New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-04


their battalions, and especially their squsdrons,
are very much tbinned by the losses Of the
campaign, the whole force will not exceed
10000 infantry, 1880 cavalry, and 10000 to
% 900 artillery, train. and non-combatsnts ft
for duty. Now if the forces Of the two contend.
ing parties were go nicely balanced before the
arrival of the Russian requirements, the scale
must evidently turn against the Allies as soon
as they arrive All the alliei reenforcements
arrived and now being sent out are merely
detacbmeIss from the dePots to keep up the
baitalons and squadrons engaged; and they
are not very strong if We are to believe
the state meDts of the Press. However, three
divisions are said to be on the march TO Mar
seilles and Toulon, where steamers are con-
centrating; while, in England, the regiments
intended for the Crimea are ordered to be
ready for INN edate embarkatoD. They will
perhaps amount TO another division Of in
fsntry ard one of cavalry. Thus about 49, 600
infantry. with perhaps 2, 500 cavalry and artillery
may be gradually arriving in the Crimea during
August and September; but all this depends
very much upon the celebrity with which they
are got off. At ali events, the Allies will find
themselves once more in numerical nferiority,
and may again be locked up on the plateau where
they spent the last dreary Winter. Whether
the Russsns can now succeed in driving them oil
that stronghold We will not undertake to say
But TO hold their own is evidently the only thing
the Allies can expect, until they receive resn-
forcements on gigantic scale. Thus the war
promises TO be reduced to q series Of resultless
and b cody encounters, in which each party will
send forth fresh bodies Of troops, day after day,
to meet the enemy in hand-to-hand struggles,
whether on the ramparts fthe towr, On the para
pets of the tr inches, or on the escarped nights
around Inkermann and Balaklays. No position
of hostile armies can be imagired IN which the
shedding of more blood can lead to results less
important than we must expect from such
fights.
There is, however, one Glance of something
decisive occurring If the Russisns, beside the
troops they have sent, canafford to send another
Sc, 1000 men, so as to inslre to their army an
ircontestable superiority, serious defeats may
be incurred by the Allie, so as to force them to
reembark. To judge Of this possibility we
must look at the force the Russians have under
arms on the whole extent Of their frontier.
The Crimean army, including the reinforce
ments mentioned above, we set down at about
175,OOO men. In the Caucasus, where, beside
the local troops and Ccssacks, the 10Th and 18th
divisions are engaged, they may have about
60, 900 men. In Bessarabia they are said to
have $4,000 men under Luders-mostly CON-
bined battalions and reserves, ss we should say,
since only one division Of the infantry of the
fifth corps is there, and nothing has ever been
stated about troops of the first or second corps
having marched in that direction. la Poland
and VOlhynia there would remain two divisions
Of guards, one of grenadiers, three of the first
army.corps, and various reserves-amounsing
to about 100000 men. The greater portion of
the reserves and part of the guards are concen-
trated on the Baltic in the following manner:
80, 900 men IN der Sievers in the German Baltic
Provinces, &c, 900 in Finland under Berg, and
80, 90 men in and about st. Petersburg, as an
army of reserve under Rudiger; in all about
5s5 600 men. The remainder of the Russian
forces, about $1,000 men, are in the interior;
and thus the total armed force would make up
$50, GOO men. Considering the enormous levies
made by Russia, this number does not appear
at all exaggerated.
Now, it is clear that at this advanced sea-
son of the year 10 serious danger OF land
ing on the Baltic coast is to beapprehended,
and a general shifting toward the south of
tba vii date fharq might
be effected so as to liberate say 10000 men,
to be replaced by the militia or other
troops from the interior. These 10000 men
marching toward Poland, would lberate in that
country an equal number, and by the time the
Austrians have reduced their army on the from
tier to the harmless number of 20, 900 or go 900
men, which must soon be the case, another
80, 600 to 10000 men from the Polish army
might be spared. Thus the troops might be
found for such reinforcement as would
preclude all possibility of the Allies ever mas.
teriDg the Crmea singlehanded, and they might
be brought to the scene of war by the middle of
October. But the question arises whether it
will be possible for the Government tofeed such
a large number of troops during the Winter, es-
pt cialy since the Sea of Azoh has been cleared Of
Russian vessels. AS to this we have not saffi-
cient data to venture an opinions but if that can
be done, and the measure be adopted, the Allies
might as we'll batter away at the rocks that sur
round Balaklaya harbor as at the rampsrts Of
SevastOpOl defended directly and indirectly by a
force of 25O, 900 men.
Russia has hitherto been held in check by
SOC, 900 Austrsns on the flank of her line of com
municaiion with the Crimea. Let her once get
e 49, Il h.