The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-24
TuF DAILY DISPATCH
Tssr.ssy Mornips, January "a, 1850.


peace and War Prospects.
rrron~.n Tfmea says Il Is the belief fnat
-. ,,u,neror Alexander win not accept the propo
.,.-nsch Count Estcrhasy has carried to 81 10
$40 that the war win continue, and fna1 me-
"a, ,ry a, all events the result Of another eA4'
-, II n be true that these proposals demAna
.rss.s,ructon OF the Russian fortresses ana arse
-. -, the coast Of the Black Sea. ana indesnn"y
.,o o,nenses of the war, we may be sure 'na'
- hitch has lust achieved . triumph at kars
-. ..,.I % the allied triumph at Sebastopol, will
,,.~.- .ccede to such monstrous propositions.
u,x.s felt. says the European Times when the
rr,ns-or Nicholas died, that the chances of an
..r,v settlement of the war were diminished, ne
e.use a new monarch who has to make name Is
morally weak as compared to ruler, whose sue
cesses for thirty years had established his prestige
The Russ;aus at the hands of the late Gar, would
have accepted, the Times thinks, conditions 10
which his successor dare not accede, ana tnere ID
every reason TO suppose that the present Gar Is
impelIed forward by influences which ne care not
resist He has a warlike brother. ready to profit
Nv his mistake. and circumstances which he cannot
control NAV impel him forward, against his own
desire.
II the war recommences in the spring. public
opinou. according the Times, will demand more
decisive action in the Baltic. feet 1t is said
will sail in the spring for tho Baltic greater in mum
bers and material power than ever before left the
shores of England. The Globe says this feet vii
consist of thirty eight ships and heavily
armed frigates mounting 2,e12 guns; eighteen cor
vettes and steam frigates, mounting 302 guns
twenty smaller steamers, with los guns /; seven
teen dispatch gunboats, with 7s guns three float
ing batteries, with So guns four heavy mortar
ships, mounting A pieces; 1877 gunboais and NOR
tar-boats, carrying 2 heavy pieces of ordnance or
an average There will be store ammunition
ship, hospital-shp, and floating factory. Total
243 ships of war all, with the exception of store
ship and q hospitalship, propelled by steam
Total guns, 1861 The French will also have 6
large naval force cooperating with that of Grea
Britain.
But the two last campaigns in the Baltic mus
have satisfied the world that the great Russian for
tress on that sea are invincible by fleets alone
These fleets must be sustained by armies to afford
any prospect of success There seems, indeed
some prospect that such will be the plan of opera
tons; at all events, such to be the expecta
ton of the Russian government. According to g
letter from Moscow, of the Goth ult published in
the English journals. grand council of Generals
sonal Presidency of the Emperor, have resolved te
fortify st. Petersburg and Moscow, which, witt
Warsaw, will form the three first class fortresst
of the empire. The great Engineer Genera
Todleben, says the letter, has arrived in Warsaw
and, notwithstanding the extreme rigor of thu
weather-.the frost having set in with all the pro
verbal violence of Russian winter-may be seer
every day, accompanied by his staff of engineers
all wrapped up in bears skins, surveying thu
ground and fixing the poles to designate the lin
of decentralization, which will be commenced OIL
the breaking up of the frost.
It is fully expected in Russia that next year tn
principal seat of the war will be transferred t.
the North, and the greatest exertions are making
for an efficient defence.
Unless the Emperor Napoleon, who, in his lat
pamphlet on European Congress, seems to be OIL
his knees for peace, succeeds in patching up truce
we may expect the war to commence next Sprinl
on gigantic scale.