New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-30
FRANCE
From Our Own Correspondent

correct index of public opinion; at the bourse,
last week, the funds fell three and halper cent.
between Monday and Saturday; on Monday, OF
this week, there was rise OF halt per cent.
Ire report was not cheering, in any sense, but it
was comforting TO learn that the battle, fearful
ss il was did not result in defeat OF the allies
That such negative good news should be welcome
at all. shows how far we are fallen from our late
high estate of expectation. The question is no
longer simply, when, or even whether Sevastopoi
will be taken. The allied armies in the Crimes
are, it is beginning to be feared, in the condition
of the unlucky horseman, who found 1t equally
dangerous to cling on, or to get of. Suppose
the m TO have taken the ruins of SevastOpOl, they
will not have taken the constantly increasing Rus
sian armies in the peninsula, so that the EN-
barkation of the last half of their troops would
be more hazardous operation than was their
landing two months sgO-let alone the difference
between the elemental hazards of September and
December. Then the siege of SeyastOpol changes
to a winter campaign in the Crimea-tor the
worse
Industrial and commercial men have for more
than twelvemonth been looking forward 10 this
or that event as the date of decisive turn in the
Eastern Question. aud the signal for resumption
of business activity; and as often as time has
brought on the event, another has disclosed itself
beyond-as "AJps on Alps arise" The taking
of Sevastopol, with the destruction OF the Rus
sian vessels there, will certainly be great point
gaiI ed in the permanent policy OF the allied mar
thine powers; but we have no reason as get TO
suppose that il will have any immediate ehectuPon
the warlike policy of Nicholas. That monarch,
with an Obstnacy that has a sort of hum0r mingled
with its blasphemy, persists always, that his
" prOydential mission of insuring conservative
" Europe against revolutionary Europe, can only
"be fulfilled by an obstinate war that shall break
" in pieces the ambition of the English and put
" an end to the dominion of the Turks" CHE
quotation is from the official newspaper of st. Pc
tersburg.) And so he sends down pair of Grand
Dukes-his two youngest sOns-tO the seat of ac
tive war
II the fight could be carried on between dukes,
and monarcbs, and generals, in person. we could
quietly stand by and see the fight of their own
choosing carried on Cor their own proft-indiffer
ent, as between skunk aud rattesnake," who
won. But this war is fought by men who know
or care hardly anything about the pretended issue
in question, and is suffered for, and starved for
here in Paris, in Lyons, MulhOuse, and wherever
else there are wOrkngmen. All embarrassment,
misfortune, loss that betall great manufacturers,
merchants, capitalists, grayitates necessarily
down to their stOmachs. few monster capital
lists alone profit by the Government loans that
a prolongation of the war is rendering inevitable
Government has already begun to open "extraOr
"dinary credits" on plea OF urgency-to be
regulated" by the Corps Legislatli at its coming
session. 1t is hard to say where anything can be
found to bear new direct taxes, bat need must
help will to find the way.
News from the seat of war do not pretend to
give. IL would be useless encroacbment on the
domain so well watched by your London CORE
spOldents. In France, the preparations of winter
clothing for the eastern army for its immediate re-
enforcement, and for more rigorous prosecution
than ever of the war next year, are carried on
with unrelaxed activity, in workshops, arsenais,
camps ship-yards, and seaports. Thus, at lou
Ion and other ports the work is continued night
and day, and the sometime ordinance to suspend
labor Sundays and fete-days is itself suspended.
There was levy of ffty-two carpenters and sew
enteen caulkers frem the ship-yards at Nantes,
who are sent to the Government ship-yards at
Brest. This is the fourth levy of shp-carpenters
drawn from Nantes within eighteen months. The
sLip-builders had been obliged to send to Belgium
for workmen A new levy of forty carpenters and
csulkers, also destined for Brest has Just been
raised at Hayre. Two transatlantic steamers,
which you have seen in your port-the Indiana and
the Alps-are to be freighted, the first with En-
giish the second with French troops for the Black
Sea.
1t is certainly more by faith in an 0verruling
Providence than by sight, that one can discover
as yet the great good that can from this war.
The doctrine Of Peace Societies and of their Mas
ter seems to be losing the ground that it had
gained Of late years. Their voice is no. heard
whether drowned by the din of battle, by the
groans of the dying and the wailing for the dead,
or silenced by the conviction of its happiness to the
time. But If II be inOppOrtune fer them to hold
their meetings and publish unread reports, let not
their secretaries other literary members miss the
occasion Of preparing 10 be circulated at filter
time, printed argument for peace. The mate
rails are at hand in the newspapers of the day.
The work should be a compilation from dispatches
reports, and letters of newspaper correspondents,
or OF soldiers on the ground. These men write
with an effective elOquence, that studied rhetor-
clans do not reach. Historians and nOyellsts, in
deed may find rare literary studies in the way Of
description and incident in the columns OF The
Times or other London papers What Wanted
description of hon0rs by Thucidides or BOccaccio
equals in yigor-strengthene by its cOnciseness-
or surpasses by its graphic power, and in the sug
&c stiveEess of untold 10 the reused imagina-
ton, this chapter on the Condition OF Seyasto-
pol, sent US by telegraph, nritten by we don't
know whom: Water was failing; typhus fever
4" was raging in the town, which was infected by
" Ccrrses that tie sea east back upon the quays.
" In the oOnhagraiiOn Of hospital, 600 sick and
" wounded have been burned to ashes. A" That isan
essay 10 little Oh the Horrors Of war: there ia
nc on Tie Glory u Wsr, taken IRON the letter Of