The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-09
nusS,. ANp TURKEY.

:: ~. House Of Lords, and LORD 'ohn
-, = the Commons, that France and
,,Ns,s.l ara not yet prepared TO permit
-,he great Northern boa constructor 10 s~a'.
,,w the Turkish Empire. The enjoyment OF
49,. I.l;c;ous meal may, therefore, be regard
- Indefinitely postponed, unless it be con-
.;as,sd advisable TO try conclusions with both
,...s mighty powers. Nicholas ia an ambi-
,;ous man, and has long had his eye fixed up
on Constantnope. But he is also prudent
man. and will not be apt TO incur the risk of
attending two such powers for the sake of
plucking few years earlier than he probably
thinks he would otherwise pluck, the golden
fruit which smiles SO temptingly from the
shores of the Bosphorus, seeming TO say to
him. as the serpent said to Eve, "pluck and
eat" We are pretty well convinced that he
will never enjoy that satisfaction, that is to say,
unless his life be heightened beyond the span
of the patriarchs. A contest with France and
England, on the shores of the Bosphorus,
would be far more serious thing than his
Czarship has ever yet undertaken, and ambi.
tous as he undoubtedly is, he has never mani.
tested very enterprising disposition. He
might very well lose few provinces in such a
struggle-might find himself driven Oft from
the Black Sea, instead Of planting himself
upon the Meditenanean-might see the waters
of the former occupied entirely by the French
and English feet-might lose the influence he
has acquired in Persia, and, otherwise, be
hnn h
limits /; but how he is to gain anything else
but the kind Of experience which is derived
from adversely. we cannot possibly conceive.
We stated the other day, that in our opinion,
the power Of Russia had been most ridiculous.
ly exaggerated. When we said so, we meant
her power of interfering with the affairs Of
other nations upon the continent. We never
meant TO deny the extraordinary strength which
her situation in the North of Europe, amidst
interminable frosts and SHOWS, must give her in
case Of invasion. Her unassailable position
was too well tested in the campaign of 1872 10
admit of a doubt in that respect But since
the ex traordinary exertlons of that war, an ar
my of two hundred thous and men, has never,
on any one occasion, crossed her frontier. The
invasion and humiliation of Turkey in the war
of 1928 was accomplished by 10000 men,
According 10 Georgi, the force sent to assist
the Emperor of A u sria, in his contest with the
Hungarians, was less than $4,000 men. But
the most memorable proof that the military
power of Russia has been vastly overiated, is
to be found ia the events of 1881, during the
war of the Polish rebellion, as the Russians
call it, during the glorious Polish revolution,
as every freeman delights TO designate it. Po-
land is, of course, within the frontiers of Rus
STA, and the refore we do not reckon the force
that crushsd her to The earth in the same cate
CORY with the armies that have crossed the
frontiers of Russia. The army of Diebitsch,
on the opening Of the campaign, numbered
go 600 men. Beaten, in nine pitched battles,
and having lost half his force, that General
fed to the ancient frontiers Of Russia, before
troops which never numbered, all told, fifty
thousand men. The Emperor Nicholas thought
it necessary to reinforce his armies, and they
returned to the scene Of their defeats TO try
their strength once more with the Poles. On
the memorable plains of Groehow, in full sigh
of Warsaw, though on the opp site SIDE OF the
river, 10000 myrmidons of the Northern des
pot, counting among their number 40,O0O ca
valry, admirably adapted 10 the level country
ofPoand, and bringing in their train 400 pieces
of artillery, commanded by the man who had
passed the Balkan, and shaken the Turkish
Empire to the centre, yet fresh from the scene
of his exploits, upon a clear February day, EN-
countered AZ 900 Poles, with only seven thou
sand cavalry, commanded by general who
had led them to victory upon nine bloody
fields, but who, previous to this war, had bee,
unknown TO the world, animated by the sense
OF just cause, and prepared to conquer o.
die ia defence of lheiI native land. The strug
gle was long and deadly; but it ended in thu
complete rout of the minions of despotism.-
Forty thousand of their dead or wounded lief
upon that bloody field of battle, attested the va
Tor of the Poles, and their vast superiority il
every thing but numbers. TO their enemy
Had Ethe Poles been able to follow the flying
Russians, they never would have rallied. Thu
war would have been al an end, and POLAND
would have been free. But so few had beef
their numbers that every individual in the ar
my had been engaged They were worn on
by fatigue, and the enemy slipped throug
their fingers. So lowering did the aspect @
affairs appear, that Nicholas irembled in hi
capital on the bank of the Neva, and found
what he had not known before, that in
contest with civilized Europe, he mad M
thing.to hope from arms.
Again, in June, his forces, in the proportio
of five or six to one, met the embodied Pole
on the banks Of the Narew, and again the
succumbed TO their invincible valor. Had
not been for the treachery of Prussia, aided b.
the internal factions of Poland ITSELF Russi
could never have succeeded in this strugsle.-
All the world, before this time, had locke
upon her with apprehension, because she ba
proved that she was unassailable at heme.-
The moment she crossed the frontiers. bav;n
no longer at her back the 100000 allies III,
had marched with her in 1914 and 1915. il WI
seen that there was no occasion for alarm.
For second time, the fears of Europ
were aroused by the invasion of Hungary, b,
they have been pretty we'll dissipsted by II