New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-06
PEACE OR WAR.

The moDey-cbspeers of the Old World are in costa
cies The danger Of war they trusts ayerted Their
high constable Ncholas, 50 long dolzed the erea,
coDserver Of Peace Order aud material Prosperity is
about to Law down the psviogs'oue which he jas, now
threatened wantonly to h0rl through their Windows
giving tic signal for general row and Smaso.uP Not
that he has actually done or is even reliably reported
10 have sad anything lookingto the desired res ora
ton Of amify. His armies $1,000 strong still occupy
tie Prncpalties. HIS cannon line the banks OF the
Danube and command its navigation in the heart Of
Turkish Europe His minions have taken possession
Of the Posi Office and act if they had no idea of
leaving at least in 1913. His satellites 10 the Mjda-
Wan Senate speak ard act they expected never 10
see The standard of the Prophet again floating over
their heads. His Minister NcsserOde IN his lat maui
fcsto YET received, outrages justice reason current
history as audaoeusy 10 Any former utterance from
s. Petersbureh The Wofs complaint that the Lamb
drinking from the stream below him disturbed the
water TO his prejudice never more strlkInely par
aeled than in the AutOcratc complaint of the tind
and falerng advance of the French aud English fleets
to Besika Bay alter aud consequen. upon the armed
occupation OF the Prncipallaes by Russia. Most Ger.
tainy il the Car had steadily lived from the fret
TO make dash AZ Cons mtinopc. in fulhlmeu, Of the
long cherished design OF his fsmly, see nothing in
what is absolutely LaowR Of his recenC demcasra
tors to prove that he has been sEered from MS pur
pose
still We will assume that the STOCK obbers arc gel
po,ttd-tbat the danger Of Russian f,ray on the ca?
i.al IND mpre of ,he Sultan las blown over Ia chat
case il clear tlat tte is subs sutiay Russian
triumph Gar Nicholas has carried high head though
out the controversy. iu undissuisei defiance Of the
sIea. Western PoReIs. He has all along spoken
promptly, boldly, decisively While the Turkish notes
have been concDstcry pacainc almost .apPhcsting IN
their tone--whie tic British Milstry has been divided
ia its couuses wayeIng in ts policy aud begging oi
Parliament respite after respite from discussion
which must have led 70 lis exposion-whe even
rsuce with manifest r ght aud universe. Pablo Opiu-
lon empau, ia her favor has been content 20 reply 90
NesseIode : usolrnce in mauestocs which ndca'e the
TimaJay hight that eXalts the great Napoleon above
the little ouc-Russa has spoken uniformly a. if sbe
lsd blow ready TO back every word, and Eas quite IN
different as to the order Of precedence in whct the
Two should be delivered And therefore. wha;ever may
bc lie jtCacy or ambiguity Of phrase wherein re arts
cf diplomacy may veil the Poul, il is clear TO every
dscsirer thar the resul. OF this embodiment cannot
be oJier than sn exaltson of the prestige of Russia
aud visible fastening of the inevitable dsy when -
Sorl shs be- restored 10 Greek Chrstcdom and hall
c edic,, Of the Au'ociat be dated from his winter
paace by he Golden Hora.
Essentially. there are but two Great Powers in En-
ropc-pemocracy and Russia and tue policy Of the
various Courts coutg ed by their oyermls,erlg fear
of one or the other. When Democracy becomes ram
pant and aggressive they take shelter under the rys
Russia that Danger apparently blown over and the Al
tocrat attempting to reap BIZ h4rge, whde The Fcaihc
Is piopuous they recp from biz embraces and coluct
while with Democracy Ard whenever the Confined
,bal again be .hike4 by the clearly impending conval
,on whatever uay bc 81, immediate ISSUE the ultimate
harvest uu.t be aru,rod boy one the other @. Ii,
ubstant.al bei.gerents.
10 wbomsgeyer may have been c.jolei into the belle
Tat tie pescc f au.ty be boa restored, J., more thar
truce ue comm, ud thoughtful cOn,ide bion OF tb'
iled,l.s ia tie haIhor If Suyrna. There the mere
arrest Of an apparently Insignificant sni worthless re-
ueec an bit led 20 a collision which must have c-uscd
rupture which the arts Of Diplomacy would have beer
insufficient to heal We state an obvious fact IN ayinl
that Capt Ingraham had be sunk The Austrian corsett
IN smyrna harbor. IL was bat a chance he dill not
would amos, Inevitably have been the next President
The United States Had the two ships been cruising OF
the baibor, instead Of at anchor within it, where action
must have been gross outrage on neutr. rgb,s AND
resulted in woeiu destruction Of life aud property OF
shore, the collision could not have bean averted
4 General Nsr-a War Cd Opifion-a var which Ia.
2 DO Ia-.ic n Importance in.. Napoleon. l.tl-.n.