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The European War


the cause of the Allies. 1t is now demonstrated
that the expedition IN the Crimea as undertaken'
was n foreloomed failure and does not appear,
with any degree of certainty, that the disasters
which have beflllen ii can be retrieved by any
amount of military augmentation and increased
activity that the Allies may NOW throw into The
campaign.
Lord Lyndhurs, has given notice of an iuten-
ton To offer and before this has Offered, the fol
lowing resolution in the House of Lords IN
peaehing the Ministry and those who planned
and conducted this expedition:
"Thatin the opinion Of tbs lIsp"e the ekpedi~
ton to the Crinea undertaken hY III IN
iesty's Government with very Inadequate in'"hs'
and without due caution, or snhcleot ih4aiy 'i'''
the nature and extent of the resistance 10 be eA-
naoted from the enemy; and TINT the neglect aud
msmana gemepi of the Government IN the CON
dnct of the enterprise have led 10 the most dis
astrous Tesnlts
This resolution. singing and humiutng to the
Ministry as il i, states facts now too sadly ap-
narent TO all British eyes To admit Of denial
The calculation that the combined armies would
be able to subdue and capture Sebastopol IN time
TO secure for themselves winter quarters IN the
city has miserably failed, aud the troops very IN
adequately provided with necessary elolhing aud
subsistence, are exposed To the ruthless seventy
of n climate, whose daily dealings with them are
daily victories over them. We are losing on an
average one hundred and fifty men n day, not
including those who fall FROM The encmy's gus
writes n Surgeon lrqm ~ British caUp. The
renf,rcemenis <4e.se ssary to that ncree~e II the
besiering force which would give them amy hope
If carving The .tron Iltdd by storm would |
scarcely recruit the i.,-esby de1tb; and, accor-
ding to Sir Frauci, Head, the materal for fur
nshing reinforcemsnts approaches eAheosnoR.
Listen to his significant language:
"An of a sudden" he says, "the House of
Commons assemblies solely an expressly 10 con
fess that the produce of it, economical votes for I
the maintenance nf England, army has, IN less
than three months warfare, been completely ek-
bsusted /: that what in the Crlmea wns looked up
on as bat a sample is ia fact the whole oi Eng
lands stock in trade. that the old country has
no more soders-no power to send more: and
accordingly that the honor. tho interests the
lives, and the property OF GroHt Britain, must
henceforth be defended by poor, wnnderng ex-
patriated German mercenaries. ~ sudden, 80
shocking. and so public Illumination OF great
country, history has never yet had to record
With these dreadful results practically before our
eyes, is it net undenable that il, instead OF hight
ing Mt the extremity of the domiuons ri Russia.
with the soldiers of France and Turkey to assist
them. our little body of troops without staff or
fsid departments had unfortunately been requir.
ed to fight sing handed, IN the nelghborhood oil
London. against the numerous and well orgnnIZ-
ed locomotive army of France, the House OF Com
mons TO its indekble disgrace, might have been
fatally reminded, when 1t too late, oil the
aged Duke of Welhngtons last affecting prayer: |
Il am bordering on seventy seven yeIrs OF age, /
passed in honor. ] hope thut the Almighty may
protect from being the witness of the trngedy
which | cannot persuade my contemporaries to /
take measures to avert
While this is the condition of the English gov
ernment the Russians are reported to have re /
ceved such rcinforeemems and to have taken
such IN assures as justify them in assuming the
offensive in the Crimoa, md it is asserted that
they are about to move forward TO TINT end
The so much lauded energy which the Allies
exhibited last spring in organizing the two expo
ditions--the naval one to approach St Peters
burg, through the Baltic, and the military II cap
ture Sebastopo and conquer southern Rnssin,
have both ingloriousy faed. The first has re-
turned without having unlmbered its guns and
the second is melting away under disease, want
and cold. Out of every evil some good is said to
come Let us hope that the caamitous failures
which have attended thus far the efforts of tho
Allies may have n tendency to moderate the ar
rogant and Wanting pretensions OF England and
France to regulate the affairs OF the world-the
new as well as the old.
THE resignation of Lord Russell was sudden
and unexpected, and has brought the severe
apprehension of the press. The crcum-
stances We're these: On Tuesday the 23d OF Jan
uarv, Mr.. Roebuck gave notice in the House of
Commons that he should move, ON the following
Friday, that "a select committee he nppaDtedto
inquire into t he condition of the English nrmy
before Sebastopot and into the conduct ST the
departments of the government whose dut5 n
had been to minister to the wants of the coun-
try" On the evening of this notice, a note was
writtea by John Russell to the Earl OF Aberdeen,
in which he states that the proposed inquiry
involved u censure upon the Government
which he would be unable to resist, and that he
must, consequently, tender his resignation as
Mini ser of the Crown. This resignation was
conveyed on the following day by the Premle-
to the Queen. by whom ii was forthwith aooeP-
ted. This abandonment Of his post was on the
25th made known to the country which, says the
Journal of Commerce, it filed with regret, indig
nation and alarm. On the goth, the very time
appointed for Mr.. Roahuck's motion, Lord John
Russell anticipated him by rising in his seat in
the House of Commons. and alleging the causes
of the unprecedented step he had taken lie
virtually declared that her Majesty's Ministers
had con iueted the in the worst manner pos
sibe; and that now they were about to he at
tackled and censured for their conduct. he could
not defend them and that he must therefore