The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF THE TCHERNAYA.

(From the Times )

The intaistance of a Sardinian army in the great
battle of European independence is one of its moat remark-
able incidents. That the King of Sardinia should send
16,000 Piedmonteee and Genoese to encounter the greatest
military Power of the age, when Austria is content to filch
a prey, if it can, by the occupation of the Principalities, and
Prussia still stretches her lubber length from the Niemen to
the Moselle—tea:ma inutsk pondue—is a living reply to ten
thousand complaints of &ming heroism and extinct ro-
mance. There is not a State in Europe, however small,
however remote from the preload scene of the conflict, that
is not interested in the result; but Sardinia alone of the
lesser States has the soul, the prescience, and the loyalty to
step forward, and stand side by aide with England and
Ermine* against the common foe.
Tbat chivalry has now been proved and rewarded. A
Russian army, computed at 60,000 strong, has descended
from the heights, and attempted to surprise the French and
Sardinians posted on the Tchernsya, with the same result as
when the enemy suddenly presented themselves through
the fog on the morning of November 6. They have
been beaten, and driven back with great slaughter, and
Russia has been taught that there are other estagoolste
ready to miring up, and fit to cops with her, bends. those
whom she first defied, and who she possibly had good
reason to believe would always stand alone. The Battle
of the Tchernaya now tells her what she has
to expect even from those 11111110/. States, IMP one
by, one they rouse themselves, and throw themselves
into the struggle. Sardinia hal won the first laurels,
and how does she now stand ? Though leas in number and
In power, she now becomes equal in fame to her great
allies. They are bound to support her as their comrade it
arms. In those changes which invariably follow a length-
ened conflict, doubtless the State that took her share in the
cost, and shed her blood for the cause, will have due se-
card. But that is a distant and uncertain consideration.

What immediately tells is, that the character of the Sardi-
else army is now established by the strongest test, and upon
the noblest arena. Even if it has no more to do, and were
to return home with t►is single achievement, it will hence-
forth be no mere show of uniforms, no mere armed polio.,
inch as the armies of other smaller States very generally
are, but a bcdy of proved soldiers. Every Sardinian from
the Crimea will be pointed at throughout all Italy as the,
man who has not only seen battles, an he may have done,
unhappily, on his own soil, but in a distant region, in 011•-•
flint with Europe's most terrible foe. He will he a man to
be honoured, to be known, to be relied upon, to be taken
into eoutsel, and, should thy occasion ever arise, to be asso-
ciated in plan and in deed. When other States promise and
deceive, vacillate and palter, betray the present and take
refuge in the intone, and try by every artifice to retain
honour without its coil, every Italian will see is Sardinia •
State which stakes everything when it pledges its word, and
that does not naaert more in the council than it is prepared
to maintain in the field.

(From the Morning Pest.)
We had been led to expect then tidings, not from any
intelligence forwarded from the Crimea, so much as from
our knowledge of the feet that orders had been transmitted
from St. Petersburg to the Russian Generals to attack oar
lines before the end of August.
The reason. which induced the Emperor Alexander to
give such orden, and fix a elate for their mention, wen
the urgent representations of hie commanders, who sent
despatch after despatch to their Government, informing It
of the dearth of the means of transport and of provision,
which was melting itoelf severely felt, and threatened to
prove fatal to the very existence of his armies, if the month
of September should Sod them in their then position.
In vain the Russian Generals tempted attack; in vain,
when we made rtcossunissances, did they leave passes nude-
feuded, and keep their armies from view, in the hope to
entice us into their traps. The Allied Generals were too
cautious and too wise, and the consequence was, that the
Russians had no course left them but either to retire into
the interior of the country, where their waits could be
supplied—abandoning Sebastopol to its fate, so far as the
army of relief was concerned—or to mike one more despe-
rate effort to "drive the invaders into the lea," and than
to save the stronghold of the Czar, and • vs the honour
of his arms.

(From the Morning Herald.)
It is not only that the victories at Sweaborg and the Tther-
nays have bests gained with such terrible loss to the enemy
and comparative ease and harmletenens to ourselves; it is
not merely the difference of spirit, which two such victories
must of neeranity lathes into the minds of the combatants—
and that is not unimportant—we trait they will soon be
found to be two rest steps to farther °unguents. Hitherto
oar fleets have been comparatively inactive ; vest differences
of opinion have paralysed their action. Doubts have ex-
isted—and grave ones—in the minds of competent men, as
to their Starts fur this kind of enterprise. Now that diffi-
culty has hem suddenly solved ; and men Gel (rightly or
wrongly) that the bombardment of Sweaborg is the fulfil-
ment of the French proveib—.. C'est le premier pas qui
coute." That action is Senile in many others. The Rus-
sians themselves ca,.not fail of being alive to all this; they
must feel now that they are losing, not here or there, but at
every point. Their courage and their attention must be
equally distracted by these new successes, and a vigorous
push at Sebutopol may possibly bring the war to en mass
conclusion than was expected.

(From the Morning Citrotaick.)
It will be seen that, whether influenced or not by the re-
sult of this battle, Generals Simpson and Pi lissier have re-
solved on following it up. The former General has tele-
graphed to Lord Femurs, that he and Goners! Pe'infer
had decided on opening See from the French and English
batteries at dawn on Friday morning. Tbue every hour
may bring us important news from Si bastepol itself, end it
is not heyond the range of possibility that the sojourn of
bet Majesty in Paris may be signalised by still more import-
ant news, than that which has already Clan to us from
Sweaborg and from the Tchernsye.