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FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF Tue PACIFIC.

The Pacific brings Liverpool dates to Feb.
10th. and announces a split between Prussia
and Austria. Bavaria succeeded in preventing
an open rupture, By moving TO get the federal
eontingents in readiness. Sill Prussia is for
Russia. To assure Austria, France has un-
derGaken TO guard her left flank With 90 900
troops Meanwhile the Allies viii exert eve
ry influence to reconcile Prussia-tho' il is be-
lieved, in the most favorable case, this power
viii remain neutral, and Austria do as little as
she can for the Allies.
In any case, should the war be transferred
from the Crimea and the Lower Danube to the
Rhine and the Elbe, the position of Germany
would present most deplorable scene. Prus,
sia and Russia could rely upon the two Meek
lenburgs, 0ldeuburg and Denmark, in the
North, and upon the kingdoms Of Saxony aud
Wurtemberg, in the center and South, while
Hsnover, Brunswick, the Hesses. the Saxon
DGehies Baden and Bavaria would probably be
the allies of Austria; while Holland and Bel
gium would also probably be found on oppos-
tie sides. And il by such a struggle the latent
powers of the nationalities should likewise be
called into play, we might see the contest rags
ing throughout the entire extent Of Europe in
a more fearful shape than in the Thirty Years
War. The English as well as the French Gov
ernment are aware of the fact, and therefore
they would be ready TO patch up peace, If
only the honor of their arms in the Crimes
could be sayed Nicholas might, probably, al
ter the fall of Sevastopol, get better conditions
than now, especially If he succeeded in crush
ing the Turks in Eupatoria, while losing Sc
vastopol Omar Pasha saw the game, and
therefore most reluctantly accepted the COM
mand in the Crimea, and threw it up altogether
at the first opportunity. Still, all his oondir
tons were Immediately submitted to, at Coa-
stantinople, and he has now at last TO 60 10
Eupatoria, though he continues to liDger a.
Varna, unwilling 10 lose his reputation in 81
undertaking which is almost hopeless.
He has seen the condition of the English and
French at Balaklava and Kamiesh Bay and has
no desire to see his own troops in the same mis-.
cradle plight at Eupatoria,
The condition of the army in the Crimea is
deplorable. Slowly sinking down from an abyss
of misery which short time ago would have
been deemed impossible, to an abyss far lower
and more awful. The army seems to be reaching
the period assigned to all human woe, as it has
long ago passed the suffering hitherto believed
to be The limit of human endurance. Down,
down, ever downward, without abatement or
retardation, in the steady career of destruction,
have the soldiers sunk, and, dark as have been
the progresses, the reality has always kept fal
more than pace with them,
The battallions melt away like snow that sur.
rounds their tents and fills their trenches; and
this diminuton of the military force is regis.
tered by a corresponding increase IN the hospi.
tails. The hospital has grown into three, three
into eight, and eight into thirteen. Cargo at.
ter cargo Of the emaciated relics Of the suryi-
vors Of the great battles have been sent to
Malta, to Corfu, and to England. Death is
clearing the hospitals at the rate of so to so g
day; but still the tide Of misery overbears al
the receptacles devised to contain it, and ther,
is no room for the immense number of patients
whose arrival is Immediately expected. Fiv,
thousand sick are, It appears, already in camp
and half of those doing duty are alread
unfit for work. While ministers insul. by talk
| ing of 10000 effective men, we'll informed per
sons at Constantnople estimate the effective
force in the Crimea al from | 900 to IA, ,OOC
vets, including under the term that moiety
which DR. Ham% considered to be unfit for duty
that is, smitten with the chro2c disease, to
which they will not yield till it becomes met
crate and incurabe.
On the 18th the thel mometer was at ID G in
in the morning and at 10 on the heights over
Balaklava. The snow fell all night, and COW
cred the grounds TO the depth of three feet; but
cold and violent wind drifted it in places to the
depth of five or six feet. In the morning 300
French soldiers came down to Balaklaya for
shot and shell, and the agility, good spirits, and
energy with which they ploughed through the
snow, were alike admirable.
Letters are reported to have been received
from Constantinople, detailing the condition and
feelings Of the Turks. and their thorough dis
like of the Allies. mo one who has any &C.
quantance with the Turks says the correspon-
dent, can doubt their utter encouragement
as to the result Of the present occupation, and
of their wish, at any cost, to biingit to close.
AS to the future, the world may be assured
that the Turks will never call in allies again.
A man SO ambitious and farsighted as the Rus
sian Emperor, will not he slow in turning to
his own advantage the distrust which may arise
between the Ottoman protectors. AS to the
Christians in Turkey, they hate England and
France, since they do not aim at equality and
liberty but at dominion, and they can only ex.
pect the former from the Gear.
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