New-York daily tribune., 1856-04-26
E Z r o p E.
BY THE ARABIA'S MAILS.
GREAT BRITAIN.

the flag OF Russia floats where Il pleases. To
be sure, we got Russian stores, through a neutral.
during the war. so that in commercial point of
view the event is not so important. Even war, we
see, cannot overbalance the material interests Of
mar kind. These must and will help themselves
and protect themselves and no doubt il is to them
that nsny potentate owes his throne-the sterns-
tive being mo trade e. This is 8 business like
substitute for the old loyalty, and is Of much ser
vice TO our. neighbor Napoleon. Now that the war
is over we don't hear 80 much and shan hear 80
much of his great qualities. On the contrary.
some of our wits are at him again already, aud
Douglas Jerrold wrote capital article tother day,
in LIord's Weekiy, which he edits. on story that
the In peral nurse had been forbidden to kiss the
Imperial baby The story may have been q Joke
or lie, but il formed capital text for one Of those
fanciful and satirical articles which Douglas de-
lights In. and which have sent up his paper to an
unriyaled circulation. He Is the first colloquia
VT We have now, and goes about like Cupid with
bow and arrow only that il is not so pleasant
kind of pain that he inficts. By the by, they con-
stsntly stop Punch at Paris-where, under the sur
face of the Empire things ar. not 80 brilliant ss
the purple-where enthusiasm " is organized by
the police-and where spies carry dsggers under
their white waistcOats on occasions Of Fest ylty
and look like Jealous, well-dressed admirers OF
his Msesty-with a sharp eye TO his safety the
while
The next best thing to having the war to talk
about is the having its failures to discuss; aud we
are all very busy in watching the "Crimean
Inquiry" " hich is daily going under the fine old
walls and opposite the cheerful trees of Chelsea
Hospital Ii is more lively affair than We eX
pected, and fills columns of the daily papers. The
public 90 there in considerable numbers aud you
see not only very fine display of military big
wigs Imposing old gentlemen scarletty and stately
as turkey cocks-incuding the Duke OF Cam
bridge, who is not so young as remember him at
Corfu in l-4-. and little dashed by pleasure) but
q goodly show of ladies and sprinkling of states
men, They are at Lord Lucan just now, and Lord
Lucan is at every ybody-especisly The Times,
which he has complained of TO the Board for COM
menting on the proceedings two days running. lie
is rather violent in his temper, and one easily be-
Heyes that when Col Darly Grifiths of the Scots
Grays asked HIM about protecting the horses he
threatened to put him under arrest. Thisls partly,
| suppose military hanteur, partly the hauteur OF
new earl-for his earldom is but of Pitts time,
when money and bOrOugh h-m0ngering saddlcd us
with whole generation OIL lords who all fancy they
are the regular barOns of England, and turn up
their noses at life peerages. You will ask how Lord
Lucan vindicates himself And here is The adyan-
tsge of this inquiry Vindicate himself In the strict
sense. be cannot. But he is driven to accuse other
people The other people retort. And 50, while
these squabble an observing public takes them as
kings evidence (or nations eyidence) against
each other, and takes cum grano what they say
about themselves. In this way England is learning
a good deal preparatory to those military reforms
which are to come of by and by Lord Lucan, by
80 in tha
loeh and Sir John Mcneil, brought out Col. Tul-
loch on Wednesday, and the result was curious
and minute exposure of the losses Of our cavalry
Let us just look at the facts;
On the passage from Narna to the Crmea, no
less than 272 horses were lost-hOrses worth E75
apiece BY the first Sunday on board, they were
short Of forage. The condition of the horses when
landed was naturally bad. Then came the suffer
ings on shore. i give you the figures; they are
dry. of course, but instructive: First, for the
Heavy Brigade, of an average strength Of ~
horses there died in November, December (ls54),
January February and March (ls55), 50l: that
is. - per cent. In the Light Brigade (uDder Car
digan, Lucan's relative, and enemy the loss was
~ per cent during the same period.
Now here is a great commander OF cavalry who
loses his horses. What are you to say Why,
says Lord Lucan, the great cause was insult
ficiency of food, and 1" irregularity in the supply
of it," And here bis Lordshp comes down on
generally subject for military quizziDg at the
best of times-which in fact, supplies corn in ex-
change for chat. Well, the cOmmlssariat officers
were all Young, our lord says, and inexperienced.
Their system was so bad, that in fOragiDg they bid
against one another, and raised the prices-s sad
breach of the laws ofpOlitical economy Then, be-
side the bad supply of food there was the weather,
and We never knew when We might move and hence
postponed operations, and on. About this point
of the shelter of horses there has been vast talk.
Lord Lucan says he knew nothing about making
stabBg of the kind-that is, buts for the horses.
Every body believes him But, waving the ques-
tion whether military man ought not 10 know
such things, were there no substitutes possible
while the huts were wanting Yes" says TullOch,
there was feet in the harbor, with acres Of
spare sails and you ought to have put your horses
under canvas. You ought, likewise, TO have dug
trenches for their protection. And 50 the contrO-
versy goes on. Lord Lucan complains that 500 OF
bis cavalry horses were taken from him by Lord
Raglan for transport wOrk-tO the interruption of
the hutting, to the killing OF the horses, to the
anger of the men, who knew il was not cavarys
business, and felt humsted in the eyes OF the
French. | can fancy the disOrganlzed and de-
plOrabe state OF affairs among those swell horse
men WHO for years cut such hgure On parade
and now found that soldiers life had terribly
prOsaic aspect on occasion.
II seems harsh 70 be hard on such fine looking
fellows But, on what theory is it that we civil
isLs give the pas to these men that We toast EN-
after dinner, and write songs about them, and
give them the prettiest girls to dance with in the
ballroom Why, of course, it is that We expect
them to be ready to go through all this kind of
thing cheerfully and well, aud to be able TO do the
work they choose be well as we DO ours.
1t s indeed lsmeLtable picture that these
revelations present 10 US. FIRE at Vsrna des-
olstes our stores. storm at Balaklays spolls
our transports. Horses perish in mud, sush and