The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

Many bags of bran were standing on the beach
when he arrived, and they continued there
until lie left. There was also a considerable
quantity of hay floating in the harbour ! ! !"
And yet in the vicinity of abundance the horses
were in such a state that they could not have car-
ried their riders in a charge. _

that splendid victory, nor even the cold-blooded
and malevolent attack on a departed hero, or the
implied censure on the EMPEROR himself. All
these matters are in such deplorably bad taste
that they carry with them their own antidotes,
and cannot possibly create any injurious impression
in any well-regulated French or English mind.
The author must be unequivocally condemned ;
but that will be the only effect, so far as the
Allies are conserngd. But if authentic, it
may afford information to the enemy of a
very improper description, may assist the Rus-
sians, and add to the destruction of his compatriots
and their Allies. These are matters for which
there can be no excuse, which should expose the
author to the deepest censure of every right-
minded man, whatever be his country. We
only hope that the party to whom it has been
ascribed may be enabled to exonerate his cha-
racter from the grave imputations—to show that
it is a spurious, unauthorised, and wicked in-
vention.

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But this was not all. " The condition of the in-
fantry was even worse than that of the cavalry.
In every respect the clothing, victualling, and
lodging was exceedingly scanty, and of the worst
description, while the men were kept totally without
fuel, although a quantity of timber was floating
about in the harbour which might have been col-
lected with very little trouble, and sent up to the
camp, where it would have been very useful."
Such were the deplorable facts, and the causes
were clearly explained, viz., the many forms re-
quired by the system of " checks and counter-
checks"—( pure and unmitigated Red-tapism)—by
means whereof the starving cavalry horses (or
the starving men) could not get a single belly-
ful, even if taken to Balaklava.
The evidence of Sir DE LACY EvArts was
still more important. The gallant Ge-
neral, by the exercise of prudent fore-
thought, had been enabled to save the men
under his command from a large proportion
of the losses sustained by those under
less experienced commanders. He showed,
too, the inconvenience of many of the re-
gulations, and exposed the real fountain and
origin of all the evils—namely, that " the War
was commencel under the delusion that matters
; would be settled without any explosion of gun-
_ powder, and that there was no necessity for any
magazines at all !" This was the ABERDEEN
mania. This was the result of allowing that good
and excellent Minister to have his own way ; and
all the sufferings sustained by our troops may be
ascribed to the abdication of its functions by the
House of Commons, and their implicit confidence
in a Minister not competent to the duties of his
position.

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One objection to promotion from the ranks is
so often urged, and is evidently so much a matter
of feeling on the part of military men, and others,
belonging to or connected with the aristocracy o
birth or money, that a few remarks on it can
hardly be deemed out of place.
As it appears to us, these exceedingly sensitive
gentlemen have a very dim perception of the
nature and requirements of the service. To judge
from their indignant tone when the subject of
promotion from the ranks is mooted, they seem
to imagine that a commission in the. army is
meant to he a passport to the drawing-room
rather than an introduction to the stern responsi-
bilities of command. If this notion were cor-
rect, we should have nothing to say on the
subject, but, unfortunately for their feelings, it is
not. The art and science of war call for other
qualities than those necessary to grace the draw-
ing-room. They call for a vigorous frame, a
manly resolution, an apt intelligence, an
ardour of feeling far removed from common-
place, self-command, and a sounl judgment,
speeding rapidly to its conclusions. With
most of these the drawing-room will not re-
luctantly dispense. The polite simper, the easy
vacillation, an aptitude for common-place, the
subdued yawn, and judgment at second-hand,
are better adapted for that meridian.
Thus a man may be admirably qualified to
serve his country, to fight her battles, and con-
tribute to her safety and renown, and by no means
be welcomed in polite circles. But on whom does
this reflect discredit ? Not on the worthy aspi-
rant for military distinction, but on the circles
which shrink from contact with him. it is a
striking proof of their worthlessness, of their
utter frivolity. Such a man has a patent of no-
bility such as none of them can lay claim to.
Ho is honourable at first hand, generous by in-
stinct, and chivalrous by every aspiration. Rough
he may be ; but the gentleman will be found
underneath—capable of cultivation undoubtedly,
but the true gentleman after all. Among auto-
biographies—always interesting—none are more
so than those of non-commissioned officers, and
commissioned officet s who have risen from the
ranks. The true chivalrous feeling, in its gentle-
ness as well as in its resolution and ardour,
pervades them all. The dutiful son, the
affectionate brother, the generous friend, and
daring but not implacable enemy, stands
before us in each, and we daguerreotype his like-
ness without any consciousness on his part. He
has a tale of adventure to tell, and he tells it—his
main personal anxiety being to convey the im-
pression that he has endeavoured to do his duty.
What we gather else he had no desire to throw
in our way. To talk of men like • these
—and the majority of those deemed eligible
for promotion would be found such—being
unfitted to associate with gentlemen by
birth and position is, on the part of
the latter, to propagate about as great—we
will not say a libel, but—a reproach as could be
uttered. An aristocracy that cannot grasp with
the hand of good fellowship the hand of a chival-
rous soldier is an anomaly which the good sense of
the people cannot long tolerate.

Great excitement has been created amongst our
Allies by a pamphlet respecting " The Conduct of
the War," not merely from the subject on which
it treats, and the amount of information respect-
ing the most secret councils of the French camp,
but from the high rank and position of the alleged
author. It purports to be a memorial addressed
to the French Government by a General Officer,
and it is manifest that the author, must have
taken part in the operations which he describes,
and of which he so strongly complains. It has,
we trust erroneously, been acribed to Prince
NAPOLEON, whose views it is said to embody, and
whose notorious discontent has found expression
in its pages.

Such a production might have been justifiable,
however erroneous, if submitted only in confidence
to the Government. It would be the duty of
every officer to state his conscientious impressions
to those by whom the evils of which he com-
plained might be corrected, provided he did not
thereby give any information to the common
enemy, and stated his facts faiily and without
exaggeration. But a general publication of such
matters would be highly objectionable—a gross
misapplication of the knowledge officially ob-
' wiled, and most improvidently and unwarrant-
ably Communicated. And this, which would
at any time be a serious offence, alike against mili-
tary discipline and the obligations which every man
—and the higher his rank the inure imperative
these obligations owes to his country. But
when the publication had actually been suppressed by
order of the Government—when the menrorial had
been rejected after due consideration, we cannot
imagine an offence of greater magnitude than that
of which the author, whoever ho may be, has

been guilty.
We shall not now dwell on the inaccurate state-
ments respecting the English troops•at the Alma
—and the attempt to deprive those who so
gallantly discharged tbeir duty of tha credit
to which they were justly entitled; for

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cumstances. Some one said this morning in my
presence, she may become a Catherine IL, and you
will soon have proofs of it."

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