New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-08
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The Arctic brings no intelligence Of any decisive
military naval operation on the part of either ofthe
belliperonts The French and English troops remain
near their place of embarkation the shores of the
BosphoIus and no indications yet given that they
are to be very suddenly moved toward the immediate
tleater of hostilities. On the contrary The London
Times ntmates that the allies will take their time
for any advance movement, and observes that the
present duty of the commanders of the allied forces is
to keep their troops in state of ''the highest eff
cheney for future operations, rather than to push
them on TO immediate conflict with the enemy. 1t is
not difficult to conceive that the allies find themselves
in such straits from the want of means of military
transportation through country like Turkey dest-
tute of both railroads and carriage roads, that this
course Of patient waiting is rendered inevitable. Yet
the French talk of pushing their columns toward the
Balkan, and the English announce their purpose to
reembark portion Of their force for Varna In ad
dton TO the endorsements 10y which the allied
troops are surrounded in the difficulties of transporta
ton alluded to- there is al extreme want of Ocomo
tive force of all sortshorses mules, and other beasts
of burden vehicles, and necessares of the commits
sarat of every description The prices OF all kinds
of animals of labor of provisions, vegetables and
forage. declared TO be perfectly fabulous. That
the allied troops do not advance, we imagine, is
therefore owing TO want of ability to do so, quite as
much as TO any sstute plan Of tratagetc operations
or to any overpOwering necessity of first putting the
troops into Estate of the highest efficiency"
On the other hand, the Russians seem to be ex-
hibiting more vgOr in their operations in the Do
brodia than we were led to expect of them, by our
last adyces II is reported that they have advanced
beyond Traan's Wall, and to have cut off the commu
nications between Varna and Silistra. Upon the
latter place they are represented having already
made serious demonstration, and apprehensons are
expressed by the British press that it will fall into
their hands OMER PAsHA meantime is forced to
content himself with concentrating his troops upon
and strengthening the dsenses of shumla post from
which is not likely any attempt will be made on the
/ part Of the Russians 10 disodge hun.
On the eastern shores of the Black Sea- the opera
lions of Che Circassans, who have received very es
sental aid IN the way Of supplies from the Turks and
their allies, ere unobstructed
The evacuation of all the Russian posts in that
quarter at the beginning OF the campaign and subse
quenty have left that theater of operations without
the presence OF hostile forces The communications
Of Russia with Georgia and Mingrea is kept open by
way Of the Caspian. Something is threatened BY way
of pressing the Russian forces in that quarter but
nothing is yet done.
The operations of the Greek rebels by land and sea
receiving energetic treatment at the hands of both
the English and French and have been very essentially
abridged, if not entirely suppressed -Four pirate ships
have been captured by French vessel of war and
| carried into Rhodes.
From the Baltic we have nothing of moments the
only exploit Of the allies since last advces having
been to capture eight coastng vessels the extreme
frontier of Russia in the little harbor and port OF
Ribau, which were taken out without resistance by
detachment of nine boats, and towed to Memel "a
Prussisn port near BY by the two steamers which
were engaged upon the expedition
The relations subsisting between the Bank of En-
gland and the Government continue in the same ie-
yerish condition in which they have been ever since