The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

THE GALES IN THE BLACK SEA.'

Of the many and great losses suffered by the Anglo-
French Expedition from one cause or another the storm
on the 13th of November, of which we have at length
the melancholy details, may almost be regarded as the
worst. It isltrue that the immediate loss of men is not to
be compared with the numbers placed hors de combat at
the battles of the Alma and Inkerman, still less with
the victims of cholera. It may also be admitted that
for a country so rich as ours, and with such a power of
rapid production, the loss of material is little more than
a temporary inconvenience. In this instance, however,
the losses come in a form, and in a time, the most unfor-
tunate that could be desired by the worst enemy of the
expedition. The total loss of men at the various stations
on the coast of the Crimea on the disastrous 13th cannot
be less then a thousand, besides those that have fallen
into the hands of the Cossacks. The loss of vessels was
thirty British and French wrecked and half as many
dismasted at Balaklava, and eighteen wrecked or dis-
masted at the mouth of the Kateha. Oar meni;ofa-hwiaers:
thanks to the precaution of frequently trying
n the loss of
have come off with no further dam
guns, or of masts, or of rigging, t wgiesting of their rud-
ders, or the springing some leaks. The French have lost
ker, and a favourite
the Henri IV., a noble thrhee-
deecaustained no loss be-
war steamer. Thus fa_,r
drain
i of v
war ; but the greatest
yond the ordinary 1
calamity is that Prigtraic we scarcely Low know
the feu. The ce, a magnificent new screw
steamer of 2,700 tons, carried out the other day
to Balaklava the 46th Regiment, all the winter
clothing for the troops engaged in the siege,
including 40,000 greatcoats, flannel suits, under
clothing, socks, and gloves; beef, pork, and other pro-
visions ; hospital stores for Scutari ; and a vast quantity
of shot and shell to carry on the siege. These are
wholly lost, and nothing remains of the Prince but half-
a.dozen of her numerous crew, who managed to get on
the cliffs when she was " broken to powder" against
them. The Resolute, with 900 tons of gunpowder, also
went to the bottom. Thus, it seems, all the materials
for carrying on the siege and providing against the
severity of the winter have been carried off at one fell
swoop ; and, even if we think to content ourselves with
merely maintaining our position on the heights before
Sebastopol, it is evident that we are not in a condition
to stand our worst foe, the coming winter.
Everything seems to have conspired, under a mysterious
dispensation of Heaven, to make the loss of the Prince
the greatest possible disaster. She could not stop at Scutari
to land the hospital stores so greatly wanted there. When
she arrived at Balaklava it wag blowing fresh, and she
did not venture within the narrow tortuous channel
of the harbour. All she did was to land the 46th,
though it is said that, besides a very large crew, some
Sappers and some medical and other officers were still
on board. On attempting to anchor, the whole of the
cable ran out, not being properly clinched. A second
cable shared the same fate. The Prince then steamed
out, while a third cable was got up from the hold, and
with this she was brought to, though with a smaller
anchor than those she had lost. This answered for a
while. On the dreadful morning of the 13th, however,
it proved utterly inadequate. The Prince cut away
her masts, sad put en her steam ; bet the wreck of the
mizenmast fouled the screw, and the noble vessel be-
coming helpless, immediately drifted against the rocks.
Figures are but feeble language for the description of
such a catastrophe, but the value of the Prince, as she
floated, is put at 150,0001., and her cargo at half a
million. There must have been nearly 200 souls on
board. The thirty transports utterly lest, with most
of their crews, at Balaklava, are put down at
15,0001. esch.4-Sit -here at once a million of money
went to the hot, in a form of which money conveys
but a faint idea. The other losses enumerated above,
the French ship of the line and war steamer, the trans-
ports lost on the western coast, the many vessels of all
kinds disabled, make up another million to be added to
the naked pecuniary estimate of the loss. But the true
way of stating it is, that the army is utterly disabled for
the present, and left to no other pioteetion than Heaven,
and that valour which the British soldier is ever sure to
display in the face of the greatest difficulties, the direst
privations, and the most overwhelming numbers. Yet
never was the ancient valour of our race put to so tre-
mendous a trial. The tempest, which is said to have
been the most terrible ever known in that part of the
world, and which overthrew three of the minarets of
Sultan Achmet's Mosque at Constantinople, besides
driving large vessels from their moorings before that city,
did not spare the Allies even on land. It blew down
and greatly injured their tents, feeble protection as they
are against the cold of a Crimean winter at the height
of 700 feet above the neighbouring surge. Such is the
situation in which the army finds itself suddenly de-
prived of the much-wanted supply of clothing sent out
for the winter, and the equally needful ammunition for
the siege.
For our part we do not despond, and cannot even fall
into the somewhat gloomy tone of our correspondent at
Constantinople. Whatever hopes might be raised in
the imagination of a people who for forty years had only.
read of war, or heard of it through the distant medium
of Indian campaigns, sober reason might have assured
us that the much-disputed empire of the Euxin e the
protection of Christians in the East, the security of both
the East and the West from Russian ambition, and all
the other great issues involved in this war, were not to
be accomplished in a day. Ancient epic is bat true to
the invariable fact when it opens with tedious delays
and destroying pest, with shipwreck, and every form of
calamity. It was not to be supposed that the balance
of the civilised world was to be corrected at once by a
naval promenade and a military demonstration. The
grandeur of these disasters is only in keeping with the
magnificence of the prize, or rather with the majesty of
the task. Sebastopol once in our hands, and the
Crimea secured from invasion by land, England and
France may hold it, and with it the dominion of the
Black Sea and the control of the Mediterranean for ages ,
to come. It is impossible to exaggerate the conse-
quences of such a position in the hands ef two such
Powers, but we will venture to say that, largely as
the Crusades bore on the interests of humanity and the
course of the world, the Anglo-French ascendancy in
the Black Sea, the Agean, the Mediterranean. and the
East, is pregnant with far greater consequences.
Turkey, Asia Minor, Egypt, Africa, Persia, Arabia,
Central Asia, and many other countries now crushed by
Turkish apathy, menaced by Russian ambition, or lying
in their own ancient barbarism, will be opened to the
civilising and softening influence of the West. Very
possibly we shall live to see the realisation of the dream
that even sober men have indulged in—the replenish-
ment of the depopulated countries of Asia with copious
migrations from Western Europe. It cannot be ima-
gined but that the religion of the West will go along '
with the power of our arms. But can these great
objects be attained in a day or even in a few brief
mouths I Such a rapidity, not to say versatility, is not
to be expected in fortune herself. No, we shall have to
fight hard, to contend with storm, plague, famine, and
every form of disaster—with impregnable forts and innu-
merable armies—before we can put forth our hands and
grasp the high object of our ambition. No other result
was to be expected, and therefore we do not see in these
disasters any reason to despair of a just and noble
cause.—Times.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, DEC. 5.

In the Convocation t• be holden on Thursday next,
the 7th inst., at ten o'clock, the report of the Museum
Delegacy will be read to the house.
In a Congregation to be holden on Friday next, the
Bth inst., at 3 o'clock, the appointment of a Committee
of members of Congregation to propose regulations for
conducting the business of Congregation will be sub-
mitted to the approbation of the house.
In the event of the appointment of a committee being
approved by the House, members of Congregation are
requested to present to the Vice-Chancellor a list of
candidates for such committee in such number as each
may deem expedient for the committee.
The number thence shown to be that approved by the
majority of Congregation will be adopted, and the
names which appear in the greater number of lists will
constitute the committee.

The Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy (Dr.
Daubeney) will deliver his Terminal Lecture on Thurs-
day, the 7th inst., at 2 o'clock, and will explain the
Tnllian System of Husbandry, as well as the improve-
ments recently introduced into this practice at Lois
Weedon, in Northamptonshire.

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