The Trinity times., 1855-03-31

| ther part ~ such an affair. We wipe our
hands Of the war under the existing man
agement. If Government. if the House of
| Commons, or the British people, choose to sell
| themselves TO the aristocracy, and through
the aristocracy to their enemies it is their
own affair we wipe our hands of the nation
al suicide. All that we can do is to protest
and to warn and that we will not cease to
do, though hitherto we have done it in
vain.
Under The existing management, we repeat,
we have no choice left us but to protest
against the further prosecution Of m enter
prise which leads to nothing but ruin and
disgrace. Under this management nothing
changes. Innumerable attempts to instruct
or correct it, have been in vain, without the
least result. Soldiers, men Of science, men
of business, travellers, men and even women
renowned for their practical powers, have
rendered advice, information and assistance
to Government, aud have had to find all they
said or did wholly and disastrously disregard
ed. Whether the advice was given in the
columns Cf a newspaper, or in the Office Of
the minister, tie resclt hrs been the same.
When. at the meeting Of Par9 ament in De-
cember, the public grief and impaticnce had
already spoken too loudly to be set at naught,
the nation was amused with promises. The
two Houses were told in set speeches that,
though the Government had certainly been
taken by surprise, and some errors had been
committed through the novelty of the enter
prise, every care was taken for the future
New orders had been sent out new arrange
ments made, Of which the public could not
yet be aware, but which would be found to
oil of nf In
week or two. by Christmas at the latest, the
army would be only too abundantly housed
too comfortably clothed, too luxuriously fed
too tonderly cared and provided for. There
would be duplicates of everything, and of all
possible alternatives, both had been accepted
for double security. There would, as we
were assured by the Secretary at War, be
English as well as Turkish hutting, woods as
well as skins, fresh as well as salt meat, wine
medicines, comforts, only in too lavish profu-
sion. 1T the verv time these promises were
made, the principal disasters, so much insist
ed on by the Ministerial apoogists, were fully
known and estimated 1t was a month after
the hurricane, FIVE weeks after the surprise Of
lnkermann, and seven weeks after the loss Of
the hard road from the harboc to the camp,
by the affair of Balaklava. These promises
were not made in the dark, or in the face of
n future full Of unseen difficulties. They
were made in that full, clear, MONDAY light
IN which all Europe now sees the horrors Of
the Crimea. They were made SIX weeks
since. and the assurance was that all the
blunders had been discovered and rectified.
In six weeks it is possible TO 90 twice to the
Crimea and back, and, with the aid Of the
electric telegraph, the intelligence does ac-
tually travel quicker, even though it passes
through hostile or neutral channels. What.
then, has been the fulfilment of the proms IS
deliberately made to both houses, at the open
ing of the session in December? None-ab-
solutely none. The camp, the harbor, the
road, the hospitals, the housing and feeding
Of our over-worked. WORKOUT sol3iery, is all
worse than ever. Not only the frenchman,
but even the Turk, is better housed and bet
ter clothed than the British soldier. Every
department has utterly failed. The army is
a house divided against itself. and has neces-
sarily fallen, as an army always will fall un-
der such circumstances. AS we read of a
host under the stroke of Divine vengeance,
every mans hand is against his ncighbor,
every man laborng to do as little as he can
for the other, prefering to see huts, c'o hing
and food periahing, than applied to its pur-
pose. Every day has added to the Babel
in which common language is made only
the means OF strife ana confusion.
The management which leads to such re-
suits with certainty and uniformity. and
which does so in spite Of the most humliating
confessions Of error and promises of amend
ment, is only another name for anarchy which
in fact, rcgrs in the Crmea. As long as it
lasts, no high. sounding names, no Minister
al platitude, no pretense of loyalty or patri-
otism shall induce us to feed with human
hecatombs the altar Of war. The bones Of
one British army are enough for that dismal
coast--we will not connive at another such
catastrophe. If Ministers will continue TO
ask for more men, more, more and more still,
10 die in the trenches, or TO pass hcmeward
through the hospitals, in the face of errors
which they cannot correct and Departments
which they cannot get to work together
they must do so on their own account, and
on such confidence as they may happen to
enjoy with the people. But the House of
Commons, We are sure, will betray the trust
it has received from that people, if it permits
the war to proceed under management that
leads to ruin by a certain, inevitable law
England surely will not commit her sons TO
the care Of those who confess themselves so
tied and trammeled that they cannot discharge
the trust, and whose only amendment for one
hideous catastrophe is the precarlous hope
that, under the same conditions. there will
not be another. She will insist that they so
reconstruct the administration of the army.
as to be in position to promise-which now
they are not. She will insist that there shall
be a minister able to do, without impediment
or delay, whatever Re may deem necessary
for the prosecution of the war, and who will
be without excuse for the neglect Of any nee
essary provision.
The STRENGTH OF GUNPowDsR.-Some
idea OF the power Of this extraordinary a.
gent, prepared from nitre, phur and char
coal, may be inferred from statement made
within day or two, Of the blowing opera.