New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-03

Crimes. Pa,ysky. from his newly gained b..s :,
operations on tb- Sr-Darya, advanced w4{h l. Ns
men sgainst Khivs, tu, ne Khan did no. w,t e.
his ARRIVAL on the O,us. he seat Enbs.,do-, 4.
the Russian camp who concluded treaty, bs 49,.
M kh0r Of Khira acs,oriedg,d tAe sa:era,.,, -
Rnss,G and ceded 10 him toe right Of making ,a,,.
and war, and supreme power oyev life ard d.as
and the right to tx the routes Of caravans "a.
duties and customs, snd 10 make regulation. &.
trade generally throughout khiva forever. Ara,
SIS consul took up his seat at Khiys and along NJ.
It assumed the functions Of supreme arbiter u0A..
the Russian Government. Of all political m,t,.,,
belonging 10 Khiya.
With the submission Of Khya, the cououe.t 4.
Tursn Is vIrtuslly decided; perhaps. since then
has also been decided in reality. The Khsn. =,
hAoAsn and BoAhara have also sent embass:esn h
81 Petersburg; the treaties concluded with ,b,,
have not been published. but they may be pr.sa
nearly guessed at Whatever independence Ra..,
may feel inclined to leave to these petty Stat.
whose sole strength lay in their inAccessibin
which now. for Russia at least, no longer exist. .
oS merely nominal character; for a force Of son.
chet. toward the more fruitful valleys Of Upc,r
Turan, would be quite sufficient to aueu ,py a.
tempt at opposition, snd TO march from one ana A,
the country to the other. That Ru..a. in th..
regions has not been idle since ls5i. we NAV t,L.
for granted although she keeps her doing. sec,,t
enough, and after the rapid silent aad perseyer;n,
progress she has made in Turan during the ,.t
twenty FIVE years, it certainly may be expected that
her flag will soon wave over the mountain. pssscs
of the HndoO Koosh and Belor Tash.
The immense value of these conquests. in mill
tary point of view, is in their importance as Ss
nucleus Of an offensive base of operations agsius,
India: and, indeed, with such an advance Of As
Russians in the center Of Asia, the plan Of attack
ing India from the North leaves the realm Of ysg.
speculation, and attains something like de6nls
shape. The tropical regions Of Asia are separated
from those portions which belong to the temperate
zone by broad belt Of desert passing irom the
shores of the Baltic, right across that contineut
10 the sources of the Amoor. Leaving the Amor
country, out of consideration this belt WAS uni1
lately all but impossible by armies; the only mag
nable route across it it being that from AstrsbM
on the Caspian, by Herat 10 Cabul and tho India
But with the Russians, on the lower Jsxsrtes (Sr.
Darya), and Oxus ANU Darya) and with military
roads and forts, affording water and stores to 20
marching army, the Central Aslatc desert ~
longer EXITS "a military obstacle. Instead
of the one unprcpared route from Astrsbsd BY
Herat, 10 the Indus, Russia now has three dil-
ferent routes at her disposal which, at no distant
period. may be perfectly prepared for the march d
an army. There remains, first Of all, the old route
by Ierat, which, a. matters now stand, cannot any
longer be closed to Russia; secondly there u the
Valley of the Oxus from Khiya to Balkh; thirdly,
the Vale, of the Jaxartes from Akmetchet 70
Khoiend whence the force would have to strb
across wen-watered aud populated country, b
,markand and RalAh. Herat, SamarAand ~t
.. h would torm capital base OF operas0s
D'i. India. Balkh is only 500 miles ffca
ae"''' VI, tho North Western outpost Of The
Iesh""> ian empire. Samarkand and Balkh belong
Ansi"ina' of Bokhhra, who is even now at the
to the Khan ia. and with Astrabad (which il
merry u "''' led BY Russians or may be Occu-
eiher no" "'o"f ''ke), and Belkh in the hands II
Pieu any a"' 'Ho' be withheld from her grssY
Russa' Herst canh" seize it. And as soon %
whenever she chooses !. 'bs in her actual po..s.
this base of operatiore viii FIGHT for her India,
sion. England will have 70. 'ul :. .c.,cs, ,,v
empire. From Balkh to Ca =, ana ri. an.
further than from Cabul to Pesh6p. AGA betvsra
fact sill show how small the neutralD
Siberia and India has now become sona
The fact is, that if Russian progress - oor
the same rate and with the same energy ii" IA
sistency rs during the last twenty y.Gye years, :,
Muscovites may BE- found knocking at the gates
India within ten or fifteen years. Once across the
Kirghiz steppe they get into the comparatively
Well cultivated and fruitful regions of South
eastern Tursn, the conquest Of which cannot h
disputed to them, and which may EASILY support
for years, without effort, an army Of fifty THOUSAND
or sixty thousand men, quite strong enough b
march anywhere up to the Indus. Such On army
in ten years, can completely subdus the country.
protect the construction Of roads, the colonizatioa
Of a vast extent of land BY Russian crown peasants
las Is now done on Lake Arab, oyerswe 'l sur.
rounding states, and prepare the bsse and hno @
operations for an Indian campaign. Whether such
4 campaign will ever be undertaken depends "a
political contingencies which are now only nsttou
Df remote speculation.