Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-09-11
The Late News from Europe.


The awful visitation by which thousands Of the
troops of the allied army in the East have been
ingluriously hurried out of life, Is the chief sub
iect Of contemplation in the recently received in
icliigenee from Europe. The deadly influence
of the climate in the Dobrutseha had already des-
troyed. it Is estimated, $4,000 Russian soldiers,
before their leaders became alive to the necessity
of eYaouaing il. Ten thousand French and
English haYe since beendestroyed by the same
dreadful scourge. The blow is "A fearful one, and
we have vet To learn at what period the mortality
will have diminished. The sieky hopes express
scd by the English and French journals that the
rnvagrs Of tho cholera were diminishing, not
IN conformity with their latest news from Narna.
Cur accounts from there reach to the 10th of
August only. when whole month, six weeks,
Of unnbaied hent were awaited, and the probable
tiles were small, of the immediate disappearance
Of the epidemic. The expedition To the Crimea,
which, II had been anticipated, would leave Narna
on the 18th ult, had been deferred indefinitely
Such postponement had been condemned by the
more headoug London journals; bnt we do not
see how il could well have been prevented. EX-
pcricnco has not proved that the deudincss Of
cholera is diminished ut sca,or on ship board,and
the embarkation of the allied army, at the time
appointed would have been equivalent to invading,
with n hospital, the Russian shores.
While England and France have been compel
led to inaction,t the great central power of Europe
AHNlfHs HIS hNhulllfU u position WHICH increases
the chances OF an ultimate result favorable to
Turkey The note of Count l,nol, under date
9Th August, has definitely settled the question
of her adherence 10 the Allies in respect to the
terms OF peace which they may hereafter dictate
whether Austria takes part in the not, will
depend upon the fnithfuncss of Russia to her en-
gUgements. If the hitter power, after having
promised to eVacuato the Princpalities, prevari-
Gates and, contrary to stipulation, holds fortified
npHItlnuS supI ~ ,uluty AusIru will he
PEELED, in honor, to drive her from them; but if
the forces under Prince Gortschakoff shall have
retired beyond the Pruth no cause of hostility
will exist That it is determined at Vienna to
occupy the Principalities cannot be doubted
Ih" last news from there positively confirms
previously received dispatches, that Gen. Shaft
gattsche's division had crossed the Danube
This is probably correct; but whether it be not
the question is only one of time and prudence
Not paper III Europe ACCUSES Austria any lon
ger OF wavernE, medlating friendship with Rus
STA, or even mediating in her behalf. Prussia u
lone incurs such suspicious, and their consequent
odlum.
Sir Charles Napier is becoming unpopular IL
mong the officers Of his fleet in the Baltic. 1t re-
mains yet To be socn whether desoryedly so or
not, Hope deferred" has soured tho ardent
souls TINT months ago embarked from England
prepared to hear, IN few weeks, the inspiring
sounds of .'Gcd savc the Queen" in the streets
of st. Petersburg; and it is natural that they
should Gust about for objects upon which to vent
their displeasure. We believe that all that was
possible has been accomplished, far, in the
Baltic, aud that Nelson under like circumstan-
ces could not have led fleet to victory
Esparero is manitesting,already, symptoms of
the unprineped, selfish demngogue. His toast
at the Editors dinner, To Liberty, '-equivnlent
in his mind to "Espartcro'-was promptly rebuk
ed by O'Donnell; but there can be no doubt now,
that new struggle is impending between the
ex-Rcgent rcpublicaniaed by ambition, and his
more disintorested and sogacious associates. who
forescr IN an attempt to overthrow the monarchy
o. civil war, anarchy, and foreign Intervention.
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