The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-29

Crimea has diffnsed. The hero Of this 3
gious campaign has ceased to breathe. The
which brought us his bulletins, 90 valiant al
iuii OF wsrlse artor, are followed by one '
Dtin gs MS inaDimste ccrse. He desc ribed the /
a. he won it, with the same ardent and DO {
breath, and 1t was his last Sigh. He was knot
be Ill, weak, undermined with cruel suffsrinRs
who would have thought that death was there
nesr-and that man could see il, and fora
or, rhiher, command it to wait fsr him? He
lated Its approaches, he felt its embraces; b,
force Of win be tore himself from It few das
few hours. What DAYS! and what houn!
Inis great CEREAL was an humble and fei
Christian. The Empire being proclaimed AM
tab!isted, 81. Arnsud, Marshal OF France, Mia.
Grand Equerry OF the Emperor, at the summit
in the Pc ilous intoxcation of all sorts Of pr0spi
tnrned towards God, lot to obtain health, but {
Christian. He had one Of those natures, oil
sno flank, which do not shun the truth whea
behold il, and whle b do not fear TO follow i
was during his s0jourD at Wyeres that be cause
worthy cure Of that town to come to him, and@
out having recourse to any circumlocusiOns I
tours, he told HIM before all who we're preset
wished to confess. The good prit ct fell on his
returned thanks to God, who thus deigl
saeak to the heart Of the powerful Of the earth
Marshal, still too i'll to leave his chamber, too
Easter sacrament at his own house, without d
~. in the presence Of his officers andof all d
establish Mt, making even the sentinel ON /
at his door come to take part in it. Such as b,
ON this first occasion, such he continued Il
Cured against all expectation, restored to his q
he neglected no longer his Christian duties; b
nile them as 1t ia neces sary they should be fus
BY one-who, az no ordinary believer-shoult
the force OF his high example. When the ct
tion Of the East was decided, and the Emperg
given him the command of it, his first though
for the souls cf his soldiers.
The Constitutional publishes the jouYnsls
FitEch officer, Of the events from the battle 4
A ma up TO the 2Sth Of September, from w
estact the following:-
It apl ears from the papers found in the poi
# Menschikcff that be was perfectly well infll
II oil that took place at VsrDa. he wrote !
master "that he hadallo we'd rs to disembark al
in order to drive rs ba k into the sea; and Tt
any case, the formidable positions on the 1
would, at least, detain Us three week." He (
that "if we forced him at once on the Alma. nc
would remain except to chow to us the gates &
bastopol." However this may be, his conddeIl
the Lines Of tie Alma was such that prison.
formed rs he horsewhipped the officer VIII
nounced the fact Of General Bosquet having rel
the western heights. !,
The Presse gives the followiug:-An imd
number Of gallant acts might be particularizet
at the moment will only relate one, OF Q nor,
missicned officer in the English army. :;
An English soldier had to fix camp flag to
cate to the division which was coming ut
position It was to occupy. A Russian lei
ranks, and running up to the EaglishmAn sh0l,
and was carrying of the flag, when q non COZ
stoned English officer rushed forward, attsck9t
Russian, and with his revolver killed him. HI
returned towards his ranks with the flag Whit.
had recovered; but fire Of musketry hadS
opened upon him. and at the moment when k
close to bis comrades, with the flag In his hat
fell dead, pierced WITH seven balls. ~
The Ottoman division at the battle had 0nly (
men engaged with the I'd French division d.
enemy's left. Their post was not 30 active asss
brave soldiers would have desired, and Gen. Be-
had the greatest difficulty to make them remit
men killt and wounded. The Turkish gsversl
regrets it is said, that its troops had not
placed in the post of ,nor. that is to say, w.t.
Sd division. MI
The blood that has been shed at Alma has
much TO consolidate the dynasty of Bona 4
People Of the most diverse opinions, begin tori
and to say aloud, that the true glory of I \
seems to be chained to its chariot wheels.
compare the position they now occupy In Eurdd !
the comparatively subordinate role they for ii
forty years have played; they see their first I
tiOns to the empire-its present puny limits Z
pid process Of disappearance; they see the ke. !
Of the arch on which was erected the discon
and dishon0r of France giving way, and the Il,
defeat Of 1912 about TO be blotted ont; they sal
silent man working like come subterranean AZ
heRviDg the world upside down, using ever Il
for his purpose, yet, as it were, doing rothing.
ee Napoleon the Thild eschewing she counG,
such men as Theirs, Guizot, rrYer ar Lsiri
lin, all representatives ofpeculiar parties, ovens
every popular sto m, overcoming every Fl J.
liances, beudicg discordant materials TO his put
planting the rational flag hitler and tbith,s
church ~ooipg him, victory GROWING his 4 ,
military glory lowering in che distance, andss
perhaps at his command to burst form its 70
fulgence on the head OF the desceadant of is Il
lest champion; they witaess all this, and m
gwen to political pro. hecy are heard to saSc
two more such years as the last will create i.
party in France that will not fail to crush to lh
every smaller political aspiration. The digniUo
which Napoleon holds his position Is no M
eredient in the composition Of the srowing o.
His private conduct Is thoroughly unexceptioe
and his intense reserve prevents any one 'front.'
too busy or too useful to him, while, at ta,,
time, the msgnifceI ce of his gratitude to tholt
serve him faithfully, and the innumerable tea
tenderness of heart which are perpesuslly
evident, afford BIN an a0xious crowd of willb
pectant servitors, who wait but his word to
him to the death.
The Importance given to Count MontemoliSr
manifesto TO the Spanish people, by its publ
is the opinion of many that Napoleon would
no means sorry to see another civil conten.
Spain, and that he has not, there 'ore, the ar
objection to the columns Of the Moniteur H.
known the pretensiOns of any party who i
ready to take sword and lance in its favoIs
Union, in speaking of the address, says:--"Wet
fail to be moved by the words of this young
innocent Of the disasters Of which he Ia the W
and who, in the rude school Of advsrsity ha.-
ed only to pardon and to love his country?" u
Everything appears to foIe5cde an appro.
eruption between Austria, Prussia and Russis
Language Of the former, a. the success Of tho
becomes more stri king, grows holder every dsl
no doubt, by the time Sebastopol b 10 fallfy
mark IL has 90 long preserved will fall also. u
Lord Raglan, the moro be Is known In thqs
made in the first instance, on his appointmeIb,
be had never held 9 comm and, which was Vel
but, though be was not In command, h.
throughout the Peninsula, the constant conn,
an d attendant Of the late Duke Of Wellington.c o,
1909 to the final close Of that great generals
tary career ct Waterloo, where he lost an az
was at his right hand, seeing all he did, hear,
he said, and the sharer of every doubt, as oh
victory. For sixteen Yeas he was subsequoes
private secretary, the administrator, In fact,
the patronage Of the Horse Guards; and n
stsnding the numerous applications he re-.
end the numerous disappointments ne inflic
bis refusals and impossibilities, il Is on recoai
no one ever left his Office without being CO
with the sincerity of the man, no wever chs
at the loss Of his object The term which n
st. Arnaud applied TO him-d'1ne brarourie z
AS calm in the field as in the closet-has hF;
Raglan's character with admirable precision.
is nothing cold or ungenial about him; bugS
generous, ardent nature, tempered and mo-
by Christian philosophy, and It Is the c0nvi
hot lain nf Ia Hou otOho 49,