The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

GENERAL AFTER ORDER.

Head-quarters before Sebastopol, July 10,
The Lieut.-General Commandiug the forces has great
satisfaction in publishing to the army the following let-
ters, addressed by the Minister of War to the late Field-
Marshal Lord Raglan, in obedience to her Majesty's
commands : .

"War Department, June 25.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your lordship's despatches, Nos. 310 and 315,
of the 2d and sth inst.
I have submitted to the Queen the satisfactory re-
ports with which your lordship has furnished me of the
continued success of the important operations in which
the forces of her Majesty, and those of her ally the Em-
peror of the French, have been engaged, subsequently
to the occurrences which your lordship reported to me
in your despatch of the 29th of May, and I am com-
manded to express to your lordship the gratification
which it has afforded to her Majesty to receive the in-
telligence that the resources of the enemy had been
crippled, while, at the same time, the steps taken to
effect this object were unattended by loss of life.
" Her Majesty is fully sensible of the important as-
sistance rendered by her naval forces in effecting the
successes now reported by you, and I have it especially
in command to desire that your lordship will convey to
Captain Lyons, of the Miranda, and to the officers and
men serving under his orders, her Majesty's high appre-
ciation of their gallant deeds, by which objects have
been accomplished of such vast importance to the cause
of the allied Powers.—l have, &c.,
" PANMURE.
" Field•Marsha,l the Lord Raglan, G,C.8., &c."

" War Department, June 25.
" My Lord, I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your lordship's despatch of the 9th inst., which I have
laid before the Queen, and on this, as on every other oc-
casion in which her Maje9ty's troops have been engaged,
they have, by their gallant conduct, earned still further
her approbation and gratitude.
"You will be pleassd to accept her Majesty's congra-
tulati,ms, which I am commanded to convey to you, and
likewise those of my colleagues and myielf, on the im-
portant acquisition of the works in front of the Redan,
and you will annourv.eto the troops engaged on that oc-
casion the thanks of the Queen for their unabating gal-
lantry and determination in seizing and maintaining
post after post from the enemy.
"The Queen deeply grieveA that successe4 such as
these cannot be obtained without the loss of valuable lives
and the infliction of severe sufferin.g ; but you may be
assured that no one more cordially honours the gallant
dead, or more sincerely spnmathises with her wounded
soldiers, than her 'Majesty
" Where all are brave, I Gan enter into your lordship's
difficulty ix minim?: any, but the country cannot fail to
hail the names of those whom you mention, and I rejoice
to see recorded amo”g them the daring feat of Corporal
Quinn, of which I have no doubt your lordship has al-
ready marked your sense.
"It gives her Majesty some consolation to learn that
the wounds are of a comparatively slight character, and,
above all, that the wounded of all ranks have been com-
fortably disposed of, as your lordship describes.

"Your l;rd,hip's description of the contemporaneous
attack and entire success of our .4111(.4 on the Mamelon
and a Ouvrages Blanes' is highly satisfactory to her Ma-
jesty, and you will, in her M jesty's name, felicitate Ge-
neral Pelissier on the gallant achievements of the army.
" These successes cannot fail to inspire confidence
throughout the ranks of the he.ieging armies, while they
dishearten the enemy, and will, I trust, lead at no dis-
tant day to the final overthrow of Sebastopol.—l have,
Ste., " P ANMURE.

"Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan G C. 8.. &c."
By order, H. L. PAKENHAM,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant-Adjutant-Genera'

OPERATIONS IN THE BALTIC.

(Prom the Daily News of this day.)

The promised " hundred pennants" are now in the
Baltic. The English have 85 vessels of war with 2,098
guns ; the French 16 vessels of war with 403 guns. In
the combined fleet there are 23 line of battle ships with
1,853 guns ; 31 frigates and corvettes with 544 guns ;
29 smaller steamers and gun-boats with 78 guns ; 18
mortar boats and other craft with 21 guns—in all 101
vessels and 2,506 guns. What is to be done with this
new " invincible armada 1"

At the close of last year's campaign Sir Charles Napier
was ordered to "strike his flag and come ashore" with
less c)urtesy than a private gentleman would use in dis-
missing a lazy valet. The reason assigned for this un-
precedented course was, that Sir Charles had not accom-
plished all that might have been expected, or that he
had been ordered to do, with the fleet under his com-
mand. Sir Charles had with him 19 ships-of-the-line,
12 frigates, 17 corvettes, eight smaller steamers, and an
hospital ship. The combined naval force of the Allies
now in the Baltic is nearly double that which wasplaced
at the disposal of Sir Charles Napier—when the floating
batteries arrive it will be rather more than double. The
present Umiral has the advantage of all the soundings
and reconnaissances of last year ; and yet it cannot be
said that more enterprise or activity has as yet been die-
played in 1855 than was evinced in 1854. The coast
blockade is not more strictly enforced. The desultory
dashes at villages and telegraph stations along the coast
are not more important or decisive than those of last
year. We hear of no operation during the present cam-
paign that can take rank with the destruction of Bomar-
sund, which was effected before this time last year. In
1854 we were told that nothing could be accomplished
till late in the season, for want of land forces to co-operate
with the ships. It is true that little or no use was made
of the land forces after they were sent out ; but in
1855 there is no appearance of preparations being
made to send any. The few brief summer months of
the Baltic are rapidly slipping away ; is it intended that
the campaign of 1855 in these waters shall, after all the
boastful note of preparation we have heard, be as result-

less as that of 1854?
We are not asking in ignorant impatience for dazzling
exploits at any cost. It is possible that nature
and art have so strengthened the Russian coasts in
the Baltic, that the enemy have only to remain en-
sconced behind their defences to baffle all that mere
human power can accomplish in the way or assault. It
may be sound policy, as some maintain, to attempt
nothing in the Baltic, but to concentrate all our ener-
gies in the Euxine, where Russia may be more vulner-
able. But, if this be so, why the vain parade of so
expensive a naval armament in the Baltic ? Last
year, a fleet of half the strength of that which the
Allies now maintain in these waters sufficed to
keep Russia as anxiously paralysed as the im-
mense armament of the present year has succeeded
in doing. Are the resources of France and England so
inexhaustible that money can be squandered on a sur-
plusage of men, ships, and guns, maintained for mere
ostentatious show and bravado ? The war before Sebas-
topol is starved ; there are not troops enough there to
invest the fortress, and the weight of our battering trains
barely equals that of the ordnance employed in the de-
feiCe ; and yet an expensive fleeb is maintained in.thnes
Baltic, simply it would appear to show the Rue e
so' aut.
how many ships of war France and Ehgland clan
There is
_infinite (lager in this idle ostentation,
.