Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-01-23

The London Times and its followers, in ad- |
lition to their ferocious assaults upon Lord |
Raglan and his staff in the Crimea, (who are
to have been appointed only be-
cause of their distinguished connection, and to
whose ineffciency the whole army is sacri-
iiced,) persevere in attacks upon the present
war administration generally. In an article
on the 9Th the Times remarks that the art Of
great armies and carrying on war
on scale BETTING the dignity of first-rate
power seems TO be lost in England, and to sur
vive only in the golden east. 1t seems extinct
in constitutional England, but still exists in
despotic India. The Marquis Of Dalhouse, the
present Governor General of India, is then in
dicated as "a person able to set the war de-
partment in order, manage daily details, and
foresee future events"
Other opposition papers cooperate in this
line OF attack upon the Cabinet. The Liver
pool Mercury remarks that an entire change
ofthe Administration is not desired or expected;
but the opponents Of the Government, as now
constructed, are concentrating their attacks
upon the Duke of Newcastle and Mr.. Sidney
Herbert the occupant Of the War Depart
ment.n
The British press generally, which is dis
posed to deal lightly with Lord Raglan, appears
opens upon Lord Raglan in this way;
The case is SO fragrant so manifest tofriend
and foe, and so confessed and proclaimed to all
the world, that it would be ridiculous to slur
over the fact that the British army is found to
be no army at all in the general military sense
Of the word. 1t is mob of brave men, not
more than mob, and rather less, inasmuch as
it is evidently commanded by those who should
not command it, and so deprived Of its rude
natural efficiency. The long expected and
much prayed for draught, so hardly spared by
this country, arrives at Balaklava. A boy aide
de camp, as a veteran officer complains, shows
the promptness of his folly by ordering it i'm
mediately to disembark, without proper cloth
ing, in the rain, to march through miles OF
sludge to the pool assigned for its quarters, and
10 bivouac, in that case, some in tents, some
under the canopy of Heaven. The next day
some equally comfortable, equally thoughtless
nalapart, sends it to the trenches, and in ten
days, or fortnight at the latest, two-thirds Of
the poor lads, whom, as late as November we
were cheering through the streets, are stretched
under the soil Of the Crimea. When they are
disposed of, the cry is More men, more menu"
At the last date, after all the immense
clearances to Balaklava and Scutari, there re-
| manned more than 5000 sick under the hos
pital marques in the camp-no light burden
In the probable event of amy active move
ments. The poor fellows fall sick by as GER
tain and inevitable recipe as any to be found
in medicine, or husbandry, or other physical
science. Yet hundreds of veteran officers, who
share the hardships of their men, lament in
vain the merciless regime of an ignorant ne
ocracy. We confess that we cannot look at
the horrors of Balaklava and Inkermann as
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and horse should die gloriously, selling their
lives dear, and afording a spectacle to the
world, than they should perish unseen, I'M
pitied, unnamed, almost unnumbered- it
has come to that. We confess, when we are
told that the British cavalry is no more that
the horses after gnawing one another's names,
and have most of them persisted on the fatal
route to the camp-some in the act of dragging
their dead comrades out of the Wayne do
indeed, confess, that we could wish they who
are all dead had all died on the battlefield,
even in some mad charge into the heart of the
Russian army
"Then what is to be done? We think Sir
DE Lacy Evans has answered this question for
us in most speaking manner. When he
could no longer share the hardships Of his
men-when he could no longer mount his
horse, show himself everywhere, and see things
with his own eyes-he could no longer seek
honor at the cost of truth and his country. he
could no longer attempt to ell the hollow name
and idle 6gment Of general Now, are we
TO sacrifice what remains of the $4,000 sent
already, and the 10000 or 10000 more told
off from the Crimea, to name that by the
concurrent and uncontradicted testimony of
the whole army, is only a name, and even
worse than name? The command Of the
British army before Sebastopol is worse than
a mere name, when its apathy, recklessness,
fatal delays, and utter want of provision are
condemned by the common sense and expe-
rence Of every practical man in the army,
and when il is deliberately asserted by officers
of distinction that the army might just as well
be commanded by its sergeants as by the men
who pretend to command it,
The Allied Powers and Russia.
VIENNA, Jan. 4.-Prince Gortschakoff has
had an audience OF the Emperor of Austria,
which lasted an hour and three-quarters, but
his Majesty is not likely to make any conces-
sion TO Russia.
RUSSIA.
Thre ned Dism m be rment Of Russia
schism In the Imperial Family.
The Paris Presse, having hinted at delicate
discussion in European royal family, Gdiiig-
NAM, lately published the following facts, as if
from authority "There is a serious schims in
the imperial family. The Grand Duke Con-
stantine disputes the right Of his elder brother
the Grand Duke Alexander, to succeed to the
imperial throne-the order of succession laid
down by Peter the Great being the eldest son Of
the reigning emperor. When the Grand Duke
Alexander was born, his father was not empe.
ror, nor did he even stand in succession to the
throne. The eldest son, after Nicholas became
emperor, is Constantine, and be therefore
claims to be the rghtful heir to the throne Of
Russia. 1t is in consequence Of this dissension
(say Gdllignani) that the Emperor Nicholas
resolved to wait no longer for the accomplish
ment Of his views in the East Dreading
civil war between the two brothers after his
death, he was anxious to find the means Of in.
ducing his son Constantine TO withdraw pre-
tensions which have for partisans large por
ton Of the Russian nobility; and nothing pre-
sented itself but the chance Of creating new
empire of sufficient magnitude and Importance