The true Democrat., 1856-01-08
 Erom fha Inndon Times. Dec. 5.
From the London Times, Dec. 5. Inactivity of Marshal Pelissier- ' Situation of the Allies in the Cri-

Inactivity of Marshal Pelissier-
 Situation of the Allies in the Cri-
 mea.
 They had just achieved vic- tory at which the world stood amazed, and in comparison with which everything else seemed easy of accomplishment What has been done with this splendid army and this glorious situa- tion-these clements of triumph, these mate- rals of almost certain success? Let us see.- Omcr Pasha has been sent to Asia, to rouse Christian populations against Christian Russia, without single brigade of the allied troops to bear him company and counteract the preju- dices' of the inhabitants against the Turks Yet, even so, his success has been far greater than anything achieved by the allies. Kin. burn has been taken, but no attempt has been made to advance from the basis of operations thus obtained upon Cherson or Nicholaieff
 From Eupatoria, place fortified with so much care and cost, as if for the exgress pur pose of throwing ourselves upon the commu- nications of the Russian army, the operations of the allies have been ludcrously ineffective and inadequate. After our sharp cavalry action, in which just enough was done to show how much more was possible, the allies have contented themselves with advancing towards the Rus sian position three or four times and then re- turning by the way they came without honor and without loss. Equally energetic has been the conduct of the main army. It has walked into defles and fastnesses only to walk out of them again, and after a series of object less maneuvres finds itself, after wilful waste of ten valuable weeks, just where it was when the Malakoff fell into its power.
 The Russian communications are not inter- nd Ioct b,, oc4 hundred thousand men, and a fleet of unexam- pied strength, to make preparations as best they may, against the coming of the winter-the only enemy they have to dread, and the rigors of which are happily not under our contro- Meanwhile our fleet is coming home; our ma- rines-a force fully equal to any we possess are being landed in England; the imperial guard has returned to France; Malta, Scutari and Pera are looking forward to winter enlivened by the presence of many Crmean hero; and our cavalry, having done nothing at the camp are about to repeat the same process in the su- burbs of Conslantinople. Road making and hut building have been the occupation of the vc- tors during the best season of the year, and the Sterner pursuits of war are agreeably relieved by theatricas and steeple -chases.
 Except for the enormous cost--except for the great anxiety, for the risk of disease. and the possibility of calamites like the great ex. ploson of the 18th of November, this mighty land and naval armament adequate in compe- tent hands for the conquest of the world, might as well have been anywhere since the 8th of September as in the dominions of our obsti- nate adversary. We talk at home of "the vigorous prosecution of the war;" and here every body is in earnest but since the Sth of September that great business seems to have stood entirely still
 Who is to blame for this miserable and ludi- crous fifth act in the great and glorious tragedy the first act of which was Alma, the second Inkerman, the third the repuse of the 18th of June, the fourth the battle of the Ichermaya and the storming of the Malakof? There is no difficulty in answering the question. We have never been slow to censure the English commanders; but with the English comman. ders in this instance the blame does not rest. The recall of Gen. Simpson followed so imme- diately after the Sth of September, that it ne- cessarly paralyzed all exertlon on his part, and Gen. Codrington has been so short a time in command that 1t were utterly unreasonable to censure his inaction.
 But Marshal Pelissier was encumbered by no such hindrances. The teegraphic wire that brought to Paris news of the fall of Sebasto- pol bore back to him for answer the bat0r of marshal. He possessed the confidence of his government, and his army, men, material, boundess resources and opportunities, and from the Sth of September to the present day he has done nothing absolutely nothing. Was the season too far advanced? On the 21 of De- cember, exactly fifty years ago. Napoean, with all army which he had marched from Bolongne to Austertz, fought and won a great battle portion of the conflict actually taking place on the ice. Were his forces inadequates?
 In how many of the great battles of the world has one half the forces at the disposal of the allies in the Crimea, ever been brought into action? Did he dread an attack from the Rus sans? On the 10th of August few thousand men defeated on the Tchernaya with ease the attempt of five times their number to force his lines Then they had Sebastopol to fight for; now they could hope nothing beyond barren and most improbable victory. We have waited till the last moment in hopes that something would be done
 There is hardly any enterprise in which the French General had not fair chance of suc- cess, or in which, had he failed, we should have ventured to blame him; but to attempt nothing at all-to waste two months and half of val uable time Tn utter lnactiOn-to give the enemy time to recover, and the enthusiasm of his own troops time to evaporate-to stani on the de- tenslve when thousand means of offensive warfare were open to him-to play loosng game when winning one was in hands, are faults so grave that we can no longer keep si- fence, or pretend to acquesce in the propriety of line of conduct so fatal to our troops and so nglorious to our arms.