The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-17
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
TExsract from the leading article of The London
Times Dec. %.
STATE OF THINGS BEFORE SEBASTOPoL

There 10 no use disgusting the matter. We sre
not speaking from own correspondence only
Wa ire not saving what we think alone. We say, i
nm the evidence OF every letter that has been re-
ceiycd in this country, and we echo the opinion OF
aluaoe, every experienced soldier or well informed
gentleman, when we say that the aobiest army
Easlaad eeer seat from these shores has been
sacrificed to The Qrossest mfs'nanagemeat lncom-
petency, lethargy, aristocrafic hautuer, official
Indifference, favor routine, perversepess and stu
pidiry reign revel and riot In the camp before Sc
bassopo In the harbor OF Baiskava 10 the hospitals
of Scutari and how much nearer home do not
venture to say. We say it with the EXTREMIST re-
luctance-no one sees or hears anything of the
Commander-in.Chief Officers who landed on the
18th Of September, and have been necessarily en-.
gagged 10 all the operations OF the siege, are not
even acquainted with the face Of their commander
Had the eye of a general fallen on the confusion
In the harbor of Balakava on the impossible state
OF the road from that place to the camp, on the
miserable condition of the camp on the state of the
trenches, on the unprotected state of tho right
flank before The battle of lnkermann, and. before
that on the circumstances under which the fatal
charge of Balsklsva took place, we can hardly sup
pose but thu so able man as Lord Raglan UNI
doub,edly 10 would have prevented such errors and
neelects We only echo the feeling of every LETT
ter from the seat of war. In the officer and the
private alike we find quiet, resigned, uninpas-
stoned conviction that the whole affair ie bungled
In the most hopeless and horrible manner.
Everybody perceves 1t In his own state, In the
fate of his comrades in the condition of camp,
and In the progress of the siege Young gentle
men, bred In every luxury, and with an ample
store OF every military comfort, still at the
last date wearing day and night nothing but the
thread-bare clothes and worn out boots In which
they landed on the 14th OF Sept. They had no
means of getting up the things left behind in the
transports. What becomes Of everything sent to
BalakIava nobody knows, but while they are rot
ting, thousands are perishipg for want of them.
Everybody can point out something that should be
done but there 10 nobody 10 order to be done, and
fifty thousand men or rhat nop remains Of them, are
drifting NTH their open, but hand-bonnd, SPELL
bound totcdyd destrueton Do any of the letters,
any of the gimcntai officers returned the
give derebt account? On the contrary, does it not
come within every body's knowledge as il does in
ours that the letters handed about in private circles
and not pub ished lest they should prejudice the
writer In the eyes of his supefors give far more
gloomy account than any letters that we have ven
tured to publish?
The burden is forced upon us and must speak
cut Good nature is pleasant thing in its way, but il
England is ever to be ruined, it will be by unseason-
eSie good nature, by unlmitea condonance, conni-
vance, indulgence and ali the softer forms of virtue
England he's not become what 1t is by good nature,
nor 10 good natuIe the soul element of social
and commercial system. The period for good natdre
over in the Crimea, and sterner qualities must now
De invoked into action, unless would throw away
the last chance that remains for redeemng the cha.
racter of this country. in fearful jeopardy Send
out men who will the srmy-not from the Rus
sians though they are formidable enough, but from
dispair which is weighing down the spirits OF every
and utter distrust the arrangement of the
expedition. ,ciH be Of little TO send out rein
orcements by Thousands unless take steps for their
better Management IA u.s. they march to their grGues
and begin to perish by from the hour they land -
MfsynIe rcceiUeS them The beach, and UedrieS them
them, drenches them stiycTs them and
MAIN. The soldiers of the Peninsula when they saw
the Duke of Wellington after absence used to ex-
claim that his face did them good than the srr
val OF ten regiments. Such head, or coad tutors
equivalent to t il what for the Crmoa.