New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-24
BRITAIN.
ON Our Own Csrre.ponSen.


you that the French Alliance was ceong little
an effect helped BY Wslewski's thrests against Bel
GUM. II now appears that there was Protocol
no % on the subject, at the Paris Copiereaces,
and tka, Cidreadon signed Il. This you may be sum
neither does good TO the shaky Government, nor b
the semi sat. sfac:ory Peace-nor to the French
Alliance. In fact, it Injuries su three. In the de-
bate Of Tuesday, Mr. Gladstone showed clearly
that Wal.w.k was out in his facts; that there arc
laws in Belgium to punish culpable ATTACKS In
papers; and ths. the French as well as other Pco-
pie have an honorable remedy The French or
gans meanwhile, go on with their bullying-and
people here begin to inquire, is this what we made
war for The war disappointed hopes enough,
God knows; but il is q little too much that the
arms which were raised against despotism should
he turned against liberty. England will have moth
Ing ia do with these designs; and MS the " I'm
"perial Infant is now getting stale subject We
are reader to take up new position than we were
some time since. Let us hope all this will 90 no
further; and that Kossuth and others who predict
reaction, tyranny, &c, everywhere, are too dee
pordent. One good consequence Of il may pcs-
sibly be renewed feeling of the necessity Of a
friepdlipess with America-and l hope this will
tell on the approaching debates. The blue-bcok
have been, suppose, pretty well absorbed by this
fine; and we shall soon be launched into the whole
Western Question.
Government stands-and stands irmer since
the great Kars majority, the secret OF which was,
first the Liberal fear of Derby Ministry,
and. second. the general fear of an immediate
dissolution. II jcgs along on suferance in House
hlll Of chaotic little knots of parties, and exists
becspse there is nothing sufficiently definite tor
ANYBODY 10 kick it out for, or to supply its place
with. And SO it will probably jog on till the
country is quite tired of the present Parliament
no very distant date: and then we shall see what
rarties mean TO go to the cOuntryon. Pam s It's
court card: indeed one never hears any otnet
Minister'S name mentioned, and L believe tho
cocntry scarcely knows who any other Minister n
They speak well of Psumure as working man at
the War Office; bur all the rest are n Kind af
dumb waiters-convenent and unmportant
We had last night the thanks to the Army and
Navy, in both iIouses-an honorable old custom
in all wars The oratOry was Indifferent. Palmer
ston is an admirable speaker, but no ordtor-he 10
diartus bat not eioguens as Cicero would say.
He is the man Of the world talking to men OF the
world in a Parliamentary manner-no passion, no
| Imagination, no fancy. So when he has a grave
| and serious topic out of the region of potics he
ID failure, and his speech reads, last nights
| one does, like piece of artihce. Disraeli was
| brief. and not great l cant help thinking the
| Wellington mishap sticks in his memory on such
occasions. However, everything was eheered on
all hands 1t was felt that the management of the
| war WAS not the topic, but only the pluck of the
| men and Oiicers-tbat We owed the wounded the
| dead the widow and the orphan whatever SYM
pathy could do for them, and as much to the brave
fellows now turning homeward with hope and
pride; and the Houses cheered Justify Lord
B,pru In fba 7 ri 70
an account of the losses of the war; and this is
an interesting point. draw up memorandum Of
them from his speech. The fearful "bl stands
thus:
FROM 10TH SEPT, 1854, TO 9sIH SErI., 1855.
Killed. ..............O Officers. l5s den. I,775
Died Of Wounds. -. Ofncer-.... 81 Men I,5ss
Died Of Cholera. .Of'icers.-.. IS Men, f,2ff
Other Diseases up 70
Dec. 81. 1855. .Oilieors.... % Men...1I,ffJ
Died Of Wounds up to 3lst March last. Men,. 3ss
Discharged incapacitated by Wounds. Men,. 2,S75
Total loss mp TO March 3l......... Men .&l"
The figures are perhaps not exactly accurate IN
the Parliamentary report-but here you nave
about the mark. We lost about q, 800 Englisn-
men (offcers and alD during the war itself; but
suppose we had lost many by fever aud dyseaEp
b. fore the advance to the Crimea who are mol mere
allowed for. You will observe in looking al tho
numbers, what large proportion oil on'eeh W
men are killed, compared with the proporuon VINO
dlfd OtherWlte. lhlB SHOWS tuAl th'y i"~
lantly; that they were frecr from disease and tnn
they recovered better from wounds. You VIII,
likewise observe how small the losses IN the heia
are compared with the losses Of the hospital and
tent. | wonder If the ghosts ever haunt the War
Office, or the Horse Guards, or Lucan and Card
gan or the C6mmissariat!
Phosophizing people, who are notphilosophers,
remind US that an epidemic in London carries on
more But they forget that the epidemic carries
off nlI peoDle and weak DeODle and iutemDerate
people-not the -tOutest, brayest, biggest Of the
population
when Panmure had done with the regular army
he gave us a discourse on the militia. IL has NUN.
bered G3. .6f3 men, and has given 70 the regular
amy 81 go men since November lsJ4. Aud here
BE- toOk occasion TO remind us Of the necessity OF
military education, the absurity OF faIse econ
Ony" ID thesc natter, &c. This ~ impor'ae',
and don't think We shall be economical again iof
long while Destiny seems against Manchester,
lust now. Golden is mourniDgsn only son; Bnght
ia suffering from congestion Of the brain. Inc &df
neWsuaper does not seem 30 succeed. Ana III VIII
be long before the roar Of this war dief away aho
life in England is what II was some years since.
7 bis militia movement alone, has had an eect Tar
anu wide. For one thing, il drew away ever go
many young fellows one knew-spOrtsmen or idle
law students or fast geotlemen whom yDu 6nd
ia bed on Sunday at noon reading BsNs Lye-and
tuTnod them intO militia officers at once. My kins-
man NacSpeuchan, the Younger OF Butter, ahose
dextcrity in rabbit-sho0,ing was my admiration
when last in the North,) is now Captain Mac
speuchan and occasionally see hin. figuring IN
the eounty paper as marching into soand 80 ~ tne
mead Of his troop. Other men are gone 20 inc
u. tito.rsnean garTisODs, where we nave ele'eh
militia regiments. Just consider the new expert
,noe Of all these men and their new eas-and the
social effect in d county of the raising fe" nun
q red men, each batch commanded BY lts own lOca