The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-13

mains for ressmias the character Of this country
In fearful jeopardy. Send out with ecmps
tsc pcvsrs e te nscsss.ry bsst q our
the hospais that present so scandaous contrast to
and Of Transports waiting for orders aud give him also
procmsd IL that 3D. and which n. French
have not obtained before Nobody has yet had
mand " this important station who d. for anything
else than TO be the figure Of has own ship There
Is Sr Charles Treyeyan for example who possesses the
aaT s h,N power Of atty old sdmrals Why not
'es0 MN ss hsn Commissioner to the Bosphoro"
II Lord Raglan Is the mau he is thought to be, and
nobody doubts his high courage his perfect cooness aud
his great ability in his former poyments-be wants
better instruments He wants better coaijutors and
chief incapable tell hin rythns convey the wants
OF the army take orders and that they excrute
Send out men who will save the army not from the Rus
slams, though they formidable bat from des
pair, which Is weighing down the spirits OF every one
and an utter dstrust in the arrangement of the exped
by thousands unless take steps for their better
agcmen As II is they march TO their graves AMI begin
TO perish by scores from the hour they land Msrule
c.iv.s them on the beach, and weares them worries
them, dreDctes them rshivers them aud so DESTROYS
them, till few spectral figures all that remain The
koldiers OF the Peninsula, when they the Duke OF
wellington after absence, used 70 exclaim that his
face did them more good than the arrival ten rsgi
ments Such head coadjutors equivalent TO IT, h
what we want ior the Crmea.
From the London Times. Dec. 90
We believe we have fallen into considerable disgrace
well aired beds for taking up what they pleased TO
call "croakng" tone about the state OF affairs the
East We ought to have confined ourselves, just now,
at all events, TO transmitting the compliments Of the
to the lies In the Crimea and their anxious
friends at hcme lnieed, Il tho war be conducted
anywhere exactly as pleases II must be paper.
Here at least there need be no fury OF the winds or
inc'mency OF the skies--no "chaos OF mud"-no mid.
night or morning surprises. II the placid, well favored
army OF writer's c0mpostors and printers good for
anything they can at least mako 1t all pleasant and
mp Christmas carol even out OF such materials
That is the feeling In high quarters and we cannot DO
surprised that gentlemen who scattered n the
four quarters OF TIC social and pot ;al horizon, making
merry Christmas Of Their own should wish Sebastopoi
to be made safe VII tho end Of the holidays
Dreadful II must be to reflect on the possibility OF
10 900 British and French soldiers and 80 TURKS
their efforts and for The possession OF which they have
gone tr ough so much suffering, yet must desire II
the choice of evils We desire Il indeed and It is but
natural we should desire at any sacrifice the cessation
Of state OF things which cost, every week much
death and sickness pitched battle without the glo
ry, and, stl more, without any result Nevertheless
obliged 10 confess that have very little OK
pectaon that any such event has happened likely
70 happen at present We bear in mind the unpleasant
fact that sebastopo very much stron ger than II
when the allies FIRST found themselves before It, II Ia
better fortified, better garrisened and for aught
know, quite as well provisional. The works thrown
up for the protection of the town every side excite tho
astonshment Of besegers merely for their extent
their scale and their completeness but for the fasous
nestness with which they executed They in.
dicate abundance OF hands aud zeal for the work
n
own overworked army From the first day OF the siege
II has always been thought quite possible TO take the
place by assault at certain large sacrifice OF and
the question H. whether tho generals who did feel
themselves equal to the responsibility Of such step in
September should have got over their scrupes now,
WREN the odds are evidently so much against
In fact the price Of the capture rises like that Of the
syblline books, and Lord Raglan II he would ever see
the in,ide OF sebastopo make up his mind 10 fol-
low tho example Of the King Of Rome aud give three
times as mary men for the city he would have
had TO pay at first For our part there Is hardly any
~ hat Wa bo
We're the immediate capture OF the place to cost the
allies 10 600 men in killed and wounded persuaded
th,t three months more of such work We have had
would cost ms many more, and leave the work stili
TO DO done. Done, however, II must be unless would
Russia to say that had done worst and that she
feared Ma no longer.
IL Ia headhead-head that is wanted az well as tho
limbs OF the rude helpless soldier What Is the use OF
sending regiments perpetualy EDWARDS 20 the OF
to perish by from the very day their arr
val If We do not send out who can take care OF
themS The regiments advanced from Gibraltar Malta,
and Corfu and even the so strong healthy policemen
sent from this metropolis sicken and lie where thew
have TO live, TO work TO walk 10 Sit TO eat and drink
and sleep in wet clothes and wet boots under wet en
ON the wet ground, In watery trenches under rainy
skies. The human frame not made for this sort OF
work and since the work has doubled the food been
duced to half rntions and the tents been blown away
the peat has stalled triumphant through the lamp
What, too, can be use Of sending for more of tho
are dependent on yery short slowspes ~ bssuit
from the British stores and like Irish aborera four
pence day do nothing for nothing IL Is head ths.
has been wanted throughout. There Is no denying It,
plain proof found in the fact that nothing whatever
has happened in the siege that not known before
hand and that could not have been provided for This
was not the case OF fortress position in the into
rior. some hundreds Of miles from the coast attacked
after long and destructive march, presenting unsy.
pected obstacles 70 be encountered by an arpR Ami.
nsbed beyond computation. This was fortresfbn the
forty eight hours sail Of friendly shores and e.ss'
the besieging army being all the time within sight and
even within sound Of the surge. There was nothing
~ ata hat auiI kaar Al ~l.~k
We knew the size and wide spread position Of scbas
topol The very maps hanging upon our walls
siege began wsknew that the siege might be protract
ed into the heart Of winter and that the latter months
soldiers would infsibiy perish Without suhei.n. food
clothing and covering over their heads We knew the
sort Of distances and roads should have 10 traverse
In the event Of our having TO establish ourselves out
side the walls We knew perfectly well this nature Of
the soil round sebastopol and that while ham.
msrng in vain at the exterior dsfences 10 would be In
the power OF the Russians to construct an inner line
We knew that whatever could be done would be done.
Yet we had foreseen nothing; and, possessing the
most ingenious as well as the richest people la the
world, we have really shown more skill artihce
in the siege Of sebastopo than ancestors would
surpassed by everybody, and only boast a sorry
superiority the Turks, whom, accordingly, We
roads, in their port. in their hut., In their food and
clothing, In their hospitals, In everyth ny, and be-
Ginning TO look on our heplessncss much we look
that OF our barbarous allies The Russians surpass all
three-French, British and Turks--in everything,
cept In mere physical strength and There
oil the bert Yet how disgra -efa that England
wealthy, 40 mechanical, and with such inhnlty Of re
sources, should, after all depend the rawest material
Of war--the British solder--and should be reduced TO
throw him away by Wholesale In order 70 make up fot
want OF military science, not TO say
That has been the hitherto though we cannot think
that Il win last much longer
Letter from "a. Petersburg.
fTrom the New Bedford Mercury Of Jan. 2.
We publish 70 day the following very interesting letter
from our esteemed correspondent at 4 Petersburg II
appears the informal current 10 Russia regarding
war, u by no copious thst which receive
by ar, h,anss Impressions OF the state OF feeling 10
upon the future prospects OF European Affairs. ar
Eyanss return home will be welcome announcement 10
his many friends and well wishers.-