New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-21
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CONDITION OF EUROPEAN coMBArANTs

OF course the warning powers of Europe did not
take the field without being ready for the fight in
deed they are always In training for fray, and in
playing the game Of nations they sit like desperate
gamblers with their hostile hardware and cutlery at
hand, ready for fighting over any disputed stake
some Lombardo-V Venetian Kingdom or other valuable
that they may be playing for. The vigorous power Of
their snews of war is not understood by those who
endeayor to form an idea of their extent based on
their knowledge of those Of this country The popu.
lar Idea, that we can click all creation" " or buy it if
we dd mt wish to take it vi ct ars, would seem to
be delusion after gancng at the war power Of En-.
ropean natons-the number OF regular troops they
can bring into the field and the revenues for their
support Look at France for example she has an
army OF over four hundred thousand disciplined
soldiers, and revenue Of near four hundred millions
dollars when at peace with all the world. The reve.
nue. OF the United States is seventy millions at the
outside estimate. France has a population more
IMAM one'nfth greater than ours (oyer thirtysx mil
ionsD and it is not scattered all over creation but
SO concentrated that every man is available-they
are a solid body She has a navy Of four hundred
and sixtyone ships we, Of iftyseven available war
craft.
Austria presents still more marked contrast, for
she has population of forty millions, every man
in the empire being by law soldier, and regular
army of between seven and eight hundred thousand
soldiers, on war footing. Her army is even more
numerous than the legions of the Russian Gar of
which the whole world very properly has SO magnif
cent an idea, and her population is but little more
than fourth less than that of that northern empire
and all civilized men, not onehalf mere savages.
Though her sea border amounts to almost nothing,
little sriD of coast on the Adriatic Gnlf she has an
available navy of two and half times as many ships
Of war as the United States has, which will afford
some little amusement to tile overpowering naval
force of France-tha will probably catch the greater
portion of them in the cui de of the Adratic and
suffer not single to escape. They will be in as
bad box as the Russian Black Sea fleet was when
cooped up in the harbor Of Sebastopol.
Sardinia in union with the Lonbardo- Venetian
kingdom, is no chicken either, by any manner of
means for united they arc at heart and all will be
formally, they muster population of considerably
over ten millions, have standing .army of over a
hundred thousand men, and very considerable naval
force scarcely inferior in number of ships and guns
to that OF the United States. Together they embrace
an area OF over fortysx thousand square miles, and
Sardinia alone has revenue Of twentyseYen and
half million Of dollars.
Thus the population now Immediately concerned
in the dnlty numbers over eighty Millions crowded
into small area of territory, commanding immense
resources and the shock of when they get fairly
at it, hammer and tongs, may be vaguely fancied.
We subjoin statistical table, which is pretty gen.
orally correct, though of the figures are too old
to be a true statement at this time. They give fair
view OF the relative position Of most OF the great ma
tionaties of Earope: