NEWS OF _ THE WEEK.
interest of the Eastern question is fairly transferred to the lish capital; and although complicated with our Ministerial tions, it is still the most important section of that home subject. Never throughout the Whole course of the contest since May last ve affairs in the East worn a blacker aspect than they do in the ews of the resent week. The successes which Russia has ob- ed in Asia and on the Black Sea are bad in themselves, as sue- s ; but they are infinitely, worse as proofs of the relentless humanity with which Russia is pursuing the war, and of the hood under which she has cloaked her approaches.- On the ussian side all is false ; the very official despatches issued by the vernment in St. Petersburg—the very forms of worship, dering a blasphemoim- thanksgiving for misrepresented vie- ries. -Besides other successes which are more than equivocal, ussia is undoubtedly entitled to the results of the engagement t Akhaizik ; and we now have the Russian story of Sinope. At alzik, Prince Andronikoff recounts how he had stormed an nutecessible place, and had fought for so many hours, that, if tale were true,- he must have continued fighting long after rk ; in short, he tells a romance, founded upon his own illus. ous actions, which would almost entitle him to be counted ong the Paladins of Charlemagne. At Sinope, Admiral Nachim- ff "executed the orders of the Emperor " so "brilliantly," that, f the Turkish force which we found in the roads, not one was ft—one only escaping ! But the more complete the slaughter ere, the more damnatory the achievement to Russia. After ring specially invited the Western Powers not to extend the ar beyond the Principalities, Russia invades a new province of urkeythe province in which the roadstead of Sinope lies. The ttack had been deliberately planned ; Admiral Nachimoff, al- • y possessing a much stronger force -than the Turkish, had taken the precaution to send for three line-of-battle ships and others from Sebastopol. He can claim.the destination of the Turkish fleet; bat, it would seem, he did not venture to engage that fleet without an enormously superior force, a surprise, and the concealment of a thick fog. The Turkish Admiral is stated to have ventured into that position against advice; a fact indicating in some degree a want of diseipline and combination amongst the Turkish officers. Some of the Turks will be Saracens still ; although the Govern- ment, the Commander in-chief on the Danube, and, it must be mafessed, mans persons in Constantinople, have proved how much better than her foe Turkey has learned to understand an Euro- Pea" sense of duty and the comity of nations. It is probable that he Turkish Admiral was so venturesome as he was, because he relied on the false security afforded by the neighbourhood of the olabiaecl fleet, stationed in the Dardanelles to protect Turkey
■ gainst farther aggression by sea. But the sting of the calamity s, thatthis murderous attack upon our ally and protégé was so- mmplished almost under the guns of our own ships. The English Iualic at.once turns round to its responsible Ministers, to know low this has happened ; and is not satisfied-by being told that, at ast, after the event, the piotecting fleet has entered the Black lea."
