New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-17

pEquee hhu Vlcettcs close - the 10 Vn. 70 stDnr
the county By patrols, insercepsing supplies, AMI
in case of serious sally. to fail b..x upon their
ipfarty. Thus they are doiog ~hst We predicted
they would do-ho'ding the superior force OF
Turks 10 check BY bocy perhaps not more tia
one fourth or obe-tbird their num Der. Accordingly
Omtr Pa.hs i. waiting for additional cavalry to
cone up and IN she meantime has been "a thu
Anglo French camp to inform his allies tia, for
the present be can DO nothing and taa. res,.
,crcement of some 10, eco Freach troops ~oald be
very desirable No dOub. it would hus no ess
desirable to CsDrobert bmaslf VINO, by tnis time,
must have found out that be hiss both too IN any
troops and too few-too m my for tas mere car
rying on Of tie siege such AZ il ID, aad for the de-
fence Of the Ceernay.; but Lot enough to dsbouca
from the Cbernsys drive tho Russians ioto the
interior, aid ipvest tho North Fort. To send
10 600 men TO EnpsroriA would not enable th,
Turks TO take the field aith success; while thf;r
sbsence would cripple ;he Ffeu,h army at tbs
time when, with the reknfrrcnmsnts arriving in
spring it is expec ted 20 take the Geld.
The siege is COW becoming vary sorry affair,
indeed. The night attack Of rhe Zeu,res on FEB,
"a, was even more disastrous IN iss resulss 90 50
we stated week ago. Il sppo.rs from Ganro-
hert's own dspssca that be did not know Whist
he was about when he ordered shis s;tsck. He
says: The purpose of the at.ck b-iag no Y at
tanned, cur troop, reired, ~ nobody ever could
"tbiDk of our establishing oursr'yrs gu point
$50 completely commsnfed By the IRE of ths
enemy" But what var tie purpose thus az
isin.d' What ~ss tb-rs 70 do Ii the poot could
DO, be bed : Nctntg whatever. The des,ruc-
ton Of ,be redOubf was not complishet, aud
cooid rot have been accomplished under the ene
uy's Gre, even IL ire Zou,ves a. .he first report
rreieo1 ed, hsi for a moment exc osivs possession
Of tbs gors. BN, that they never bad; the Rus
sian report denies it most positively and Csnro.
bart does not pretend to anything Of the kind.
What then, wss meant by tnis attack Way
plainly this: that Canrobert, seeing the Rlssians
establishing themselves Ia position very embsr-
rossiDe aud equally Illuminating TO the oesiesers.
without any reflection, without giving himself The
troublTof examining the probable issue of she
affair rent his troops So the charge. Ii was
eownIigbt useless bu'chery, and will leave
serious stain upon Csnroberts military reputation.
Ii any excuse can be fouud 1t ia only IN the supi
position that the French troops hsyiog become
iupaten. for the assault ils Gsnersl int AIDED
giving them slighs foretaste Of what the assault
would be. But this excuse Ia qui'e as discredit-
able to Cenrobert as the charge itself.
BY tie affair of MalsAof the Ra,si.ns ssccr-
tanned their up+riority on the ground ion nedately
In front of their defensss. The work sitaated on
the crest of the bill and vainly attacked by the
Zousves, is called by them the Seleoghiusk re-
doubt from the regiment which defended 1t.
They at once proceeded to follow up their sd-
vantage and act upon the gertrude thus obtained.
Seepshin was enlarged and strengthened gans
were brought up to it. though they must have
passed under the heaviest ire of the beseg.rs.
and c0nnter- approaches were III sde from it, prob
ably with view 10 erect one or two minor
works in it's front On smother spot too, in
front of the Korxiieff bastion, series Of peS re-
doubts was also thrown sp 300 yards in sdvanss
Of The Old Russian works From former British
reports, the possibility Of such q step seems
aston irtirg, TO- we were always told the Allies
bad thrown up their own trenches at less than
that distance from The Russian lines. But az We
were enabled to state, upon hrs.-rate pro-
ies sOnsl authority about month s!n,e, the
French lines were sill some 400 yards from
tie Russian ou.wotas, and the British even t vice
that Distance. Now. at last The Times cor
respondents letter Of March l6 coDfesses that
even up to that date the British trenches were
still 900 to 500 yards Off and that, Ia fact, tie
batteries about TO open upon the enemy Dsre 6m the
same which oytx,d their fire on the I'm Of October
last! This, then, is that great progress in the
tiege-that pushing forward the trenches, which
cost two-thifds of the British army their lives
Under such circumstances, there was plenty
OF room for erecting these new Russian works In
the intermediate space between the two lines of
batteries; but il nevertheless remains most uu-
paraeled act, the boldest and most skillful thing
ttat was ever undertaken by "a beseged garrison.
1t amounts to nothing Iess than opening fresh
parallel against the Aies, at from 300 to 400
yards from their works; to q counter. approach
on the gIandest scale against the besiegers, who
thereby are at once thrown back into defensive
state, while the very first essential condition OF
q siege ia that the besiegers shall hold the be-
siesed in the defensive. Thus the tables arc
10 the ascendant.
Whatever plumbers and fantasticsl experiments
tte Russian engineers may have made under
schilder, at Siistris. the Allies have. here at
sevas,op,l d, evidently a different set OF men to
deal with. The business and rapidly Of giaace-
,ba pyomntnsss boiSness And fauitlezaneas of