Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-02-15
THE LONDON TIMES ON TIT WAR.

There is season for all things, and on
the eve of great national disaster it is some
comfort to think tina, the present-yes, This
very present hours the season for agreal
national duty. As for the pending opera
tons a, Sevas.opol, we NAV almost dismiss
them from our thoughts for a while. Eng
land has done her best and her worst in
that quarter-her extravagance, her folIles
and her neglects, and can now do NJ more.
We may read the future there as plainly as
The crew of the Prince when the single
chain lhs, held them from the preciplce
frowning over their heads snapped a! last,
and they knew they were al the mercy OF
the storm. The remnant otthe British ar
my might be abou, $4,000 or $4,000 bavo-
nets a, the last date. Abou. hundred
day were sent to q hospital, never to return
Fl. for service, and nearly as manv saved
their country further trouble by dying on
the spot. Here is regular train OF six
thousand a month agains, no further REIN
forcemen,s worth taking into account. AT
this rate Lord Raglan and his staff would
be the sole survivors Of the expedition about
the 18Th Of March. The weather had been
worse than ever, and was expected to. be
worse still heavy snow, rapid thaw, severe
frost, bitter north wind, frozen trenches, i'm
passable roads hardened to the consistency
Of rock, ru,s ,reacherously filled with driv-
ing snow, officers found suffocaed by their
charcoal fires, sixty horses frozen TO death
in one night, and all tina, Eoglishmen have
read of before, when they could afford TO a.
muse themselves with the horrible in the
narrative of N ap"lesn's Russian campaign.
Vast piles of wooden hu.s were Q, Balak.
lava, bu. the army was in tents, and it was
certain it must remain in tents as long as j,
transport sufficien. to bring up the bu,s.-
Only small fraction of The army had re-
ceived warm upper clothing, or were like
to receive it for the same reason. Every
officer repudiated the duty Of supplying OF
even taking charge of any thing beyond the
eternal sal. pork and green coffee. Of the
former, The army was sometimes on half ra'
lions or quarter ralions. The latter was
seen every where s,rewn in the mud, being
wholly useless to the soldier. For the resi-.
it is The same story as we have had to tel
every day these two months. The hosp
tails and the medical stores were in .he same
state The authorities of Balaklava slill do
ing their bes! 10 save themselves the trouble
Of landing what they had neither clerks t'
take note Of, nor room to store, nor mean:
to transport. Ship after ship full Of TIT
most necessary articles, priceless to the
wretched soldier, was sent on. Of harbor
and even back to Cons.an,nople or Corfu
on some idle Formally. Positively, literal
ly, there was not one change for The bette
since we ''sa. down before" Sevaslopol.-
The only chance was tina, the railway, which
left Malta on the 10Th, and ough. 10 have ar
rival al 2. lALl Aua- hu-Ihi. Iime.-mis bit ex
irlca'e the army from lis dead lock. Blu
who can expect this in the face of such al
uniformity of Encouragement Either The
screw steamers containing it will be ordered
out Of The harbor on some pre,ence, or no
permitted TO land the rails, or no ground bt
allowed to lay them down, or The whole
affair, narvies and all, will be burked in
some other quick way. Ths. chance once
disposed of, the end cannot be distant, anc
the finest army tina. ever lief. these shores
will soon cease 10 eXis! as force.