The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-24
Our Paris correspondence.


It's Probable Objects the Isolation of the Russian
.Army and Naval Aduance st. Petersburg
Our Minister at Paris in fresh Perplerities-
State Questions not the only Troubles of Diplc-
smaey-Suicides on the Increase among the French
.-Insemt,oi By an american Engineer for the
Defiance of Cronstadt-7Ae Court, &C., &c.
Among q lively and ingenious population like
that Of France all sorts OF speculations are adoat to
discover, if possible, the secfet OF the campaign,
which Is presumed to have been determined upon
lat tho meeting Of Omer Pacha, st. Arra9d and
Lord Raglan, at Varna The press, it is true, dare
not uttera syllable without authority, but French
mans tongue is almost match for the censorship;
and from the boudoir to the Boulevards, from the
purieus of the palace to the curriers' OF the Porte
st. Martin and the FaubOurg st. Antoine, that
nnruy member, is, at the present moment, in viva
cious agitation. All France is, in fact, soldier.
While in America lisping hopefuls are taught the
equal rights of man, and in England they are taught
nothing at all in France the youthful Gaul steps the
gardens of the Tuleres and the groves Of the Paais
ROYAL, girded with sword and armed with fusil.
The future hero may be seen any day marshalling
his men, selecting his ground, finging up his re-
doubts charging to the onslaught, or defending to
the death: and whether in after life he measures the
Appian way of his loved Paris ribboned and starred
and gildcd, or opens a brilliant magasin on the
Boulevard like M. Froge, the eminent tailor, he has
his opinions on military affairs in general. 1t was
indeed a remark of the soldier Napoleon, that his
peasant soldiers seemed, by sort OF intuition, to
have an acquaintance with the great principles on
which the most scientific military combinations often
turned Frequently said he, at St. Helena,
sswhen unexpected, / rode around the camp, would
enc OF these men, from some uncomfortable impulse
suddenly rush forward, and Selling my bride hand
whisper Sire You must occupy this or that position
or your flank will be turned and straghtway
back again would the needless fellow run, as Il
stunning the very echo Of his exuberant mother wit
and often it happened that the suggestion was
either really new to me, or one which had partly
formed in my mind, and was about to act upon"
The prevailing conclusion seems to be that the in
senton u.s. if possible to isolate the Russian armies
ment on Slistria while a naval advance will be
made on st. Petersburg, cutting OIL the Russian
force which is in Fnlond-that Austria and Prussia
are to keep eye on Poland and tat If the fortress
of the Danube, can hold out for the seven weeks
first assigned the duration Of its resistance, the
French and English troops will before that time
have been enabled to unite with Omer Pacha-that
5000 Of the elite Of the French army on his left
and Is 900 Of the elite of the English army on hi:
right; both in immediate and close conjunc
tion, and ready to cooperate with him. In
other words, there would thus be in the field
an army of the allies at least 10000 strong
ready to advance to the relief of Silistria
Much importance is laid upon the late dispatch of
Admiral Hamelin, as showing the great changes
that have already occurred in front and rear of the
Russian army; and it is even thought that the Gar
had better see to his communications with the Cas-
plan Sea in case of difficulties. These are the ru-
limitations current at the Etat Major in the Place
Ssndome, with Napoleon's famous column before
;ts members to brighten their iatelects' Such, too,