New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-30

safely tried; perhaps, also. WITH s''re hesssn
sroops for their length OF service qushhe' taep'
ior such fash. although we de- not rtcouect
them having ever been put 90 the test ani
stOoa it,
The superiority OF the British ana French
cavalry over the Russian is incOatestably proved
BIZ this action. The three Origsaes OF the slhes
were about the same strength as thc toree fegI-
meuts Of the Russians; aud had they been sent to
the charge simultaneously instead of one afser the
other, and supported by artillery driving up aud
the whole line Of infantry moving onward
Liprandi and his troops were in great danger oil
being thrown down the steep descent toward the
Chernays, and meeting with the fate Biucher pre-
pared for the French at tue Kstzbach.
Tie strength of the two armies may be thus
computed: The Russians had % battalons which
mostly had been engaged at the Alma cannot
have counted more than $4,000 men at the very
outside. Cavalry, 81 squadrons, having mostly
marched all the way from Moscow and kaluga'
certainly not above 2,4OO men; besides about
LOCO Cossacks Artillery, 20 guns.
The allies had of infantry the greater part OF
the first and fourth British divisions, and OF Bos-
quets French division; besidest them an uncertain
number Of Turks, which we can only come at by
committing the number Of Turkish battalions
landed. There were ten Turkish bsttaliOns with
the expedition from the first and according to Lord
Raglans dispatch of 18th October, ak more bat
taions were landed at Baaklays. As they were
not employed on the siege, nor moved far from
Iox- kaap ant
IL, re: although, after their retreat from the
redoubts, they were no longer mentioned in
the dispatches and not considered worth men
tionDg. Thus we shall be pretty near the
fact, if we take tie British at about 5000,
tie French at about 3, 500, aud the Turks at 5000
at least Besiees, there were about 1000 Brit
ish marine, and sailors in the red0ubts around
Balsklaya. Total infantry. 1900; or, if the
Turks count for nothing, ll,O00. Ofcavalry, the
two British brigades amounted to about l,io0,
Gin the British reports rank and file only ara
counted the Cbss ,eurs dAfrique at least 500;
total, 1900. Artillery, unknown but inferior to
the Russians in number, though far superior in
quality.
Take il all in all we consider that on this oc-
cason the allies were az least as strong as the
Russians, had the advantage of strong positions
to fall back upon, and might have, by bold
attack, cavalry and infantry combined, gained
decisive victory-nOt like the one of the Alma,
which had no results, but victory which would
have saved them the trouble of fighting that muir.
derous battle on the 9Th of November. As
il was, they did not even retrieve the dis
advantages which they had suffered, and by
that curious mixture of oyer-daring and over
caution, of misplaced dash and misplaced
timidity, of military fury not needing the rules
of the art and of scientific disquisitions, letting
slip the moment for action-by that singular way
of doing always the wrong thing at the wrong
which has sigsalized all the doings OF
the allies the battle of Balaklava was fairly lost
10 them.
From the battle the 9Th November, we can up
to the present only draw the conclusion that 1t
was the beginning of that crisis which .
we thought would occur from the 9th to
the 10TH As we said long since, as The London
Times now says tO)-it is merely question Of
supplies and reGnforcements.