The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-29 00:00:00

RESIGNATION' OP Lol:D RAGLAN.

(From, the Times of this, day.)

The news of the war is more than usually grave. We
have indeed still to learn the particulars of our ill suo-
cess.on the ISth, and are stiil without, tidings of anv
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 has laid
many n, younger and t-tronger man low, and his lord-
ship has, we are told, requested to he relieved of los
command, in order to return home. General Simpson,
we believe, will succeed him in the command-in-chief:
General gstcourt, Deputy-Adjutant-General, has fallen
a victim to the cholera, and one of the first duties of

the new Commander-in-Chief will be to appoint a sne-
cesser to its post capable of -its duties. Another loss
excites the' deepest regret. Captain Lyons, whose
talents and enterprise marked him for the cAnmand of
the expedition to the Sea of Azoff, in spite of his. coda-,
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 Kalfa,.
he approached so near to that port that, standing onAlte
paddle-box of his ship, he received a rifle ball in his leg.
Tie did not think much of it at the time, but the extreme
heat, the excitement of the occasion, and probably also
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 first 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
bear, arrived.

No doubt that, as the war changes its character, as
the conflict draws closer and closer, as we fight one part
of Sebastopol against the other, the arsenal against the
' town, and the south side against the north ;—further, 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 morning. The
tardy resolutions of a divided Legislature, and the best-
intended measures of an honest Government, will be an-
ticipated by many a removal and many a promotion by
Death's own band. It is needless to say that we never
regarded with favour propositinnsof 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 ,n
General to be guided by purely military consideratione.
We have now to commission a soldier with no othrir
object than to fight and beat the enemy. No doubt I
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 youtk,
and so common to all classes is honourable ambition,
that there will be no lack of candidates for her Majesty's
commissions. At the Fame 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 hand
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 presentnbstinacY
of Russia aind counter determination of the allies we see
too much reason to fear a. protracted struggle. With!
new armies, new generals thrown into the bloody arena,
with new provocations, with those mistakes, outrages,
and retaliations which no efforts can prevent, the war
must continuolly become more relentless and more in-
capable of compromise, or even of humanity. Several
hundred thousatad men are now fighting from hill to hill,
from mound to mound, from the opposite sides and ends
of the same gorg e--taking and retaking positions still
filled with their oisvn 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 0.9 to the early issue of such a strug-
gle on the scene where it now rage. 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 OF MORALS BY LORD

PANMETRE.

Lord Panmure is an eminently moral and religions
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 drew the attention of the house 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 parenthese to remark,
was comical enough. He commenced by protesting ho
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 relate.,
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
Terminal." But it is with Lord Panmure's principles of
morals, not with his testiness, that we have to do at pre-
sent. Well ; 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 nil 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 general principle, we must be al-
lowed to doubt whether 10 or 12 years' comp ulsory celibacy
of all soldiers is likely to be conducive to tl le morality of
the army or of society in general. We have' been accus-
tomed to believe that, under proper regulati ens, 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 ; but if
almost all the inmates of that barrack. were to be
bache'ors 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 ;be " wishes
to see the army without women attached to it at; all."
He " thinks soldiers should do for themselves many
things which women aro now employed to do. What
these things are he did not condescend to explain ; but
it is pretty clear that Lord Panmure's model barracA
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 By 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 haltsovereign,
the property of her Majesty the Queen, by means of
fraud and perjury. John Cleary, a sergeant of the ;d
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 lighterrnan, said the prisoaer 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 &Hon.—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 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.
Toilemache (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 CLERK.—At the Wandswr orth
police court yesterday, Thomas Honeborne Bich
who was described as being a clerk and traveller ,11 the
service of Mr. W. Randall Wood, coal and timl) er mer-
chant, of the waterside, Wandsworth, was fi „evilly exa-
mined before Mr. Paynter, on a charge of . embezzling
various sums of money to the extent of 'oetween 4001.
and 5001., 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 orollect money and pay
it over to the cashier every r.q,"itt. The prosecutor bad
no' suspicion of the priser,er's dishonesty until Tuesday,
the 19th inst., when th,e prisoner's defalcations were for
the first timediscovi.sred. It seemed that the prisoner
was in the habit of accounting for portions of the bills
he had received, rand after they had been entered in the
ledger .by, the. cashier he surreptitiously obtained the
books, and altered the amounts. He was also in the
practice of scratching out the sums and items made by
the cashier, and writing others. Mr. Paynter committed
the prisoner (who offered no defence) for trial.