The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
THE war debate, with its multiform array of resolutions and
amendments, its singular revelations of unexpected policy, and
its odd display of party statesmanship, has already been all
-but forgotten in the welcome narrative of success which has
attended the altered tactics of our fleets and armies. The
news of one signal success has trod so rapidly on the heels of
another, that the busied and delighted people of these islands
have had no time to waste in canvassing the merits of a fruit-
less debate, and not much more to listen to one, the chief and
only merits of which were that success or failure In its osten-
sible object would be of equal unimportance, that object being
the active prosecution of a war which the energies of our
soldiers and sailors putit out of the power of a ministry to
thwart or accelerate. The progress of the war in the Crimea
continues as signally successful as its first burst was unex-
pected. The success has been so marked and tangible, that
those who a few brief weeks ago despaired of the reduction of
SebastOPol, now speculate freely upon the measures to be ulti-
mately adopted, when the Crimea has been wrested froei the
grasp•of Russia. Such has ever been the instability of popular
opinion. Fickle as the smiles of Fortune, it is always in
extremes : and those who yesterday were sunk in the
depths of despair, to-morrow will be revelling in anticipated
triumph. Apart from the mere breath of popular opinion on
,such matters, those whose views have been stedfastly fixed on
the objects, for the accomplishment of whieh the struggle was
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originated, still see those objects in the dim distan;e—illu-
mined, no doubt, by rays of brighter promise, but still too far
remote to be easily clutched, It cannot be presumptuous,
however, iu those whose hope was never so. far downetwt by
evanescent, though sharp adversity, as to despair'—and who

have not been so elated by brilliat, though, it m tof be; fleeting

success, as to deem the task of =thing Russian aggression an
easy one, to look with studious eye upon the ultimate' result,
If the game is not altered by the induction of some unexe
pected element, the fate of the Crimensasa Russian territory,.
will speedily be in the hands of the Western Powers. With
ample supplies of men and military sterna, and such ale ime
proved position in the Allied affairs as have'all been broaglit
about within the last few weeks, the Russian force in that
peninsula must soon be expelled or subjugatetb When this-
shall have been achieved, then comes the putziing questions-,
what is to be done with the Crimea ?—who is- to sear
bounds to Russian domination in the Euxine? Already
the reduction of the Crimea is well advanced. Austria,
our costly and faithful ally-to-a-certain extent, Laving kindly
reduced its army and fallen back upon its old neutrality,
enables the Annocsar to advance every available regiment he
possesses against us ; but are we not masters of her ciiief means-
of transporting and feeding them, by the Sea of Azeff? If
we are not as yet in full command of Perekop, a few revels-inn-
suns will see us in that proud position, and, with r60;000
troops in the Crimea and the sea open to them, Russia will be
unable to keep up or feed a force sufficient to resist the Aries.
True, it is understood that the Russians muster about len,ooo
men in the field, besides those shut up in Sebastopol ; and'
further it is said, in all likelihood with truth, that the army
in the field is advantageously placed, and strongly defended
by well-constructed fieidworks. The superiority of the AlEis
in the field has been too surely demonstrated, to admit cf'
doubt as to the result of a conflict with equal numbers. The-1
last successes of the besiegers places under their command tie-1
eastern slope of the town, and enables them with Russian guns-
discharged from Russian work e which theyhavecaptared to sweep.
the lineof communication between the town and thenorth shore
of the bay, by which they have hitherto received their supplies of
men and provisions, as well as' shot, and other munitions of
war. The Allies have now extended and secured their lines ,
far in advance of their former position as assailants of the
Russians in the field. They occupy an important post beyond
the Tchernaya, which, menacing Inkerman and Bakshi
compels the Russians to keep the field to prevent the complete
investment of Sebastopol. Oh the' extreme eaet, we have mot
only secured the-Sea of Azoff, but have, gained so good nfoo t-
ing in Kertch. and Arabat, as to afford every means of
threatening Simpheropol, and menacing or even capturing
Kaffa, the ancient Theodosia. These are in themselves
advantages as great as the destruction of maganines and this
cutting off of supplies, by whichtheir achievement was accom-
panied, and present so many opportunities of molesting and
harassing the Russians at different points, without Atoning a.
moment's respite to the garrison of -Sebastapck as to lend to
the conjecture that the final struggle for poseeesion of the
fortress is an event of no distant occurrence. Indeed, it is said
the time 'of the great blow has already been fixed, and that the
positions of the various columns of assault, and the corps com-
posing them, are named. Everything betokens rising energy
on the part of the assailants ; and, judging lay the progress
which has been made within the last few days, it is not by
any means improbable that the present week may witness the
Allied flags waving in triumph, over the dilapidated and con-
quered ramparts of Sesbatopol.
With such justifiable grounds for anticipating success in this
arduous enterprise, the forerunner of the capture ofthe Crimea,
if not the immediate harbinger of peace, thequestion of—What
-is to be done with the Crimea?—presents itself for consideration
with accelerating urgency, and vastly-increased importance.
Discarding the new cant of doing nothing to hurniFate our foes,
sensible men believe that,in humiliating Russia,and diminish-
ing her power, is to be found the only safeguard against the
spirit of reckless aggression by which her conduct to her
neighbours has been actuated. Such parties, in this lopping
off a portion from the territory of Russia, see nothing, in
wresting the Crimea from her grasp, beyond stripping her of
the fruits of yesterday's rapine. In doing this, and in ex-
cluding her from a harbour in the Black Sea, they recognise
no other principle than compelling restitution from the robber,
and securing n " material guarantee" against his future ag-
gressions. Those who view the matter and who counsel thus,
say,—Let the Crimea be taken, and retained. Allow the
French possession of Sebastopol, while we secure the peninsula
of Kertch, together with the harbour and bay of Kaffa ; and
reinstate the old Tartar princes in their capital of Bakshi-
Serai. By doing-this, say they, the best guarantee will be ob-
tained against Russian aggression upon Turkey. Such a
course of policy would find no countenance in the support of
GLA.DSTONE and GRAnAM, Of HERBERT, aIBSON, BRIGRT..
and COBDEN, and the other SUBMISSIONIST leaders, who .
insist, with such perverse assiduity, that no humiliation
shall be offered to Russia, and that nothing shall be
done which could brand her conduct as fraudulent,—imr
negotiations as deceitful. Indeed, it is already rurnassred
that intrigues for bringing about such a termination
to the war as would have this effect have been set 00, foot
in Germany. Apprehensions of French success in the East,
as tending to a renewal of the firstNaroexoses designsagainst
German independence, are sedulously, cultivated at Berlin, and
it is said receive affectionate culture in Belgium,. and that
shoots of this unnatural plant are carefully nurtured in some
of the petty courts. The extraordinary sentiments uttered in
Parliament by Sir JAMES GEAEAM, and Messrss.GLlDsroxs
and S. HERBERT, are said to he wonderfully in,harmony with
those which form the current flow in the Courta.of Berlin and
Brnsiels; the great object of the policy of which is to bring
the war to a close so soon as the capture at Sebastopol shall
have been effected, in order, it is said, to break, up the Angloe
French Alliance, which is viewed with much suspicion by the-
courts referred to, and all whom they can influence. It is.
further rumoured that these potentates, have been intriguing
to set Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the van as Premier of thnEnge
lish Cabinet, and look forward, at no, distant day, to see his
lordship treat Lord PALMERSTON to such another touch of
his quality as he recently exhibited towards Lord AItERDEEN..
The rumour has assumed various forms, and is thus alluded
to in the Morning Herald :—" We believe that the differences
to which we have alluded do exist between Lord PAroXERSTON
and Lord JOTIN ; and we believe with a morning contempo-
rary, that a party does exist in the Cabinet which would pre-
fer an Austrian and Prussian, if not a Russian alliance to that
which now happily exists with our present gallant coadjutors
in the Fest."
Connected with this rumour, and the probability of the re-
sult it contemplates, great stress has been laid on the remarks
made by Prince ALnnnT at the Trinity House banquet, where
he proposed the toast of " HER MAJESTY'S MinisterS." In dis-
charging this somewhat unwonted duty, the PRINCE CONSORT,
departing from the prescribed line which has generally pre-
vented him from interfering with any matter, or entering
upon the discussion of any subject which could be supposed to
reveal any political bias, His Royal Highness expatiated at
considerable length upon the claims to forbearance, sympathy,
and good-will of their fellow-countrymen,. presented by HER
MAJESTY'S Ministers, at the present crisis of affairs. • Some
parties, indeed, have indulged in ill-natured criticism on the
distinction, and the manner of drawing it, which the royal
orator displayed in pointing out the difference existing in
despotic Russia and our own free country. The former, he'
said, Was at once able to seize upon the improvements in
mechanical and chemical science, which have " sprung up
under the generating influence of our liberty and our civiliza-
tion," and to bring them into use with " all that force which
unity of purpose and action, impenetrable secrecy, and uncon-
trolled despotic power have given her." This advantage
of secrecy and decisive action he contrasted, in the following
terms, 'with our own political arrangements, which some
affect to say appear marked by indications of regret,
if not of positive disapprobation. " The QTJBEN," said