The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.

Wsuravaa Sir Owing Bsovnt opens his mouth
the public listens with all its ears, certain that the
pliant General will be delivered of some amusing
absurdity. This expeotmion has been amply gratified
by Sir Grottos's speech at the Elgin dinner. He
assured his hearers that "it would be so difficult mat-
ter to show, that for every movement which has beet
made by the Eastern army there has been a good
reason." The examples by which Sir Grown pro.

coaled to corroborat; this omission. suggest • curious

idea of what mast appear to be a " good reason" to his
mind, lie ausouuts for the time that was wasted
benne the Allied Armies advanced to Varna, by
stating that " the troops were sent oat without any
upecific plea of operations." In other words, the Allied
Governments, if we may behave Sir GEORGE Bitows,
.seat armies to the East before they had made up their
naiads as to what these armies were to do there,
sad the Generals in command of thew armies so-
°opted of the charge to do anything or nothing. Sir
Gacutoa went on to assign his "good reasons" for
the army's not going to the Crimea earlier is the
season. The first of these reasons is, that " Omit
Eacna'ti army of 60.000 men could not be left to the
teader mercies of 160,000 of the enemy." Bat, un-
fortunately for Sir GEORGE, OMER PACHA'S army
was left to these tender mercies, for anything that
the Allies did to relieve them. It was Oats Paean
that beat the Russians on the Danube—" aloes he
did it ;" for the Allies did not even make a demon-
stration of moving to his assistance. The second
"good reason" assigned by Sir GEORGE BROWN for
the late period of the year at whisk the
Crimean expedition was undertaken is that "we
had gone out with no specific plan of campaign, ODD-
sequently the campaign of the Crimea was never
heard of by the army till July." It is but a sorry
defence of those who bad the management of the war
to say that after having plunged into it with no dis-
tinct plan of operations in view, they continued in
the same irresolute, puzzled, and perplexed state of
mind until the best part of the year had rose by.
But Sir GEORGE had to account for the further time
lost between July and September, when the expedi-
tion actually set sail. This he did by asserting that
they "knew nothing of the ground at all," and " the
Admirals had no flat-bottomed boats." As
excellent reason for the mode in which the
expedition was carried out, certainly : those
who had the management of it did not
take the trouble to reconnoitre the ground before-
hand, or to provide themselves with the kind of boats
necessary to effect a landing. We will trouble our
readers with only ore more of Sir GEORGE BROWN'S
"good reasons." He accounts for the Allied Armies
allowing themselves to remain so long cooped
up on the west side of the Tchertaya—at once be-
sieging and besieged—by naively confessing that
until the town war taken, they were unable to fight
on open ground—in fact, " were tied by the leg."
But if so, it was the Allied Commanders who tied the
leg of their army, as the gifted man in the old fairy
'tale of "Fortunio” was accustomed to tie up his legs,
to prevent him from running too fast and over-

running his game. Could we persuade ournelves that
the "good reasons" which Sir Gismos BROWN has
assigned for "every movement which has been made
by the Eastern army," were those which really
influenced the Allied Governments and their Com-
manders, we should say that a more incompetent set
of bunglers never undertook a great enterprise.
We are not however so unjust as to hold any person
responsible for the nonsense spoken by Sir Gismos
BROWN but Sir GEOZOE BROWN himself. And we
do not think that we should have given ourselves the
trouble to expose the inanity of his twaddle bat for
the offensively insolent manner in which he has, sines
his return from the East, repeatedly taken upon him
to speak of all who have ventured to 'skids' the
general conduct of the war. At Elgin, indeed, he
abstained from the silly and vulgar abase of the
press in which he has indulged on other ocessione
but he attempted to be witty at the expense of those
who—so be alleged—" fancy they know other people's
business better than themselves." Hs tried to raise
a laugh by asserting that " we have had more great
generals and admirals at the clubs and coffee-houses
than we had in the army or navy." Sir °tows
wilfully ignored the fact that a large proportion of
the critics of the management of the war has been
made up of military and naval men. He affected to
be unaware that the nepotism and favouritism which
prevail at the Admiralty and the Horse Guards
have often led to incompetent mea being
seat out, while those who were better able
to serve their country have been left to rust in in-
action. Bat waving this consideration, it ill became
one who is so indignant at non-profeesionaleridcism,
to give a decided opinion on a question which can
best be solved by medical men and naturalise. Sir
Cisoaos denied that the sitnation selected for the
encampment at Varna was unhealthy. "We had
the most beautiful ground you can imagies It was
like the finest English park, with the finest water
you could wish." Fair it might be to the eye, and
yet unhealthy. And medical men on the spot hav-
ing concurred in attributing the diatom prevalent
in the army to the site of encampment, has
not Sir GEORGE, in contradicting them, in-
curred the censure he has himself expressed against
those who " tansy they know other people's business
better than themselves?" Sir Grown, too, ought to
have recollected that there is a letter of Ones
Eames in existence, in which he warned our Go-
vernment that the locality selected for the Varna en-
campment was unhealthy. Bat Sir GROROR bee
convenient memory, which retains only that via&
suits his own purpose. Hs has also a knack of foie-
tifying his hearers by a kind of verbal leger-
demain. When he undertook to prove that
a good reason could be assigned for every
movement made by the army of the East,
he led his hearers to believe that these
good reasons influenced the determinations of those
who directed the movements of the army. Bat when
be alleged in extenuation of the late mean of the
year at which the Crimean expedition set sail from
Varna, that "the attack on the Crimea was never
beard of by the army till July," he spoke of the
army exclusive of those who directed its movements.
Then is no doubt en immense deal of stupid blunder-
ing in Sir °Boson's apologetic orations, but there is
also not a little of premeditated insincerity and
'maks.

firsessmed madams to b. well filled, beefiness is
Web, sad the patent Ms fat to be the soot Amara&
mem kr sone pen.