New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-10

stick to the posi- OF nonof' a"n"usu una''o "
bold II without constant support from their
.t,cpeer ud more skilful allies.
Whoever has seen anything Of actual warfare
Lpo~s that individual courage 10 the soldier ID
great thing; bat yet comparatively io'igo'fcsnt
where organization, good officers, aud especially
Good commanders and good CON n'ss,ri.t and
medical ss.G. are van,io Bu,never wsstheresach
striking illustration OF the fsc' a. 'hl- of'"sn
Crinenn expedition. The admirable d,ras ot
tbe soldiers is made worse than useless oJ tne
incapsci.y AID bonchalsnce Of the comm 'oder-
~ the ignorance Of the oficeIs-ey the bel Pleas
ness Of every man ia the army, an1 BY tue total
" an, Of 40, orgspiz -tioa. beyond that required
n, the mar .de- ground. 1t is this combination Of
individual courage aud individual clevernsss ia
the soldiers. Of military science aud practical
erperience in the officers, of weli.iefned aud
comprehensive division OF labor among ali depart
mepts, Of simplicity an efficiency in the admin
istraticn, which m ,kes French army, upon the
whole the oest on earth, and enables the French
20 usiptsio the repu -ation Of the military natoa
par ereeitenee.
Nevertheless, It must not be imagined that
tie French ara 10 an enviabe condition before
Sevasto }ol Toe very fact that nine full divisions
have been sent out Of which eight aud half az
brieades) are in the Crimes occupying veg
nall space of ground is suf6 ,iens 10 snow that
they, too, must Save suffered severely. French
brigade of infantry generally counts two reg-
uepts of two field ,attalions each and one bstt,-
| ion OF riHemsn-or five bait ,li0ns 10 oil. Tn3
| French battalion, on the waI-'0otipg. numbers
upon An average ! 100 men. Tnur, each brgiie
amounts to $500, aud each division to / LOCO
men at least, besides cavalry and artillery, sap
| pers and miners. Tue whole French infantry
cent out to the Grim, "a should, therefore, muster
about "a 900 men, ard the whole force, with ar
tilIsry, cavalry and engineering troops at least
| 10000 men. Now, it is materially imp)s- Die
that more than 65, 600 Frencbm IN should, at his
time, be on the Heracleatic Cners )uese. Taey
| could not be bvouscked on this nall piece Of
ground as far as its occupation falls to the snare
of the French. Thus, a loss Of 45, 600 men, in
dead wounded enc sick, has fallen upon the
Fren,h, ard il We coDsiier that the losses at
Vsrna and during the expedition i0to the Do
brodja amounted to some 10000 men-tnat the
| Anna, B.lsklava, IDksrmann, cost the N about
4,5O0-thst the losses in the tren,bes must oe
something like l,5O0-tbere will remsin about
29CO0 70 be counted as victims of disease. This
loss, though heavy 10 not at all out Of the way
in a four months canpsign, accompanied With
such bsrdshps and suieiings as that in the Cri-
mea at the present season. Ten per cent
mouth is a very commonly adopted deduction
fl the effective force Of campaigning army,
and the French have hardly exceeded this p;o-
portion; but for all that, d 10000 men sent
frem France are equivalent only to 5000 Fl.
for DUTY in the Crmea; aud such an army,
| even if jadicious arrangements have enabled
1t to keep in pretty good health to do no
more duty than the men eau we'll manage, to re-
! move their sick to hospital and to keep roads,
trenches and batteries in good repair-such an
army Is nowise strong en- ugh TO take Sevastopol,
7 even the south SIDE, aud at the same time ~
keep at boy the Russian army in the field.
But the Turks are landing norih of the Aims!
So they are, and il will be well for them If they
can manage to get back sgiin without any IN ate
rial injury. The Turks, who are expected 10
land ia the course OF Jaou,ry to the number of
some 60 coo, (some Of which are, however, NOT
yet concentrated, are no longer the men Of the
late DsIubisu campaign. These have gone tle
same way Of all flesh with the British guards.
The present Turkish forces are mostly herd of
raw recruits or of reserves (rediS) the former too
fresh, the latter too much spoiled BY family life
to make good ,oldiers. The Encouragement and
disorg aniza ion of the Turkish army adminis.ra-
ton is worse than even that Of the British; aud
il the Russians do not Annhiate the Turks in
battle tn Fir own bad Management aud fatslistic
neglect will do the business quite az effectively.
Besides. the faulty strategy of the Allies, which,
as we have previously stated mskes them oper-
ate with two distinct corps, incapable Of sup
porting each other against an active and clever
enemy, invites the Russians to fall IN the Turks
sepsra tely and drive them back into the sea be-
fore the French can get out Of their moNe-trap
in the Chersoness.
In the meanwhile the Russians are far from
Inactive. The sixth and part of the fifth corps
formed the original garrison Of the Crimea; the
fourth corps arrived few days before the battle
of Balablava; cow tie third corps is in the Pen
insula the eigh. division entered Bstchkisarai
on the 2Sth ut, at which date the seventh ADD
ninth divisions, with the frs. division of dragons,
about lao guns, and four regiments of Cossscks
had taken up position on the neck of the PENN.
sula, st Perekop. The light cavalry division,
Che tbird) belonging to this corps, is advanced
toward Eupatoris which il observes. Thus sb )ut
o1e-half of the Russian active army exclusive Of
IN