New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-14

tie French troops. the natural elect OF Ine 40
normal state in shch they have existed since
li49 TIE French soldier has been taught ~ the
Bourgeoi,ie he rescued from the terrors OF tue
revolution. 10 look upon himself a. the SAVIOR OF
bis country and of society at large. lie ais been
yetted ty Louis BoDsparte as the Instrument
that stored the Empire. He was treated all
the while 10 way which taught him to command
and made him forget to obey. Superior as he
was instructed 20 consider himself T. civilians, he
very soon got 6 notion that he was at least equal
TO his commander. Every effort WAS used TO
make him prrtorsn. and al history shows that
pretoIians are but degenerate soldiers. They
begin by commanding 10 the civilians, they next
proceed to dictaiing to their generals, and they
end by being thoroughly thrashed.
Now Jock at what occurred at Warns. When
Whole battalion. dropped down on the burOing
sands, wrtbing in the agOlies of choers, the old
soldiers begsn to compare the sd5enIurers who
now are ST their head. with the oil commanders
that led them successfully through those very
African campaigns which the heroes of the mod.
ern Lower Empire affect so much to disdain.
Africa was hotter country than Bulgaria, and
tie Sahara is q good deal less pleasant than even
the DObrodjs; but no such mortslites ever marked
tie paths of African conquest as attended the
1epo,e OF Deyna. aud the easy accommodating
marches around Kostendji. Cayaignac, Beieau,
Cbangarper. LamOricicre led them through
greater dangers with far lees loss at time when
Espnasse aud Leroy st. Arnaud were still buried
in the obscurity from which political infamies
- - ell Oh
the men who tad done most work ind smelt IN )st
powder, the oest representatives of the African
army, rose in body and shouted: " A bas les
sincesi II nous taut LGmOrleiere!' Down with
the apes gi,e us Lamoriciere. His Imperial
Majesty Napoleon Iii the head and soul of this
actual Official spery of great past, must have
felt when this came to Lie knowledge that the
cry Of the Zouayes was for him - the beginning
"of the erd." At Y,rns it had a magic effect.
We may say il was the chief cause of the ex.
petition to the Crmea.
After the experience of this summers cam
pals ling, or rather promenadng, from GalllPoi
to Scutsri from Scutari to Vsrna, from Varna to
DevIa, Alldyn and back again, nobody will
expect Ia to treat seriously the pretexts put
forth by the allied commanders, why the expedi-
zion. after being So long delayed was finally so
hurriedly undertaken One instance will sufii-
cently show hat their arguments are worth.
TIE delay was owing it was said to the French
siege artillery not having arrived. Well, when
tie cLOlers riots occurred and Leroy st. Aruaud
saw that he must now play bis best card and that
without delay he sent 70 ConttantinOple for Turk
i.h siege artillery aud ammunition, and it Was got
ready aud embarked in a very short time and if
the French siege train had not arrived 10 the
mean time, they would have sailed without it.
Bat the Turk,sh siege artillery ready msny
month before, and thus al the delays that had
occurred art proved TO have been needless.
Thus We see that tbs grandiloquent ex-
petition to the Crimea, with six hundred
ships and sixty thousand soldiers, with three
sieee-tr1ius and nobody knows how many
field pieces, instead of being the deliberate
result of sbillful movements, prepared scen
tifcally long beforehand is nothing but
hurried cup de ttte, und, rtaken to save Leroy
Saint ATnaud from being mastered by his own
soldiers; poor old soft Lord Rag an not being the
man TO resist especially as any longer delay
would bring his army down to the same state of
discipline aud dependency which has already
seized the French troOps The irony Of cctnts,
as German writer has il, is still at work III con.
temporary as much ne in past history and poor
Lord Raglan is rs present victim. As to Leroy
Saint Arn5ud, nobody ever treated him as a COM
mrute- Re is a member of the swell mob of
toe iore stsndng-this notorious old companion
Of female thieves and sw inders-this worthy AGO.
lyte Of the man whom . Debt, not Destiny"
buried on to the expedition of Boulogne In
spite Of the censorship, his character and antece-
dents are known We'll enough 10 gOssiping Paris.
The twice cashiered Lieutenant THE Captain who
robbed the regimental cash-box when Paymistern
Africa, isknOwn well enough, aud whatever be may
accomplish in the Crmea, his successful expedi-
tion to Z London pswn-sbOp with his lsndls5y's
blankets, followed up by his well executed retreat
TO Paris, will still form bis chief title to military
glory. But POOR Raglan the Duke of yelling.
tons AGjutsnt General, a man grown hOary among
the Theoretical labors and minute details OF staff
command, no doubt actually believe. in the mo.
tyes be gives for his actions. And upon him falls
the full weight Of the curious fact that the whole
Of the campaign has been so scientifically planned,
so skillfully executed, that ten thousand men, or
about one in sever, died before they saw an
enemy, and that tie whole ofthese elaborate pro-
oeedings have served only TO bring about heller
skelttr expedition into the Crmea at the close Of
the season. There is nothing 30 puDgent as this
very Irony ofeyents."
For all that the exped ton may be successful.
The allies almost deserve il. for nothing would