New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-04
THE STATE OF EUROPE.
From our Own Correspondent
LONDON, Friday, Oct. 20, 1854.

From Own Correspondent
LONDON. Friday, Oct. 20, 1854.
The Eneli sh press unanimously believe that Sevas
topol must fall in few days; but my last advices
from Constantinople are somewhat gloomy The
Turks, well aware that the expedition to the
Crmea was undertaken against the advice Of all
the Admirals and Generals, with the exception of
Marshal st. Armand and Sir +. Lyons, entertain
strong doubts about the success of the siege.
According to plan of the fortress circulated at
Constantinople, the south side Of the town is
defended not only by wall, but likewise by eight
Martello towers with twenty cannons and two
mortars each, the siege must, therefore, be con-
Quoted with all the necessary delay in order to
be successful, while the army corps Of General
Osten Sacken in Bessarabia, relieved in Odessa
by the Modo-Wallachian army of Prince Cor
chakof is on the march toward the Crinea, and.
according to Vienna dispatches, has already ar
rived at Perekop. The allies will therefore soon
have to face the reenfor led enemy, while exposed
TO salies from the fortresses Of the place.
In view Of such difficulties, it is said in Con-
stan.inople that Canrobert has expressed the
opinion that it is safer not to delay the operations
by q regular siege of the Martello towers, but to
batter breach in the wall witch connects them,
and, marching into the town under the FIRE of the
towers, to destroy the feet and attack the towers
afterward from both sides, cutting of their CON-
munication with the town and with the great
forts on the waters edge.
Thu T,rLs In Const.nt;nonIa ara all tho mora
excited about the final result of the expedition,
as they fear that Austria may in case of defeat
in the Crmea, side with the Gar, and together
with his Bessarabian army, invade Turkey, de-
stroy the enfeebled army Of Omer Pasha, and
march straight against the capital. need not
say that such an apprehension is devoid of toun-
dation, since Austria cannot risk perpetratng an
open act of treschery. She will remain neutral;
she will favor the stronger; she will maintain
herself in the Principalties; but she will not 60
TO war, either with the English and French, or
with the Russians. Lord Radcliffe seems like
wise uneasy about the proceedings in the Crimea,
since he was the great promoter Of the scheme,
the success of which is still very questionable.
In Asia the defeats of the Turks, though stra-
logically unimportant have weakened the pres
tige of the central power of the Sultan and rob-
berry and anarchy begin to show Themselves every
where. Greek freebooters infest the neghbor-
hood of Smyrna, and Turkish robbers disturb the
highlands of Armenia. Several French officers
are said to have been murdered on their way to
the Turkish army. and the army itselfis democrat
lied by the frequent changes of commanders.
Sbamyl, seeing that he is not supported BY the
Turks, has abandoned the plain, laden with booty,
and retreated into his mountain Businesses Of
Daghestan without having attacked the city Of
Tifis.
Against such gloomy accounts from Constanti-
nople we have more hopeful advicesin the English
papers. 1t seems that the map circulated at
COnstaDtineple does not show the real state OF
the fortifcations of Sevastopol, but the plan
according to which the works were to have been
raised but which has not been completed by the
Russians. At least one of the correspondents men
lions no more than one Msrtello tower and il Is
probable that like Bomarsund, Sevastopol remains
in an unfinished state which favors the attack OF
the allies As to the robberies of the Kurdish
the energetic Ismael Pashs Gen. Kmetty.)
The Anglo-French armies in the Crimea are in
q rather peculiar position in regard to the su-
preme command. There being no Commander
in Chief, the operations Of the two armies are
undertaken in concert but eatrely independent
of each other Even the siege Of sevastopol Is to
be conducted in the same way. The French hold
tie POSITION close to the sea, while the English
are leaning against the nights of Inkerman, and
Csuro bert sud Lord Raglan have each to select
the best mode of achieving the capture of the for
trees. Only the general features Of the siege
have been settled in common; the details are
altogether left to the French and English gener-
ais. As to the Turkish troops We are not in.
formed what is the way in which they are attached
to the Anglo French army.
A rumor prevails at Constantinople that some
disaster has befsllen the garrison of Eupatoria
left behind by the allies when they made their
flank march to Bslsklaya but ii seems that there
is 10 foundation for the report.
According to Russian teIegrsphc dispatches
the siege Of SeyastOpol had not yet been com.
menced on the 18th inst.
The hoHiteHr contains an article on the policy
Of Austria, declaring that Austria, by recogni1-
ing at last the right of the troops of the Sultan
to the occupation Of the Principslities, and BY
deciding that the Austrian troops shall not be an
obstacle to the attack on Russia-sppears 70 Ia
miliarize herself more and more with the event
ualities of war, which, for her, becomes nearer
and more threatening, and which. By the tall Of