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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1855.

The bloodless triumphs achieved by the expe-
dition to Kertch, Yenikale, and the Sea of Azofl
cannot fail to be productive of the most important
results, net only on the campaign in the Crimea,
but on the entire war with Russia. We have at
length tardily entered on the course in which we
should already have made considerable progress.
We only hope that we may fully and fairly follow
up our successes, not contenting ourselves with
mere demonstrations, but really endeavouring to
cripple the power of our gigantic adversary, which
has been so grievously abused, and to prevent her
from carrying out the nefarious designs which
nothing but imperative necessity will induce her
to relinquish. Like the old man in the fable,
we have tried the effect of persuasion—the Con-
ferences, to wit. It has wholly and unequi-
vocally failed. We have flung grass in
our warlike exhibitions, but the absence of
earnestness was too clearly perceptible to the wily
foe. Had we been as resolute as Russia we should
not have contented ourselves with a few hourh,
ball practice before alessa by a few steamers, while
the great body of the fleet were idle spectators of
the so-called bombardment. We should not have
allowed the depot for provisioning and reinforcing
the army of the Crimea to remain almost intact ;
nor should the punishment it received, such as it
was, have been attributed to merited retribution
for an insult to a flag of truce, but rather to the

natural bonsequencAst of the hostilities in which
we were then engaged.

It is manifest that Russia, has been still under
the expectation—would that wo might call it
ielusion, "—that we would not take any really
important step, but that we would be cajoled by
the negotiations still nominally pending. She
entertained that belief while the A BERDEEN Go-
vernment remained in office, and the recent
speech of Mr. GLADSTONE, and the conduct of the
Peelites, prove that she had but too much foun-
dation for the supposition. Lord PALMERSTON
ostentatiously avowed that the policy of the Go-
vernment was altogether unaltered by the changes
that had taken place. Consequently, the absurdly
lenient conditions tendered were contumeliously
rejected, and the insolent propositions put for-
ward which Count BuoL thought " to contain
elements of which Austria would endeavour to
avail herself for an understanding." Until the
Conference be finally dissolved, and a formal
notice given that the Western Powers will no
longer accept the conditions on which they were
previously willing to treat, there will be no secu-
rity against a dishonourable and transitory peace,
without any real guarantees for its stability,
and which will only be observed by Russia
until she sees a favourable opportunity for its
violation.

Our uninterrupted and bloodless triumphs prove
that the Russians did not anticipate so vigorous
a proceeding on our part. Had it been other-
wise they would have made at least some show
of resistance. Since entering the Sea of Azoff
no less than four war-steamers, and two hundred
and forty vessels, employed in carrying supplies
to the Russian army in the Crimea, have been
destroyed. We have not only taken possession
of Kertch and Yenikale, and thus cut off the
communications with the troops in Asia, but we
have also taken Genitchi, or Yenitchi, with a de-
tae. hment of Seamen and Marines, and, " after
driving the Russian forge from the place, de-
stroyed all the depots and vessels laden with corn
and suppliesforthearray;" and in all this not a singl e
life was lost. " One man Only was wounded !"
It is said that no less than six millions of rations
for the garrison of Sebastopol have been thus de-
stroyed. The troops stationed at those different
posts have fallen back in the direction of Kaffa,
and it is said, on Russian authority, that they
took care to place no less than thirty miles be-
tween them and the invaders before they ven-
tured to halt.

Much blame was cast on Mr. DISRAELI by every
section of the opposite camp for shaping his mo-
tion so as to avoid all avowal of a policy, and for
reducing it to a mere notice for Whigs to quit,
and an invitation to Conservatives to come in.
The blame was, perhaps, deserved. Time was
when Mr. Disraeli's motto was "No AUSTRIAN
ALLIANCE, NO FOUR Ponrrs." Has anything
occurred which should induce him to change
it ? Is he to pursue with impunity a course
of ambiguity and uncertainty for which he
invokes censure on Ministers ? Had he stood to his
motto tire country at least would have adopted him
as the right man. It was not, indeed, for de-
sertion of his former avowal that the Liberals
of the Press and Parliament attacked him ; his
crime in their eyes was, that he wanted to be in
and turn their friends • out ; and they trium-
phantly asked, what better policy than theirs he
had to offer. The country saw with regret that
after weary conferences, and continued evasion of
her duty by Austria, after everything had satisfied
the public mind that the Austrian Alliance and
the Four Points were the most dangerous of
sunken rocks before I.s—yet, Mr. DISRAELI ig-
nored his former manly demand, and sacrificed
his country's wishes to those probably of the
COBURGS, with whom, if he carried his motion,
he might soon have been in close, though invisi-
ble, contact.

If, however, Mr. DISRAELI deserved censure
for abandoning his country's flag after he had
once hoisted it, what shall we say to Mr. GLAD-
wrol.cE? We have always hitherto had a good
opinion of his official as well as his personal
conscientiousness. It.is extremely difficult, how-
ever, to retain such an opinion since his great but
sophistical effort on the 24th. All his arguments
were directed against the War, yet because it
commenced under an ABERDEEN and GLADSTONE
Cabinet he professed to justify it. He fatheiled
the Four Points, yet was satisfied to negotiate fur
Reac3 on the basis of a transparent evasion by
Russia of the only point of substantial importance.
lie de'clared that the victories of the Allies and
the Cri-mean expedition had humbled the arro-
gance of Russia, and induced her to negotiate on
terms which before she disdained ; yet When lie
wanted to force his peace-at-any-cost views on'the
country he declaimed on the horrors of bloodshed
as if any one needed light or persuasion on
that subject, and denied that another Alma
and Inkerman, or another province invaded,
would have any humbling effect at all
We deduce two inferences from such un-
pardonable special pleading : the first, that Mr.
GLADSTONE never was at heart in favour of the
War at all, but that having been forced into it as'
the only means of retaining office, he now magni-
fies the results of his unwilling policy. The
second, that, released from office, he takes his na-
tural position as the advocate of Russia, and of a
peace which shall leave her as injurious and dan-
gerous to Europe as ever. • Perhaps he is really
planning to take office at the end of the War with
the Manchester gentlemen and the Peelites, minus,
of course, their more manly former colleague, the
Duke of NEWCASTLE.

How can the country ever trust such a tortu-
ous man again ? Put the best face on it, suppose
that his views really changed with his position,
—what, then, is the worth of a leading Minister
(for such his oratorical powers would ever make
him) who could persuade himself, now that black
was white, now that white was black ? We must
think, however, that Mr. GLADSTONE and those
lately with him in the Cabinet were at the bot-
tom of all the mischief. Sir DE LACY EVANS,
with the practised eye of an old General, told
them, but too truly, that they sent out troops at
first for show and not for fight. We need not
recall Besika Bay, Sinope, waiting on Austria,
and for that reason the too late expedition to the
Crimea, the Black Sea ports half blockaded,
Odessa and Nicolaieff spared, and all the unmanly
and fatal timidity and vacillation of the late Ad-
ministration. The recent proceedings in the Sea
of Azoff convince us all that Sebastopol might, by
a right use of our fleet, have been starved into
submission before now, and the Rus-
sian army in the Crimea starved too.
Mr. GLADSTONE and his principal assuredly
teansgressed with most awful results the article of
war, on the charge of violating which poor BYNG
was victimised to party. The thousands lying
beneath the sod before Sebastopol, about whom
Mr. GLADSTONE declaimed so solemnly, lie there,
we hesitate not to affirm, through him and those
like-minded with him. Ho and his Russianising-
Austrianising clique are answerable for that blood.
The men who starved the War in the most im-
portant campaign of all, who compelled Russia to
believe that they would never fight her in earnest,
and who were dabbling in Austrian diplomacy
while our army and navy were literally dying for
want of work, and when they ought to have con-
fronted Russia, ashe
itstuthgehseAaursetrtihe
Austria were w
theho poli-
ticalhave nonentity s
laid our troops
in Crimean graves. Mr. GLAD-
STONE dec7ainas as
if the advocates of vigour were
answerable for the bloodshed ; but if he have a
conscience, we envy him not the reflections which
time must bring.
It may be too much to hope that
Legislators
will listen to our counsels, remarkably as they
Ihave hitherto been justified by mats, and been

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Besides these advantages we learn this after.
the town of Stranychi,
noon that we have taken
at the entrance of the Putrid Sea, burnt a month's
rations of the whole Russian army, and destroyed
the shipping. There was no resistance offered by
the enemy. No loss to the Allies.
Gollitchi is a peculiarly
It lies at termed the
important position.
the entrance of what is
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Putrid mss" which it entirely commands. It
is through this
Bea, or marsh, that the military
road has been constructed, of which, until last
year, but little was Ir.,
--Irwo, and by means whereof
so many reinforcements were poured into the Crimea.
The cutting of the wooden causeway, a work of ,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUIt4E 4s 18b4

successively adopted by the country. We venture, '
however, to warn them again. This evening they
will meet under a heavy responsibility. The most
firm and warlike tone the House can take in its de-
bates and its resolutions is assuredly the •ne most
in the interest of peace. Let the manly tone of
our Parliament back the recent movements of the
Allies ; let our soldiers, and let St. Petersburg
both see that the time for half measures is com-
pletely gone, that we have kicked away that worse
than useless crutch, Austria, that we defy Prussia,
and that we mean to go to work as we can if we
will—and we are mistaken if Russia does not
strike even too soon. Too soon we mean to dis-
pose our Ministers to demand all they should.
Nothing hitherto has been so adverse to peace as
the avowed moderation of the Allies' demands.
Russia has seen that she could take little harm
from ;continuing a war at the end of which she
was to lose nothing. Lord J. RUSSELL'S un-
statesmanlike avowal that they " did not wish to
diminish the territories of Russia" has, we believe,
more than anything, induced her to be lavish of
her own blood, at the cost to us of so much of
ours. The ABERDEEN-GLADSTONE policy of hold-
ing back our forces, and the RUSSELL one of
guaranteeing Russia her stolen territories, are
accountable for most of the blood already shed.
Announce that we shall retain henceforth all we
can conquer, and will conquer all we can, and blood
will speedily cease to flow.
We never could understand why merely because
Russia strongly objects, we should recede a mo-
ment from the demand that the Black Sea should
become a purely commercial lake. The Ministry
which does not insist on that deserves to be im-
peached. "Limitation" is truly an absurdity.
With Allied Consuls in every port a naval attack
could not, on the other principle, be ever organised
by Russia. In addition to the territorial penalties,
which any honest Ministry will now inflict on
Russia, one of the most important of securities is
to compel her to pay the whole costs of the War.
True, she might raise the loan to do it on the ex-
changes of Paris and London, buy she would be
saddled with 'a debt heavy for her means, and it
would not be so easy for her to maintain a peace
army of 800,000 men, and impossible to move
them till commerce had increased and enriched
her ; and then she would, by that very circum-
stance, be less disposed to renew the losing game
of aggression. There is one consideration which
should determine us never to place the Crimea in
Russian hands again. There lie in thousands the
martyrs to the Austro-Gladstone policy. Let
friends to the cause for which they really bled
guard their sacred tombs. They fell as the
HAMPDENS of European • liberty ; never let the
Russian serf insult their graves.

and was then to fortify Kars. The Russian
troops that were expected at Tiflis had been sent
off to the Crimea, and in consequence great appre-
hensions wei e entertained in Tiflis of an attack by
Schamyl and the Turks.

Brigandage continues in Greece. Thcssaly is

agitated.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY MORNING.
The Indus, with advices from Constantinople of
he 21st ult., has just arrived.
Her despatches will be forwarded by train at

1 p.m.
According to advices from the Crimea of the
26th ult., all was going on well at that date.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the following despatch
from General Pelissier to the Minister of War:—

CRIMEA, JUNE 1, 10 p.m.

We have sprung two mines in front of the
Flagstaff Bastion ; the second explosion did con-
siderable damage to the enemy.
In the ravine of Careening Bay in advance of
our works our engineers discovered a transverse
line of 24 cubic cases filled with gunpowder, each
40 centimetres thick in the inside, placed at equal
distances, and buried just beneath the sod ; each
case, containing one-fiftieth of a kilogramme of
powder, is covered with a fulminating apparatus,
which would explode by the simple pressure of
the foot. These cases have been taken up by our

engineers.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Mao 24.

The corps which Omer Pacha has embarked at
Eupatoria and landed at Kamiesch consists of
25,000 picked men and 40 guns. They were
to be replaced by an Egyptitin and Tunisian divi-

SiOR.

The Russians are rapidly raising redoubts on
the north side of Sebastopol, but they are not yet
armed; 60,000 of the Allied troops will remain
before Sebastopol when the advance is made.
General Mouravieff, Commander-in-Chief of the
Russian detached army of the Caucasus, is in
great want of reinforcements. To supply their
lack he is attempting to raise troops by voluntary
enlistment from among the Armenian population.
He is at the same time endeavouring to negotiate
a suspension of hostilities with Schamyl.
Under the orders of General Williams fifteen
redoubts have been constructed for the defence of
Erzeroum. It is believed that new hostilities
will not be long delayed.

DANTZIC, JUNE 1.

The English Post-office steamer has just arrived.
When she quitted the fleet under Admiral Dun-
das, it was only a few miles from Cronstadt.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 1.

The King has named as Ambassador to Vienna
Baron de Marden-stroem, who has till now been
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs. This day's journals approve the choice,
and augur from it that important negotiations
are about to open.

FRAN CE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING,
The Moniteur contains decrees confirming seven
promotions to the rank of officer and 85 nominations
to that of knight in the Legion of Honour, as well
as the grant of 230 miTitary medals, made by the
Commander-in-Chief of the army of the East.
A letter from Marseilles of the Ist, says :
" General Walsh' Esterhazy has just left this port
for Constantinople, in the Carmel, which vessel has
taken out troops and stores. The Egyptian steam-
frigate, the Ferdi-Gihan, arrived here yesterday
from Alexandria. • She is about to carry out a
second cargo of mules purchased in France,
for the Pa,clia of Egypt. The Montigello also ar-
rived here yesterday from Naples, with 120 pas-
sengers on board. Moinat Vesuvius, she brings
word, had ceased its eruption, the flames having
entirely ceased. A thick black smoke, however,
was still issuing from the crater, when the Monti-
gello left."
The Dillon frigate left Marseilles on the Ist for
Constantinople, with a full cargo of materiel on
board.

The screw steam-transport La Gironde, of 1,200
tons, was launched at Bordeaux on the 30th ult.,
and the gun-boat La Meurtriere at Toulon on the
31st.

Accounts from Martinique state that the inhabi-
tants of that island, being desirous of joining in
the patriotic manifestations of the mother country
in favour of the army of tne East, spontaneously
opened subscriptions for that purpose. The go-
vernor of the colony has transmitted a first instal-
ment of 3,000 f. to the Minister of Marine, and the
corvette Recherche, which Las just arrived at
Brest, has brought 16 barrels and 4 cases containing
cigars, tobacco, preserves, &c., for the use of the
army.
Letters have been,received from Jerusalem to the
14th ult. The Holy City had once more returned
to its usual quiet. All the pilgrims, who had come
from the west had re-embarked, some at Jaffa and
others at Caipha, or Beyrout. Tranquillity has
been restored in tho mountains of Judea.

BOURSE, JUNE 2.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. En.l of Month,
94 —O.
-Ii per Cents
3 per Cents 7O 50 70 95
Credit Mobilier BO2 50 Roman 83
Credit Fonder 530 Austri- ..
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Belgian Fives ...... ..
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m °° Pied ontese — Debt . .....
RAILWAYS_
P.
OE, CuASH.
fr. •
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fr.
Orleans ... 12.-V ~
) Lyons , .. 1200
Western • r/00 Rouen
(Jett° .. .. 675 Strasburg .
Mediterranean . ...... 1202 50 Havre 595
Northern •—••,....... 917 50 Cherburg

RUSSIA.
Tl' Abeille of St. Petersburg gives the following
vrx.sion of the language lately used by the Czar at
;jronstadt, and which some persons considered
Peaceful. The words attributed to his Majesty in
the above journal appear, on the contrary, rather
indicative of war. It says : " On the 9th, the
town of Cronstadt was honoured by a visit of the
Emperor. The inhabitants presented their Sove-
reign, according to ancient custom, with bread and
salt. His Majesty received his subjects with kind-
ness, and concluded his reply to them with the fol-
lowing words : Pray to God for the repose of the
soul of the late Emperor Nicholas I. He loved
you, and so will I. Pray to God. We will not
allow Cronstadt to fall into the power of the enemy.
With the will of God, peace will return, and then
your commerce will again improve.' After the de-
parture of our beloved monarch, we felt that our
hearts were full of faith in Providence, of devoted-
ness to the Czar, and of love for our country. Each
of us now repeats the words of one of our celebrated
Russian heroes. We will not allow our country
to be humiliated ; we will leave our bones here for
our Czar and our hearths.' "
We have received the St. Petersburg journals of
the 26th May;
In a despatch dated 21st May Prince Gortscha-
koff inferills his Government of the arrival of the
Sardtnan Contingent, and of the sailing of the
sP,Cond Kertch expedition, though the object of the
expedition was still a matter of conjecture to them.
A despatch, via Berlin, dated St. Petersburg,
Ist June, says :
"Under date of 29th May Prince Gortschakoff w.ites
that on the 24th the allies doubled Cape Kamiesch and
occupied Kertch and Yenikale. Our garrison having
spiked their guns and destroyed our vessels retired on
Arghynska without having suffered very considerable
loss. Up to the 29th the enemy -had not penetrated
into the interior.
" The allied flotilla, had appeared before Berdiansk."

policy of Sweden, in the present emergency.
Although there is no reason to doubt the King's
remaining faithful to the family traditional policy
of the Bernadottes, it cannot be expected that he
seriously contemplates acting iu opposition to the
united will of France and England by declining to
take part in the campaign about to commence, and
insisting on the further main tenance of his neutrality.
Many significant signs indicate that the days of the
present cabinet are numbered; and it cannot be de-
nied that a change of ministers at this juncture
would be received by the nation with great satis-
faction, as it is well known that they are but the
willing tools of the crown. An active participa-
, tion in the war must necessarily require great ex-
penses, which involve the convening the Diet for
the purpose of voting supplies ; and this _would be
the best opportunity for the expression of public
opinion. It must, however, be added that the
Government is still in possession of a large part
of the sums so liberally voted by the last Diet
under the generic denomination of the " neu-
trality fund," and which might be used by the
executive in defraying the first expenses of the
war, although, perhaps, strictly-speaking, voted
for another purpose. However, judging from
I the tide of public feeling, it
_is not very hazardous
to prognosticate, net only that the Diet would
make no objection to the alteration, but that, once
fairly engaged in a war, they would liberally vote
any amount of supplies required for the energetic,
prosecution of the same. The Swedish press have
of late become rather backward in discussing the
question of peace or war, but the tongue is not so
reserved, and it is not to be wondered at that it
forms the great subject of conversation in every
circle. The Aftonbladet is the only paper that now
raises its voice in favour of war, and demands from
the ministers a categorical explanation of their in-
tentions, that the country may know immediately
what it has to expect.