Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-12-02

Tauons. OMEh FAcHA Is daily expected on the
Pruth. There seems to be considerable mystery
respecting the einjudicious movement Of the English
light cavalry during the action at Balaklava, by
which that regiment was more than three parts de-
stroyed. An order of Lord RAGLAN's S for the light
cavalry to charge, if practicable appears.to have
been understood as to charge immediately; which
was done almost under the certainty Of annihlaton
from an overwhelming opposing force and the cross
nres OF two batteries. Lord LUCAN and Lord
CARDIGAN appear to be both implicated in the mis-
take. it Is rumored that the latter has been sus-
pended
Whatever social and political advantages may ac-
crue to the nations and people of Europe from the
present war, it is quite clear that more than one
benefit has arisen to the Allies who are contending
against Russia--they have learned properly to ap-
preciate friend and they have ceased to underrate
an opponent Amidst the pain and heartsickness which
the details Of slaughter at Sebastopol occasion 10 eo.
pie long habiuated to peace the English have BEEN
there Is deep and sustaining satisfaction the seconda
ry interest Of the war-the French alliance To those
who remember what French and English armies once
were to each other, it is pleasure which aSsorbs
much Of the pain occasoned by the war thet these two
great national mindslhe minds of England and France
becoming reconcied each other To the comfort
OF this alliance the feeling Of every Engishman becom-
ing fully awake 1t is to be hoped that Englishmen viii
become equally mindful of the duties which their new
position imposes upon them and the moral obligations
which arise from them Both French and English have
paramount duty imposed upon themtha of learning OF
each other This process appears to be going on most
honorably wherever the Allied forces are at work to-
gether, and hope the authorities at home in both
countries will prove equally tractable The French from
long habit not essentially military nation excel the
English in all but the moral and physical qualities Of war
fare in which respects the English probably own no su-
perior The French in all matters of provision proce-
dure the medical department and perhaps in the COM
missarat are far ahead Of the English Their African
warfare has made them such soldiers for assault onset
and pursuit that MENscHKorF threw up his at Al
ma and said he was fighting tigers, not men" But
the work of besegng is to them and they have re-
ceyed lesson in respect to the strength of their Bate
ries And what is the comment Of their commanders?
Why admiration of the stability and sodity Of the Brit
sh works This is it should be- Far more disastrous
to loss of life the barbarous way Of bvouack
ing practised by the British from ignorance Of the French
method Of three carrying the three parts of tent
Hundreds Of the English lay down under pouring rain
while their French comrades slept under shelter Again.
the French possess the means Of baking and providing
bread for their roops the English supply theirs with
" the army bread biscuit Then as to the medical de-
partment certainly led infer that the English
are, in this branch very much behind the French In
this and many other departments our allies owe their per-
feet organization to the great NAPOLEON There was no
department. to which he keenly directed his aten
lion and his genius than to the medical staff and regua
lions Of the army The chief surgeons of the army were
MS intimate friends and companions. But NAPOLEON
sought his friends and companions and counseors Of
every branch of science that did his acute
mind discern want conceive improvement in any
,inp vrho Al
from the physician the surgeon, the chemist or the me-
,hanc the data and the information to proceed upon
His great mind always bent on the efficiency the or
the health and the discipline of his army
The army in France has for the last sixty years at least
been the great object of attentions for nearly twothrds
of that time it has been scarcely secondary object in
England But, with all the defects Of organization and
Of management which visible the British army
when compared with its gallant ally, it supplies
characteristics which do not particularly distinguish
the French troops. There is certainly some more eec-
tive check against marauding and punderng among the
English than among the French this however probably
relates only to the Zouaves, to whom the English have
answering force Both nations have SO much to learn
Of anothers mind and views and habits and temper
that the task might to be endless in the natural
course Of peace But in war like the present there
Is spirit which strips off exterior dsguises freema-
ConSnceS are brethren through
stacles which would in ordinary times require long deal
ing with. One campaign together in war, which every
man engaged in feels to be just will do MORE and has
done more to bring tho two nations into state of mutual
knowledge and consequent than the most pro-
tracted hosptable intercourse in time Of peace than
ITSELF it wholly free and unshached The
best way to render this mutual knowledge and esteem
thorough and secure is for each to acknowledge the
others merits in any particular respect by that highest
Of all testimony, generous emulation This is one great
good already secured The other to which alluded at
the commencement is conviction that the Russians are
far from being enemy to be dcspsed that they are
the contrary quite worthy their opponents The Allies
sebasopol and in the Crmea have an enemy to con-
tend against very different from those who were defeated
at Sctae, bafed at Kaafat, routed at Ssrir. The
Russians in the Crimea proved they could fight Id fight
well, at Ama and they have fought and are fighting well
at Sebasopol These opponents Of no ordinary
character The fire Of the Allies has been ncessant from
and Shore and although continued day after day. and
day after day the defences Of the enemy have been Grip
pied destroyed the next mornings sun has risen upon
fresh fortifcatons erected batteries. It has
been the fashion to represent the subjects Of the GEAR
wreched and rcbelous nation Of serfs, hating their
sovereign and his Government and anxious to cast off
their heavy hradcm but facts far from proving this
On the contrary tho enthusiasm and devotion Of the Rus
slams in the Of their Emperor have hitherto
come all difcutes and the women, children, and aged
soil and earth in baskets to the engineers upon the