The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-03 00:00:00

sok Is 611 amsedei with tbs sisal peeler waddid. Ample donating base bs kir 111 tees emend of ths TV: subsboral Ales. The esseset at Ibetw is e I of the most brilliant kind. . Oyekbeagw*t dy gives the theatre, and the mom 'Want weal instrumental performers have eagerly offered r 'trams. The eateert. we may add. will be as we have already said that a eessert of *Osumi° ought to be; his dramatis songs and st ied pieces are to be performed by etagere (*pa t( giving them effoot, and with thei aid of a =g ent instrumental °rehears. FRANCE. ROY TWO 00111SPORDIiT OF Tll DAILY =WC) PARIS. WIIDIIISDAT ETZ,VING. he meeting of English residents, convened to an address of congratulation to the Emperor, on Neap from the hand of an assassio, wee very mouldy attended. ladeed, considering that the nodes of the meeting only appeared in the sing edition of °aligned yesterday, it was ex edioary to see so large au assemblage u was pagettd in Lord Cowley's ballroom at three ick this shamans. There could not have been than 300 persons relent, of whom the greater fiber are permanent residents in Paris. The Earl Nubigb, on taking the chair, briefly explained pupas of the meeting. The address, drawn up, understand, by Sir Henry Ellis, was moved by Earl of Donoughrmore, and unanimously *greed Led a deputation appointed to wait en the Grand mberlain, the Doke of Basun% to arrange for its embalm. lid. Logan, a Bri•ieh subject, although median Frenchman, was named as one of the elution. The address will lie at the Embassy to• TOW for signature. liere has been a great ries at the Bourse to-day which the reasons given acs not altogether bar tirma. The news which I sent you on Saturday Nowa Caorobert is recalled appears to-day is universally received as authentic, and the fur r istellignos circulated at the Bourse that Mar -1 Vaillant was appointed to succeed him in the toted was received with decided favour. But ny people attribute the rime to the belief in the re that Austria had signed a military convention h the Western Powers, and that after having been first favourable to the Russian proposition of owing open the Black Sea to ahipa of war of all ions, she Ina at length rallied to the system of • re elessowere, and has really submitted to Russia ultimatum, which if refused, will lead to a decla.i ion of war. The Rents was buoyant all day and' red at 681 r. 80c., with a rise of 83a. In railways rise was proportiouably less, few lines rising more a AV. Austrian rose 6:r. 23c. Pianori will probably be triedon Monday or Tuesday it. It is doubted whether that is after all his real Ile, but he will be tried as PianorL It is 'AMA that he had four pistols upon him. • double-barrelled oce which he need against the iperor is very well made, and oast 6L in England. says he is a married man, and has two children, o are with his father-in-law in Italy. An error appeared in my Sunday's letter, as , JAW. It should bare been stated that the assassin pressed no regret for his crime. The Ling of Portugal, accompanied by the Duke Terceira, is expected in Paris about May 20. He 11, in all probability, reside at the Tuileries during i visit. The Duke of Saxe Coburg is coming on ith. The Independattee says that Queen Marie Amelia inks of leaving England to reside in a warmer mate. Palermo or Seville is said to be thought of. Galignani has received the following private tele aphio despatches: MAKIIIILLIS, MAT 2. Me Sinai', of the klemageries Impanels% which left astaatinople ors the 23rd alt., has arrived. The news ea the Crimea comes down to the 21st. The Russians re abandoned the Careening Batteries. The Flagstaff 1 southern forts sod the Malakoff Tower have bees re nd to same*. The fourth parallel has been joined to other works of the aldes. On the 19th, the Rawiens emptied several sorties, all of which were repulsed. O n 12003, Omer Pecha, L red R iglus, sod the French 0011._ Morns, made a etruog reoonsaissauce with 12,000 sea the ditectiou of Baidar. - The Ressiaas refused the combat. e Admiral's vessel, the Montebello, has throne about D shells into Sebastopol. MAnaliLLia, MAT 2. By the Constantinople letters of the 23rd ult., brought by i Simois, we lento that the first detachment of Piedmon a troops arrived there op the 21st. The French camp at utak was occupied by 20,000 men, and it is to:pealed that Or aamb+n will be increased to 80,000. Ths shooks of rthquake have not ceased at Broil's*, sad were eves felt Constaatinoplii, where all the Barepeas inhabitants of roues had sought a refuge. We learn from the Crimea, der date of the 21st alt., that on the 19th the English car d two ambuscades before the Malakoff Tower; among e killed in this attack was Colloid Egerton. The French ne occupied the White Batteries to Careening Bay. On s 21st, I•keader Bey made a devilry reesonalmasee, ark led to no esgagemeat. _ _ MADAM. MAT 1. The Cortes have approved of the plea not in for the anisettes of tho railway between &rills end Cattle. IS third beeie of the Conetitatios nattand ender diem. a. Tte arrangement with Geseral Piens, Preeidost of United Steen, nlative to the affair of t►e Black arrior, has beta approved of. HAMBURG SPECULATIONS IN CORN. (PMON TOO 0011101.0111DI1T OP TNI DAILY 111/1.) HAMBURG, Aram 211. Oar corn market is in the most frantic state of titan:ant, and speculation going on to an unlimited tent. Orden have been seat to all the Danish d Bald* ports to bey up stocks at any prior, and th at the Prussian and Danish telegraph offices ey refuse to receive any mom despatches, from the 'pliability of getting through the work in time. The prices of wheat ham suddenly risen no less an 25 dollars per hat, equal to about 10s. per atter. Them in no saying to what height specula os will drive up the prices of all descriptions of rein. Tad IiARTHQVAIE AT Bletremt.—An Admiralty wesatuatin Shears as that gear-Admiral the Hon. Y. Grey, at Combat's**, baying remind inform- Troia bet Majesty's Ambassador, that tits Coasul mad British subjests sere Mused to peat Metres@ and mimes by the effects of the earthquake at Brous,, lid bar Majesty's ship Oberon to Obinniek, to stied Mous of doing so, in opportunity of returning to biopic The Oberoa mused an the 19th e/ Aprl; the losisrodess named is the likerdes Het:— tea, Mo., her Briasole MAWS% thosal, two sad three sermate ; Ni sad M... Telma, throe Id two eaveats ; Ni. mad Mrs. Welly, two hree sem, sad two am ; Mrs. Quiets* d ler:aat ; Perlostoeb. Jaen, essuseter ; w. eessissrlet ; Kt. IWO. her Majesty's 'r. leeeleny, ossaineeles.—Tetal, 29. Nerisess Metes that M. Andre s essealibell the estmedse elsowle tele abeettolos M a w s- = see Orisedase, Mat to n we bs Ilse fres the • /Lash lay* shark ebleisal a. W y e Huierstisa getteaseat M that red the easiest shrine faith of le. • Meade ham ef tie Seta alt. ../T * ham Jett some& le let ram to seam IYr the sesaiikost diatesok seeentlee te hiet by the Meivai an ibises et Met Felix ne eat SW the sass of the setae Awes silt it the Mama of Mat I ts•amieletie." Tine Ma Meal aids b.....da5..L.-• isWel OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. Went heaves maims* wbke are sever dreamt of lattbe philesegby el the We/kiwi& Academy. The Image bee bees eea-wa'4tae the early half el ApeiL A geed deal et wind, seeistimes blustering late a pis, bequest sad heavy Nib el relit. a •Ibt bear sow and then, and Sunday a bright day and a mederate coldness in the place of thu early beats whisk Italtuteniebed, half-delighted ss in March. The sights are shady and starlessmornings .f r o c ir. On Sunday meeting early, as I up to the best. I saw a sunrise out of all the sunrieinp I have seen most in keeping with a siege. A white mist, cold and heavy as a winding-sheer, lay close over the Orin. The mountains from Kansan church to Balava Bluff were black as jet, and the sky above them was as one blaze of fi re. It was as the flames in a furnace. And booming from Sebastopol came the dull, deep reports of ordnance, with here and there the rush of a shell. The camps were all astir. The Turks, half shrouded by the mist, insulttd the young moon with their direful music; the Highland bagpipe was blended with the French horn from the hills on the left and the trumpet calls from the valley, which caused the cavalry horses to wort and stamp in anti cipation of their breakfasts. Trucks loaded with ammunition, glided almost noiselessly up the ascent from Kadikoi. Tee Baleklava road was covered with besets of burden, is quest of loads from that general depot. At that hour, near four o'clock by the London tirse—l almost fancy I heard the church clock strike from St. Bride's —London sleeps—if ever it as be said to sleep at ai.y time. The policeman walks his beat in lonely Bleet•street, with, of course, the dear, dirty London rain pattering down upon his cape, and the pavement glistens with the wet arid the glare of gas-lamps. The houses are all shut up and quiet, and of those that sleep in the curtained beds, which stand on carpeted floors, how many there may be whose dreams adventure into these distant regions, and hang over the camps which encompass those that are near and dear to them! Belgrave and Mayfair blush with pride at the picture of the Crimea, and Carlton House-terrace groans • while Battle. bridge, and Nine-elms, and White Chapel, all glory in the thought that sons, end brothers, and lovers, in that distant and almost fabulous country, fight their country's battles for their coantcy's good. Lot'! those dreamers be assured that it is at periods like this, when the struggle is deadliest and fiercest, that the army most remember home, most think of home, most love home. We were all home sick in Bulgaria • many sickened last winter. But few are bore - sic k now; while all think more fro• queotly, kindly, fondly, and, it may be, sadly, of those they lett behind them. The Russians at Kamera and the hills have an in teresting and amusing, and, I should say, an irritating, sight of our camp. Their generals can see i ear movements through their glasses. lELDIKOI, Aram 16. If a committee were sitting on the siege, that committee would report progress. As yet there is no result. .The cannonade against the town has been kept up—though not incessantly since it commenced on Monday last. Oar fire has been brisk each day from snarl's to sunset, but owing to a strange fatality, it has always slackened during the night. The last siege showed the inefficacy of a fitful fire, and though the vice in our practice has this time been improved upon, it is not entirely on noted. If the fact is not forgotten, at least it is not. vividly enough remembered, that it is not a common fortress we are besieging but a place fall of =flinty stores and work-yards, and that the nation against whom we are fighting, are patient, industrious, heed working, indefatigable, and of unequalled excellence in the art of patching and repairing. Who that ever posted it in Russia, but arrived at his journey's sad with the profound conviction that every ploughboy pressed for the nonce into the service as a postillion, is a great mechanical genies, whom mind makes up for the lack of material— a genius fertile of resources and inexhaustible in expedients? Who but a Russian can drive a ricketty kibitka, and drive, too, as fast as horses an go over stones and through pools of water and across ruts deep as trenches; and who bat a Russian, when the kibitka breaks down, as of course it mast, can repair it without assistance, without instruments but a stone from the roadside, with no material except a piece of knotted cord or an old nail? Shift is the groupies of the common people, and it is exactly shift which is required in the defence of a town. To have an eye for odds and ends, and the skilful hand to put them to use, not deliberately and cogitatively but ra pidly, instinctively, with as it were a sort of inspira tion, that is exactly the talent which constructs gun carriages oat of mouldy boards, and raises an earth work when others would flounder in the loose sand or sit down despairing on immovable rocks. There can hardly be a want of skilled artificers in an army, every Russian of which can do almost anything with his axe, from making a cart-wheel to the carving of a neat figure of St. Nicholas. And as we have to deal with a Russian garrison, and not with Germans or Spaniards, that Russian garrison always manages to do as much at night as we undid in the day. It is whispered in our ranks that the Russian gunners are chained to their guns. Perhaps they are. It revives a fortitude, almost more then human, to dna lathes* Russi an batteries, into which our enor mous projectile* are pitched with unerring aim. Perhaps the working par in, that work night and day is what we would call the engineers' yards of Sebas topol, are also chained to their jobs, or they are bribed by money and drink, or inspired by a fanatic zeal for tbe supremacy of Russia and the triumph of the or thodox church. To us it matters very little what secret springs are at work to produce the results which each day call us to fresh exertions and demand fresh victims. Whether the thousands that creep out every night and work like insects in an ant hill are chained in gangs or driven forward at the point of the bayonet, or by the fear of field pieces loaded to the muzzle with grape shot posted in their rear, or whe ther they ply their spades and picks, and raise their gabions, under the inspiration of drink, or pa triotism, or religion, the result to us is al ways the same. The gone which we silence by day raise their voices again next morning ; the platform.' we have broken are replaced by fresh ones ; the earth and the gabions which flew into the air u if hurled up by a volcano , _ as our shells, diving deep into th e ground, burst beneath them—that earth and those gabions are re-arranged, refilled, replaced when our batteries awake from their nightly torpor. It is true our fire has been kept up at night. We have not in this siege, as in the last, made it a role to shut up at a certain hour in the evening; and permission has oeeu granted to the various batteries to tire a certain number of rounds each night. But the disproportion between our night and day fire is enormous, and the consequence is exactly what I have several times stated—that we silent* a good many guns during the day, but that the apparent advantage vanishes into the morning mist when the work of the next dal r sommenoes. I lay great stress upon this fact, for I law that our friends at home expect immediate re , silts, which, under the circumstances, cannot be I obtained. I fear, also, lest the disappointment of rash hopes should create despondency and the cry go forth that Sebastopol is impregnable. I do not know whether or not that fortress is impreg nable, but this I know, that up to the present hone, the question has never been fairly tried. Our imper fect experience teaches us that we can silence the batteries against which we play. The means which , can silence them can keep them silent. Sebastopol has yet been exposed to an incessant, unvary in/ battering fire of six hours' duration.t is true that our batteries too t do not escape soot free ; that here and there a gun is silenced ; and that gun carriages and platforms are demolished and embrasures damaged. It is true that these an cidents most be repaired. It appears that the pro : blew we have to solve is, how to repair these aced ; dents, sod yet work our guns in such a manner as ' ellestnally to prevent the Russians from rebuilding their batteries. If we cannot do this, it amounts to a practical confession that our batteries, too, have ' been silenced by the fire of the day—that we took as bad as we gave. As yet, no one in camp has Ten- Utica to assert so =oestrous a fact ; and from minute 1 inquiries, I can assure ea that the nightly slacken ' hag of our fire is en forced by orders—not by act ' The fire of the Russian. has certainly been destruc tive, and see men and officers have behaved—as &p -link sees sad English officers are wont to behave. A small hue gma battery, in front of Obspmea's battery, mufti by twenty gunners, hubs* deuced. Three of the were broke., sixties id Ila mss killed ae and the remaining fear ehembild the ghee Ise the time being. It appears that little klasty MOD a mistake—its four guns were exposed to the les of ! at bail tweedy Russian guns. In the course of grßas flight it was repaired and enlarged by our garden, and early . on Sunday morning rh ll irt rid Z l •gmas were placed in position. The new enfi la I work ded it Mem is prearated left. agetnst the Bosnian battery which doe From all I ma hear sad me very little ingemaies has been made as the large works which oppose le. The French have done a good deal of damage to the Telegraph Battery, and four hundred shells have been ' sent into the Reda°. But on its face the Reda is little injured, though the destruction inside, caused by the explosion of our mast have been enormous. In the first tryl i irif s i t; first bombardment our shot and shell killed and dis abled many thousands of the enemy. This time our fire is more terrible, and, from the nature of the wea pons employed, more destructive, and we expect amounts of death and carnage which, in oar patellar position, must be very satisfactory even to the mildest and meekest among U. But if any one were rash enough to believe that our killing so many thousand Remises would induce the garrison to capitulate or surrender, that person would be most signally disap pointed. In a town regularly invested and out off from all communications, such dreadful carnage might sot unreasonably be supposed to dishearten the gar rison and soften even the heart of the most deter mined commander by the reflection that he must soon want hands to man his works. Or the Barr• deemed to slaughter, would murmur, officer; would remonstrate, a mused of war would be held, and matters would take their course as they usually do with fortresses. In very modern history, that was the ease with Komori:. But it is not likely to be the cue with Sebastopol, for thousands are waiting outside to take the place of the thousands we slay ; the disaffected, the disheartened, and the dubious can I be removed and fresh and ignorant troops, fall of faith in the same of Russia, may at any moment be I introdused into the town. Sebastopol cannot be ! measured according to the standard of ordinary sieges. and we have seen that in the ass of this ex treenthery fortress the experience even of Sir John 4 !userr been at fault. Andjet whet real! fhe roof is taken off our hotise, and our de mestio movements are open to the gaze of these that stand on the high places. They see oar rows of tents and villages of huts. They see the church of Kadtkoi, which, deserted by its pis& and congregation, has been turned into a hospital. They see oar horses grazing in the plain; horsemen leaping the ditches; Turks drawn out in front of their encampment going through theirlalim or drill, all wearily and clumsily. They see the long files of our cavalry debouching into the plain to give their horses an airing; the railway trucks gliding up or loosened from the incline, rattling down at a killing speed. They see far up to the hills that border the cavalry camp, and on the left they see the French nill with its depot of artillery, the sailor's battery, and the other batteries between here and Balaklava. And all this while our cannon is battering against Sebestopol. If our easy and unconcerned movements —our being so perfectly at home—provokes them to come down and give us a "rise , it is perhaps the sight of those batteries which causes them to stop before they rashly venture within reach of an influence from which they might find it difficult to withdraw. What would have been the result of the battle of Balaklava if those guns had, been where they are now ? Something like what the result of the second battle will be, it the Russians have the ambition of taking any more batteries in Balaklava plains. Up to the present they have made no movement, though a movement against us has been expected each night. And, considering all the circumstances we have a right to be attacked. For what is the Russian army in frost of us good for, it they do not harrass the Balaklava front while we hearses Sebastopol P The fait is, the troops on this front have made up their minds to be attacked : they would feel it a hardship if they were to be disap pointed. On Friday night the Russians took us by surprise, a. d puzzled us sorely. They illuminated a battery they ears facing Kadikoi. It was a very pretty , sight, and the surprise was an agreeable one. As they have very little to do, we all wish they world frequently give us so harmless and delightful an evening's diversion. But what was it done for? Why burn piles of brambles and dry wood from one end of the battery to another ? 'fliers we are beat. Nous donnona nos lauguea aux " ohiene—that is to say, to our enemies. The Russians are a most generous nation. The Greeks say so, and the Greeks ought to know; but we can hardly expose, that the high-souled Muscovites should send oat fatigue parties, gather wood, and burn fires for the diversion of our camp. That would, indeed, be heap. log fiery coals on our heads. Was the fire me& le show to our Quartermaster-General the exact pods lion of the battery, or to enable our engineers to trace its limits ? If so, they should have done a band. some thing in a handsome manner, and fired all the one, to give us an idea of their number and metal. That simple expedient would have saved us the trouble of a reconnaissance. Or was this Rumba • battery lighted up in honour of the event of our bar . gun battery being silenced fora night ? Or were the troops sworn to obey the new Cur Alexander and . his son P Every one has pat these questions, but no . one has received an answer. That illuminated bat . tery is on. of the mysteries of the campaign. The Russians rejoice when they are worsted, and sing TS Dooms over a defeat; bat oar progress aga inst Sebastopol has not been at • kind to justify any extraordinary demonstrations of pleasure on the& part. On Saturday morning—it mast have been abaft 2 o'clock—oar unaccountable onsenies perpetrated! another freak, which roused the camp, and showed us how admirably prepared we are for a fight at the dawn of day, or earlier. A musket shot rang from the plain; another followed, then another and another, and then came a rolling fire of about twenty or thirty muskets. I stepped into my boots, seized my cap, and opened the door of my hut, expecting to hear some more musketry, and after then the open ing fire from our batteries. All was ailept, and re mained so. According to custom, unless &seines of the firing was at ones satisfactorily explained in all tbecamps, the trumpet and bogie Auld haneseadell, and the drum should have beaten to arm. This strange apathy wee what I could not understand. In the morning, when I made inquiries in the various encampments, I understood and admired it. Not a man in the amp but had been round by Not amu in the camp but was Tatou tbemeMll and as much prepared as I was. BfiliNe' slimes commanding could order the alarm to be sounded, the men, French and English, on the Balaklava hoot, were all out and under arms. There was no need of the bugle or the drum. It is positively mewed that the firing came from or was in or very near the Rus sian lines.,,,So say the sentries; but they are not quite sure of the exact locality; as who can be in Jo ark a night P In oar camp it is said that one of the Fitimsb pickets advanced too far, and that the Rumbas Mad upon them. This the French deny. Here again all is doubt sad coifed= of amertioas. But it is agsep tifyiog fact to /mow that a single voile from age oar pickets would abut* y turn out the whok camp, and that no roll of the drum, no bugle call, no shoat, need reveal to the enemy that the camp is astir, and prepared foe a road reception. The &sieves who_ umpad the mountains on the extreme right door &lakes front have been with ' drawn, sod a detachment of Omer Pasha's troops has taken up the position on the hills. I have sot re been able to ascertain the regiment. If they an s E t g an yriaas, they will keep as sha r p a look out and their ground as well as the Zlllllllll. or Highlanders, or any ether musk corps. TIM balk of Omer Pasha's =rpm hes pitched its Mei TAR EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1855. position. But I believe some Prenoh troo ps besides in the Zonate. have been withd ra w n t o assist the ope rations against BebestepoL Our numerical strength, however, is greater than it was, and hopeful sews are of action, it is whispered that this reinforcement of our lines shows that the commandos expect an attack, or that they intend making a general re oonnaiesenoe. I myself believe that weaken be at tacked the moment our siege operations commence to tell severely upon the town and garrison of Sebes topol. It is the object of the army in our front to makes diversion in favour of Sebastopol They will make that diversion, but not without urgent neces sity. lam positive that the order for the attack 02 Balaklava will Was from the fortress. Omer Paoha's troops have made a very favourable impression in the camp ; they are so unlike the Turks whom our men had been in the habit of seeing. They look like soldiers, move with alacrity, and seem to he fully aware of what they are about, while the regi ments fromStainboal,whom tootle misfortune we had attached to us, roll like hedgehogs, are filthy like the unclean animal whose flesh they have learnt to eat while campaigning with the Giaours, and pass their time, as i: appears, in a continual dream of onions, garlic, filth, and vermin. Oiler Paoha's men make the impression that, if well led, they would be no discredit to their French and English companions in arms. His artillerymen—trained by Colonel Van der Beek--are, I know, expert, intelli gent, indefatigable, and capital marksman. Their gnus sod gun-earriages, cast and built at Stamboul, under the slovenly superintendeaoe of General Butshkoweki, are not good; for they are awkward, clumsy, and the materiel is bad. But from what I saw of Turkish artillery drill and practice is the camp of Beograd, lam convinced that had the.. men arms worthy of them, the corps would do much execution among the Rue:Jana. However this may be, we are all eager to see Omer Pseha's troops at their work. The 10th Hassan, who were landed yesterday and early this morning, joined the cavalry camp in the course of the day. They are one of the finest regi ments I have ever seen. Men and horses have the appearance of being used to sun and wind, and fully able to bear up against the treacherous climate of the Crimea. The horses are in admirable oondition, and it appears to me, heavier than the generality of our Light Cavalry hOrses, which are not up to the weight of their riders. Very few horses, I understand, died on the passage. The 10th Hussars are a mast valu able acquisition to our cavalry force, and if we sally out from our position, they will at one have to show what they can do. For the last days the weather has been clearing up: the wind is lulling. The season of gales is evidently drawing to a close, and from all I can understand, we shall have a tropical sun by the time you receive this letter. By the same mail we have received the following delayed letter from oar special correspondent: KADIKOI, APRIL 13. The second get of the siege of Sebastopol com menced on the morning of Monday, the 9th instant. The event was not unannounced, bat yet unexpected. For months past the opening of our batteries was predicted to take place each Monday and Saturday of each week. No one believed those statements, though of course there was no denying it that the batteries roust open some day. And when, early on Monday morning, loud reports came in quick succes sion from the Sebastopol front—when the more ma jestic boom of the mortars made the reports, of 68s sound quirk and sharp in comparison—end when, even at the distance of five and seven miles, the progress of the bombs was distinctly audible even in the camps round Kadikoi and the rocky gorge of &Warier, then the fact of our having again opened fire against Sebastopol became a matter of rib• solute certainty, and a source of placid and rather phlegmatic satisfaction. None of the witnesses of, or performers io, this second act of the terrible drama felt that stinging impatience, thatracy excitement, that triumph of hope, which made our hearts beat quick, flushed our cheeks, and drove us restlessly to and fro on the morning of the fleet opening in October last. Time, and the chastening powers of experience and adversity, have made us more cool, wary, and sceptical. We expect less than we used to from isolated events, and we have become more chary of strong sensations. In October the heads of the army and its scientific departments believed that the destructive effects of oor opening must be su preme, and that a cannonade of a few hours would either compel the garrison to capitulate, or cause them to abandon the town. The regiments who knew less of artillery had more limited notions of its de structive powers if they reckoned on a siege, not of hours, but of days, and looked forward to that morn log f grief and glory, when our artillery, having silenced the Russian batteries, and cloned the ap proaches, the nerve and the steel of the British sol dier would be called into requisition—when the light regiments and the Guard; of Alma should march into Sebastopol. The town did not surrender. There was no reason why it should have dons so. The Reassigns replied to the fire of oar batteries with batteries as nu merons, mounted with heavier metal, and that in greater numbers than we could boast of. Our fire was mild and regular, like the routine of a London office. We commenced the work of the day at 8 in the morn ing: at Bin the evening we left oft There were extra hours now and then, but they were rare. In the hones of night we repaired the damage done to oor batteries in the day. So did the Russians. In the morning they and we were equally ready to begin at our game of "long bowls." Then, instead of the engulf, elms Balaklava ; and, after Balaklava, came Inkermano. Instead of attacking, we were attacked. Instead of taking positions, we had to defend them. Hard upon the heels of Inkermann came the winter, with all its concomitant evils. Pardon this outline sketch of the first part of the siege. When the cur• Lain rises for the second act, it is but natural tension the leading features of the first. This is the fifth day of the new • tis the 179th day since our batteries' first in October last. Our second battering 'fire is vastly different from the first. Our engineers and art' have had the advantage of half a yearesohooling. • ace is better than Woolwich, and Men ke was, and Osten-Sicken is, a better instructor than Sir John Burgoyne. Our works are within a few handset' yards of the Raid= advanced works, and therefore within effective distance from the town, which is now really exposed to the fall powers of oar projectiles.We have a sufficient number of guns in position to eosin an effective cannonade. We have vast responses of ammunition in the camp, and ample means of bring ing up men. We have mortars of enormous calibre, and with them the means of dot/vier the mud forts, whicl. proved so serious an obstacle to our pro oeedings in October and November. Tie allied commanders have a greater number of troops at their disposal, and our own asmy is not now misspelled to work exactly one ballot the attack ; an arrangement which however suitable to the dignity of oar country, was moat unsuitable to our small numbers, and most destructive to them. We are in a condition to keep up the batteriop .fire for an indefinite period ; to repel any sorties in fore, that may be attempted from the town, and to repel the advance of 80,000 men— if the Russians can muster so many—against the positions of Inkerrason and Rabidity,. In October boldness, energy, decision, and above all, rapid move ments, might have compensated for the smallness of our numbers and the deficiencies of our material for the siege. We are now in a position to lay a regular siege, even against a town that resists and a garrison that bolds oat under oar battering fire for days and weeks. Thu time no one among us, irom high to low, ex pected miraculous results, or an immediate offer of capitulation. I trust that no such sanguine hopes have beat entertained in England. If any such hopes there have been they will be disappointed. In these last five days our fin has been very effective, and very dsetrueuve. Both the French and the English artillery practice, especially the mortar practice, Ib sen all that could be de sired. The shells o allies, more particularly, have been thrown with admirable precision; they exploded at will. Here is our great advantage, for r the Russian shells ase SU weak point d -their artil lery. Manret them =plods at the cannon's month, many high e pp in the air, and a gre a t ma n y d o no t explode at nil. The action of a Read= shell belong entirely to the chapter of aseidents. The shells of the allies, pitched into the Ruskin works, did in the first two den ensues the Ream] Treew, Rita tha ayend l'ilesda the Ragtime returned oar fine wYL th precision of round shot, and *lb mall vaginae of shells ; their batteries meows" , relahuiy served, and several times, while vaulting the proseedings, I remarked the flashes of her se five guns at the same moment issuing from the same battery—attempta to fire a salvo *midst the rushing down and the explosion of oar shells. On Tuesday evening the Ras a* fire slackened, and on Wednesday they had shared several of their advanced batteries, and with drawn their guns into positions nearer home. So far our artillery has certainly the advantage, but still our officers are not unduly elated, and it were perhaps not unwise if the public at home were to share their modest appreciation of oar present partial success. For that very success urges still more forcibly the puzzling and painful question : What next? I know that the men of confidence in the army expect that our artillery will utterly annihilate Sebastopol—that it will smash not only the batteries but the buildings alsoi that shells thrown into houses will act as mines sad overthrow the homes, end that we shall redoce the town to a mass of wreck, splinters, and ruins, in which It is Impossible even for Russian soldiers to exist. Those who are less sanguine admit that by dint of cannonading we may convert the town into a class of rules, but they do not see why the Russians elesald voluntarily retreat from the wreck, especially as lisbastopol, like every oth er place of strength, mist have its underground or casemated barrack esessmodation. The advanced batteries which the ]*elan have left must be taken possession of ander the fire of the batteries in their rear, and if this is not done, their evacuation by the enemy is an advantage, but not a material anus it does not in any material degree &adage ear MTagainst the place. ,as I can judge the question of a general gestalt is in so far decided, that all ideas of such a mnasare are abandoned for the present. Headquarters ben such intelligence from the interior of the town as to make the attempt appear hazardous, if not altoge tberimpracticable. Sebastopol in April 1855 is very unlike the Sebastopol of 1854. Every bush of ground between the advanced works and the town has, it is said, been covered with defensive works, which, while they reflect the highest credit on the ingenuity and activity of the Russian engintereowould malty the advance of the allied troops a matter of difficulty, if not altogether an impossibility. Every obstacle,every contrivance has been put into requisition to obstruct the progress of storming columns. Under the pro tection of such defences it is not likely that the gar rison should yield to a panic ; and we have nothing to expect from their bodily and mental prostratioc. Among the leading results of a battering fire, such as we are now pouring upon the town, is to bewilder, to weary out, and to discourage the defenders—to work them off their legs and to send forward storming columns at the very time when those within the walls are least capable of making an energetic defence. Any fortress, no matter how large and brave its gar rison, would fall an easy prey to a decided assault, if invested and plied with artillery since October last. But the double fortress of Sebastopol has never been invested; the road was at all times open for the in troduction of fresh troops, fresh stores and provi sions, and the removal of the wounded, the sick, and the worn-out. The men we have before us are not ground down by the labour., the watching., priva tions, and anxieties of a siege of six months ; they are, or at least they . may have been, drafted in within the last six weeks, and they most assuredly have been, if the mo ra l or physical con dition of the garrison made the introduction of fresh troops necessary. In towns regularly invested, the skilled engineers and gunners drop off in the course of the siege, and their places are taken by others less Aida' and experienced. But there is no reason why the Russians should not have drawn into Sebastopol companiesof the best artillerymen they have is the empire. In short, to all intents and purposes the fortress we are bound to conquer cannot be considered as having stood a six months' siege, though we know to our cost that we have been besieging it that length of time. Its means of defence are unimpaired, its, shortness of ammunition—if ever there was anything like a real want of it—has bees made good by im portations from Odessa, that thorn in the side ;of the allied armies. More skilful engineers than ever conduct the labours of the defence; fresh troops support the batteries, and trained gunners work the guns. The deserters complain of the ravages of disease, but they say there Is plenty of food, and there are plenty of men. Why do I say all this; and why these serious and almost gloomy reflections at the commencement of fresh operations? Am I one of the croakers, such as there are at home, and, I regret to say, some few in the army, who cry oat that it is impassible to take Sebastopol—that we had no business to go to war with a power like Rosalie; and that the best thing we as do is to settle the matter amicably, no matter at what price P In other words, that the united strength of France and Great Britain are not equal to the reduction of a Russian fortress; and that we ought to have known that fact from the first, and from the first quietly and tamely submitted to Rus sian dictation, and to a Muacovite revision of the empire of the world P Most assuredly lam not One of those men ; and tar different is the lesson I read from the failure of our attempts to reduce Sebastopol. But I would warn against indulging in unreasonable hopes, whose frustration might lead to a bitterness of disappointment bordering upon despondency. With all the resources at the command of the allied generals, we are not now in a condition to take Sebastopol by a smart cannonade and a sudden rush, nor is Sebastopol in a condition to be taken in this manner. I do not speak of what once may ham been, but of what now is. The opening our batteries is a great step in advanoe,for it is the commencement of active operations. But we cannot expect to carry our point by means of the batteries aloes. Sebastopol is superior to a mere artillery siege. It is now avast , battery, open at the gorge, and that gorge for the mean beyond the pale of our attack, and in constant communication with the resources of the empire. 1 do not believe, as matters now stand, that an attempt will be made to reduce the town on this side the harbour without oorresponoiog operations on the math side—that is to say, active operations spied the Russian army which keeps up the ease. munications between Sebastopol and the empire. If such an attempt were mad*, perhaps it might be successful. The French are brave to a proverV and our own troops can do anything but retreat. Bat I =abet understand that the commanders who, in October fast, destined ebtaising possession of the town at Melia d 000 assnaltiee, should now make the attempt whin ems the most sanguine hesitate to limit the pliable lam at 10,000 killed and wounded, and when nesse% tbough.not altogether improbable, is at least my deabtfiaL That partial assaults will take plate is my likely, from the preparations now going on; tweak works and positions must be occu pied by Free& and English troops, to more oont pletely batter the town and break the way foe further operations on the Tammy*. If lam net very mush mistaken some of them partial advance; will take place in the next few days. A good deal of ground meet be gained by feet end inches, and there is no manner of doubt but that we shall gain it. That the operations will be carried over to the north edde,and the town invested, and that theßamiaa army will, be driven bank upon flimpheropol, and p e e r r e ha ot e fax4 p sr a , is apparent they from the ch we read of numbers are sae. barking at Marseilles, and which pour into Kangas& and Balaklava. As I am writing, a fresh regiment of Chaisson. jest landed, is marching up to the front. The allied armies have, moreover, the assistance of Omer Paola and 12,000 Tarts, detached from the force at Euphoria. Of the movements of these, and the doings at Kamiesch, you will be inTorieed 'by your Special Correspondent attached to the bead-quarters of the Turkish General. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. (snort • sorrunniwr TO THU LONDON cassia) Before Sebastopol, April 17. My Lord,—The fire of both the French ea English arouse has .been ceotinsed upon Sebastopol since I addressed your lordship cm the 14th instant, and t aspenor to that of the enemy it has not pro dared that present effect which might have been anticipated frodits coastaney, power, and accuracy. sans ast ih. ReArians have h ere tumult! none tery was so great, that the unremitting exertions oir Captains Henry and %loot, and the gallantry and determination of the artillerymen under their order% alone enabled them to keep up the fire and to main. min themselves in it. In another battery yesterday a shell burst close to the magazine, which in consequence exploded, kilt. log, I am much concerned to say, one man, wounding two most severely, and seven in a less degree. Both the batteries I have mentioned have beets repaired and restored to their original condition. I enclose the list of casualties that have arisen be. tween the 13th and 15th inst. I have to lament the loss of two young and promising alms who had only lately joined the army, Lieutenant Preston, of the 88th Regiment, and Lieutenant Mitchell, o f thls Artillery; and I regret to add that two others bays been severely wounded, Captain Green, of the East India Company' s se rv i ce , w h o has been employed throughout the siege as an assistant engineer, wits great credit to himself and every advantage to this service, and Captain Donovan, of the 33rd, who had most zealously served from the commencement of the campaign. !The French blew up several small mines in front of the Bastion du Mit after sanest on Sunday even• lag, with a view to establish a parallel on the spot. Thu operation greatly alarmed the enemy, who at once commenced a heavy fire of cannon and moo. ketry in every direction from that part of the town, which they kept up for a considerable time. It coca stoned so harm on our left attack, upon which a part of it was directed, and I hope did little injury to met Several hundreds of the Russian oavalry and a small body of Cossacks appeared on the low range of heights in front of Balaklava this morning, and re mained about an hour, when they retired, the greater portion by the bridge of Tracts.. The object of this movement was probably a reconnaissance. I have, &0., RAGLAN. The Lord Panmure, &c., &c. Rini= Or CAIVALTISS MON Tna 13in to 151 n or Aran, 1863, maws :-41lt Itattimind of Foot-3 rank and Al., wounded. 106 root-1 rank and Al., wounded. Bth Foot-3 rank and Al; ►kWedl rink and La, wounded. 14th Foot—l rank and Al., wounded. 23r4 Foot —1 rank and Ale, wounded. 30th Foot-1 rank and Ale, wounded. Sled root —t 'Aker, S rank and Le, wounded. 34th Toot —I rank and Ale, killed ; 1 ;ant and Ale, wounded. 39th Foot—ll rank snit Le, wended. eld Foot-2 rank and Ale, wounded. 47 t h F o ot-11 rank and Ale, wounded. 49th Yana-4 rank and Al., wounded. lots Foot—l sergeant, 1 rank and Ale, ; I L I rank sad lIM. wounded. Mkt Foot-2 rank and Le. w Foot.-8 rank and Ale, wounded. Poot—l alder. killed ; I aarasint. 3 rank and Ole, wonstied. Both Foot —I rank saryille. wounded. 902 k Prot-2 rank and Al., wounded. 97th Puet—l rank and Al., killed rant and die, wounded. 2nd Remake Rifle —I rant Oil Ale, killed 1 rank mil* wounded. Royal 1 °Meer, 3 sergeants, a rank and Le, Mika ; 1 °Mem sergeant, 31 rank and Ls, wounded. Royal Inginems and Royal &ppm. and Miners-2 rank sad lie, Wen ;SI rank and Al., winded. Total-9 oilmen, 8 sergeants, 13 rank and Ate, killed ; Soilless% I sergennts,72 rank and lie, wounded. Raman or Omens who nave am Miami FROM Tits 13T11 TO Tat IS= Aram, 1099, 11 1 CLUSIVE.-00th Poet: Lieutenant IL Da Preston. Royal Artillury : Lieutenant R. A. MltobeiL Rartoui cr Opriceas wan nuns SOO WOOPEID MOH Ton 13Th TO rum 19ra APait, 18)3, INCLUIIIIII.—LtoyaI Minors : Lieutenant 0. Orthare, slightly; Captain and Aasiannt Engineer U. Green. it. E.l. C. berme, severely. Royal Artillery ; Assistant eurgeod R. W. tkokerill, slightly. 93rd lout: Captain 2. W. Donovan, es. rarely. AMAIN OOP Now.Connlealolll9 OIVICIDS AND PRMATAI Kat= rune 131 m ro 13re Aram, 1933, Foot: Quarter. master-dergsant Thomas Clidird; Private Thomas Klement. Rossi Sappers and Miters: Private* Joseph M'Ash and John Letts. bridge. 9th Foot: Privates Mushael Sheady end William Toby. Royal Artillery : Sergi:WA John butherlaad md Alexander Jamie. on, Corporal Wailers Boyd ; Owners James Laney, Henry Quillen, George Jonas, James Birth. 34th Foot: Private Michael Byrne. 97th Foot : Private Joints Magi*. Ind Battalion B 2 brigade: Corporal Thomas Smith. Henan he Nom.Coteins•Hismi Commas Ann Famine Wovannis PION i.e 13m ro ISrsi 0,141953, iactosivr..— tpril 13. 30th Foot s Private Patrick Lohneal, rightly. 43.11 Foot: ['mate James Alan. dishously. 3.1 k Foot Sergeant Thomas O'Brien, slightly; Private sielivel Judge, MOM 3Stb Foot: Private Thome, Burke, se. verely. bind Foot: l'rtrates John severely; James Batty. slightly. 97th loot: Private William Mc l ough li n, slightly. Royal Artillery: Acing Bombardiers James Llopi, severely; Alexander Adams, 'balmy; Aline Brown, slightly. Gunners George Werner, severely' William Sinclair, severely, 'A Wiens Grant, elightly ; Mauer Menlo, slightly; Thanes Tear, severely. April 14. 4th Foot: Lane. Sergeants John Cultigan, slightly , George t.krtson, slightly. Private/ William Campbell, slightly . Thomas Jobe* overtly; William Tor. ner, rightly; Edwin Draper, severely. 9lh Foot: Privates Martin 11 gait,. @ensile; Joseph Pace, slangamelyt 'Walk slightly. 23rd Foot: Private John O'Neill, slightly 631 E Foot: Private Michael Mecham slightly. 9ta It Foot: Mistreat %Mug Hopkins, silghtly; Privets a Thomas Caner, dangerously ; John Columns, severely. 99th Foot: Pavel. Alexander Bell, slightly. Royal Artillery : Sergeant Angus Clarke, dienly ; Bombadier Mee anew Gawdy, dangerously; Gunners : Joan Young, seremlyg Thews idles, sightiy; Hoy Langley, severely, John Huns" eleldly; Jobe onspesie„ severely; John Topers, slightly* John mamas, Aleglyk (Ames Harper, eligh ; Riohard rerely „• TheindJurdon. slightly; Gawp, Parkinson, rightliAs ward Mid. sew* 11100A3 Craig, severe 7; James slightly; Jean flearp, slightly . , James Stewart, severely; Worm Stewart, sllibtiyi William btu, rightly. Itosal &mere and Prieele Wham sloop, sevetely. April 19-7th Foot: Pd. vale eieliald lemma., slightly. 14th Foot: Corporal William Ry d er . lad Foot: Loos Corporal Deem Lang, slightly; Mvagw_rlOßu Fowler, sightly; Daniel Larkin, sightly. Mtge Foot. Privies Peter Young, strerely. Ann Foot: Corporal Dark!' KearllP. inertly; Private Alfred ltidewood, 41st 1 , 04: Private, Jain Craig, seven ly; Christopher Pert awn, slightly. 471111 Foot Meier dames White, onset 7. 49th Fan : Print* Patrick Preuderpst, esemelyt Wi liam iturenall, severely; James Farrel% lied Feet: Privates H. Crowe, slightly; Wink= Hurler°. alightl;; Joseph hunting, alight') ; Thomas McKenna. sightly. Sfti Foot: Private Richard Nelson. ding tamely. 90th Foot: Prtrater Joseph Turner, severely; John Nowise, severely. 97th Foot: Pd. vats John Pruden., dameromly. Tod &Mahon Rifle brigade: Pria vats Henry Wright, s.gbUy. Royal Artillery Corporal Prenere was; severely; Bomber:use Robert Geams, slightly; Gainer* Joseph Carideo*, ehichtly; William Deal, Mahn,. KrIVIN or CAIVALTICA IN TIM DOTAL Saran BILIOALS HAMM 81111ANTOPOI, ON AIDIL 1111 M, 147 x, Inn, Ann linty 1933: Arm, 11.—Wounded; Mildew Cuallp, A.B Leander, slightly. Arm'. 11.—Killed Jesse Nicholls, LIS., Lseider; John VThlr r mile: —a Pairl a r Ord., trader, errery; Ord. Lassers. Michael t amen, Lers/ar. smeniy; Bassi Wslob, A. 8., Leader. sightly; U. Brou.rom Qtaas, dearly; Clerks Taylor,e.L. slightly;Osarlis Orrier. Ord, Wire. slightly. Candied: John Liamogum, A. 8., Leeds', GUM:). William thlwara, eon. swain Gutter, &ahoy, slightly ; William Branchley, UriL, Wasp, Aram. Jolla Trine, 4.5., Quin. Wounded: Jobe Remus, A. 8., Leander, eeverely • WhiLim Ma, opt. ion-tuy, Qualm. slightly. Contused: Y.divard lash' A.K,Qmen,eeversly; Winn= Davi...Ord., Queen. slightly ; liouyer, Arm., Qum, slightly; Edward tianith, Ord., Looks. slightly. Alan, : Jahn Woudford, Ord., Warp; Jam., alias Charles, Orme, Ord., Immder. Wounded: Jamas Cado, Ord., Bad. dapirmay Jew* Wood's**. Ld, Clean, slightly; tasmuel tori Whir% A.b., Leander, slightly; William Turner, Ord, Leander. slightly; Daniel leesrihY, LE, Queen, slightly; William Gad d*, Ord., Leander, shghtly; (Margo lieudon. 46., leauder, slightly. PRINCE GORICHAKOFFI3 REPORT. (From& Supplement to the /maid& Room) In completion of his telegraphic despatch, published • on the 20th inst., relative to the operations before !Sebastopol, from the 11th to the 15th of April, a re port from Prince Oortchakoff, of this latter date, announces that the enemy continue to cannonade the fortrees during the day and to bombard it during the night with the greatest vivacity. Notwithstanding the rapid fire and the concentration of the fire of their batteries, armed with about 360 guns, of which 80 are mortars, the lama our garrison cannot be con sidered disproportionately great ; we have net bad • many gun. demounted, owing to our fortificetions being intersected by a sufficient number of traverses, and to our batteries being sheltered by blindages. During the day the fire of our artillery is also in cessant; thanks to the coolness and skill with which it is served, many of the enemy's gu ns h ave b een dismounted, and the embrasures of some of the batteries knocked in. All our damage ie repaired during the night with the greatest activity. The dismounted guns are replaced by new onee, and the losses of the garrison made good by reinforcements which arrive, se that on the 3rd (16th) April, Sebastopol was as strong as before the bombard went. To the above general statement of the heroic deeds of the defenders of Sebastopol, Aide-de-Camp General Prinoe Gortchakoff adds some details on the siege works, and on the operation, which have taken place during the bombardment. On the 12th of April the enemy, in superior num bers, made an attack upon the lodgment coestructed in front of bastion No. 6, but their first attack was repulsed by the 2nd battalion of the Chasseurs de Kolyvan, under the orders of Lieut.-Colonel Teraina saff. To explain the operations described below it is indispensable to state that along the whole of our line of defence small lodgments have been established ter our riflemen, situate nearer to the parallels of the besiegers than to our own fortifications. The enemy, fully appreciating the harm done by these rapidly constructed defences, are now exerting every possible effort to make us °abandon them, but these attempts cost them dearly, for on different motions oar ad winced chain has defeated them at the point of the bayonet, or has drawn them under the sharp fire of grape of our nearest works. _ . On the above-named day, at 4 a.m. we effected am explosion with the greatest success again* the enemy's galleries, directed towards button No 4. (Now _limes router area lt plus grand street un globe ' 71"."'' ) la night between the 12th and 13th of Ape% the besiege!, attempted to carry tae rifle pits situate in the ravine between [bastions 4 and 6. The rifle, men of the %Wren and Catherinebourg regiment& she neenniod thorn 0h00...A .1...... -. .I._ -- -- s ! . ! 1 I ' 1 l ' 1 i F ..1 . 1 , r 1 1 1 - I • i i 1 I ' I, q 1 1 11 1 1 1 i 11, I 1, 1 1 i I . I 1 1 1 ! i 4. t i• , J ii 1 i 11, . I .