The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-12
am cANROBERT 5 RESIGNATION.

aEN. CANROBERT KESadNAIIoN.
The res;suation by Gen. Canrobert OF such
Command as that of the allied army, and
:. moment when, both in numbers and eff
cheney. the allied forces present an array
which Napoleon, in his proudes. hour, would
have been proud to lead, is justly regarded
In Paris a. an event of significant but not OF
happy import. About eight months ago ne
landed in the Crimea, second in ofhce TO
Marshal st. Arnaud. Upon the death OF the
Marshal, he succeeded to the Chief COM
mand, which, it is said it had been resolved
to confer upon him previous to st. Arnands
death, the Government not approving the
manner in which that officer conducted the
first military operations before Sebastopol.-
ST. Armand, in divesting himself of the COM
mand, issued an order of the day to the ar
my, in which he said: "Gen. Canrobert viii
continue the victory of Alma, and will have
the happiness, which was dreaming for my
SELF of conducting you to Sebastopol."
About eight months have since elapsed;
but Gen. Csnrobert has not yet had that
happiness The capture of the fortress
has been a dream" to him as well as st.
Arnaud. The baton of Marshal of France,
which lured him on, has vanished into thin
air. Through all the vicissitudes, the fiery
trials and terrible hazards of the winter, he
has chung to his command, and now, when
the inclement season has passed; when good
roads have succeeded bad ones; when plenty
instead of want reigns in the camp; when
the army, almost decimated by disease, has
regsined its health and spirits, and is swelled
by fresh reinforcements to magnificent ar
ray of more than two hundred thousand OF
the best troops in the world when spring
opens, with all its refreshing and reviving
influences, the commander int chief resigns
Of course such resignation was involun-
tary. That the plea of i'll health was pre-
text, is shown by the desire expressed in the
same breath, to retain command in the ar
my. We are not therefore surprised to learn
from the Paris correspondent of the National
In.elligencer, that it is not doubted in Paris
that Cxnrobert received what was equivalent
to an order to resign, and that his resigna-
tion is virtually dismission. The same in
telligent writer places upon this dismissal
the only fair Specification of which it is ca
pable, j. g., 'thst the recent operations against
Ssbastopol have proved, like all previous
operations, complete failures because the
besieged town, after the allies had for month
or more done their very utmost against it.,
seemed as dangerous as ever, if closer &C.
qusintance, by an attempt to storm, should
be hazarded. Gen. Canrobert's dismissal
signifies that the Emperor of the French, is
MT merely unsatisfed by the results of the
campaign, but dissatisfied with the manner
in which it has been conducted; that the last
eight months military operations having
been almost nugatory, an entire new plan of
operations, under another leader, is to be
entered upon. This Interpretation of the
change of command, announced this morn
ing, would make the intelligence hardly less
important or less discouraging than the first,
that of Gen. C.'s voluntary resignation; con.
stituting, as it would, distinct official recog
milton of the immense difficulty, of the al
most impossible attainment of the end of the
war, the forcible limitation of Russian power
in the Black Sea-
Field operations, conducted with skill and
energy, may drive the Russians from the
Crimea, but it may be doubted whether Lou
is Napoleon will permit any General, how
ever successful, to remain long enough in 8
conspicuous position to become dangerous
rival to himself in the regards of hero. wor
shipping France.