The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-17

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a. or eEs AsToPoLs-IMPoRTANT
si .,.,vs OF THE fRENCH EMPEROR, AND
rnn.LLY IMPORTANT OPINIONS OF AN
: ENGLISH COLONEL.
The New York Times has received through
/. or;sste channel, . letter from Paris, con-
t.;nine statement of his views OF tho En-
,aror Napoleon, concerning the siege OF Se-
hastopol, and the Crimes campaign. wnicn
.ha ritter processes were expressed IN MS
rrs.ence by the Emperor in the course OF
aonversation. The Emperor, It Is saio' spoke
substantially as follows:
@T,tere uevsr has been Siege OF seos@oPo, 'or
the 6rst step to constitute siege u ,nvesenS "a
The Russian ARMY nss U .nd ssSsopo
heine movable 1t one time concentrated 1n LII.
.n.,n and n another ON Bsksisersl Ine I,ep.
Wing of the forcs rests on seoestopoi % .ne
wing Of the English troops at "s'er''o
Houaoumous. ..., ,.rua
"The Aprlo French army has not been ls.se
enough 20 tend hs lines 90 AZ TO give isce " ne
n ussians, 90 we have occupied an entIencneu pos
siion opposite their right wing al Seoasopoii an
while We have been attacking, not be.'egloQ, TINS
most we have been constantly outhankea y .ns
Russisn left If there has been siege ~ sn, "
the Anqio-French army thst has been neslseeo.
~ acknopledge the tactics Of the Crtmean cam
poign 70 be my oson projection, ana nson,s Of
France and England want feat OF arms, sno Per.
baps the people Of America would applaud anotse.
emolenski, aud Moskowa Mol France 10 p po.o
crossed the arid sseppee and deadly sno" her own
vf,derpess TO meet us her frontier Ine.o 70
moi man who enters the Crimea that mas DO. on'
dar,ope all we suffered In the retreat iron p po
COW There il not regimen, tna' sa,,s,,ons nave
been epeulphed The Russian loss scco'oIs ~
their own estmate rendered to the Empei9L 49,
olss last December amounted TO TOO h~aaIe1 a'1
seventy thousand. The Allied troops .. a aor,ent
had not lost one tenth OF that figure au cou.o.s
20 protract the struggle 10 the Crimea on 'ne'o
terms"
On another occasion he observed:
"a Russian army Is not recruited With faciiy.
Men can be had but not soldiers Inc nussi.a
pcasantry require from TWO to three years sHIs na
at drill before they are ft for the ranks L..
nearly extirpsted the elite OF their forces,-no''
which the Gar has taken many years to crea.e.-
England and France, on the contrary, grow stIung.
or a. the struggle proceeds; our pessao'ry ~
weeks become staunch troops, and the nre OF var
which burns slowly at first among our popu'a"'D'
increases with reverse"
Again, the Emperor, observed
81, would be folly to infllct merely wound upon
Russia from which she would soon recover. Lei
ms rather establish running sore 10 her slde rom
which her strength will run out. ososstopoi =
draining her system. The future will JUDGE my
tactics. but the people are too smah " 500 '"'
around them"
It is evident from all this that the Emperor
is greater military genius than the hrs'
Eapoeon He never conceived so happy al
idea as that of draining Russia through one
Of her extremities! But there are other jour
nails besides the Times which have Paris cor
respondents, and they are not men in buck
81 RAM Among these is the National lntelli'
gencer, whose Partisan letter-writers are
bona fde residents of Paris, and whose In
formation is reliable. One of these under
date of July 26, expresses the belief that BE
bastopol is not so likely to be taken to-day
as it was many months since, and particular
ly after the battle of Alma. Then, he thinks
the allies might perhaps have succeeded ir
an assault, with the loss of eight or ten thou
sand men; now, with four times that loss, they
in all probability would fail in the attempt
The writer had an interview with an Eng
Ush Colonel whose regiment was among the
FIRST that landed in the Crimea, and who was
on his way home, wounded. The Colonel sta
ted that the British army sent to the East up
to the goth of June, including all reinforce
ments. was seventy thousand. and that their
actual effective force now did not exceed
thirty thousand. He denied that the French
Joss was comparatively small. He expressed
the opinion that the fortif cations constructed
by Todliben, had rendered Sebastopol i'm
pregnable, and that the allies, after long
struggles and sufferings, would be forced to
a humiliating peace. Inregard to the power
and resources of Russia, the English Colonel
remarked: "We have been greatly deceived
in the resources and mighty power of Russia
Our ministers as well as our Ambassadors
were very ignorant on that subject, and
thought large portion of her army was only
on paper, and not the greatest in Europe
Russia has for years been preparing for this
conflict, and in its progress everything with
her moves like clock work--no loans, no in.
creased taxes, but all voluntary contributions
on the part of the mobiles and others. The
whole country is united in carrying on war
which they consider is both national and re
ligious, united with honor and glory. The
ignorance in England on the subject is in.
credible, and our Ambassador at CONSTANT.
nople thought we had only to present our.
selves before Sebastopol to take it, and TO-DAY
We are further from it than when we landed /"
It will be seen that the opinions of this in,
telligent eyewitness and gallant participation
of the siege of Sebastopol, differ essenti ally
from those of the pssteboard warrior, Louis
Napoleon, who, in his way. is as great a hum.
bug as Phineas T. Barnum
NEW CAMPAIGN.
According to Paris correspondent of
New York journal, the new French levy of
hundred and forty thousand men is des
tined for campaign in Moldavis and Rus
sian Poland. and will supercede the Austrian
army of occupation. The object of this cam.
paign is said to be the erection of Polish