The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-02

wsleen Manufacturing Company All were sold,
and At full price,. The line Of hosiery and blankets
also sold well A small ne haen goods sold as
about tire rat of evious .slss There was fair
and spirited house Of dders present.
Messrs. Van W ok, Kobbe d T wnsend held
moderate sale of French goods, WI ch comprised
44s lots. The sale drew . "a company, aad the
goods went Of at about the rat OF previous SAL
The European War and Its Results.
The results of the European war, thus far,
seem salts actory to none of the interests in
volved in it. be adage that " it is an i'll wind
that blows nobody good" has in this case to find
its realization. Universal disappoin ment has,
in fact, up to the present moment, attended all
its varying chances. The Russian Emperor has
not as yet accom-. lished his dreams of Byzantine
conquest the French arms have made but
little progress on the road to NJ scow; the ma
ritime supremacy Of England is content with
large boasts and sara performances; he Ger
man Powers are trembling for their existence
tie Euro cen volutionist., who hoped every
thing frcn this conflict of interests, are ex-
tnguisbed in the magnitude Of the crisis; and
Uncle Sam, VITO rarely misses an opportunity
of turning the troubles 0 others to profitable
account, has for once been mistaken in his calcu
latious.
Let us count up t e gains of the different
expectants up to the present. time, aud see ~ at
they amount "a Russi& although she has
encountered nothing lkea.rerrievahle rv.vcrses
is for thu moment compclie, to ab.afcc her
projects of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and 10 watch over
the safety of her own territories Tn, allies
after vast preparation and magniloquect wants
of tfair power to crush all oppo-itioE, aud die
tate aaws to the rest Of the world, hrye accom-
plished the marvellous feats Of destroying III
iso ated fortress in the Baltic, and ef defeatin :
in the Crimea an army as Interior in numbers
as it confessedly is ia discipline. in according
to the vctors the merit of their gallant deed-,
we must not refuse to the vanquished The credit
of these facts. From the most reliable accounts,
there is reason to believe that the whole foroe
of the Russians opposed. in this battle, to The
$4,000 troops Of the allies-the best disciplined
soldiers in the wOrld-did not exceed 35,Qe0
men. If this calculation be correct, some slight
rate resistance made by the Russians in defence
of their positions, and which cost the vie*ors
such heavy loss. Against these trifiing ,ad
vantages on the side OF the aNies, we have 10
balance an expenditure Of nearly one hundred
millions of dollars III war contributions alene,
beside the enormous losses resulting from the
interruption of commercial operations. If things
progress at this rate, the English and Fren,h
will soon be widely awakened from their dreams
of military glory. lie jeu ne oaut pas la chan
deNe.
But where has been our account in this cata-
logue OF other peoples mistor'unes? What has
become Of the rich results promised to us by
sanguine tpe culators, from tnis conflict Of Euro
pean interests? It was to throw into our hands
the carry ing trade of the world; and yet our
shipy ards never exhibited such melancholy
absence Of healthy activity. The great high
ways of European commerce ire as free as ever
to the commercial marine of the allies, and the
navy OF Russia blocked up III its own ports,
can give no impulse to this branch Of our in
dustry. Of the untold millions of European
capital which were to be diverted into this
country by the paralysis of financial and COM
mercial operations abroad, we see but small
evidences. We have in some degree to thank
ourselves for this, for the capitalists of Europe
prefer to brave the risks arising from the pro-
tracted continuance of the war, to the certain
losses which are entailed by the looseness Of
official management which prevails in most of
our great enterprises; but it is also mainly ow-
ing TO the fact that as yet the war has exercised
no sensible influence on the monetary and COM
mercial operations of Europe. And yet,
strange to say, whilst we find the Eng
fish and French funds still maintaining
hemselves-whilst we have official antho-
rity for believing that at no period have
the trade and the revenues of the nations
Immediately interested in the war been more
we have nothing to loose
and nothing to apprehend from its results, we
are suffering from stagnation Of trade which
has had no parallel for several years past, and
which commercial men are of opinion will be OF
prolol ged duration. If we feel thus sensitively
live to each disturbance in the external rela-
tons of other countries, what becomes of our
proud boast Of political independence? We
have become the slaves Of our commercial ne
cessities, like the older nations of the other
hemisphere, and we must be content to follow
in that inglorious but peaceable track laid
down by modern civilization, which, if it leads
not to wallike fame will at least conduct us to
material happiness.
THE FALL ELEcrIoNs-THE CANDIDATES.
From the tables which will be found in our
columns to-day, it appears that there are no less
than sixteen parties, of different shades, in exist
ence at present, end over one thousand candi-
dates in the field for the various offices in the
gift of the people from Governor down to
Councilman. In addition to the opposing sec |
lions of the democratic and wing parties, we |
nave the Know Nothings, the spurious Know
Sothings, the temperance men, the independent
temperance men, the reformers the free de-