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London, England, 1855-11-21 00:00:00

spatched. There may be adequate reasons for the
present postponement, but there can be none for
the past delay. That, at least, seems to be with-
out the slightest justificatiOn or palliation. Had
Kaffa been taken some months since, and a
demonstration only was wanting, the whole of the
peninsula of Kertch would have remained perma-
nently in our hands, as well as Arabat itself; and
with it the chief, if not the only communication
with the Eastern districts. Genitchi, too, *night
have been easily held, and that would have formed
a basis of operations against the Tchongar road, as
Kaffa would have done against Simpheropol and
all the central districts of the Crimea.

There has been even greater negligence dis-
played on the Asiatic coast. OMEIt PACER has
at length taken the enemy in the rear, and cut
off the communications. A zealous co-operation
with the independent tribes would have averted
the danger to Kars, and the operations against
the Ottoman dominions in Asia, from which such
serious evils might have occurred but for the
vigorous defence so ably organised by General
WILLIAMS, and the officers and men under his
command, and the tardy but brilliant operations
under 02.rzR Pecn.A. Let the Russians be re-
stricted to the Caspian route as the only means of
escape from the trap in which they have now
suffered themselves to be caught.

Now is pre-eminently the moment to look
honestly at the causes of our imperfect success.
If we must in these days of the telegraph and the
railroad adhere to the old military practice of
retiring into winter quarters, let the Council
Chamber and the manufactory be collecting the
storm-clouds and forging the thunderbolts against
the fated hour. Nations struggling for their
own liberty have not shrunk from a winter cam-
paign ; and ever since the retreat of the ten
thousand history has recorded its instances in
which the ardour or the necessities of war have
been more than an antidote for the rigours of the
season. There were Generals in the Hungarian
War of whom their great civil leader has oppor-
tunely reminded us who could give the enemy a
sound thrashing at the season when they least
thought of it. However we are to lie by a little.
Let us then look at the past, and learn for the
future. There are some obvious oversights, if
not worse, through which we have suffered much,
and which ought not surely to occur again.
We last year overlooked the Sea of Azoff ; the
consequence, of course, was a well-fed garrison at
Sebastopol all the winter. The supplies were
almost at their gates. We left Odessa on the
other side, and troops and supplies of many kinds
were ready there for the Crimea in the spring.
We have done creditably this summer in the Sea
of Azoff, but have we done all we might f It is
to be feared that considerable supplies may yet
reach the Russian army, even from that quarter,
when the sea is frozen. We have not destroyed
Genitchi, which commands the entrance of the
Putrid Sea and the passage to that remarkable
road, the Spit of Arabat. Neither have we taken
Arabat at the other end of the Spit, nor yet Kaffa,
which almost commands the Spit from the bay of
Kertch. These little omissions in a great exploit
may prove sufficient to neutralise it. Is it quite
too late to complete this part of our work before
winter render it impracticable The sparing of
Odessa, we regret to see, is even' defended.
Another of our greatest failures is that we
have made no allies. With the exception of
Sardinia, an exception due rather to the nobility
of its Monarch and people than to us, literally
none. The very Tartars of the Crimea who at
first were enthusiastic for us, we have so dealt
with that actually a whole village of them, whom
we had fed all last winter, requested to be carried
to Russian territory 1 How invaluable they
_ _

might have proved. Had we assured them a

first that if we conquered they should never more
pass under Russian sway, we might have known

through them all the Russian movements north
of Sebastopol. Semi-savages are the most adroit
of spies, and in their own country their informa-

tion would have been complete. Russia, however,
knew all our movements—we none of hers. She
used as allies those who might for a word have

been ours.

It is the same in the Principalities. Instead
of proffering them entire independence of Russia,
and the mild nominal supremacy of the SULTAN,
with practical self-government ; and instead of
backing this with Olkinn PA CHA's Army, we
drugged them with an Austrian occupation, and
Austro-Russian Hospodars—till, cheated, bullied,
oppressed, and their very wives violated, they
owe us no thanks, and give us none. They might
have furnished a thoroughly efficient militia at
least, had we not stooped to gratify, at their cost,
the swaggering vanity and territorial gluttony of
the base coward, Austria.

On the neglect of the Poles we have too often
dilated—the people whose aid we should have
sought in every quarter, and by every means ;
but Austria, the feeblest power of Europe, forbade
the two mightiest of its Empires to hoist the white
flag ! We coquetted with Austria while thousands
and tens of thousands of men who might have
fought in our ranks are now torn from Polish
homes and knouted into battle to perpetuate their
own slavery. Through losing Poland, and silence as
to Finland, we lost Sweden also—all this year.
Nor could we blame her ; and even the Circas-
sians, the sworn enemies of Russia, were turned
to no purpose.

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One most wicked plot was the cause of all this.
Coburg influence we suspect to have been chief
orkers and Austria and Prussia prime mover;
in it. The little German despots and the big ones,
too, equally wanted Russia as a first-rate despot
power ; the latter played the old trick of cunning
schoolboys,
and put forward the feeblest one of the
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Russia as to lose no territory,
past
territorial burglaries she was to receive an eter-
nal indemnity, and her power was to be as great
as ever to punish all who might help lia!
She
was in no case to .lose anything ; only-she must
leave off meddling with Turkey. No terms of
condemnation are too severe for this unstatesman„
like, this profoundly wicked policy. It has
brought upon France and England already a two-
fold weight of taxation, and a tenfold loss of life.
And for what—meiely to conduct the War so that
Austria—the detestation of England—should be
leased, and Russia little hurt.

Symptoms of something better do, however,
appear ; but we feel little hope, for Germany is om-
nipotent at our Court. General OANROBERT is wel-
comed by the Steedes. Time will show whether
be is instructed to gain the King of Sweden.
Count Luao-rsiu announces that he is officially
authorised to hoist the white flag, but the Poles
are not to be called Poles, but the Sultan's Cos-
saes ! Why is this silly truckling to the odious
Austria still continued ? How long, in the nam'
of all self-respect, will our rulers trim to a power
which supplies Russia with sulphur, and pulls the
uniform offan English officer, on an English errand,
and in Wallachian not in Austrian territory ?
Again. Ou PAULA has secured the co-operation

of the Circassian tribes, and we may hope that
they will aid in expelling the Russians from the
south side of the Kuban and the Caucasus. All
this is hopeful—but it wants to be carried out in
bolder style ; the opinion of Europe, as Louis
NAPOLEON has truly said, must yet be pronounced
—but it must be so pronounced, we would add, as
to liberate Poland before this contest is over, or
all will be vain.

We only advert in conclusion to our mechanical
failures ; there is no room for dispute here. We
have seen our Ally surpass us in our own depart-
ment, naval shipbuilding I We have seen a
splendid mistake at Sweaborg, through lazy,
obstinate, or treacherous disregard of Sir CHAR.
NAPIER'S reasonable advice. Millions of money
were wasted on useless ships, and the right vessels
for the right place were not even built. How is it
that Lord PALMERSTON continues in his office such
a convicted incapable as Sir CHARLES WOOD ?
We might say much and justly, no doubt, on
Horse Guard appointments and maladministra-
tion, but their opponents would find ground for
dispute. The want of gun-boats, both in the
Danube, the Sea of Azoff, and, above all, the
Baltic, is the flagrant delinquency of our Naval
Minister, and one for which he deserves summary
ejection from office. Had any of Mr. PETO'S
contractors failed as conspicuously, a second
tender from him would have been returned un-
opened.

For outrageous flattery and unmitigated blas-
phemy commend us to the Archbishop of Kher-
son. Other Priests have done noticeable strokes
in this line, but we would match him against his
tribe, however gifted they may be. Some rem-
nant of self-respect would appear to check the
flow of their unctuous flattery, and some whole-
some awe their blasphemous impulses ; but Mon-
signor Innocent systematically gives licence to his
singularly perverted imagination, and deals out
flattery and blasphemy with a trowel. Doubtless
he understands the market to which he brings his
wares, and has reasonable grounds for hope that
they will bring him a plentiful return.
On what other supposition can we account for
the morceaux to which we ate about to call the
reader's attention ? The Emperor of RUSSIA, it
is pretty generally known, does not possess the
strongest head, and educated in a corrupt creed
is a pitiable thrall to superstition. The necessities
of despots of this stamp is generally the opportu-
nity of designing Priests, and it must be admitted
th• forlorn cub of the Emperor NICHOLAS is now
drinking the waters of adversity drugged to
unusual bitterness. Posting rapidly here, flitting
wildly there, he can find consolation nowhere, and
in this condition he hies to a sacred fan•, where
the wily Monsignor, in all the pomp and glory
of the Archiepiscopal dignity, waits to greet
him. Arrived at the threshold, he is thus
addressed—" Thou hadst scarcely put on the
crown of thy ancestors when it pleased PROW..
DENCE to surround it with thorns. Our bodily
eyes are not accustomed to see such an ornament
sparkle on the heads of kings, but the eyes of
faith see in it with piety and respect a souvenir of
the crown of CHRIST." The courtly blasphemy
and fulsome flattery of these words it would be
difficult to surpass. Their absurdity, however,
is almost as conspicuous. The orphaned despot
had " scarcely put on the crown of his ancestors
when it pleased PROVIDENCE to surround it with
thorns." " And not so bad a protection either,"
the Great FREDERICK would have exclaimed, had
the words been addressed to him ; " thorns aro
bad to handle save with an iron hand." The
EIbIrEIROR'S, crown surrounded with thorns—what
a notion Why, it suggests a better version of
the Pilgrim and the Pease I Of course the mean-
ing belonging to the words is not that intended
by the Archbishop—what he meant the reader will
already have perceived.
The next absurdity is the idea of the aforesaid
thorns sparkling, radiance net being usually a cha-
racteristic of thorns until they find their way into
the fire. Possibly a vague analogy of this sort
floated in the Archbishop's mind. The remainder
of the quotation is in too offensively bad taste for
notice. Not satisfied, however, with playing the
Episcopal Courtier after so scandalous a fashion,
Monsignor must don the mantle of prophet. De-
signating the Western Powers as " two brands"
—England, " debased and jeopardised England,"
being one " which, after being extinguished for
two centuries, recommences to smoke (who lit it?)
in the midst of a yawning gulf," he authorita-
tively declares that " the winds will abate, the
rain fall to fertilise our fields, and the brands
depart !"--not be extinguished, but be endowed
with powers of locomotion, and compelled to " cut
their stick." The Western Powers must look to
this, for if " the wind" be from the west, the pro-
bability is " the rain " will fall earlier than usual
"to fertilise our fields," which, considering the
quantity of snow upon them, one would have
fancied were not particularly in need of it.

But enough of this disgusting farrago of syco-
phancy and blasphemy. The witless EMPEROR,
who could listen patiently to it, and without ad-
ministering a rebuke to the speaker, must be sorely
entangled in the toils, and in that case it will go
hard if Monsignor, oily knave that he is, does
not drive a hard bargain with him.

The Report of the Commissioners appointed
to inquire into the disturbance of the peace
in Hide-park, on Sunday, the Ist July, has
just been published. A portion of it will be found
in our present impression, and it will be given
in eartenso in our next edition. It is an
important and interesting document ; but, as it
has reached us at so late an hour, we have
been only able to glance superficially at its
contents. Superintendent HUGHES is partially
acquitted—although it is found that he was not
justified in ordering the men to use their staves
under the circumstances, and several of the men
have been returned as guilty of using very unne-
cessary violence, and a grave abuse of the power
placed in their hands. We trust that some im-
portant results may follow from this search ing
and impartially conducted inquiry.

Her Majesty held a Privy Counoil this afternoon at
Windsor Castle.

CABINET COUNCIL.— A Cabinet Council was held yes-
terday afternoon at the Foreign-office. There were
present Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord
Plyaonomd, u rtel,ie Right
iChtancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Ron. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount
Canning, the Earl of Ilarrowby, and the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere. The Council sat three hours and a quarter.
THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL—We are enabled to state
that the Duke of Argyll will succeed Viscount Canning
as Postmaster-General—his Grace retaining, for the pre-
sent, his office of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess Persigny entertained at dinner, last evening,
at Albert-gate House, his Excellency the Turkish Minis-
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