The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-27

From the .Nsto York Express, July IS.
The War question.

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II From the .Nesc York Express, July IS.
i The war question.
4 The Arctic's advices relative to the Eastern
question do not enable US to arrive at any settled
conclusion whether there is to be actual war or
not Actual war, we say, for a sort of qstss; war
already exists, in the fact that Russian armies
have been ordered to invest and occupy Turkish
territory. The Gar, far, comedies nothing; and
the tone of the second manifesto he has put forth,
over the name of his minister, Count Nessslrode,
indicates that he does not mean to concede any,
! thing. -
/ There were some doubts expressed while ago
as to which side of the quarrel Austria would
1 espouse. At one time it was quite confidently as
serted that she would declare for the Turk; but
that impression is summarily disposed OF by the
news we have now-that, taking advantage OF
the troubles that pressing upon her, the Cnbi-
net of Vienna is making some fresh demands OF a
pecuniary character upon the Porte-denands
which were made and resisted before this Russian
difficulty sprung up. The well-informed interpret
this proceeding as showing conclusively that,
when the crisis does come, Austria will be found,
as she always is, on the side of the strongest
| The tone of the most influential of the British
journals, foremost among them the London Times,
we see, are endeavoring now to rein IN the war
| spirit there which their own invectives against
Russia have all along been evoking. An alliance
with Turkey against Russia used to be talked Of
in Printing-house Square SO long as distance lent
s'enchantment to the view" but now that war Us
imminent and at hand the world all of sudden
is daily treated to dismal treatise on the disas
| tiers which must enure to commerce, the seas OF
blood which must flow, and the heavy taxes that
must be imposed to pay the expenses of war
against one of the frst-rate powers of the CONT
nent. 1t is all at discovered that Turkey has
no peculiar claims upon the friendship of Great
Britain, though Turkey has all along been fiat
tha hol aff hat tho sword and
England were at her service the moment the Cos
sacks crossed her boundaries. 1t is true there Is
powerful British fleet waiting orders to enter
the Bosphorus; but the signs are, as we interpret,
that it will wait there a long while before the
English Ambassador at ConstantinOple will issue
orders to that end. Now, do not say that
Great Britain has deserted, is going to desert,
Turkey We have had the fullest authoritative
assurances from her ministry that their influence
will be exerted all the side Of peace, but peace
falling, they can never consent to stand by and
i witness the humiliation Of the Porte on prctexts
so utterly untenable and inadmissible But what
we do note is this: the Times, journal which, OF
all others, is supposed to echo most authenticity
English sentiment, and English opinion, and often
English official opinion, has of late shifted its sails
from the war to the peace quarter. See the arti-
Gle Counting the COST we copied on Saturday
Hast; and, in further confirmation of what we say,
! we may refer to another editorial in the same
vein, which will be found in our columns to-day
the British journals, however, we ought to add,
i begin to suspect that there is to be some backing
| out on the part of the government from the COM
Imandng position it has assumed in the Russs-
Turkish quarrel. The Ns,cs, for example, cries
out sshame!" sshame!" and expresses the hope
that France at least, will stand by and not be-
tray the Sultan.
| But it is exceedingly difficult to say precisely.
I on what ground this ''fope" is predicated. II
France unsheathes the sword in a foreign war,
when will it be put back or,who will put it back,
| into the scabbard? When a peace is made, Will
il be in Paris or at St. Petersburgh? Russian troops,
within the memory of the present generation,
have bivouacked on the Boulevards, and we think
Nicholas is a man who believes that what has been
done once may be done again. We believe, more
over that Louis Napoleon sees and feels the full
force of these truths, and we are not of those,
therefore, whs imagine that he is fool enough to
rush into a war against Russia and Austria, and
we don't know how many more allies, without
seeing his way clear; especially without having
some better assurance that his position at home Is
sufficiently stable to warrant the undertaking OF
any such enterprise-better assurance than the
late attempts in Paris to assassnate him seem to
warrant. .
u We consider then, that Russia will continue to
4 OCCUPY the Turkish provinces she has already
o invested that the diplomats of the great powers
: will continue to exert their good offices to bring
= about for their own sakes some sort OF recon-
Citation and those efforts in the end will be sue.
, Icessful There will be some additional "notes,
ssmanifestoes " and circulars;" but the end of it
all, we predict, will be-no war. At present the
indications are, that whatever concessions are
made must come from Turkey, for certain it is,
we have seen no disposition as yet, no shadow
of disposition, even, the part of the Gar, to
abate one lot title of the pretensions he has,
in the face of all Europe, SO arrogantly advanced