New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-16


walls with wood. The exploit of GAmla KsrIeby
was q complete failure, but sail something must
De done, and the Admirals found i, necessary TO
have an army at their disposition. Accordingly
Napoleon sent paraguay d'TIilliers With 10000
men TO the Baltic; the fleets again bad an e.
euse for doing nothing in the meantime. The
French division arrived at last, and BOmarsund
was taken after d short defense Of three days.
But scarcely bad the allies captured the fortress,
when they found that il was Of no use whstever
The Aland Islsnds were offered 10 Sweden bat
King Oscar respectfully declined the present.
which would have involved hi Il in war with the
same Gar whom even England and France con-
bined were unable substantially 70 damage II
has therefore at last been decided that the islands
shall be evacuated and the fortress blown up, an
experiment more costly TO England and Frame
than 10 Russia. But there is one comfort at
least for the British Ministerial organs They
must acknowledge that the Russian fleets were
quite safe in their sea ports, and Likewise that it
would be foolish 10 attack and SweabOrg,
but at least rigorous blockade had been main
tanned, and The resources Of Russia were crippled
and her trade ruined Such was the theory Of
The Times, and such result was not too dearly
bought by the heavy expenditure and the
doubling of the income tax. Still even this last
soyhlsm is now eIploded the return, Of the
quarter show that the falling of ID the Imports
ton Of Russian products is scarcely worth men
tOniDg and that the Russians sell their hemp and
tallOw during the war just as they did before II.
TIE Times, arriving at such conclusion, now con-
gratuatts the people Of England on such result
for cutting off the trade Of Russia would nave
been another blow on English commerce. Very
vell. we have no objection 10 such theory,
md il is indeed progress in civilization that war
should be carried on in such way as not to H.
terfere much with commerce. But why then,
have the allies sent their fleets TO the Baltic
They might have watched the Sound and the Belt
with a few steamers, sufficient to impede Rus
sian feet coming out of the Baltic, and might
have spared themselves the Smelling of HangO
Udd the accommodating Of CrOnstadt, the burning
of the pitch at Uleaborg, the check at Gamla har
Ieby, aud the capture and destruction OF Bomar-
sund All these great victories and triumphs VIII
not curb the pride of the Gar VINO must think
the brsggiDg of Sir Charles Napier aud of all En-
As to the South, the allies have done just as
little as in the North. 1t was Turkish valor
snaded BY the allies which defeated the Russian
troops, and the marsh feyers were more efficient
allies of the Sultan than Lord Raglans and S.
Arnsuds armies The Turks found this out as
soon 40 they saw that the allies cared more for
occupying and fOrti6ng Gallipoli and the Oar
dsnelles, which are the keys of the Empire than
for seeking and fighting the Russians. Still 1t
was too late, the allies would keep the position,
judciously selected by them, and they are now the
masters of Turkey, without having done any harm
TO the Russians with whom they pretend to be
at war The only hope of the Turks was the
cholera of July and the fever of septe nber,
which might deliver them from such treacherous
allies as Lord Radcliffe and Marshal st. Arnsud.
At last we have a report of the battle of kars.
II was fought on the 9TH of August. The Turks
made an attack upon the forces of Gen. AndrOni-
koff-who, by the by is not a Greek nor half
breed, but full Russian, with the liitle up-turned
Russian nose and fair hair-but they failed in dis
lodging the enemy and fell back on their former
position. The loss on both sides is larger in Off
GERS than in men. Two Turkish Pashas and three
Russisn Generals were disabled, but the armies
remained in the same position as before-facing
one another. The Turkish divisions of Arabian
and of Bayazid have succeeded in joining the
army Of Kars, which is now superior in number
to the Russians opposed to it.
In Spain the reactiOnary party is trying to play
the same game as it did in lS4s aud lSi9 in
France, The clubs have been suddenly closed,
Tho Juntas with the exec DtiOn of the provincial,
(not as The Times telegraphs, professionally Juntas
are dissolved and the nation is frightened by the
publication Of the amount of the deficit, while
the rich classes are emigrahng to France in order
TO have their absence felt by the working classes
and 10 produce a crisis and panic. The Re6c-
tionists in France succeeded in the same way, and
induced the imbecile Lamartine even to impose
the additional tax of forty. five confines to every
franc of direct taxation in order to clear off at once
the deficit grown up by Louis Philippe's and Gui-
zot's long INSTRUMENTATION. Should Espartero
prove as impractical Lamsrtine he may be-
come just as little respected-just as easily for
gotten as the great poet and soon be superseded
by ODonnell and the MOdersdos FuriOsos. This
party spreparing coup detat, for some unknown
pretender who has ne yet no chances Of success.
OnMonday Queen Christina allowed to depart
for Lisbon, after the people had been informed
that her estates and personal property had been
sequestrated until the time when the Cortes shall
decide how much she has to refund to the nation.
Some resistance was made by the people of Mad
rid but il was easily overcome by the National
Guard and the division of ODonnell. The Span
ish question is now soon 20 be decided. IL the