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FFIHERE -was another Cabinet Couneil , which J _ again sat for several hours , yesterday afternoon . A . self-governed people -watches such consultations with singular interest ; for how much our fate , as a free people , depends upon the decisions of these cur governors—our Parliament for six months in the year—and in the other six months , the managers of our Parliament ! The subjects for consideration yesterday must have been grave enough .
The ne-ws of the battle of Inkerman could not have raised -the spirits of our governors , whose petty policy it was "which had given heart to Russian generals to pour down their legions on the English liandful . But there was comfort for the miscellaneous Ministers of War in the assurance that they Lad got over the worst . In the ten days which followed the dreadful 5 th , nothing , says the telegraph , occurred ; and by the 15 th reinforcements must have arrived sufficient , at least , to bring the
Allies up to a force equal to that of Menschikoff ' s —whether equal to taking Sebastopol is another question . But there were , doubtless , some awkward points on which to prepare for Parliamentary explanation . What to say to the House of Commons , generally , of the miscalculation as to Sebastopol ? TVhatto say—to him—of the French Emperor ' s proposed march of two divisions to the Danube—the chancos being that this would provoke Austria out of neutrality—the certainty being
that Franco , overshadowing us already in the Crimea , would thus assume a preponderating attitude in the war . What to say of the blunder at Petropaulovski — the attack on a fortress of which the miscellaneous Ministers of War , who had sent out no steamers to poor Price , had never heard ? What could bo said on that point but that Price , as conveniently as Nolan , is doad , and was exclusively responsible — the fact , nevertheless , being thnt the ships
fought for some days after Price was dead ? What to say to the Member for Montroso , of the Reform Bill , which has been put down ? What to my to Lord Derby ( thnt will , no doubt , bo loll to Wilson , or some one who understands figures ) of thu freestrade that keeps up the price of broad ? VVlmt to say to the Mombor for Manchester , of the apathy which has left our trade at Canton to be annihilated ? What to say to tho members fur the North of Ireland , whoso constituents arc running up the price of flax on tho asauranoo , which will never bo realised , that the Government ia Going
to stop the Prusso-Russian transit trade ? Lastly , but firstly , the question before the council must have been— -What shall our Budget be—what to say to Mr . Gladstone about the inevitable loan ? The battle of Inkerman seems to have been a battle in which a small English force was enabled , by the bad Russian generalship of the Russians , to beat back an enormously-superior Russian force . The English and French had to defend a pass on ii large scale , and by their wonderful " pluck , '
superior style of weapons , with the aid of well-played artillery , theykept their ground-. They did no more : hut they killed two Russians for every one of the Allies they lost ; and wemayinfer , from the Russian inaction for the ten following days , that this sufficed , the moral impression deepening the disappointment produced by the actual numerical loss to the Russians , to turn the fate—that is 3 if adequate reinforcements' arrived—of the campaign in the Crimea . The result of the day showed that the Allies were safe . The attack on the 5 th of
JNovember was on the same point—though in fir greater force—that was assailed on the 26 th of October , when Sir De Lacy Evans' guns drove back the advancing squadrons in confusion ; and sis there has been no real attempt—that on the . 5 th was but a feint—to turn the lucky position in the roar of the Allies defended by the Highland Brigade , we may take for granted that at the point at Inkerman lies now the only danger , liven there , safety might have been secured—so says the cautious and reliable correspondent of the Times—had Lord Raglan taken the advice of Sir De Lacy Evans , and formed proper intrenchments , —the . very intrenchments that wo hear are
now being made—Lord Raglan adopting : the policy of his Government and contriving to bo too late : and this matter , as well as tho Light Brigade blunder of the 25 th , ought to- be inquired into , if only in justice to Lord Raglan , who , though by no means a groat man , a : nd quite incapable of writing a despatch , is evidencing many admirable qualities on which his countrymen are placing full reliance . Lord Raglan has one great merit—it has saved his army—ho keeps quiet , attempts no generalship , places his trust in the hull-do ^ courage and tenacity of tho troops ; and if ho continue to displny this merit to the end , tho Governments will huvo time to turn tho Russian
position—a strategy with winch the French divisions spoken of lor tho Danube cannot be disconnected . Tho attack on tho Kamschatknn forts is an unp leasant incident ; and tho tone of regret about it is deepened by tho fenr that the inipulaivo Admiral committed suicide . But tho incident ends in tho unplcasnutiicss : there in no loss worth mentioning , thcro ia no danger to our commerce ; and tho actual gain in tho same , on a Hinullor theatre , as at Crontitadt ; tho enemy ' s ships are driven behind batteries , tho Russians are persuaded , of the grand courage of the enemy they
are coping with , while the French and ; English sailors are heartily allied by having , fQUght ^ together . That gain , indeed , was specially obtained . at Inkerman . Tlie French and English * were > not fighting as at Alma , « . at different wings of-the same battle—they were in the same ranks of the same regiments—the light of battle glared on a line of mingled uniforms—they charged ' together , their battle cries mingling . Thaiought to obliterate Waterloo .
The news of the week is almost exclusively-war-r like . Even from America the only news that we can handle is of a grand vote of the Canadian Parliament of 20 , 000 / . to the widowg and orphans of those , French as well as English , who fell at Alma—a vote indicative of the grand , nation-like style in . which the rapidly-rising colony does business—a vote singularly appropriate from the senate of a state which consists of two different races , Gauls and Britons . In our Australasian colonies progress is as remarkably evidenced by the promulgation of a project such as a European would never venture on , or , at least , would never get entertained , as witness the project of a railway to India—this heing a plan to construct a line of railway to connect the capitals of the three
colonies , with vast docks aind warehouses , and all the machinery of a commercial dqpot as grand as Liverpool , at each terminus . The colonies propose this to the capitalists of the world ; all they ask of England is that her credit may be pledged to the shareholders . So far our ffity men t ^ neer at the latter condition of the plan , and if the House of Commons should not reciprocate the enthusiasm evidently growing in the colony in favour of an idea which has assumed , in the colonial eye , the dimensions taken by the Darion scheme in Scotch history , then some ill-will may arise . At home the nation -seeine almost exclusively engaged in shipping reinforcements , in organisingmilitia embodiments , in enlisting , or in subscribing to the Patriotic Fund . What attention is not
monopolised by those matters , is directed to some causes celebres , — such as the Thornlull case , and such as the Deniaon case . But even in such a week we ought to road the speeches delivered at Preston and at Bcverlcy by Lord Stanley , Sir Jtobcrt Feel , and Mr . Arthur Gordon—tho two former on educational and social topics , the latter on the subjects of "War and Reform . These nre our young statesmen ; men who are not yet too deep in the cold shade of aristocracy to lose all the heartiness of their natures , and all tho virility of their intellects . These—certainly Lord Stnnloy and Mr . Gordon—are our future Cabinet-Governors :
and they bo pleasantly rcii-cwh tlmfc atmosphere ot Governmental old fogydoiu in which wo live and have wlmt being it h respectable to have , that one mourns Unit those aro not the btatemuon . A vain wish ; wlien thoir time comes—when they are sixty or noventy—they will be , proud to bo , like thoir fathers before them .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 25, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25111854/page/1/
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