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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1854,

No further news from the Crimea. This may
be the stereotyped heading of our articles, at least
so far as authentic official intelligence is concerned.
We have, of course, rumours in abundance, quite
sufficient to warrant the widest speculation as to
the actual state of affairs, but nothing on which
any reliance can be placed. We know that our
gallant soldiers and seamen—aye, and marines—
were proceeding vigorously and efficiently—that
they were interposed between the army of MEN-
SCIIIKOFF and the Russian stronghold—but we
know nothing more. Confident in their valour,
we may feel the strongest assurance of their ulti-
mate triumph. But there is no certainty—no-
thing that can positively be announced respecting
the progress of our arms, to relieve the intense
and general anxiety for trustworthy tidings.

The Russians are not thus served. They, at
least, hear from their generals with edifying regu-
larity, and if the statements be not in strict
accordance with the facts, if they do not disolosq
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, there is at least a responsible party to
answer for the errors either of omission or of com-
mission. In our ignorance we might have sup-
posed that it would be impossible for the most
unflinching story-teller to deny that they had suf-
fered some reverses. But we are greatly mistaken.
MENSCIIIKOFF boasts of his successes with a forty-
MITN. CHAUSEN power of embellishment. He
scarcely alludes to the contest on the Alma, or
being driven from his post on the 20th of Sep-
tember after a sang,uinary encounter. Far from
it. Truth is apparently a pearl too precious to
be cast before the Russian swine. That trivial
affair is slurred over as a matter of no conse-
quence, or rather as a portion of a brilliant stratege-
tical operation. With marvellous self-complacency
he announces that he has " executed his flank
movement on Bakshi-Sergi," and that "he wa,
ready to take the offensive on the first opportu-
nity which plan, he remarked, " promised to
be still more successful, because the Allies had
divided themselves." The poor ignorant barba-
rians had fallen into the trap so skilfully prepared
for their destruction ; and nothing remained but
for the brilliant General to crush them in detail.
" While the French approached the fortifications
on the north of the Bay of Sebastopol, the Eng-
lish troops betook themselves to Balaklava, by sea
where they effected a landi,a,
what opposition was offered to
He does not
condescend to say
their disembarkation. On this point the faithful
Russians are left in the dark. They may, if they
please, chuckle at the thought that the entrance
to Balaklava was left open, in order that the de-
feat might be more decisive, and that few should
escape the general destruction.
But even this is not all. The veracious
Prince
further gravely declares that, " informed of what
was taking place, he made a movement in advance,
but the French declining the combat, also abandoned
the north of Sebastopol, and effected a junction
with their Allies on the south. On the 30th, ha
himself had arrived with the greater part of his
troops at the fortifications on the north, and esta-
blished himself there, waiting until the intentions
'he Allies were more plainly developed."
Shia is certainly lying on a, grand scale. AU