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

From the .NsU York Express, July IS.
The War Question.

| From the INsW York Express, July IS.
The War question.
| The Arctics adyices 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 sort of quasi war
already exists, in the fact that Russian armies
have been ordered to invest and occupy Turkish
territory. The Gar, SO far comedies nothing; and
the tone of the second manifesto he has put forth,
over the name of his minister, Count Nesselrode,
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
espouse. At 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 Cabi-
net of Vienna is making some fresh demands OF a
pecunary character upon the Portc-demands
which were made and resisted before this Russian
difficulty sprung up The well-informe interpret
this proceeding as showing conclu.iyely that,
when the crisis does come, Austra 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 invectlves against
Russia have all along been evoking. An alliance
in Printing house Square long as distance lent
"enchantment to the view;" but now that war as
imminent and ut hand, the world all of q sudden
is daily treated to dismal treatise on the disas-
tiers which must enure to commerce, the seas OF
blood which must fow 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 once discovered that Turkey has
no peculiar claims upon the friendship OF Great
Britain, though Turkey has all along been fiat
tered with the belief that the sword and purse OF
England were at her service the moment the Cos
sacks crossed her boundaries. 1t is true there is
a powerful British fleet waiting orders to enter
the Bosphorus; but the signs are, as we interpret,
that it will wait there long while before the
English Ambassador ut ConstantinOple will issue
orders to TINT end. Now, we 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 on the side of peace but peace
failing, they can never consent to stand by ana
witness the humiliation of the Porte on pretexts
SO utterly untenable and inadmissblc. But what
we do note is this: the Times journal which, OF
all others, is supposed to echo most automatically
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 say,
we may refer to another editorial in the same
vein which will be found in our columns to-day.
Some of the generally esteemed more liberal OF
the British journals, however, we ought to add,
begin to suspect that there is to be some backing
out on the part of the government from the COM
handing position it has assumed in the Russo
Turkish quarrel. The .Ns,cs, for example, cries
out ssshame!'' 'sshame" and expresses the hope
that France, at least, will stand by and mot be-
tray the Sultan.
But it is exceedingly difficult to say precisely
on what ground this ''hope" is predicated. Ii
France unsheathes the sword in a foreign war,
when will it be- put back, who will put it back,
into the scabbard? When peace is made, Will
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 man who believes that what has Deen
done once may be done again. We believe, more
ever, that Louis Napoleon sees and feels the ful
force of these truths, and we are not OF those,
therefore, whs imagine that he is tool enough 10
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
SONS better assurance that his position at home IL
sufficiently stable to warrant the undertaking OF
any such enterprise--better assurance than the
late attempts in Paris to assassinate him seem 10
warrant. 80
i We consider, then, that Russia will continue to
OCCUPY the Turkish provinces she has already
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
cessful. There will be some additional "notes, =
smanifestoes and sscirculars; 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 Car, to
abate one lot or title of the pretensons he has,
in the face of all Europe, so arroganty advanced.