FOREIGN NEWS

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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jan 9, 1855

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 6, No. 20.

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FOREIGN NEWS.

The accounts from the Crimea are gloomy. I lately received a letter from the camp, containing complaints that General Canrobert and Lord Raglan, though giving each other any assistance required, do not act in concert but each army carries on the siege independantly of the other. Whatever be the spirit of the troops, the officers of the two armies do not agree. The French find that the English are haughty in private circles, and though very gallant soldiers, altogether destitute of the knowledge necessary for an officer—the English officers, again, find the French officers vulgar, because they associate with the privates and non-commissioned officers. As to the Navy, it never acted in concert with the Army; even on the 17th of October, the attack of the fleet did not begin until the French batteries were silenced. As to the Turkish auxiliaries, they have no cavalry or artillery of their own, therefore they are demolished, because they do not trust either the French or English. This state of things will, of course, soon be altered, since Omer Pasha is now to go to the Crimea, and to attack Sebastopol from the north. On the whole, the prospects of the Allies are not very bright. After the storm of the 14th, admirably described by Mr. Russell, the correspondent of The Times, the rain poured down in such quantities as to suspend the siege operations. The trenches are full of water, the roads impassable, and the soil is altogether turned into a quagmire. It is, therefore, not likely that anything of importance will be achieved this year, and the Czar will, probably, be able to send 100,000 men more to the Crimea, as soon as the winter frost has set in. The success of the Allies is not at all so certain as the government seems to believe.—Tribune.