Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-02-16
The Times on the War.
From the London Times, Jan. Is. ]

There is for al! things, and on the eve OF
great national disa ser it is comfort 10 think
that the presen-yes, this very present hOur-s the
season for great national duty. AS for The pending
operations at Sevastopo, may almost dismiss them
from our thoughts for while. England has done
her best and her worst in that quarter-her extrava
gances, her foes and her neglects, and can now do
no more. We may read the future there as plainly as
the Of the Prince when the single chain that held
them from the precipice frownng their heads
swapping at last, and they knew they at the
mercy of the storm. The remnant of the British ar
my might be about Is, 900 II 1000 bayones at the
last date. About hundred q dav were sent 10
hospitals, to return fit for service, and nearly
many saved their country further trouble by dying
the spot. Here is regular train of six thousand
month against further achievements worth TAX
ing 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
than ever and expected to be worse still
heavy snow rapid thaw severe frost, bitter north
wind frozen trenches impossible roads hardened to
The consistency of rock ruts reacherously filed with
driving snow officers found suffocated by their char
coal fes sixty horses frozen to death in one night
and all that Engllshmen have read of before, when
they could afford to amuse themselves with the hor-
ribe in the narrative Of Napolean's Russian cam
paign
Vast piles of wooden hus were at Balakava but
the army was IN tents and it certain it must
main in tents long lasted for there not the
least chance oftransport sufficient bring up the huts
Only small fraction of the army had received warm
upper clothing, or were like to receive for the same
reason Every officer repudaled the duty of supply
ing or even taking charge of anything beyond the
eternal salt pork and green coffee Of the former, the
armywas sometimes half rations orquarter rations
The latter everywhere strewn in the mud
being wholly useless 10 the soldier For the rest ii
is the same story we have had to tell every day
these two months. The hospitals and the medical
stores were in the same state the authorities at Bala-
klave still doing their best to save themselves the
trouble of landing what they had neither clerks to
take care or nor room 10 store to transport
Ship after ship full of the most necessary articles
priceless 10 the wretched soldier was sent out of har
Dor, and even back to Consantnople Corfu on some
idle formahty. Positively, literally, there was not
one change tor the better since " sat down before
Sevastopol The only change was that the railway
which left Malta on the 10TH and ought to have ar.
rived at Balakava by this time, might extricate the
army from its dead lock. But who can expect this
IN the face OF such an uniformity of Acknowledgement
Either the screw steamer containing it will be or
dered out of the harbor some petence, or not per-
mltted to land the rails no ground be allowed 10
lay them down, or the whole affair." naves and all.
will be burked in some way. That chance once dis
posed Of the end cannot be distant and the finest
my that ever left these shores will soon cease to ex
list force.