Several passengers and two brakemen were Sc
verely injured by railroad collision, near Balti-
more, last evening Fortunately, no person was ,
killed.
In another part of this days impression we pub
sh very able letter from the pen of Thomas Devin
Reilly, in reference to the Irish exies in Van Die
mems Land. 1t is an appeal to General Pierce
use his influence and power in their behalf in Il A.
event of his election; and it will be perused Nh
deep interest by Irish readers and ALL of ey .rr
race, who sympathse with the martyrs of libert y.
We publish full account of the proceedings. YES
terday, of the longshore men, now on a str te in
this city, along the North and East rivers We
also give statement addressed by the men, t. trough
regularly constituted committee, to the rublc.
The reading of the whole will repay perusal
The lines heretofore known the OR a5ily snd
the Morse Western, have recently been uni I'D under
the management of j. d. Reed, Esq, an. lthroueh
the untiring energy and we'll directed efo rs Of th;s
accomplished telegrapher and his after tive sssis-
tants, the press and the public, betwee thie citv
ana ne" orieans' are now being served with great
promptness and regularity. Indeed he National
line, under Mr.. Reeds skilful direct m works be-
tween this city and New Orleans With even more
regularity than the line did to Bost n few wears
ago Our columns bear evidence dai N,os RE truth
of this remark
In addition to several columns Of aSysrt;semeuts
and great amount Of miscellane Ans reading onr
inside pages to-day contain full mort of the arru
ment before the Committee of the Common Council
in the Broadway Railroad Case; letters from Mavor
Kingsland and Col. Webb, co soerning the viii,
nomination for Congress in t. r. Eighth District:
Official Proceedings in the Boa, d of ssistant Alder
men Details of the Disastro ~ Gale in Florida
The Award of Premiums at u N Agricultural Show:
Curious Case of False Impris snent in the Court of
COMMON Pleas; News from Texas and Canada, &c.
America and Europe whats In the Sky.
1t the present crisis o rnyatery appears to hang
over the political affairs of Europe and America
aad the destinies Of tas Old World and tire New
seem linked together 10y marvellous concatenation
Of events and cirecsastanocs ideas and principles
il way that may sot at strike the super6cil Il
observer. but which has meaning of deep import
Co he on ,f f,,c tor
takes keen survey Of the political condition of
mankind, looks beneath the surface of things and
reads the future in the present and the past.
In Europe all is chaos, with single exception
| There is nothing fixed or permanent in England,
| France, Italy, Spain, or the German States. In
England party has sufficient power to govern the
country. Its political condition IL confused, unset
tied, and unsatisfactory to all classes. France is
merging from nominal republic into an empire
what the next change may be in tina. nation is
hidden from mortal ken but it is evident that it
must pass through the throes of other revolutions
before its form of government has assumed consis.
tency and enduring strength. Italy is like sleeping
yolcano-like its own Yesuvius-at any moment the
ava may burst forth from its bowels in a fiery
deluge. Spain, feeble, inbecile, tottering, knows
not lasting peace and its present condition is like
the troubled fevered sleep of sick mans dream,
destined to awaken ere long to agony, and, it may
be, the pains of dissolution. Austria, Prussia and
! the other German States, like treacherous
in the portentous pause before the tempest, or
the quiet before the heaving earthquake The
combustible materials within, and soon
the rumbling sound will be heard, and the
| tremer will be felt. All these countries are in
state oftrsnsition like the earth at the Creation
according to the Mosaic account-when it was
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the face ofthe deep" Beauty, and order, and har-
mony, were developed out of chaos at last; and SO
tits to be hoped with the nations Of Europe, which
now in q chaotic condition. At present, clouds
and darkness rest upon them; and Russia alone
seems exempt from convulsion and change. All
the rest volcanic with France the great crater
in the centre, connected with each and indicating
at every eruption, the troubled condition of its
neighbors The mixed forms of government have been
tried and found wanting Limited monarchy and
the parliamentary system have failed in England
France, and Prussia, ard limited despotism has
failed in Austria. 1t seems that only the extremes
can command permanent success.
Amidst all this jarrng of the political elements,
the only two nations in the world who have fixed
and permanent institutions are Russia and the
/ United States They the only two powers who
are making progress, and xtending their influence
and dominion. The rest are either stationary or
retrogrsde. 1t is singular spectacle, this
two great nations-one in the Old World and
the other in the New-zot only different in
their principles and form of government, but at
extremes opposite the antipodes, yet both adj
vancing upon one common principle, and threaten
ing to absorb the rest of the world They are both
actuated by the principle Of aggrandsement, which
was the great spring of action in the old Roman
republic, which led to all its conquests annexations
and extendedrule Russia is extending her power and