New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-18
HIGHLY IMPORTANT fSSa@s EUROPE.
THE DILLON AFFAIR SETTLED.
THE FACTS AT sEvAsToPoL.
no CHANCE OF TAKING THE MALAEoFr.
MORTALITY IN TIE ALLIED CAMP.


appear IN the English aud French journals.
There is fair probability that the tower Mila-
koff will rot be attacked at all, or If attacked
il will only be after the Intervention of events
which " II render the probabilities Of success
greater than they n0s are. Siccs the disas-
trous repulse of the 18th Juue the defensive
force Of the Maiskoff ard Radan towers has, by
additions in earth works and cannon, been in
creased one-third; ard since it is nov re ,Og-
uized on oil bands that the assault of the 18th
was i'll timed and would have proved unsuccess-
full even if it had been skilfully executed and
free from mistakes, the hopes Of successful
assault have been very considerably diminished,
and she reluctance to make the attempt quite
as considerably increased. So apparently haZ-
ardous indeed, would a second attack be con
sdered, that it is doubtful whether sny other
man than Pelissier would attempt il, and it is TO
avoid the disgrace which the useless attacks
upon these strong forts will bring to the com
handing officers that Gen. Simpson is so snN-
ious that his government should replace him
BY some other man. The commanders charged
with the defense of Ssvastopol never felt
greater confidence in their abilities to resisv an
ss,auting party than at the presen. moment,
Notwithstanding the Allies constantly assert the
contrary. The deaths Of Gen. Toiteben aud
A6mirsl N6climof are events severely felt by
the garrison; but the plans and the system OF
defense of these brilliant officers are thoroughly
understood By the officers who succeed them,
and will without doubt be carried out
Very good evidence existed at the time of the
repulse from the Malakof and Redan towers for
the belief that the number of men reported by
the allied generals as their loss in killed aud
wounded in that disastrous affair was very much
below the actual loss; and subsequent events
have very much strengthened that opinion. Re-
turned officers of the Foreign Legons, while adj
hitting that it is difficult for others than the
officers directly concerned in making out the re-
ports Of Casualties after battle TO know the ex-
act figure Of the losses, yet state it as their be-
lief that on that occasion there were 10, 200 men
hors de combat that ne number of dead was actu-
ally diminished, while those not dangerously
wouuded we're not included in the list at all.
The same may be said of the official reports in
regard to the dai Losses in the trenches and
from disease. From the time of the attack on
the Mamelon Vert to the present moment every
inch of ground has been gained in torrents OF
human blood; according to the admission of Gen.
Pellssier, forty men are killed per day in the
trenches which are being directed toward
the Malakon tower, and this is also set
down by the authority which has been
cited above as large diminution from the
true figures furnished by that general to
his Government. The losses from cholera in the
month of June in the French camp are now known
to have been fearfully large although at the
moment the epidemic was raging, the subject was
scarcely mentioned either in dispatches or CORE
spondence The reader will hardly forget the sig
nifcant fact that month ago a Reinforcement of
$1,000 men left France for the Crimea " to fill up
" me rdcGncies,' as it was officially announced.
The exaggerations and the constant Boosting OF
grand results past and to come contained in the
reports of the Allies contrast strangely with the
modesty the truthfalness and the simplicity of the
Russian reports. Since the very commencement
of the war this rare difference in the style of the
reports official and unofficial, must have been
remarked by all and one is led to ask the ques-
ton when he looks at the general conduct Of the
Russians their moderation, their polteness and
magnaDimity toward the invaders of their soil on
every occasion which offers for such manifesto
tons and the absence of disagreeable language
when speaking of their enemies, whether in pub
lie or private, which of the cOntending parties ex-
hibits the highest degree of civilization Whether
Russia be right or wrong in the war in which she
is engaged, there is grandeur in the quiet, heroic
moderation with which she carries it on, which
must challenge the admiration of even her enemies
The exaggerations, and the affected Indignation Of
the London and Paris journals over certain bar
barities charged to Russian account are under
stood well enough in Paris and properly ap-
precated.
The majority of thinking people at Paris in
cline at this moment to the opinion that Seyas-
topol cannot be taken this season, and there il
10 doubt but that il is the safes! one. II is adj
mitted that there ia a certain business in the
compar sop, made some time ago that an at
tack upon Russia in the Crimea is analogous 70
an attack on England st Gibraltar; that after
wasting vast resources in the subjagation Of
either place, no dehnitive blow would DO struck
at the vitality or the conquest of the counties %
which these strong forts belong; and thus che
Argument becomes good that the expedition to
the Crime was stupendou, mistake, aniihas
its continuation is barbarous revival of the
ar eient system Of warfare in which the lives OF
brave nen were sacrificed 70 the pride OF obsti-
nate commanders, without end and without re-
suits. These convictions have been very much