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London, England, 1856-01-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.

Ws will eat rival the audacity of one of our con-
temporerise. who, a few muthe ago, sot only related
how many Amiss generals were present at St.
Petersburg at a council of war, hot even detailed
the opision delivered by each of them. Bat
having smeowly watched the struggle in the
Crimea flout the very commencement, having en-
d...owed es render estreelves masters of the pria-
tiptoe which have hitherto moderated peat mar
menden to victory, and having discussed the actual
situation of the opposing forces with men of intellect
and of experience, we will venture to adopt that
view with respect to the spring aseepeisa whisk
appears to be 000siateut not only with Os MINIM
of caveman sense, bet with the principles of strategy.
The dint, as we hove often said, of the Allies, is Is
expel die Russian army from the Crimea. That
Ruskin army is enclosed in a triangular psaiesals,
oarreunded by the sea, the apex of which is their
eel, mesas of retreat. The Allies, on the other
hand, have pommies of the whole seaboard, but
hitherto they have tailed either to drive the Russians
before them, or to obtain pommies of those two
roads, which, running through the apex of the
triangle, enable the snooty to retries supplies
and recruits, and to secure his retreat. Before the
southern side of Sebastopol we. taken, the Allies
were too weak to operate a diversios during the
tine they were carrying on the sins Bat as soon
as the southern side was taken • combined attempt
• was made to expel the Ressions. Marshal Pews=
pushed his outposts to the Upper Belbek Is hope of
turning the Mackenzie heights from the south,
whilst Guard D'Au.oxvimi, frets Relator*
made a faint attempt to bring the Itaseiass to an
aeries in the north-west. Neither attempt enseesded.
The Maducsie plateau is a position es string that
any attempt to carry it would almost certainly fail.
And ore the other hand the fosse of General D'Abs
Losvmut was es weak that be dared not atha
the Russian tee" entrenched as it we. out ma
strong ground. Moreover, the country was SO bow
rem and destitute of water, that it was impossible Im
an army to subsist during any lengthened period. Is
may be assumed, therefore, that neither from the
southern nor from the western aide of the Crimean
peninsula would it be a very possibie task to deka
the R 0514112111 from chair position. We are by MO
mass, indeed, prepared to admit that Prince GSM
MAYO!! Gould not be driven back at a great "serial%
but we are prepared to aaintala that there am alb
glut reasons to inclose a prudent conneaselse carefully
to examine all the auditions of the problem, in order
to ascertain whether some other solatkis may sot be
possible.
Now, es it seems to as, the Busks pukka is sot
only assailable, bet if we au to place any faith in
the principles of war which have bees laid dews
by the greatest plurals, the Crimea peninsula
appears to have been created for the very purpose of
demonstrating the applioation of them prissiples.
Nor, indeed, is it dillicalt to see that if we are tenet*
in this, the allied reseals have hitherto acted in
direct contravention of almost every one of the fun-
damental maxims of strategy, and have thus entailed
upon their Government' enormous exposes', sad upon
their fellow-ountrymen inealenlable eaten.

Iwt as npposs the numbers of the wide Oita
armies in the spring to mom to 200,000 meo—anfl
this is rather under the Government estimate. Of
these let 70,000 be left between BoUlm and Be.
bestopol to guard the saves miles helms thms two
plasm. This twos, which would give 10,00116 e tea
would not only be amply evading 60111111111‘
the Hoe of the Tehernaya, and to protest *p.f
owns stores aseamulated there, bet wooliNdalleal
upon the Basilian@ the necessity of bombs •
considerable form along the Mackwasie heights
as far se Albat, is order to prevent the
possibility of thi Allies gaining pommies el
soy portion of theme heights Thsse minty
thousand—part of the dtisd Use —might thetehee
be essaponed of Waits beam as Ihq
maid saly bo required to GAM entrenshed mho.
Let the rest, therefore, °misting 0130,000 mon, be
transherrod to Korb* or es war to Naffs as my ha
found practicable. Ties distance betimes La& mod
Arabat is seareely tan English mile& lot ono-bull
of the army, with the aid of the fleet, poems
Itself of Ambet r let the other half of the army, with
the aid of the duet, pram itself of halo. If, is-
deed, it woe feud impossible to take either of these
two places, a saff client fares might be left to mak
the pies& and the army might proceed. Now by
esosalting the asap it will be head that a groat
read leads direct from Has westward towards
Biapheropol, the pivot of the Basilian °pseudo's—a
Mecum is fact, of 70 miles. The district whisk
this read traverses, though billy and intersemed by
mimeo. is yet amply supplied with crater ; is addi-
tion to whisk we may observe that, as the army ad-
veined eastward, it would by its very program obtain
pommies of the innunierebls rich valleys which open
dews toward the ma. Advaering from Balk, thew
Isso, there would be se desert We that km &pa-
tiria on the western swie, to stop the villains march
of our troops. Iselsoil, it is imporible to explain
hew Oeseral Waimea., with his 14,000 or 20,000
was. how Imaged to bold the country about Arlie,
ud the... I. hie rear to the Ranks headquar-
ters, maltose the reentry possessed maidenble m-
eows& The allied army haviag advansed Mai
the reed is gentles shoat forty miles, would
SSW epos a very smog position, named
the Ker&tle-Bazar, as which the allied pascals
sight rest their left wing. With this se a pivot
they would gradeally 'demo, by wheeling round
their right aatilthey had es endangered the einamasi.
caries between the Roesiaes and their lieu of retreat
that the Bossism would be compelled in selfwiefsme
either to begin the attack, or elm to deans it and to
nooks • dub marsh for Pushup. By the muses
the Allies would oefey the essemoue advantage of
"Odag a defemilve battle en their own ground,
whilst the Russians woad he aempilled to moms
the seesaws. By this seiestile memsent every
objeet is attained, for the Iteseiens am driven eat of
the Orion, and that at the melba midge mortise
--at the pries, we may say, of me battle of the
Tammy& fee ws quake whether the gowns' sotion
which the movement we have Whited preoappome
would be more sangaisery that that at the Traktir
Bridge. The ammo, suggeoted is emisteut with
prissiple. Acasediag to Naretwore,ths great ehiset eta
essomeder ought to be to act upon the semaanise-
dons of his adversary without andangeriag hi. own.
Thus the ISmrsaoi himself ad off the *net a the

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