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th at- eVen in that-miscellaneous assemblage which
Sir De Lacy Evans took to Spain, and with which
he rendered so much service to the constitutionll
ca,ows with. :2
.little encouragement, there was
bexdiy Acer yvlo
has hoc sinee'attained dls-
tinction in Another. sphere. Many who are now
fq flic% arimea saw their 'first service as volunteers
in the Spanish Legion. We venture to anticipate
much more for the Sardinian, even if, what is
Most ito b9_clesired, he should never serve in any
other army than his own. We venture to pre-
diet that some day he will find -his-country
ing by her superior_ courage._ and enterprise;
as thoae qualities, once raised Sweden into influ-
ence and Prussia into being. Ale will find that
those qualities are not.so conimon or so cheap
in this- -world but that, they are sometimes in
request; and have their proper opportunity and
value. Meanwhile, Sardinia takes her stand at
once among the noblest nations of Europe-. She
has the good fortune to incur the special indigna-
tion of Russia, which would fain cross Europe and
scale the Alps to be revenged on her forward anta-
gonist, but whom she has met nearer home. Rus-
sia counted 'on her as one to be depended upon in
the grand:conspiracy-against the freedom of States.
Sardinia, of course, it was assumed, must be ready
for the regime of the Cossacks.- She would be un-
grateful if she was not. Sardinia has repudiated all
obligations that can. interpose between her and
honour. She has cut the knot with the sword,,
and now triumphantly answers the attempt to
compromise her independence with. the wager of
battle in the lists of the Crimea,

I' From the Daily News of this day.)
The prayer of our soldiers is heard. Liprandi's
divisions have shown themselves in the field to re-
learn in three hours the lesson , of Inkerinan;
which they had taken nine months to forgot. The
victory on the Tchernaya, reported by General
Simpson in another column, was swift and signal,
and, considering the strength of the enemy, may
be said to have been purchased cheaply.•
Since the middle of July certain stns have be •
tra,yed the intention of Prince Gortschakoff to de-
part from the defensive system he so long main-
tained, strike some great coup, dispirit the Allies,
and - delay; if not avert, the assault. Thus the
sick and• disabled were removed from the north of
Sebastopol into the interior, and the hospitals pre-
pared for a sudden accession of wounded. General
Paniutine's corps, or the principal park of it, was
also brought down from the South of Russia, and,
to mark more distinctly the high issue to be tried,
the Machinery of superstition was employed to an
extent unprecedented in this war. The aged arch-
bishop Innbeent was brought from Kherson to
bless the troops, and the white-hearded• metropa-
in Philarete from Kieft to prophesy their success.
The t 4 k,,-4,Ted image of Mitophan," brought from
its was solemnly coMmitted t 9 the army,
iraoulous efilicaoy a its presence asserted
in .
'
and the
miraculous
orders
of the day. The time, the place, the
stroke were, howovor, a
manner of the gaining
secret. _ _ _

The exterior Russian army, when the' last de
tailed accounts were received, held a strong posi-
tion on the Mackenzie heights, its• line extending
from Aitodor to•Albat, with advanced posts on the
range of heights overhangingUrkusta and the valley
of Blidar. • A portion of this delightful vale and
the line of the Tchernaya have been held by the
Sardinian Contingent, the Turkish army from the
Danube, and a mixed division of French troops,
computed in the last week of July to number in
all. 30,000 men. It wis here the fr.tal blow was to
fall.. With what was deemed excess of caution, the
Piedmontese and Turks entertained' themselVes
with adding new tabias to the redoubts first thrown
up in the new position, but wisdom appears to have
justified her children. On Thursday last, at day-
break, the Russian field army, which had long de-
fied reconnaissance, disclosed its front. According
to its limit, it advanced in masses. The generals
compute that it numbered 60,000, the strength
which Lord Raglan attributed to the army opposed
to him at Inkerman. But how different the re-
sult : then a day's fighting and a victory bought
with enormous loss ; now a decisive result in three
hours, and the loss on the side of the Allies very
small."
The question will arise—What impelled a Gene=
ral of Liprandi's mark to an undertaking so adven-
turons and insecure ? Perhaps necessity. Having
lately given considerable space to a Russian com-
munication, celebrating the abundance and health-
fulness which reign within Sebastopol, we may now
state; from iiitorm%tibikAtifigher auhtentigity, that
the garrison of Sebastopol is upon short rati9ns,
and that it suffers greatly from sickness. We do
not underrate the patience and heroic enduranciof
the Russian soldiers, but it is not unreasonable to
believe that where great privations have been en-
dured for a year without the stimulus of present or
prospective 'success, irritation and impatience will
prevail. Such a disposition revealing itself among
the defenders of Sebastopol would weigh with the
Russian Commanderin-Chief, and might induce
him to venture an attack upon the untried Sardi-
nians or the disesteemed Turks. It will, we believe,
be found that General Liprandi's attack expresses
less the enterprise than the straitened situation of
the Russians in the Crimea. _ _ _

We can afford to wait for the further details of
this battle ; but appearances conspire to foretel that
they will be eclipsed—say, rather, outshone—by
feats more critical and more glorious. Generals
Simpson and Pelissier have resolved to improve
the time ; and a despatch from the British head-
quarters, dated on the evening of this victory, in-
forms the public that their resolution was to open,
on the following (yesterday, Friday) morning, the
fire of all their batteries against the fortress.
We are then in the midst of great events. The
grandest artillery contest ever known is at this mo-
ment fully raging. Describing the last fire directed
against Sebastopol, Prince Gortschakoff found
words too weak until he almost became profane.
But the "feu d'enfer" of his despatch was weak,
scattered, and remote, compared with that `Which
the English and French, from stronger, nearer, and
more numerous batteries, now concentrate on the
place. Truly, if it had been possible for General
Liprandi to avert such a catastrophe, his attack
was not a minute too soon.
Clne of the chief points of interest in this vic-
tory is the share which the Italian Contingent has
borne in it. Italy, crushed by foreign oppression,
as in Lombardy—debased by internal bad Go-
vernment, as in Naples—aud allowed to breathe
freely only in Piedmont, comes forward to prove
that the grand national spirit which lifted it up to
the head of the world in ancient times—which in-
spired its poets, from Virgil down to Filicaia—is
not extinct. The Sardinians—we have General
Pelissier's word for it--behaved in a manner which
sustains their old reputation. These Sardinians
are the descendants of the men who formerly, by
dint of physical, moral, and mental strength, held
at the sword's point the Crimea against all corners.
They were then, it is true, acting selfishly. Their
object was to crush Venice, and absorb the whole
trade of the world into their hands. They did not
succeed then in holding secure possession of their
conquests, because they did not deserve to do so ;
but they come forward now to wrest the Crimea
from the hands of a power as unscrupulous as their
ancestralafter Genoa,
bbouatuty possessing
thatfeeling of
lofty none of those great
aspirations
ho-
nour and dignity, that grand confidence iu man-
hood, of which the remembrance will never pass
out of history, and which. to this day conserves to
Genoa its name of the "Superb." It is a grand
thing to see one of the most important portions of
Italy coming forward to take a glorious position: in
a struggle that is to check the progress of a tor-
rent of barbarism which threatens to overwhelm
Europe. We may not look as enthusiastically as
M. Comte to the advent of the establishment of a
awneinmstaityution would
be excused
wfgrrooemrakt Occident
alw rheje3ptunh
the Iri ego and d
we will not allow ourselves
to be shaken in the opinion that this return of one
of the great Italian powers to a ditinguished posi-
tion in the active life of Europe is a great guarantee
for the preservation of civilisation against the at-
tacks of barbarism. The victory on the Teller-
naya is a great event ; and let us not forget that
one of its most cheering features is the proof it
gives of the great vitality of Italy,

The'Bank of London announce the commencement of
business on Wednesday next in the City and at the West-
end. The Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle-street, in
which the wool sales recently took place, has been me-
tamorphosed in the course of a few weeks, and in an
architectural point of view may be considered the most
elegant bank in London.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN TEE NEW RENT ROAD.—Yes-
terday morning a little girl, named Emma Welch, about
five years old, the daughter of a metropolitan police-con-
stable, residing in Union-place, Harper-street, accompa-
nied by some other children, got into the front garden
of a house in the New Kent-road, where there was a
large quantity of timber in a pile. The children were
playing about, when one of the pieces 'of timber fell
and struck the poor girl Welch on tile head, crushing
her skull in a most dreadful manner. The little suf-
ferer was taken to Mr. Howell's surgery, near the plaCe
whets the accident occurred, but she expired while that
gentleman was examining the injuries,