The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-18
TIE LATE SUCCESS OF THE ALLIES

IhE LATE SUCCESS Or THE ALLIES.
ine faris correspondent of the Nationa
inseiiigencer remarks that the avidity with
winch the recent successes of the allies have
peen seized upon in Paris and England
ana made to minister to the qualification si
national vanity, proves how sorely national
vanity Is wounded by the limited success
winch has crowned their eight months gi
gantic efforts in the Crimea. The CORES
pondent remarks the studied and persistina
siience OF the Moaitear. the government or.
gan, concerning the loss Of tie French in the
attacks Of the nights of the 22d and esd, on
The Russian advanced works. Il is believed
that Tie French losses are not SO very smu cb
smaller than the Russian; and that, in fact
they are in large and unfavorable dispropor.
ton to the value of the success which they
have purchased:
vi Was no doubt" says the correspondent, ga
most gallant and heroic affair but does il weaken
tne defence oi Sebastopoll Nes not The capture
cd with the deience Of the Allies themselves Ia
taslr own el.i enchmsns, rather than with that of
the 6esieged ioitressi Was not the success pur.
chased at fearful, almost ruinous cost like the
o'ooA VI bolsKthVa, and IukEr.
manni VIII they be abIe to keep, have they kep;
the post they SO gasnty conq1eredi We re.
menlosf that only few weeks ago another similar
advanced post OF the Russians was stormed Ia the
most glorious manner by tbs Zonaves but the
victors, alter driving in the Ruasisns were unable
70 Retain possession, for the place was swept by
husslan cannon on the battiemeuts of SebRstopol
la ike manner spprehend. the recent success in
trout OF bastions Nos and will be found to count
but little towards the capture of Sebas.opol In
iacf 1t Is confidently slated that previous to the re
signation OF Gen. Canrobert, at the time of the
last suspension of the Allies bonbardment the
Generals, chiefs of the artillery and engineer de-
psrtments, officially informed the Commander in
Chief that their science, SKILL and power had done
their worst against Sebastopol and were exhausted
and the Commands Chief must hepceforth ask
success from other instruments than theirs. lean
not, therefore, calm and dsipteresed, but not 10.
dliferent locker on as | am, allow myself to con-
elder, as most Frenchmen are doing, la view Of
this gallant affair of outworks the tall of Sebasto
pol as near at hand If this little episode in the
SIEGE the attack of incidental out post built in
one nisht and requiring two to conquer. has cost
Ioss OF HE that the copquerers recoil from an
nouncing, what may be expected from the recital
OF the grand poem, the stormng Of Sebastopoi it,
self, In face of it's twelve hundred pieces of artiI
streets, and Its system OF internal defence. con-
veriing every house into a foIt2 Imagination
sickens over ths picture.
As for the Kertsch expedition, 1t was expedient
and well done; but its conception would not have
added much to the glory of the first Bonaparte.-
The only wonder is tina, 1t was not accomplished
long ago. 1t might have been done with equal fa-
cility, certainty, and small waste of life any day
since war has been declared"