The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-04-06
Defence OF Russia.

The war Of Europe against RussiS, IL car.
rled oni, must produce immense changes in
The face of thai empire, snd the use OF steam
10 The B'liic and Black seas, must thorough
y Test the virtues OF that power ia naval
warfare. Russia pIesenis 10 Europe a front
"i Two thousand miles, in a half circle, rest
ing with her right on the Bpluc at S.. PEI
lersonrg her centre advanced into cenlfol
Europe at Warsaw. and her left supported
by the Black Sea. The Visiula running from
me Carpathian mountains to tie Baltic;-
those mountains from Craeow 10 Kalafu,,
and the Danube from that city to the Black
Sea- form a stupeDdous line .of defence. TO
defend this whole line. Russia has a force Of
oOu.U0O men, composed Of six corps d'drme,
WIN guards and veterans. Opposed 10 her
she has, from the Baltic Sea tn the mountains
Prussia $40, 900. Soxony IL. 900, Bavaria
32,OOO. making SIS. 500; tho Austrian army
ool .OOO. md the Turkish 200. 500, making
l,429 SUI troops on the outside of q half err
Gle, which Russia Gun defend with 6OUlUOO
at The utmost. In addition 10 these, the En-.
glish and Frech operating on both tanks,
that is 10 say. on the Black and Baltic seas,
with immense steam fleets. can rapidly con.
%centrate forces at any desired point. Napo-
leon invaded Russia by penetrating. on one
Ilne OF operation, with 500 600 men, into
her interior, and the climate DESTROYED him.
Around The head Of his advancing column
the whole Russian force, about 200. 900 men,
vanly clustered; they scarcely checked his
advance. 1t is now required Of Russia, not
that she as then concentrate her whole force
upon one spot, but that she face the Circas.
SLAMS IN Asia, repel 200, 600 admirable Tur-
kish troops on the Danube. watch the whole
lino &" The B,ltic, and have a sufficient force
nj 81. Petersburg to save that city from tho
fate OF Copenhagen, threatened by the COM
bined fleets of France and England. MS well
as 10 check lnrnads from the Black Sea.
The Russian army IS now crowding down
in vast numbers into the Danube pruvincep;
probably one-half of the Elective force of
the empire has lis columns pointed 10 Tint
direction, and will, by spring, be enclosed
eiwee The CnrpathIun mountains 90 the
right, the Black Sea on the lrfi, tho Pruih IN
their rear, IN their front the Turkish force,
supported by $4,000 English, under Lord
Raglan, aud al 600 French, under Marshal
Arnaud, behind The Dpnube. While the
force OF :he Empire Is thus engaged. the
= '~H' - wv Lug . AAF0No ~ III &lGuN '
in the B,ltlc;-wllh the opening of spring
navigation that steam power will command
81. Petersburg, and a large force may seizs
Russln BY the throat long before her strag-
armies can GET back from The d ,nnbe.
Oae third Of the whole numerical force of
Russia is now, by the shortest route, me
Thousand miles, or ninety days march from
Petersburg. while the allied powers are
four days of that city! Nqpole, IL
reached Moscow by a land march from Pa
RE, VI one thousand five hundred miles, ind
IN three months after crossing the Npmen
is about half way from Odessa to
Petersburg. or four hundred indies from
either city. Steam may land at both points
powerful forces, that by simultaneous ad-
vnnce could meet in Moscow. and there to
unto with n German FORE, approaching
the Vis,ula. This means of steam
transportation, at The commend of the allies,
was not possessed by Napoleon, and he could
trust ohly 10 marching. Tha, power has
now brought the interior Of Ru-sia six hun
I'D miles nearer to Europe. aud the sum
may suffice for a fatal campsign, andlt
would seem llttle short of madness for her 10
drnw such an avalanche upon hersslf-U.
s. Econ0mi1t.