The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-09 00:00:00

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1855.

Is our second edition of yesterday we published the
details of a check experienced by the Russians in
their attack upon Eupatoria on the 17th of February.

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Their repulse was attended by greater loss than the
telegraphic message of oar correpondent (which
appeared exclusively in the Daily News of the 24th
ult.) led us to believe. Prince MENTCIIIKOFF, io-

deed, endeavours, in his account of the affair, to gloss
it over, under the pretext that nothing more than a
reconnaissance was intended. This story will not
pass. It is not customary to reconnoitre with such
strong bodies of foot and horse u swarmed round
Eupatoria on the 17th, or with 70 or N field-pieces.
The object of the Rassians evidently was to recover
possession of Eupatoria, and drive the Turks under
OMER Peene into the sea before the whole force
could be disembarked. In this attempt they have

signally failed. In the words of Lord RAGLui, '1 the
Turkish troops which have been landed at Eupatoiia

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have availed themselves of the earliest opportunity
to show that the character they acquired on the
Danube was well merited, and remained unimpaired."
Nor is this all. It appears from the despatches of
our correspondent—glowing, graphic, and truthful as

those in which he narrated the Turkish triumphs on
the Danube—that great numbers of the Tartar na-
tives have sought refuge in Eupatoria, after wreaking
their vengeance on their Russian oppressors in a man-
ner that can never be forgiven, and that some hundreds
of them have actually been embodied, as light ca-
valry, under the standard of the SULTAN. The present
position of affairs, therefore, is the Crimea appears
to be this :—The Russian troops in the field occupy

the tract of country which extends from near Enpa -
toria to the Tchernaya, with the stronghold of Sebas-
topol in front of their left wing. The French and
English armies have so strong a hold on the peninsula
of Chersonnesus, and have been so far recruited and
reinforced that their Commanders-in-Chief feel them-

selves in a condition to assume the offensive against
the Russian army In the field. The Turks at
Eupatoria have established an equally firm foot-
ing in the north of the Crimea, and • large
proportion of the Tartar population ?as declared une-
quivocally for them. The communication of the
Russian force in the Crimea with the empire, by
the most direct and practicable line, is thus seriously
endangered ; while the Turks at Eupatoria, and the
French and English in the Chersonnesus, can receive
recruits and supplies, with certainty and ease, by
sea. .

So far we are entitled to say that the campaign of
1855 will open under the most favourable auspices
for the Allies. That there will be a campaign, and
an obstinate one, in 1855, appears now to be beyond

a desk If the abridgment of the Manifesto of the
new Noperor of Russia is made from an suthen-
de document, he is publicly pledged "to
alsomplish the desires and projects unswervingly
entertained by PURR, CATHERINE, ALEXANDER, and
ear late father." That this representation of the
tenor of the Manifesto is correct, we are induced to
Wiese from the circumstance to which we adverted
in our papa of Monday last; that precisely became
AMAMI is " peace-loving—fond of his ease and
piamme," he will incline " to fall in with the wishes
—te adopt the tone of the persons by whom he is stir-
"sanded." The powerful Muscovite faction will not
allow their new Emperor to give up Sebastopol; the
Allies must take it. The triflers in and out of aides,
who cannot be brought to see the inevitable
character of the struggle in which we are
engaged with Russia, and the necessity of fighting it
out, must relinquish their dreams of a compromise
which they have been indulging. They have bees
putting oat feelers in many quarters, with a view to
ascertain whether public opinion would not be Wir
fled by an arrangement, in virtue of which the CUR
would dismantle the fortifications of Sebastopol,
aid allow that port, with a limited extent of
territory on either side, to be in future a neutral
territory, occupied by independent settlements of the
psineipal commercial nations. The scheme was
claming. It would have led to perpetual jealousies
and quarrels among the great powers, and Russia
mild have erected another Sebastopol at Koff& But
the declaration of the CZAR, that he will adhere to the
policy of PETER and CATHERINE, nips the silly pro-
ject in the bud. The fortifications of Sebastopol
must be raked ; and as the only guarantee that they
shall not again be erected, the Crimea must be
wanted from Russia. Whether it ought to be
resbired to the SULTAN-4 measure suggested by the
readiness of the Tartar population to enrol themselves
in his army, or whether, from a fear that the Porte
may not be strong enough to retain it, it ought to be
einipsd to Sardinia—for none of the Great Powers
esdi take it without endangering the peace of
usespe—is a matter for after-consideration.
Theft is now a disposition, on the part of some
who were loudest in their plaudits when the Allies
dlemabszked at Old Fort, to question the policy of
the expedition to the Crimea. We confine that that
enterprise still appears to us better calculated than
any other to inflict a death-blow on the undue pre.
redwings of Ramie in the Black Bee. It is the
most assailable part of the Rusian empire ; and
mom than any other it is that part which gives it the
sommand of the Buns. A summary of the 'ep-
eeists against the expedition will be found in a
pamphlet lately published at Bruns* to which
mai more importance has been attributed than it
melees. As to the paternity of this pamphlet,
wadi be rash to pronounce a decided
*dem t there are so many clever manufac-
turers of spurious memoirs and manifestoes

at Paris that it may possibly have issued from
their mint. Still there are passages in the work that
render it by no means improbable that it may be a
joint-stock compilation of that eminently silly mid
meddling person, Prince Nero Leos, and some of the
less scrupulous among his old friends among the
ultra-Republicans. The alleged disclaimer of the
authorship by the PRINCE, is, to those who know him,
•o reason for absolving him from a share in it.
This publication seems to aim at establishing
two positions. The first is that the EMPEROR, by
the policy he hu adopted in the Eastern struggle,
has departed from the family traditions, while Prince
NAPOLEON has continued to be their unwavering
champion. The second is, that Prince NAPOLEON-

and neither the late Marshal ST. ARNAUD nor
General CANROBERT—ought to have been the

Commander-in-Chief of the French army of
the East Prince NAPOLEON may have been
goaded into such a tacit declaration of war
against his cousin by the rumours that the Ex-
PIROR has been on the look-out for a more worthy
and capable heir to the throne. And it may be that
in taking this step he may have obtained the co-
operation of some intriguatets, who seek to promote
their personal objects by clamorous professions of
extreme Republicanism. But if such be indeed the
paternity of the pamphlet, it is an ill-forged and in-
effective weapon. Its contents are mainly a r 4-1
chauffe of the accounts of the Crimean campaign in
the official despatches of the Allies and
the Russians—the latter being the more libe-

rally drawn upon. The only novelties it con-
tains are some revelations—more or less apo-

cryphal—of what passed in the councils of war at
Varna, and of the sayings and doings of Prince
NAPOLEON there, at Constantinople, and in the
Crimea. These revelations, even on the assumption
that they are true, prove nothing, except perhaps
that Prince NAPOLEON conducted himself at Constan-
tinople in a way that, had he not been a prince
of the blood, would have inevitably led to his being
brought before a court-martial.

The wresting of the Crimea from Russia is indis-
pensable to the freedom of commerce and navigation
in the Black Bea. That is the first and great object
to which the Allies have now to address themselves.
The hold they already have upon the country is
such as ensures their success if they go to work ho.
needy and in earnest. All that seems to be wanted
is to adopt energetic measures for increasing
their armies to such an extent as will enable them to
detach a force to reduce and occupy Odessa, while
they urge on their operations in the Crimea. The
growing belief that the Emperor of the FRENCH has
relinquished his projected expedition to the Crimea
puts an end to all the rumours of a serious disagree-
ment between him and the British Government on
that score. The rumour of angry remonstrances on
his part against the granting of a committee of in-
qairy is a topic on which we are reluctant to enter;
and weary convinced moreover that, like the others,

it will die away. We do not indeed look for any im-
mediate decisive movements in the Crimea, but our
hopes for the campaign of 1855 and ita results are
sanguine.—Daily News.