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PROBABLE EVACUATION OF
THE CRIMEA.
1 From the M Times " of the 10th Sept
the latest intelligence of the movements of
the Russian forces in the Crimea, which has
been forwarded to us by our correspondent
at Vienna, is of the highest importance, and
entirely consistent with the opinion wobaro
already expressed in the condition to which
the enemy must now be reduced in that pte,
consuls. It is stated that the Russian forces
are known to be retreating from Bakehiaerai
sod Simpberopol to Perekop, sod that Prince
Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister at Vienna
had received the news with great emotion.
We confess that we are still inclined tore,
care with distrust the communications from
the Crimea which reach us through Vienna for
in spite of all the precaution and lucre
tion manifested by our correspondent in that
city, they were on several occasions proved
incorrect, and in one memorable instance a
gross fraud was practised upon the public,
of this case, however, the last stated is at
least extremely probable, and, as the mere-
ment of retreat must have commenced in the
rear of the Russian armies, to which our own
generals in the Crimea have no access, it is
by no means impossible that a portion of the
Imperial forces may have begun to evacuate
Bakabiaerai and Siniphcronol before this determination
became known to the area in
front of the Russian lines.
We adhere to our opinion that the races
ticket the southern side of Sebastopol was
the commencement of a retrograde movement
destined to withdraw the bulk of the Russian
army from an untenable position in the Crimea
and if this view be correct, the evacuation
of Simpberopol is precisely the next open
ration which was to be anticipated. An attempt
would probably be made to hold his
position on the Tchernaya, which is fortified
and occupied by the most efficient part of the
Russian army, while the rearguard and bag
gage could be withdrawn in comparative safety
rumours of a combined attack on the position
of the allies had been actively circulated before
the decisive events of thefts and Dib
September, and every spy or deserter who
came in gave fresh assurances of the extensive
preparations made for this action. The allies
were thus kept for several days on the one
vote, and the opportunity was taken to render
their own position far more impregnable than
it had been on the 16th August. to attack,
however, was made, and the result seemed to
prove that in reality these reports were only
a feint to deceive our Generals as to the real
intentions of Prince Gortschakoff. ITU mind,
was already made up to retreat, and the fall
of the Malakoff Tower gave him a pretext for
evacuating the town with some show of com-
pulsion. Should this be the true state of the
case, the temporary position he assumed, reat-
ing, on the northern forts and ridge of Inker
mannus entirely explained; while the forces
which were supposed to be impatient for a
fresh attack were so well concealed that not a
corps could be seen from our positions, and it
seemed to be a matter of some uncertainty
whether any considerable body of troops remained
about Mackeosio'a farce.
If it be true that such a retrograde movement
on Perekop has actually commenced,
and was known at Vienna on the 17th, indeed
it becomes of more interest than ever to assist
tain what dispositions may have been taken
by the allied Generals sincere decisively.
vantage of the 9th. That wick may decide
the fate of the Russian army. It has been
observed, that since the despatch- announoioK
Marshal Pslissisr'a, entry into the town no further
telegraphic intelligence has been re-
calved, or at least published. Probably, if the
allied Generals are engaged in the conduct of
a delicate sod sf^refcopsrstloa, such as seem-'
blamed movement W intercept the Russian
armies must be, they would abstain from con
finding their intentions he has of telegraphic

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".<Hisatsaaatanxiety will of course be felt
that, to vyajJy this intelligence, and then to
yjwerta4s«whetherthe retreat of the Russian
'aia^aAbeeatoéi but here out asthma

tvJav^sjnfsa for the present, and we can only
fqP^Paek upon the general consideration we
:yif9 already presented to our readers. To
jfJtrest at an across the steppes which extend
,. over the north of the Crimea, and more hope

carry to carry off the sick and wounded of a
. urge army, the baggage, and the civil got
Y0.-nm*nt of the country, is an enterprise of
extraordinary difficulty, and very little decision,

and activity seemed too required on the
part of the allies to convert such retreat into
a disastrous rout. But, be this as it may, the
more fact that it is understood by the Russian
Minister at Vienna that the Illusion army is
endeavouring to evacuate the Crimea itself
into one year after that peninsula was invaded
by the allied armies is the moflt.astouub.bg
indication we have yet had of the magnitude
of our success. The war has compelled the
Emperor of Russia to throw his whole avail
tillie force into the Crimea, but, exhausted by
its own efforts and deprived of subsistence by
1 he barbarous and unproductive character of
its own territory, this army is compelled to
Till back upon the steppes, with an imperfect

hope of making good its dreary and encum
carol march across the wastes. In fact,
the chief protection of the Rumanian army is

'mt they are thrust Iwk upon a country
where pursuit is impossible beyond the line of
the Salffhs.

The evacuation of the Crimea appears to us
I the inevitable corollary of the fall of Sebastopol
I, and of the measures taken by the allied
fleets, as we expressed it some months ago,
'. to invent the whole peninsula." Yet we are
inconceivably struck by the magnitude of

such a result. The Crimea was the brightest
jewels of the Russian crown. Its beautiful
a Mattern cost was at once the resort of oper
I -nee at Atouxhta, the seat of power at Sebes
L. pol, and the seat of' trade in Kertch. It
HIS The keystone of the territorial acquim
tions of Peter and Catherine, for it defended
the whole region from Odessa to the Sea of
Azov, it commanded the Circassian coast, and
is threatened Constantinople. To surrender
i lie Crimea in one campaign certainly proves
? that Russia is less capable of maintaining A
defensive war, and in more signally defeated
'lian we had yet supposed and if the intelli-
hence we have received from Vienna be fully
confirmed, the triumph of last week over the
fortress of Sebastopol assumes all the proportions

of a great political victory.

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