Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-07
Cerom the London Times, aug. 1do
The Fall of sweaborg

Parliament was yesterday prorogued with the dull
fonnality of Royal Commission. Up to the very
last moment the anxious Premier expected either
from the North OF the East, the news that was to
gild the closing session, and so long had hope
been deferred, thai ii Lad yielded at last 10 tnsgv
lngs. So utter was the blank aud so little was
there to show for the labors and the enormous sac
rifceS of the Legislature, that when Sir Lacy de
Evans arose 10 insist on a more searching and un-
reserved application Of our national resources TO
the prosecution Of the war, Her Maiestys Govern
ment seemed TO lie at his mercy for any rebuke he
might chuose to administer. But while he was
speaking the telegraph was already work, and. but
for those national jeaIouseS which impede even
the electric fluid at:every capital and frontier, we
should already have learnt the utter destruction of
the second Russian stronghold in the Baluc.-
SweaboTg has been almost utterly destroyed. A
few shattered earthwUrkS and batteries are all
that survive Of mighty link IN that Cham OF for
lreSSeS prepared for the conquest OF Europe. II Is
impossible not To remark the fatality which has
permitted a Jealous session TO pass without re-
ceiYiHg the udIngS already on their way. The Ro-
man poet laid his hero under the Spell,-At nun
guam regnO Gut Optat itced truGtuF, Sei cldat ante
diem. That certainly has been the fate of misses
sion; but when Ministers and Commanders have
TILED all their lives and sunk heart broken in the
hour OF reverse, though their cause was finally 10
prosper, Lord PalIneTSton has no great reason to
complaint II Is but an Imaginary dISa ppointment.
The papers that take the Queen'S speech down 10
the country, aud can report no more than Her Ma
ieSty'S confident hopes and undaUMted resolution,
will NOW convey the news OF SwrabUrg destroyed.
We shall not be suspected OF any Idle VI vIn'IcIlVe
triumph ot blow which doubtless involves much
human suffering. We rejoice because we believe
tTNh
w hether Russia will admit the moral argument OF
the defeat, OrwIll await ths successive destruction
of all her StEonghOds this event brings us nearer
the day when Europe Will be relieved from tie in
cubuS OF Russian domination.
Sweaborg cannot, indeed, be claSSed with Corn
Stadt for strength or SebaSloPol iOT Importance. Its
deEeHceS are not OF the SAME character as thUse
which protect the mouth al the Neva. The np.
preach Is by channels OF sufficient depth and
width, but through granite rocks eveTywl,eGe
eIed with batteries. As 10 the value set by the
Russians OH the place, On the one hand it appears
they took advantage uI the Winter 10 convey In
CEonsadt the few vessels of wax seen last year at
Swea"urs; and, on the other hand, they have en-
pOYed the interval III Strengthening to tie utmost
the Notifications which have just been So suulmar-
lily destroyed. II said few months ago that
having let slip the opportunity Of last year, we
should find Sweabo;g mpEesna 1t app aTs,
however, that with proper disposition Of tile fleet,
and by keeping proper distance, We have dSpoS-
cd oil tins threat, and shown that We could some
tunes beat granite. Let US hOp= that when a
beast has been proved idle in place il may III
another. According TO the programme, the NOR
lar'vesSrlS and the gun-buatS were 10 cOmmenc
The bombardment at two miles distant, and Il
liners were only 10 cume III to finish the work .
lhiS is the arrangement that has been SO SIgnaIi
successful, 1t aukeTS we'll ir TIE operation Of II
iohila, promised by Sir Charles Wool, in til
grandeT sphere OF Neva, OF wherever else il isl
be employed. From lI= Scanty particulars thi
have reached Us, Ii appears that the bOmbarImct
lasted ID hours, SO that during the whole Of tn.
tine the allied fleets remained i'll position mo.
or less within gum-shot distance OF the Russia
batteries; yet our loss is said to lie fling IN mel
anu nothing Whatever III material, not ship
Il b, at sunk or disabled. In so large an aiLOm
OF damage ICtlICted Oh the rileny and 50 lit
suffered by the allies may he seen The result of Ii
close calculation which will ElobablY be oar be
game IN this war.-DuubllesS more glory is ioI
won by da>hins enterprise, done with small mea
| by one master mind, bu, where the command
dIvGtd, the power immense, the risk great, al
the defence III proportion, nothing should be ISL
cd, and nothing need be rlSke!. Success is ours
we only have patience 10 use sue though perLaI
SLOW neanS.
| This most welcome intelligence need not bin
onE eyes 10 the Importance OF the topics in Sir
L. Evans speech. UmQueSEionably the BIitis
force IN the CEiHea is not i'll proportion to QUIZ
sources the work to be ione. We have 1T III
moment not far irom n hundred thousand got
British SodlFrs i'll various parts OF the world, whel
there is immediate need for their present nun.
beIS. India ought to contribute something to lewi
III return lOr the 400 British soldiers withdraw
| from our wants ut homie, aud some regiments
Irregular cavalry are precisely what we ShouI
most Teque Ill the case OF an advance into the III
terror OF the Crunea. At all events, the EMPLOY
ment OF that force al the Cape would hberate Tor
the Crlmea some Of the seasoned British battalons
now thrown away III doing watchnmn'S dut1
against the CaErrS. With larger military fuIcu
we mlsh, attempt more enterprises, such Us those
in the Sea If Az #, and that whose triumphant
| result We have this day to communicate lIom the
Gulf of Finland.
The actual successes OF this year have been ola
chiefly naval Character. That is quite in accord
ance with the earliest anlicipaIious OF the WEI,
wien 1t was assumed That the immense armies
and mpenelrabie, territories Of Russia must give
her the advan age on the land. LatIeTly, how
ever, the Fabian policy size has pursued OF leaving
The open Sea, hiding her fleets deep in her larborS
and sinking them, if necessary, 10 block up the
ports made tOr their reception, has turned lhe at
tenton of the world later too exclusively 10 land
operations. Hence fleets have fallen into diScre-
DIT as useless pagean.ty OF war, aad doubtless
the want OF craft better adapted for the PupoSe as
favored this impression. But it is from the sea
that The greatest blows must be struck against
Russia and in this part OF the work twill evident
ly be our honor to lake the lead.
As there is no military force worth notice rngag-
ed IN tue attack on SweaGorg, we conclude that
the work has been done by the fleet, when con.
tams large PrePoudrTeuce of Bitish vessels. II
this happy intelligence has come just too late for
the royal speech aud Lord PalmerStOn'S vaIedic-
tory address to the Commons, it is happily in time
Tor the Queens visit TO Pans. indeed, on the
very day, and almost the very hour, that her Mai
eSty is making the round Of the BoulevaGds, the
actual dispatches brought by the Pelican yesier-
day morning to DOmzlc will probably he placed
IN the hands Of the Persian newspaper readers,
We are sure that our gallant Allies will leel the
happy omen, aud welcome with their usual chv-
airy the ilIuSriOus lady who, the very first Wis
It OF peace ever paid by an English Sovereign 10
Paris, comes aIsu the bearer Of the brilliant sue
cess That has crowned our united arms.