The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-10
The WAR.

THE WAR.
Tae adtices from the seat Of hosfilities. up
90 this date. have been of so confused and
contrHdictory = character, that beyond the
fact that the Russians and the Turks are af
war. anl Mat the Rsssians have crossed the
Dannba. Ne don't know what to believe
Now NJ hear that the Turks, on such
day, met the Russians and annihiiated
theif whole army. And the next report Is
that ON the same day. the Russians met the
Tanks, and were completely victorious. And
then comes another report, which states that
on the day and place in which this san
culinary affair occurred, there was no battle
at al.
{ As to the allies. we begin to doubt whether
Turkey has any allies The SC, 900 French ana
the IS, 600 British soldiers, would move much
more rapidly As enemies than friends. Wnere
ara they7 Are there any such persons as 81.
Armand Raglan, or Admiral Dundas2 is
Sir Charles Napier fiction, and the Baltic
iieet 4 feet of flying Dutchmenl We had
supposed that If there is to be anything real
and tangible in the Eastern war. it would be
brought ont by Sir Charles Napier. that ad-
venturous. pugnacious, hardlmouthed, iron.
ribbed, old fre-eater, and, we can't quite give
him up yet. We rely upon him TO mar any
plot which may be on foot to deceive the
public expectations in regardto arousing wai
with Russia Weknow he would haveno sort
ofobjection to running his bald head against
the buttfesses o. Cronstadt. or sitting with his
pipe lighted on one of those Internal snbma
rine machineswherewith Nicholas, according
to rumor, is preparing to give the allied fleets
an agreeable surprise. He viii certainly de-
something dangerous, if he is not recalled. A
vigorous, hearty, combative spirit like OLD
Napier, With a consciousness of immense
physical power at his back, is not going to
founder about sportively in the Baltic, like
huge whale, and spout nothing but salt wa
ter. If he don't redden the tides of the Gull
OF Finland before long, either with his own
blood or that of his enemies, he is not the kind
of animal we have supposed him. As soon
as the ice breaks up, if we do not hear that
the British feet is no longer lying ''like
painted ships upon painted ocean we may
conclude that the grand Baltic demonstration
was never intended to be mischieyous, at
least, SO far as Russia is concerned.
Why is it that the great Western Powers
move so slowly in their work, they who used
to be thunderbolts i'm war,-with whom war
was but "a word and blow, and often the
blow first"2 Now it is year of words, and,
when the blow comes, it comes so slowly and
hesitatingly, that the party at whom it is aim
ed, has abundant time to escape or to
anticipate it, There is no doubtthat all the
governments fear each other and there is still
another, though an unrecognized power,
which they fear much more, the People. ii
there were no danger of trouble from this
source, the Eastern question would by this
time be fought out Shall Europe be Cos.
ssck or shall it be Republican, is dismal al.
Tentative for European monarchs to be called
upon to choose between. 1t is precisely that
dilemma which now distracts, paralyses and
confounds them. Hence, horrible as war al
ways is, we are anxious to hear the first
trumpet blast of actual hostilities from the al
lied camp, for it will be a trumpet of resur-
rection to the people of Europe.