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BRIGHT'S forte. He is shocked at this country's
beginning to demand the restoration of Poland,
still more that the House of Lords should discuss
it as an essential of secure peace ; and he shudders
at the sacrifice of life it would involve, and at the
long interruption to trade. Now, does it never
occur to him that his own views, if carried out,
might involve more bloodshed than ours ; and
that the enormous cost of a war establishment
which should, for all this generation at least, be
necessary to check an irritated, but not weakened,
CzAR, would iiot be a burden on our national
taxation, which would bear most heavily on trade?
Our firm conviction is that a peace on Mr.
BRIGHT'S basis must issue in a few years in a war,
With Russia still better prepared, civilisation still
more aroused, and one attended with a terrific
amount of bloodshed and expense, which might
all be averted by doing our duty now. We claim
a benevolent view of the case as well as Mr.
BRIGHT.

But how is it that Mr. BRIGHT has not one
word to say for the " oppressed nationalities,"
and that all his efforts are directed to consigning

these nationalities to hopeless and debasing servi-
tude ! We can readily conceive that had Poland,
if liberated, been ah feasible for cotton-growing as
India, we should have had eloquence more burn-
ing and soul-stirring on her behalf than all which

the India Bill called forth. The horrid brutalities
of CONSTANTINE goading the Poles into insurrec-
tion, the violation of the solemn Treaty of 'Vienna
through which the whole country was absorbed by
that insatiable monster Russia ; the frightful exe-
cutions, Siberian banishments, floggings of nuns,
and subversion of educational institutions ; the
dreadful conscriptions and erection of powerful
fortresses throughout the country, would have

been the theme of Mr. BRIGHT' s scathing elo-
quence; and verily if NICHOLAS had been painted
as he is by the Manchester orator, his speeches

would mot have been translated indeed into Rus-
sian, but they would have been translated into
the languages of all the " oppressed nationalities."
They would have cheered the hearts of struggling
patriots, instead of serving for an apology to the
most relentless of tyrants. It is indeed painful
to conclude that, unconsciously no doubt, one of
our most effective Parliamentary and platform
orators is the ESCHINES, not the DEMOSTHENES, of
this struggle. All his eloquence is exerted to
deter from the sacrifices necessary to overpower
the universal aggressor before he becomes the
universal master.

" A straw thrown up shows which way the wind
blows." So says the old adage. And nowhere
is this more true than in the political world, with
its many shiftings and changes. Those events,
which attract no attention from the uninitiated
elsewhere, are recognised as pregnant with mean-
ing by the experienced politician, who, from in
formation thus skilfully acquired, is often enabled'
to avert shipwreck by trimming his sails before he
is overtaken by the storm. Of course, the task
is more difficult at one time than another. Public
feeling is sometimes so lethargic that unusual
skill is required to ascertain in which direction
the current is likely to set, while at others it is so
active that he who runs may read.
And blind indeed must he be who is unable to
recognise the direction in which public opinion
has now set. Many long years have elapsed since
its current blew so strongly and steadily in any
given quarter. Not only has the Press taken the
lead, but on every opportunity it has been backed
by the popular voice.. Does Mr. SIDNEY HARBERT,
heedless of the well-merited condemnation of the
Ministry of which he was an influential member,
present himself with lively self-sufficiency to the
°lectors, peaQ.nco, and shnrfr..r.r. of wat. P I+
is not, as he finds to his chagrin, to be soothed
by their approval, but to Estee to expressions of
condemnation yet more vigorous, personal, and
terse. The cry spreads, and grows more and more
emphatic, that the War has hitherto been mis-
managed, and more energetic measures must be
taken to prosecute it with success.
Still further indications of the direction given
to public opinion may be found in the addresses of
the candidates at more recent elections, and in
places where they have not yet come off. First
and foremost stands the question of the War.
This is properly and wisely presented as the great
question of the day, to which all others must
give place ; and it is remarkable that no man
comes forward bold enough to advocate the views
of the Peace party. _ _ _

The knocking of the Angel of Death, which,
according to Mr. BRIGHT, is heard at every door,
only appears to nerve all true-hearted Englishmen
to greater determination. Forty thousand men may
fester in untimely graves, but the nation, while it
deplores their fate, bates no jot of heart or hope.
Peace, no one denies to be valuable—no one but
wishes to see secured on safe and honourable
terms. But that peace can be procured only by
the vigorous prosecution of the War is the sole
opinion offered by candidates, and the only one,
we are bold to say, that would anywhere be re-
ceived without shouts of indignation. The people
feel that their position in the scale of nations,
their honour, and their credit, already fearfully
imperilled by official incompetency and neglect,
are at stake ; and neither to gratify the wishes of
the pusillanimous, nor to avert the impending fall
of an aristocratic clique, will they permit a peace
otherwise than honourable and safe to be patched
up ; and no peace can either be one or the other,
in their opinion, which leaves the CZAR in the
possession of his present powers for mischief. We
have gone too far not to go farther. We have
earned an enmity it is our wisdom now, while we
have the opportunity, to render as powerless as
possible for the future.

STATE OF: THE ARMY BEFORE.

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LATEST NEWS.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS
AT EUPATORIA.

Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the
Editor of The Sun, and begs to transmit a copy
of a telegraphic despatch which has been received
from Lord Raglan through the British agent at
Bucharest :

BEFORE SEB.A.STOPOL, FEB. 18.

A force, said to be 40,000, of Russians, with a
large number of guns, attacked Eupatoria at day-
light on the l'ith, and was repulsed with loss by
Omer Pasha.

The Turkish loss is said to be inconsiderable,
but Selim Pasha, commanding the Egyptian
brigade, was killed. The British men of war,
under the Hon. Captain Hastings, covered both
flanks with great effect. The action terminated

at 10 a.m., wheu the Russians retired a few

We have received the following despatch from
Vienna confirming the news of the attack upon

Eupatoria :

VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING.

According to official despatches received here,
40,000 Russians made an attack upon Eupatoria

on the 17th of February.
After four hours' fighting the Russians were
repulsed with considerable loss, reported at 500

The loss of the Turks, who were commanded

by Omer Pasha, was inconsiderable.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the fol-
lowing version of the attack upon Eupatoria :
" A telegraphic despatch from Bucharest, dated
the 23d of February, announces that on Saturday,
the 17th inst., at 6 o'clock in the morning, the
Russians, to the number of 40,000, under the
orders of General Liprandi, at tacked Eupatoria.
After a combat of four hours they were vigorously

repulsed, with considerable loss, by the Turks,
under the command of Omer Pasha.
The Turks had 15 killed and 35 wounded.
A battery served by the French lost four men.

The Moniteur also publishes the following :
PERA, FEB. 15.

The wind is still in the south, and our trans-
ports get rapidly through the Straits. A great
number of vessels arrived this week at Kamiesh

with provisions of every description.

The Minister of Marine and the Colonies has
received the following telegraphic despatch from
Vice-Admiral Bruat

MONTEBELLO, KAMIESH, FEB. 13.
The following vessels have arrived at Ka.

miesh :

On the 11th, from Eupatoria, the Jean Bart. ;
on the 12th, from Bosphorus, the Tage, In-
flexible, Nereide, and Psyche ; on the 13th, the
Labrador, Chandernagor, and Breslaw. All these

vessels brought troops, provisions, and provender.

The Tage got aground at the entrance o

Kazatch Bay, but was got off -without much

damage.

The siege works go on slowly, in consequence

of the bad weather. The enemy is fortifying his

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Quarantine side.

General Niel embarks to-day on board the

Reine Hortense.

The Moniteur also says that nothing important
had occurred before Sebastopol up to the 20th.
A. despatch of the 24th, from Czernowitz, states
that on the 18th Prince Menschikoff was suffer-
ing from illness at Sebastopol.

We have received the following telegraphic de-

spatch from Marseilles :
" MARSEILLES, SATURDAY, FEB. 24.
" The Thabor, which left Constantinople, on
the 16th inst.,-has arrived.

" Despatches for the Government left here at

4 p.m.

".Advices from the Crimea, dated the 14th

inst., brought to Malta by the Arabia in 63 hours

from Constantinople, announce that some thou-
sand Russians who accompanied the Grand Duke
Michael to Sebastopol bad been frozen to death."

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 15.

The enrolment of Turks in a British auxiliary
corps has commouced by authority of Lord
Redcliff©.

A number of steam-ships have been appointed
to cruise in the Sea of Azoff.
The French troops that were at Constantinople
have been ordered to the Crimea.

The two mortar battery destined to play on the

fort of Sebastopol will be ready before the end of

this month.

NAPLES, FEB. 19.

Prince Satriono, Governor of Sicily, has ten.
dared his resignation, which has been accepted by

the King.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 25.
Lord John Russell set out last evening, for
Berlin via Brussels. _ .

The Constitution nel announces that 5,600 in-
fantry and 800 cavalry will leave probably at the
beginning of March. The utmost enthusiasm
reigns in the corps.
Official despatches have reached Paris, which say
—" On the 18th, General Liprandi attacked, with
30,000 Russians, the entrenched camp of the Turks
at Eupatoria. The enemy was repulsed with a loss
of 500 men."
A second despatch, of the same date, says—
" The Russian infantry advanced with hesitation,
and did not present that compact solidity which
they displayed before Silistria. The Russians have
evidently felt that they are no match for us, and
are losing confidence. Our position is admirable ;
we can very well spare troops for Sebastopol, if
necessary."
Such is the war news of to-day.
Of the Emperor's departure for the theatre of
war no reasonable doubt seems now to bo enter-
tained by any one. Everything is prepared ;
all
are ready to start at a moment's notice, and per-
haps the signal will be the arrival of a despatch
which fixes the date of the long-expected assault,
or battle. These preparations, however, have been
going on for some time, and the Guides, with Col.
Fleury, have been ready to march. We now only
make conjectures as to the precise date of the de-
parture, and official persons who bad heendecid-
edly opposed to it, and who have done their best
to render it unpopular, and to produce the im-
pression that it was but a rumour and nothing
more its certainty.
The Ministers themselves have caused to be
put forth every imaginable argument against a
journey their disapproval of which they still
take no pains to conceal. It would, however,
be an error to suppose that the storming
of Sebastopol, or even a battle as prolimi,
wary to that operation, is the sole cause of the

Emperor's quitting Irrance at this moment. It is
believed to be connected with operations on a still
greater scale than the campaign in the Crimea, and
the presence of the Emperor with the armies will
produce a unity of design n,ed action necessary for
so great an emergency, and which union is said not
to exist between the Generals at this moment.
It is known that his Majesty has devoted much

time to the study of a plan of operations
drawn by himself and submitted to a very few
eminent military authorities ' • that the plan has
been communicated to the Austrian military com-
missioner in Paris, who in turn transmitted it to
Vienna, where it is now under the consideration of
the Emperor of Austria. The result we shall, no
doubt, witness, before long, and, as I have just
mentioned, there is reason to believe that these
plans are not unconnected with the journey to the
Crimea. Of the day fixed for quitting Paris
nothing positive can be said.
A letter from Paris, dated Sunday, 6 p.m.,
says :—" The Emperor has decidedly abandoned
his project, in consequence of intelligence received
from Germany, and not from the Crimea, and that
this is positive ; but that the army would be left in
the belief thai the journey will take place."
M. Thiers has had his arm broken in two places,
by a fall ; and Count Mole has for some days been
confined to his house by indisposition.
. _

Marshal de Castellan-e has arrived in Paris from
Lyons.
The following despatches have been received :
" BERLIN, FEB. 23.

" The Committee of Deputies appointed to examine
the financial questions had adopted by a large majority
the credits demanded for preparations for war.
" The committee propeaes at the same time an address
to the Kiug, expressing fears upan the isolation of Prus-
sia, and the opinion that a decided and consequent line
of policy logically maintained can alone guarantee Use
power of Prussia in future. The committee further pro-
poses to reject the prolongation of the credit demanded
by the Government. This second proposition will be
supported by the Extreme Right and by the Extreme
Left, which have coalesced against the Moderate frac-
tions."

" FEB. 24.

" Colonel Oldborg returned here the day before yes-
terday. Although the chances of a treaty being con-
cluded between Prussia and the Western Powers appear
to augment, great doubts nevertheless continue to pre-
vail en the subject. It is not known on what grounds
the Right of the Chamber has rejected the application of
Government for further supplies, but its vote does not
appear to have been concerted with the Left."

The Committee of the Second Chamber at Berlin
has resolved to propose a vote of want of confidence
in the Ministerial policy.

RUSSIA AND SARDINIA.

The following is a translation of the circular ad-
dressed by Count Nesselrode to Russian agonts in
foreign states, notifying that Russia is at war with
Sardinia :

" ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 17.

" The Court of will, we doubt not, share the
opinion of the Emperor upon the policy of his Majesty
the King of Sardinia, at a moment when that Sovereign,
without any ostensible motive, without any legitimate
cause of complaint, and without even the shadow of the
smallest infringement upon the direct interests of his
country, has placed at the disposal of England a corp?
d'armee of 15,000 men for the invasion of the Crimea.
" In taking this step the Sardinian Government ap-
pears to have left it to the care of the public journals to
warn us of an aggression which it has not thought fit
to justify by a declaration of war.
" We understand the motive of this silence.

"The Court of Turin, we admit it, would have had
some difficulty in conciliating its policy with the na-
tional sentiment of its country ; it would have expe-
rienced equal difficulty in making its present conduc'.
harmonize with the ancient souvenirs of the house of
Savoy.
"In consulting the annals of its history it might cite
the incident of a Russian army crossing the Alps ; but,
it is true, it was to defend Piedmont, and mot to in-
vade it.

"In the Councils of the Cabinets of Europe, in the
reign of the Emperor Alexander, of glorious 12,arnory, it
is again Russia wio lent her faithful supped to the in-
dependence of Sardinia, when the house of Savoy was
reinstated on the throne of its ancestors.

" Must we finally recal to mind that, at the same
period, if Genoa was re-united to the kingdom of Sar-
dinia, it is because the Imperial Cabinet recognized the
necessity of assuring at the same time the commercial
prosperity and the greatness of the country which the
arms of Russia had contributed to deliver from a foreign
yoke I
"To-day, sinking in oblivion the lessons of the past,
the Court of Turin is about to direct against us, from
that self-same port of Genoa, a hostile enterprise, which
Russia has the conscientious satisfaction of knowing was
not provoked by her.
"The attitude thus assumed by Russia, without a
formal declaration of war, as we have stated, would
make us doubt what name we ought to give to the auxi-
liary troops destined to invade our frontiers under the
flag of a country with which we have hitherto been living
in peace.
"However, if the Court of Turin loses eral, -r th-
pririt!ipleS anu customs consecrated by the law of nations,
as the immutable rule of the international relations of
States, the Emperor, for his part, is resolved to observe
them. _ _ .

" With this intention his Imperial Majesty feels it in-
cumbent upon him to declara that peace is de jure and
de facto broken by this flagrant act of hostility, the
whole blame of which recoils upon the Sardinian Go-
vernment. _ _

" We leave it to bear the entire responsibility thereof,
in the face of the opinion of its country and of all
Europe.
" It behoves especially the Allied Powers to appreci-
ate the conduct of the Court of Sardinia when it has
deemed it opportune and loyal to turn its arms against us
at the very moment when the Imperial Cabinet entered
into a deliberation at Vienna, destined to open the path
to the re-establishment of peace.
" The wishes which tend towards the accomplishment
of that work of pacification seems to have been strangely
misunderstood by the Cabinet of Turin. In fact, whilst
the Governments of Central Europe wisely interposed
their legitfraate authority to prevebt one of the bellige-
rent Powers from recruiting its legions in the states who
insist on having their neutrality respected, the Sardinian
Government, less chary of the blood of Italy, consents
to pour it out for a cause foreign to the political and re-
ligious interests of its nation. For, in good faith, it
cannot be pretended that by unfolding her banner by
the side of the Crescent, Sardinia fancies she serves the
cause of Christianity.
" Nor can it he affirmed that she seeks to defend the
weak against the strong when she joins her arms to
those of France and England.
"It is this latter Power, if we are rightly informed,
which takes the Sardinian troops under its command—
we will not say in its pay, as we wish to abstain from
wounding the national feelings of a country with which,
to our regret, we are about to be at war.
"Notwithstanding this necessity, the Emperor will
still afford protection to the private interests of Sar-
dinian s&sjects, who entertain ancient commercial rela-
tions with Russia. They shall not suffer from the errors
of their Government. They are at liberty to remain in
the empire in full security under the protection of oar
laws as lung as they do not infringe them.
"But the Sardinian flag will henceforth cease to enjoy
the prerogatives accorded solely to the mercantile navy
of neutral States.

"A term shall be fixed for the departure of Sardinian
vessels that nay be actually in Russian port . The ex,-
quatur will be at once withdrawn from Sardinian con-
suls in Russia.

" The Russian agents at Genoa and Nice will also re-
ceive orders to suspend the exercise of their functions,
peace between the two countries having been broken by
the Court of Sardinia from the moment it acceded to the
treaty of alliance concluded on the 10th of April, 1354,
between Great Britain and France.
" The Emperor has deigned to charge me to commu-
nicate these determinations to all friendly Power,.
(Signed) " NESSELRODE."

THE MEDIFERRANEAN.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 22,

General De Sparre reviewed to-day detachments
of the 2d, 3d, 6th, 9th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 23d, 31st,
34th, 35th, 36th, 38th, 41st, 44th, 61st, 63d, 64th,
66th, and 67th infantry regiments, the Ist Battalion
of the Chasseurs of -Vincennes, and the 3d Regiment
of Artillery, previous to their embarking to join the
head-quarters of their respective regiments in the
Crimea. They presented an effective force of about
twelve hundred men. They were equipped in
complete marching order, and appeared to be
better calculated to support the fatigues of a
Crimean campaign than many of the youths 1
have seen lately embarked for that destination.
There exists a difficulty at present in finding ships
to transport them. The Government has chartered
all the commercial steamers to be had for money,
sonic even of doubtful character :as to seaworthi-
ness, arid some lately launched and not yet ready
for sea. Notwithstanding all their exertions, how-
ever, there arc at present in the dock only a few
sailing transports. There remains on the quay a
vast quantity of material for the army in the East,
and among it a huge pile of timber, intended for
the construction of huts for the army before
Sebastopol.

Our letters from Scutari inform us that Miss Nightin-
gale has been attacked by fever, but, we are happy to
say, she has nearly recovered her health.
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