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SURVEY OF THE WAR. SiNOU Sebastopol fell...
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ENGLISH MEDDLING- IN CUBA. Thebe is no a...
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Peace—Or A Wau Of Pmnctpjles. The Conser...
a tirinciftle into the field , to combat the C / zar ^ pnneiple—which is that of absolutist military and diplomatic influence . It is not yet certain whether , should a new campaign be opened , Great Britain and France will be enabled to achieve further successes of any importance . They have , at least , to destroy obstacles which they have not yet dared to assail .
Mean-while , the other Powers of Europe exert no pressure on the Russian Government . Whatever dangers they represent menace the Allies . Thus , Austria pursues avowedly a hostile policy in the Italian peninsula . The Confederate States of Germany are told by the President of the Frankfort Assembly that their paramount object must be to dissolve the Anglo-French alliance . Count Bismabck-Sohonhausen declares thatwhile France is a superior
, Power , Europe can never be tranquil . Russia has no interests hostile to Germany ; France has . The obvious moral being , as pointed by M . Geblach , a Prussian Minister , that France should be overwhelmed . Indeed , M . GebIiACH has not issued an . anonymous address , but has expressed bis ideas oratorically , preaching a combination against the- threatener of the Rhine . Incidents of this character , associated with the
extraordinary speech of Sir Alexandeb MaIiXET , the conduct of the Tuscan Cabinet , the perceptible agitation of Italy , the fever spread through Hungary by the late Concordat , and other signs , accumulating in Europe , do not portend a pacific solution of the crisis . There is a large proportion © f halfresolved energy latent in various parts of Christendom . This energy , hostile to the existing system of military repression , is of that kind which is thrown into a
struggle only when the struggle has begun . It is deterred from the initiative by fear of The Unknown—the Saracen ' s Head of France . Let us , in friendship , say to the promulgators of virulent circulars and manifestoes , that they supply the despotic faction "with reasonings . which tell upon the weak . Thus , the proclamation of Mazzini , Kossuth , and I / edbu Rollin , which tended to disturb and perplex , was industriously circulated by the official press of France . The able and politic commentary upon that document by Louis Biaito has not even been named in the Empire . Unless through secret channels its counsels reach no mind in
France . But the menacing language of the Jersey letter—a service to despotism—is not suppressed ; it is the apology of usurpation and the plea for " order . "
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Survey Of The War. Sinou Sebastopol Fell...
SURVEY OF THE WAR . SiNOU Sebastopol fell there has been no period of the campaign so full of interest , so big with promise , as the present . If we may rel y on the information communicated to the public ihis week , the enemy in the Crimea is fairly in the toils . A great combination , which , "was planned and matured in that long interval of seeming inactivity that followed the fall of Sebnetopol , is now developing itself , point by point , under our eyes . We see the Allied columns gradually closing round Prince GoKTsoHAicoFr—appearing far in his rear at
Kinburn , menacing his left flank in the valley of the Belbek , and now , this very week even , standing across both the great roads leading from the Crimea , within five miles of the North front of Simpheropol . Now that matters have assumed these proportions , and great events seem to be near at hand , our j ? ea 4 ers will , perhaps , welcome an account of the progreea , thus far , viewed as n whole . The task which tho Allied Commanders h « 4 before them after the 8 th of { September
was the expulsion of the Russians from the Crimea by field operations . They had under their command a numerous , ' ¦ well-disciplined , and hardy force , flushed with victory ; comprising the finest artillery and the finest cavalry in the world ; and artillery and cavalry in such numbers as would astonish our readers if we felt warranted in stating them . How were they to set about accomplishing their task ? It could not be effected by a direct front attack , because the heights , as then manned by the enemy , were
impregnable . To those at a distance it seemed practicable to reach the Russian flank and rear by moving from Kaffa upon Simpheropol . But the Generals on the spot , on the very morning after the capture of Sebastopol , sought out a nearer way . Marshal Pemssieb occupied the Baidar Yalley , advanced to the passes breaking the hills that cut it off from the valley of the Upper Belbek , found that they were practicable , and securing his rear by making and repairing roads , and bringing up a considerable force , pushed at once in the valley of the Belbek . The Russians withdrew the
outposts of their extreme left , and fell back upon the main position . As the French still pressed forward to the Belbek , and as the Sardinians , hitherto on the left bank of the Tchernaya , crossed that river , and lined the left bank of the Chuliu , the Russian general changed the disposition of his troops , and caused Albat to be strongly occupied , and planted a guard at Argul . The great strength of the Russian army was thus drawn to the flank of their position , and every defile ,
between Aitodor and Baktchi-Serai , was lined and crowned with troops . When the French reached Fot Sala , they were far beyond the Russian left , and probably it did not seem safe to advanee further until other operations had been completed . The Russians then presented two fronts to the Allies , the salient angle of which was Aitodor ; and the Allies were disposed in a curve , having this angle opposite its centre , and stretching from Fot Sala to Sebastopol .
While these movements were m progress it was resolved to take Kinburn , and thus secure a base of operations at a point far in the rear of the Crimean army , not only against Kherson , but against the north side of Perekop ; at the same time , by reducing Kinburn , to place the Allied fleets in possession of the Dnieper , and to open to them the water wayB to Kherson and Nicholaieff . The expedition sailed on the 7 th , appeared before Odessa on the 8 th , threw the town into a panic , caused troops to be hurried
by forced marches from the reserves at Nicholaieff ; and after remaining detained by stress of weather six days , steamed off for Kinburn on the 14 th , and arrived there the same evening . In three days the fortress had fallen . The pass of OtchakofF , as it is called , in other words , the mouth of the estuary of the Dnieper , was forced on the 14 th ; the troops were landed next day ; on the 16 th the wind was so high that nothing could be done ; but on the 17 th , the
combined fire of the gunboats , floating batteries , line-iof-battle ships , and the rifles and fieldpieces of the troops , compelled the garrison , whose retreat had been cut off , to surrender the place as it was at mid-day on , the 17 th , and themselves as prisoners of war . The next day the enemy blew up hie forts at Otchakoff Point , and the Allies were masters of tho Dnieper . The troops instantly set about forming there a solid lodgment , and thus it was that the Allies established
themselves m the rear of Perekop , within nine marches of that garrison , and within five marches of Kherson . The third movement has been long looked
for— -the advance from Eupaiona upon Simpheropol ; but it is obvious that it could not have been undertaken , with any chance of success , until the French were well up in the valley of Belbek , and the cavalry and infantry force at Eupatoria had been reinforced . These measures were completed at the close of last week ; and on Monday General D'AiiiiOinrrLiiE and Sir Cojcin Campbei < i < moved from Eupatoria to Tulat , one march from Simpheropol . Here they remained for the night ; but at dawn they were
up and away once more , skirting the Bulganak , and passing by Kulclmk into the main road to Perekop . The point at which they struck the main road was south of the place where the road to the Tehongar bridge branches off from the road to Perekop . Continuing their advance along the left bank of the Salghir , they arrived at Actassa Djamin , a height overlooking Simpheropol . But the scouting parties of the light eavalry discerned Russian lancers on the left flank ; and the Allies retired upon a position at Aktatschi , five miles to the north of Simpheropol . 1
Thus Prince Gobtschakotewas fairly cut off as matters stood on Tuesday ; but we know too much of war to feel sure that he will not escape . How , is a question which few are in a position to answer with any chance of success , and which none could answer with certainty . We must still be patient .
English Meddling- In Cuba. Thebe Is No A...
ENGLISH MEDDLING- IN CUBA . Thebe is no authority that commits crimes with so bland a countenance and so obstinate a perversity as Virtue . It is when we are perfectly convinced of our being " in the right " that we are'the most incorrigible in our misdeeds . Perhaps if I . ord Paxmebston were questioned , he would say that the most blameless part of all his public conduct is that which relates to Cuba and the slave trade ;
and yet we verily believe that he has done more to cripple liberty—even to prevent the civilisation of the African race itself by his conduct in Cuba—than by his worst mistakes in the Mediterranean . Cuba is his pet , his protegi , and it repays him by murdering his judge . Our readers well know the fact of Mr . Backhouse ' s murder . It occurred so long ago as the 31 st of August last , but the circumstances have not been so fully stated as they might be .
Mr . Geobge Canning Backhouse had been for the last three years the British Commissary-Judge to the mixed tribunal established for the suppression of the slave trade . He lived in Buenos Ayres , one of the suburbs , about a league distant from Havana . It was soon after aightfal that the " thieves" entered the room -where Mr . Backhouse was taking tea with a friend , and , meeting with resistance , they stabbed him in the side , after they had tied the friend to a chair . The wounded man died a few hours after , in presence of the English Consul . These thieves were all Negroes . The house where Mr . Backhouse was living ia surrounded by
other houses , and within a stone ' s throw from the much-frequented road that leads to tho Cerro , another suburb . The servants of the house were Spaniards ; hearing tho noise , they ran away us usual . Such are tho friends and pratfyds for whose welfare wo make such sacrifices ! This murder has , we inay say within our own knowledge ^ been tho third committed by Negroes within , a night . How many , or whether any more have happened , we do not know ; but such things are not allowed to be published in the local papers . It would appear to throw blanao on tho island Government ; and people might fancy that they are not any more safe under tho paternal
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/10/
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