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& mincipte- rirfco the field ; : to combat the C ^ rt-jfriiici ple ^ -whi ch is that of absolutist military an $ diplomatic influence ; It is not yet certain-wlifetheri should a new campaign E © optened ^ Gre at 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 . Meanwhilethe 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 iVankfort Assembly that their paramount object must be to dissolve the Anglo-French alliance . Count BisMARCK-ScHONHAirsEir
declares that , while France is a superior Power , Europe can never be tranquil . Russia has no interests hostile to Germany ; France Tio » . The obvious moral being , as pointed by M . GiEELAOH , a Prussian Minister , that France should be overwhelmed . Indeed , Mj GeeiiACE has not issued an anonymous . address , but has expressed his ideas oratorically , preaching a combination against the threatener of the Rhine . Incidents of
this character , associated with the extraordinary speech of Sir Aibxandee Mai / let , 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 of 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 proraulgators of virulent circulars and manifestoes , that they supply the despotic faction with reasonings which tell upon the weak . Thus , the proclamation of Mazzint , Kossttth , and Jjedbtt Roixin , which tended to disturb 1 and perplex , was industriously circulated by the official press of France . The able and politic commentary upon that document by IiOtJis Buano has not even been named in the Empire . TJnl ess through secret channels its counsels reach no mind in
Fiance . But the menacing language of the Jersey ; letter—a service to despotism—is not suppressed ; it is the apology of usurpation avid the plea for " order . *
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SURVEY OF THE WAR * SufGB Sebastopol fell there has been no period of the campaign so full of interest , so biflf . wifch . promise , as the present . If we may rely on the information communicated to the public this'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 Sebastopol , is now-developing itself , point < by point , under our eyes . We see the Allied columns gradually closing round Prince Goktsohakohjf—appearing for in his rear at
was the expulsion of ' this Russians from the Crimea by field operations . They had ' under their command a numerous , welMiscipliijedi and hardy fore&j flushed with , victory ;' com * prising 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 abput 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 Pemssier occupied the Baidar Valley , 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 Ms 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 tte Chuliu , the Russian general changed the disposition of his troops , and caused Albaf ? 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 AitodoT and Baktchi-Serai > was lined and crowned with troops . When the French reached Fot Sala , they were far beyond the Russian left , and probabl y it did not seem / safe to advance 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 in progress it was resolved to take Kinbura , 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 Pere * kop ; at the same time , by reducing Kinburn , to place the Allied fleets in possession of the Dnieper , and to open to them the water ways 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 tho gunboats , floating batteries , line-of-battle ships , - and the rifles and fieldpieces of the iroops , compelled the garrison , whose retreat had been cut off , to surrender the place as it was at mid-day o . n the 17 th , and themselves as prisoners of war . The next day tho enemy blew up his forts at Otchakoff Point , and the Allies were masters of the Dnieper . The troops instantly set about forming there a solid lodgment , nnd thus it was that the Allies established themselves iu the rear of Perekop , within nine marches of that garrison , and within five marches of Kherson . The third movement has been long looked
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 . Nqw that matters hare assumed these proportions , and great , events seem to be near at hand , our r « adera will , perhaps , welcome an account of the * progress , thus far , viewed as a whole . Tne . task which tho Allied Commanders h ^ d before them after the 8 th of : September
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ENGLISH MEDDLING IN CUBA . There 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 Lord Palmebston -were questioned , he would Bay that the most blameless part of all his public conduct is that whieht 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 cpnduct in Cuba-r—than by his worst mistakes in tlie Mediterranean . Cuba is his pet , his protig&j 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 . . Geougke Cannin g 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 nightfal that tlie " thieves" entered the room where Mr . Backhouse was taking tea with a friend , and , meeting with resistance , they Btabbed 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 is surrounded l ) y
other houses , and within a stone ' s throw from the much-frequented road that leads to the Cerro , another suburb . The servants of tlie house were Spaniards ; hearing the noise , they ran away as usual . Such are tho friends and protSgis for whose welfare we make such sacrifices ! This murder has , we may Bay 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 Buch things are not allowed to bo published in the local papers It would appear to throw blame on tho island Government ; and people might fancy that they are not any more imfe under tho paternal
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for—the advance f rotn- Eupatona upon Simpheropolj but it is obvious : that-itcould not have ceen undertaken ,, with ... any chance of success ^ , until the I ? rench .: weretWcUu . pin the valley of'Belbek , and the eavalryand infantry- force at Eupatoria had been reiaforced . These ^ measures were completed at the , close of last week : ; and on Monday General D'AmjONvhiIE and Sir Comn Caiipbbiit moved from Eupatoria -to Tulat , oiie 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-Kulehuk 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 Tchongar 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 scoutinfir parties of the light cavalry discerned
Russian lancers on the left flank ; and th . e Allies retired upon a position , at Aktatsehi , five miles to the north of Simpheropol . Thus Prince Goetschakoff was fairly eut off as matters stood on Tuesday ; but vre know too much of war to feel sure that lie 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 he patient .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1030, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/10/
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