Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-24
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The sevastopol Roorback. Tho Sevastopof |
fret news shows how the American public are |
allowing themselves to be humbugged by Eng |
lish newspapers, in the course of the ferocious
war Of pre- udice and self interest on the parl
OF England against Russia. These English
accounts bring to mind their former msrepre-
sentation Of every thing in their last war with
US. For three days all Eng and was in An &c
stacy Of delight over the assumption that the
allied armies had, in q war Of wanton inva-
sion of Russia, slaughtered some twenty OF
thirty thousand of its innocent inha bitan,s.
Such is the boasted philanthropy Of the Eng
lish After these three days Of drunken ex
altation over the death aud misery which they
falsely supposed they had iu fioted on the gar
Iison and Inhabitants of Sevastopol, they
awake from their orgies of self de usiOn to
find that Sevastopol is yet to be taken, and
that, SO far as set appears, a larger number of
English and French have di d IN the Crimea
than of Russians; and that they have actually
been impiously rejoicing over the slaughter OF
their own countrymen. And now, when it is
positively known that Sevastopol is get to be
taken, the London Times and Ne,oy are giving
US whole columns Of stupid Justification OF
what, upon the last advices, was unquestion
ably shown 10 be the relative position of the
the 3Oth of September there was an allied
force, of what amount is not distinctly stated,
at Balak Elava. Ihisis a port at the southern
extremity of the Crimea, some fourteen miles
to the southeast of Sevastopol.
Now, it is to be remembered, that the de,
barkation Of the allies was at Old For, thirty
miles to the northwest Of Sevastopol, and the
last authentic intelligence We have of the
movement of the force there landed, 4vas of
battle fought by them on the banks Of the
river Alma, which traverses the Crimea from
east to west, flowing into the Black sea at
point on the western coast Of the Crimea in
termediate between Old Fort and Seyastopol
There is report also, of another engagement
having been fought after that of the Alma;
but Of this there is no authentic intelligence
Now, it may be that the, allies after crossing
The Alma, advanced into the midland of the
PENN sula, SO as to strike the highway which
trance of the Crimea, due south through the
middleeof the Peninsula, to Sevastopol, anu
with fork to Balak Elaya If this be SO,
the allies have departed from their Original
plan, which was to follow the western coast OF
The Crimea, marching al, ng the sea shore,
from Old Fort to Sevastopol, SO as to attack
the latter, in the first instance on its north
western side, under immediate cover of the
ships of war. 1t is quite possible that the
allies may have been compelled to relinq uisL
this original purpose, by finding that the OBJ
stacles to their advance On thai side are too
serious 10 be safely encountered; and that
therefore, they have made large detour, frs
to the east and then to The south, so as to com
menee their main approaches fronl the d.rec
ton of Balak Elava. That Is, from the e1
IRENE southeast, directly contrary to the
original attention. Or, on tho other hand,
may be that the main body of the allies is still
held in check on the northwestern side of Sc
vastopol. and that the forces reported at Balak
Elava consists Of the reinforosmenis expected
from Varna, and which many have naado .
separate landing at Balak Elava.
These are mere suggestions, however, to
account Tor insulated faa.. - 40 know.
withc--. ,--~..e tuelr sequence OK
But, upon these ms uleted facts, the II ms and
NsaDs are setting up huge cry of self gratu.
lation over the assumed fact of the tss estnaeut
Of Sevastopol We arc surprised at their ut.
tering any such fuilies themselves, and still
more surprised that the voracIous gullibility of
John Bull is wide mouthed enough to swallow
such stupid nonsense as the suggestion that
citadel il completely invested by troops, four
teen miles Oft. at detached point, and when
according to The dispatches themselves, their
siege artillery has hot yet been landed But
Ihe infinite humbuggery of all these newspaper
accounts in Eng and, is still more strikingly
illustrated by the fact that they tel! US tina
MenchikOff, having been driven IF, could NJ,
receive Inducements himself, because" ICON.
'Inues these wiseacres,) ''it is from the south
side Of the Crimea only that he could receive
them, and the allies have possession in that
direction, since they are posted at BalaA
Elava." 1t is not possible to conceive of an,
ignorance more superlatively ridiculous than
this Inference. How are the Russians to get
achievements from The South? Tho South
is the Black Sea. We haven heard of any
Russian corps aarmsss marching about hither
and thithei on the surface Of the Black Sea,
although the English newspapers contain Il
quantity of statements quite as absurd and
monstrous as that would be. 1t is not from
the South, but from the North that Menchi.
kof is to get reinforcemenss, for the Crimea is
attached to populous Southern provinces OF
Russia, by the isthmus of Perikop.
If the allies, inste ad of putting off their at
tack on the Crimea to the very end of the
season, had commenced at an earlier period,
they would have seen the propriety of begin.
ming their operations by an attack on Perikop.