New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-22
THE WAR IN ENGLAND.

The effort made in the British House Of Com
mons on the motion of Sir William Heath
cote, the member for the University Of Oxford,
for the renewal of the Vienna negotiations upon
the basis of the proposition made by Count
! Buol subsequent to Lord John Russells depart
uIe from the Austrian capital, has failed. The
British Legislature, rejecting the feelings of
the British people at this moment, has adopt
ed the Government resolution, as presented
through Sir Francis Barring, and declared its in
tention to carry on the war with unfatering
! yicor and determination. Though the weight OF
numbers was with the Government, the weight
of argument was certainly with the friends of
peace; and the debate elected the new and
singular fact that the settlement proposed by
Count Buol was accepted not alone by Drouyn
de rHuys, The French Minister, but also by his
master, Louis Napoleon. 1t was by England
that this last book of the Austrian Sybil was
rejected.
The red cloud of battle, therefore, has at last
settled fully ard fercely above Seva'topol.
Peace which had hitherto fingered half hes-
tatngly around the scene, has at all events for
time taken it's depal ture. The long. removes,
often.brOken, frequently revived conferences at
Vienna are closed. And "Lay on Macduf" is
the war cry of the Crimea.
But if the successes recently won have lent
fire to the pulse Of England, 1t Is doubtful
whetbe r their consequences will not prove more
dangerous eventually to her, and more embar-
raising to her Premier ard his party. The
thougbtless and ignorant multitude blooded and
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the long desert of disasters, have grown in their
eyes into exaggerated import, have swelled
their demands and make peace, at least for the
moment, impossible. But by the thinking minds
ofEDgsnd, and by her Gladstones, her Grahames,
her Cobdens and her Brights, the debate which
has just closed shows that these recent sue
cesses are estimated at their real value, and the
consequences which may follow the continuance
of the struggle are foreshadowed in all their fu-
ture darkness
1t may be indeed that the dashing daredevil
Pelissier will stake his all upon the throw of an
assault. 1t may be that the assault will prove
successful-though We doubt it-and that Seyas-
topol which has now for nine months main
tsned a front unbroken, will fall. If such
result happen, England has perhaps done well.
Though in war as in love the dear ally of to-day
NAV be the bitter enemy of tomorrow, and
Russia may soon find and grasp an opportunity to
repay her humiliation. When it does happen,
when the assault is made and Sevastopol car
riee, il VIII be sufficient time to calculate the
results and meanwhile it were well to look to
arother alternative.
What if Sesastopol should hold out a month
or two longer and the English aud French Army
have 10 pass the Summer in the Crm.s We
were told as the excuse for the tardy start last
Autumn that until toward the close Of Septem.
Der it was impossible the allied soldiers could
live in the climate Of the Crimea. Does the
French Emperor believe that the weather is in
league with his destiny, and that the sun and
| winds will put on new form and shape to favor
his designs If not, Generals July, August
and September are likely to prove far more ter
rible and deadly foes than even January and
February. The dread of their coming may even
drive on the Allies to so desperate dash as the
assault.
Meantime clouds gather round the Ministry at
home. The wsrlike tone assumed by the jaunty
Premier, and the return of Lord John Russell to
his twice recanted declarations that Russia must
be humbled and her power subdued before a
! peace can or should be brought about, have