New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-21
f L r O p E d.
By THE CANADAS MAILS.
The mails of the Canada reached US last even
ing. Our correspondence and the usual extracts
from the European journals are subjoined
THE STATE OLE EUROPE.

tries recorded in history none bear suca striking
resemblance to t1e Crimean campaign as the
Athenian expedition to Sicily 10 the second Pelo-
popnesian war The Egestans called upon Greece
for protection against the increasing power of
Syracuse and her coniederates. The people OF
Athens resolved Immediately to send an arma-
ment 20 Sicily much against the viii OF the meu
in power Nicias, belonging TO the peace party,
WI. intfusted with the chief command. He was
an DID man, who unwi liRgy engaged in the e1-
petition in the belief that large demonstration
by sea and land might induce the Syracusans TO
accept the terms offered by him. ln the begin
ming everything seemed favorable to the Athe-
Iiaps; andthough tAe Egestans were unable TO
afford material aid to their allies, still the land
ing was effected without any difficulties, SYRIA
cuse was invested, and the first attack upon the
outworks was successful. But Niclas soon saw
himself engaged in great war Syracuse made
On unexpected resistance which could not be
broken by the drst successes OF the AtheDians
Diseases began to decmate the army, and cry
for reenforcements was raised. But in the mean
tim several successful sortles of the bcsieged
invaders a. last the re6nforeements arrived,
but the pTOcrsstibating Nlcias did not avail
himself OF the right moment. lie was partially
successful, bat did not follow it up, and at l,st
he was repulsed On general attack on the town,
and was defeated when attempting a retreat.
The poor old man died in captivity, cursed by
his cOuntrymen.
4 IN
enc respect more successful than his prototype.
He died before a fnd. disaster, which y still
not u poesbi serious spprehensions about tue
safety Of the Allies bein7now again entertained,
since the fever aud CHOLERA of the dog-days may
soon - .eebe the army and encourage Prince
GoIcbakof to Try a seconi'and more fatal battle
of IDkefmsbn. The Englieh remain sangu'ns,
bit the French do not Ike the aspect OF the
CIimean campaign.
The pension of 81, 900 for the widow and
1900 for the son, aud eventually the grandson
Of the late COMMANDMENTS hisf, has been voted
by Parliament without opposition, but Likewise
without spirit and enthusiasrr, in cool and
formal way.
According tc the Constantinople correspond
eut Of The London Times, the Losses of life since
the declaration Of war sre the foAowing Turks,
l3o, coo; French 10000; English, $4,000; Rus
SLABS at least 100000. Taking into account the
mortality on board tie shps OF wer and trans
porte, AND among the laboners of different kinds
attached to the troops, and the lesses OF the
Austrian armies of occupation and observation
by rbe diseases of last Winter, it may be assumed
that from zoo, 600 to 900, 900 men have persisted
or become inyalided since the commencement Of
the wer, or about as many as were carried OIL
by the cholera of 1912 on its first appearance
III Europe.
We learn from the Baltic that Narva has been
bonbarded and the town Of Nystadt Cat the en-
trance Of the Gulf of Botbnia) destroyed by the
English. As to Ker.ch in the CriInea, it has
disappeared from the face of the earth more
completely than Broussa. Before eyacuating
the town. which had been plundered for three
DAYS with the conniyanoe OF the officers COM
handing the expedition, fire was set to tae
houses under the preteXt of destroying the Gov
erument buildings; the streets were sacked,
ana now present scene of awful desOlatlon, as
if Asatic hordes and not civilized araies had
unfortunate town did not offer the slightest re-
sistsnce 10 the Allies and was destroyed adj
yisedly on strategical grounds. The Allies
could not keep IT, az they had no troops to spare,
and the safety of Ye5ikale, where they left
earrilon sf 5000 men, might be endangered II
the Russians should reOccupy Kertch. The
law of nations that is 10 say, the laws OF war, do
indeed require a total revision. We are well
aware that Yattel and PufenjOrf justify such
acts Of barbarism a. the sack OF Kert;h, bu,
the moral feeling Of the Nineteenth Cen
fury cannot approve Of it. We boast Of
progress AID civilization, and act lise Gotbs ana
Ysndsls. Tie sack OF the Hung arian town Of
Lossoucz 10 1879 by tire Russians has now been
repaid IN kiDd BY rhe Allies; bat the deb Of
wsnton destruction will soOheT or later BE- Re-
paid likevise 10 the English and French. Tue
worst feature Of tte affair is that the bogiish
press il backward ia De n0Uncing the Vandalism
OF the Kertch Expedition, which must brutslize
the troops and accustom them to plunder aud
prouiscuous .lsulhte But Il we ask whether
European civilization Is t. be merged IN A'ia'c
ba,barism, we still reply boldly in the negative
II nations Of 1915 aud 40 in Italy, hungary
sud Germany ReIe not guilty Of sscn outrage
They characterize only the armies Of t1e asis-
tocrs,ic RaoetzIys and Haynaus' and " lndi'eh-
e15tzes ard Pssbkiewiiches, and Sir George
Browns. Tie natiou.i armies of Mazzini and
Kossutb, the people of Paris, Milan and
Mes.ira, and Dfesden and Vienna, RETAINED
from plumber and spared tie lives of their worst