Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-07-19
FRANCE AND THE CRIMEAN WAR.

aay shumDer OF the French journal "Le Progress, !"
published at New York, paper chiefly devoted
to the cause of the French republicans The
letter is marked "private correspondence Of the
Progress We think it well worthy Of perusal,
and have therefore translated it for our readers;
PARIS, Wednesday, June 81, 1855.
Paris is in CONSERVATION.
During the whole of last week the silence Of
the telegraph at the Tuileries had profoundly
disturbed peoples minds. AT present everybody
knows that at each minute Of the day and of the
night NJ. Bcnaparte and his government can have
news from the Crmea. Therefore, in view Of
this obstinate dumbness of the Moniieur the BUSH
ness interests became alarmed, families were
frightened, and the rural districts as well as the
cities fell into state of the keenest anxiety
What was it so terrible, then, that had taken
place down there' What new disaster had just
been experienced These were the questions
which every one asked himself People repaired
TO the ministerial Offices where they found the
ministers, who put their hands (says the CORE
spondent of the Times on the place adhere the
heart Is supposed TO be, and answered with tears in
their eyes: "We have not any news!' At Lon
don there was the same impression, and the same
attitude by the government. Mr. Palmerston
declared in the House of Commons that the tele-
graphic wires had been cut for two days, and
that the communications had only Just been re-
established. Nobody, can assure you, was the
dupe of this artifce. Every one knew perfectly
well that the two cabinets of England and France
were informed every quarter of an hour of the
slightest military operations; that NJ Bonaparte
had the supreme direction Of them; and that if
silence was kept, it was because it was desirable
to keep silent. This silence has naturally given
birth to a thousand contradictory reports The
Allies, according to some, had been overwhelmed
in great battle, and Pelisser killed According
to others, on the contrary, the Malakoff tower
had been taken; Perekof had been taken; the
Fchernaya had been occupied; and the army,
without suffering too serious losses, had finished
by encamping in the Cemetery. Important sue
cesses were also announced in the Baltic They
who spoke thus had too much interest in holding
tins language to impose on any one by it. If the
Allied armies are victorious, it was replied, why
does the telegraph say nothing of it to the .uoni-
tetr? A conclusive answer, was it not? In
short the uneasiness adreached its height, when
the .Moniteur Of The army sought by not very en-
couraging and awkwardly conceived note to
change public opinion useless manGuvre,
since there was in the wind formidable PRESENT.
ment. 1t might be said that the electric wire, in
bearing the news of the catastrophe of Sebastopol
to the Tuileries, had diffused something of it in
the air, and the cord seemed to have sounded in
the passage of this news know not what myste
rious tocsin.
Finally, the bomb bursted.
The assault-that famous assault SO long pro
missed, SO long predicted, and SO long deferred
had been made; and was repelled-repelled with
losses SO enormous that Lord Raglan declared he
must have twelve days, from the 18th to the 3Oth,
to make an enumeration of his dead, and NJ. Pc
lssier said, in his laconc despatch, that it was
impossible for him to state the exact number of
his. But subsequent correspondence has been
more explicit. The Times acknowledges four
thousand dead on the side of the English, which
viii permit the loss of the French to be set down
without exaggeration at from eight to ten thou
sand men, In word, when the whole is sum-
med up, you will that the Allies, in this abor-
tive attempt, have left some fifteen thousand men
on the ground. This frightful total of victims is
to be added to that of tho Green Mamelon-a
number now known, and amounting, according
to the official documents as well as to the cor
seven hundred men. This, therefore, will make
from nineteen to twenty thousand soldiers which
Nj. Bonaparte's late fancies for glory have cost
us-twenty thousand dead from one week TO ano-
Their, or from the It'll Of June to the 18th Of June
You remember that lnkermann, which in pub
lie estimation became the synonym of killing,
massacre, and butchery. Well, guess how many
deaths during that day the dispatches have ad-
mitted. Seventeen hundred and twenty-six men.
That was the number given by Canrobert in his re-
port Of the 7th Of November, 1854: You see we
have advanced since; we then counted by hundreds
we now count by thousands. The government of
M. Bonapartc, know, lied, in declaring that only
1925 men were killed or wounded at Inkermann;
and if it still lies in acknowledging only BOO
victims at the Green Mumelon, what is then the
real NUMBER II is appalling. This is what the
Crimean war is now. Inkermann is no longer but
an eclogue, but pastoral, but leg of beef
painted by timid Boucher The Green Ma
melon leaves Inkerman far behind it, and the at
tack on the Malakof tower frghtfully exceeds
that Of the Green Mamelon.
Since the late news, new levies Of troops have
been sent forward from every corner Of France.
can affirm to you that large number of Off
GERS belonging to the different regiments in gar
rson at Paris have received the order 20 hold
themselves in readiness TO depart. In many
places time has not been left them to make their
preparations for departure. ! know captain of
artillery in garrison at Vincennes who at seven
O'Clock in the evening received his order to de-
part, and at six 0 o'clock Of the next morning was
on his way 10 Marsellcs and TO death. The
newspapers are naturally prohibited from saying
anything Of all these movements, which might
create uneasiness. Immense quantities of NUM-
tons are hurried forward day and night; the
foundries Of La Fere are fabrcating bullets those
Of Creusot are fabricating cannon, the factories
Of Vincenncs arc fabricating Congreve rockets.
They have killed. they are killing, they will kill.