Show I 1 I 1 from the london daily news the ice burst on the neva nev I 1 I 1 I 1 the crisis of the JB altic enterprise seems near at hand under cuder date of the ad of may M ay we hear or of jitter east winds and nd thick falling snow allow of the ath of stockholm steamers running with crowds of citizens to see the fleet on tile the ath of tog log so thick that the ships could nota not stir tir ru in finland meantime the season adason is mild and vegetation is rapidly advancing the mouth month of may is always tile the season of suspense huspen if at st petersburgh abel the time when atia it is said he restless caw who sleeps only by gnat snatches ches looks out oi or goes forth almost before anybody else js is stir stirring io to observe the a aspect of his watery realm and see which way the I 1 1 I 1 wind is I 1 1 the suspense is about the wind and even now in iiii this most solemn spring season of all the fifty seven he has baa known the mo movements of the wind tire are of more consequence to nicholas thru than even those odthe of the allies A long continuance of strong east winds would do more for foe him than all the preparations he can make A rush of west winds wind 8 would ruin him more speedily and thoroughly than all his united enemies could without its help the fog is the token that the crisis is at aana hand the fog precedes the breaking break fig up of the ice in the I 1 anva lq va audit and it will be succeeded by those singular siu gular twilight nights ni C ts of bf unequalled unequal led beauty which are the only charm aria of the desolate region where st petersburgh Peters pote rs burgh furrh stands 1 while we e fog lasts the sentinels on the watch towers in the city look out in vain some towards lake cadoga ladoga ladett 1 some up the neva some towards the sea they e y can hear something but see pee nothing so it is with the czar listening in ilia his balc balcony and with the commandants at Swea borg and iC Cron stadt and perhaps with mith our chailey walking the dee deck k and talking to himself what hat he is listening for is the arrival of the french squadron which will bill enable him to proceed to his work when tho the fog fing curtain rises I 1 what the russians are listening for is first the wind wilid to some tt it comes sighing over the peaty plains ahva stretch to the margin of the gulf s whence they took look like a mere drift upon the waters over that barren ab bleak ex expanse pause the ole wind domes comes sighing th rothe rushes with an occasional bark of the wolf or bursts of the din odthe of the wa V ter r fowl in the pools which are already melted to others the wind comes yih rating like mourn fut music ausle the pine dine forests which surrounding the ca capital pitol with their black belt nowhere further off than twenty miles apo approach roach much nearer in ia some soine directions theta there are sounds which come to the ear on may vig nights blits when the wind is broili any point of the compass for there are sw swamps amps and pines forests everywhere itis the voice of the waters that t the watchers listen for with hearts that stand still As jon long as the hollow moaning gnes on the moaning of me 6 winds bielow bebow the ice the suspense is complo complete te or later comes tile the crack which tells that the hour of crisis has bus come the cracks crack of the ice are naturally the afie most impressive and sound the loudest in the night the czar and his sentries are already on oil I 1 the watch but now the citi citizens zeis rise and look lookout out in vain the fog some dress and go to the wharves tho iho it is much too soon to conjecture uA how high the waters will rise next comes cor the crash of the ice driven up th in heaps I 1 heaps in the river or the wharves and then the more anxious I 1 sound the swash awash of the driven waters the thing most desired is a moderate east wind and I 1 this is what usually happens A violent east wind brings down the inland tee ice and flood too fast and every inch that the waters rise above the iron rings rin p in the granite embankment is so much danger but the fearful thing is a strong west wind turning back the rood flood on its way to the gulf then it is less the awash of waters pouring down than the roar of the sea coming coining up and when the tides meet the consequence is what the world saw in 1824 the vois vessels sels that were not capsized by the meeting of the floods were carried over the wharves and stranded on the sands which were arable fields the d day before the nine rivers and seven canals on w inu which st burgh is seat seated edall all ever flowed at once and the flood poured into the upper chambers chamber of the best beef houses bouws in ia the capital 1 at Cron large vessel was drifted into the main street of the town and left there every successive um asive year adds to the peril of such it a chance for r every evera year does st petersburgh Peters burgh settle lower in the swamp I 1 amid the stagnant silence maintained there about all disagreeable facts this very disagreeable fact is well understood the mat mallet let is heard driving I 1 ingried new piles incessantly that is ia a sound that I 1 I 1 01 I 1 1 I 1 cannot be muffled the blocks of granite settle bettle is au all irregularity which the martinet czar himself cannot prohibit or punish the walls of palaces crack and hovels sink down end endways ways into inta the bog and oil all the world may imay see them melt down or be shored up the destruction will be ho horribly some day and every inhabitant knows I 1 I 1 it i and only hopes that the place may last ilia his time fline but if 4 west wind whid should carr carry yup up not the sea only but those who are now riding tha what then this is ia what the czar is listening forthe for the one other sound the boom of cannon which ml might ht for once rival in terror the roar of the wa sea from from cronstedt Cron stadt sixteen miles off the spire of the admiralty and the glittering cupolas of sf OL Petera petersburg birg may mav be seen on a cliar clear d day cran stadt is nearer to st petersburgh Peters burgh L than Gray esaud is to london bondon from st petersburgh Peters burgh the such cannon as we may have sent there may be heard from kronstadt Cron stadt it if we have the west wid biad for our herald of approach by oat fiat time the fog will be gone and the transparent twilight of tt that jar latitude etude will have set in the admirals win will then have no more time for listening like the czar such stich a chance as that wilid would fill the channels for them and obviate their chief difficulty A very very few hours of such a tide would stif suffice flee for their itt attempt tempt upon cronstedt Cron Cro stadt i i the gun boats of the enemy ambushed among the 1 islands and anaw watching with in intense terise curiosity and awe the great floating flo flod ting fortifications that va je have sent spinet against their stationary one must nt in such a case come out unless they would be run rundown down and the sen sent trios on the bastions it cronstedt Cron stadt would see with dit diaday onlay liow how I 1 rapidly the oe ordinary watermarks water marks are disappearing such stich a wind would be the best of allies hut bui t without itt it we are disposed to bellee believe that cronstedt Cron stadt is as aft ia now hinted from the scene of action not impregnable mii imi I 1 I 1 I 1 we hear much of the shadows there but it is certain that the largest Russi in ships of war are built it at st pett roxburgh gh as am far as the hulls are concerned and then brought inta the cronstedt Cron stadt harbors tobe to be fink hed they are brought by the old 0 id fashioned machi machinery i nerv of damels down the th river and then by means of the great ship canal at fronstadt Cron Cn stadt into info the heart of that place that canal the one running frore I 1 them the middle barbor holds holda ten in large rge ships of war at once the th e czar permits r alis rib no sounding of the neva to sound the ge neva v i is is death to russian subjects but it is given opt that the a average depth is nine feet on the bar and twelve within we all aft know russian figures are worth and we may be sure that the shallowest shallo lowest I 1 depth that can be believed will wilh be th ohp P one reported arted we know too that the range of difference ranee between the alie highest and the theTo lowest west wi water is very great wid aud that the period af f highest water is just achand at hand I 1 |