The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-04 00:00:00

struck, at the main body of the Russian forces in the Cri
mea. Wd confess we do not share in this general imps
tience. Thv strength of the Russian ariey in that penin-
sula is probably exaggerated in the Russian reports, but
it is strongly entrenched, and any. attempt to storm the
field-works that have been thrown up in front of it would be
a mad and culpable waste of human life. Already the com-
munication of the Russians in the Crimea with the in
of the empire is all but intercepted. By sea—from the
Gulf of Perekop round to the Straits of Genitchi—they
can receive no supplies of men, 'stores, or provisimes.
Genitchi is situated on the same parallel of latitude as'
Perekop, and about sixty English miles to the eastward
of it. For almost the whole of this distance the Putrid
Sea intervenes between the Crimea and the mainland.
Except at Perekop and Genitchi (the latter of which
has been dismantled), the Russians have no place of
strength on the shores of this inland lagoon on either
side. From Genitchi a road runs first north and then
east to Taganrog ; immediately north of Perekop two
roads diverge, both leading•to Odessa —to one by Beris-
lay on the Dnieper, the other.by Aleshki and Kherson
further down the same river. A cross road connects f,lie
road from Genitchi•to Taganrog with these, but its course
is a good way inland, and only touches the Putrid Sea at
the botteMs of two deep bays, at Kumulle andTogrek. Be-
fore the war the fortifications cfPerekop had been allowed
to go to ruin, and as no war vessels of any force can ap-
proach them, it is not probable that they have been ma-
terially strengthened since. An expedition against
Perekop might be landed at Saribulat Bay—which is
only twenty English miles south of it—under cover of
ships of war. The Russian commanders, threatened by
the Allied force which has occupied the line of the Tcher-
naya, and by the force under Omer Pacha at Eupatoria,
would not venture to detaCh any considerable body of
reinforcements to Perekop ; and is the Allies are masters
of Genitchi, and the northern steppes of the Crimea are
not at this season easily crossed by large bodies of troops
with artillery, there might perhaps be no great risk in-
curred by despatching a boat expedition up the Putrid
Sea to co-operate with the troops destined to attack Pe-
rekop. These hints are thrown out simply for the pur-
pose of shoWing that, eio far as our information respect-
ing the country goes, there are no insurmountable ob-
stacles opposed to a comph to investment of the Crimea.
Were Perekop as well as Genitchi in the hands of the
Allies, the Russian troops in Sebastopol and the Crimea
might soon be starved into surrendering. A bloodle-ss vic-
tory would place the whole of that important peninsula
in the hands of the Allies, and deprive Russia of every
harbour in the Euxitie that is • available for a fleet of
ships of the line,' and not shut up by ice for a consider-
able part of the year. This would indeed be to destroy
,he preponderance of Russia in -the Euxine:

(Prom the Morning Herald of this day).
The resumption of the adjourned debate affords to the
House of Commons a further occasion for the expression
of its sentiments on the great question of peace or war,
and will, if properly conducted, force the Government
into a more explicit statement of their policy than has
been yet vouchsafed—something more satisfactory to the
house and the nation than the pompous generalities
with which the First Minister and the ex-plenipotentiary
thought it possible to impose upon the common sense of
both, and to cover, as far as might be, their treason
against the honour Of England.
The course pursued by the Conservative party during
the late debate was clear and perfectly consistent. It
had become the settled conviction of the opposition, no
less than of every honest and sagacious man an Parlia-
ment or out of it, that Ministers were prepared to make at
whatever cost an ignominious and disastrous peabee The
adoption of the contemptible policy of Lord Aberdeen's
Government by their successors—the languid conduct of
the.. war—the weakness of our reprdsentatives at• the
Vienna-Conference—the—presence of Aberdeentsm in the
Palmerstcin Cabinet, indicated beyond. questioWeby the
manifest and disreputable understanding between the
Government an i the Peelites on Milner Gibson's motion
—the contented surrender of that gentleman to the
wishes of a Ministry that he well knew would go as far
as himself in carrying out the views of the peace party—
all these facts pointed in one direction, and indicated the
existence of a conspiracy which,. if not dragged•to light,
would have placed this country, through the treachery of
her own Ministers and the mediation of Austria, at the
foot of she Czar of,,,Misscovy.
It is but Common justice to say that this infamous de-
sign was frustrated—by the vigilance of the opposition.
Mr, Disraeli's motion drew from Mr. Gladstone not only
an exposition bf the miserable un-English policy which
guided the Cabinet of which he was so lately an influen-
tial member, but a defence of that policy. The right hon.
gentleman completely unmasked the treachery to which
he had' been a party, and which Lord Palmerston's Go-
vernment was prepared to carry out. No protestations
of Ministers can get them out of the position in which
their past connection and present alliance with Mr.
Gladstone and his followers have placed them. He has
been their evil genius, and has become their unbidden
and unexpected accuser. The course pursued by the
.Opposition eeploded a conspiracy, all but perfected,
against the honour and interests of this country. Let
any one who desires a proof of the complicity of Ministers
turn to recent circular of Count Buol. After delays
and evasions, sufficient, under any circumstances, to
excite suspicion, the Government. at length, yielding to
a pressure they could no longer resist, consented to pro-
duce the protocols of the Vienna Conferences. We now
understand the reluctance to produce these papers.
Notwithstanding. the assertion of Lord Palmerston that
negociatione were at an end—notwithstanding Lord
John Russell's towering language respecting the conquest
of a secure peace, we have it upon the authority of the
Austrian Minister that negociations for peace, were act-
ually in progress- be the every time the protocols, were
laid before Parliament ; and Count Bute complains that
the inconvenient precipitation of the British; Cabinet has
thwarted the Austrian plan for an amicable adjustment;
which means—proceeding from the, quarter it does—the
conclusion of a peace, leaving the point in, dispute un-
touched, and the Russian supremacy in the Black Sea
Undisturbed.
The discoverx and defeat of this conspiracy are, as we
have already shown, due to the watchfulness and deter-
mination 'of t,he Opposition. With infinite tact, it must
be admitted, Lord Palmerston apprehended and eluded
the danger. Ho well knew the Opposition was on the
right scent. The Austrian intrigue was, therefore,
abandoned at all hazards, the protocols were produced,
and the Minister gets up in his place in Parliament, de-
clares the negotiations at an end, asks, with the fiery
patriotism of another Brutus
!‘Who is here so base that :lees not love his country ?
If any, speak, for him have I offended ;"
and declares the unalterable resolution of her Majesty's
Ministers to obtain peace by the sword alone. We ask,
is the common 'sense of the country to be deluded by this
piece of acting—this hollow display of sincerity, got up
for fear of an indignant Parliament and an outraged
people 1 Is Lord Palmerston to be accepted for what he
is not, because he possesees sufficient dexterity to meet atid
elude a Parliamentary difficulty Lord Stanley, in a few
vigorous sentences, on Friday week; stripped the tinsel
off the noble lord's. reputation. It was believed that a•
long familiarity with our foreign-relations had eminently
qualified Lord Palmerston to conduct the affairs of this
country through the present crisis. It was also believed
that his European reputation would have given him a
command to which no other living statesman could pre-
tend. It was believed especially that the Cabinet of
Vienna stood in awe of the pupil of the great man who
broke up the Holy Alliance, and endeavoured to infuse
liberal principles into the councils of Europe. We nave
lived to see that delusion dispelled—we have lived to
see Lord Palmerston Prime Minister of England, called
to power by the voice of the country in the hour of the
nation's peril. We have seen him play fast and loose
with the most treacherous power in Europe, and there,
Where he was believed to be most powerful, consent to
become the ignominious. tool of the secret agent of
Russia, and only rescued from infamy by the premature
discovery of the, base' intrigue—fur such ie the true de-
signation of these conferences—to carry out the detest-
able policy; of the incarnate foe 'of liberty and of those
institutions with Which a too credulous people believed
the name of Palmerston to be eternally associated.
We have never been deceived in the man who is still
tolerated as Prime 'Minister' of England. 'We have
watched his policy, and are not disappointed at
that which has disappointed others. We remind
the country that it has already been betrayed, and we
warn it against a continuance of misplaced confidence.
We are not insensible to the effects on the public mind
of the recent brilliant achievements in the East. The
expedition under Sir George Brown has been as success-
ful as British troops will ever be if they have ordinary
fair play. By the latest telegraphic despatch' we find
that our seamen and marines have driven the Russians
from Genitchi, in the Azoff, and have destroyed the corn
vessels and depots of that place ; 240 vessels employed
in conveying supplies to the 'Russian army in the
Crimea, together with four war steamers,' have been
utterly destroyed since. the 24th ult. These are great
advantages, and have no doubt completely changed the
position of the allies et the scene of war. We do not,
as we have said, underrate the effect of these successes
here, and the accession of strength thus gained by Minis-
ters ; but we ask people to bear in mind this considera-
tion—that these advantages might long since have been
secured if the Ministry had been determined to prose-
cute the war in earnest. The--supplies which have en-
abled the Russians to hold their ground, and to bring
up division after division to harass our exhausted troops,
might long since have been intercepted and diverted to
the support of the allied forces. Almost since the land-
ing of the expedition.at the Old Fort, we have pointed
Out the vast advantages to be secured by the occupa-
tion of the Cimmerian Bosphorus and the command of
the Sea of Azoff. The activity which now marks the
conduct of the war proves no more than this, that op-
portunities.long ago available have been neglected, and
are now seized only to allay the rising indignation at
home. Rightly considered, these successes are a re.
preach to auy War Ministry in occupation of power
since last January. They are the result of an unpleasant
necessity rather than the clever and rapidly executed
projects of an Administration jealous of their country's
honour, and determined to conquer a solid peace.
But although our troops and sailors now liold the
Straits of Kertch, and have approached within a few
miles of the Isthmas of Perekop, it is an incomplete
occupation for the, reduction of the Crimea and its for-
tress until the debouches of the great southern rivers of
Russia are in our hands. The Dniester, the Dnieper,
and the Bug are all great highways for the transport of
'rain to the southern coast—they must therefore be
dealt with—Odessa and Nicholakff must fall, and then
with a fleet divided 'on each side of the isthmus, and
watching every outlet, with an army and all its equip-
ments capable of investing the place ; then. and then
only, the Russian host in. the Crimea may be said to
exist at the mercy ol its enemies.

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