The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

7 736 THE WEEK. SATURDAY, THE PRESS. • Six weeks have elapsed since the unsuccessful attack of the 18th of June. The interval has been remarkable for:an almost entire absence of active hostilities on either side. But from the great strength of the allied forces, the good health of the troops, their ample supplies of every munition of war, and the favorable state of the weather for operations, we are entitled to assume that they have been diligently, though unostentatiously, engaged in preparations for a more extensive and better concocted ' attack than the one previously made on the Malakoff and Redan. In fact, information has reached us which leads us to conclude that an assault on the Malakoff will be made before the 6th instant. A letter from one of the generals of division to a near relative has been received in town, in which this intelligence is com pletely confirmed. It is, therefore, most probable that very early in the ensuing week we shall be in possession of the particulars of this important movement. The Russians, on their side, seem to have been most actively engaged in strengthening their works, and in collecting immense stores for the use of the garrison. Our readers will recollect that in THE Passe of the 14th July we announced that two powerful corps of the Russian army were advancing by forced marches to the relief of the garrison of Sebastopol. The following from the Times of Wed nesday last announces that two divisions belonging to the corps of General LUDERS have actually arrived in the Crimea BERLIN, Monday, July 30. According to advices from St. Petersburg, general orders from Prince Gortschakoff announce the arrival in the Crimea of the 7th and 15th Infantry Divisions, and at the same time express his thanks to the inhabitants of Bessarabia. So confident are the Russians of ultimate success that an elabo rate article in the Invalide Russe this week reviews the resources of the Russians as compared to those of the Allies, and boastfully declares that, as long as the north side of the town remains open to the supplies of men and materiel which are daily poured in, it can never be taken. The Vienna Gazette declares, upon the highest authority, that the next assault of the Allies will be final,; and that, whether the Karabelnia suburb be taken and the Russian 'fleet destroyed, or the assault repulsed, the campaign of '55 will be closed, the siege raised, and the Allies retire to their vast intrenched positions at Kamiesch and Balaklava, there to await. the ensuing year, when a large army will be concentrated at Varna, and a campaign opened in Bessarabia. The news from the camp has been bare the last few days : the telegraph is quiet, or the War-office is dumb—it may be with a pur pose. As for the progress of the siege, our sap is within two hundred yards of the salient angle of the Redan, and the French within some thing less of the Malakoff. Expectation is high in Paris for the news of the next assault. The health of the army .is excellent; but, as it is unlikely that the army will be in Sebastopol by Christmas, it is time to think of winter and winter preparations. At present no provisions beyond collecting stores of cattle and corn have been made for the comfort and care of the army. Two-thirds of the men and most of the officers are yet without huts, and it is said that there is not another hut in store. General MOURAVIEFF is reported by the latest advices to have raised the siege of Kars, and to have retired for the protection of Tiflis, which the Circassians threatened. Communications have been restored between Kars and Erzerouni. The Turks have displayed ex traordinary activity and energy ; and if OMER PACHA is only sent over with his forces from the Crimea there is little doubt but that the Russians would find their work cut out for them on a scale they did not expect. The letter of our correspondent in the Baltic fleet still leads us to suppose that the Commanders meditate striking some decisive blow very speedily. Our correspondent writes guardedly, but the hints he drops are significant, and we are well assured he is not the man to excite expectations, unless he had good grounds for believing that they would be ful filled. The Morning Poet of Thursday seeks to prepare us for disappointment, and to assuage our grief tells us that there is nothing for it but a " con tented submission to circumstances," and that if, after all, the perform ances of our fleet this year are scanty, yet " there remains the com " forting assurance that our inactivity has its parallel in the enemy's " circumstances too !" But, unhappily for the credit of our Govern• ment, the Russian inactivity is represented in the shape of seventy nine row and steam gun-boats, as the fruit of one year's labour at Cronstadt, and by the vast and impregnable fortifications upon the spot, which render what was once probable now impossible—while we, with all our science, skill, and boasted resources, have only turned out a score or so of gun-boats in the same time. The succqisful destruction of the batteries of Fredericksham by the Arrogance details of which arrived this week, was counter balanced by the unlucky affair of the Driver's boats up the Gulf of Bothnia. Really, the commanders of some of our ships do not appear _ rte than a repetition, on a larger scale, of a similar plan which Sir GEORGE attempted and utterly failed to carry out in New Zealand. Why, the plan carries failure on its face—a military colony of 5,000 men, each to be rewarded with a cottage and oue acre of land ie. Kaffraria, for seven years service on the frontiers ! What men will be found to serve on such terms as these, with Australia and the gold-fields within a month's sail of them? Moreover, is the formation of a series of military outposts the most certain plan of turning the Kaffirs into " fast friends, or useful servants ?" Sir GEORGE GREY'S experience and knowledge of the peculiarities of the New Zealanders—to which Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII bore such high testimony on Tuesday night —was, no doubt, the most complete. But the brave, open-hearted New Zealander is a man whose oath .may be relied on ; while the cunning, treacherous Kaffir can never, under any circumstances, be trusted. We are asked to continue this grant for ten years : 40,0001. a year for a colonial governor's whim, which contains nothing but fine words to recommend it ! The Commission of Inquiry upon the Hyde•park riots has closed its examination of witnesses. From the evidence of the police authorities themselves, it would seem that the Government placed much greater stress upon, and took a far more serious view of, the affair than the weans they employed to suppress it would justify. The police-force in the Park was too weak to do its work mildly—there was altogether too much of an air of mock military preparation about the prelimi naries, placing ten men in reserve behind this tree, and six more out of sight behind that—thus weakening the real strength of force. In fact, the whole affair, like everything else the Government under takes, was mismanaged from beginning to end. The extraordinary amount to which the subscriptions to the French loan have reached-3,000,000,000 francs—speaks well for the vast resources of France, for the confidence which the French people have in the stability of the Imperial Government, and for the admirable policy of LOUIS NAPOLEON, who strengthens his position by borrowing the people's money. Your best friend is your creditor, up to a certain amount. LOUIS NAPOLEON seems inclined to test this theory, and, as yet, with every success. The second part of the famous Brussels Pamphlet has lately appeared at Geneva. In it the author asserts that Austria incited the Emperor of the FRENCH to carry out the expedition of the Crimea in order to divert the allied armies from a position in the Principalities, and obtain them for herself. The writer's views upon the present position of the war and of Europe are then given. The restoration of Poland, the punishment of Austria, the freedom of Hungary and Italy, and the preponderance of France, are the propositions urged ; while the Emperor of the FRENCH is recommended to laud at Eupatoria with 150,000 men, and drive the Russians out of the Crimea. The policy of the allied Governments and the conduct of the Generals is most severely and unjustly criticised, and a "revenge for Waterloo" ear nestly demanded. CONCIO UTRUM BELLUM INTERNECINUM, AN PAX INHONESTA CUM APRO MAGNO BOREALL HABENDA SIT, NUPER APUD SENATUM ANGLI CANUM HABITA. ERAT magna sane neque minus insana confusio, adeo ut laquearia ipsa, ad auditum parum eta, fere quaterentur. Nam cum Apro Ma6no Boreali verbis atque jocis magis quam ferro pugnare decreverant. Ipse vero Aper tam valide sese defenderat, vel navibus in altum demissis, vel vastis undique congestis molibus, vel denique Scoti cu jusdam (qui mercaturie sui magis quam ad patria3 defensionem erat deditus) astutii, ut ingens quoddam castellum, quod erat quasi via recta ad cretera Apri oppida, vix expugnari posset. Jamque Lyttonius ille, tam eloquentia quam eruditione atque Musarum studio illustris, long satis atque acri orationi in eos, qni sese Ministros facete appellarant, finem dedit. Isti vero, ad sua, vel aliena tenenda semper prompti, cachinnare, velut anseres obstrepere, donee ipso Ministrorum gallus, clamori facetiisque semper deditus, atque joci tam facilis avidus, exsurgit. Nomen vero huic viro egregio crat PAM. Quod ad res ab eo gestas attinet, vereor ne nimis acerbe dicere cogar. Ille enim ad belle componenda inter bellicosos, atque ad potum pugnantibus subministrandum maxis crat aptus, quam ad rem gerendam. Inerat porro huic viro tanta jocandi facilitas, ut, velut scurra, "de omni joca bili "se scire et loqui perpetuo profiteretur. Et hcec jocandi vis satis splendide elucebat, cum de prcelio male amisso, cum de legionibus vel fame vel ferro consumptis, cum de asinis, qui commeatus suppetere debuissent, qutestio habita est. Senex erat, sed a senectutis dignitato longe remotus; nam, velut anilis quidam Momus—dum in alios risum excitare, omniaque pro ludibrio habere conaretur—irridendum omnibus et miserandum sese prtebuit. Sed, ut ad res tam male gestas, redeam, PAM fere ad hunt modum jocos suos effudit : Ea, qua nuper dicta aunt, omnia inter se contraria aunt. Magnus enim (non corpora sed vivida vi mentis) collega meus, tam Gallicte lingnie quam vitas scribendi pe ad View ibi vero, belly satia detesta- Bothnia. Realty, tne commanuers or ts iiiii vvi vua 0.•1.10 %AV LLN- , ,, Obri.Vla.‘ lel. 1/lil 0 OC. •• • ••••• • . `'•....... / •”-• •to know the precise limits and nature of a flag of truce. A clear order ritus, animi recreandi .aura ad Viennam sere receperat. fbi vero, bellum satis deteita- tus, pacem quocunque pretio catiponari atque conciliare stnduit. Re vero infecta, from Admiral DEINDAS upon the subject, setting forth the strict nature domum rediit. Quod vero egregius i lls Baronettus de qufestione in cteteros nostroruta and powers of a flag of truce, appears to be very much needed fur the • collegarum habenda nnper dixit, me ego virum istum vel spoors mendacia effutisse, information of the commanding officers in the Baltic. vet nihil (minim scire de rebus pus ad nationis statum pertineant credo. Ecquid, viri, qui tam valide, ut nihil efticeretur, vires animosque dedistis—nos de Sir GEORGE GREY'S Cape proposal for the establishment of tdiorum sententia loqui !—nos ad res in clara lute ponendas—nos ad vera dicenda cogi ! Kaffirland, and which Sir Quid !si ad omnia responders cogeremur, interpres pro interprete interpros etas. t.. military colonies on the frontiers of Risum apud cos satin mihi dulcem exortum video — aed, ut ad rem redeam, egregiu. WI Lisaii M OLESWOR TH supported this week, as his first colonial iste auctur de permutatione Ministrorum—iterum ridetis, et ego gaudeo—locntus est. rneasureedemanding for it a yearly outlay of 40,0001 ., is nothing more Quid vero fleri, aut non Seri poaset , si vir ille ad rerum summam ascenderet? Nonne i