The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
: NEW York. March IA.
The L. s Mail steamship Pacific, Capt Ezra
Nye, arrived at this port, Q o'clock this morn
ing, with 81 passengers and ten days later
intelligence from Europe. having left Liver
pool on the 9th ult. She arrived there on
the 23d nit
The Right Honorable Sidney Herbert, Brit
ish Secretary Of State for the Home Depart
ment, the Right Honorable W. Z. Gladstone,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir James
Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, had
resigned their seats in the Cabinet. Some
saw that their designations were oecasoned by
the passage of Mr.. Roebuck's motion of en-
quiry into the conduct of the war, and others
by internal discussions in the Cabinet.
Report says that Roebuck's party will not
rest satisfied without the impeachment Of
Lord Raglan and one or more of the ex-Mnis.
ters
Lord Palmerston had much trouble in re-
constructing the Cabinet and it was not fully
completed. Lord Russell take, the Colonial
Secretaryship as stop to the gap, but COM
pletes his mission to Vienna. Rumor gives
Lord Elgin a seat in the Cabinet. The Earl
Of Carlisle is Viceroy of Ireland. The War
Chancellor Of the Exchequer is Mr.. Lewis an
untried man. Sir Charles Hood takes the
the Admiralty.
| The members Of the Government express
confident hopes that the pending negotiations
will lead to an honorable peace. although
cuted all over Europe
| Louis Napoleon seems determined to pro.
coed to the Crimea. England and Austria
advise him to stay at home.
| The report is that Russia has declared war
against Sardinia, but it needs confirmation.
Tuscany has joined tho Western Powers,
but Naples has not.
The Vienna Conference had not been open
ed, but would be in few days. All parties
professed desire for peace.
| On the 18th ult, the Russians. under Gen
eral Liprandi, attacked the Turks snder Omar
Pasha at Eupatorin. The latter were sup
ported by heavy fire from the English ships,
and after an engagement Of four hours dura-
ton, compelled the Russians to retreat with
a loss OF five hundred men. The Turks, how
ever, die not pursue them.
| The weather had moderated at Sebsstopol.
The snow had almost disappeared The
health Of the army was better. The siege
operations were progressing with vigor.
| An attack Of the combined forces Of the
army was shortly expected. The allies in the
Crimea numbered one hundred and fifty thou
sand, and the condition Of the army is i'm
proving.
The Russians were actively engaged in for
tifyng their positions, especially on the right
flank. Sebastopol is now considered more
impregnable than it has been since the com
mencement OF the siege. Thousands are still
at work strengthening the fortress and other
points
Both the Russian Grand Dukes are on the
Belbek with an army of $4,000.
Austria has appointed Baron Prokeseh spe.
ca commissioner to the Vienna Congress.
Russia has issued a Ukase, decreeing a
forced loan, and immense contributions Pro.
visions have also been ordered.
The Russians were terrifying their positions
on the Danube.
Sandman troops were arriving at Constan-
tinople.
The treaty signed by the Allies and Prussia
was the same as that of December Cd, except
the omission Of the second Article relating to
the Danubian rincipalitiea
Orders had been received at Constantine.
pie to prepare hospital beds for five thousand
men, from which it is inferred that an assault
was to be made on Sebastopol.
THE LArEsr.-London. Friday nighL-Thi.
evening in the House of Lords, Lord Claren.
don rose and said:
think it my duty to communicate to your
Lordships the contents of a telegraphic dis.
patch | received an half an hour since, from
her Majestys Minister at the Hague It is
that the Emperor Nicholas died this morning
at one o'clock, Of pulmonic apoplexy after an
attack Of influenza. ! also received a dis
patch from her Majesty's Minister at Berlin,
stating that the Emperor Of Russia died at
twelve o'clock this morning. An hour before
this dispatch arrived received accounts from
Lord John Russell, at Berlin. stating that the
Emperor was at the point Of death, and had
taken leave Of his family. Although this
event occurred 50 short time as between IL
and o'clock this morning, there can be no
doubt. under the circumstances. of its suthen
| ITCHY.
| In the House Of Commons Lord Palmerston
made similar statements
1t was surmised that the Emperor had died
by the hand Of an assassin, but the above is
generally credited The effect of this start.
ling announ cement in political and monetary
matters. has not developed itself 1t is i'm
possible to say what it may produce. There
is great excitement.
De QUINCY ON RUssrA.-This isl very
striking remark of De Quincy, in one Of his
essays:
Russia, a mighty empire rs respects the
simple grandeur Of magnitude, builds her
power upon sierility. She has il in her power
to scduce an invading foe into rast circles Of
Starvation, Of which the radii measure 1000