New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-11

needed during the Crimean war, VII abundantiy
suffice for this service. Eyeu should the war
spread beyond Italy, and involve Germany also.
that will create 10 demsnd for shipping for tue
transportation OF troops, so that renewal OF tie
harvest reaped by our shipOwners during tue
Crimean war, from the transportation Of troops
and munitions seems. in the present coDjuocture,
ont Of the question.
The Crmean war, restricted ss i was 70 little
corner of the Crimesu peninsula, and amounting
to nothing more than the siege Of single city,
which kept the troop. encamped On single spot,
made II nece ssary for the French and English to
bring all their provisions from distance. THIS
circumstance afforded TO us Of the United States
double advantage. We not only furnished large
number Of vessels for this purpose, but the supply
Of provisions came largely from Us. The circum-
stances Of the present war are in this resPect also
entirely different 1t will be carried on in one OF
the most fertile countries 10 the world. which VIII
easily, out of its own products, supply the means
to feed al the armies, however numerous. ln ac''
Italy is at this moment feeding very nearly as large
Lumber Of soldiers az it ia possible for Austria
and Sardinia to bring into the field. The presence
Of French army would cause some additional
pressure, but it could not he Of very long contnu-
ance, and would be easily met from internal sup
plies.
To Judge from the experience of the wars OF the
French Revolution. il is impossible for the present
struggle TO be proracted for any length OF time
whether confined to Italy or spreading into Ger
many From the day that the first Napoleon en-
tered Italy at the head of an invading army scarcely
a year elapsed before he had driven the Austrians
entirely out Of it, and was 10 position to dictate
peace. The war of 1899 was equally short, re-
sultng in just IS complete triumph Of the com
bined Austrians and Russians-the French though
commanded by such Generals rs Macdonald and
Joubert, being stripped of all their conquests IN
period as short MS it had cost Bonsparte to make
them The campaign Of 1900 was shorter still;
q few months then suficed to restore Italy
to the French. The war Of 1905, between
France and Austris, terminated in single
Summer. depriving Austria Of her last
remaining Italian province, and even OF the Tyrol,
and making Joseph Bonspsrte King of Naples.
The war Of the next year, which overthrow the
monarchy Of Prussia, lasted so far as Prussia was
concerned, scarcely four months. The war oil
1860, which resulted in the annexation to France
of the Pspal dOInnOns, and in compelling Austria
to enter into family alliance with France, termi-
mated in six months. Even the continental war;
which ended in the total destruction of Bonapartes
empire, was Of less than two years continuance.
The single circumstance that caused the wars
grow ing out Of the French Revolution to be so long
protractcd was the fact that France and In
gland were separated by the Straits Of Dover
"A barrier which the French we're unable
and the English not disposed to cross,
except merely in the character Of an auxiliary;
while the bitter and nfamed hostility of these two
combstants made il impossible for either to be
content to make peace short of the total humilia-
ton Of the Other-an end which Bonapsrte after
the humiliation Of his own navy and that Of his
allies, attempted to bring about by mcsnA OF "
commercial embargo directed against Great Brit
ain; and Great Britain by advancing enormous sub
sides TO stimulate Austria to repeated renewals Of
the contest.
There does not seem to be anything in the pres
ent relations Of the French and English people
that can possibly put them in such an attitude of
hostility; and that being the ease, it does not seem
possible that any quarrel between France and
Austria, even though Germany should become in
yolyed in it, should result in protracted war.
On the other hand, should the third Napoleon as
pire to emulate the conquests Of the first, and to
make himself master Of the Continent, his empire
might come to termination still more sudden than
that of his uncle.