The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

SHROPSHIRE

TO be LET, with immediate possession, a very desi-
rable moderately-sized Gentleman's RESIDENCE beauti-
-
fully situate on a sandy soil, near to a Church, and within six
miles of the town of Shrewsbury ; containing Entrance-hall suit-
able for Morning-room, Drawing-room, Dining-room, Six Bed-
rooms and Two Dressing-rooms, Five Attics and Closets, and ex-
tensive and convenient Domestic Offices; with good Stable for
Three Horses, Three loose Boxes, Saddle-room, Coach-house and
Out-offices, a Walled Garden and Shrubberies. Any quantity of
Land under 20 acres, or, if desired, a Farm adjoining, containing
140 acres, with Bailiff's House and convenient Farm Buildings,
may be let with the house.—For particulars and to treat for the
above, rpply to Messrs. 131.711 D and SON, Estate Agents, Shrews-
bury.

THE

Kibtrpool tailbarb,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 18:55

THE WAR WITH RUSSIA

THE intelligence of the battle on the Tchernaya, in
which the Russian army, amounting to nearly sixty
thousand men, with 160 pieces of artillery, was sig-
nally defeated by a far inferior force of French and
Sardinians, with but few guns, was a welcome break
in that dull monotony of inaction which seemed to
have crept over the proceedings of the belligerents in
the Crimea. It was welcome, because it proved that
the Allies still maintained their superiority, and it
served to divert attention for a moment from that
" hope deferred " of the long-expected capture of Se-
bastopol, after the repeated accounts of the renewed
bombardment. It has been suggested, however, and
the suggestion is worthy of consideration, whether
the Allies have not in reality been gainers by the pro-
crastination. The object for which the war was under-
taken was the humiliation of Russia : so that, after all
her vaunts of national strength, she should be com-
pelled from internal weakness to sue for terms of peace
and thereby concede those material guarantees which
are deemed indispensable for the future security of
Europe, and the preservation of the balance of power.
Russia may be compared to the sloth, the great
strength of which consists in its unwieldy inactivity,
dangerous to assail, but powerless as an assailant.
The Emperor NAPOLEON proved his ability to beat a
Russian army in the field, notwithstanding an amount
of disparity in numbers ; but when he assumed the
position of an invader, he was beaten by the vastness
and sterility of the huge empire into which he had
penetrated. Had the Allies followed up their victory
on the Alma by an immediate assault on the fortress
of Sebastopol, there appears to be little doubt that,
from its then comparatively defenceless state, the at-
tempt might have proved successful, and we should
have speedily been in possession of the Crimea. We
should, however, have been in possession of nothing
else. Russia would still have her enormous resources
in men and material upon which to draw for the de-
fence of her empire ; and our only alternative would
have been to be content with the barren victory, the
moral effect of which was doubtful at the best, or have
hazarded far more in an attempt to repeat the hazardous
experiment which NAPOLEON so unsuccessfully at-
tempted in 1812. The positions of the belligerents
would have been reversed : for while the Russian de-
fences would have been more accessible to reinforce-
ments, the means of communication with the points of
attack would have been so much the less to the Allies,
and the probabilities of ultimate triumph thereby con-
siderably diminished.

The procrastination which has taken place in the
capture of Sebastopol has, however, thrown upon
Russia almost the whole of the difficulties to be neces-
sarily encountered in the fierce struggle between such
mighty Powers. While the seat of war has been but
a fortnight's voyage by sea for the Allied forces, it has
involved the necessity of an arduous and tedious
journey by land to the enemy. Russia has almost
exhausted her resources in men and material, in order
to defend the extremity of her empire ; and whenever
the fall of Sebastopol shall be numbered amongst the
victories of the Allies, she will be in a far worse posi-
tion, from continuous exhaustion, than would have
been casethein October last p
hadthetelegrarpohviecd true.new Hadswhieh startled
all Europe Russia
then lost the Crimea, her forces would have been
available for future enterprises when our own troops
had been withdrawn, or we must have maintained an
army of observation at far greater cost and delay than
will, under present circumstances, be required. In
negotiations for peace, we have now to deal with an
empire thoroughly prostrated by the gigantic difficul-
ties with which it has had to contend; and, unless this
fact be kept in view by our Ministers in consenting to
conditions before Parliament shall again be summoned,
they will deserve impeachment. Russia has cut the
ground from beneath her own feet, and, by refusing
concession when the way was open to her, has wilfully
shut herself out from the family of nations. Her
prestige of invincibility is already virtually destroyed,
and, as her intentions are too palpable to be denied, it
would be egregious folly to restore to her the oppor-
tunity of realising that dream of ambition which has
been the main object of Russian Imperial policy.

THE HARVEST.

NEXT to the war, and scarcely less important, is the
subject of the harvest which is now being gathered
in, and the probability of its abundance. It is only
--
a few weeks since that complaints were rife from I THE recent fine weather, which has bee'ilarvefl;
all parts of the country, of the crops being laid owing liarly favourable for the getting in of t"-„ oti°- it
to the heavy falls of rain, and the grain being weak in the best possible condition, has operated fet, wits-tlie
the stalk from rapid vegetation. Almost all the to renewed activity in the Cotton oar— but ill ty
reports, however, appeared to agree in the conclusion evident not only in the advance of Priic:tsars ailiti, bc
that if the weather became fine and dry the crop of larger amount of sales, both to sPeeucar eiwt #
wheat would be a full average ; and as this has been trade. As, however, this improvementArseLion,
t oi c°:
the case in the subsequent interval, with the excep- justified by taking all circumstances , the itara,
tion of some brief intervals, we may fairly pre- brief review of the present position of the ofP-of
sume on the produce being abundant. In our own with reference to the stock and Proba tbe out
neighbourhood the farmers have been very busy cut- titer supplies and consumption, will n° ,of
ting wheat, and we believe that, with the exception a place. 0;0
n the
very late districts, harvesting has been general, the ' The Stock of American
greatest inconvenience being experienced from a August, as returned by the Brokers
khe cerresP 000
deficiency of labourers, the demand for soldiers having 373,000 bales, against 582,000 bales at ,A 4 327'
taten away so many of this class of men. The effects ing period of last year, and if to this I;:7der of
jtlieg
of the sun and winds have been to raise many a crop bales as the probable supply for t This is fa oe
which a short time since was prostrate, so that the evils year, the total will be 700,000 bales' e., 01 11 t,
from this cause have been in some measure exaggerated, a most liberal allowance, re atb
and should the fine weather continue a short time Brokers is often found to be above boola ap
iv is ono
longer, there is no reason to doubt that the yield, both and the estimate of future suPP .Lds io pr 0 0
in quantity and quality, will fully equal, if not surpass, ' imports for the corresponding
.Perw,_ 000 bps
n
being 2jy, tales
the general expectation on the subject. In estimating 1 years; the respective amounts
and 3°o'o°
the fidelity of agricultural reports, some allowance 1 1854, 211,000 bales in 1853,
should be made for the proverbial tendency of English ' 1852. as the stocktrh te rnai a 0,0012;

THE COTTON TRAP

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