The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-16
THE DAILY DISPATCH
TUESDAY MORNING, January ia 1855

ONsLAueaHr uroS THE MiSisrRY.-The
London Morning Herald makes fierce on
slaught upon the British Ministry 1t says
they are not Englishmen, but Greeks and
Russians. 1t calls them an incubus upon the
heart of England and a paralysis in her arms.
The Ministry, says the Herald, had no pur-
pose in the war; they had no honest hatred OF
the aggressions of Russia; they had no honest
sympathy with the Turks they had no hearty
alliance with France; they had no wish to
save na.ionalities; but they had reasonable
feeling of regard for Russia, sneering kind
ness for Austria, and above all, strong at
tachment to place. These, adds the Herald,
were their only motives, and they starved in
the war in order to allow Mr.. Gladstone to
carry out his preposterous plan of making the
present generation pay. not only the debts of
their grandfathers, but the liabilities of their
grandsons!
This Isl good. honest British growing. The
Herald goes on to speak of the condition
and prospects of the British army in the
Crimea, and says, in regard to the promised
even If it succeed; and, if it fail, terrible
1t thus speaks of the strength of Sebastopol:
notwithstanding all the statements to the contrs-
fed and In high heart-that Sebastopo ia stone town
which will pos burnthat every street 10 barricaded
and every avenue mined, and that the garrison not
they please, are cot restrained by the considerations
for their own safety, which must weigh with any
garrison regularly invested. They get into their
boats at any time and retire the harbor leaving
their mines prepared for sprngng as soon as ever we
that their heavy guns the northern shore will
render any retention of the town which they have
abandoned impossible. Then the other hand
comes the proongaton of the siege in regular form,
for which il would appear that train of 400 guns
has been provided, principally by cutting the men OF
We'll we grieve to say that the Russian earth
works are at the present moment, far, far stronger
5ared for now period of nearly two months-and
that In fact, everything will have to be done over
again. meantime our army will not only waste away
from Sickness but will become demorazsd. Dscl-
pine cannot long last under circumstances of physi
cal exhaustion great that ssntries as it ia now
universally admitted are bayouetted n Chilly on their
posts by the Russians"
The Herald adds, that the whole expedition
nightly undergoes fearful risk Of absolute an
Inhalation from Russian desperadoes' who
aremaking attempts to FIRE the shipping in the
narrow port of Ralaklava, where all the
stores, provisions, ammunition. and trans
ports OF the army are accumulated. Yet,
though the absolute humiliation of the army
would be the result of successful enter
prize of this kind, the Herald doubts if the
slow effect Of disease and neglect may not
prove ultimately as fatal The recruits are
said to die faster than the veterans.
The London Times speaks in q similar
strain. 1t says that provisions and clothing
for the army are within few days sail of
them, "but there is not the head to get them
up in proper place and time" ''The Rus
sians," adds the Times, "serfs, brutes, saw
ages, as we are accustomed to think them,
and borrowers, as they VIGOROUSLY are, in all
arts and sciences-beat us at every turn
They have dominated us with their artillery,
and Over-reached us in earthworks They
move armies in carts for lack of railways,
ana, according to the testimony of all the
prisoners, have actually made better use of
their steam transports than we have. What
ever may be pretended at home, it is certain
that whole regiments arrive in the Crimea
without single Mimic musket, and other re-
giments with only small portion SO armed:
We are trusting not to science but to man.
On the outside of to-days paper will be
found graphic description of the allied |
camp from the Times army correspondent |
Itseems very clear that the British army, |
as well as the British government, is suffer. |
ing from the want of "head." With such |
old fogies as Aberdeen and Raglan, nothing |
could be expected but inefciency and disas
ter. The Crimea expedition may yet turn
out the most magnificent failure in the an
mails of war.
CALICO BALLs.-There is something very
pleasant in the idea of Charity becoming
fashionable. The only objection is, that