New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-26
THE STRUGGLE IN THE CRIMEA,

Immediately after the bsttle Of the Aims, aud
the march of the Allies on Balsklava, We ex-
pressed the opinion that tee ultinste result OF
the Crimean caup-igo mist depend on which OF
the controlling parties should FIRE. bring 10 new
force, tufficest to repder is superior to its an-
t,.opis, 10 numbers snd efficiency. TIE aspect
| of sflairs has since then. greatly Altered, and
mary illa,ions haze been destroyed; but, through
out the whole time both the Russians and the
Allies have been engaged in a SORE Of s,eeple-
| chase at re6oforcements and. 10 this efor. We
are compelled to say that the Russians have the
advantage. IN spite of all the boosted improve
uebts in mecbaJ zeal skill and the means OF trans
port u zee OF FIVE hundred miles of road are still
far easier traversed by "a army of Russian bar
bariaps than two thousand mues of sea by an
army OF highly civilized Freoch and Engllsh-
ttpecialy when the latter m,ke il a point to
neglect all the advantages which their high civil
izatiou places at their disposal, and when the
Russian barbstans can afford TO lose two man
H. the Allies ole, without iGpairing their ulti-
mate superiority.
Butwha. can be 10 store for the Allies when
one of their srmies-the British-ie'psiring Of
being destroyed by the Rus-ius deliberately
seis about destroying itself with systematic
COZ si,teucy, an eagerness, and success whi;h
beat all its former achievements in any line
wbatever' Yet such is the c1se. The British
force we are nos Informed, ha, ceased to exist
SIS an army. There are few thousand men
left, uncer arms out OF $4,000, but they them
selves are reported "ft for duty" merely be-
cause there 10 no hospital room for them to dis
in OF the French, some 80, 900 may be stlll
urder AIMS out Of twice that number; aud, st
all events the, have msCaged to keep IN ser
yceable stare at least fse times as many, IN
proportion. as the itish. But what are fry or
.iaty thousand men TO hold the Heracleasic
Cbers nese the winter through; to keep Sevu'
topoi bockaded on the south side; to defend the
trenches spd-wbs. m,y be left of then-tS
take the offensive 10 spring
For the present the British have ceased 10 send
reenfofcements In fact Raglan, despsiring OF
lie army. does not appear to wish for any not
I Knowing bow to feed, house and employ even
what is ltft TO him. The French my be prepT-
iuq a flesh set of divisions foe embnkatoa 10
March but they have plenty to do to prepare
against the eventually of = great continental
| sprug campaign. and there are :en chances TO one
that " bat they ,end will either be too weak or
! come too late To remedy this state OF things
Two steps have been taken, both of which denote
the utter hslplessuess of the Allies to avert the
fste which seems inevitably, though slowly, 10
appoach their armies in the Crimes. First In
order 10 redress the colossal bunder Of having
attempted this expedition four months too li,e,
! they commit the Dcommensurably greater blum
! der Of sending to the Crimea, four months after
their own arrival and in tue depth of winter, the
| only remnant OF a decent army which TurSey stni
posseises Tba. army which was already beicg
ruined aid dssolving itself at Shumla undsr che
neglect Dcapscity and corruption of the Turkish
Govern ment, once landed in the Crimsa will melt
away by cold and hunger. at ratio wnich will
put to the blush even the achievements of the
English War Office in this branch-thst 10, If the
Russians have the sense TO leave the Turks, for a
time, TO the mselyes, without attacking them. Ii
the weather permits an attack toey will be de-
stToyed a. once, though at greater cost - the
Russiaps, ami with hardly any advantage, except
moral one.
Then the Allies have taken into their pay-fOr
that is the only way to express Fifteen to
twenty thousand PedmoDtese, who are 10 fill up
the ttinned ranks Of the British army and to be
fec by the British Commissariat. The Pledmontese
showed Themselves brave and good soldiers in
lc4- ana 40. Being mostly mountaneers, they
possess an infantry which, for skirmshiog and
fighting in broken ground is naturally adapted 10
even higher degree than the French, wnile the
plains of the Pc furni,h cavalry soldiers whose
tall well proportioned stature reminds one of the
crack regiments of British horse. they have,
besides not passed through the severe campaigns
Of tie revolution without profit. There is no
doubt that these two PiedmOntese divisions will
turn out az good foreign legion as will figure
in this war. But what are there light-iooted,
alile, baudy little fellows to DO under the con.
msnd of az old British martinez who has no idea
Of msneuvering, and who expects no hing from
his soldiers but the logged stubbornness which is
the glory and at the same time the only military
quality of the British soldier They will be placed
II petitions unsuited 70 their mode Of fghting;
they yill BE- prevented from doing what they are
tit for, While they will be expected to do taing'
which 10 sensible man would ever set them to.
! To lead British army in that senseless, point
blank, stupid way 70 the slaughter. house, as WAS
done at tie Alma may be the shortest way t,
make them settle the business before them. The
old Duke generally took matters qllte as easy.
German troops may be made to do the same
thing, although the high military education Of