The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-08
OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE
The Important News from Europe.

BY the arrival of the steamship Alps at Boston.
and Atlantic at Sandy Hook, we are enabled to lay
before our readers very complete synopsis OF one
weeks later news from Europe. Our summary
would have been far complete had not the lat
ter vessel got aground at the Hook. We are sorry
to say she had not succeeded in getting of when last
heard from.
The news brought by the Atlantic is most mpor.
tant. 1t was announced in the Paris Mon,ear-the
official organ of the government-that the Cars
reply to the Napoleon letter had been received in
that city the 18th ultimo and that the overtures
for peace arrangement which were contained in
that important paper had been rejected by Nicho-
las. 1t was the opinion Of the Monitem that after
the decided negative of the Russian autocrat there
remained no chance of pacific solution of the East
ern difficulty. In the meantime the war prepare.
tions which were in such active progress in
England and France when the Alps sailed,
were perfected by the embarkation of Bri-
fish troops at Dublin, Southampton, and Liver
pool, the voting Of the army and navy supplies
IN the House Of Commons, and the shipping of
French soldiers from Africa for Turkey. oneon
Victoria had issued proclamation agiinst the ex-
poraton of munitions of war or marine machinery
TO hostile Powers. Machinery may be sent to friendly
nations. Joseph Surge, with the English peace
depuiation were at st. Petersburg, but had failed
TO see the Car.
SO far az relates to the details OF the war
movements, the news by the Alps il not mlteri.
ally altered from that previously received The ex.
tensve preparations for hostilities in England and
France continued with undated activity. No fur.
ther fighting had occurred in the Prncipaties, but
1t was daily expected that the Russians would make
another attack on Kalefat. The Russians had rem
dered themselves obnoxious to the peasantry that
1t had been found necessary to confne the sol
diers to the camp, in order to preserve
them from assassination. From Asia we learn
that the Russians had again been repulsed from fort
Chefkatal, with loss of two thousand men, Louis
Napoleons' letter in reply to the Car reported IN
have produced great indignation at the palace of st.
Petersburg. Military preparations were still going
forward upon a most magnificent scale throughout
Russia, but the unmistskeabe signs of a revolution.
airy spirit in Poland had rendered it prudent to sus.
pend the withdrawal of troops from that quarter.
omer Pacha's camp OF shumla had been broken
up; he was strengthening his position at KaIefat
and additional Notifications were being made al
Constat tinoplc. An escort of eleven British war
steamers took six thousand men from the Turkish
capitll on the 18th inst but their destination l. not
stated.
According to the very latest news by the Atlantic,
the Russians were bombardng Rustcbuk, and m.
was current that they had captured seven Turk.
ish ships. Owing to the equivocal position Of Aus
tria, Napoleon was said to be the point Of placing
one hundred thousand troops the Italian frontier
Three thousand troops left Liverpool for Tur
key on the day the Atlantic sailed, and the war
feeling in England had reached pitch
of excitement that scarcely knew any bounds
BY the Alps we have the brief announcement Of