The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

( From the Daily News of this day.)

There is a cool, self-complacent effrontery in the
bulletins and despatches of Prince Gortschakoff
that has never been surpassed. He can make a
defeat a theme of congratulation ; and, when he
has nothing else to brag of, will boast of the alac-
rity and prudence he has displayed in running
away. He appears to think that hill Imperial mas-

-
ter will be reconciled to his recent loss, by being
toll that "the enemy found nothing on the south-
ern
side but blood-stained ruins." He announces
that " the passage of the garrison from the southern
to the northern part was accomplished with extra-
ordinary success," with as jaunty an air as if he
were talking of an advance, and not of a retreat.,
A man of this character—who is equally proud o,t
drubbing and being drubbed—does not take much
pains to conceal his losses. It is true Prince Goes'
chakoff—or the officials at St. Petersburg who pub'
hah as much of his reports as is deemed expedient
does not go the length of telling explicitly lief
many of his men have been put hors de combat,
but he gives a tolerable inkling of it. He aukn°lcr-
ledges to the loss of a hundred men while crossing
the bridge ; and adds that he was obliged to leave
" five hundred men grievously wounded on the
southern side." If the wounded, whom it was
found impossible to carry along with the retreating
_
army, amounted to so many, those who were ab,l7,
to accompany it, or who were sent away before te;
retreat commenced, must have been much incr
numerous ; and if 100 men were killed in crossing
the bridge, the number of those who fell during'
the bombardment and in the assault must kale
been much greater. The epithet, too, which the
Prince applies to the fire of the allies (feu deiver
,
—infernal fire) would seem to indicate that ills
nerves had been a little shaken by it. It is ecru'
valent to what decorous Englishmen would call an
admission that the Allies had made th, place t°:
hot to hold him ; or, as more plain-spoken 1:)",-.1
ple might say, that they had played the de
with him. Prince Gortscbakoff's despatch
plies that the whole of the southern side has beet;
abandoned by the Russians. This is a point as
which some—to us unaccountable—doubts we'i
expressed in certain quarters during the early kgt
of yesterday. The croakers would have it tt_u3o
only the town and the Kai abelnaia suburb has '-'``.6
evacuated. But, even befure Prince Gortsobakiv
report was received, all doubts were cleared 111)4
the explicit statement of Admiral Bruat
approached, this morning, the Quarantine battersel
on board the Brandon, and ascertained myself tbao
they are now evacuated. They have just blowe
up. Our soldiers have left their trenches, and al.
spreading themselves in groups over the fort
tions of the town, which seem to be totally

serted."
The blow which has just been struck by the s.-1,
armies is sufficient to insure our ultimate trilingh-4
if it is promptly and vigorously followed up/ '-„-a
is what the English public must now look to aall
insist upon. There is a natural indolence inATf,
men that prompts them to withdraw from ani"th
ficult undertaking provided they can do so tot
eclat ; and our Ministers—no disrespect to o:ay
is meant—are, after all, mere men. Besides/ t',lo
will immediately he besieged by all who hay:ebi-e,
interest in letting Russia down as softly as posh,,/a
There will be renewed offers of mediation 'it 'of
Austria ; and the Aberdeenites, and the whelB-0
the Peace-at-any-Price party, will be brew-i!
out into choral chaunts in honour of inageB;:to
mous forbearance in the hour of victory, and
,to
demonstrations that we can now "put an en",o
the war with honcur." It is not enough that welt
do so with honour ; we must do so with pro
we must gain something by the efforts we
made. When the French and English Governr9e of
recognised the four points as a possible Wilco
negotiation, they expressly reserved to there° oco
a right to modify their demands in accorda
with the progress of warlike events—that is/ tfileit
crease their demands if success should put it in 'eoli
power to exact more. Russia is now in a Thea
worse condition to stand out for easy terms
she was then. We say this in no vindictive sPleot
towards Russia, but with a view to the perriletj
peace and security of Europe. It is our busillos
to render the Government at St. Petersburger,
innocuous as possible. We must not allow ot
selves to be deluded by such vague talk as od.
" the war was commenced to diminish the aseeesa
ancy of Russia in the Black Sea." That maYruoia
anything, or nothing. The war was undertake or
the fir,t place to compel Russia to abstain frceiltbe
propriating territory that of right belonged 0,00
Porte, and from usurping a (le facto Buzeraloir
over the Sultan ; and, in the second place, t° °red
lish the general principle, that the Great Folgef
Europe will no longer tolerate the wresting 0e of
ritory from the weak I y the strong by 01% if
arms. The war will have been waged in 3,1, it
Russia is not compelled, in the treaty by vo'" $ll
is terminated, to renounce in express tertesee.
attempts in future to extend its territories by
tiro•
quest at the expense of any member of they to
~ean system of states ; and to promise to aol3'
in future from all interference in the domestic' 00
corns of the Ottoman Empire. Nay more, 11nop'
good faith of _Russia cannot safely be relied °r
of
fof
material guarantees must be exacted from bet
the fulfilment of these promises. The natcr,",,
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these material guarantees is a consideration 0f8; to
delicacy and difficulty. They must be sueitta'ali,
impress Russia with the danger of breaking 13;d
and at the same time such as are least likely to lea
the national pride of the Russian people. lo°
any portion of the Russian territory—proPerfloat'
called—severed from the Empire, the sense° vget
raged nationality would expose Europe tothe esorge
of a speedy renewal of hostilities. But there are fp
tracts of territory subject to the Government ° pal
Petersburg,which the Russians have not yet lestereil
to con sider as their own; these might safely be se:cforai
from the Empire. Again, it has been the 1111,,,1the
practice of Russia, when victorious, to 1ng,,05 of
conquered bear in a great measure the exP7io 111,
the war ; she could not reasonably cornP,,,-oiiii
having " her own measure meted to her son
were France, England and Turkey to exac,tvBasfiis
damnity at the close of the present war. If he ell'
is amerced in one or other of these ways 8-th Of
he chary of again provoking a collision IV sacv
Western Powers ; if she is let off more easi'Yeeatee
comparative impunity will encourage her to rie
her tortuous courses without delay. One tbdt°
certain, that no overtures to negotiation 0%0 to
be made by the Allies until Russia sues to oidioo
grant her peace on their own terms. Any ifts to IYBr
applications on the part of Austria ought so fs'
peremptorily rejected. We confess that in a oier,63
as our own Government is concerned, th
mention of " negotiation" throws us into vitt':
sweat. We never hear of English diploniaSYvhio
out having the words recalled to our inlrici'res3 t°
Helen MacGregor is made by Scott to add been
her sons after learning that her husband 133 a 3 ,;
0/,
entrapped by his enemies. " Yon may remg
father," said Helen MacGregor, turning y9l d
sons, "in what this young Saxon tells swore
only when the bonnet is on his head and tnefer the
in his hand, he never exchanges the tartan. 0018
broadcloth, but he runs himself into the nile
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intrigues of the Lowlanders, and becomes o,re
after all he has suffered, their agent—tr
their slave." And even so it is with Tio7:6
his foreign policy. Ho never desists frollipif
rious war to negotiate, but he allows bial 8-je lSie
outwitted. This was the case with inui ia
„„lin P
and 1815 ; and was very nearly being -'cas•
case with him at the late Vienna Confer7plont "r,
o
the battle-field he is irresistible ;in the cifitbe
salons he has uniformly earned for hiror-ay, 11'
castic description of Byron—" the foul
bleeds for all, and over bleeds in vain/

(From Galigna7 ger of ties (..1_44.V.)20
The splendid triumph allied arw''' il''''
,i--..._,BAirefsstenh
bastopol, is, as might be expected, t_mue folltirg0;1°;
t\s,vbuabetject of original remark in the P3's' eilli643'
stuhbej ouinn
jeoxnt,raticites
Assembles
mtbhieeeseNa articles,tio,eP, randictobrea
Univers, merely give the news without 31! ichlit'
ofw h congratulation,ich
makes
t b e f
ololorw, iinndeebd, any.renuis,3:.r;upphiobpileid:
ever. We commence with the Journal aes
" A great, an immense success, and one
for rapidity, crowns the herogic°cosnerstvaatnci; el:4 al:tl°P°;c°
the allied armies in the East. Let' tis in the '",he 6111
speak of the great feat of arms pointed out it' the the
despatch, and afterwards examine the sense twit 11
second. It was in open day, at high noov,,,gtop°"
gained footing on the formidable ramparts of Seicrotiol*e
lud on one of its strongest and most impert3ut well r 5 tba
In fact, the tower ruined by the assault, as wet. abe
Korniloff Bastion, which serves to surround it'."•sioe I°.
constructed on a mount commanding theftBriti-rt,tl3l
bourg (the Karabelnaia, where them rY Pavvs:l eit:
arsenal, the careening docks, and all the grest ~,n dou,t
tablishments are situated). This first success 1°7,00 i
less considerable, and the assault a magnificent ° iros°,
but if the bearing of it was greatfor the further progoo;
the siege no one could have supposed thatfromthe .oatie
the Malakhoff was taken, it would have given use i bi
lobe or
of the vast faubourg. Our brave men aceornP- Bell 11
t 0
a single blow a task which appeared likely t°,,,tul;
quire long and perilous labours, It Wee tot be
thought, and it is even known with certaintf,
_trot .
Russians, in the rear of the Malakhoff, had ees".o,l 07
numerous works and batteries ; that the streectrl . ati..
great buildings of the faubourg were entrap . ic"_.:a the
teat the Russian generals bad orders id &Tow ?:
ground inch by inch ; and neveztheless we lee ' a the'',
if struck by panic, set fire to the Karabelnaia en_ of tb
vessels of war. This assault in broad day ie e",otori
most admirable that can be found in the whole 'e toilelo
;ctrtptiaerebdoltdo that
of warfare, just as there cannot be found any eieg ce
soldiers t °:::: es pdei;:
played, if we call to mind the check which tkel_ittooti
intrepidityo fS eb a, swt oh pi
which
. 0
ulrt is easy
,-,nced'on the 18th of June before this same tift if the
Tower—a check now so gloriously avenged.
1r....,,05t'
assault on the Malakhoff by the French No this tn, sot.
ceeded, fortune refused success to the three astee,'l,lo bf
be Car' t.
the English, and against the ba-tlon of t ~, , A
tempted at the same time against tl-e Grand Yt''' doing
Bay and the Central Bastion by the Freneb• .-%,,130
tacks were executed, as has been seen, on an
.11." , to
front against four bastions,
the strongest of the whole line :fa fortificatio , rtbs
No. 4 °I
the exception of the Flagstaff Battery (
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