Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1855 — Still Later from Europe. [ARTICLE]

Still Later from Europe.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP AFRICA. DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. Halifax, March 15. The steamer AfricaThas arrivedr 'The news is important.—! Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, is dead. He expired su ldenly, at one o’clock, on the morning of the 2d inst. The event created the greatest excitement. No details received. This event was announced in the House of Lords on Friday night, by Lord Clarendon, and in the House ot Commons by Lord Palmerston: 'rßumors are afloat that he was assassinated,but itis thought he died of appoplexy after an attack of influenzat. ~ His illness was known in England previous to the news ot his death, and caused a slight rise in funds. The effects whieh his death will produce had not transpired when the Africa left Liverpool. The Vienna Conference was to open on the sth inst., and expectations were growing stronger. From the seat of war we have no news of much importance. Halifax, March 14.—The Africa left Liverpool at ten o'clock, on the morning of the 3d and arrived at 1 ffitgifftermwnr* \ Her advices from* the Crimea are of the same ten nor as the Pacific.— Nothing of moment. On the 13th of Feb., the Russians made a sortie during the night, which was hot very formidable. The French had five killed. On the 14th another sortie was made, in which the French lost 35. The condition pfthc French oja the 15th was reported as excellent. It is reported that the north side of Sebastopol will be invested. Admiral Bruat telegraphs as fol- . laws:-. e

Kamscsh, Bay, Feb. 20.— 0 n the 17th Eupatoria was attacked on the eastern side, by eighty pieces of artillery, and six regiments of cavalry, under Gen. Kauff, and twelve regiments of infantry consisting of about 25,000 men, under Ostensacken.— The combat lasted from five and a half tp 10 in the morning. The Russians were vigorously repulsed. Their loss is estimated at about 500 killed and wounded. ~ In proportion, the Turks had 88 killed and 250 wounded. Selim Pasha and Col. Rusten Bey were killed. Eighteen French were killed or wounded. Shipboard attacks war# no* renew*

«d. Russian steamers anchored in the Roadstadt contributed en«;rgetinally to the defense of (he town. Admiral Lyons and Bruat sent six steamers to Eupatoria. britat’s second dispatch. ■ Eupatorai, Feb. 21 st. —Since the affray, of the 17tfa, the Russians have not made any new attempt upon Eupatoria. To-day columns of infygitry and trains of wagons were seen leaving the vicinity of the town, taking the direction towards Simphcropol. Many villages are still in flames in the vicinity of Eupatoria. More guns have bccen landed and additional forces thrown up The town is now in a good state of defence Signed, Demont Loyifi, consisted mainly of heavy nre artillery, under cover of which the Russians were repulsed.

[Tx’Ttve follow in g is thr conclu - aion of the tersely written profit of a minority, consisting of forty-three members, of the House of Representatives, against the recently enacted Liquor law: "Wc protest ngninst the act, because it is not the expressed will of the people of the- State?- because it was crowded through the Ilou-e without op portunity- -of being granted thaminority;, except in two instances, to effer amendment-! to it or Id expose its manifold defects an 1 outrages, because it is, in several of its leuding features, a palpable violation of the constitution; because it bankrupts "one and “disfranchises another fety large portion of the people of the K>t.\te, because the punishments it in'liictsfare'Tn ive; because it establishes new rules of evidence at wjw with justice and in derogation ot the dearest rights of the citizen; beeau.-e it encourages and legalizes an .odious, system oil espionage; because it regards men depraved in consequence of their avocations in life, though they are protected therein by law in every civilized community; because it creates InoTrrrpnhes, because it introduces complicated machinery in the county government, unnecessarily tending to deplete its treasury; because it constitutes courts with power to determine questions of appetite and character, upon no prescribed regulations, and allo wing no appeal from the decision of the Judge, whose whim is the law and because its spirit and essence are tyranic&l.”