Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-06-27
THE SUCCESS OF TIE ALLIES.

The Paris correspondent of the National In
teIlirencer, remarks that the avidity with which
the recent successes Of the allies have been
seized upon in Paris and England, and made to
minister to the qualification Of national vanity,
proves how sorely national vanity is wounded
by the limited success which has crowned their
EIGHT months gigantic efforts in the Crimea.
The correspondent remarks the studied and per-
sistine silence of the. Moniteur. the government
orpan, concerning the loss Of the French in the
attacks of the nights of the 22d and 23d, on the
Russian advanced works. 1t is believed that
the French losses are not so very "much small
Ter" than the Russians and that in fact, they
are in large and untuvorabe disproportion to
The value Of the success which they have pur-
chased.
aIt was, no doubt" says the correspondent,
n most gallant and heroic affair; but does it
weaken the defence of Sebastopol! Was not
the capture of the post necessitated by consld-
erations connected with the defence OF the allies
themselves in their own entertainments, rather
than with that of the besieged fortress! Was
NOT the success purchased at fearful, almost ru-
mons cost-like the other victories OF Alma,
Baluklaya, and Inkerman? Will they be able
to keep. have they kept, the post they 50 gal
hnlIy conquered! We remember that Only
few weeks ago another similar advanced post of
the Russians was stormed in the most 81 orious
manner by the Zouaves; but the victors, after
driving in the Russians, were unable to retain
nossession, for the place was swept by Russian
cannon on the battlements of Sebastopoi. In
like manner, I apprehend, the recent success
in front of bastions Nos and will be found
to count but little towards the capture OF Be-
bastopol. In fact, it is confidently stated that,
nreyious TO the resignation of Gen. Canrobert,
at the time of the last suspension of the allies
bombardment, the generals chiefs of the ar:ille..
ry and engineer departments, officially informed
the Commander-in-C Chief that their science, skill,
and power had done their worst against Sebas-
topol and were exhausted, and the Commander
in. Chief must henceforth ask success from other
instruments than theirs.
81 cannot, therefore, calm and dsinterested,
but not Indifferent locker on as am, allow my
self 10 consider, rs most Frenchmen are doing,
in view of this gallant affair of outworks, the
fall of Sebastopol as near at hand. If this little
episode in the siege, the attack of an incidental
outpost, built in one night and requiring two
to conquer, has cost loss of life tina: the con-
ouerers recoil from announcing, what may be
expected from the recital of the grand poem, the
slormine of Sebastopol itself, in face Of its
twelve hundred pieces of artillery, its thirty
thousand bayoneis, its barricaded streets, and
its system of internal defence, converting every
house into fort! Imagination sickens over
the picture.
sAs for the Kertsch expedition, it was cx2e.
dent and we'll done; but its conception would
not have added much to the glory of the first
Bonapar,e. The only wonder is that it was not
accomplished long ago 1t might have been
done with equal facility, certainly, and small
waste of life any day since war has been de-
clared."