New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-10
NEW vopK Many TRIBUNE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1854

French and English fleets are calculated TO avoid as
81 =. nos.ible all danger OF trouble. They are
ordered 10 salute Russian vessels to warn mem 70
return 10 a Russian port to cruise oil the iurAisn
coa,t 10 avoid all collision with Russian vessels
ana 10 prevent the same between the beiiseren's
. rot to approach tie Russian coast and II attacked
ty russians TO act simply on the defensive. NOM
iir could we'll be more harmiess'
In spite then of all that is said and done in France
,rd England and especially IN tie latter there Il eV-
IDENTIFY no serious disposition on tue part OF those
Powers 10 make war. They will avoid 1t as long IS
ros.itle and AZ whatever cost though they may be
driven by the pressure Of public opinion to make all
o-,s NJ fI.e euOnstratOns and 70 tell every variety
ofIies TLev mean to make peace and accordingly
have forced Turkey to tie concessions contained in
Resbid Pesbas letter, which had they been made a,
6r.t Rps.ia would never have occupied the Princi-
,sIities. and there would have been war at all We
know what are the declarations put into the mouth of
Adm iral Dundas by tie British Admiralty. We know
that lie las proclaimed the imminence Of war with
pussia But after all the decisions fabricated by the
present Government of England it Is impossible 20 put
corfderce in any Of their words. This declaration
WAS very possibly addressed TO Parliament AMI the
people and not to the Cabinet of ST. Petersburg.
The chances that the accord between Russia. Turkey
and the other Powers, manifested in the note of Resi-
10 Pssha, will be disturbed al sea are small, apart
from the pacific instructions given TO the Admirals 1t
is true that the Russian Government has issued orders
TO tie effect that all vessels conveying ammuntions OF
war taken By Russian cruisers 10 the Back Sea- shall
be regarded and reaed Russian prizes whether be-
longing to hostile or Deutral po8ers. " this ukase
the united squadrOus conveying Turkish transports
aycwedly for the relief Of Turkish garrsOns and the
reinforcement of Turkish armies, are declared fair
prizcs. srd the Russian Admiral is ordered by his
august master TO tow them of to SevasOpol or Odessa
But the great Menchiko will find it hard to obey this
in,imaton without the special interference Of st.
Nicholas the Cars celestial patron. 1t now appears
that the entire Russian force in the habor and the road
of Seyastcpcl, consists of only twenyfour ships OF
these six are unseryceable and used only as bat
teres TO protect the harbor and works Eighteen are
equipped for sea- and of these. one, in consequence oil
having got ashore through the stupidity of its officers
is row unfit for active service Accordingly, there
are but seventeen efficient ships and with that force
MenchikofI viii prefer to leave the powerful allied
SQUADRON undsturbed. 1t is curious fact, by the way
that Notwithstanding all the boosted preparations OF
Russia she has, at the present moment no more line
ofbate ships in the Black Sea than she had IN ~
and that in the war of 12S-29, though the Turkish
Navy had then been recently destroyed by Great
Britain, the only naval achievement on that
Sea was the capture OF Russian iflgate'
The danger of serious fighting, and of events which
might couplicate or nulliy the efforts OF diplomacy Is
far greater on land, as have previously shown.
There is constant possibility OF collisions between
Gorcbskof and Omer Pasha like that at Tshe tale and
battle may any day overthrow the structure OF Turk
ish concession and Russian triumph which Englisha aud
French diplomacy have SO laboriously built up But it
is certain that Turkey has been made to yield the
essential points on which she began hostilites That
done the probability of great war embroiling all
Europe is considerably diminished