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ight behind their entrenchments now as they did at 1854.
Borodin (where 70,000 were put hors-de-combat), there zr. 50.
will be wailing here before another month. I can’t see
Hything in the tactics of the enemy in allowing our forces
0 land without molestation to warrant the confidant tone
of our cockney press. The Russians would have been fools
© have brought their men under the fire of our ships’ guns.
By the way, Napoleon entered Moscow without opposition
on the 14th Sept., 1812, and we landed in the Crimea on
the 14th Sept., 1854. Some people may think this an evil
‘men, We shall soon be relieved from our suspense.”
To Mr, Bright—* . ... I have no news beyond what
the Papers give, which seems bad enough. The next
thing will be, I suppose, an assault with the bayonet, to
‘atisfy the morbid impatience of the public at home and
the soldiery on the spot, and heaven only can tell what the
"sult may be.
“I suspect from what oozes out that the Government
bave unfavourable forebodings. This accounts for the
fall on the Paris Bourse, where the effects of bad news are
Always felt first, owing to the stock-jobbers being more
Mixed up with the personnel of the Government than here.
A man who was at the Lord Mayor’s banquet told me the
inisters were looking very dejected. That they ought to
be unhappy is certain; and yet when we have helped to
barn them out, as I should be very glad to do, we shall have
done little to avert a repetition of the evils of war until the
bublic sentiment can be reached, for if a people will be
“aled by phrases such as ‘balance of power,” ¢ integrity and
dependence,’ &c., when uttered solemnly by men in
Power, you may depend on it they will always find *states-Men’
 to take office on such easy terms. I do not know how
bis to be done, but I am quite sure there is no security for
Wything better until we can teach the peopls a lesson of