The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-07


was accepted.
There was no basiness OF importance done at the
Bosrd If Supervisors las, evening. The report Of
the committee In favor of Increasing the salaries Of
The JUt ges Of the STATE courts, was received and
made spe isi order for Monday next, to which day
the Beard adjourned.
The Beard OF Aldermen last evening adopted q
resolution calling upon the Poli,e Commissioners to
dismiss policeman Nelson, who SO sanely Looked on
q. the assault com nitted upon Alderman Briggs BY
Frank O'Ksefe.
The most important item of The Board Of Council
me n ast nigtt vas the reading OF q message from
his Honor the Mayor, advocating the request o! the
Long Island farmers that more ample market &C.
ccmmcdations might be given them, whereby thsy
rnsy be abe to have direct communication with enc
people. This message is published elsewhere.
The Re-Opening OF Negotiations at Vienna.
The Africa brings the not unexpected news
that Count Buol has suggested the re.opening
of negotiations, in the hope of the re-establish.
ment of peace. It is said at Berlin-and the
chances are that the statement is correct-that
the curtailment Of Russian power in the Black
Seals proposed to be effected by convention
Der of ships which each Power is to be at liber-
~ to maintain in those waters, England and
France having two each, as sort of guardo
costa. 1t is not easy to understand how the
Gar can accept these terms. He is strong, his
neighbor weak; he is growing, the Porte on the
decline; he is sure to increase his navy every
year, Turkey to diminish hers; and yet it is ex-
pected that he will agree to limit his naval
force by hers, to agree that his youth and
strength shall not excel or outstrip her age and
weakness. 1t would be q very singular stipula-
ton. Such bargain would be like one be-
tween the United States for Instance, and in
dependent Canada, binding ~ United States
not to build more ships than the Canadians.
The fate Of an American statesman who would
propose such thing would not be doubtful;
are we to expect less firmness, less patriotism,
less spirit of progress among the Russian no.
ples?
That Germany wants peace, and means to
strain every nerve to obtain 1t, is beyond
question. Austria learned in the old Napoleon's
time that for her, war was certain to be
losing game. After the fall of Napoleon,
servation OF peace a cardinal point in Aus.
trian policy. All the efforts of the Europeans
from Tronpan and Lay back to the downfall of
Charles the Tenth, were directed to this one
object, the preservation Of peace. Peace, they
knew, was the only stable guarantee against
revolution. So long as peace lasted, their
standing armies were an unanswerable refata-
IF uIor fbao T,,f lok
break out and those bayonets be fruitlessly
employ ed in international struggles, the throne
and the oligarchies were lefs exposed, and q
popular outbreak inevitable. Time has not
impaired the soundness Of this principle of pc
Icy. 1t is more than ever the policy of Aus
tria and Prussia to remain at peace, il they
can. And it may be taken for granted that
proposition after proposition will be made by
the Austrian plenipotentiaries; thai as fast as
one conference breaks up, another will be pro-
posed; that scheme will follow scheme, comoro-
mise rice out of the ashes of compromise, and
negotiation never withdraw wholly from the
field, till the Austrian dominions themselves
are attacked, and selfpreservation bids the
Emperor take the sword.
1t is fast coming to that, unless these propo-
sails and counter proposals contain the germ Of
an arrangement. The contest is about to be
renewed on a gigantic scale. 1t is probable
that in that small patch of earth which lies
between the Balkans, the Carpathian ridge the
Dnieper and the Black Sea, over a million and
a quarter of men are at this moment in arms.
First a powerful Austrian army holds,
by martial law, the Danubian Princi-
palities. Opposed to them on the line
of the Dniester and the Galician frontier
six hundred thousand men, the flower OF the
Russian army, await the order to ad vance Into
the Cripaea, troops are pouring from Odessa
and the North, to prepare for the struggle that
is to take place there this summer. The allied
armies are over estimated in the telegraphic
message at 10000 men, It's, 900 effective men
will probably prove a fairer estimate. But
what an enormous army even this constitutes!
Scott never led more than 1900 men into the
field in Mexico. Wellington operated in Spain
with from 10000 to 10000 men, The force en-.
gsged at the battle of Waterloo was about 3d.
COO or each side. At Inkermaun not more
than 5000 or 5000 English and 5000 or 1000
French were engaged; the Russians say they
had not more than $4,000 though 1t seems
more than likely that their force was double
that number What contrast between these
ard the force Pelissier will lead into toe high
lands of the Crjmea Nor is it at all likely that
we russians will no nu,---~~r~--7-s ",--y 49,
had plenty of time--at least three months of
fair weather-for the reinforcement of Lpran-
dis army: it ought to be as strong as that CT
the allies. In former times battles have taken
place in the Crimea between armies nearly as
large as these. The Tartars, at the establish
ment Of the Gberia dynasty, are said to have
been able TO bring 100000 men into the field,