The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-14
Foreign News.


We give in our paper this morning concis,
summary Of the leading features of the new.
by the atlantic. Though interesting as .
record of the main features of the campaign
it does not equal in interest what was antic
pated. 1t brings neither the re-opening of the
bombardment Of Sebastopol, nor any intima
ton of the precise time when that event will
take place, though it seems evident that prepa
rations upon large scale are being made
The success of this enterprise is looked for
with increasing interest, and we might sa,
with increasing, though by no means perfect
confidence. The New York Courier and En-
QuiTer thinks the Malakof will be the grear
object of attack. There are those who think
that work TO be in itself inpregnable. There
are Others who believe that even if it were
taken, new line of inner works would be
found OF even greater strength. 1t is gene
rally admitted that the capture of this position
would make the Allies the masters of the south
part of the town; but then it is again prob
lematical whether it would be tenabe under a
fire from the forts on the north side. The
whole series of operations, from the renewal
Of the bombardment, must possess an extreme
interest They will furnish the only practical
solution of problems which have divided the
most capacious understandings. Success will
at once put the entire Crmea into the hands
of the Allies, and give them a commanding
position in the next peace conference. A fail
ure viii make it certain that Sebastopol can
only be reduced by regular and protracted
investment, and will at once establish the ne
cessty of another winters stay on rhe bleak
heights Of Balaklava. The most uncertain of
all the elements in the calculation is the actual
efficiency of the Russian force in Sebastopol
Nothing reliable is known of either their num-
Der or their condition. Some accounts repre-
sent them to be reduced to a state bordering
on despair, and that the recent battle on the
Ichernaya was provoked by them simply be-
cause starvation drove them to il, while other
statements are equally positive that the Rus
slams are prepared to dispute every inch Of
ground outside as well as inside Sebastopol.-
From the very outset, the Russians have en-
joyed great advantage from the secresy in
which they have been able to envelop their
condition and resources; ard at no time has
this advantage been of greater value to them
now. 1t is the necessity of forecasting and
providing against every possible contingency
of preparing for every danger, seen and I'M
seen that has caused the long delay in coming
to decisive stFuggle-a delay which, in itself,
of course rebounds decidedly more to the pres
tige OF the defenders than of the assailants.-
The spirit and enthusiasm which have attend
ed the meeting of the two allied sovereigns.
ought to infuse a new stimulus in the leaders
OF the armies before Sebastopol, as it doubtless
must in the men themselves. The English
are now pushed up almost to the
walls of the Redan, and the French to the
aud it is hard to see when there
can be more suspicious time for the final
assault than the present.