The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-19

The Cunard steamship Canada arrived at Halifax yester-
day morning with adyces from Liverpool to the 7h IN
slant Her principally has been anticipated by the
arrival of the steamer Arago New York Nothing fur
ther of important character from the Crimea
DESPERATE CONDITION OF THE ALLIED ARMIES.
The intelligence from Europe by the Arago is of the
deepest interest and highest Importance nasn,nch il
enables appreciate with reasonable certainty the con-
edition Of affairs in the Crimea- teEsss &
1t plain upon all the statements that the attack on
the MalakoT and the Grand Redan by the cooper
ting British and French forces the 18th ultimo re-
solved upon by Raglan and Pesse in senseless despera
ton was conducted without order, intelligence combine
on any other necessary element of possible sue
and that il in effect the wantonly sending to
inevitable slaughter the choicest divisions of the armies Of
England and France.
authentic appears of the actual loss of the
French who apparently shrink from allowing the facts to
be known but enough leaks out to show that the loss
enormous. OF the three French divisions most ac-
lively engaged, lost their commanding generals
Mayran aud Brunet--with how many men we do not
know but the loss reported is thousand in the
third-that of General DAuemarre. Whole battalons,
it is said in private letters, moved down like ripe
wheat before sickle under the discharge Of the and
canister of the Russians Thousands of men thus sent
to murdsr-brave the world ever Gavin the
vain effort accomplish the mpractcable purposes Of
half a dozen statesmen in Paris and London.
AS the English their condition to be growing
rremedaby desperate Lord Raglan died, ten days after
the battle Of broken heart quite much Of dysentery
Sir George Brown, who had the immediate command Of
the English troops in the battle and who had just returned
exultan from the burning Of sea-coast villages the de-
structon Of private property and Of monuments OF art
and religion and the of non-combaans men, wo-
men, children the shores of the Of Azo though
killed in the battle like better men--such as Sir
John Campbell Col Yea and many othesyet Immediately
after the battle disappeared sick leave for England
Generals Pennefaher Codrington, and Butler have also
broken down. and left for England. General Estcourt,
like Admiral Boxer Captain Christie and others Of the
soces compromised in the disasters of the last win
ter have escaped by death all further responsibility,
except to history which will deal kindly and lenieatly
with them who at least persisted in the discharge OF their
duty in the field, and will heap up the responsibility for
all horrors where it belongson the heads of Lord
Palmerston and Lord John RUSSELL
Meanwhile the battle of the lsh with camp disease
which tires has already swept off all the recent rein
forcements of the British army from England The auxiliary
troops which England has been buying in the slave mar
kes of Turkey reliable for any purpose except
that of assassinatng children and ravishing women at
Kerisch The poor Sardinians-whom Great Britain pur
chased for the at much per headless than the
Pasha of Egypt pays per head for the African slaves whom
he buys in Nuba for the born and
brought the salubrious mountain valleys of Pied
and Sayoyare enfeebled already by dysentery
and cholera to be of little avail in the field
Nothing of military mportance-absoluteiy nothing
results the expedition to the Of Azof The Rus
did depend upon Kertsch for supplies: to say
nothing of Perekop they retain to the upper waters
of Putd sea- which the English now confess are be-
yond their reach and which sixty miles Sc
basopol than Kersch is The allies therefore, by their
expedition to the sea of Azo have given the of
world pregnant lesson mot likely to be useful to
themselves hereaer Of how easy it to demosh unde
Tended seaport towns destroy private stores Of corn
country coasng vessels but they have not advanced
an inch towards the capture Of Sebastopol
On the whole the military situation is such as to
awaken the intense soctude in France and England
especially the latter The present position of the allies
in the Crimea is rapidly ceasing to be cnabc We can
Judge by the weather the present week. Of the effect OF
the burning skies of July in the Crmea upon the mental
and physical energies Of men. Bnt living in a
spacious aud airy city abundany supplied with every
thing to render existence endurablc in salubrous eli
"'s'
no cares but the petty Of everyday life In the Cr
mea on the other hand than two hundred thou
sand French English and Sardnianshe elect troops OF
their respective countresthe imperial guards of both
England and Francesnd the veteran Piedmontese Of the
gallant and patriotic Charles Albert-a these brave
men-who in right and just cause, would be in
vincibie who have struggled now for nine months
with courage zeal, and self devotion worthy of all ad-
mraiou to do what is impossibe-that is, to redeem
the honor their respective countries by extracting glory
out OF the great political bunder Of declaring against
Russia and military blunder Of invading the Crimea
all these brave pcrshing mserably by grapeshoi
and by rae-ba by mental detection and by over-work
and above ALL by disease of climate and camp The whole
ground whch the allies encamped has now become
one graveyard with its superficial earth filed with
the haIf-bured bodies of and of horses and its
face covered it'll all nameess denominations, so that the
atmosphere repee with every conceivable of dead
ly pestence Add this that the whole region of
try within the lines of the allies is all but destitute Of
water that the whole dependence of the camp with its
hundred thousand and fifty thousand horses upon
few hadried riyule bad wells and muddy pools reeking
with oEal and that to obtain the wretched water
accessible the soldiers formed In long lines each
getting turn hour twos delay his prescribed
allowance with which he is to sustain life for the single