The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-21

o'clock the storm was still ragag with great violence
and the wind was pilng up snow drifts in every d.
rection-
Both branches Of the State Legislature were most
ly occupied yesterday in hearing reports upon
bills, &c. The details possess little interest.
train on the Naugatuck railroad ran OF the
track into the river, near Seymour, Conn.,, yester
day. James Marsh, the engineer, was killed.
The steamboat James Niles sunk in the Falls Of
the Ohio river at Louisville yesterday, and it is
feared that many Of the persons on board were
drowned.
The Board Of Aldermen met last evening, but ad-
ourned at six O'clock to attend the dinner given ct
the Metropolitan Hotel by the Board Of Councilmen.
The Board passed resolution onc1rring with the
Board Of Councilmen for an appropriation Of
| $500 to celebrate Washington's Birthday to-mor
row, and appointed comm ittee of five to make the
necessary arrangements. The Board of Supervisors
also met last evening. but in consequence OF the alb
sence of both the Recorder aud the Mayor, no bust
| nefs was transacted.
In the case Of James Saunders, charged with ha7-
ing been participant in the Fourth Of July riot,
and whose trial in the Court OF General Sessions has
now lasted week, the counsel for the defence pro-
ceeded to sum up the evidence at IOI AM yesterday,
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District Attorney afterwards commenced summing up
the testimony for the prosecution, but did not con-
| sumo quite so much time the gentleman who pre-
| coded bin. At the close of the argument on both
sides it being rather late in the evening" the Court
adjourned for the cay. At 10 o'clock this merning
the Recorder will deliver his charge to the jury,
who will, doubt, render their verdict at an early
hour.
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tunate steamship San Francisco, arrived in the city
yesterday.
The News from Europe sne Contemplated
Congress at Brussels.
The intelligence brought by the Baltic yester-
day developes no new facts with which rumor
had not already acquainted us; but it confirms
officially most of the statements which our pre-
vious European advices enabled us to Law be-
fore our readers. On the 9th, in reply to iater-
pellations put to him by the Marquis of Clanr-
carde, Lord Clarendon stated in the House
of Lords that the proposals, or rather the
counter project" presented to the court of
Vienna on the part of the Emperor of Russia
through the medium Of Count Orloff, had been
formally rejected by the representatives of the
Four Powers, and that there was no reason to
suppose that fresh negotiations would be re-
newed. The details of this project, as
given in the ministerial organ, the London
Times. surpass in extravaganza the previous
ideas that had been formed Of their character.
They would almost go to establish the truth of |
the information conveyed a short time since in |
the st. Petersburg correspondence of one of the |
London papers that the Gear was becoming
crazy under the combined influence of ambition
and fanaticsm, and that he believed himself in
spired with divine mission, in which he might
safely undertake crusade against all the M,
tions Of the world. 1t is difficult to account |
for the audacity and insolence that characterize
this project by any other hypothesis short of |
hopeless insanity, for it not only renews in
stronger terms than ever, all his original de- |
mands upon Turkey, but it seeks to reduce |
the German Powers to o condition Of subjec- |
ton to his will little short of vassalage |
Had he been trying to devise one proceeding |
more likely than another to wound the pride and |
arouse the Independent feelings Of the govern
ments to which it was addressed, he could not
have hit upon happier expedient. 1t is fortu.
nate for the interests Of humanity that God, in
endowing him with ambition, has denied him
reason and judgment for with these attributes
combined he would have been the scourge and
terror of the human race.
The decisive attitude which these arrogant
pretensions have at length determined the gov
ernmeDts of Austria and Prussia to assume, re
moves, as we observed yesterday, all grounds
for serious apprehensions as to the peace
Of Europe being for any length of time Sc
riously compromised by this modern Tanner
lane. Immense as are his resources, they will
be found scarcely adequate to protect his own
frontiers against the hosts of enemies that his
insane ambition is conjuring up. Between the
Turks and Circassians in the South the Austri
ans and Prussians in the West, and the allied
fleets menacing his coasts both in the Baltic
and the Black Seas, he will find sufficient to oc
cupy his attention without dreaming of fur
Their projects of aggression. Gagged like some
ferocious beast in his den, he may beat against
the bars that hem him in; but he will be no
longer in a position to inspire apprehension.
As his safe-keeping may, however, prove costly,
some other means must be resorted to to render
him for the future impotent and harmless.
The gigantic strides which the Power OF
Russia has been making for the last century
ard half, and the projects of conquest and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT which she has developed in her
encroachments upon the Turkish Empire have
long occupied the attention of European states
men, and aroused them to the necessity Of OPP
posiN some efiectual obstacle to her designs.
Owing to the generally astute character Of her
policy, and the diversity Of interests that have
hitherto actuated the other European Powers,
no favorable opportunity for carrying out this
idea has presented itself until now The
obstinacy or rather the Madness of Nicholas,
by isolating him from all political SYM
patty and support has at length Gre