New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-09

The EFFECT ON Russia OF W iR.-The London
Times of the 18th inst, in article devoted to
this subject, remarks:
." If Russia has the temerity to engage in war
upon the grounds at present known to US, such
u war would not only be without an assiguable
cause, hut also without an attalnable object.
In opposition to the other powers, and especially
to England and France, not unsupported by
Austria and Prussia the Emperor Nicholas can
scarcely expect the Sultan to submit to his con-
ditons, or to surrender fresh provinces. The
powers of attack of Russia are limited to the
line of operations Of the Danube: every where
else she would be thrown on the defensive. In
the Black Sea and in the Baltic-two close seas
which She has not maritime power to command
her ports would be closed, her trade annhila-
ted, and probably her naval establishments de-
stroyed In Georgia and Circassia, where the
native tribes have maintained their ground for
so many years single handed against the impe-
rial armies, the commencement OF hostilties
with the Porte would at once give fresh Intensity
| to the war. From Persia on the one side, to
Poland and Finland on the other, the colossal
Empire of Russia is assailable on multitude of
points of its huge circumference, and, whatever
its military resources may be, it is impossible
that they should be concentrated with effect
when every frontier alike demands her vigilance
and her protection The maritime trade Of the
Empire can be completely stopped by closing
the narrow apertures of the BosphOrus and the
| Sound, and judging by the effects Of the conti-
mental system on Russia in 1870 that measure
alone would act with great severity ON the i'm
perial government.
q We mention these particulars because they
seem to us to warrant the belief that if war
should unhGppily break out, it mny be brought
! to n speedy and successful termination but the
same facts and considerations will no doubt fur
niell far more powerful arguments against the
| folly and wickedness Of causing such war to
take place at all. The Emperor Of Russia has
! pln ced himself in position in which it is i'm
possible for him to win, but in which, if he per-
sists, he will lose considerably more than he has
lost already At the point at which this ques-
| ton has arrived, and after the pretensons
| which Russia has manifested with reference TO
| the Christian subjects of Turkey, it cannot he
| dropped without endeavoring to place that por
| zion Of the Ottoman Empire on a more secure
and definite basis That object can even now
| be effected with the assent Of the Turkish Gov
eminent, and by the joint deliberations Of the
great powers. It is still competent to the En-
peror Of Russia to accept such conference and
| 10 obtain by pacific and equitable means every
| right to which he is in the remotest degree en-
| titled. But if he rejects this proposition and
| disdains the expedent by which the differences
| Of the greatest powers have been so frequently
! and honorably terminated he runs the risk of
| sacrificing for these cxtrayagant prctcnsious
whatever influence political sagacity and mill
tary success had previously attached to his
| name
These are the opinions Of the Times Of course
many persons take a very different Wow Of the
matter.