Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-15
WARRINGTON gEws AND GOSSIP

many dlplomatists in Washington BY the Bal.
tic, represent tho affairs of the allies in the
Crimea to be even in more desperately for.
lorn condition than as explained at length BY
the London Times and few other English
journals. It is thought in well informed and
military circles In the English capital that
| the reduction of Sebastopol BY assault or 9TH
erwise, is now wholly out of tho question, and
that the only problem remaining to be solved,
is how to get out Of the Crimea alive some
small remnant of the proud and really gallant
army of English which was to have accomplish.
cd 80 much there?
Months ago, We, alone Of American Jour
mails, told our readers that the dissatisfaction
with the imbecility and utter incompeteuov
of their commander among tho subordins ate
officers of the English army, amounted almost
to state Of revolt The London Times now
proela,nss that this state. of things has long
existed there, and that very recently one hun
dred and fifty of the most promising officers in
the British service have asked permission to
leave it, While the British press and their
echoes were showering peans of praise over
the physical condition, of their army, and re-
joicing over its prospects, we published facts
bearing on tho actual state of sebastopol
upon the besiegers' winter prospects, and on
the real state of the army's health and the
labors required of them, all of which are at
length admitted to be true, and are being re.
ceived with howl of mingled horror and Ia
mentation from Lands End to John O'Groat's
house As we predicted, they have not only
accomplished nothing against Russia in the
Crimea. literally nothing, but in the sacrifice
Of hundreds Of millions of dollars and tens Of
thousands on tens of thousands of British lives.
they have merely demonstrated the utter hope
lessness of contest with Russia on Russian
soil
The Times tells US that, SO far, the seige
has not injured either the city of sebas-
topol or its defences; that but sixty unimpor-
tant buildings within the Russian lines and a
few sheds in the dock yard have been injured,
the rest of the city being so far as safe from
cannon shot as before the allies landed at
Ralaklava; that the story about the dead and
dying lying in the streets of the city proves to
have been fabrication from beginning to
end, and that from first to last, things have
been as quiet, regular and safe within the
lines, as though no enemy were outside; that
at last dates from there instead of having &C.
complished any thing so far, the defences of
the city were four times as strong as when
Raglan's army first landed, being far stronger
than those Of Gibraltar where the assault
must be attempted, if attempted at all; that
the style on which the Russians have improved
their works during the siege prove their engi.
neer officers to be in all respects the best such
corps in the world; that from Nicholas down
to the lowest serf in his empire, all the Rus
sian population are enthusiastic and united
on the subject of ths war, and that the former
has but to say the word at any instant to quad
ripple his army by volunteers, and his pecu-
mary means of carrying on the contest, By
voluntary loans and contributions from his
subjects that Raglan is hated and despised
on account Of his heartlessDess and ineficiency,
by ell under him; that the re-inforcements
sent to him turn out to be boys of Is or 49,
for the most part, and wilt away in a week
after landing, so as to be tax and burden
on the original English army, rather than
of assistance to it. They fill the hospitals
not the trenches No physicians and no med.
icines are to be had, while they are dying of
cholera and exposure at the rate of eighty
men per day. No huts, no tents, no dry
ground to sleep on, no forage for their horses
almost all of which have persisted and to
crown all their miseries, no hope of even es-
Gaping miserable death anlmates any por-
ton of the noble army which England has
sacrificed in this campaign Ample supplies
Of all sorts have been forwarded thither, but
the fury of the Black seas storms engulphed
most of them. Some of those wrecks foated
ashore, where they could have been saved,
but want of sys.em-of real head to their
army-caused them to float back again out to
sea, after laying for weeks where they could
easily have been secured.
1t turGs out that the battle Of Iukerman, Lii
prandi's great battle, which was pronounced
originally in England to have involved an i'm
mense sacrifice of Russian life, when nothing
could possibly be gained for the Russians by
bringing it On, proves to have been the crown.
ing point OF the Russian scheme of tho cam
paign. 1t left the Russians in impresnable
command of he only road between Balaklavs
and the English army. So, though there are
now large supplies of all sorts at Balaklava
for the English army, they are scarcely more
available than if they were still in England.
Nothing on wheels can pass between Balak-
lava and the army, as the only way which
the allies command is ankle deep in water,
and over bog two feet deep. Every pound
of pork or biscuit passing between those points
has to be carried on foot or on horseback. and
horse can hardly carry there more than the
necessary quantity of fodder for his own con-
sumption in twenty four hours
The French prove the better soldiers q
thousand times, in all respects, and are
thousand times better Offered, commanded
and supplied. The Turks ara even worse off
than the English, and the plague is DESTROYING