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rpiIE Parisians love a holiday , and they have JL taken ample advantage of that afforded to them by the conjunction of planetary Crowns—Louis Napoleon and VicrOHtA . Paris was summoned to show itself in its best pageantry , . and it never looked so well as it did in the eyes of Victoria . For the time , party distinctions appear to have been laid aside . Iu fact , the one overruling instinct of the Frenchman , and of
the Frenchwoman , mastered the entire people ; and , however some may theoretically disapprove , practically they countenanced -whatever was going forward . The republicans , we are told , stayed awny ; but , if there vraa that great concourse , and no republicans , where , indeed , is " the Republic ? " "Wo doubt the statement . The republican was merged for the moment , and the Frenchman was tinder' the mastery of hid storgc—the impulse to crown every
festivity by the presence of moi . The moi -welcomed her—in every form that me can assume—Emperor , created nobles , officer , sub-ofHccr , gardo national , maire , tradesman , ouvrier , gamin , priest , prelate , professor , student , journalist ; and these not only in their individual capacity , but also in their corporate capacity—academy , church , mairie , garde nationale , army , government , empire . Present it in whatever phase you will , there stood France , and there came Queen Victoria , with an amount
of smiling all around that Paris has never witnessed . The- Orlcanist 8 alone bore really a distinct and gloomy countenance , for the Orlcanists have a positive proximate interest , and every smile given to imperial France from regal England ' was a mvil in the coflin of the Orlennist hopes . What boots it to repeat the tal «> of the pomp which our abridgment tellsof nil that passed from the timo that Queen Victoria landed at Boulogne until she found
herself in the imperial arms , and was conveyed to St . Cloud—all that beful ns she has gone through the round of sight-seeing ? The fact is , that on an occasion liko this there is a concurrence of movements and not one- movement . The Queen comes to see the Empukoii , and he takes her to aeo the sights of Paris , that is one fact . The sight-loving folks of Paris go again to see the Exposition , because Royalty nnd Imporialty set the fuHhion for the week . Others go to see the
crowd at the Exposition , with the Queen and Emperor at the head . Activity stimulates itself ; delight glows upon the countenance of Paris , and we are told that France has welcomed England , and has condoned the coup d ' etat—that there is , in short , an Imperial millennium—a millennium oi the Champs Elysdes : an Elysian ceraoflove , that might be represented , after the infernal mummery of the siege , at Cremorne . Whatever may bo the uncertainty of apparitions at courts—whatever may be the hypocrisy lurking in councils that direct the war—there is no mistaking the stern reality itself , or the -spirit of the men that confront it bodily . It has been remarkably characteristic of the present contest , that the reality has almost invariably transcended the imagination of those who had the early and imperfect rumours of the events . Wo underrated the Alma ; imagination had to be spurred by repeated descriptions before it could contemplate the wonderful folly , and extraordinary heroism , which directed and executed the charge at Balakiava ; the surprising omission iu guarding the point at Inkerman , so far excelled by the devotion in the soldier which made good the fault in the oflicer , seemed at first beyond all reasonable belief . And so the earliest idea of the . second battle of the Tchernaya falls short of the simple narrative in the official despatches . Tho position of the Russians has already been fairly conjectured , for the official accounts strongly confirm the original interpretation . They had just received large reinforcements of men , and probably of ammunition ; they felt stronger than they had ever been , but already they were on short commons , and reinforcements at a stinted board are formidable to friends as well as foes . They had tried their hands at sorties , but here was the opportunity for a great sortie , as it were , in ( lank—a great sortie of a whole army from the interior . The immediate scheme appears to have been this : Gortscuakoff intended to force the Tchernaya , and to occupy the old position held in the winter by Liprakpi . For this purpose they bad brought a mass of materiel . Their muin attack Avas directed against tho bridges of Traktir . GoRTflciiAKOFfc" mustered some 00 , 000 men , and on tho night of the 15 th , and at dawn on the 16 th , ho foil upon the four French divisions and Sardinian troops that lined tho left bank of the Tchornaya from Tehovgonn to Inkerman valley . The French occupied the loft nnd centre , forming on a low lino of hills just above the river ; tho Sardinians continued the position hy holding the
heights near Tchorgoun . We as ^ dthe that the Allies were plentifully supplied with artillery , aad we knoSv ^ Bat-ail E ^ l reh- iJart ^ ry of pdsttfon—32-pounder guns— -were advantageously posted ., _ on I the hill of the Sardinians . GpaiscHAKOST's fdevoted soldiers were slaughtered as they / advanced under the fire of the Allied guns .- TJnable to ^ d-I vance , or to retain their ground , they retreated with tremendous slaughter : They left ; 3300 upon the field , besides sdm & hundreds of'prisoners . The lust reports , therefore ,, leave the . Russians under tremendous pressure ; the Allies appear to be well furnished with everything that can he required , either for the purposes o £ . the . siege , Icpr for the maintenance of the position . ; and Dr . Sutherland , whose authority is deservedly ranked as complete , reports that all the sanitary regulations with , respect to the removal of nuisances , water supply , clothing , and shelter , arc such as to minimise the pestiferous influences ^ which cannot be eradicated upon the spot , and probably to counteract any perils to the health of the men , from the winter . Sir Charles Wood has promised a great supply of gunboats and mortar-boats for the Baltic next year . It is this promise for next summer which lends the only practical importance that we can attach to the assault upon Sweabprg as it is described in the authentic reports . It has been said that the fortress was gutted , and that is about the truth of it . The fortifications , which bar the entrance into Ilelsingfors , had been elaborated as Russia has elaborated all her coast defences . They had been connected by outworks , and , filled with stores of ammunition . Against these stone iorts ships could not bo brought without something like a certainty that the vessels must be destroyed , the fort remaining uninjured . It was not even like Bomnrsund , which vftw really so little touched—for tho fortress could not be taken in the rear , nor was there an island to surround . Tho channel would have been a trap for any vessel that should have entered it . The gunboats , However , even when the ) - went wit hi" range , could continually shift their ground , and forming a smaller mark than the entire fortress , they eluded tho missiles of tho Ku ^ iuns ; while the fixed and broad ground of tlie enemy received the deadly hail of the liritish . The red-hot shot of the Russians were cooled iu tho water ,- tho oxplo- r » ions of the Ih-itidh foil amongst tho biukU gg a- ^^ y ^ x . and tho place was gulled l > y cH . nllagrfttion ^^^ vi ^^ ^ explosions . The blo > r at llolsin _ jlbM is an o $ fl < ^? . / t \ - ! » P Z _ f & r ) i $ v : ^ Sfc ^ EJ | r lv / : > . '• : i , w / * t > N V sT & S ¦_¦_
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25081855/page/1/
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