The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-02
INTERESTING FROM EUROPE.
Our London and Paris Correspondence.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN VIENNA.



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Death Of Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender.
&C.,. &c. DC.
Our London Correspondence
LONDON, March 10, 1855,
Openimg of the Venna Conference.-The Siege Of Sabaso.
poI-7Ae Attack Of the Esd Fs6vsary--7Ae Railway
Eupataia--DsatA Of Mrs. Cas- at Rome.
Having written recently Tuesday last have not
much TO say to-day The Conferences at Vienna have
commenced Prussia Is not represented there OF course
nothing reliable has transpired to what took place
ut the first meeting.
general opinion prevails that the new Emperor, Al
exander II, will do what he can without compromising
his dignity 70 terms OF peace. The last words
Of Nicholas said TO have been advice to conclude
peace The dying Emperor avowed that he never belev
ed that the alliance between France and England would
last That was great mistake.
We have letters from the Of the 4th March
The railway at Balaklava was already of great
vice. Ire this It is completed to the camp.
The French had very serious brush with the Rus
slams the mig Of the $50 February The following
Is an account Of it,
10 known that the Russians erecting important
works Of counteE attack near the MaakoH Tower, TO-
wards which the French lines gradually approa sh
ing nearer and As these works were likely to
embarass the French miners and disturb the plans OF
the allies It was resolved 70 destroy them 10 Sas
Of General Monnet, advanced during the night Of the
2 and attacked the Russians in their intrenchments
The Russians much superior In numbers made valiant
Defence but notwithstanding their resistance and the
fire of the batteries and vessels in the port which bore
npo1 the battle ground they were driven ZEN. out sasr
the sole object Of this nocturnal expedition, as
there idea Of remaining in position that could
be swept easily by the guns Of the port The French
returned after pshpg their object but not with
out considerable loss estimated at 100 killed and 300
wounded Among the former there seven or eight
officers, and some twenty officers wounded. General
Monnet himself had the thumb Of his right hand shot
of, and received shot in his arm The loss OF the
Russians which must have been considerable could not
be ascertained
The reports of great battle, In which Osten Sacken
was wounded, &C., all pure fabrieations
No further attack has taken place in Eupatora since
the defeat OF the Russians the 18th Feb.-what
Nenschkon styles "a Reconnaissance" Menschikof has
been recalled from the command in the Crimea. What
ever may be his faults his defence Of Sebastopo
well managed and the sinking Of the ships at the en-
trance Of the harbor saved that place.
The news of the death of Nicholas had been received
by the allied armies, but the effect produced upon the
Russian army has not yet oozed out
The French have been throwing new kind Of rocket
into Sebastopol which has set 1t fire in three
places.
Here an is quiet enough, and the first days of
spring have shown themselves.
letter from Rome, of the 9Th, says =
The diplomatic circle here recently sustained
fresh loss in Of the most amable Of its members,
whose death succeeded those OF the Marchesa Praormo
Marchesa Bargagli, and Baronue d'Arnim Mrs. Mary
Cas- born Ludum wife of the Minister of the United
a con Of her relations by the bursting Of blood vessel
in the head She was near her ACCOMPLISHMENT Her vir
tues, beauty and amiable qualities will make her me-
mory deeply regretted by all who knew her
Iouis Napoleon has not vet left for the Crimea
LONDON, March Is, 1866
me Ne,o Ministry and the Cars Death-The Vienna
Conference.-The Chances Of Peace--Sir Charles Ma
piers Postion-C0mn,otion all over the World-Dr.
Granville, the Neto Prophet, dc. dc.
Since the unexpected death Of the Emperor of Russia
our new ministry may be said have obtained something
like respite though there unrnistakable signs
abroad that such is but Of temporary nature. This
event has fallen with such stunning effect the genera
councils Of Europe, that parties and individuals
glad Of the momentary pause to lay aside old manGu-
vres and take fresh OF the policy of the day
starting point appeared 70 present itself Every
been busy endeavorng solve the great problem
whether, hitherto have been fighting system or
despotS and the balance of opinion among clubstates
men was at the outset most decidedly in favor Of the
last Lord Palnsrston himself at first disposed to
believe that his old field of protocol fairly reopened
and that the aurels he obtained after the French
luton Of 1880 were after the lapse of quarter Of cen
tury about to bloom anew. Lord Clarendon, know,
caught up the straw and fairly few away with it but
II is understood that communications from Lord John
RUSSELL ut Vienna have tended greatly to shade of the
bright hues Of Impressions and to impart severe
If not somsre tone to the hopes OF the future.
far relates to the Emperors manifesto every
allowance ismade for It, and its identification with the he
reditary policy considered thing Of course whatever
- IL nuk,I
has, somehow other, oozed out that Lord John has
asceraned that whatever might have been the
Cars reluctance to the commencement Of hostities
the sword drawn his very existence prevents him
from sheathng it, except at the triumphant cry Of vic
tory. With understanding that he will give the i'm
pers prestige 70 the prosecution OF the warthat he
win st. Petersburg ike Moscow, reduced to ashes,
BEFORE by aceedng to peace he takes step In Russian
retrogressio whole influence Of the party repre-
scented by his brother Constantine is be brought in
support of the throne and under the double influence Of
listless mild but dissimuative chief and stirring,
active talented and arbitrary younger brother backed
by majority in public opinion, Lord John thinks that
the chances Of peaceful solution farther of
than during the lifetime Of Nicholas
While these views floating mp by little and little
from the Austrian capital public opinion at home is
gradually OF itself assuming shape and tone that indi
Gates settled conviction that struggle ia about 10
Of nature calling for many and bitter sacrifices
for years to II 10 observed that nothing has
CURED during the long reign Of the la Gar to change
the normal and aggressive character Of the Russian
State that though he has greatly improved the millions
he governed, morally and socially, that he isft his
empire he found TIA people sti seeking for
local habtaton and II is observed, that while
England shcrn of all her dependencies would be Eng
land still that France bsected and subdivided would
be France to the very nail Russia presents the seat Of
her empire to the worldher capital Of ST. Petersburg
a mere depot Of lodgings-of public Offices that
psravey females take up their abode In IT, and that
commerce. instead Of establishing itself and becoming de
veoped and rooted in localities the nucleus OF cviza