The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-15
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
Our Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburg
Correspondence.
Lord John Russell on the Annexation of
St. Domingo to Spain and the Att
tude Of the United States.
The Cotton Supply Question i'm
England,

LuSAIuu,
CO., &c., &c.
Important from Russia,
our ST. PETERSBURG CORRESPONDENCE.
ST. PETERSBURG August IT, 1861
Opinions Of the Russian Press the american Crisis
Unparalleled Importance and the Iapossl ility Of Fire
seeing lis Reult-Russian Nepralsr Correspondents in
NeO York-Gencrat Mcclellan and his Report on the
Siege Of Sebdaopol-Count Lambert appointed Yiceroy
| ofPo'amd-His Origin and Antecedenb, de-
| You will be surprised to hear that neither the
Polish troubles, nor the emancipation Of the serfs
| nor the arrangement OF the money market nor any
other internal question: occupies the attention Of our pub
lie SO exclusively as tho events TRANSPORTING in Anne
rica Says the Sere,7dya Ichsa--which may be called
sans comparison, tho St. Petersburg HERALD Many
Of our readers hapc nssed that he present Anicn
CONTEXT Interests them great deal than Emopedn
! affairs This preference OF America to Europe "a
quite ineligible In Europe transaction can be
| looked forward to which has not its hislor.
cal precedent Whatever complications may arise
they will only be repetition OF former ones We have
already had the spectacle of between Austria and
Hungary the struggle Of Austria Italy il hardly con.
cudcd ipsurrectonary movements in Turkey have been
of constant during the last four centuries
France and England have quarreled often after their
cordial alliance that would not DO astonished
| transformed into open hostility. Notwithstanding all
this, the events that passing in Europe will undoubt
cdy be Of the highest Importance but their results can
be fOreseen and calculated upon by tho anaoges of the
past. Tie American 'cor The contrary, is q phe
| ,Nmenom uithon parallel in history cannot
| Be judged ~ anything that ha, preceded IT, Eteyy
! incident Of strikes Ly its shu.q,ness end
novelty Its result be foreseen nor even conIcc
turcd. In contest between two morarchical States
peace may be expected from the character or will of one
man. In America thirty millions of people decide tho
question OF peace Considerations uhicH IN the
eyes IF king or general rouid be sufficient grounds for
the conclusion Of peace, are disegorded By the masses
looked upon treason to the cause. national war Is al
ways more destructive than between disciplined
armies; but national war; carried by population
of millions the height of civilization and e:npoy
| ing oil the resources Of art and science in
the work Of determination, must produce unheard Of
results aud it is WONDER therefore, that the attention
Of mankind is directed in brcathlcss suspense to the
| scenes that are enactng in Virginia"
In another article the same journal rcmarks:-
owe oretod not long since that that portion Of the press
and public who haunting the concndng parties with
their dlatorness and complaining of their inactivity
would soon have their impotence grathed. The federal
army mas sustained severe defeat and the war in Ame
RIGA has obtained such dimensions that tho efIusion OF
blood IS likely to satisfy the most exactng critics and
| President Lincoln 'ciu certainly neither modify
lbs policy nor produce a change Of patlic opinion
success will rather nsgae the government the peo-
pie to fresh excrons against their enemies The Anglo
Saxon who love peace for the OF the
derived from t. and slow IN proceeding to extremes
sometimes be stunned by sudden disaster but when
recovered from the shock they return 10 the charge with
an energy which inspires them with fresh courage al
most insrcs II Is not surpr sDg that the first
collision between the North and the South victory should
have declared for the latter The inhabitants OF the
Southern States not drawer than those of the
North, bnt they are more warlike. They had long
made themselves familiar with tho use Of arms But ony
give the North time let their troops, hitherto i'll armed
competent commanders, and they will reappear tho
field OF battle Injured to danger and ready defend the
| good cause with true Ango-Saxon bravery
BY tho way, the Ser7nad Pcheiid has its town
pondent in New York, who writes his letters English
and they translated into Russian at the Office Tho
Russky Vicnk bimolhy review edited at Moscow also
contains regular communications from New York lite
rary gentleman Of this city, who accompanied Admiral
ropo In his voyage round tho world in S586O has nah
shed some interesting sketches OF California which are
America
hare at last pat ie right IN tie right place" His re-
port the siege Of Sebastopol translated after
its appearance into the Morskoi SJoYnM naval review
published here under the patronage of Grand Duke Con-
stanlne. " displays great powers OF observ alton and
rare strategic coup de and Is considered the best
count of that famous siege that has yet been given
he lights as well as he writes, Mcclellan must be Of
the first generals OF the age.
The appointment Of Count Lambert TO the office IF
Nalaiesuit Vceroy Of Poland is fat acconapk
He has not yet been gazeted SUCH but his commission
has been signed by the Emperor, and he will start for
the Gmea-tom morrow or next day The nomination of
young (the Count il only about forty fve) to
post of such high honor and distinction has excited con
siderable dissatisfaction among our old ofcers-the
MouraveNs, Rergs, Suwarrokors, &c.-the more 30 as
Lambert is what used to be termed carpet knight who
has attained tho rank Of Lieutenant General without hay
ing eshed his maiden sword except during the short
campaign in Hungary in 1S49 when he attached to
the staff of Marshal Paskevch but in this instance the
susceptbiles OF veterans have had TO yield the
ruO,s d'ctGt
Count Lambert, though born IN Russia Is the Of
French father and Polish mother, by whom he Ia
lated to Of the first families in the kingdom and
besides this he is Roman Catholic 1t is hoped therefore,
that he will be acceptable to the nobility, and especially
to the clergy and that he will succeed in pesuadrg the
latter exert their influence in aayng the agitation
among the people, instead IF infamng it, as they
have done hitherto. am afraid their hopes will prove
decisive; half Polo and wholly Papist he is, Count
Lambert Russian uniform, which would be quite
sufficient to render him obnoxious to the national party
If he possessed all the virtues and good qualities under
heaven. Persons well acquainted with the spirit Of the
Polish nation, more properly speaking. Of the domi
nant classes Of opinion that all these concniatory
will BIO Of use; that every fresh concession
will be attributed to weakness, and only to
courage the opposition and that il Russia does not
TO give Poland altogether she will have tho
stem OF sten repression which obtained under Ncho
las and which, whatever be urged against IL from
moral point OF view at least secured the tranquility
the kin gdom for than quarter of century ut
timc when all Europe convulsed with revolutionary
| outbreaks.
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