New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-27

rie between 8 commercial and maritime anu IA
almost exclusively continental power Carthage
forced Rome to create navy. England, com-
pelling Russi', as che has done, to fail back on
her own resources, my see at the end this same
bsrbsrous npire unfold its lstest int lectual
resources. Already Russia, which hitherto i'm
ported her steam engines from England, begins
20 construct them at hume, and we read latterly
Of screw vessels reared in the Navy Yards of
st. Petersburg AID Nikolaef.
While as a matter of historic interest we pre-
sent this parallel, LET it not be imAgised We
Mace ANY stress upon its bearing on events to
come. History is not go poor and exhausted to
our thought as to be obliged to reproduce the
same phenomena. Her creative powers are ana
will ever remain fresh, original and inexhausti-
BILE. Nor do we presage or admit the glimpse OF
a possibility that England will meet with the
fate of Carthage. England with her industry,
activity and wealth, cannot fall. She Is one OF
the chief INSTRUMENTS of the development aad
progress of our race, and will become still more
eficaciously so when she has cast of that
MEDIEVAL Gust which now clogs and impedes
her action. 1t cannot however be denied that
England has lost somewhat of the halo that sur
rounded her name, and since this war began de-
scended several steps from the high place she had
previously held among nations. 1t would be but
idle repetition to reheaIse in detail to the readers
of THE TRIBUNE that she is at this moment but
playing a &c :ord part to Louis Napolean, depend
ent on his mercy and subject TO his will; that
her Marshsls receive orders from Generals their
interiors in rank, and that whatever success may
attend the Allied armies will in any event be-
long TO France rather than to her. The burning
consciousness of these facts it is which has driven
The London Times and go many of the English
politicians into paroxysms OF evaporation
Possibly, indeed, all classes of her statesmen-
alike those whose voice ia for unrelenting war,
and those who with Mr. Gladstone implore
pesce-however apparently they may differ, are
influenced BY one motive. They foresee proba-
bly, at the close Of this war, total extinction
of those friendly relations with Russia which
have been attended with benefits to England,
the loss Of which they are DESTROYS to avert.
The present war has torn and aanulled all the
CONNER cial tresties between Russia and England
all more or less favorable to the latter power
Such treaties are not likely ever to find renewal
in the state of exasperated feeling In which the
close of the war will leave Russia. To obtain
new ones Russia must therefore be brought by
long defeats and total exhaustion to the feet Of
England. To this extremity it must now IN a
great measure be the desire Of England to reduce
Russia, by spresding the cOnhsgratcn over the
entire face of Europe This accounts for the re-
lection of the Austrian peace proposition after it
had been accepted by Drouyn de / Hugs, and
even partially by Louis Napoleon. With the same
motive the Peace party does not de- sire to ex-
ssperate Russia. The co nnercal advantages
enjoyed now almost for centuries by England,
will at the close of the war necessarily DO trans
ferred. to some other maritime power. This
lucrative trade, hitherto possessed by the En-
plish commercial marine, will naturally flow to
this country, and perhaps it could not be swsl-
lowed up in a channel more CALLING to British
feeling, or more injurious to British interests,
The vast ard (for her resources) primitive
Empire of Russia, which formed so lucrative
field for British commerce and capital, is fast
escaping from England's grasp; and England
knows full well that Russias resources are so ex-
tensive as to secure to her quick rebound even
after the most deadly exhaustion She knows
likewise that ii is not the fanatical spirit alone
which has taken fire. but that under the present
electric shock the Russian people are acquiring
an.industrial selfconsciousness. She knows
that considerable capital accumulated in the
hands of merchants and peasants, aud retained
for many reasons dormant and unproductiye,
will spring into activity, and under the direction
(as is likely to be the case) Of such experienced
tutors as the Americans, waken the native man
ufactures and trade, giving them mere vigor-
Gus life and growth than ever.
In Russia at this moment there is growing up
a violent and universal hatred against every
thing foreign; but the hatred concentrates its
strength almost wholly against England. No
nation can for any great length of time cherish
malignity against the French. Their own hatred
is too volatile and polished to create any ranco-
rous return. For near three quarters of Gen.
tury the Russians and French have in turns
been foes and friends. Not so with England.
This is the first breeze between the two nations.
Henceforth England will be considered as the
deadliest Of enemies, who aimed to strike down
and destroy the growth, the prosperity and des-
tiny of Russia. 1t is q principle that where
friendship has been longest and strongest, it is
converted, when broker, into the deadliest and
deepest dislike. The waters once separated
may never come together again, especially in
the breast of people so concentrated in their
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