Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-07-18

Thing concealed, and that conceal
ment means disaster. Yet if any
Uncomfortable had occurredwith-
| In the Crimea, there are other chan
Ices through which it would have be.
bcome known. The French Govern
intent may keep its Sc rets to ITSELF but
| ii has no control Owe the English
lIbress and the Russian Government
| Would be only too much delighted to
hear any triumph to proclaim to th ny
World. !. !
| From the London Times, June %. <
IIHE BATTLE OF THE 10TH OF
|. / H.. JUNE. VI !. Il II
/. Il The intelligence Of the unsuccfss-
| fill alta ok of the allied forces on the
IMalakhoff tower and the Redan, on
The 18th of June, reaehedEus at 50
late an hour yesterday thai our own
remarks on the progress Of the siege
had already gone to ptess%and o ll!
readers will have observed that, a.
Though we were not Acquainted win
the sinister reports III ejaculation, wye
we ire unwilling tdPlace reliance Up
on, them until they had received the
+ unequiyocal sanction OF ollclal az
th9rity. The dispatches whlch have
since arrived, both from Lord Ras4an
ana Gen. PeFissicr, established be-
You'd doubt that the combined movct
ment ofthc allied armies rG-commen-
ced ON the nth, and that early in the
morning ofthc following daN-a day
hcir tolore known to our military an
nak by the Iustrc of Nictpry An at
tack was made on the grrat Redan,
and the Observation-Disclosures. which was
rcpillscd with a most heavy and
gridyious<loas on our sidd. r - 4.
Il hc troops withdrd w into our own
linct, cllrcting their retire tinI order,
and not being harassGd BY theencny
but in. the fearful struggle wilishtook
.pladc upon and with in The work%,
whcfc a partia! succ raa was at one
timd obtained, both Fren4h and En-
glish were moved downby the means
of d9 fcnce accumulate ed lIyi thP. enc
mics in the rear of the batteries. Il
We learn, with the deepest pain,
that the losses of the Allifd forces
arc believed to be greatse r than in
any former action of the war! w..
Thi : event Is caleulhted to excite
the strongest national REGRET, from
the check which it gives I'd the az
dent hopes which has been enter tain
ed Of immediate success and from
the additional losses such a contest
has caused to both afmi2s, yet it
must be borne in mind THAT in the
progb' css Of a long and din c1lt Siege
there Is nothing extraordinary in the
rcpul Ic of one or more PARTIAL AS
:saults This is;in fact. the fr+t time
since the commencement Of the Cri-
mca war that our armies have suf-
tered any check in an impottan ut com
binea operation I :. H.
The Russians have been rfpulsed
a ozeh times during the siege in their
noctdrn pal sortics and attacks on the
Frcnt and English lin esI although
our works are incomparably weaker
than tAc Malakh off Tower and the.
Redan Scarcely a siegeof any mag
nitude Is to be found in military histo-
ny i'll which the garrison has not ONCE
or tvFide beaten back the besiegtrs
from it4 works, The Rus Sims made
no less than five assaults on Sillistri.a,
and were five times defeat ed. -: The
French were foiIed in their list at
tack on the Mamelon, though they
are now victoriously possessed Of it.
OGEsqrf row at this failure, and espt-
cially at the sacrifice of ga liant and
devoted Nmen which it has cost us, is
at least unmixed with dependency,
although, it>seems, we have yet to
learn thc whole extent of the resour+
ccs of, the place and the hem to
whom we are opposedM> f. " /
"Wa observe that, (Which these
outwolk were carried, a campara-s
tive small additional effort would
have completed. our success +. The
Russians were beaten, their fire had
slackencd, their dcfence s we're injur-
ed, and even their fatigue parties had
lost their accustomed energy in re-
pairingFthe damages of the lombard
ment. One would have thought that
it might be far easier to drive the as
sault home at such moment, than
to defer the second half Of tlle oper-
alton to, a future opportunity We
ventureIto quote our own wofds, be-
cause they anticipate with perfect
accuracy the danger which has since
become known to us with such fatal
certainty. The secondhalfoft The OPP
Grafton was, or had become, the most
difficult and the interval which clap.
sed between the 18th and 18th gave
the Russians an opportunity to con
centrate all their resources against
the impending. attack. !" IL = =
On the 18th the number of men en-
gagged, az least on. our side was com
paritively small mot, we believe,