The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

stood to be trifled with or quibbled with on this ali-
important question. It is the last tine of asking—
if say friends of Austrian compromise still letit in
Dowsing-street, let them speak now or weer'after,
hold their peace. It will go ill with them and all
who hold by them, if another campaign thitoidkand
in nothing.

Mystirraas assure nu that they are profoundly
impaired with a sense of the importance of checking
the Russian roamer on the Anatolian frontier,
aced relieving Yarn. Last year they sad the 1141..
&boat the Danube and Silistria. But though French
and English troops were at Gallipoli, Scutari, and
Vaasa, during the stage of Silistria, they made no
effort to relieve it. The Turkish army alone protected
the line of the Danube, held Silistria, and finally
compelled the Russians to retreat. But Anatolia. in
1835 is very differently circumstanced from Bulgaria
in 1854; and while there is too much reason to
fear that the Turkish army of Anatolia has not been
materially improved since last year, it is certain
that the army under OMER PACHA has been
materially deteriorated by the removal of its best
officers, in deference to the representations of the
Austrian Government. In 1854, the Ilia of the
Turkish forces were opposed to the Russians on the
Danube ; in 1855 the most inefficient of the Turkish
forces are opposed to the Russians on the Anatolian
frontier. In 1834 the French and English armies

were encamped within hail of Bilistria ; in 1855 the
French and English armies are in the Crimea, with
work enough on their hands, and Oxita PACRA is
there also. From Varna to Siliatria was a short
march through a practicable country; from Trebi-
sond or Bata= to Kars or Erzeroum the route
lies across one of the most difficult countries
in the world. Some time ago there was
a prospect that the Turkish army in Ana-
tolia would this year outnumber the Row=
army opposed to it. Troops had been withdrawn
from Georgia to strengthen the Russians in the
Crimea, and our successes in the Bea of &off pre-
sented an opportunity of intercepting the communica-
tions of the Transcaucasian army of the CZAR with

Russia. But the soccer.e in the Bea of Azoff have
not been earnestly followed up, and the treacherous
game which Austria has been enabled to play by our
unaccountable diplomacy, has put it in the power of
the CZAR to mend reinforcements to Georgia as well

uto the Crimea. Lord CURZNDON talks big about
what has been effected by General WILLIAMS; we
believe that whatever man can do will be done by
that gallant officer, but what can one man do in the

1 we have been describing P

The position of Turkey on its Anatolian frontier is
perilous in the extreme. The Rolleillin are in force
within one hour's march of Bare, and they have cut
off the communications of thatfortnis with Erseroum.

Hopes have been attempted to be built on a pause in
the Russian operations, which was at first menda-
ciously represented as a retreat. It seems obvious
enough that the Bambino are only waiting for the
arrival of their heavy siege artillery, which has
been delayed by the weather. In the mean-
time they are muter. of the high road
from their own frontier to the gates of Erse-
room. Even though they should not attempt the
siege of Kars they can hold its garrison in check
and over-run the whole country between Erzeroum
and Bajazid with their light troop.. The high road
of commerce, from Trebizond to Persia and Bagdad,
is closed against the traders of Turkey and Western
Humps : for what sane merchant would attempt to
amid his goods—especially at a moment like the pee-

sent—through the country of the Kurdish tribes P
French and English navies blockade all the coasts of
Russia in the White Sea, the Baltic, and the Enzine,
and drive the commerce of Russia from the seas ; but
the Allies are unable to prevent the Russians from
stopping almost the whole commerce of Europe with
Persia, Central Asia, and great part of Mesopotamia.
This may be no very severe blow to the aggregate
commerce of France and England, but it will be
severely felt by many individuals in both countries.
And then there is the disgrace of being so checked,
which always tells for something in war. The Russian
Government will now be enabled temporarily ,to
appease the storm of discontent that is rising
throughout the empire, by persuading its subjects
that if their commerce suffers in certain quarters
from the Allies, the commerce of France and Eng-
land suffers, in return, in other quarters, from the
armies of Russia.

It would seem as if all the energy the Allies have
to spare had of late been concentrated in the Crimea.
We are not of those who disapprove of the expedition
against Sebastopol; what we complain of is, that
that expedition was undertaken without due precau-
tions to ascertain beforehand how arduous it really
was, and without due preparation for conducting it on
a Neale commensurate to its difficulty in the event that

the attempt at a surprise and a coup de main should
fail. But what we complain of still more is the decep-
tive attempt to concentrate the whole attention of the
public upon the Crimea to the exclusion of other
equally important operations of the war. Frame
and England undertook to assist Turkey in guarding
the whole of its territory against Russia.
The expedition to the Crimea, and the demon-
strations in the Baltic and the Black Bea
were undertaken with a view to diminish the
pressure on the Turkish frontiers, by giving Russia
work to do at home. We are not going to ask at
present with what degree of energy the Crimean
expedition has been conducted; but assuredly the
demonstration in the White Sea is as great a farce
as last year's operations in the North Pacific; and
the mighty armament in the Baltic has not been
turned to such account u seriously to alarm Russia
in that quarter. In the meantime the frontier of
Asiatic Turkey, towards that of Russia, has been
inadequately protected, while the friendly demeanour
of Austria has encouraged the Russian Government
almost entirely to denude its Polish and Bessarabian
frontiers of troops for the purpose of seeding them to
the Crimea and Georgia. Such a mode of carrying on
the war against Ramie has more the appearance of
seeking to gain some dazzling though isolated and
barren victory, and taking advantage of the popular
elation to terminate the war anyhow, than of aiming,
with statesmanlike forecast and comprehensiveness

so to weaken Russia u to place Europe, for a long
tract of years, in security spinet her machinations.

ZOt Court.

OSBORNE, JoLT 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drcrve
eat Is an open carriage yesterday.
Prince Albert rods on horseback with the Princes Royal.'
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went oat males,
attended by Mr. Gibbs.

Despatches fres the Governer of the Cape of Good Hope
were received yesterday at the Colonial-Aloe. Despatches
were sent lest evening to the Governor of Carted&
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Couch sat yellow.
day; the blockade ease, "The Franeiska v. the Johanaa
Maria," from the High Court of Admiralty, was rammed.
The appeal was adjourned.

It is stated in a private letter from Vienna, that
a pronieg appeal has lately been adhered by the Eames-
Mother of Raclin to the AndoMattel Sophie, mother of the
reigning Emperor of Austria, withering her, by the reed-
Medal of forum 101TiOIN rendered by the Emperor Nicholas
to Asserts, to make Ametria maintain the rroporiticisa of
Gout Baal at the late CoMenace.