The Express. — London, England, 1855-10-01 00:00:00

'be expreoo%. TO OORRIMPONDINTI. alliu M m emei W m " It 11111=Crerve =ism II SON WATIN, AT LONDON DRIDON. Two D A T-414.211.8. 16. lea...—..Afterafte, Ra. Us. Tarmasn—Swellas, IL Cs.—.....JJtantaa. Gk. Us. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1. IT is not without indignation that We fled in 'attain quarters an asermemaled bedew to throw the what, blame of the failure of oar smelt ea the Redaa—oot upon the okiefs who planned the enterprise--Dot opoa the appalling natural difficulties in the way—bet upon the chicken hearteensm and panic of the rook and file who were chosen for the desperate service. This is new lan guage, and startling to the ears of Englishmen. If there be one article in the national creed to which they yield a more implicit and unwavering faith then another, it is to that which declares their be lief in the stubborn and unyielding courage of the British soldier; and well, iodeed, has be serried this confidence by a long series of steady services and brilliant triumphs. We need not say that in this national belief we firmly share; and—notwith standing oar denunciation of the practice of sending out raw levies to the Crimea—it will require stronger facts, and more cogent arguments, than any hitherto prodissed, to persuade as that the Epglish stormers on the Bth of September did in any way fall short of that which their countrymen mild fairly expect. The case of the headloog critics who talk so glibly about panic rests entirely on two great ansumptions: first, that the assault under the circum stances was possible; secoodly, that the plan adopted for carrying it out was feasible. Now we are by no means disposed to admit either of these assumptions. We affect no profound military science; still less have we the arrogance to speak confidently of actual operations at a distance of 2 000 miles; from the same of action. Yet there are some principles of military science so elementary, and so easily appreciable by the common moss of any educated man, that there is no presamptioo in forming a judgment by their light upon facts and events which are past. In order to drive out of a strong covered work an enemy waiting for the attack in great masses, steady order, and complete shelter, it is quite obvious that the assailants must, in the first instance, force an entrance with great suddenness and impetuosity. Afterwards, when a looting has been gained—mowed down as the frost ranks most be by the close and deadly fire from *like tin net of the portrait seism be grimacing ander the this singular tendency that the grotesque puts current on the attributable; and though of it, and we can afford ily, at coetioental Iyet the cage it altered ties leads to sash real already to have fallen regimental ofilters. in . ago we published a letter denta,in whisk the following have so effectually talked down the char... our uffioers that the French, at no time re markable for Christian charity, have got an idea into their beads that our infantry ufficere .ate Actually ignorant of their regimental drill, sad that in the cavalry they simply know how to rids; sad once arrived at that cooclnsion, the next thing is, el course, to grumble about the English being image tent to do this, and not having dune that." lie. Making die allowance for the imperfection of their military training--sed this we have frequently pointed out and deplored—we have still a firm conviction that in personal character they are superior, and in professional efficiency equal, to the oorrespondiag class in say foreign army. But, whether unfounded or not,. the fact that the mime caption 'elate shows the danger and impolicy ot recklessly befouling our own nest. It a mere goers loaners of tone with regard to our officers, manilustsd at a time of peril and deep anxiety, has bees soh taken for distrait and dissatisfaction, what must be the effect of pointblank, plain-spoken depreciation of the courage of our men P This is a grave question. The mutual respect which the allied armies have hk foroacilt other has been ow of the chief elemeals d their strength. To weaken and undermine that newt is to sap the very basis of their union ; feeling as we do that the Bth of deptiska was sad, but not inglorious, day for oar avow we mast but complain that Englishmen should be so essidem in stigmatising their countrymen with cowardiskaad, in branding misfortune with disgrace. We are glad to find that scientific and impartial men beyond the Channel take the same view se that which we have endeavoured to preempt; and one very distinguished critic, Colonel ST. Aurae, writing in the JOWllai des Debar of the English dormers, gives this deliberate judgment : " In spite of their failure, their honour remains untarnished. No troops is the world could have done more under the same conditions." gOt Court. --•__. BALMOB.AL, Barr. 27. within—wave atter wave of reinforoniento mast be poured in to fill up thp thinned rann, and to keep op an abceasing sad concentrated pressure upon the defenders. To snare this suddenness and irresistible vigour of attack, it is essential that the approaches of the besiegers should be pushed close up to the opposing works—in point of fact, to the very edge of the ditch. This having beep done, the wormers spring from their trenches, and, with strength unwearied by the Sheet distance which they have to cross, force their way, literally in a few recorob, over the debris of the breach ; while reserves unceasingly swarming in upon their tram% add weight, as it were, to their impact, sad allow the sway no time to rally. Bach ie pre cisely the knee, of the French assault of the Meta llic& So close were they to the point of attack that they seem scarcely to have lust a man in the pas. sage from their parallel, and their reserves were poured in in such °ninny, and in each overwhelming members, that the advantage gained at first was sever afterwards lost. Contrast with t►is the circum stances under which the devoted English stoners were sent on their desperate errand. Small in num bers to begin with, they had to cross a deadly space of 240 yards exposed to • decimatiog fire, and then— breathless from running, with their ranks thinned, and their leading °Moen gone—to escalade one of the strongest bastions that wee ever made, in the face of an enemy vastly superior in numbers, and animated with the fury of desperation. All this they did— and it at last they were driven out, it was not till they had held their ground for more than an hour, though feebly supported and furiously attacked, and had left behind them a frightful hecatomb of slain. No, it is rot the private soldier who was to blame! and instead of laying the fault at his door, it would, when, be more to the purpose to inquire why the mask was made at all, or, at any rate, why it was so miserably supported that the commander of the attack had to run back personally to the trendies to beg for reserves. In making three remark*, we have been actuated by a sentiment of justice towards men whose honour we think has been unfairly maligned, rather than by any real tear that the calumny should be eerioesly believed at home. The confidence of our deep-rooted conviction will not be dimmed by the first breath of idle sus picion. But abroad the damaging statements to which we have referred may do mischief if noon tradieted; and we might be at a lom to imagine why, at a time Lke the present, even if true, they should be pat forth so openly and ostentatiously, did we not knew that all reserve ie quite incompatible with that extraordinary passion for grumbling which is the leading characteristic of an Englishman. We are never completely satisfied, and, strange to say, the mare we love and admire a thing the move eager do we seem to fly to its weak points, to expose its blemishes, and exaggerate its defects. At the does of each session of Parliament, for instance, it is the regular custom for CATO or POBLICOL4 to LOOM up the bog list of great measures which oar boodle's senators have barked or neglected, and straightway to jump tethe sorrowful conclusion that perhaps, after ail, representative institutions are a mistake, and heedont dearly purchased by the sacrifice of admini strative efaargy. Exactly in the same way, our besevelert public, is view of the abominations and miseries or Manchester, is for ever drawing forcible ecalpselsose e entirely to our disadvantage, haters's Lencashire a and Lonsins, the factory system and the "denuder institution." 80, again, Exeter Hall and every ev 'angelical platform in the realm never COW to ring a ith startling accounts of the advance, of Popery, and item! prophecies of its approaching mendancy. The lateral and logical inference to bel draws from all them manifestation would be that importaat sections cif English society care but little at bottom for their Coastitution, are disposed to look leniently apes slavery', and are profoundly alarmed for the safety of their Protestant religion. Of nouns bonne man hare does d raw such an infernos. He kaows perfectly well that it would be the direct re verent the truth. But, anfartnnately, foreigners, who Thal Own, with the Pricer, the Princess Royal, sad Prises Frederick Willies of Prowls, drove out 7e► tardsy Aomori is the woods of BelmoreL _ __ Barr. 28. The Qaftme, with tits Priam. and Priam Frederick Wil liam al Prussia, drove oat yesterday ahorsoon. Tits members of Um Boyd Family tack riding and walk ing enemies la the selgliboarkood of Balmoral._ Bars. 29. The Qum., with the Priam, sad Priam Fredertek Um of Prussia, drove met yesterdsy &furnace. The Cleo.* me a dams last sight to the teasels apes the Unocal property, to the gusekeepon sad 'allies epos Balmoral, Abergeldie, sad Biskhall, sad to the servants sad othen employed se Balmoral sad Aberseldie Castles The Maven from lavereauld were oleo platelet, sad her Majesty was pleased to esismaad that ill the non•ooasissiossd oilmen ad privates of the Nib sad 93rd Iteginents, qaartared at Be eta', wk. had *trued is the Crises, shoald also be invited. A Tory musserous party wee asselabted in the how ballroom, soar to the Coale. At a quarter Wine 10 o'clock her M.j-.ty ad Prizes Albert satiated the ball-room They were soeciaapaaied by the Duchess of Hear, the Prime of Wales, tho Primers Keyel, Prisons A 1..., Mese Alfred. Princess Helms, Princess Leaks, and Prises Frederick Williams of Pranks. The suits consisted of the Decker es Wellington, Lady staguata Ham, the Has. Beatrice Byag, the Hem. Mary &pacer, the Date of Argyll, Major-Ono. ral the Hem. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps, and Captain Hems. Captain Dawson, of the 93rd Highlandsn; Ensign Holmium and Ensign Mackenzie, 79th Highlan ders, were also present. Dearing was carried on with great spirit. Her Majesty and the royal party retired shortly before 12 o'clock, bat the festivities were kept up by the flighlanden for souse time afterward.. A deputation from the loud Beard of Health of Galas. borough, eosaisting of Mr. George Gamble, meatier of the local board, sad Mr. Ohba's, clerk to the board, had en interview with the Eight Hoe. W. Cowper, M.P., Presi dent of ON Offlalai Board of Hulas, at the aloe la Whitehall, es Saturday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer lift tows ea Saturday for hie mat, Harptabeesrt, Missies, liadaordhise. Karl °nava; arrived la towa ca Friday night from Seatliad. F.l Tug LTcsvn Tanana.—On Saturday the ex-royal tauuy at France. thelediag the Prieto sad Priasess Jeanne. ' Deka sad Dedham de llestpeasier, Dake sad Deshler de Newours, Doke sad Dasher &Amalfi, sad their teepee. kewithred the periersaithe of Mr. Althorns, the Wizard ed the North; the Spanish Arabanador sad suite were Mee present. sad to ear of the private bone we noticed hie Siemer the Anther Jaffa, Ali Kith, Rajah of Beret, together with a aaserous group of interest's, Orientals. We an sorry to remark a seriousness pervadiog the latest reports oa the Xing et Bardtaia's health, although I thaw reports state that hie Ittairsty is mash better. • The Berl and Countess of Derby hare returned to Knowsley from Eglietteto Castle. _ . It is said that ths Earl of Sefton leaves early next Rooth with a eletheltsient of the Guards for the Celery sad that Crorteth le to be shoed. BANOUIT IN HONOUR OF TEE CRIMEAN VICTO• wad —A hugest is eekbratlen of the triumphs in the Orissa is to take play is Marion ea Friday the 12th. Is 'Hittites to the Duke of lisatltoa sad &r Arelditeld && • is, B trt.. the Duke of Iloatrcee, the Boil of Biliateaa. sad Lord Belhawa have 'armed their Latest/ea of beaus west. The Rev. Ralph Old, Rector of Bosley, Dorset, who died s few days ago, at the age of 86, has by his will suite the following maindoest boquests To the la °worsted Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2,4001 ; to the Iseorporated Sociony fcr the Propagation of the Gospel. 9,4101.; to tho Saelmy fir Buildieg sad 110- &aegis( Chemises sad Chapels, 9,4001.; to the Salisbury la. Smeary, 1601.; to Us General Hospital at Bath, 1301. ; to the &NW o 1 the pariah of Sudsy, 1001.; to emote poor of the 6614 parish, SOL FIELD-OPFICIIR AT LITIRPOOL.—CoII. Drriazy having retired ow half-pay, with tits musk of Major- General, the vitalism thus oseadosed has been filled up by the appointment of Colonel Bell, C 8., of the Royal Regi ment, au old NUL/Ith eMosr, and who has lately returned tram tilts Crimea, where lo,:was e m ployed with the army Irani fie 110•11,1101111M11111 of the earapaign. He was under ere in the battles of the Alma and Inhumane, and was wounded been litebaseepst in the tresehes. LOCAL WAR ITIML—The screw-steam transport Jars is ezponed to sad how Liverpool today for the Ctilalla, sailing at Cork. Oho will take oat Lieutenant- Colonel Bum, of the Berkshire Militia, and ten or twelve other °Mein; Captain Wren, and eight ether tames. with 280 sees, of the Royal Artillery ; four °Seen and 180 men of the Hone ArWlery, for Corfu. The detachments for the Crimea will mosist of fear olleere • net 82 sea 001111• niesioned akin of the Royal Artillery; 460 tun and t en, or twelve:caws of various detachments, sail Lteetesant Potts, of the 11th Hussars. _ neither understand nor eats be ads to understand `the mamas and endow of the English," are apt to take oar fervid denoneiatioes as the 'speedos of ear real feeling,. Who, they are shown the piastre of Joni BULL painted by himself, they expect to And. se in ordinary eases, that the lama has been lade of the original—the harsher features softened, and every *aging eberesterietie heightened. No. thing sun persuade than that the geed wan is se - - On Friday afternoon, a fine eorew-deatner, the Beerthese, befit for the Memeeirede Company of Freese sad Impeded hi ply bowies MazNWa sad Commode*: was boreehed from Mr. Leila% yard, Liverpool. Obi is 240 fact loop, 33 feet wide sad 23 feet ia depth, sad will be supplied with tire eagiais of ea aggregate power et MO Wine, to be wed. by Menet. Fawcett, Prestos, sad Co., of Ibis town. The Boeywheae b Mt rimer bat, sad fa expeeted M be a very swift boat. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1855; r P g - F. i ri I P. .6 ... 1111. w. . 7 4 U P. 1 . ' 4 . § 4t.4 t: • r 0 ...: No. lII.—AN ACCOUNT SHOWING REVENUE AND OTHER RECEIP Quarter ended September 30, 1866 ; the Al theaters, sod the Charge of the Cousolidah the sold Quarter, together with the Surplus sum emit Charge. i NgiFs FROM ABROAD DECLAY4TION OF THE; ~CZ AT MOSCOW. ' Barytes Odium below! the Uwe if Ike Omildleeed Yerad, kr the (Walter ended hoe le, ISA d..: Oral Britain !rebid of the Fund for Deficiency MOSCOW, Sarr 28. Before leaving lot Nicolaitff, the Emperor ad dressed s retcript to Count flakreffslty, Gossroor- General of Moscow. LATEST (PORWAIDID lIT 00i XLI The Emperor, after expressing his gratit ado to the people for the hearty reception given him, states his conviction that they will ►hed the last drop of their blood to itudataie the integrity of the empire, aor suffer the smallest poetics to be torn hom it. " The enemy is conoentratiog considerable forces against one left flank. The enemy's fire spinet the north of Sebastopol continues u before.'" ...... /MOAN £11110,107 Net Teems reeds* la the Quarter sad* Sept. IS, IS* A es shwa la Auseetyeselea s Clemeter tedid MK la part et Una MILIIIIMMO LII*9OO Massottiftempar 11115 011)hou pod la the Quarter ee~edll4o.lU INK WWe Ousalsimers kr UM Rs dud= et the Mimi De* le wines Ways sad 11111•11 Ills Itsli Isi SOS .. ......r.. 1,700,000 Anse* esselvei is the Ihtletettwatd Sept. 1 1 0. 1115 . sompownS JAM. lee Made Works, he 100,444 LASSO.III6 NakeeseAstag the Defelease oa tbe Nth of September, IS* feestbsCherp ot the Omeolidated Fund la Great Delada.te meet the INsklsstla and ocher Claims pay able Is **Quote to Deem see 31,1035, sad far 'Ma laeleaeor Mme (Delebusy) erlll be bee* le the& S*44: £27,251.1514 AZISOM DESPATCH PROM PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF. Our correspondents at Paris and Hamburg both forward the following despatch : _talpfdlod out of the JIM Imp um Sr 11r arty mid Sept SI, 1531. to ofdemphoof liskstear (Dfailhon foe taw Qooffolhoholhoollh, 0,208.413 most swam niguipila Illspe ad Mom Mho imod In the Quolor alibi Joao Ilk 1014 1,740,000 d Anna mad eat d, tls Onisilimed Food to &WV Ofigholf Y 160 Quarter mid 11 SO, Isl 14.024,10 Oapd lho Omolidoted hair kr as guns' ended Upt Se• telf• AL: Lamle d the Porrifoot Dtlt if5,362.3911 Tfouloollo LUNN andh Delt aser . (Delloitow) he, Dim (Wic t end ltoess) le. fel Chß Otio<CllelrpisCoarlWWd Fund 3127,507 Adessmoo km rilaiill Wort', to. 113075 Surpass Bohm, boycott the Cherie of IN Candidata SALVO nod. for the Quotor 'Wed Sept. DOOM. via. : Gnat Britain behind “ST. PETERSBURG, SUNDAY. " Prince Gortebskoff write.: 010.614 --.. 1110,563 A Ts Deum has been sung in the cathedral of Sebutopol, in the presence of Marshal Pelletier. Another church has been appropriated to the English. ‘' . SIPE 28. THS ROI3I7CIE THIPTIMORIAIe—The following letter has been received by Mr F. T. Mapois, the Master Ceder, from Sir B. Balmer Lytton:—•• Kebworth.park, Stevenege, Herts, Sept. 28.-1114,—1 have the honour to en cloth you a cheque for ISt In aid of the Roebuck testimo nial. Permit me to add that in my slight cantrihutioe to this wellaserited crenate I waive altogether the cou• sideration et Mr. Roebuck's especial politics I do sot 'Tea desire by it to mark my approval of the pert he took in the appointment end proceedings of the Sebastopol committee. I do not ask 'myself where I hare agreed with or differed from Mr. Roebuck is the opinions he has expressed or the lice of policy be has adopted. I desire only, as a member of the Ritish whiniest, to convey sy seen of the dignity conferred upon the asthmaf assemble by any men who, whatever be the party be apemen, brings Into its debates commandiag Nastiest end ualmpsathed integrity, Lm lead, it is true, has sassy sea thus nobly but nese in whom more conspicuously than N year represented,' the regard for her material laterals sesiompaeled by anxiety for her hoooar and pride in her resewa nom who, whether he be right sr wthog in the eyes of inhere, would more rigidly abstain from the sang , or more firmly skeletal's the right, wording to the lights of his own judgment sad the dictates of hie own cosericace. Tributes such meths ode new proposed are Roommate to living worth more wisely designed thee those 'which we devote to the dead. Per I keeer not why we should delay our tokens of respect to them who deserve them until the bean that our sympathy eould have gladdened has wend to best. As men eannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the s rble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove oar ropentasse that we neglected ft when with tr. I trials* that in Ibis ease its due sppreelstios em u be fore the sense of its loss.—l have the honour to be, sir, our very obedient garnet EDWARD BULWIa LTTIONo—E. T. Magpie, Reg., Master Cacier." Nsw Ozroio Ramat Paorsisoinms or Gam= —The Rev. Ikajunin Jewett, IA A., Fellow and Tutor ot Bellied College, his been_ sprinted by bar Majesty to the R o o m nefeeseaddy of %weir, vacant by the death of the -Rev. Dr. Gaisleml. late Dees of Christ Church. Kr. Jewett the Heetteed Ethel la 1837, a first class in literia ruialld maniesibus la ISO, the Chancellor's prim for the beat Letht essay is MIL sad was appolated as examiner ie IHcria humisbeibee it MO. • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PIOX 0011 OWN PARIS, SVhDAY EVZKINO. The following telegraphic despatch contains some interesting items of the new. brought from Constan tinople by the Vatican, in addition to those of the two despatches which I forwarded yesterday : MAzazums, Barr. 29. The Vatican bring' Constantinople news to the 20th. Sebastopol has reeelved a French garrison; two ',simony , are very well bossed, especially the men lodged near ' the Quarantine. Batteries have been constrseted to respond to the fire of Fort Constantine. The Quarantine and St Nicholas forts are left standing. General Minuet is better ; the stets of Generals Troohn and B nubski is such as not t excite any oasulases. General Merteraart is compelled to rotors to Constantinople for his health. The j.usroals confirm the news that Colonel Mignon has died cf his wounds. Some French cavalry has embarked at Katsina fur Enpatoria. Marshal Pelimier is cheered wh he shows himself. Omer Pacts, who arrived at Trebia lode on the Bth, hes gone to Batonm. rho Homan Corona, Ca. Landreth, bee has ear/1W of by cholera at Erseromm, where he was directing the fortifications. 81. P1171211130R0, Sner. 30. Prins Gortaitakeli writes en the 28th The enemy Lee areembied a eostaiderable force .pint oar left Mak. The Are aselaat the northers side of Sebutopol i. also The following telegraphic despatch is published by the Patric, and announced as coming from the " special service" of that journal : Viutwi. Smameak 30. The Emperor Alexander end the Orsini Dukes Mohan and Michael wised on the 26th at Moo Weft. Another despatch from Odessa states that the Grand Duke Constantine had arrived at Nioolaitff on the 20th, and wee:expected to join his brother, the Emperor, at Odessa, where he had then already arrived. We have no materials in Paris for making out the Caar'e movements with anything like clear ers/. This evening's Paris says that he has left Odors, where he remained bat one day, and wei.t thence to Nioolaieff accompanied by the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael. It adds that it is at Nicolaieff that the grand ennead of war will be held which was originally fixed to take place at Odessa. In all this there is great contusion both of dates and circum. blames. The Mani four of yesterday rentable no news from the Crimea, but has the following notice : " By decree under date of the 26th of September, given in consequence of the report of the Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior, his Majesty has decided that the great way formed from the Strasburg boulevard, the Central boulevard and its cratiaustion through the quarters on the left bank of the Seine, at Paris, shall for the future bear the name of ' Boulevard de Sebastopol.'" The project of keeping open the Universal Exhibi tion throughout the month of November is under stood to be abandoned, and it will in all probability ' be closed, for this year at least, by the time originally fixed—the end of October. Some of the principal exhibitors who met together to consider ' what arguments could be used to induce the government to grant a prolongation, agreed, after discussion, that the building would be much too cold for a promenade in the winter. There is a talk, however, of a petition for reopening the doors of the Palais de l'lodustrie on the let of May next year. This, it is said, would be only just to those exhibitors who may desire to be indemnified for the delays at the beginning of the season, owing to which the exhibition, although formally inaugurated on May 15th, was not really ready for the public till July. It is further suggested that the prospect of a new exhibition season next year would sustain trade during the winter, sad diminish the pressure of the food crisis. The Press*, in its weekly commercial review, says ,that an extreme reserve is at this moment remarked in all branches of trade. The houses which have sold off the greater part of their stock during the exhibition are now very cautious in buying. They appear to apprehend that the closing of the Nixie de l'lndustrie will .be followed by several months of dead season. The Press, observes, however, that the principal manufacturers, from having made such large profits within the last six months, are likely of themselves to spend sufficient money to do a great deal of good to the retail houses. However, orders have greatly fallen off both from Paris and the pro vinces. Io the Vienna correspondence of the Nord of Sept. 30, it is stated that the family of Count Bsol was in mourning, in consequence of the death of the young Baron Meyecdorf, who perished gloriously on the ramparts of Sebastopol. It is added that the father of this young hero, formerly Ambassador of Russia at the Austrian court, married the sister of the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs. 1 • SPAIN. MADRID, Sm. 28. The Queen is going on well. Marshal Itapartero has returned from the Escurial, and is mock satisfied with the reception given him by her Majesty. An accident hes happened on the Arenjnes railway, by which six persons were killed. ?AMOS MarrICIIIKOFP ♦ Mors.—The Pain** ste w that a private totter mitred by a Ranks family fa Paris a ssoanar that Priam Ideatchikof has bosoms a nook. tle Uri carolled himself, it is said, Is • riesarrAry mar Were o world as to refine to sit fee his 1 THE REVENUE. is with'., with Methods, or --.—....---- °°ll° ' 14 fli to Ma t 0 No. L—AN AB CC OF THE NE't PRO- - 2 0, d el " * - 1101= Dues y Tait any% OE THE JIEVED blaosisrs aboat / 4 ! 'y I min )I .is tb4 ty coa t poto d„d e d costa l 's, ~ 'Be 30,1864.50 m /with tiwoorrtigmsd- lough 4 Lo i .. . ing N of the *sadiog sar,a ... fiord tints • , . lan mod incapacity to understand us, 1 P4l ed entirely when the misooncep- .4 i al practical injustice as appears I en on our sr*, or at least our t n tbst Crimea. Ooly a few days I letter from on. of our Correspoo- i following passage occurs:—" We I t talked down the character of . . _ P e Y is p r Ef "R -.4 •P • r*::: u 3 t - - -t . 4 gli A' ro. 11. INCREASE end DECREASE in the Quarter sad TIM ended September 30, 1866, wad is the is months of the loanotal year, ended September 30, 1865 ; ueompered with the correepoading periods of the preeedlag year. I 11;1 - I f v • i A r j i I 2 i 'a' EE I : 61 1 1 IF ll x i I f illH T. PiA ..II t a . F. g 1 1 j.iiii,. 5 Ii J, i r "b Pi 11 1 [ f El ;-: 1- 2 P P. 1101 ;,.. F. a If• - -1 4 2 t. 3 1 f. .. vl. l I P i f: • I ps I .0 % .1 if $: i 1 OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. isobefinenthetforheibnobitdedriaerredorn entrance blackened appearance given to its two-tiered arcad otor tl ancew g o al br l ky eri t e h s eß b et y yr t ro t eyh h nsd e ch re u n gi t t, b a n prpeun to have suffered no material jail:it th t his , h - - having - ___..---. lam unable to say what may be the cue inside. Is „[lt will be saes that the concluding rt of our entree esideat's leveret entirely confirmatory e f t the important fa n pre erne, cad alides"eostsrelfelsedpeitter b e y ot it ri ni v t e s ili pora n th r e imi s da ys j w ol o rosl the r a e mateti l ie be lamedulou.] .• • pa wb r i t c tes hth o ey n hlvee northea shelling g a t h li d e e s n h e o m tt y ly 's h w e o fore tking i is some one hundred yards behiud this building that thither, wag w r it% a lau ds ime ll3arr topo l l B ;x- reached the spot yesterday , tour of their froing h a e t a s a thno (121011 OUlf *4'N CORRESPONDENT.) our Allies have placed the two ten-inch mortars with The western nP or Bi r F r O i tt ne ll ip tif pa e r S t TO ot Po s L e hibits a yet more melancholy picture of ruin and o l f 3 s i h n e c t h is, had pieci al .: 43 , bet a h nd oon z y ve e r d al desolation than the quarter lying behind the hill of the MalakhEff, which I briefly described in my last to more Inpaolraece.Pofriopursin:aemtmlemteibfikeoiffeeT'wehrTic.h Oppos ite crownst t h e i the re,r of Fort Nicholas is the entrance to, I be lie ve, letter. Open as it was to the fire of oar own and the p sh ro tp. port A tona lo te w ly w s a t l r l ik o in t g a t ua lti. French left attacks, u welt as to whatever odd shots brow of the hill behind. This is by far the most i d. ' the shipping were able' from ties to time to throw posing private structure in Sebastopol , and the mars in, hardly a house in it escaped at least partial de- esiagtoraarnd t o w or i k t tnito la stone,. surmounted . by a . massive . and lofty Ina struction by shot or shell; whilst eveiy ooe of its prin cipal buildiege,sotanding as the did ea elevated and routing, w oozi oi de - a the hig n h rst ht e n n a c to tos eh ur te e d exposed sites, had been battered to art extent of which street, the great majority of those not enraged in the bat- conducts by a gravel roadway to the foot of a bred teries had no conception till the presint. With the semicircular flight of stone steps, which branch og aid of even the best glasses, .the extent of the injury at the first landing into two other flights, that leen done could only be very partially seen from the allied to the upper evrree of all. Intl centrecentreof this last trenches ; and we believed, therefore, that, with some l i t t a l ad esi s ao a , marbleied sur ai m ati on a n al te ei d it by .wit h i g an alle in y sc t r h iptioa la few exceptions in that portion of the suburbs which whilst behind, the broad flower-bordered footit a 4 lay nearest to the siege works, the main body of the conducts to the mansion above. 'this much I tow. was in reality but little harmed by our fire. could see from the outer street ; further in. I made a partial tour of this quarter of the town @petition was debarred by the Frenchman who kept ~ an guard below at the gate. On the same level ' on the 9th, the day after our occupation ; but toe the palace stands the church of St. Nicholase a tli hand. thronging crowds of plundering French prevented some Grecian edifice, and the chief church of the tows, any but a very incomplete inspection of the place, Standing prominently on a spur of this lofty bill, and the explosion of two mines—one of them so near this imposing structure is not without some resew, as to have covered me with the debris of the blow-up blanoe to the Parthenon, at Athens, though, of coot% much inferior in size to that splendid relic of the old. —suggested additional reasons for postponing a world art; but its strikingly handsome rows of further exploration for some days, when both these Corinthian pillars will, at first sight, suggest a reap!. hindrances to a quiet look-round would have gone lection of the former to any one who has looked on ill by. Yesterday, therefore, entering the town by exquisite remains. the Woronzoff road, which is being thoroughly Continuing my rounds past the Priace's Otte, I repaired;,* fatigue parties of our men, I passed wound up the broad street which leads to that p ar t of a t h il s town a4 u t % h r e an ,: t o i r n t e h.w. , .. e te re rn t extremity of whic commenced h round the eastern end of the Strand Battery, st d Q . a leisurely rids through the much like those behind the Malakhoff Nouse , ou ll • sd region of shops and private mansions, ex- and semi-eastern in appearance. In hardly any is. tending from the southern extremity of the Ad- stance do the doors open on the street, but into little miralty Creek to the Cemetery and Fort Quarantine, enclosed couriyards,entered by wooden gateways from This battery, which ruts across the whole of the without. But here,sgain, wreck. ruin, and deeolatioa are everywhere enthroned: what the shot and shell of narrow valley which separates the Redan hill from the besiegers had left unfinished, has been ensue that on the slope and summit on which the main mated by the voluntary incendiarism of the besiege. body of the town is situated, is a low but massive Crouched amid the charred relics of her qucoaa a work of twenty-one heavy ship pas, that effectually homestead, I discovered a poor cat, who oo my ends. commanded the approach to the town in thatdirectit n, vouring to reach her, raised a feeble and melancholy esy —eloquent of starvation—and, evidently in a frisgoos sweeping, as its armament did, the slopes of both stage of exhaustion, walked slowly away to die bills and the valley in front. It now forms the some safer seclusion. Trifling as was the insides fa incident, ft dividing line in this direction, between the helped to deepen the sense of ruin and lonelinse French and ourselves in the occupation of the town. Induced by the surrounding ace roe. Beyond this Om* past this, the rood, which is every where broken Point, as I epproached the defending batteries on the and ploughed up by the fire of the Allied batteries. crown of the slope which overlooks the Coastal, and opposes the works on the French left attack, the winds gradually upwards along the western bank of destruction done to everything capable of suffering the creek till it reaches the top of the bill, where an injury reached its climax : in fact the shapeless abrupt turn to the left leads at once into one of the masses of ruins which covered the whole ground main thoroughfares of the town. At this could hardly be identified as having ever been ha. point a strong barricade, formed of heavy man abodes; scarcely one stone stands upon another. fhe ground, too, is strewn with shot and fragnientti blocks of stone, and pierced with embrasures . of shell nearly as thickly as a London street with for two small pieces of cannon, which have been paving -stones, and honey-combed all over with the shoved round out of the way, guards the en- pits made by their fall. At several spots of opse trance to the street, and commands the summit ground in this neighbourhood vast piles of hammered of the hill. As this species of street defence is similar or chiselled stone had been collected, and are now piled in construction everywhere throughout the town, I up, as if in preparation for the eiecticn of some pub. may here remark that it consists of two parts, one of lie buildings, but the execution of this project, if it which is slightly in advance of, and in a measure existed, is now, I need not say, " incl. finitely posts overlaps, the other, so as to permit of a passage be- poned." Having scrambled to the brow of the hill, tween without in any way breaking the line of bar- I reached the largest of the Artesian batteries defend. rier opposed to an attacking force in front. In some of ing this quarter of the town, end had an opportunity the broader thoroughfares these barricades mount four of constrasting its construction with that of theßeeme pieces of cannon, and,sbut loss they are on either fl 'Lk described in my last letter ;* but I found it to be by the houses, form in such instances, very formida- merely another instance of the rule to which that ble street batteries. Behind all of them, abundant work and its immi dilate flanking supports appose to supplies of grape, conirer, and round shot had been form the only . xeeptions. It consisted only of the placed in readiness, so tbs . , what with a short point- usual sited° line of battery with the ordinal blank fine from these and musketry from the houses strengthening abutments; but without soy of the oneitberside,anassailing column would have met with near supports which constitute the Redan a virtually such a reception as few troopecould have endured. In- double work. This peculiar character of the latter deed,ioternally defended softie now seen to be at every redoubt was certainly a practical compliment to its point from which a gun could have been worked opponents, the English, though had it been fought with advantage one's surprise at the abandonment out to the list it would have quadrupled their die of the town be comes increased the farther one pens- ficulty in eff-cting its reduction. It would have been trates. To be sure, in the long run, its defenders easier to take ten elalakhoffs then one Redan, con• i could have been buried amid its ruins; but any sidering that even in Its perfect state the former attempt to reduce them by a piecemeal capture of the work, if once entered in front or turned in flank. was, ' town by troop, must have resulted in a loss which to properly supported assailants, an accomplished ' would have far eclipsed any the allied army has yet capture; whilst with the latter, at this point the • sustained. difficulties and dangers of an enemy cult:wooed. The Passing along the broad roadway into which I bad runs of this battery on the western side of the town, now entered, I found that the gift er part of the ruin differently from any others I had seen, ran upon a sort visible on both sides bad been caused tey the voluo- of railway, and were each worked from a smell elevated tary burning of the enemy themselves. The majority platform much above the inner level of the batter, of the bowels on the right, which were mostly of one itself: their carriages, too, were of a constructem. ' story, had apparently been 'chops, and every one of which permitted of a much greater depression thee these, as well as the handsome villa structures on the in any of the other Russian works I have hitherto opposite si e of the street, had been destroyed by the visited, to a degree, indeed, which would have raked flames. Most of the latter buildings were separated from an attacking party on the very edge of the ditch. the street by small ecelosed oourt-yerds. or ornamental without. Nearly in the matte of the curve formed parterres, fenced in either by low walls of cut stone by this battery, and some twenty yards in the back• or lines of handsome iron roiling; gutted and black- ground, was ono of those earth-guna, so to speak, coed as they had been by the fire, they pruented a with whose long range shits and shells and enemy sad picture of ruin and desolation. I passed through used to annoy our regiments in front, as I have one of their gateways, before which a French sentry had occasion to report more than once. The gas was standing with as nonchalant an air as if he bad in this indent* was neither more nor lees than a plain been on guard at the Palais Royal or the Piece Vet,- oast iron tube, without either trunnions or external dome, and explored the interior, as well as the debris of moulding of any kind, and was sunk about four feet the fireand the other obstructions permitted. Ahead. into the earth, at an angle of about 43 degrees. It some balcony ran along the whole front of the house, was apparently of a 10-inch bore, and a shell of that which was of two stories, and to this a stone stair. dimension was visible within it at the time. Some{ case led up front the courtyard, at either end, score of small cohorn mortars were also lyier Along the balcony several atone vases gave evidence about, as likewise several eight or ten six, of the floricultural taste of the late inhabitants of the Pounders on light field carriages. In the mansion ; a couple of small aloes, a broken orange centre of the redoubt, and under cover, tree, and some other plants yet remaining amid the of the earth - work, stood a small wooden c ha p el, ' general wreck around and below them. Is the rear inside which some simple altar fittings, with pieces of the house a garden, laid out with exquisite taste, of half-burnt tapers, still remained. I may just add, stretched in a succession of stair-like terraces up the that in this, as in all their other batteries which I face of the hill, balustraded flights of stone have yet seen, the enemy were abundantly supplied steps leading up from one to the other, and gravelled with every variety of ammunition ; grape, canister, pathways, walled in with trellised railing covered round shot, and shell lying piled up everywhere with vine'', running from end to end of each, from throughout the redoubt. the breaks in which the eye took in the fine peso- I returned by a route which, with the rambles a[• rams of the broad Admiralty Creek below, the white my two previous visits, formed a tolerably complete , pilesof government buildings beyond, and the heights round of the entire town on this side of the Creek, away across the harbour on the north side. Even and I everywhere saw the same utter destruction, here, however, round shot and fragments of shells and the like complete system of street barricades lay thick around ; and-a huge gap bad beep battered which had been prepared against a last final struggle, in the fenoe-wall at the top by an ugly Lahcister to the death. Verily it would have been such to shot, which lay among the ruins. What a contrast contest as Frenchmen, with all their trio was the whole scene to the picture of beauty sad ditional acquaintance with street fights before refined enjoyment which the place doubtless pre- and since the Bastille, never encountered be.. seated twelve or fifteen months ago! fore. I would have re-entered our own lines- Further down, on this left side of the street, were through the Redan, but was glad to be stopped, rev ' the remains of what had bctn a row of very hand- the ground that the magazines, remarked on in my! some European shops, also of two stories, and very last letter, as left to themes-lees for explosion, were similar in appearance to those which may be seen i n being emptied of their dangerous contents. Why Lyons, Rouen, or any of the other first-class pro- the smouldering fabric above had not been at moo rinds' towns in France. Very few of then bore any extinguished, and this removal sffected at first, I external traces of cannot shot, and the whole had am puzzled to conceive; bat in this, as in some ether evidently been complete and comparatively u ni n . things, our chiefs seem to be tardily recognising the jured, till fired by friendly hands ten or fifteen days principle of " better late than never.', A strong work ago. Portions of the gilt-lettered sign-boards still ing party was also engaged in shovelling more earth remained overthedoors,and the relics of burnt counters over the dead hundreds in the ditch of the Redan, and shelving were visible within. A fewhundred yards whence effluvia were already emerging in volumes farther on on the opposite side of the street, stands sufficient to poison the atmosphere for miles roved. the green-cupolaed building which had all along Report affirms that our engineers are already Pro* been so conspicuous an object from our own camp. paring to blow up the whole of the beautiful dry A French sentry demurred to my entering, but a docks and other buildings belonging to the Arsenal, franc settled hie scruples and I passed within the now in our occupation; bat beyond this rumour I broad doorway which leads into the interior. The know nothing of the intention or the probability of whole structure with the exception of a small its execution. The French have already collected the branching wing in the rear, is covered by the dome, fragments of the flowing bridge, which had drifted which 'rends with a fine spa, over a flagged into the Amiralty Creek, and are connecting them, to chamber of some thirty-five or forty feet in the form a passage from their side of the creek to our Square; a low railed-off platform or dais, occupied the own. further side, and gives the place very much the appear- Such, then, briefly, is*the state of Sebastopol, and ance of a court of justice without advises-tee' beacbes. such, too, the only works which its captors have as A chain to which a lamp or chandelier had been at- yet commenced within it. What a week or a month i tachedbungdownfromtheoentreoftheroof,andbroken may bring forth in its destiny, the uninitiated, like . furniture of various kinds lay all round the building. myself, can neither foresee nor foretell. The novelty , A short way past this Town-ball, or whatever it may of the change in our camp lifee_which has followed its, have been, the street terminates in abroad esplanade, fan, bas not even yet worn off ; and, in the strange" on the other side of which stands the long range o f stillness which night now ushers in, sleep is almost Fort Nicholas and its stunt sagszleee. An you difficult to court, after the cannonading lullaby to which have already printed a saMelestly seearate deserlp. we had been so long accustomed. Novel as this quill ; tion of this formidable pile s as mesa from the, is during the day, when everywhere seems pervaded trenches, I may merely remark that the by an oppressive silence like that which reigns ova' oily change which it has iliac* vatiorgooN a school play-ground on the; first day after the I