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LONDON, TERDSJSDAY, 8115TBMBER 12•

TRW is a cool, self-complasent 'elfreetery, is the
lielletins sod despatches of Prises Goevcruion that
has never been surpassed. He can make a defeat a
theme of soegratulation ; and, when be has nothing
else to brag of, will bout of the alacrity and prudence
he has displayed in running away. He appears to
thick that his Imperial muter will be reconciled to
hits mum loss, by being told that "The enemy found
• enthlng ea the soothers side but blood-stained ruins."
He ansounees that "the pussy of the garrison from
the southern to the northern part was accomplished
with extraordinary encase; with as jaunty an air as
if be were talking of an advance, and not of a retreat.
A man of this elisraoter—who is equally proud of
drubbing and being drubbed—due not take much
pains to conceal his lama. It is true Prime Goes-
euseorr—Or the officials at St. Petersburg who
publish as much of his reports as is deemed tape&
ent—does not go the length of telling explicitly bow
many of his men bare been pet hors de combat, but
he gives a tolerable inkling of it. He seknowkdges
to the lees of a hundred men while crossing the bridge ;
and adds that he was obliged to leave " Ave kindred
men grievously wounded on the southern side."
If the wounded, whom it was found impossible to
carry along with the retreating army, amounted to
so many, 'those who were able to secompany it,
or who were sent away before the retreat corn-
-11111111114, mud have been much mere numerous ;
MI if 100 men were killed in crossing the
Image, the number of those who fell during
the bombardment and I. the moult must have been
rink greater. The epithet. two, which the PIM.
applies to the fire of the Allies ( for Amfer —infernal
fire) would seem to indicate that his nerves had been
little shaken by it. It is equivalent to what decorous
Englishmen would call an admission that the Allies
bad made the place too hot t• hold him; or, as more
plain.spoken people might my, that they had played
the devil with him. Prince Gorrensiorv'e despatch
implies that the whole of the southern side has been
abandoned by the Russians. This is a point as
to which some—to us unaccountable—doubts
were expressed in certain quarters during the
early part of yesterday. The croakers would
have it that only the town and the KlLTS-
belusis suburb bad been evacuated. But, even before
Prises GORTCHANOTT'S report was received, all
doubts were cleared up by the explicit statement of
Admiral BILUAT :—" I approached, this morning, the
Quarantine batteries, on board the Brenda', and
am:ermined myself that they are now evacuated.
They have just blown up. Oar soldiers have left
their trencher, and are spreading themselves is
groups over the fortifications of the town, which sum
to be totally deserted."
The blow which his just been struck by the
allied armies is sufficient to ensure our ultimate
triumph, if it is promptly and vigorously followed sip.
This is what the English public must now look to
and insist upon. There is a natural indolence
in all men that prompts them to withdraw from any
difficult undertaking provided they can do so with
Mat and our Ministers—no disrespect to them is
meant—are, after all, mere men. Besides, they
will immediately be besieged by all who have an
interest in letting Russia down as softly as possible.
There will be renewed offers of mediation from
Austria; and the Aberdeenites, and the whole of
the peace-at-any-price party, will be breaking
net into choral chaunts in honour of magnani.
mous forbearance in the hour of victory, and into
demeastrations that we can now " pot an end to
the war with honour." It Is not enough that we can
do so with honour; we must do so with profit;
we mot gain something by the efforts we
have made. When the French and English Govern-
ments recognised the fur points u a possible labia
of negotiation, they expressly reserved to them-
selves a right to modify their demands in accordance
with the progress of warlike events—that is, to in-
crease their demands if OEMs should put it in their
power to exact more. Russia is now in a much
worse condition to stand out for easy terms than she
was then. We say this in no vindictive spirit
towards Russia, but with a view to the permanent
peace and security of Europe. It is our business
to render the Government at St. Petersburg as
innocuous as possible. We must not allow
°omelets to be deluded by such vague talk
as that " the war was commenced to dimi-
nish the ascendancy of Russia in the Black
Sea." That may mean anything, or nothing. The
war was undertaken in the first place to compel Rus-
sia to abstain from appropriating territory that of
right belonged to the Porte, and from usurping a
de facto sozerainete over the SULTAN ; and, in the
second place, to establish the general principle, that
the Great Powers of Europe will no longer tolerate
the wresting of territory from the weak by the strong
by force of arms. The war will have been waged in
vain if Russia is not compelled, in the treaty by
which it is terminated, to renounce in express
terms all enemies in future to extend its
territories by conquest at the expense of any
member of the European system of states;
and to promise to abstain in future from all interfer-
ence in the domestic concerns of the Ottoman
Empire. Nay more, as the good faith of Russia
cannot safely be relied upon, material guarantees
must be exacted from her for the fulfilment of thaw
promisee. The nature of these material georambees
is a consideration of some delicacy and difficulty.
They must be such as to impress Russia with the
danger of breaking faith, and at the same time such
as are least likely to emend the motional pride et the
Russian pimple. Wean any pardon of the Semilla
territory—properly se ealki—asvilisi ban Ilhe
Empire, the seem el Waged matiesollty would
expose Europe to the duper of a speedy
renewal of hostilities. But there are large tracts of
territory subject to the Government of St. Peters-
burg, which the Russians have not yet leaved to sew
eider as their own ; these might safely be semeadl
from the Empire. Again, it has been the indium
practice of Russia, when victorious. to make the sew
Ruud bear in a great mason the expenses of the
war; she Gould not resoonably owlish' at barks
"her own meanre meted to her again," were Frano4l
England and Turkey to exact an indemnity at the
close of the present war. If Russia is unwed in one
or ether of these ways she will •be chary
of again provoking a collision with the Western
Powers ; if she is let off more easily, such
tive 'impunity will eneourap her to
assess, her `
tune mamas without delay. Oesthing it
eertalet":
ghat alt "memos to negotiation ought to be made