Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-12-02

ed military preparations for the protection Of tht
neW .rality. The garrsons of Stenay Montmedy, anu
Lc ngroy are receiving important reiniorcemen.s' an
iese places like Metz are near the hhine' on ,ne cast
frontier of France 1t is rumsred also that the two
hundred and fifty millions lately raised in this cour
try by loan are already nearly exhausted ana We are
in daily expectation of the announcement OF Some
other great financial coup by which the devorrig ex
gencies Of the war may be met Another encouraging
report is that another hundred thousand men ar prompt
" 10 be called out in order to satisfy another of the de-
youring propensites of the 1t is calculated that
since the landing in the Crmea this day two months ago.
the Allies have by disease and the sword not fewer
hsu twenty thousand men, whose bones now lie bleach
;,r in the East Tive hundred human hecatombs sacri
Gced to the god Of by France and England in two
short cnhs Add to that at least two hundred more,
fallen in the Russian ranks victims the same altar.
And SEINE half dozen men could be named who are
responsible for all this But public indignation does rot
pursue them On the contrary it is great patriotic, ad
mirabe glorious, Forty thousand human lives lost in
two months by the deliberate selfish act Of some half do
zen men! And they deemed heroes while the same
world pursues with e1ecration Of poor wreches
who, by reckless mprudence by cowardly abandon
mept duty in obedience to the instinct Of self preser
yation have probably caused the death Of few scores
Beautiful consistency Well the world that is guilty Of
it should not expect to be better treated
England and France pouring toward the East reg
ment after regiment Of to fill the yoids rapidly
made in the ranks of their respective corps The steam
Indiana and Europa have been taken temporarily from
the New York and Liverpool and Havre lines to
transports All the dsposnble ships Of the late Baltic
eets the nrst ships in the Black Sea that cannot be
usefuy employed for begerent purposes in the East
diverted the object Thirty thousand is the
br said be about to be forwarded from France and
thousand from England. Active operations antici
pated the Crea throughout the whole Of the coming
winterto carry the siege of Sebastopo if it proves
able hold OUT complete the conquest Of the Crmea
if Sebastopol should fall
From the Danube we have most conflicting accounts.
Some represent OMER PACHA about create diver
sion favor of the Allies in the Crmea by the invasion
of the Russian province Of Bessarabia others say that
at the instance of AUSTRIA who would be unwilling
the lower Danube become again the of active
warke operations, Omer Pacha has entirely abandoned
the idea of offensive operations in that quarter and
transport part Of his army to the Crmea act
against the Russians there 1t is indeed probably
of the conditions Of the Austrian occupation of the
provinces that they shall be made the theatre of
fic between Russian and Turkish troops Such conc.
would be likely to bring about orcby contingencies that
would make the active ntepositon of the Austrian troops
necessary. This necessity Austria would by all means
avoid