New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-10

Of this couptry into abjec. dependence upon sha
Government. IL be would s,op the sre.In, he nu II
DO 90 a. the fountsin hea1 but it would os q yer
urssfe c0urse for the Lfgisl,'ur5 to venture upon
ouch s;ep. He must bs bold man who In t,a
middle 81 The bineteenth century should endssyor b
Keep tie country in darkness, In order IN 1t such
builders es have cost us 40, 900 men sad plugged
patton into mourning should escape oOserva alton and
censure until the truth, in its full horror was made
known. We are far enough fiom writing in spirit
Of bravsdo there has been, OF late too much bra
vado; but 80 warn Lord Winchilsea, aud any other
peer ho may share bis views 70 consider the prob
able cost TO Themselves Of crusade sins the Press
before they commence the attack. We are much
nstskep, or they would discover IN very sig
nfcsnt manner that England does not exist for tbs
convenience Of the House Of Peers. II msy be wsll
for them tina. even the goth Baletin VIII not nov
take the nsoD altogether by surprise. We shil not
now hear ss Psris did in 1912, on one day that the
army was victorious; on the next that 1t NJ longer
existed.
The one point which appears to have aggravated
moor Lord Wischses than another is, thst his
friend Lore Raglan has been called before the bsr OF
public opinion for alleged disregard OF the comfort,
nav of the lives Of bis soldiers Lord Winchilsea-
Who prefsced his speech by expression Of bis
victim that DO would be exposed to vituper alton"
from TIE writers Of The Times-not very much in ac
cordsnce with the spirit Of hs own declaration, pro-
pouuces this accusation 10 be " false foul and ms
"Isnant calumny." Surely, h.d we needed pre-
text for "yi,rpersiop.' here is one. We decline.
however, the contest to which Lord Winchssa you'd
invite u.s. sne beg to recall his attention TO the facts
Of the case. Have the accusations directed against
LORD Raglan proceeded at all from the correspondent
OF TIE Iimes7 From The Attn TO the oath of Decem-
Der that gentleman, suffering from the sal malsdy
which has cost u our only army, was on sick bed
in CoDttaDtinople, and no! one word has ne ever
written that could, by the most malignant IN;
terpretstioD, be construed as rejecting on Lord
Raglan. His place has been supplied a. Lord VIM
chilsea would have it-by the officers OF Lord "
lens army and has not every mail thst has reached
the shores Of Great Britain teemed with complaints
from them and from our unfortunate sodiersi IL
of them, not Of our correspondent, thai Lord Win
cbilses is really complaining. But DO not these CON
plants proceed from private soldiers, non commits
fioDed sfceIs from regimehtsl ofcers-ay, and from
General officers Does Lord Winchlsea, sitting at
bis ease at home presume to say that he i, better To-.
formed than were the poor fellows who have sealed
their statements with their lives He must have q
very robust faith in the activity and philanthropy OF
Lord Raglan if, simply from confidence in his gene
raj character he ventures to impuEn the statements
Of those who write from the spot, and WHO are suffer
ing 20 cruelty from the fife ,ts Of the Indifference and
apathy of their General. Was it The Times cores
pond tnt who restored the locus ompsus 10 the Of
fetal letter Of that brave old veteran SIR De
La EvaEs with reference to the neglected post
Of 1nkermsLnf In a word, it is net we who are
the accusers our but the army or
What is left Of the army, in the Crimea. II Lord
Winchi)sea would seek for conhrnatory evidence,
be may obtain it from gallant friends and allies,
the French Let him ask il he dares for the dispatch
in which General Cahrobert described to his own
Government the desperate condition OF the Eagilsh
army. Let him ask IL be desires the truth, for the
terms In which General Caurobert has spoken Of our
Generals and Of our Staff We are willing to be
judged by the deliberate opinion Of 30 competent an
authority, and we challenge Lord Wihchilsea ID de-
mand the production Of such evidence. II he will
rely on testimony more easily accessible let him in
quire Of the Rev. 8 q. Osborne, or Of Mr. Augustus
Stafford, what is the condition Of our sick aud
wounded a. CoDstantiuople! In the hospital OF Sea-
tari, with s four miles Of English soldiers in their
agony he will find the NEST expressive monument Of
the discretion forethought and philanthropy OF Lord
Raglan.
The Duke of Newcastle, in his answer to Lord
WilQbilsea, refrained from the idle attempt to deny
any longer the substantial truth Of the statements for
wsrded to US by the correspondents Of thi. journs
The time fer denial was, indeed, psst. while Lord
John Russell in the other Hosse painting in
stronger words than eloquent correspondent
could use and with all the authority OF Mioister
was describing the condition Of our army as panfdl
" horrible, and heartrending." Doe awful revelation
after another has confirmed the dark reality of the
statements which in the first instance, were treated
with indifference or contempt. The Duke OF New
castles present complaint is that we have only spo-
ken with too much truth He says that the London
Press ia the mott active agent for the Afornston OF
the Russian Car and his advisers at St. Petersburg
Lord Raglan, upon two occasions, has complained
that valuable Information has been afforded ID the
er emy RIA London ana St. Petereburgh, through the
public journals. To this we eau only reply that.
whatever may have been the case with other jour
nails Prince Mepchiko has received very littls in
feligepce of much service to his operations through
Printing HoUse-square. When ME appeal OF when the
Duke speaks was made to us, we offered, as he well
knows 10 suppress not only ali that could possibly
assist the enemy in correspondence from the On
mea but also all the Intelligence of naval and mita
~ move ut nts here hich We believed and still believe
TO be of much greater Importance. The Duke did
rot think this necessary, but our offer and his reply
remain, and can be produced. We can Only be an
swerable for OURSELVES and must leave our contem'
porsIies to DO IS much. We may, no wever, comfort
Ourselves with the reflection that the Duke OF New
castle does not impugn patriotism; be simply calls
our discretisn in question. As most of us are just
now er gagged in calling his discretion in question and
as the army in the Crimea, the great mass OF Eng
isl men, both Houses of Parliament and even his
own colleagues, appear to be of the same way OF
thinking. we may In perfect confidence, leave thl,
point TO the public judgment Finally, although
we are well.nigh asian ed to notice sich mat
ter, We would say one word upon the hciu''eS
which have been granted to our correspondent in
the East 10 common with any other traveller being
a British subject, he obtained free run il troop
ship from Malta To how many wandering members
OF the IT, Houses have the same facilities bsen az
tended uring the last twelve months f-t2b many
hundreds OF Enssbmen Lord Wnchilsea sod the
Duke OF Newcastle moreover, appear TO grndge the
gentleman who is acting for US few pounds OF salt
pork and biscut from the Commissariat, aud the
Duke-he whose shpcads of food rot IN the verS sight
of our hungry troops whose winter clothing will ind
but the skeletons Of those they we're mean. to shield
tie cost Of whose must be reckoned By the mil
lon--takts ere ii, in an assembly OF Lords whose
boat in Better days liberal thst be has
cut of the raions of salt pork and biscuit fro the one
Epeshman who hiss supplied himself, his colleagues
and the country with the vital truth respecting the
ta,e and prospects OF an army which such dispatches
81 we publish to-day failed altogether to supply.
Let him comfort himself, and let Lord Wnchiises
and lis economists take comfort-the full value
hall ha vanaid and fha Churls who
represent generous country Cd all have not have ons
srthrg to charge to the historian OF the war; At tbs
ssme time We would venture to remind them that the
oblgstion is not all our side was but tbs other