The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-06
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

noise Accounts should be squared with HIM There Nele
tb Ipgraha affair the strange embassy Of Mr. soule 70
Madrid the Black Warrior the Falkland pigs and the Sonora
expedition Now Jonathan has got the reciprocity treaty
he has got fisheries he viii get Mesa Sitka, the oAu"
Islands, Cubain fact, what is there that be #ll NOT seH
when the Germans Of Cincinnati drink toasts 10 t an
nexaon of Europe
And now the long list American nuisanoes has been en-
ricbed by the bobardment of GreytoWn. What Is Copen
hagenY What is Nayarino? 81 tell you, SIR, TINS Is a
shameful business We must stop that, SIR ihese A"er-
cans must be taught and forever to respect teha
tional law Unless they receive lesson where VIII they
ton Yo Tbussays John Bull 1t curious that whenever
spy grievance against America turns up the Times the or
san of and the Morning Post the organ OF LORD TAI
merston foremost in omentng and exciting John Bull
Thus the Times which insults foreign governments
itbout meaning, and mischieyous one, on, last
aax with most violent aud ndecorous attack upon the
Government the United States That article went out by
H. last steamer On Wednesday, it is true, the Times
mo prouse batteries towards the government and
senate on Of the sanction of the Canada treaty
Ru the rnean all the mischief would have been done and
the second article would only recantaon of the first
n the British public to which the fret had become sus-
ncous while would not mend the mischief possibly done
across the The practical conclusion Of the Times
amaons against the United States is pointed out by the
Morning Post although may be highly inexpedient at
the present time adopt any which may induce the
United States depart from that strict neutrality in refer
epce to the which they have hitherto proessed
some PREPARATION be demanded only for the protec
of
and French flags The destruction OF neutral property Is an
other reason why fau PREPARATION should be demanded.
The appearance of these two articles was however subj
Gent TO put John Bull his guard and the tone of the other
papers in reference the United States has become very
moderate You NAV remember that months ago stated it
as nv opinion that the coalition would not be dpleased at
some little quarrel the United States to furnish them
pretext for concluding hasy peace with the Emperor OF
Russia But it that Lord Aberdeen and the Peelite
section the cabinet generally have abandoned that resource
thinking it unsafe under present circumstances If they did
not mean against Russia at that epoch Russia might mean
now and to bring themselves about Russo American ALI
snce they consider TO be dangerous undertaking. Lord Pa
merston and the Times accordingly remain without en-
the Morning Chronicle and they will have
to drop their scheme If any remonstrance should be made
am convinced from these reasons, it will be mere forma
tv will be eouched in language very different from the
tone Of the Times or the Post.
Nobody will doubt that Russia has Interior objects in view
than obtain the recognition of the Mensehkon ultimaum
She Constantinope and Copenhagen the Dardaee
and the sound only, she cannot get them by her
armies she tries get them by succession of trea
ties 1t thus she has secured Denmark, it is thus she
will Turkey. In order to have new treaties, you
break the old 1t that which Russia has constant
" done If she provoked with Turkey it not that
he wanted conquer her by arms because she knew her
to be weak in the feld it because she wanted to
subject her by treaty But Russia would have
rot any treaty the Sultan they imposed
him by the other powers The Vienna contained the
u 900 of the Sutans subjects But the powers could
not force upon Dvan because the Dvan knew that
powers unsupported by their people What to be
done? The powers declared themselves the allies Of Turkey,
endorsed Turkish declaration of war; got their people
with them occupied Consannople and under the pretext
of friendship ruined the Turkish Their perfdy alone
for the results and the in which the
been carried between the Russians and the Turks
Both these armies only figures ho chessboard Of
diplomacy Hence the disappointment of the military world
NJ tha puhlir
daily expectation of events in the ed while the only
incidents Of this are the diplomatic movements. The
campaign 1853 reduces itself small combat at Oltentza
between three bataons entrenched and brigade in the
open country fight which, in the of Napoleon, would
have been looked upon an every cher-day affair Nor
would il have had Importance in the present instance
but for its being the first time the Turks had tried their
against the Russians since their European organ
zaion The winter employed by looking at each other
Kalaa indifferent entertainments, and in making
and resisting i'll managed sally at Csitaethe want of
information the part of the Turks during all this time be-
ing ridiculous that they imagined they had constantly
$4,000 40 900 in their 'front.' whereas subsequently
turned that there much above 10000 How
ever during the winter every prognostcated fighting
and cd play for the spring. The great bug
BEAR the Russian army, would be the Danube and
the fate of Turkey would hang the chances of a
great battle At length the bugbear reused from his
lair and the Danube Everybody expects that
skilul marching maneuvrng, the hand or the
other will display principle which has been discovered
during the last Nothing Of the Sort The bugbear adj
gingery Ssra, and lays siege to it in the
most uneDerprng People wonder at the beauty
and of works which the engineers department
ecued but all of defensive nature the offensive being
direced and the siege Of wretched earthern redoubt,
defended by undiscipned body, ending in failure, after
losing great number of and officers and expending
enormous of ammunition and labor Then arrives
TIE Angl French contingent They break ground by throw
ing up nconcevable field works Gallpo hundreds OF
miles from the theatre of They shift to Constantine
pie and Sentari length they embark for yarna where
everybody anticipates series of brilliant ending
IN tremendous aconwon of course, by the allied armies.
Wrong The only aid Slistra whose gar
'on in expectation of being relieved by all the united
armies is two engineer officers who arrive the very day
the Russians raise the siege. Then succeeds bungling i'll
conducted passage Of the Danube at Gugevo by the Turks
ending their forcing the Russians to retire two days
before they had intended Now the Russians evacuate the
pncpalites, and the Austran in The war the
Danube is finished Military art military history has
nothing gained by it, We shall any in
tins war quoted in any book, except example to be
warned by. 1t win have done, however, two thngs-the
hussan army win longer be bugbear and the nations OF
Europe will understand that the force of Russia is all in her
Soendency the statesmen of counter revolution.
The in Asia is likewise the brink of close. Ac-
odng to the adyces both the Turkish and Russian
armies concentrated the banks of the Arpetcha be-
tween Gum and Kars and great decisive battle would be
Nught in the very fret days As the between the al
hes and Russia 'the French and English armies says
correspondent Of the Chronicle care thoroughly Disguised
With it, and the general wish be out Of the whole affair
We'll they win perhaps very shortly be out of il and they
vu have lost nothing except their honor But forget that
Domarsund viii have been takenl w. p.
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NV YoRK Septemb,r & 1854
The great event of the week has taken place and in the
pace Of giving you my impressions the artistic merits and