Date: 1854
The allied forces now enter the field with a perfect knowledge of what they may have to expect, and while giving the Russian troops clue credit for bravery and obedience, they need only be regarded as in any way dangerous, as long as they are properly led.  They are mere machines, whom brutality has taught to look on an engage ment as the lesser of tAvo evils, and as long as their fanaticism can be maintained, they will fight well, if not successfully.  Such repulses as they have met with during the Turkish campaign must cause the most bigoted to doubt the infallibility of their Em peror, and short will be the progress from such doubt to despondency.