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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE COALITION " BYGONES."

(From the Morning Herald.)
" Let bygones be bygones."
There are two lights in which this remarkable appeal
requires to be contemplated—namely, the ineffable mean-
ness of those who can make it a second time, and the
equally ineffable folly which those who make it must
attribute to the persons whom they think capable of
being gulled by it.
It is, in fact, an affront to the common sense of the
nation, similar to that which .we have before recorded in
the complaint of an Irish alderman against a certain
Lord Lieutenant of that country—namely, that the
" Viceroy insulted his intellect by the transparency of
the untruths he told Mm."

Lord Derby said—and the sentiment was worthy of
himself and the party he represented—that " he would
not be a Minister on sufferance." What are we to think
of a Coalition which would p ersuade the nation to per-
mit of their continuance in office out of contemptuous
pity ? The meanness of the :Appeal is patent. Let us
come to the fully of those wh 5 could accede to it.
Let bygones be bygones ! What are those bygones ?
1. An attempt to prevent tale possibility of the French
alliance by gross abuse of th e Emperor and nation.
2. Credulity or connivance with regard to Russian
aggressions.
Z;. A. year and a half wasted in absurd, if not treacher-
ous, negociations.
4. An army sent out with.eut preparation as a demon-
, stration.

5. An army left four m anths at Varna, to die o
cholera,.

6. An expedition sent to ate Crimea, to gull Parlia-
ment, in the fall of the year, when the winter was com-
ing—the force not being one-half the strength required
to do the work.

7. An army left without a►:ny reinforcements till it is
too late to send them for any• other purpose than to savo
the lives of those who are col s 'promised.
S. A• war on which the hibeeties of Europe depend
starved to indulge a financia t crotchet.
9. Permission to a false all y• to destroy our own troops
by paralysing the action of a :sincere one. _ _

10. Neglect to furn;sh our troops with hospital neces-
saries, or even surgeons, and'. leaving them till 'far into
the winter without clothes wo d without proper food.
11. Pushing the war int p. the winter, and thereby
losing in one gale of wind 3t t transports, and damaging
our men•of--war.

12. These proceedings ha•ni cost us in all, 20,000 of 1
the best soldiers of the worl ii, and left us on the Ist of
December as far from our o bject, the taking of Sebas-
topol, as we were on the Ist ()f September.
These are a few, and only a few, of the bygones we
are expected to forget—and ighat without a single proof
that Ministers even possess a., determination to do better
in future. Really, the Dub Hit alderman had not half ae
good cause of eomplaint as th. 4) British public.
Fancy the howl of the Ti.gues had Lord Derby's Go-
vernment made a plea of "bygones be bygones."
Why, they are not yet forgive n, and never will be, their
conscientious opposition to t bubble of free trade, al-
though eight years have slap e ed ; and time, with wheat
at 80s. a quarter, has proved', that they were perfectly
in the right.
Our Ministry have not event given up their crochet of
robbing Turkey to place the :Principalities in the hands
of the Power which has dire o tly caused all our losses in
the Crimea.
If they have, what means the ominous sentence which
we quote from the Aberdeen 'organ ?
"Better would it be for tl ,e Porte to lose altogether
provinces; which it has cease t i to govern, and cannot af-
ford to defend, than to hold, them by so precarious a
tenure."

We said above that, we we le now as far from taking
Sebastopol as we were on ttl ie Ist of September. We
were wren. in so saying, lor most assuredly we are
much farther.
At that time we had tlz,e game in our own hands.
If we had sent a sufficient f erce—nearly treble what we
did send—and insisted up.< in Austria allowing Omar
Pacha to act effectively on he Prutb, we might—not as
easily as the Times anticipa gted, however—have planted
our banners on its walls before Christmas. Having
neglected, those cominon-sen precautions,—mere " by-
genes '—of course we have, failed, and our army is he-
seiged, while the fire agaii ast the city had stopped for
three days at the date of th e latest intelligence.
The worst of all these " bygones" is that they are
irreparable. We protest w a have now our doubts as to
whether we shall ever take Sebastopol at all ; and we
believe that if we do, it I vill be after many, many
months blokade, and not b, y active siege operations.
The first process it tipper -s which Ministers now con-
template is to leave our arm y to freeze through the long
winter mouths upon the col dest and meet exposed pro-
montory in the proverbially " inhospitable"
Surely they do not expect t hat this force will be ready
far active operations after s uch an exposure. If they
should he so, they are the :most extraordinary troops in
the world, as remarkable for their powers of enduring
hardship as they are for fighting. Now this, with all
our admiration of them, we do not believe them to be.
Well, let us suppose the ler ti.; winter over, in what state
will things be in the Crime: sat the approach of spring 1
The Russian army, whic! t will have passed its winter
in snug quarters at Simpher mol and Baktchi-Serai, will
Le reinforced probably to 200,000 men ; for, notwith-
standing the assertions of thee Times, travelling in winter
after the frost sets in is r.tsy in Russia—transporting
provisions still easier ; and they will be well supplied
with all necessary materiel a o d provisions, bores has been
well observed by a correspo a dent we have overlooked the
district above Tagranrogoltc .I,.etlieras sources ofsupply. It
is obvious that cerarnencir the siege a second time,
without investing the nort I i side as well as the south,
would be mere folly. We ;shall therefore have to fight
a campaign in order to driv e the relieving army out of
the Crimea, before we can attempt even to commence
our approaches.
Well, let us once more snlpose the Crimea cleared of
the enormous army which t kie Czar will have collected,
the last Cossack driven be y and Perecop, the isthmus
rendered as unattaokable use Kalafat, and that the allied
army has returned to commence the siege. We can
hardly conceive all this to be accomplished before the
latter end of July or begins line of August. We shall
them require for investment. 10,000 men a mile, accord-
ing to the Duke of Welling bon ; at this rate, 13 miles—
at a calculation which eve a Mr. Gladstone could make
—gives us 130,000 men. :N;ow, it mast be remembered
that as the harbour of SebS.stopol cuts off the investing
army from all power of as, esting one wing by succours
from another—and, as the ;garrison—say 40,000 men—
will occupy a central positieon, they can bring a prepon-
derating force to Lear upo u, any point of the circumfer-
ence. We merely mentime this as a fact, for we do
not expect the Russians to easier) sorties. No, they will
trust to their heavy artillery- and formidable earthworks.
We have proved to our cost. -what canibe done in this way
in a month ; what may we :not expect to find at the end
of six or eight ?
As a specimen of the prepetrations making by the Czar,
we [quote alletter recently- received from a friend at
Berlin ; the writer is a Swede :
" In a public-house (at .13orlin) I met six Englishmen.
They had come through Holland, en route to Russia, to
superintend the casting of Isongrange Lancaster guns for
Cronstadt. Thousands of men are at work on all the
Gulf ports."
Now, it is hardly likely that Sebastopol will be neg-
lected, or that some of the patriotic Englishmen in
question will not be sent to cast Laucasters in the Rus-
sian Woolwich. Taking all these things into conside-
ration, We ask, may we not fine ourselves approaching
the winter of 1855, and Sebastopol not yet taken ?
meanwhille, all these preparations are going on, and
before the season for op erations com
up to dry for smences, our unfo
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tunate army will haves been hung
months in the north wireds, like the souls of the departed
in Virgil's description of "Tartarus," we suppose, in
order to extract from their bodies the foul miasma which
those who yet survive h; we absorbed' during their four
months' residence in the. Valley of Devna, called by the
Turks that of Death.
Good help our poor.fellows ! for we grieve to say that
England, at least as represented by her press, seems in-
clined to sacrifice thew, for the purpose of keeping in