New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-01
II. reputation Of the Russians =. barbs,ous


patton bios fair e. become ooso etc. II they f'n-
tInue 10 the progr,s,Se spirit they have 'fs'ehy
manifested They are nog obtaining Virtot'@s
Viii co ttem great credit; those over the Ali'rS'
md those over Themselves. They have aeiiaiy
coutriyed TO esrfy news from the Cdmea 90 the
Utoe western world, by ~ay Of Moscow and ~.
P,tersburg, 10 from tsO to four days faster than
the Aliied Co@msnders coGld their news, wa
Cons sn5inope and Bocbares.. from the same
quarter Most of the intelligence We have from
the Crime, first arrives By way of Sc. Petersburg.
Ihs. the Russians should be able 70 beat the
Allies IN open battle, might be considered uat-
ter Of possibility but that they should beat them
in the Transmission of news, in rapijity of com
municston. and TO the tune of from two TO Sur
days, snd by circuitous route, is what 40 one
expected. The Russians. too. appear to have
conquered that penehdni for lying apparently 10
nate to them. Not only do they transmit news,
but true, correct business. like news. First ar
ryes the Russsn report then this is contra
dicttd by the telegrsphs from Vienna or by
camp talk from Balaklava and the diplomatic
rumOrs from Pera finally. We get Canroberts
aud Raglan's official dispatches, and with them,
almost regularly confirmation of the first
Russian news This is very curious
matter, and it msy safely be said that
the Russians, now for the first time, are telling
the truth. Lying has been their greatest
hereditary fault, ever since they have been
known 10 history But il seems that during the
last twenty FIVE years literary and popular at
tacks have not been without their effects upon
them. If they cannot actually be civilized aud
gentlemen, they have made up their minds to sp-
pear so; and, naturally first rate comedians, they
perform their part with great consistency and
credit. As TO civilization, the success OF the
Russian courier and telegraph over the alliance
of the British steamer, the Turkish tatir aud the
Austrian telegraph, is surely brilliant feat aRd
as to eentlemanly manners, if the Russians in the
beginning of the war Oyerdid the thing ia the
aduatory treatment OF their appears
from the report of the First Lieutenant OF the
ste amer Tiger, taken near Odessa-they have
wonderfully improved since then. At all events,
Prince Mtnchikof after proving at Constantine
pie that he could successfully play the blackgusrd,
is now bent upon proving that he can equally
well act 1.-THE first gentleman in Europe"
Never were there greater dsappOintments among
the Anglo French press than when Menchikod's
long expected Lying" report on the battle OF
the Alma arrived. Speculation had been rife
ever sirce the event was known: what will the
Russians say now ? how will big-mouthed Men
cbikoff slip over this defeat! And when the re-
port comes, it is the most succinct, the best
written, the most correct and business like paper
made up by any General commanding in
the action. The main features, the decisive
movements Of the battle, are stated with
correctness, clearness and impartiality, becoming
historian, who might have written ffty years,
not five hours, after the event. and while the de-
feat il to its fullest extent acknowledged, but
naturally explained, an adrairing and almost en-
yious homage is paid to the uRdoubted bravery
with which the one decisive hostile attack was
executed.
Clearly, then, the world moves, though we
get the evidence of it from amid the ghastly in
f,rualities OF such war as that now wagtng in
the Crimea. The Russians tell the truth, and
MenchikoG is man Of sense after all.