New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-08

mail steam ,ersice, AMI nothing is at present in
greater demand there thsn ocean stea ners; but
the sunoly ia exhausted. The only thing which
cou,d save the Allies, would be the a'riv. in the
Crime. exactly at tie time it is wanted, OF an
Au,trisn corps Of some 3O,OOO men, 10 be en-
barked a. the mouth Of the Danube.' Without
,uch reinforcement neither tie Piedmontese
corps. nor the Nespclitan corps nor the drbets
Of Anelo French reenforcenents, nor Oner Pa
shs's army. can DO them any real good.
Now le. US see what part of their respective
forces England and France have already engaged
in the Crimea We shall speak of the infantry
Only, for the proportions in which cavalry aud
artillery are attached TO such expeditions are 80
variable tbs. no positIye conclusions respecting
them can be established. Besides, the whole SC
tive force Of country ia always engaged in pro-
portion as i,s infantry is engaged. OF Turkey
we spe Ak not, for with the army OF Omer Pashs
,he engages her last, her only army, in th. strug-
gle. VIVA. 10 eft to her in Asia 10 no army; it Is
but rabble.
England possesses, in oil, 90 reg ments, or JOG
bsttalions Of infantry. OF these, at least 80 bat
taliors are on Colonial service. OF the remain
der, the fret FIVE divisions sent TO the Crimes
took up about 80 bsttalions more; and at least
eight ba.talions have been sent soce as re-
endorsements. There remain about - batial'
iops, hardly one Of which could be sp,rel Ac-
cOrdiDely England fairly acknowledges by her
iast military measures the peace establishment
Of her army 20 be entirely exhausted Various
Il -,
for what has been neglected. Toe militia, EN-
bodied to the number Of some so O00 are allowed
to volume or for foreign service. They are to oc'
cUpy Gibraltar, Malta, Corfu and thus to relieve
about twelve ba'talions on colonial service,
which then may be sent to the Crimea. Abreisn
legion s decreed; but, unfortunately, no fo,e'gn-
ers seem to come forward for enlistment Ter
the rule Of the cato nine. tails. Finally. o ne
18th February, orders were issued to create Sec
ond battsliOns for - regiments-i3 OF 900 men
and 80 Of l,200 men each. This would give an
addition Of 103, 600 men, besides about l70OO
more men for the cavalry and artillery. But not
one Of these 10000 men has as yet been enlisted
and then, how are they to be drilled and Off
cered The admirable organic alton and general
management of the British army has contrived to
engage, one way or another, between the Crimea
and the colonies almost the whole of the in.
f,ntry, With the exception Of depot companies
and few depot battaODs-not only the men,
but the cadres too. Now, there are plenty OF
half pay generals, colonies and majors on the
British army list can be employed for this new
force; but Of captains on halfpay, as far as
we know, there are none, or very few, while
lieutenaDts, ensgns and non commissioned Off
GERS are nos where to be had in the manufactured
state Raw material there is in plenty but raw
officers to drill raw recruits would never do;
and old, experienced, steady non-commssioned
officers as everybody knows, are the mainstay of
every army. Besides this, we know from the
best authoriy-Sir W. Napier-,hst it takes full
three years to drill the tag rag and bobtai of Old
England into what John Bull calls the FIRST so!-
"diers Of the world" and the best blood of
"EDgland" If that is the case when the eadres
are at hand waiting to be filed up. how long will
il take without subaltern or non co nmlssioned
officers to manufacture heroes out Of the 40 OOO
men who are not yet found We may consider
the whole military force of England so far en-
gagged in this war that, for the next twelyemanth,
the utmost the British Government can do will
be to keep up "heroic little band" of forty or
fifty thousand men before the enemy. That
number could only be exceeded for very short
periods, and with essential arrangement OF all
prepsra alton for future reenforcements.
France with her larger army and far more COM
plete organisation, has engaged far inferior pro-
portional part of her forces. France possesses 100
regiments of infantry of the line of ZOuayes, and
2 foreign legions, a. baitalions each; beside 20
battalions Of rifles, and African battalions-to-
gether 3il battaliOns. OF these, 100 battalons,
or one to each regime Of the line, considered
as depot battaions for the reception and drilling
of recruits; the two first ba.talons only are sent
out for active service, while the dtpo! prepares
the reeLforcements destined to keep up their full
strength. Thus, 100 battalions must be az once
struck of the number. Ifsubsequently these pot
bst.aliops are made use of as The groundwork for
q third field battalion, as was more than once
done under Napoleon, they can do so by having
an extraordinary number Of recruits m ide over to
them, ard then il is some time before they are
fit for the field. Thus the available force of the
French ,rmy at the present time, does not ex.
coed 2il bsttaliors. OF these, IS at least are
required for Algeria -Four are at Rome. Nine
divisions of infantry, or at least 30 battalions,
have been sent to TIE Crimea to Constautnople and
to Athens Altogether say 10 bastalions engaged,
or very nearly one half of the available infantry
OF France, upon the peace establishment mi
nus the depots. Now, the arrangements in the
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