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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30.

"IT is written," says the author of Romeo and
Juliet, "that the shoemaker should meddle with lus
yard, and the tailor with his last; the fisher with his
pencil, and the painter with his nets;"—and, therefore,
why not Nisi Primo lawyers with questions of diplo-
macy and war? Looking to the strength of the
Ministerial ease as respects Kars, it is impossible to
believe that any but "a robustious periwig-pated
fellow," who had prepared an oration of twelve
columns which it became necessary to deliver, would
have persisted in humiliating his own party by a de-
feat, and in forcing a victory on his political opponents.
Irishmen have done strange things; but to strengthen
the defences of an enemy when the intention was to
level them, is not unworthy to be recorded as the
last feat of that remarkable power called—lrish
Eloquence. Alarmed at the probable consequences
of Mr. WHTTESIDI'I foolish harangue, Lord MAULER.
BURY has withdrawn his motion in the House of
Lords; and the adjournment of the debate on Mr.
WHITESIDE'S motion, forced by a minority in the
House of Commons last night, has all the appearance
of a flight from assured defeat. The in which
the questioo as to the surrender of Kars was treated
by Mr. Wurrestpe, and the manner in which he
was met by the English AtroaltavantaaaL and
the LORD ADVOCATE, were utterly unworthy of the
subject. This is no gladiatorial combat—no matter
of private pique or personal contract—which might
call for a display of vapid declamation or pettifogging

acuteness. Let have does with bist Pries, and
discuss the fall of Ears Si becomes the menses
of the subject and the dignity of the Govern-
ments whose counsels are called in question.
Once for all, let is settle the relative
position which the Asian campaign utopias in the
general plan of the Itusian war which has just closed;
and having settled this, let is, once for all, determine
whether the English Government in any degree
failed to do their duty.
The object of the war was to curb the power of
Russia in the Black Sea by destroying her overpower-
ing naval superiority, and to strengthen and consoli-
date the power of Turkey by removing from her the
imminent weight of Russian domination. That ob-
ject has been accomplished by the Treaty of Peace
which has just been signed; and henceforth those
prophet's statesmen who, like Mr. OLLIIIITONI, have
hitherto proved so incredulous and so wilfully blind
as to see no cases for prolonging hostilities, can no
longer be at a lose to know why Lord CLA.
11INDON and Lord PALMERSTON persisted in them.
To accomplish the objects which have thee been
enured by treaty several courses were open, bet of
these the only two which found f , or which',
indeed were suggested, were the invasion of the
Crimea and the invasion of Georgia. Time and re-11
Section easy, perhaps, prove that to have invaded
Georgia would have been the better course. Bet even
now it is vain to deny that the invasion of the Crimea
and the apt are of Sebastopol have accomplished the
ends proposed by the Allies. One thing is abundantly
proved, that this war—whether rightly or wrongly

conceived. whether conducted at saccilleas /211S114;
great—has been brought to a more effectual conclu-
sion and in a shorter space of time than icy war under-
taken by this country for the last two hundred years.
For ourselves, indeed, we are now content to accept
' the plan orbesieging Sebastopol as the best plan under
the circumstances. At all eventa any objection on that

score is too late now—the thing a now past; most
certainly it is a matter which, in discussing the Bar-
render of Kars, is utterly irrelevant. Alea jade
reg. Sebastopol was besieged. Selosatopol bad to be
taken. This was the absorbing object. To this all
other things must yield. The governments of Bog.
land, Prase*, Sardinia and Turkey recognised this.
The generals in command did likewise—nor can it be
too often repeated that OMER PACILA was of the MIES
opinion. "As he stated to the Conference, if a deci-
sive operation were in contemplation for the execu-
tion of which the presence of his army was woes-
sary, and which would have for its object the capture
of Sebastopol, he should consider himself bound to
remain, as, Sebastopol taken, the affairs of Asia be-
come of comparatively trifling importance." Ent not
only so: the Resume adopted the same view. To ob-
tain possession of Sebastopol the Allies devoted their
whole available reeoureee—to keep possession of
Sebastopol the Russians exhausted the empire.
Compered with this vital point—this key of
the position, this bialakhoff of the war—every
other point became subordinate. The front of
the allied attack on the wet► stretched from the
frontiers of Persia to the borders of Transylvania.
Looking, therefore, at the war as a whole, it is obvious
to any but the microscopic eye of a nisi prima lawyer
that the fate of a single town of no military impor-
tance such as Kars was of no importance. If,
indeed, it bad been possible to save the gallant
men who, with unflinching obstinacy and a banditti
of starving Turks, kept the Russians at bay
behind their mud entrenchments, it ought to have
been damn But it was not possible; and the

attempt would have been worse thee melees. The

Itamitia ediame, with that scientific cunning and
strategic knowledge for which they are so famous,
pushed on their forces against Bars, and would fain
have persuaded the Allied Generals to relax their
grasp upon Sebastopol. Happily, the Generale, wiser
that the Irish lawyers and their open-mouthed sup
porters, were not deceived. They persisted in their
rest work and brought it to a triumphant issue.
But the gallant WILLIAMS is beleaguered in Bars,
without men, without mosey, without ammunition.
Why sot," exclaims the vehement Irish orator,
"mend Guiana's., with Na Turkish troops r The
answer is clear. It is written in part by the Psoha
himself; it is recorded in part by the Russian
MOIJILAVILTF. Ores PAcnA will not under-
take the task, unless be has his victorious soldiers
of the Danube with hint ; and dime the Allied

(plurals refuse to grant. But eves if he had I
taken these, he refused to adopt the lineby Trebisond
and EiSSTOSIII. because the road was so utterly bad
that no army could have reached Kars in reason-
able time, or in reasonable conditke. On the
other hand, had he gone, se he did sabot-
gently, by Mingrelia and Kate!., hie advance
on that aide amid have produced no effect upon
MOIIIIAVIEWS operations in front of Kate. In order
to save that fortress, therefore, it would have been ab-
solutely Deceseary to change the whole plan of the
war—to sake that the primary object which woe
in fact a mere secondary object—to elevate the epi-
sods Into the principal subject—to substitute Kara
for liebestopeL This wee set done; and, looking to
the melte which have been obtained, we Motes that
it wee net. We seed net deity that, fat the moment,
the fall et Yore was ealealatal to produce enema