New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-02


MsrisuIs January, February and March are,
indeed, bravely doing the work Of Menchikof.
The grave and the pest house share the spoil be-
tween them, and the Russian qaistly looks on.
The very ves.els which carry over cargo OF
ffesb .old ers, carry back equivs'eat cargo OF
faiht and ,iDg men. Almost all the EoslIsh
Generals, sstsfed with the email sock of glory
they have won, Rave fed this Golgotha. l'cin-
not be tina. the Eogtsb people will long look on
with folded srus, and see their brave bro:her'
wh teniDg The cold Crmes with their bones, or
fostering in = death heap at tie lszar hOu'e OF
Scutsrl, victims TO q worn out system and wOrd-
out ali.tocrscy Already she nss lifted the sord
10 ceave the red tape and, calling for " lords Ia
I" iced ana not il nsme," demands to know upon
whom rests the blood Of Der children.
Even effort, no doubt will be IN .de 10 squelcn
ttis Roebucs inquiry. That little sturdy radi-
cal himself, through all his career of bilious scer-
biy hts been a personal adhtrsot NJ the new
Premier's He il was who. % l'Aj. moved
the celebrated vote Of confidence in bis for
eign policy, upon which Peel made his las.
speech, and which bore such ,riumphsns fruit for
Palnerston. He has now again been the im mediate
instrument of biz elevation. Needy and stricken
with p.rassis which almost wholly disi1les bin
from work or speech, he will possibly fad oa
some soft official cushion lucrative "a ,turnlty.
Palner.tOn will plead the retirement OF the mao
of peace, old Aberdeen, as reason ior not pur-
suing the investigation. The Duke OF Newcastle
perhap-, though least guilty of the lot, has himself
lesped into the gulf to save bis colleagues.
Sidney Herbert t. whom, whether justly or not,
much of the recent disasters has been astr outei
he's passed 70 another department and been saved
from issrsce solely BY the affection Of ,he Queen
and country 5or bis gentle wife, daughter Of
General A'CoaIt, aud lady OF grea. beauty OF
bolt mind and person, who has always taken a
most active and mOdestinteresE on behalf ali that
suffer and by whom the Nightingale baad OF nurses
was organ zed and dispatched 10 the Eist. Tnen
Palmerston will plead that he himself, through
the puppet Panmare, viii direct the war, while
to enc iIberitiDg the name and industry, but
nothing more, of Peel, have been committed the
drely drucgery Of detail. But name is too
light a feather to sustain The stricken bird. rhe
army pershes-The Times ttunders, AID the
country calls for the gal'y one to be surrendered
to her hands. To save itself the Government
must afford an expiatory victim.
The scene presented by the British Ministry at
each new blupder, were Dot the re,ults so fear
fu, would be inexpressioiy iu1icrous, and can
only be matched by the confused disnay Of NJ.
Hardcastle's household in Goldsmith good old
COMEDY of " She Stops to Conquer" - VINO left
"my soldiers cold aud naked VINO sent I'M
ssros sted coffee TO the Crlues ~ exclams angry
John Bull. lit vas not my business, answers
one Digsory Of the British G0verG nent. 81 sm
sure it beent mine" cries another. And so on
round the ring Of incapables. But th,s will not
serve. The British Lion il, N ordinary moods,
patient brute, aud, 80 long he is well fed and
well depned, is suficiently tractaoe ia his keep
eIs' hands. But lately his mutterlDgs have
swelled more loud and angry, aud in his whole
aspect there lie much that betokens d sudden
spripg Should be be reused into bound, he
will sweep down some few revered old institu-
tons before he is again Gagged.
The secret Of the AristOcracy's power in En-
gland hitherto has been their Keen perception Of
the right moment to save their order by givlag
way. IT, Reform in the repeal of the Corn laws,
and i'll other great questions, they have shown
this saving tact and tina. given 30 the surren-
der Of long Withheld rights an air OF generous sac
| rife And whenever, at q moment like this,
the country demands yi,tm, they have been
ever ready to give up some unhappy child OF the
order to appease the gods of popular wrath.
| T ,Ia NIL ha tha
victim. That great political windmill The Lon
don Times bellows for his recall. Tne people
demand it, and it is the highest, and, at the
same time, most satisfying sop that Palmerstou
can throw to popular feeling. M,ny of the
charges sgainst Lord Raglan are doubtless,
peeyish sn0 small. la sending out an old gentle
man Of Gs to take the command of her army En-
gland could not have expected that at the bitter
break of Crimean wi0ter morning he wOnli be
found up 10 his middle in snow or slop, superin-
tending the disembarking Of salt butter decayed
vegetable And it could hardly be hoped that
an English aristocrAt, reared on elk couch aui
in fair linen, could leave his warm quarters and
genial board to biyouac in the rude and wind
rent tent of the soldier. Lord Rsglan's real
crime 10 that he has Dot succe eded And what
tells mos. heavily against MIN is the Ominsus ST.
lence Of the three Generals who have returned
Cambridge, Cardigan and Evans-who, If word
could be spoken in bis favor, would speak it.
We doubt not he will be led to the mount, and
no angel will stay the arm of the eIecusioner.
Raglan sacrificed to cave the Arissocracy, every
nerve will be strained to accomplish peace. Lord