The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

GENERAL AFTER ORDER.

Head-quarters before Sebastopol, July 10.
The Lieut.-General Commanding the forces has great
satisfaction in publishing to the army the following let-
ters, addressed by the Minister of War to the late Field-
Marshal Lord Raglan, in obedience to her Majesty's
commands :

"War Department, June 25,

"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your lordship's despatches, Nos. 310 and 315,
of the 2d and sth inst.
I have submitted to the Qaeen the satisfactory re-
ports with which your lordship has furnished me of the
continued success of the important operations in which
the forces of her Majesty, and those of her ally the Em-
peror of the French, have been engaged, subsequently
to the occurrences which your lordship reported to me
in your despatch of the 29th 'of May, and I am com-
manded to express to your lordship the gratification
which it has afforded to her Majesty to receive the in-
telligence that the resources of the enemy had been
crippled, while, at the same time, the steps taken to
effect this object were unattended by loss of life.
" Her Majesty is fully sensible of the important as-
sistance rendered by her naval forces in effecting the
successes now reported by you, and I have it especially
in command to desire that your lordship will convey to
Captain Lyons, of the Miranda, and to the officers and
men serving under his orders, her Majesty's high appre-
ciation of their gallant deeds, by which objects have
been accomplished of such vast importance to the cause,
of the allied Powers.—l have, &c.,
" PANNURE.
" Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8., &c."

" War Department, June 25.
"My Lord, I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your lordship's despatch of the oth inst., which I have
laid before the Queen, and on this, as on every other oc-
casion in which her Majesty's troops have been engaged,
they have, by their gallant conduct, earned still further
her approbation and gratitude.
" YoU will be pleased to accept her Majesty's congra•
tulations. which I am commanded to convey to you, and
likewise those of my colleagues and myself, on the im-
portant acquisition of the works in front of the Redan,
and you will announeetl the troops engaged on that oc-
casion the thanks of the Queen for their unabating gal-
lantry and determination in seizing and maintaining
post after post from the enemy.
" The Queen deeply grieves that successes such as
these cannot be obtained without the loss of valuable lives
and the infliction of severe suffering but you may be
assured that no one more cordially honours the gallant
dead, or more sincerely spmpathises with her wounded
soldiers, than her Majesty.
" Where all are brave, I can enter into your lordship's
difficulty in naming any, but the country cannot fail to
hail the names of those whom you mention, and I rejoice
to see recorded among them the daring feat of Corporal
Quinn, of which I have no doubt your lordship has al-
ready marked your sense.
"It gives her Majesty some consolation to learn that
the wounds are of a comparatively slight character, and,
above all, that the wounded of all ranks have been com-
fortably disposed of, as your lordship describes.
" Your lordship's description of the contemporaneous
attack and entire success of our allies on the Mamelon

and Ouvrages Blanca' is hichly satisfactory to her Ma-
jesty, and you will, in her Bljesty's name, felicitate Ge-
neral Pelissier on the gallant achievements of the army.
" These successes cannot fail to inspire confidence
throughout the ranks of the be-ieging arinieg while they
dishearten the enemy, and will, I trust, lead at no dis-
tant day to the final overthrow of Sebastopol.—l have,
&c., PAN M. 13 RE.

-;; Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G C. 8., &c."
By order, H. L. PAKENHAM,
• Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant-Adjutant-Genera]

OPERATIONS IN THE BALTIC.

( From lice Daily News of this day.)

The promised "hundred pennants" are now in the
Baltic. The English have 85 vessels of mt. with 2,098
guns ; the French 16 vessels of Rar with 408 guns. In
the combined fleet there aro 23 line of battle ships with

1,853 guns ; 31 frigates and corvettes with 544 guns

29 smaller steamer; and gun-boats with 78 gun; ; 18
mortar boats and other craft with 21. guns—in all 101
vessels and 2,506 guns. What, is to be done with this
new " invincible armada ?"

At the close of last year's campaign Sir Charles Napier
was ordered to "strike his flag and come ashore" with
less caurtesy than a private gentleman would use in dis-
missing a lazy valet. The reason assigned for this un-
pre,edented course was, that Sir Charles had not accom-
plished all that might have been expected, or that he
had been ordered to do, with the fleet under his com-
mand. Sir Charles had with him 19 ships-of-the-line,
12 frigates, 17 corvettes, eight smaller steamers, and an
hospital ship. The combined naval force of the Allies
now in the Baltic is nearly double that which wasplaced
at the disposal of Sir Charles Napier—when the floating
batteries arrive it will be rather more than double. The
present .kdmiral has the advantage of all the soundings
and reconnaissances of last year ; and yet it cannot be
said that more enterprise or activity has as yet been dis-
played in 1855 than was evinced in 1854. The coast
blockade is not more strictly enforced. The desultory
dashes, at villages and telegraph stations along the coast
are not more important or decisive than those of last
year. We hear of no operation during the present cam-
paign that can take rank with the destruction of Bomar-
sund, which was effected before this time last year. In
1854 we were told that nothing could be accomplished
till late in the season, for want of land forces to co-operate
with the ships. It is true that little or no use was made
of the land forces after they were sent out ; but in
1855 there is no appearance of preparations being
made to send any. The few brief summer months of
the Baltic are rapidly slipping away ; is it intended that
the campaign of 1855 in these waters shall, after all the
boastful note of preparation we have heard, be as result-
less as that of 1854 ?
We are not asking in ignorant impatience for dazzling
exploits at any cost. It is possible that nature
and art have so strengthened the Russian coasts in
the Baltic, that the enemy have only to remain en-
sconced behind their defences to baffle all that mere
human power can accomplish in the way of assault. It
may be sound policy, as some maintain, to attempt
nothing in the Baltic, but to concentrate all our ener-
gies in the Euxine, where Russia may be more vulner-
able. But, if this be so, why the vain parade of so
expensive a naval armament in the Baltic ? Last
year, a fleet of half the strength of that which the
Allies, now maintain in these waters sufficed to
keep Russia as anxiously paralysed as the im-
mense armament of the present year has succeeded
in doing. Are the resources of France and England so
inexhaustible that money can be squandered on a sur-
plusage of men, ships, and guns, maintained for mere
ostentatious show and bravado ? The war before Sebas-
topol is starved ; there are not troops enough thetrao
ntos
invest the fortress, and the weight of our batternng
the de-
barely equals that of the ordnance emp
loyteElnied in the
; and yet an expensive fleet is
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