The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

witness told him that he was charged with inflicting a
serious wound on his wife, by kicking her. He observed
that he only pushed his wife. Witness tnok her to the
Westminster Hospital, which institution she is unable
to leave in consequence of the severe injuries on her

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A MAN ON HIS WlFE.—This
day Thomas Todd, a coal-porter, No. 33, New Peter-
street, Westminster, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Paynter by policeman B 95, charged with assaulting
Maria Todd, his wife, by violently striking her, so that
her life is in danger.

The constable stated that between 11 and 12 o'clock
last night he received information that the prisoner bad
committed the most violent assault upon his wife. He
wont in !search of him, when on taking hint into custody

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 THE REGENERATION OF EUROPE.

(From the Morning Post of this day.)

Although the name of Sebastopol, even by the de-
struction of Sebastopol the town, has secured to itself
an imperishable remembrance, it has ceased to occupy
the large space in public attention allotted to it, with-
out intermission, for eleven months. Odessa, near the
Drseister, Nicelaieff on the Bong, and Cherson, still more
East, upon the Doeiper, have superseded much of the
interest attaching so recently to the great "standing
menace "--a menace no longer. Nay, the solicitude of
spectators has been transferred, in the Crimea itself,
further north. Ba.ksh.-Sherai, Simpheropol. and Perekop
aro now the words "to conjure with." But still there
glares upon the canvas the name of Mackenzie's Heights,
much nearer to the present basis of operations. Ad-
hering to our acknowledged purpose, we will abstain
for the moment from strategic disquisitions of too
close a character. What could they serve ? A strong
conviction, over and over again considered, might be
right ; but the impression of it, in the present pos-
ture o affairs, would be useless for practical purposes—
surplusage if the plan which is the subject of it he now,
as we think it in process of execution—and worse than
this, if it has been put aside for the sake of other and
very different operations.
Let us turn, then, to that vast and not altogether un-
profitable margin of topics which the conflict presents
to our notice. Omer Pacha has entirely missed the
later glories which crowned the Crimean expedition.
We will not add that he did not expect them ; but it
appears to us that the very opposite of everything
which could be said of General Canrobert is true of
Omer Pacha. He is good as first, and, of course,
good when alone. With others, and even with
orders, he seems to feel himself out of place. As to
his proposed scheme of campaign, how strangely accu-
rate has our former calculation proved ! Many times
we said, in reference to the Asia Minor war, that
either side, by throwing itself on the enemy's commu-
nications, must gain a prize. There would, of course,
be hardships ; but victory would yield liberal indemni-
ties. We minutely indicated the peculiar reasons which
in that region rendered such strategy advisable, and,
indeed, infallible. We finished that more special enu-
meration by a reflection of an exceedingly common-
place character, which was true of Armenia and Georgia
only because it is true of every land. On two accounts,
we observed, it is good to interpose between an enemy
on the defensive and his communications ; "first, you
get his caravans—and, secondly, he loses them ; so that
you feed on his famine."
Well, Omer Pacha proposes to land in Mingrelia,
somewhere between Soukoum•Kaleh and Redoubt-Ka-
leh, probably at or about Anaklia. Yet, Kars is its
vested, far to his right, and a little behind even. How
is this ? Why does he not fly to the relief of Kars ?
Why does he not propose to make the Russians raise
that siege ? Why is not his first anxiety to break the
leaguer ? So would ask, and so have asked, the steady
rs who think they know how a campaign in Asia
Minor, or a campaign anywhere else, ought to be ma-
naged. The answer is simple. Omer Pacha wants to
bring General Mouravieff to Constantinople. He there-
fore goes to the rear of the Russian position—not being
afraid of what that Russian General can effect against
him in the field, and being quite sure that no more cer-
tain means could be adopted to release Kars from all
stress and pressure. The advantage of getting Schamyl
to come down from Khusbek, and the mountains of the
Caucasus, with his" caterans," is also worth consideration
—although purely collateral. Then Imeretia lies before the
new comers and their Highland allies ; Akbabzik is
threatened ; Georgia is insecure ; even the connection
with the Caspian is by no means a certainty. As to
Kars, it may laugh at its assailants.
All our e nnment4, for some months past, are fulfilled
aid authenticated to the letter. We have, with teas
f line s s, occasionally di. cussed the properties of the Rus-
sian soldier. We have not spoken of him in a derisive
spirit. We have been mindful of facts. The Russian sol-
dier has many noble qualities ; if he fights in a bad cause,
he does not know it. He did not make the cause •
his Government will have to answer for his long and
patient sufferings— his humble and obedient endur-
ance. It would, moreover, he a serious error to over•
look the vast expanse of moor, and bog, and morass,
and steppe, and desert which that docile and faithful
serf traverses before he can come face to face with his
adversary. Undoubtedly, he is inferior in constitution
to the children of the West ; but it is not wholly this in-
feriority which decides the battles in which he is en-
gaged, or consigns him to an adverse fate. It is partly
his previous fatigues. And are there none in Asia
Minor ? No great soldier, from Alexander down, ever
looked at Asia Minor except as a stepping-stone. And,
although most of the Russians are wafted to that place
of action in boats through the Caspian, they find enough
to try their nerves and to wear out their courage, their
spirits, and their health, in the marches of Gulistan, be-
fore they come to Armenia at all.
Only three generals, we think, in the entire course of
history, ever led troops of naturally inferior physical
organisation against their betters with success. Those
three generals were Pyrrhus, Eumenes, and Hannibal.
The second Eumenes, by far the ablest lieutenant of
Alexander the Great, was cnce obliged to deceive his
soldiers respecting the nationality of the adversaries
whom they soon afterwards utterly routed, and whom
they would not even have confronted had they known
those enemies to be Macedonian soldiers. Hannibal
made the Gauls and the Marritanians vanquish their
future conquerors, the Italians ; and Pyrrhus rendered
Greeks successful against Romans in the field. General
Mouravieff commands Russians against Turks ; but the
Turks are commanded by Omer Pacha.

THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. JAMES'S

PARK.

The Siede has some well-timed remarks on the neces-
sity of making the most of the result of the war in which
the allies are engaged. The following passages are de-
servingof attention :—" The campaign of the Crimea,
so gloriously crowned by the taking of Sebastopol,
throws back the Muscovite power for more than a cen-
tury. We are now far from the embassy of Menschi-
koff and the passage of the Pruth. If there is now an
'invalid 'in the case it is not the ally of the Western
Powers. The fall of Sebastopol changes nothing in our
(the Siec/e's) policy. Before the triumph of the allied
armies we demanded that ideas of civilisation and
liberty should be the great ground .of support, and
we now ask it more than ever. We demanded that
England and France should not allow themselves to
be tricked with impunity by the Germanic Powers ;
we now repeat that demand more strongly than ever.
Before the fall of the city in which Russia had placed
her principal means of universal subjugation, we de-
clared that a durable peace could not be founded oa
the four guarantees ; we proclaimed those guarantees to
be insufficient, And as not preserving Europe from new
and savage aggressions on the part of Russia. We now
proclaim that opinion more strongly than ever. Before
the conquest of the great Muscovite arsenal we pleaded
the cause of nationalities ; we said that it was not only
necessary to have pledges in the Black Sea, but also
on the coast of Asia, and in the Baltic ; we mentioned
the names of Poland, Finland, and of Italy ; we now do
so more than ever. Before the arrival of the event
which resounds throughout the world we did not fear
to say :—There is more in this struggle than a circum-
scribed war, more than a political war between State
and State, and that the regeneration of Europe was en-
gaged in it. We now assert it more than ever.. In a word
we have nothing to change in what we have said
i and writ-
ten." The present moment, the Siec/e declares, s the very
best that can be selected for the allied Powers to act :
" It is not in the first moment that Russia will feel
the enormity of the losses ; her national pride will sus-
tain her. Already the German journals publish very
proud expressions made use of by the Czar. Let us
allow them to say and write what they think proper,
but do not let us lose time. It is now the moment for
rendering to the success of France, England, Italy, and
Turkey, all that that advantage can produce. A war of
civilisation has been undertaken. It must be followed
up, in a complete manner, for the benefit of that civili-
sation wherever it is suffering. In Turkey there has
been, in the first place, admitted for ever liberty ofa r a
science, civil equality has been founded, and Ottawa
unity formed. By a system of effective guarantees, all
recurrence of the events of 1853 have been also pre-
vented. There are also to be repaired the faults of
two centuries, and to raise up heroic Poland which
has been reduced to furnish its most precious blood
for the triumph of the policy of Peter the Great.
The part which belongs to Italy is also to be thought
of ; Piedmont did not fight for herself alone at Traktir
and at Sebastopol. She there represents Italy ; stipula-
tions must, therefore, be made far Italy. • Before the vic-
tory the revision of the map of Europe was talked of with
confidence ; it now may be spoken of with power, and
with a certainty of being obeyed. After all, it is only by
a complete revision of these treaties which were imposed
on us in our disasters that a really durable and glorious
peace can be acquired." The Siccle then argues that
everything it recommends is perfectly easy of accorripl sh-
meet :—" It will be, perhaps, said that we require too
much, and that we wish to lead the country into adven-
tures ; our only wish is that the sacrifices it makes shall
benefit civilisation.. To those who accuse us of seeking
far what is impossible we would reply by the fall of
Sebastopol. It was also said that we impelled the
Powers of the West to impossiblities when we were the
first to point out the Crimea as the grave of Russian in-
fluence. Well, then ! Let us he believed when we say that
everything is now easy to Franca and England ; they
may re-establish in their rights all the nations who have
been sacrificed to the ambition and the exigences of the
strongest ; supported by the sympathies and the grati-
tude of nations they will form an indestructible alliance,
but let them always have present to their minds that
true axiom, that in war, in policy, and, in fact, in al
affairs of life, it is necessary to know how to profit by
the moment."