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COMING REPEAL OF THE BEER ACT. The House...
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The War In Asia. The Russian Generals In...
v ^ r ^ riSrss ^ ^ ^ JSSE * " £ ttoT JSSJS 3 SinSS t oSp ^ fieH . . General MoiTBAViEFi' opened the campaign with tresh troops computed at thirty thousand infantry , four cavalry regiments , and a proportionate number of guns . These , with the remnants of the former army , constituted a body of at that
least sixty thousand men , engaged along important line , which includes the least defensible frontiers of Turkey and Persia . Motjbaviepp undertook his enterprise under the most rigorous commands . He left St . Petersburg with a plan of operations drawn up under the eye of the late Cza .: r , and approved of by the best generals of the empire , fee has since visited every regiment at its post , and prepared a simultaneous attack on those Ottoman cities which stand between him and the rich heart of Asia Minor . Meanwhile , in anticipation of a descent from the
mountains , General Babiatistski has been employed , for three months , in keeping the Circassians in check , and has pledged his sword to the fulfilment of this duty . Moubavieff , therefore , may confidently assault the unsupported Turks , the most demoralised of the Sultan ' s army , the least enthusiastic , the worst armed , the worst officered . Indeed , though the first attack on Karadagh failed , the Russian journals have reported some conflicts in which these vagrant Mahomedans have b « en dispersed after the first collision with the enemy .
" Whether or not these incidents have been exaggerated , it is impossible to expect many Turkish successes in Asia . It becomes , then , a question whether our Ottoman contingent , commanded by efficient officers , should not aid in the defence of that important territory . Of regular troops there may be none to spare ; but the materials of an army abound on the eastern coast of the Black Sea , and some of our Indian captains , no doubt , could raise bodies of light horse and infantry , enough to
cope with the Russian columns in Georgia . This is a matter more important than , on the surface , it appears . The Georgian territory Is too limited and too difficult of access to be replenished with defenders . It is a limb cut off from the empire hy regions only partially under Russian control ; and , with the Armenian border occupied , the Russian army , adequately assailed , might be reduced to desperate extremities . There lave been occasions , in our military toustory , on which British armies have acted simultaneously over a vast area . In the Mahratta war our operations extended over
a surface of four hundred miles square , and , when Hoi / KAB was assailed , four well-appointed armies within as many months were set in motion , and the conquest of half India resulted . " We do not pretend to find any analogy between the case of Hoi / rah with his half-barbarous levies among the Indian highlands , and the Russians on both sides of the Caucasus and in the Crimea ; but the example serves to prove that when your military resources are great they may be eafely divided , and that they may fce divided to co-operate towards one result .
At all events the Turks , in tbeir present Condition , cannot be viewed as competent defenders of Asia Minor . Last year , with a few variations of success , they yielded the ground gradually to their assailants , who are xum attacking them with superior forces , and who may take possession of Kara , or any dither city , before the importance of their marexueaAa is perceived in Western Europe .
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GENERAL 6-U 3 FGH 7 . Mb Henry HebkbehS ! has deserved well of his country in calling the attention of the Government to the case of general Gttyon , a real soldier , and one of the finest horgenien in . the world , who has for a year been kept by intrigues and false accusations without employment ; and we can assure Lord Palmeeston that he could make no appointment at once
so popular and so just as that of General G-u yon to some high command . We trust that the Government will not rest satisfied with showing sympathy in this case , but that they will act . Austria can now , at least , be no valid obstacle : and the Porte , by exonerating him from all blame respecting the loss of the fight at Kurukdere , has wiped away the stains with which calumnious intriguers
endeavoured to cover his fame . Few names in the Hungarian " War of Independence shine with a purer or brighter flame than that of General Guyos \ He saw it all . He was in the first field , he was in the latest fight ; and with some brave companions carried his stainless sword across the Danube , while Arthur Gougei surrendered his to the direst foes of his devastated eouur
try . We detract from no other soldier a reputation in urging the claimB of Guyon upon the British Government ; and all true soldiers will rejoice to think there is a chance that Guyon will be once more in the field against the [ Russians . If we only cast a glance npon the pages of that splendid , chivalrous , and tragic romance —the Warforthe Independence of
Hungarywe see records of the exploits of Guyof . He was a major in the maiden field of the revolution , Schwechat , and there , in the estimation of his malignant detractor , Gokgei , he , of all the officers , " had incontestably the greatest merit , " for he stood with the right wing at Mannsworth , and won renown , when others fell rapidly away . It was after that disastrous fight that Gorgei met Bem for the first and last time , and in that brief
interview , the latter generously remarked upon " the distinguished talents Guyon possessed as a general . " Best , indeed , had reason to know , at a later period of the war , how daring , decided , and soldierly , was the young major of the National Guards . But not alone on the field of Schwechat did he shine out the true star of courage in the gloom of defeat . When Gorgei made his masterly retreat through the mountains in the depth of winter , it was Gdyon ' s steadfastness that
caused the army to effect a junction at Neusolh , in spite of difficulties interposed by the overflow of the Gran , the broken bridges , and deeply-inundated roads—a steadfastness that unquestionably saved the army . But the work was only half done . Tho object of the movement was to gain the Theiss and eflfect a junction with Kla-PKA , between whom and Gorgei ' s troops stood Count Schlick , Btronerlv posted on the Branviszko
Pass ; and when Goitom halted his division of 15 , 000 men at X < eutschau , and passed his time half in dancing , half in a despairing reverie , General Guyon marched his 10 , 000 troops—with whom Gorgei considered it impossible to gain victoriesagainst the Auatrians , and drove them headlong from the defile . Gtjychn pursued hia advantage with vigour , and thus it was that Gorgei ' s corps effected a . junction on tho Theiss with the main body oi the Hungarian
army . A brilliant campaign followed in the spr ing of 1849 ; and by a aerieB of victories tho Hungarian army once more arrived in sight <> f the Danuhe . Itomom was then invested l > y the Auatrians . Guyon , with the laurels of many gallant deeds on his brow , was appointed governor of the fortrema ; and it
behoved Bim to find a way in . He did find one . Tiom the field of JSFagy Sa / rlo he took a squadron of hussars ,, and he broke a way in through the hostile lines of tlie enemy , and carried with hint a company of Austrian infantry—as prisoners ! It is thus we ever find Guyon . Let us take one more glance at our gallant countryman . In the battle of Temesvar , lost , ' must be feared , mainly by the too daring rashness of Bem , where was G-u yon ? The
day , as is known , was nearly won . The reserves of the Austro-Russian cavalry , 12 , 000 strong , were brought up to turn the scale ; but Guyon , putting in motion 7000 Hungarians , charged them as they advanced , and drove them back in the utmost disorder . But at the critical moment Bem found his ammunition fiul , and the Austrian General
Lichtenstein instantly seized the opportunity , and recovered his losses ; but not before Guyon had once more led his famishing Hussars upon a gallant but ineffectual Balaklava charge against one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon ! When Gobgei feloniously surrendered at Villagos , Guyon would not yield himself , but , at the head of a faithful few , crossed the
Turkish frontier . Five years elapse , and Guyon reappears . The Turkish army at Kars is dissolving away ; Guyon arrives at Kars , labours heartily , untiringly , successfully through the winter ; and again there is something like an army at Kars , and at least the beginnings of eartlien defences on the Karadagh . The Russians cross the frontier , and defeat the Turks in a pitched battle ; and the depraved , incompetent eommanders impute the blame to the
ablest man among them—to Guyox . Ho withdraws from the army ; his conduct , and that of the besotted Zabi p , his superior officer , are investigated , and both are acquitted . And now no pretext can be found —not even the pretext that he was the subject of a military inquiry—which will justify , in the least degree ; the exclusion of such an able and experienced officer from some
important command . It is not for us to indicate what . As tho leader of a division , Guyon showed that lie knew his profession ; as the leader of cavalry , he showed he know when to use them . And if he is not competent for the highest posts—of which wo can be no judge—he is at least competent for a high post o £ command , and we trust the British Government will see that ho receive one ; and that Lord Palmerston ' s expressions do not romaiu expressions only .
Coming Repeal Of The Beer Act. The House...
COMING REPEAL OF THE BEER ACT . The House of Commons ia preparing , by a select committee , a broad confession that last year it underwent that humiliating process which is vulgarly called being bsunboozled . It passed , the Beer Act to starve people into stopping at home or going to church , by shutting all houses of public entertainment ; this year it was about to ntop all kinds of Sunday trading ; but common senso as well as common convenience having revolted
against the whole class of legislation , thr House has appointed a committee to aacortnin whether or not there really was n ense lor passing the Beer Act . For that in tho real question . And strangely enough tho members appointed to inquire into " the working " of the act , are really inquiring into tho original case ! Still more Htrangely , the foremost witnesses that they summon before them aro those public officora who arc charged with tho oxocution of tho act—tho J ' olico
Magistrates and the chief ComniiiasioiierN ot Police in the metropolis and in tho City The evidence which , those officers give , com-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 21, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21071855/page/10/
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