The news from the seat of war, in addition to
what we knew last week, may be summed up in a dozen lines. The Russian suc- cesses at Silistria prove to be as fabulous as the Russian successes against Sir Charles Napier in Hango Sound : Silistria is not taken, and the English have not been repulsed from the detached forts in Hango Sound, "with much damage." The partial damage actually inflicted appears to have been sustained, in both places, by the Russians themselves. The coercion of Greece by the Allies has been consummated; and the diplomatic correspondence just laid before Parliament teems with proofs of the complicity of Russia, as well as of Queen Helena and the whole Court, in the Greco- Turkish insurrection. The most important fact on the Danube is the tangible proof of the perfect understanding between the Turk- ish, French, and English Commanders-in-chief; for they have met at Varna and arranged the plan of their campaign. Some of the journals affect to have acquired a sketchy idea of the plan ; but we may be permitted to say, that if any programme of the campaign had been suffered to escape for publication by "our own corre- spondent," the three Generals in question would furnish an ex- ample of military indiscretion to be paralleled only by the defeat which such a folly must invite.
Previous page
