The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

THE NEXT MOVE IN THE CRIMEA.

GREAT and glorious as is the triumph the Allies
have achieved by the destruction of the southern side
of Sebastopol, a still grander triumph, as it seems,
remains. Doubtless we have now gained a great
victory, but the Russian army still exists. Indomitable
aed dashing courage has performed its, task ; the hour
for generalship is at hand. The soverior officers in
the Crimea have been taunted with the fact that,
except perhaps at the Alms, the battles bare been
won by the common soldiers. Inkermann has
been baptised "the battle of the soldiers." Now, at
least, the commanders have an opportunity of retriev-
ing their reputation. Ignorant as we must confess
ourselves to be of many circumstances which will
probably modify and even embarrass the military
plan of operations, still to an on-looker it
does appear as it it were impossible to imagine an
opportunity more perfect for a display of strategic
power. By the victory just won, 200,000 hardened
soldiers are set free from the harassing work of open
trenches, the nightly alarms of sorties, and an attack
on their flank. Moreover, the Russian fleet being anni-
hilated, the Allied fleets are at the absolute disposal
of the Allied commanders, to transport any number of
troops to any point they please. The Russians, on
the other hand, having lost probably not leer than
10,000 men, must either hold the heights of
Mackenzie, with Simpheropol fur their base, or must
retreat with all speed northward to Perekop, which
is the oily line now open to them ; for it is scarcely
necessary to observe, that Prince GORTCHAROFP

will hardly be absurd enough to coop up his army with-
in the lines on the northern side of the harbour. If the
PIUNCS retires at once from the Mackenzie plateau,
he will be observed by the Allies, and they will imme-
diately pursue him up the gorges of the Tehernaya,
which, if only defended by guns, without an army
behind them, would offer no effectual resistance. The
Allies, with their overwhelming numbers, and elated
with success, will cruelly harass his retreat, and
having driven hies headlong into the barren steppe
which stretches between Simpheropol and Perekop,
will leave him to struggle for life with his famished
and thirsty thousands. But if the PRINCE should
delay for some few days, and permit the
Allies to transport a corps (Torras of some 50,000 or
100,000 to Eupatoria, with all their cavalry, the
PEIRCE and his army must be utterly destroyed. As
we observed some few days ago, the great road from
Simpheropol northwards is distant from Bupatoria
but twenty miles. Plant this corps rearm& across
this road, and the PRINCE must either fight a field
battle or make a precipitate retreat, exposed to an
attack on his left flank. But in either cue the pro-
babilities are he must suffer defeat—and, in such a
ease as this, defeat is annihilation. It would be impru-
dent, and even foolhardy, to enter upon any minute
speculation of the future movements of the Allies.
A few days, or even a few hones, will probably
enlighten us. Certainly the situation of the Rue-
Sian army is most precarious, and indeed such as to
inspire a man of genie. and strategic power. The
military situation is simple enough, and in the
remarks we have just made we have done little more
than point out the obvious and necessary cones-
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quotas which seem to miss out of the relative
position of the two armies.—Dailg News.

The Times of to-clay nye:
We infer that the aerators forts will either be beM for a
time by a limited Russian 'theism, or, more probably, alto-
gather almadased, la the hope of saving the army. Never
was as army I. a men withal position. They an confined
within a pealassla whisk affords them no other fortified
position, so asetosawas for the troops, sod so water ►eyoad
a certain has. The Rsesthas are is a trap, from which the
Tchosgar road and the Isthmus of Penkop an the only
means of escape, and eves there their telllallniCa-

tions may passiWy be intercepted. Fighting, as
they are, in elated lists, without the mauls of
escape, the defeated Ruskin army should be
compelled to lay dolma its arms, or to light a
general make, whisk would crows the series of our
SUONSB4I by a still more decisive victory. The peninsula
itself is besieged sad well-aigb invested by our limits sad'
armies, sad if the command of a single road ha lost, tiler
whole natio( wettest, and the only line by whisk supplies
sad casanuateatione can reach the Russians, is gone. Beek
we take to be Ike relative position of the belligerents is the
Crimea, sad, with the IMAM of action at the disposal of the
Treads end English assegais, we have oonAdeat hopes of •
glorious result.

Oa the other bend, the Brussels Nord of yester-
day, whose Russian tendencies are well knows,
writes is reference to the evacuation of the south of
Sebastopol, as follows :
The resolaticui of Prince Gortebakoff displays the energy
of ain't eossinsader. It sane Russia from the difficult
posit's& in which • false interpretetiew of the point of
honour would have exposed her. The Sebestopol of
the eolith is replaced by the Sebastopol of the north
—a fonsidebbs polities, !Motile' with batteries—which

a conestrand army, Iteneefortrard ha;ing of
acticn tad movement, will defend. Impartial history will
'peak of the debase of Sebastopol as well u of the attack
upon it, by assignisg to besiegers sod besieged thole doe
share (Woodsman sad obstinate courage. It will also do
jesting to the »solstice' of Prism Gertoltakolf. who, by
main a momentary sacriles and avoidiag a useless effu-
sion of blood, has presumed for Enna as 'ray trained to
war by a straggle of a year's thirsting, which for intensity
has se parallel is military assals, and placid that army is
a position which eaablee bits to csmmasd the situation.