The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

an imatesse quantity .1 pawffee, enemeemsons amount of
ceases bails and shell', sad instsrials of various kinds ae-
massy for the prosecution of war. (Hear.) Well, gaga,
mos, what does that teeth us ow refleetka ? Why, does
it not show the rut imports:we which the government of
Russia attached to thee e•rosighold of Rushee power in the
Meek Sea ? (Cheers.) Why was that vast aanunalation
of warlike material made more them could have bees ra
coked foe the most prolonged defense of the place? Why
wee it that elements were there aecosaulated for seppiping
great armies and for Weighing great fleets? Why, It was
because they felt that in fiebastoptl was the strorghtdd of
their power in the But—that from that centre was to
radiate that intense and eatensive power which was to lead
them to the conquest of Coostantinople, and to lead them
from that centre of empire to sway the destinies of Europe.
(Great cheering) Well then, gentlemen, that I think
offends a satisfactory proof of the sound judgment which
was ozonised by her lisjeaty's g ant in diresting I
against Sebastopol the great power of our army and navy
la the Black Sea. (Hear, bear.) There were these, sad
Nam of them to mean judges either of iaternatioaal or of
military and naval affairs—there were some, I say, who
thought that we ought to have rent our armies—l mesa,
that Ragland and Freese ought to have sent their armies—to
the continent, to scour the Principalities, Laved' Bemarabia,
and pursue the vanquished sod retreatiag Hessian armies
—for vanquished and retreating they mat have been if
our armies had landed and attacked them—(elteen)—
through the steppes and great waders's.", of Southern
Rusk. Why, if we had dose so, what peal& result
should we have alloyed equal to what we have
aceomplisked I. the septet, of Sebastopol ? Tree, Uwe had
adopted that seams we should have defeated army after
army ; but army after army would have been replenished
by the sueesesive hordes koalas from the aorta, sad at last
we should have found messily bet T 111: and ezteasive pleats,
from which we should have bees compelled ult mutely to
retire without having I. our hands the pledge of future
security. (Cheers.) Well them, gentlemen, we have heard
much of the siege of Sebastopol and of the galls& defeats
of the swims which held that town ; sad yet I may be
permitted to my that, is the proper seas, of the word, there
lee been no seep at all, sad that Sebastopol haa not been
defended by any garrison. Why, a ;turbos' meats a
comparatively small military fore", ebb*, shuttles within
the walls of a town or fortress, defends itaelf against a essay
superior army. A siege means an operatics whisk is con-
ducted by a superior fore" iavestiog such • fortress, cutting
off ite eammuaisatioa with the rear, and by opprosehee

which are familiar t ) military men atlast mains aireaek to
tha defames, sad this, by brieglag murky umbers against
the inferior samara of the garriaes, overwhelaleg them,
as mist be the sass la so unequal a straggle.
teheors.) Bat that whisk has happssed fa the
Crimea has been a Sweeties a a totally different
kind. The allied MOW of Inlaid sad Fusee,
misted from the Weaning by a portioa of the Turkish
forms, assisted materially by the trace Bardiutses, a body et
troops worthy of admiration by all for their dissipliae,
their skill, their scieriee,their good order sudtheir bravery,
that allied army has for twelve menthe—l was pin to say
twelve bag moattas, sad keg I must sill them, although
twelve maths be a short period of historical time, yet it
has been pregame with es many vast mots that it mast
be Mug is etwapyiag its pap ia the history of Impe—that
allied army has deriag Out period cot been besieging a
Miele tows, sr *Mikis, a sisals garrison, but it has boss
lightieg the entire military Imes et the Busies empire
(Lend Mars.) We have bus eostesdiag not merely with
as army is the Crimea equal, sad sometime superior,* oar
um numbers, but—l say it withosteuggeraties—we lam
bees embrodiag with the entire military TIMONIIIIS of that
vast mUi•.ary empire—aa mitt,* which amiss • grim
Part of its rename to the maisksaasee of as mansons
'tariffs, cant—as army whisk they salt a =lilies of ma,
I bat which nay beat dm at 000)000 or am 1100,000 ass.