New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-26

tghiJ bha quick glance VI every tnu'i""H WV
dier-such q clumsy system Of warfare will
never do. The poor Pledmoutese. however.
will probably be spared the trial Of lighting in
the English way. They are TO be fed By that
notorious body, the Briti-h Conmisssri,t, which
could never feed ybOdS but themselves. Thus
they will share the fac Of the fresh ,rrv sis of
British troops Like then. they will die at the
rate Of hundred q week. and furnish three
times thst number TO the hospitals. II Lord
Rsgsn thinks thst the Piedmontese will stand
bis sud bis Commissaries' iucspacty as quietly
as the Britsh troops, be will find himself sadly
mistsken. There are none but British and Rus
siars who would remain in submission under
such circumst.nces: and, We must say, IL is not
to the credit of their national character.
TIE probable development Of this melancholy
csmpsign-as melancholy and bleak a, the muddy
plateau of Sevsstopol-will be this: Tue Rus
SLAMS, when fully conc entratsd, and when the
weather permits, will probably attack the Turks
Of Omer Pasha first. This is expected BY Brit
isb, French and Turks, go well aware are they of
the untnviable position assigned to the latter; it
shows at al events that the Turks are sent to the
North with open eyes, and no better proof Of the
desperate condition of the Allies can be conceived
than is cont lined in this involuntary admission Of
their own Generals. Tast the Turks will be
besteD may be taken for certain. Then what will
be the fate of the allied and PIedmontese armies
TIE buster about au assault on Sevas'oPol Is now
pretty much abandoned On this head We tui
In The LOncon Times of Feb 3, aletter from Col.
Napier to the effect that il the Allies attack
the sou side Of Sevastopol, they will most likely
get into it; but they will be pounded into dust by
the overw helmiDg FIRE Of the north forts aud bat
tfrie., and at the same time beseged BY the Rus
sian army in the field. That army, he says. should
frat haze been defeated, and then both the north
and south sides of the place Invested. As an iu-
starre in point he recalls the fact that the Duke
OF Wellington twice raised tn, siege of Bad'joz,
10 order to march against relieving army.
Col. Napier Is quite right, and The TRTB-
uNE said quite SIS much, at tho time of
the famou, flank march TO Ba'sklaya As
to the Allies getting into Sevastopol, however,
be appears to overlook the peculiar nature of the
Russian defecses. which make it impossible to
carry Lb6 place o. QUO tius 70 dseout' Asctc oto
first, outworss, then the main rampant, sni be-
bind this the buildings Of the town converted
into redoubts; streets bsrricaded. squ.res of
houses loo phsled; aud, finally the loopholed resr
walls of the strsDd.forts every one Of which. in
succession, will require separate attack-per-
baps a separate sege, and even mining operations.
But besce all this, the successful sorties Of the
Russians Of late have sufficiently proved that the
town has been approached to point where the
forces Of the opponents are fully balau 'ed, and
the attack deprived Of any superiority except 10
point OF artillery. Az long q, sorties cannot be
made impossible, all idea of an assault is prepos.
ferrous; the besiegtr who cannot conine tho be.
,ieged to the space ofthe actual fortress i'muoh
less able to take that fortress by a hand to hand
encounter.
Thus tho besiegers will continue to vegetats
in their camp Confined to it by weakne" and
the Rus,isn army In the field, they wi continue
to melt away, while the Russians are bringing up
fresh ferces; and unless the new British Maistry
briDes into play some quite unexpected resoarces,
the dsy must come when British Ere ncb, Pied
nonfese aud Turks are swepE from Crinean soil.