New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-13

rights of sovereignty and to the Independence ~
feeble States if in Greece, in Sicily, in Naplea.
in Tuscany, it is for against those rights that
she has declared; whether in Germany, be-
tween the great Governments, she has sought to
SOW discord, or to resstablish Union !; whether,
morally in Lombardy, and materially in Hun
gary, her efforts have not been conseersted to
the maintenance Of the balance Of power and
whether the blows that are preparing against
her, and the isolation in which it is hoped to
place her BY handing over the political world to
far different sort Of preponderance, will not
rather be the anHihilation Of that equilibrium.
It may thus be seen to wh vt the vague gene
ralities urged against Russia axe reduced But
the last especially of these grounds of accusa-
non sufiices to explain the true motives of q
war which judged by its apparent grounds,
there Is NO reason !; and which it ia so contrary
TO the moral, industrial and commercial inter.
ests or the entire. world, that it will really ac-
ceierate the ruin Of the very Empire which it
made the pretext to save from an imaginary
peril. The true motive was publicly proclaimed
by the English Ministers, when tney asserted
before Parliament that the moment had arrived
at last when il was necessary to destroy the
influence of Russia.
1t is to defend that Influence, not less neces-
sary to the Russian nation than it is essential
to the maintenance of the order and the security
of other States-it is to sustain the indepeu-
dence and territorial integrity which are the
bases Of it-that the Emperor, obliged in spite
Of himself to embark in this contest, is aboutto
devote all the means of resistance which are
furnished by the devotion and the patriotism Of
his people. He trusts that God, who has so
often protected Russia in the days of trial, will
assist him once more in this formidable strug-
gle. He sincerely laments the manifold evils
which are about TO fall on humanity but az
the same time he feels it to be his duty to pro-
test solemnly against the arbitrary pretensions
put forth so prominently by the TWO Powers,
which throw upon him alone all the RESPONSE
bility Of them. They are free, without doubt,
to adopt against Russia such measures as they
may think expedient ), but they are not able to
lay the consequences to his charge. The res
possibility Of the calamities Of Var belongs to
that Power which declares it, not to the ane
which limits itself,ts its acceptance.
St. Petersburg, MarehS0, 1854.
IMPORTANT FROM sPAN
The correspondent of the Eonden Times, writ
ing from Paris, 18th, says:
Ny private letters state that the affair of the
Black Warrior. so far from being settled, has
been urged on with extreme violence by Mr..
5oule, and at the present moment wears very
threatening aspect.
Another letter from Madrid, dated the 18th,
contains these words:
1t is stated that the American Minister has
demanded Of this Government the recall of
Captain GeneraL Pezuela, and further, that the
ufhcer who shall succeed him shall have power
to settle upon the spot such disputes as that
| trising out Of the affair of the Black Warrior.
A large sum of money is also said TO have been
demanded, but the amount named is 80 dis
| proportionately large that We forbear to men
ton it,
On the 18th of April, the King and Queen
went'through the usual ceremony of washing
the feet of Twelve aged men and twelve old wo-
men, and Of afterwards serving them at dinner
A. crowd of the privileged assembled at the
palace to witness the singular scene.
Accounts from the scenes Of the late disturb
ances are not satisfactory, and mischief is still
brooding at Barcelona and Saragossa. Numer-
Gus incendiary fires had occurred at the former
| city; among other buildipgs, calico factory
and the church Of San Francisco de Paula were
consumed. The leaders of the late strike have
issued an address to the operatives, calling on
| them to stand firm. 1t is said they are well
supplied with arms, and o renewal of the out
break will almost certainly occur. The author
| tiles are so much intimdated that they have
liberated all the prisoners except twelve whom
however the workmen insist shall also be re-
| leased-and have pardoned the soldiers impli-
Gated in the Saragossa affair, on condition that
| they volunteer to serve abroad for eight years.
The present movement is not political, but, if
leontinued, it will specify become So.
THE BRITISH FLEETS. BLACK SEA FLEET.
Sailing line-of battle ships. $3.50 2lOi2
SCREW line of battle ships. H.. 162.. 546S
sailing trgntes and soops. 162. 62i4
Screw frigates and sloops. d.. 49... ESQ., Sl36
Paddle-whsels. IS f3 22l9 =. II I9a
Total !, =. d. 81, 1974 lz514 .4os9a
4 FaE ''N nicrIc FLEET.
Screw ne-of, hattie ships Il. aII. $50 o7o5s
sailing line-obattle ships, o.. 55I 4-0O. 14T30
screw rgates and oops. TO-. 2s5.. $500. 15341
Paddle-Wheel steamers. 49,. 84... 1S0. 113e8
Total....... 3D.. 1864. ,fS6i0.. : 61525
| Here in the two fleets we have 81 powerful
| vessels manned ny 3l,284 men, carrying an
armament of 3l3S guns. with steamers whose
power amounts to that of 1860 horses, and
| with gross burthen of III ,517 TONS
In addition to the English ships of war in the
Baltic and the Black Sea, and to those on foreign
and colonial stations, here we have in reserve
At the four ports of Portsmou h, Davenport,
Chatham, and Sheerness not less than 16I ves-
sells of the effective ships of the Royal Navy y
and those estimated to carry not less than 6S07
| guns. Besides these, too, we have a goodly
auHher of paddle wheels and other small craft.
Then We have of vessels building 5 at Ports
mouth, at Davenport, | at Sheerness, at
Chatham, II at Pembroke, at Deptford, at
WoolWich, and / at Millwall--total 49,