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B.ESIONATION OF LORD RAGLAN.

(From the Times of this day.)

The news of the war is more than usually grave. We
have indeed btill to learn the particulars of our ill suc-
cess on the 18th, and are still without tidings of any
further attempt ; but while we wait time wears on, and
nature takes its course. Lord Raglan's iron constitu-
tion has at length given way to a cause that bas laid
many a younger and stronger man low, and his lord-
ship has, we are told, requested to be relieved of his
command, in order to return home. General Simpson,
we believe, will succeed him in the command-in-chief.
General Eatcourt, Deputy-Adjutant-General, has fallen
a victim to the cholera, and one of the first duties of
the new Oontmander-in-Chief will be to appoint a suc-
cessor to its post capable of its duties. Another loss
excites the deepest regret. Captain Lyons, whose
talents and enterprise marked him for the command of ,
the expedition to the Sea of Azoff, in spite of his com-
parative youth, and who amply justified the wisdom
of the choice, has died of his wound. It appears that, in
his anxiety to make a thorough reconnaissance of Kaffa,
he approached so near to that port that, standing on the
paddle-box of his ship, he received a rifle ball in his leg..
He did not think much of it at the time, but the extrern
heat, the excitement of the occasion, and prpbably al Ao
a degree of vexation at being thus unnecessarily dis-
abled, checked the healing process, and deprived the
service of the very promising officer to whom we owe
our very #rst naval success in this war. It is evident
that the summer is beginning to tell as severely as the
winter, and that it becomes ordinary prudence to make
the best of our strength while we have it. We have to
choose between war and disease. Miss Nightingale is
about to return home. Miss Stanley has already, we.
hear, arrived.

No doubt that, as the war changes its character, as
the conflict draws closer and closer, as we fight on e part
of Sebastopol against the other, the arsenal against the
town, and the south side against the north ;—fur they, as
we advance into the interior, and pursue the foe, through
defiles, over steppes, and across marshes, we shall have
many more such budgets as that of this mo'zning. The
tardy resolutions of a divided Legislature, and the best-
intended measures of an honest Governm.ant, will be an-
ticipated by many a removal and many a promotion by
Death's own hand. It is needless to say that we never
regarded with favour propositionsiof a retrospective and
even vindictive character. They do not become either
the gravity of the subject, the dignity of Parliament,
and, what is even more important, they are of no use.
The war itself will do its own work. It chooses its own
scene, its own men, its own measures. It has long
since passed out of that strangely intermediate state
in which our Ministers of last year thought it possible
to keep it. We are no longer making idle demon-
strations, threatening camps, and naval reviews.
We are waging a war of the direst reality and
on the largest scale. We sent out Lord Raglan
more as a military negotiator to keep on good terms
with our allies, and to avoid war if possible, than as a
General to be guided by purely military considerations.
We have now to commission a soldier with no other
object than to fight and beat the enemy. No doubt
other changes will be in the same direction. The work
before us is none for holyday soldiers. The Crimea is
not a place to kill time, nor is our army there an agree-
able club. Glory, and perhaps promotion, are there to
be won at appropriate risks. Such is the administrative
reform, the promotion by merit, that we have hitherto
laboured for in vain. Such is the spirit of our youth,
and so common to all classes is honourable ambition,
that there will be no lack of candidates for her Majesty's
commissions. At the same time, as the war advances,
and its sacrifices increase, the private soldier rises in
importance, and his advance in the social scale is al-
ready marked by' a great increase of pay.
Probably the war never wore so menacing an aspect
as at this moment, when they who in various capacities
were concerned at its commencement are successively
quitting the scene, and leaving their places to men of
sterner mould, and perhaps also more reckless temper.
Russia played for a high stake, and has already lost the
substance of actual territory and power, as well as the
shadow of a fanatical expectation. Every year, every
month that the Black Sea and its shores are in the hands
of the allies will be so much admission of western and
southern influence, and the longer that state lasts the
more difficult will Russia find it to reassert her ascen-
dancy, if that is ever to bedone. In the present obstinacy
of Russia and counter determination of the allies we see
too much reason to fear a protracted struggle. With
now armies, new generals thrown into the bloody arena,
with new provocations, with those mistakes, outrages,
land retaliations which no efforts can prevent, the war
must continually become more relentless and more in-
capable of compromise, oroeven of humanity. Several
hundred thousand men are now fighting from hill to hill,
from mound to mound, from the opposite sides and ends
of the same gorge—taking and retaking positions still
filled with their own dead. The allies in all this are
still in the ascendant, and we have even regained some
of the vantage ground lost on the 18th, There can be
no reasonable doubt as to the early issue of such a strug-
gle on the scene where it now rages. Sebastopol will
soon be ours. What next,—in what direction the lava
torrent of war will roll, and where we shall again contest
inch by inch the soil of the Crimea, it would be vain to
conjecture. But, Sebastopol won, the Crimea is also
ours, and we shall hold the Black Sea and the whole of
its shores as a material guarantee for the submission of
Russia.

PRINCIPLES OP MORALS BY LORD
PANMU.RE.

Lord Panmure is an eminently moral and religious
character—a leader of the Free Kirk. It is, therefore,
not without surprise that we have read the noble lord's
ethiCal code with regard to soldiers' marriages as pro-
pounded by him in the House of Lords last night, The
Duke of Richmond diew the attention of the honse to
the subject of improved barrack accommodation for
soldiers' wives. This brought the Minister of War
upon his feet. The exordium of Lord Panmure's
speech, we may be allowed par parentltese to remark,
was comical enough. He commenced by protesting he
was convinced that the Duke of Richmond had adverted
to the subject "in ne spirit of hostility to Government."
This is one of those utterly uncalled-for exculpations
which are tantamount to accusations. It looks as if
Lord Panmure, after the baiting that Government has
of late had to undergo, had become so touchy that the
most innocent remark appeared to him to involve a
censure of himself' and his colleagues. He is almost as
bad as the navy surgeon of whom Lord Byron relates,
that having been long quizzed by his mess about his wig,
he became so sensitive that no one could mention even a
hat in his presence without being told, " Sir, you grow
personal." But it is with Lord Panmure's principles of
morals, not with his testiness, that we have to do at pre-
sent. ell ;he admits the demoralising consequences of
the shameless manner in which men and women are now
huddled together in barracks, but his only remedy is
compulsory celibacy on the part of all soldiers for the
first 10 years of their service in the infantry, and 12 in
the cavalry. Never having studied Scotch metaphysics,
we confess ourselves unable to explain the rationale of this
distinction between the two arms of the service. But over-
looking this special mystery, and addressing ourselves
merely to Lord Panmure's gen eral principle, we must be al-
lowed to doubt whether 10 or 12 years'compulsory celibacy
of all soldiers is likely to be conducive to the morality of
the army or of society in general. We have been accus-
tomed to believe that, under proper regulations, matri-
mony was conducive to morality. The neighbourhood
of a barrack, even as matters now stand, is not much
liked by sedate and decorous heads of families ; but if
almost all the inmates of that barrack were to be
bachelors by compulsion, it would become an intolerable
nuisance. Lord Panmure is of opinion that a wife is
too great a luxury for any man below the rank of a cor-
poral to indulge in. Nay, he goes farther ;he " wishes
to see the army without women attached to it at all."
He " thinks soldiers should do for themselves many
things which women are now employed to do. What
these things are he did not condescend to explain ; but
it is pretty clear that Lord Panmure's model barrack
would be a kind of military convent. Yet the legends
of his native land tell strange stories about Monkish
morality. —Daily News.

PERJURY AND FRAUD EY A MILITIAMAN.--At the
Southwark Police-court yesterday, James Connoway, a
young fellow about 20 years of age, was committed for
trial by Mr. A'Beckett for obtaining a half-sovereign,
the property of her Majesty the Queen, by means of
fraud and perjury. John Cleary, a sergeant of the 3d
Royal Surrey Militia, stated that about the latter end of
June, 1854, the prisoner came to him and volunteered
to serve in the above corps. Prisoner swore he was not
an apprentice, and afterwards received the bounty money
of 10s. from the adjutant of the regiment. Percival A.
Scott, a lighterman, said the prisoner was apprenticed to
him in May, 1849, to serve seven years, by the gover-
nors of Queen Elizabeth's Free School in St. Olave's.
He produced the indentures to prove that fact.
HARROW SCHOOL.—THE SPEECH DAY.--The custo-
mary annual speech day took place yesterday at Har-
row, and, as usual, attracted a very brilliant company.
Most of the leading personages of rank assembled at the
Rev. Dr. Vaughan's previous to congregating at the
school, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford,
&c., being among the early visitors. At 11 o'clock, the
Head Master (the Rev. Dr. Vaughan), accompanied by
a numerous party, proceeded to the school-room,
where the recitation of the speeches commenced. The
speeches were of an average class. Some of the recita-
tions were rapturously applauded, particularly Mr.
Toilemaohe (Trial of Warren Hastings), and Mr. Tre-
velyan (The Four Invasions of England). The head
master, in delivering the several prizes to the successful
competitors, briefly addressed them, congratulating
them on their exertions. The Head Master and Mr.
Vaughan gave a sumptuous entertainment to above 250
of the principal visitors who were present on the occa-
sion.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLEBK.—At the Wandsworth
police court yesterday, Thomas Honeborne
who was described as being a clerk and traveller i❑ the
service of Mr. W. Randall Wood, coal and timber mer-
chant, of the waterside, Wandsworth, was finally exa-
mined before Mr. Paynter, on a charge of embezzling
various sums of money to the extent of between 4001.
and 500/., the property of his master. The prisoner
had been in Mr, Wood's service off and on for the last

six years, and it was his duty to collect money and pay
it over to the cashier every night. The prosecutor bad
no suspicion of the prisoner's dishonesty until Tuesday,
the 19th inst., when the prisoner's defalcations were for
the first time discovered. It seemed that the prisoner
was in the habit of accounting for portions of the bills
be had received, and after they had been entered in the
ledger by the ca ,bier he surreptitiously obtaired th.
books, and altered the amounts. He was also in the