Washington sentinel., 1855-03-20
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FURTHER NEWS BY THE AFRICA
: THE DEATH or THE CZAR CON-
FIRMED. ~
From the London Sun.

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From the London Sun.
| Illness or the Emperor Of Russia.
BERLIN, March News was received here
last night that the Emperor Of Russia is seri-
ously Ill. 4'2
II is added the physicians despair of his re-
covery.
The dinner at court to-day in honor of Lord
John Russell has been deferred.
Death OF the Emperor Nicholas.
We have just received the following very i'm.
portant telegraphic dispatch from our cores
pondeht at Berlin:
BERLIN, March 2.-I hasten to inform you
that intelligence has Just reached Berlin of the
death, this afternoon, of the Emperor Of Rus
sia, from an attack of apoplexy.
the news has created great sensation;
and it is thought that the event will give new
aspect to the war;"
From the London Times, Sd instant.
Death OF the Emperor or Russia.
This event was announced to Parliament
last night by the Ministers of the Crown as
having taken place, and the sensation which
it produced in both branches of the Legisla-
ture was not greater than that which it will
cause throughout Europe and the world. Of
the certainty of the Emperors death no doubt
need be entertained. Lord John Russell, who
is now in the Prussian capital, first telegraphed
home that he had been struck by appolexy-
was on the point of death, and had just taken
leave Of his family. This was shortly followed
by another telegraphic message from the British
Minister at Berlin, to the effect that he actually
expired at st. Petersburg yesterday morning,
at one o'clock.
1t is hardly possible to overrate the import
ance of the extinction of this single life in the
present circumstances Of this and other coun-
tries. lts effect must be great and immediate,
and it is more than probable that the bloody
struggle impending before Sebastopol in which
thousands Of lives would certainly be sacrificed,
may be spared by the event which we announce
this morning. In the case Of the extinction of
o despotic monarch like the Emperor of Russia,
whose will was the law of fifty or sixty millions
Of people, the policy which he embodied while
living, dies with him, and the restoration of
peace becomes, under the circumstances, less
q matter of doubt than Of certainty.
The fate which has overtaken this great but
upscrupulous Monarch, supposing him to have
died natural, and not like many Of his prede-
cessors, violent death, demonstrates, in the
strongest possible manner how feeble the most
potent become when unsustained by that moral
power which is stronger than cannons or bayo-
nets, or the most deadly instruments of war.
Twelve months back, before the declaration
of hostilities, Nicholas Romanoff, who now lies
q mass Of clay in his ancestral halls on the
Neva, was the most proud, the most powerful,
and the most arrogant sovereign on this planet;
but this small interval of time has served to re-
duce him to o condition more pitable than the
humblest of his serfs, for in his nefarious at
tempt TO subjugate q weak and near neigh
Dor, he outraged justice, provoked the hostility
of the Western Powers, stirred up resistance
throughout Europe to his dictation, and lived
long enough to discover that the prepared
strength of long reign and an almost bound
less empire, was utterly futile in the pursuit Of
o bad purpose. The most conservative ruler
in the world fell almost literally by his own
hand when he pushed his aggressions on the
property of others beyond the bounds of endur
ance. The violation Of the commandment
which told him to respect his neighbor's prop
erty ended in his destructon,-in that prostra
ton of the mental and the physical powers
which superinduced apoplexy.
Although our enemy it is useless to deny
that the dead Gar was great man as well as
a mighty potentate. Notwithstanding the mel
ancholy fact of q quarter of million of human
creatures having perished, one way or another,
since this war began-sacrifced on point of
fact, to the Unsuitable ambition of an unscrupu
lous ruler, yet he had many fine qualities Of
head and heart; and to such Of the British ma
ton as settled in Russia he was extremely
partial, and always paid them the most marked
attention. The lions preys not upon carcasses
We can afford to do justice to departed worth
even in the person Of . foe, and it is not too
much to say that If he had terminated his
carer without the Turkish aggression which
produced this war, history would have enrolled
him amongst he most intellectual and success
full Monarchs of modern Europe. Perhaps it is
as well for the future peace Of the world that
this outbreak of Russian capacity took place
when it did, for guarantees will now be enforced
which will effectually prevent its repetition.
The fangs of the wolf will be drawn, and the
lesson which he has been taught will tell upon
his successors. for centuries.
The Gear was born on the 9th of July, 1876,
and if he had lived until summer would have
attained his 59th year. He died not of old age,
but Of broken heart-of the disappointment
caused by the utter failure Of all his schemes
of aggrandisement, the prostration Of all his
phopes-a terrible example of the effects Of un-
hallowed ambition.
Before great event like this all the other
foreign affairs Of the week fade into insigni6.
canoe.
The Russian Version OF the Battle of
Eupatorfs.
BERLIN, Tuesday, Feb. 27.-Advices from
st. Petersburg of this days date state that the
following despatch has been received from
Prince Menschikof, dated the 18th of Feb
rusry ;-4On the 18th portion of the troops
encamped in the neighborhood Of Eupatoria
made reconnaissance against the town to with.
in distance Of $50 yards (toiscs.) They
opened cross FIRE of artillery, and in short
time succeeded in dismounting portion of the
enemy's guns, and in blowing up FIVE caissons
of ammunition. Having assured himself that
Eupatora was defended by 10000 men and
100 guns, General Chrulef who commanded
the detachment, gave orders to retire out Of
range, which was done in perfect order"
Loss or Twenty Thousand Russians.
The Malta correspondent of the Times, in
bis letter dated the 2lst Of February, says
There is but little of interest TO communicate
since my last beyond their arrival Of some of
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