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main body of the Turkish army passing by way of the

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.ds the Crimea, Russia has been enabled

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sm compelled to dispose of elsewhere. The
Austria has thus been as serviceable to the
CZAR as if she had placed an army at his disposal. If the

neutrality a

Muscovite has thus been enabled to extract such service
from this pretended neutrality, what benefit have the allies
derived from it as a counterpoise ? The barren, if not
fatal privilege of proving their superiority to the. Russian
hordes, has as yet been all the benefit the allies have de-
rived from the negative, not passive friendship of our
Austrian ally ; on whose head and against whose nefarious
policy it is not too n

h to charge at least one-half of the
slaughter of our armies in the Crimea. Yet our Ministers

prate about carrying on the war with spirit ; they hardly
venture, however, to say also with prudence and judgment.
Another matter seriously suggested by the two victories
we have recently gained, presents itself in the character

of the enemy, now let loose against our brave countrymen,
engaged in working out the reduction of Sebastopol. The
Russians who fought at Inkermann are, to all intents and

purposes, a different class of antagonists from those who
scarcely waited to be conquered on the heights of the
Alma. Our Inkermann antagonists were obviously vete-
ranspossessed of discipline and the persevering courage con-
ferred by discipline and military habits. Savage no doubt
they proved themselves, particularly against f

uhe defence-
less wounded—exhibiting more of the assassin's malignity

than of the soldier's spirit. Still to such merit as such
barbarians may claim they are entitled; and, if they dis-
played more of the vindictiveness than the magnanimity
of savage foes, they also evinced a kindred cunning to that
which enables the savage to steal unobserved upon his
enemy. It was no trivial exhibition of this quality, how-
ever favoured by the gloom of night, and the pall of a
dense fog, by which between 50,000 and 60,000 Russians
were enabled to scale the heights of Inkermann, carrying
with them their muskets and artillery, and pounce
upon our unsuspecting lines, till our soldiers were
awakened by their deadly fire. There is no question as to
the completeness of the surprise ; and it is said that,
any other troops in the world, the effect of the

against

This proves that our newly-found antagonists are of dif-
ferent metal from those tve had previously encountered
and proves also that they are dangerous as well as subtle
Evils are seldom unmixed, and the struggle under con-
sideration proves no exception to that rule ; if it has been
sharp and dangerous, it has been useful too. Every indi-
cation tends to prove that the fearful essay of the fifth
was the issue of a duly-considered plan, intended for the
entire destruction of the allied force. The troops selected
for the work were evidently experienced and determined ;
they were officered by the best commanders in the Russian
service, and they fought under the immediate eye of the
Emperor's sons. The gathered tide of Muscovite valour
was directed in fall force against our devoted handful.
The surge swelled high, and fatally dashed against our
bulwarks, recoiled, and yet again gathering strength,
again swept onward in its course ; repulsed once more, it
broke in foaming and dangerous eddies, but was ulti-
mately hurled back in wild confusion, shattered and
powerless, :as the billows of the ocean are repelled by the
cliffs of our rock-bound isle. The protracted and repeated
fury of the attack proves the desperation of the Russian
leaders ; and these being foiled affords plausibility to the
conjecture that for the present, having done his worst, our
decimated battalions,will be permitted such rest as the
arduous nature of the siege operations will permit. This
conjecture is further countenanced by the withdrawal of
the Royal Princes from the immediate scene of conten-
tion; but, in the meantime, everything and every circum-
stance calls loudly for prompt and large succours to our
army in the Crimea. With them, to stand still is really
ade ; and to be left alone in earning renown is

to retro,

to ensure destruction.
Dramatists and novel-writers wind up their composi
tions by the introduction of some unlooked-for event or
circumstance by which the malign influences of the piece
are so made to work as to ensure, by a course of action
contrary to that which is generally anticipated, the punish-
ment of the villain. This, by courtesy, is called " poetical,"
in opposition to ordinary justice. It sometimes happens,
however, that the course of real events work wonderfully,
in a similarly unexpectedmanner, to confound the machina-
tions and abase the pride of unprincipled men. A case
comes very aptly in point. We all remember how, a
year or two ago, the members of the present Government
opposed and traduced the DERBY Administration upon the
subject of the Militia Bill, and how their friends and

myrmidons preached crusades against the militia, and
endeavoured to prevent the bill from passing, and then
endeavoured to dissuade men from complying with its
behests. The exigencies of the war compel them to rely
on the militia force as their sheet-anchor, not merely for
replacing troops sent abroad, but to depend on it as a source
of supply for the regular army. The bellicose pacific
PREMIER and his colleagues in office are forced to depend
on Mr. WA.nronE's Militia Act as their chief hope for
supporting the national honour in the present war. This
Is hardly all the " humble pie" they are constrained to eat.
It is said that the gentleman who mismanages the Exche-
quer has reached his ultimatum in making the year's
revenue pay for the year's expenditure in connexion with
the war; and rumours are gaining much currency among
the sharp-witted to the effect that his finance, like that of
other ministers so circumstanced, will speedily find refuge,
like other destitute administrators, in a loan. ,Sic transit
gloria ministrorum.

Among the " mighty fallen," who now so conspicuous as
the HOME SECRETARY'S "Rev. Friend" the broad-brimmed
Member for Manchester ? The peripatetic quaker for a
considerable time past has made himself remarkable, if not
odious, by opposing the present war, and displaying his
pro-Russian tactics and tendencies. This exhibition has
of late become so pointed and unpopular, that the Man-
chester constituency are concocting means to make him
resign his seat; and, worse than all, so completely has he
been deserted by his special friends, the mob, that it has
become safe to treat him with contempt and contumely,
and on Tuesday night an effigy was publicly burned in
Manchester, inscribed" BRlGllT,thefriend of NICHOLA s."
The Ostend conference of American ministers held
lately, at which M. SOULE, Messrs. BUCHANAN, MASON,
and others of similar kidney and tribe, assisted, has, it
seems, resulted in an exposition of political morality of

which recent American annals afford too many instances.

The cogitating ministers of the " stripes and stars" have
concluded that -the time has arrived when Spain should
no longer be allowed " the opportunity of farther shuf-
fling" ; and further that the time also has arrived at which
it has become a necessity of the United States " to pur-
chase or take" Cuba at once ; and it seems the home
squadron will be sent to Havana, Matanzas, and other
ports of Cuba, which proceeding, it is said, will " lend a
moral influence" in favour of the annexing arguments.
Judging by this little bit of diplomatic necromancy, the
Russian bear is not -the only one inclined to grease its paw
in its neighbour'•s dish. It is quite possible that the
western " Bruin" may find the Spanish broth as hot to
handle as the property of the " sick man" has proved to
Russia.

The hand of death has been busy in high places. By
the recent death of Lord DUDLEY Szuenx, a vacancy
has occurred in the representation of Marylebone. To
fill the vacant seat various candidates on the Radical, or,
as they delight to call themselves, liberal interest are
talked of. Sir JAMES HAMILTON will, it is expected, be
again brought forward on the Conservative interest. Sir
JOSEPH PANITON is endeavouring to succeed his late friend
(Mr. GEA.CH) as one of the members for Coventry. The
horticultural knight has addressed the constituency, and
those who worship the rising sun in that direction prophesy
the certainty of his return. In the death of Professor
EDWARD Foul)Es science has lost a zealous votary, and
the University of Edinburgh has been deprived of one
who, by his assiduity, as well as by his natural and
acquired gifts, promised to be an ornament to that dis-
tinguished seat of learning. He was appointed to the
chair of Natural History in that University so lately as
April last, and took an eminent part in several of the
discussions at the meeting of the British Association in
Your good town, in September last. He was a native of
the Isle of Man, but was chiefly educated in Edinburgh,
of the University of which he was an alumnus. The
death of Miss SL sex EDMONSTONE FERRIER has just