The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

' OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. English service; on the other hand, in consequence of the general distribution of the Minit and the bridals( of deteshments from all regiments on the' same footing at the School of Mo•ketry at Hythei some of the most expert riflemen in the British army may now be found in the ordinary regiments of the Bee. There can be no doubt that some new Topmost is called for to meet the altered ceroanastanose of the period—either the Light Companies of regiments should be re-:veva bed, selected from men who have pecn proofs of superior activity, and superior attainments as marksmen—in fact, be what their name implies and not, as is now generally the case, selected from being of a certain height or smart appearance—and the Rifle Corps, as a distinctive body, discontinued; or the men of the Rifle Brigade should constitute a corps Atlas, their superiority consisting in the Qualifications of light troops and marks mansine field._ • (TROY Tlll2 SPICILL 00"l 1 wn. UPIIIIO ) DAILY CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Jews 2. Very few events of general interest have occurred d a ring the last lose days in the siege operation, nor lac airy change take* place in the condition of the im a m 6nywd the gradual advance of the eppenehes • Clthe enemy's more prominent pcieitious. ay rumour has asserted that the following day would see the opening of the new batteries, and the • (commitment of the third bombardment; and each, • i s t e rn, by its stationary quistede, has given the lie to the assertions of its predecessor. A council of war was assembled at an early hour of the morning et Head Qsarten on the 29th ult., when, it is s tated, the arrangements were completed respecting • t h e/ yenning . of the fire, but their nature has not, of ed am transpired. It is not unlikely that the ree 'lowa of the fire will be delayed until matters an rips for a connected series of combined useemente, • on as will tend to engage the attendee of the Rea• s k i forma, if mot to detach a considerable portion of the army from the immediate neighbourhood of Be. lesstoPol. News from the army at Butch has been looked for with general interest, and the probable influence co the Rusian tactics of their losses in that direc tion has been a subject of much speculation. : Rill the enemy attempt to retake Kutch ? or will he, without a struggle, abandon it, and with it t h e whole peninsula of Kertch, his communications ey Arabat, and hie supplies from the Bea of Azoff? Vor the whole of the Russian territorial acquisitions f a nning the shores of the Sea of Azoff are suddenly rendered valueless while our steamers and gunboats ' possession of the sea iteelL Will the enemy be • AO to feed his large army, and provide the requi site munitions of war with the: one road by Porekop ' only left open to him ? What movements may be • expected among the Russian troops along the line of the river Kuban ? Will the Circassian. take advan tage of the interruption which has been caused by the - occupation of Kertch between the communication. of thole troops and the Ramona army in the Crimea? Such an the questions now discussed by those among our military men whose thoughts are directed to a wider field than the circumscribed operations before gibutopol itself. On all sides firmer hopes are now • held of a snccessfsl issue to the great enterprise in • which the allied armies are engaged ; and this, not only on account of the vast superiority in fire which will be brought to bear on the town and works as umpired with the former bombardments, but also Wass it is argued that the Realises cannot have the means at hand of interrupting the operations abost to take place in the field, or they would not lave left the key to the Sea of Azoff so completely at . OW mercy. Our tidings from Kutch extend to the 29th ult., ' sad were received here on the 30th. By these ca wen the military road along the Tongue of Arabat bad been destroyed, and some magazines at Arabat itself had been blown up. Large stores of corn had boa seized, and three gunboats of the enemy and a considerable number of merchant vessels, as many as 100, it is said, taken in the Sea of Azoff. More troops are to be sent at once. The 72nd Reg iment, which had just arrived from Malta, receiv ed orders sot to land, and put to sea again the night before last. It is said to be destined for Kertch. The 3lst. Reg., lately arrived from the lonian Islands, and attached to the First Division at Balaklava, was also named for this Mr*" and left the same night. The Ru shes are said to have sunk several steamers. The belief that the chief places on the peninsula of s smash will be entrusted to the safe keeping of the Ilmt A and that the greater part of the land force sent ;.leNertch and Arabat will shortly return to co ' =in a movement towards Simpheropol with Puha . ' force at Eupa toris , and General Cam ber. army in the plain, ts gaining ground. The delay in the opening fire is attributed to the necessity of waiting until these movements can be undertaken, so that all may be done in concert, and a part of the Rosetta soy on the north heights diverted from operating at Sebastopol. When the fire opens the Kamechatka Redoubt on the Mamelonhill, and the quarry work below the Radar will be the two principal objects of attack at first • and, after a few hours' bombardment, it le andentood that these works will be assaulted, the knew by the French, the latter by the English Deeps. No cos feels any doubt about the assault being sucendal ; the main difficulty will be to retain possesaiou until the daylight shall have :veep= It will be importaat that the position on the lon is secured at the same time that the quarry is crowned, as there is little doubt that some of the pas on the former hill bear on the quarry. Whether the quarry is armed is not known ; its pest ilence the Haan hill prevents this from being serer lied by observation, sodas yet no embrasures have • bees opened. A discharge of shell has been occa • 'Wally thrown into the work, to interrupt the pending* d the enemy within. The fire has been slack along all the lines during the last few days; both the Ras ian batteries and those of the Allies have appeared to be reserving their strength for a more important 'struggle. As usual for some time past, what fire there has been, has been moat continuous on the extreme left, where the works of the French almost touch the nenellated wall of the town. There has elm been from time to time a sharp fire against the French works, which are making rapid advances on the east side of the Careening Bay ravine. The fire against our centre attack has been very trifling. A new device of the enemy has been loading some field r usi;lownhich are placed at the lower part of the -hill, and directed against our advanced works, not only with the usual round shot, but also with a quantity' of grape. This was very deceptive at first, for the loud whiz of the round shot Fe vented the small grape from being heard in their Bight, and moreover as the chief impetus was given to the shot, it flew past first, and afterwards, when all danger had apparently gone by, came the pattering of the grape. - We have had very few ca sualties in the trenches, and such as have occurred have happened principally from rifle balls. An instance occurred early in the morning of the 31st instant of the precision with which som e ofthe Russian riflemen take their aim. Ensign Frederick Playa., of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, who was in the advanced work on Frencbman's-hill, had taken one shot at a Russian in a rifle pit, and was in the act of elevating his piece with the inten tion of firing a second. Before he could accomplish his object the Rogan had seen him and fired, and with such seseracy that the ball lodged in the Ensign's arm, so that he was compelled to give up his rifle . The wound was not so severe, however, as to prevent him from walking up to camp. Orders have been given that a certain number of marksmen selected from the Rifle Bri rs gsde should be told off daily to act as sharpshoote in front of the advanced works, and that they should cease doing ., the ordinary duty of the trenches. During the siege operations the soldiers of the Rifle Brigade have not been doing this duty, for which it might have been expected they would have been more particularly employed. They. hen, therefore, in a great measure ceased to retain their distinctive character, and have taken their tour of duty in the trenches o° the same footing with the other line regi ments. When, at the commencement of the liege, sharpshooters were employed they were furnished by a certain number of volunteers from each regiment r enr s m a rd before the town, in common with the Ri fl e B e. This may have arisen from the altered relative mrcumstances of the Rifle Brigade and Line in respect to arms—the old musket in the one case being diecoutinued, and both alike being armed a ith the Millie rifle. The Chewers Pied in the French service correspond with as Rifle Brigade; and indeed sprung in the first instance, and were made to annalists in their dress and organisation, by Louis Philippe, under the name of amassers d'Orleass, by imitation of our Rifle Brigade. Subsequently they were called, under the n i fees of the Republic, Chall."!re de Vincent - 4 , I name they freneemt':y retain in ordinary conver sation, although it 'was converted by the present Em roe into Clumseus A Pied, which more portion. defines their duty and constitution. But while thetea iel Preach 810 : vies the men for the Champlin i Pied are most carefully selected, sad only received late t he v:eps when pomses i • superiors powers of end orans and pfiysioalactivity, no such nee sod diatiostion is carried out in the Now that our trenches are so close to the works of the enemy, a well-directed rifle fire can be brought to bear on the embrasures of their batteries with great effect. The Russians have for some time resorted to the usual expedient in the Reda* and elsewhere of placing swinging screens, or " mantlets," for the pro !action of the gunners against our Mind.; but in spite of these devices our men, placed in favourable points, by watching and taking advantage of favourable opportunities, can keep greatly under control the fire of the guns. Some mantles have lately been applied to several of our foremost batte ries. Another battery was completed in the right attack last night, and in both attacks every arrangement is now completed for the opening of tire. The stores of abet, shell, and ammunition are enormous ; the rounds for sash gun were completed some days since to 800 per gan, and the shells for each 13-inch mortar now sea& the number of 300. There was an explosion ot gunpowder on the railway on the evening of May the 29th, but only two kegs of powder and a few friction tubes were destroyed. One man was slightly injured. Captain Owen, of the Royal Engineers, who suf fered amputation of the thigh, about a mouth since, in consequence of a severe injury from a rifle-ball, has left camp to proceed to England. Before coming out he had been appointed and was acting as secretary of the British committee for the Paris Exhibition, and he voluntarily gave up this post to join his corps before Sebastopol. He has been much liked by every one of his comrades and by the Sappers, the latter ot whom volunteered to carry him from amp to Bala irises, to prevent the jolting of a wheeled vehicle. This was accomplished, the men being in three re lays, and he arrived at the port without any fatigue from the .journey. Miss Nightingale has also left, still very debilitated and soaring. A few days before her departure she had a relapse of fever, which seriously interrupted her progress toward convalescence . Lord Ward placed his yacht at her disposal. I regret to say that, although cholera has nearly disappeared among the troops encamped before Se bastopol, it has increased among the forces at Bala klan, and several fatal cases have daily occurred among the regiments of the Oneida quartered in that neighbourhood. A nephew of Admiral Boxer, a young man, and acting as his secretary, was at tacked at an early hour in the morning, and died at 1 p.m. of the same day. He had been quite well, and actively engaged the day before in sedating to arrest • lire which had broken out in one of the vessels in the harbour. Captain King, of the 32nd Regiment, who had seen considerable ser vice in India, has also died from cholera, after a short Innen. lie was staying with a brother in the Artillery near Balaklava. He same as a volunteer, and brought high testimonials to introduce him to i the notice of the Commander of the Forces. The weather has medusa dry and fine, but the heat is very oppressive, more especially in the plain. 07 TEN DAILY 0111011 • lIPBCIAL X zws.) HAMARA, WAY 29. Under these &moistener, and in the present .on smilingly while several quadrilles formed by her critical state of affairs an event of no great import- chamberlain were danced by her own party. I never anoe in itself that has just occurred here, obtains a saw more utritorms of all descriptions than on this significance that makes it worth recording. In the occasion. It is raid that 6,300 guests were present; l annual report of the St. Petersburg University just but, not withstanci:ng this enormous number, the ! published, we fi nd that, whilst in every other depart- !rooms were not incolivenktotly crowded, and even mint of the state the greatest retrenchments are gentlemen found a satin-covered arm-chair at hand best carried out, and appointments and offices top- I whenever they desired to sit down. Refreshments praed and abolished, a new Professorship of the X of every kind were to be had in profusion without Oriental languages hu been created, in addition to the least difficulty, so excellent were the arrange those already in existence. From the report is question we further learn that the students of the university amount to 459, of whom 300 pay their own expenses, while the rest are bursars receiving fixed stipends from the church and different departments of the state. In the army a great want of subaltern officers sad military surgeons is beginning to be sensibly felt. The different military colleges are now little better Nan schools of primary instruction, u all the boys are Ina than sixteen years old. All above that age bane been sent off to the army, and are distributed amongst the different ministate, where they have obtained commissions without having undergone the usual examination required by the regulations of the service. The same may be said with regard to the schools of medicine and surgery, several of which are com pletely closed, both professors and pupils being sent off to the army, whilst those that are still open are nearly deserted. The want of army surgeons is so very great that in many instances dentists, aceou clears, and even farriers and veterinary surgeons have been engaged with the rank and pay of regular army doctors for service in the military hospitals at the seat of war in the South. A letter from tit. Petersburg of the let, in the Coustitutionwel, says : I hare before me several letters written by Russian officers from Binepheropol and Bsbestop4. They annowne• the snivel at the former place of a fresh cohort of Greeks under the command of Captain Delsgramatik. They first ad dressed themselves to Count d'Adlerberg, chief of the go. vernment of Taurida, who ordered a mass to be celabreted in their honour in the Church of the Holy Trinity. The Greek priest, M. Nicolas Fatinsei, atterwards harangued them in &speech appropriate to the state of affairs. " The present war," he said, "is made for you, Greeks, and for the glory of our religion. Rassia, far frost wishing to make conquests, thinks only of the happiness of the subjects of the Sultan." A relation of the Greek Chief Piston Diann matik, councillor of a Russian court, and president of the nobility of Simmons, sod who contributed not a little to the arrival of these volunteers, has undertaken to convey them to Sebastopol. ANAPA. The Lord Mayor left the Hotel de Ville at 11 I o'clock this morning. Baron Hausmann, the Prefect of the Seine, accompanied him to the Northern Rail way station, where a special train was in waiting to convey his lordship and family and the English deputation to Boulogne. The leave-taking was most cordial. Up to 5 o'cl. ck this afternoon the London letters and evening papers had not arrived. No explanation of tho delay is given at the Post-office. There has probably been some accident. Letters from Italy notice a certain revival of agi tation since the departure of the Austrian troops. On the 291 of May, the anniversary of the combats of Montanara and Curtatone, in which the Tuscan vo lunteers distinguished themselves in 1848, funeral masses were celebrated in several churches. These mamma assumed the proportions of popular demon strations of a serious nature. Anapa the hurt is aloe IN every sense the most im portant of the towns and fortresses on the littoral of the Black Sea, abandoned by Russia since the com mencement of this war. The town, situate on the , north-east ooast of the Euxine, at the northern termination of the Cauoasian range, 47 miles south-east of Yenikale,is inhabited bya miscellaneous population of Circassian', Tartars, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Russian', and others, to the number of about five thousand. The adverse relations of its masters with the tribes inhabiting the mountain country in its rear have almost neutralised the great advan tages offered by its situation, and prevented its growth. Its exporta are at present grain, tallow, batter, hides, peltriss, wax, &o. It *however, as a military post that it has been most prized by Russia, most deplored by Turkey. The fort, built by the Turks in 1784, was taken by the Russians in 1791 and in 1807, and only given up with the greatest reluctant*. In May, 1828, • detached Russian corps, assisted by the fleet, and com manded by the redoubtable Mentchikoff, laid siege to Asap, and with great difficulty sur rounded the place with a strong line of circumvalla don, intersecting the neck of land on which Anapa is situated, and extending on each side to the sea. In • few days the works were advanced to the glacis, and three breaches having been made, the governor was summoned to sarrezder. The garrison had con sisted of three thousand men ; they had defended the fort for forty days; Navariao had destroyed the fleet which might have brought them relief, and nothing remained but to surrender. Upon the conclusion of this war Anapa was not re stored ; at the pesos of Adrianople it was ceded to Russia, with all the coast towns and forts, from the Kouban to Fort St. Nicholas. The name of this last fort will be remembered (although its Turkish deno. mination of Shaf-katil is, perhaps, better known) as having been taken by the Turks at the opening of last year's Asiatic campaign. Anapa, at the other extre mity of the coast line, closes the list. At any other time the transfer of this military position from the Russians to the Ciroassians—the most vigorous and constant of their enemies—might have been deemed event of considerable importance, but its evacue- loill 11 II ti 1. I . 7 p 1 1 i 1 ,( Ii 1 H I i l ll,, l• 12 liksil NAP es. ad O . Dail SPAIN. Letters from Madrid of the 6th state that perfect tranquillity prevailed in the provinces of Seville, Guipuzooa, Navarre, Burgos, Valencia, and Valladolid. Three sergeants of the prince's regiment, concerned in the recent Carlist conspiracy at Madrid, had been tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. A letter from Rome of the 2nd in the Unirers Gaye that the Pope, who has already protested against the sale of ecclesiastical property in Spain. is about to in. terrupt all diplomatic intercourse with that country. OPINIONS ON PRINCE ALBERT ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. ........... At the annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation, on Saturday evening last, at the Trinity House, his Royal Highneu PAINCI ALBS= proposed the health of her Ma jesty's Ministen in the following terms: Gestlemen,—The toast which I have now to pro pose to you is that of her Majesty's Ministers. (Cheers.) if i there was ever • time at which her Majesty's government, by whomsoever conducted, required the support, aye, not the support alone, but the confidence, good will, and sympathy of their fellow countrymen, it is surely the present. (Loud cheers.) It is not the way to S*CCM in war, to support it, however ardently and enthusiastically, and at the same time OS tie down and weaken the hands of those who hetes to MAW it. (Cheering.) We are engaged with a Mighty enemy, who is using against us all thou wonderful powers which have sprang up under the g flag influence door liberty and our civilisation. You find him with all that force which unity of purpose and action, impenetrable anweey, and uncontrolled despotic power, have given, while IPS Walk 119 SSW him under • state of things intended for pima, eel An the promotion of that very civilisation, the dhprhsg of public discussion, of the friction of parties,and of 69 popular matzo' on the government and the state. (lieu, kwar.) The Queen has no power to levy troops, nor has tie any at her command, but such as offer their voluntary iteevieee. (Rear, hear.) Her government can take no Oheasure for the prosecution of the war which it has Met beforehand to explain in parliament. Her armies eel fleet can make no movements, nor even peepers for any, without their being publicly announced in albs papers. No mistake, however trifling, can occur, no 1 coat or weakness exist,whioh is not at once denounced and *NS sometimes exaggerated with a kind of morbid satiefac ffiell. (Loud and continued cheering.) The Queen's am- Ilemadur can enter into no negotiations without the govern meat having to defend him by entering into all the Uri smuts which that negotiator, in order to be succestful, ought e• be able to shut up in the innermost rectums of his heart. (Loud cheers.) Nay, et the na , at critical position, when war and diplomatic relations may be at their height, an adverse vote in parliament may at a moment deprive the Queen of the whole of her confidential nts. Gentlemen, our constitutional government is undergoing a heavy trial, and we shall not get successfully through it unless the country will grant its confidence—patriotic, in telligent, and self-denying confidence—to her Majesty's government. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I propose to you te drink the health of Viscount Palmerston and her Majesty's Ministers. The tout was drunk with great cheering. Viscount PALNIUSTON replied—May it please your Royal Highness, my Lords, and Gentlemen: I beg, on the part of my colleagues and myself, to return to you our best and sincere thanks for the honour you have done us in drinking the toast which his Royal Highness has been kind enough to propose, and fur the lettering manner in which you have been kind enough to receive It. I can assure you that there is no roof under which that tout could be more agree able to our feelings than the roof under which we have now had the honour to have it proposed. We are assembled under the roof of a body whams duties are intimately con nected with those arrangements which form one of the most important elements of cur national wealth, and which also lay the foundation for one of the most important sources of our national etrongth. There is, indeed, • unity of operation between the government that may have to administer the affairs of this country and the body which hu done us the honour to receive us, which also tends to make that honour which has been conferred more agreeahle to us, for it is the function of the Trinity Corporation to provide pilots for those thousands of keels that plough the waves that wash our shore ; and, on the other hand, to erect thou lights which warn navigators from dangers which they would otherwise have to encounter, and which point out to them the havens where safety is to be obtained. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen, the duty of ministers is of a somewhat similar description. It is the duty of ministers to guide and to enlighten, and we well know, taking the example from yourselves, that, pro perly to guide, we must begin by enlightening. Gentle men, we are now entrusted with the command of the vessel of the state, and I am proud to say that that noble vessel was never in better " trim," was never better formed, never bad on board a more noble crew than at the present moment. It is full of men animated by the most exalted devotion to their duty, and determined to bear in the " battle and the breeze " with honour and safety that royal standard which floats nobly and gloriously over their heads. (Cheers.) We have certainly up to the present moment had storms and difficulties to encounter, but I am convinced that, with the assistance of that crew which I have men tioned, those difficulties and disasters will be ur smounted, I that by • " strong pull,a long pull, and a pull altogether," an shall be enabled to bring the vessel of the state safely through annendtanpecaohol: h(iterheeinnthae h u ar ie bo ro ur ra of h la ig o b n n o es ura s Lie b a t n e d u ptimaperma to say that a government, especially in such periods as the present, ought to receive the generous confidence and sup port of the nation. I am bound to say that we have thatre y ce eo po i u r v n u ed try us , and in s t :l e se course p o rt, u th r fle s h n o a o w n a n h u i r a c i m h b o w l an d ! e t f f et ee l lin P it g * o e o u r f r ou a teesvy, f r omto nation s the pursue, and we should indeed be unworthy of that support, we should be little deserving the high position in which it has pleased her Majesty to place us, and in which we are supported by the Confidence of the parliament and by the support of the whole British nation we should be un worthy of that oosfidenee and support if we were not de -1 termined to exert our bast energies, and to direct the towards whi w obtaining ear e e th n a g t ag v e i d e: bi:shtieheneelregniees „ofrs th b e e ce co :: n ar' s trYt is ct ten i t, I will not say with the 1 t h o o r n io o u ur s ra"ndultgloofryth, ° but with the safety of the British The allied troops on the Tohoneys front remain very much in the position they occupied on the 28th inst.—the day of the advance from the lines of Bela kleve. The Sardinians ere still on the extreme right, the Turks on the right, and the left wing,, stretching to the plateau of Beisetopol, is composed ' of French and Turks. Turks, too, slightly inter- 1 mixed with French troops, form • reserve is tee I rear. The French Cavalry hes advanced ep from the plain end taken up its position in the antra The Sardinian Lancers on the right are encamped in the rear of their contingent In the evening they advance to do picket duty against Tchorgoun-.4 task in which they are assisted by our own meshy, who, for that purpose, march up nightly from the lines of Belakkes. Though the position of the temp is the same in the mein, still there has been a geed duel of shifting and arranging of camps ; 1 end the het few days, though they were poor in snots, have not been idle. It seems to be General Canrobert's intention to bring bier' encampments into perfect line of battle, and to push the troops on the enemy from the positions they [ occupy on the hills commending the valley of the Tchernaya. There is also reason to believe that the next advance, whenever it shell be made, will be made with the assistance of British troops, for the Guards are under marching orders, and the Division are preparing to move from the post for @even long months, they have held io the Ilabos. topol front. Up to the present the 31st Regiment one represents the British infantry among the troops (PRAY THI COWSPONDINT OF THZ DAILY WIITIS.) that are to unlock the gates of the mountain fortress PARIS, TOZODAY EVININO. upon which we look down. There is no con fi rmation of the taking of the The Hamden lines, which the army under General W e k now is about to take, are very strong by nature. Melakhoff Tower, reported by the Vienna telegraph. IWe know mo ue of the Russian engineers to sup- There is a rumour to-day of Generals Morris, nos pose that they hen availed themselves of all the ad- quet, and Caorobert, having an era Liprandi vantages of the position on our extreme left at Inter- THE RUSSIAN SHIPPING AT SEBASTOPOL. and forced him to surrender. Rumours of this kind menu; 'the steep chalk rock rises at some distanceare sometimes the echoes of telegraphic despatches from thd Tchernsys, and appears almost as if me General Folksier's despatch of the 9th illustrates RUSSIA. ture, in a fit of military segineerinti, had what has been said of the manner in which the cap- which the government doe' not publish immediately taro of the Cereensfe Redoubts affects the Russian fashioned the rook for defence. It springs outward on the receipt of them, but they are mote often in shipping. The position in which these vessels have ST. PRIRIISBURG, Irma 2. in cavaliers, bats out in bastions, and runs backward ventions founded upon a speculation on probabilities. now sought shelter, Artillery Bey, opening from the The appalling intelligence of the sanguinary night in zig-sag lines. The ascent is like that of a slightly Great Harbour, and indenting the town of Sebastopol contests of the 22nd and 23rd of May, with the The Bourse was heavy to-day, the Moniteur not sloping wall; the tops ere fist, as if made into is the last refuge of - f ri ghtfully long lists of the killed—for the attack confirming the news of the taking of the Malakhoff plateaus he bringing guns into position. These are ri m '. whet remains of the was carried on with such embitterment by the French Tower, and Consols coming lower. The Rents fell ...ser's Black Sea fleet. The nearest French batteries the low, jutting hills on our extreme le ft —on our left that the far greater part of the Redeems were killed 20 e 691r . from which it is to be presumed that General Pelimit i r outright by the bayonet, and the number of wounded _., closing at 3dc. There was more firmness and centre the mountains recede, but are much eith er and quits es steep es thane on the extreme t. means to attack it are these of the left attack, near is, therefore, not worth speaking of—followed almost at the close than at the opening. The railways were end rem of the Cemetery, and opposite the Quarantine Bastion. immediately by the losses at Rates, Yenikale, all somewhat higher. lam informed that the Credit Agsinst our right, where the village I l Taiorgoun masks the defiles that lead into the Genitchi, and Soujoukkaleh, have not failed to make Waller has established a branch ofiloe at Vienna, interior, the range of mountains immediately opposed THE MEDITERRANEAN. a most painful impression here, end to cast a gloom and another at Amsterdam. This security rose 10fr. to a s, is lower, but higher moleskins in the rear OM- ----- over every countenance. The hitherto ineffectual to-day. itip this front rank, exactly as if our Guardsmen MALTA, Jews 7. attempts of the Allies to reduce Sebastopol had cre ws standing behind a line of Sardinian Rifles. The We continue busy with the arrival and departure and a general belief that that fortress was perfectly The ball at the Hotel de Ville last night was the R o w ans , at ri m e m ine ap p ear t o thi n k of transports, which are constantly on the move, some to impregnable. So it may be, in the way in which the most splendid ever seen even in that the meet fa that our chief mimic& will be made ' f rom one l e f t , the mat sad a few to the west. sine was hitherto conducted, but the evident change veered locality in the world fora vast public enter where increasable mountains are to be climbed and Oa email'. the &do the Hisssisla *frivol hem in the tactics of the besieging armies, end the first teinment of the kind. The suites of rooms have been batteries to be taken. AU this day they were busily ()Mater. with home , ac., sad , titer a few hem , Pro' successes so remarkable , have gone far to dissipate so often described that it would be tedious to dwell the illusion which prevailed here of the invincibility upon engsged to still more add to the advantages of their eewied to the Crimes. ci t g lar, lg the eyelet rifle-pis to command the Oa the 4th the Propeller arrived from Balaklan. She is of the Russian arms, and give way to the unpleasant their magnificence. The gnat novelty on this 'an the alteration in the square of Louis fords • cherusys. They seem to chide es, ot the railway establishment steamers, and through the sensation of distrust and uncertainty. - that an at Da tack upon their hit, the passing through kindness of the proprietors, Mr. Willies. tiptoe, his wife On the other hand, the appearance of the hostile XIV., which instead of being an open garden as the defiles, end crowning the heights of Taiorgrae, and hew', get a passage to England. His estate is near fleets off Cronstedt appears to cause no alarm, as the heretofore, was converted into an lamed's, reception requires a degree of pnerelship of which the allied ftbasl•Pol• general impression is that, should the ships attempt hall, richly carpeted, and covered with a rose-coloured armies,up to the present, haveaciven no evidence. We The Great Tassula is ben, sad, hiving leaded the an attack, they will only run into the face of com- canvas roof. The architect of the Hotel de Vi ll e has on the other hand rely upon morel Csnrobert and soldiers she brought out, she is sow embarking others, sad plate destrection, and experisies the most signal defeat, for the strength of the defences and the been at work for months past in effectuating this our own African brigediers to whom this mountain reeved. to-morrow to the seat of war. war is familiar; we look hopefully upon the nut On the 6th the Orisoce and Kangaroo steamers arrived, courage of the garrison admit of no doubt transformation, and without ente ri ng into the question numbers is o po t light troop that are at General Canto- having had a pleasant to oat, and with the Ems, an The peaceable end bloodless conquest of the exten- raised by some of the municipality, whether a hand bert's rl* ;we expect much of the Zoneves, three very large steamers, proceeded wit h reisforeenants sive territory to the north of the river Amax—s ter. some appendage to the municipal edifice has not bees much of our light diviston; and perhaps still more to the Crimea. ritory equal in sin to the whole area of Germany— deprived of its proper character by meretricious from the skill end agility of the Sardinian Rifles. Oa the same day the Etna towed the Uttar transport, is now of fi cially confirmed by the bkutric correspou- additions, the result for the special purposes of last Whenever these troops advance from their present N. 200, to Genes. The Asides arrived from the Esse. dent of the Northern Bee, end is considered as an n' ht's hes festival was highly successful. The company position, it is hoped that the burden of the attack Among the diens landed hers by the Great Tasmania, event of gnat importance for the future • f o r , though "D " • though pa ssed through this newly made salon as they so- -1 will rest epos 'Monona. to remain with the depot of the Edo, is Lord Alexander at the present moment there mots only one solitary and many waited fora full hour before mount will rest the new MDT is a subject of intense Russell; and the Mon. Captain Pillow, who has been some " winter house," there are two most excellent bar- rived, interest to the old one. Horsemen and foot pewee, time hers, proceeds to joie the Rifles. boun capable of becoming, when fortified, what rug the staircase leading to the ball-rooms, to enjoy gels from the heights of Sebastopol crowded the plain The d etac h m ent, m a ti n ee& Isere are mastantly dri ll ed, Sebtatopol is now in the Black Sea with nfennor to the fragrance of the fi g to which apparently yesterday sad today for a holiday at Whitsuntide. and rapid l y formed into soldiers knowing somethiag of their Turkey, as it will give Russia the command of the gnu out of the soft carpets, with which they vied MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE And surely nothing can be more acceptable at this deg ; and the plane • Noes to agree well with thew They are Bee of Japan , end open the door for the aggressive curiously in colour, and to breathe the air cooled by season of the year than an extent of territor¢, tad principally kept in the forts, aces little distance from the spirit of the Muscovites to Oaths quarrel with, and plashing fountains- This drswing:room rden fw this oompaay's railways (exclusive of the South Junction such terri --strewed with flowers, travelled over e i tf . wh e l k k eeps t a m , goo d d ee d out of g eee pseteee. finally subjugate, the net empire of Japan, and pole visited repeatedly by the company in the co ur se o t he neleivey.—Tbe working expenses and other ouvoinge of stated below) la the fortnight endingJ_une 3, have amounted by dole:4m , laden with odours, sugroting sibly Chins. at th tate of 65 37pe r cent. the wed evening. Although,lbelieve,all these preparstionshad to 11,4161. 41. 10d., or s oci fresh idea, offering fresh views, sod e t. ‘ :; r id l inar out 681 e b, ltd so hors of a speed y liberation toms , this and MONTINSOaO.—A letter from Cettine (Monte- emphatically be celled a policy of the future. Though fortnights have already been stated at . 102, It cannot be denied that the policy of Rusk may been made immediately with a view to the reception usela for the fortnight. The expenses for the ten previous of the Lord Mayor at tb.e Universal Exhibition fries, fetid gaol on Sebastopol heights. The te in the rime of the 29th May, fa the Assefriets (Matte, says : she has both her eyes attentively turned towards his lordship kept in eta backgrond last night, the li if is is 113 9971. all. 9d ,or at the rate of 66.22 p• • the •h . The rating Pr ime and princess of th " " tutu ' i g " Europe , and watches narrowly the march of events of Portugal bele it the honoured guest of the evening. mile,: trails in the whole period. 3' 4 r cen t . on front are now again Plan a " of the '' th rts ig____. tat week with tin principal dignitaries of the country and . ,. .- the .__ - that th e total for the int eleven fortnights of A.._ salt year • proportion of the the plain to B vs--en easy and Pasant relel• :he senate to Rieks•Conoric, where Geyer,' wee i n em , every f country B . OS= --an nothing escapes oven- His juvenile Mr, jesty one ct, sonthyJunetion and Aluincham . me ' jos secretes. . , ......: from which they were shut oat ever Niece tile 25th were aseembled, %haat° my. di_ Sow.* who had lest year 0 her we -pill-die° October last. In short, evetyhody.lerill. 8.. So. , malag a * cal foe the first eleven f tni hts with eakettend to fight ggettget the Teaks. The Prince passed turns with a keen glance to the east, as a fruitful procassie;o throuih the rooms, bet he went sway of the half year of 7. , ..,. 124 while the e r g meth genets—yet she Princess Met:tilde and then walked at the head of a company ice the fern . ight , eno .ag Jun . 3 his amount :• d to rweepteini, booms e very obs. hop4 ll C lie tte taw" islagratia4a mristalotigdOs.M.wwkeeittt,o,..ll cane, w hi chn,, field for the future, employment of her military Items very 'early. QueeuChristins was the most oonsPiead other outgoisr, be t" 3 ,a toe action has et length arrived. • vete i .JUS of '''''''-. - had p diplomatic talent in extendini her cr the great personeges present. to ' w a tt with Terkey. Th ree 2 She sat on a of May ; they amount te The Sea front has been remarkably tranquil, p a pa e g m i me s ree f e d th e p e w ee .his h e ' ,m ew ed, ."w realiaia_, 'd the unrelaxed diem o the thrs—the throne chair in the grand ball-room, surrounded by 4,026 i. Is. 2d. :or As eleven fortnights ending June 3, or at 1 3,6631. 16s. I ld. cep to ll l4 ggiii , al. (I •fr w t il 4101'1111Z and With the Weems of Saturday morning, Defer, Gay- the troops, smiths emote, tersaincese , " ' Posseemr:e of the whole wee% her daughters end the ladies of her suite, and looke4 the Ws of 41.90 pc mot tion at the present moment is peculiarly interesting ea a sign of the severe immure under which the power of Russia is visibly collapsing. The following is an extract from a private letter : Before Sebastopol, May 29. We have just returned from llertch, and were saluted by 21 guns on our arrival here. The Russians destroyed a great deal of powder, and burnt an im mense quasfity of coals. We leave to-morrow for Anspa. The shops were all open in Kutch when we went in, and the ladies walking about. This has given us all good spirits. Out batteries are nearly all finished: they are much nearer the city than before, well armed, and we expect to open fire on Thursday, and I feel sure we shall do a great deal of execution. FRANCE. nation. The noble lord resumed his seat amid much cheering. r a getle " ve i n f "th orugg f hta ll e s it Y clin the ig ;111otr to of her military Test iery ; Gr ip Queewmalutme , ...•n---.-• MURK oars. v.. ay* •••o •—o • eidlo her sars--the ev throne uechf the ingreether greerauedegesballi)-reseroomu,L2rohueneededt e t; 3 4, 6631 055 i her daughters and the ladies; of her suite, and looke4 the no of 1.90 pig , ,~ THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY VENOM, ME 13, 1855. break, when the Neraiene for some hours kept up a tremendous ceenee♦nie ea all parts of our lines, and those of the French. Of course, all the gene we had le working order unaware& It was a geaeral bom bardment from fisherman's to Kamissoh. but I cannot Isere that it did nig* extention on ruiner tide. grwatet activity in placing and repairing still pm ' vads in our trenches, and It is confidently sitheed that all preparations are to be completed to-marrow, and that the third bombardment of Sebastopol is to eseemenee on Wednesday morning. If so, it will' meet likely take place at one and the earns time with the battle of Tohorgoun. Apropos of Tchorgoun, I understand that when we occupied the village for a short time on Friday last, the French got possession of the Russian mail bags that had just arrived, with numbers of letters for officers and some few for soldiers. The bags were taken to the French headquarters, where, no doubt, the letters have been opened. Theirooutents, if interesting, are likely to transpire, and everybody looks with great interest to the revelations of the intercepted Muscovite letters. The glorious news from Kertch reached the camp first in the shape of two rumours. One was that we had token the town and fifty guns, without the lose of • single man. The other, that the allied forces had been hotly engaged, that they took the town at the cost of 2,000 casualties, and that Sir Geo. Brown wee among lithe killed. Yesterday the authentic news of the taking of Kertch and the complete result of the expedition was pub lished in general orders and read to the troops on parade. They received the announcement with enthusiastic cheers. The details which I have been able to collect are the following :—The expedition entered the Straits early in the morning of Thurs day, the 24th instant, and on the voyage and while entering, they captured seven merchantmen and one gunboat. They attacked the forts that guarded the entrance, and the Russians, finding their position un tenable, blew them up and retreated. Proceeding further the allied fleets landed their troops near the town of Kertch, and the forces prepared to attack the town both by land and by sea However, it did see come to an attack, for the garrison, consisting of 1.1100 men, sprung the mines of the fortifications, bunt the stores of grain and some of the public buildings, and retreated under cover of night. On the following morning Sir G. Brown took possession ef the place, and took all necessary measures tee the protection of the inhabitants. The winging the mines appears to have been done in a very slovenly manner, for the Allies found fifty guns in position in the various bat teries, and they also took possession of a foundry for dissenting of Mini& balls. Among the spoils made at Kertch are said to be a large quantity of coals, to the valise of 20,0001., which were, of course, appro- priated teethe use of the Allied fleets. 'should also any that before landing at Kertch, a steamer, with a eaiNag vessel in tow, was observed to leave the port. It is generally supposed that the public treasury was earried of in these vessels. Sir George Brown has at once commenced en trenching himself at Kertoh. Admirals Lyons and Brag have left the port on an expedition against Anaps, and Captain Lyons, with the steamers, pro seeded to sweep the Sea of Azoff, with the ulterior object, it is supposed, of attacking Arabat. In Kertch were found official letters from Se bastopol, containing accounts of the miserable audition of the place, and the prevalence of disease. I repeat this, though it may be a mere rumour ; for sorely up to the resent, we have not discovered any signs of distress in the town. The Russians make it a war to the knife in more than one respect. At all events it is a remarkable fact that, for many weeks =Thaw) made no prisoners during their frequent against our trenches. The weather is most favourable to the carrying on of military operations. The late heats are now tem pered by cooling breezes, and on Sunday we bad as violent a thunder-storm and as heavy a rain as the lovers of green forage and good water can desire. The nights are cool and tranquil—the season of violent gales appears to be over. Few ever doubted the final taking of Sebastopol; but now even the most =optical are gaining confidence. Sickness decreased as the heat moderated. The allied armies may safely be pronounced to be ex tremely healthy, and a change of air and the excite ment of active operations ate likely to keep them so. The fisedieiens, who are extremely stele*, and who, abusers yet to the various uniforms of the armies, an full of suspicions, stopped and almost arrested • couple of Guards officers, who on Saturday last rods up to examine the new position. This morning they arrested two navvies who had been found strolling near the Sardinian lines. Our new allies were posi tive these navvies must be Russian spies. Picture the indignation of the men in red jackets and linen tro sera at those foreigners mistakieg them for Roommate and spies. " They be Roossians ! No, not they— they'd scorn the traction." In spite of their protests, they were marched to Lord Raglan's headquarters, and handed over to our military , authorities, who, of course, set them free. On the I other hand, I should not wonder if the very admir able uniform of the Sardinian line regiments did not lead to awkward mistakes—at a distance they -s so much like the Russians! THE BALTIC FLEET• sigma or TVI .0•ILT naves.) OFF CRONSTADZ' / 1 " 11 We are MOW 11* six miles from Cronstas:.t.* and We draws aline of ships from the Ingsrmsnlcad lamb Shit etWiborg, covering near If idles in hog* sea ship being two cables' length apart. It Is a bdiutiful sight, and nothing can pass in or out. About 1 mile from us is the Tol-boukin light house, and the forts, as well as the fleet, are pliunly visible from our deck. I have twice been within 3,000 yards of the place. It is highly animating and exciting to be so near the enemy's gnus. Pity it is that we have u yet only seven gunboats out here, and but a small prospect of more for some time ; no, mention even of a floating battery. This is too bad, as wears losing much precious time and fine months for operations, and the tepee of a few week' more may bring on infectious diseases like last summer. I am convinced that if we had the requisite gunboats we should still surprise the world in this quarter, and inflict a severe loss on the enemy. Small-pox still in the ship. We have sixty to se venty cases—six officers. We have destroyed 40026 twenty different coasting vessels within the last three weeks. (FROM Tull OFF CRONSTADT, Jaws 4. After the last Dantzig mail started, the different ships of the fleet supplied themselves with wood from the wood vessels that were captured, and after wards burnt them, which illumined the surrounding senstry ; the more valuable prizes taken by the Magi- Girona in Biorkasund, laden with flour, were sup plied with prize crews from the fleet and towed by flu vulture to Faro Band. May 30. The Merlin and Magicienne recalled from IBiorka ; Cossack and Esk arrived from their cruising ground between Hango and Dsgo under canvas, but only anchored for a short time, when they again started for their old ground. May 31, 10 a.m.—Fleet weighed, and at 2 p.m. anchored across the gulf, about a mile outside the Tol-boakin lighthouse, in regular distance, making a most formidable line of both defence and defiance. The admiral lost no time in proceeding to reoon noitre, and the Merlin conveyed the admiral, accompanied by the frigate., to Tol-boukin lighthouse, the famous spot where Admiral Chads descried the actual granite block' of the Risbank only a distance of six miles. What ever notions the present admirals come to, in their sight-seeing, their conclusions are kept within them selves. They then proceeded to the Risbank, and remained pretty close till dusk. June I.—The admirals again visited the north side of Croustadt, accompanied only by Dragon, an choring for a short time some two miles from the Man-of-War Harbour, and taking a carefal view of the northern side. Numerous new batteries had been erected, and they appeared to be alive with troops. A line of six frigates and four line-of-battle ships, un rigged, extended in line from the Man-of-War Harbour to the Nisi-Nose Tower on the main land side. Four ships of the line are o taunt o' in the harbour, and all the others with only their lower mots. Returned at 3 p.m. to the fleet, when the French admiral was just arriving with three screw ships of the line and one corvette. The usual cour tesies immediately took place, and the French admi ral called upon the English commander in chief, and was saluted on reception and departure. The Bul- Jog arrived late in the evening with two colliers in tow. June 2.—Admiral Dundee returned the visit this morning of the French admiral, and was saluted. They then, at 11 a.m., all embarked, together with several captains of the fleet, in the Merlin, accompanied as yesterday by the Dragon as a guard. The north side was the place reviewed, and both ships anchored in a similar position to yesterday, and boats were despatched surveying, and continued at it for several home, being quite near enough, both to the line of ships and the batteries on shore, to have been molested, had the Reagens been that way inclined, who, how ever, in large groups, viewed the cool way in which we were informing ourselves of their sacred harbour. Their ships were all co vered with flags, indicating some gala day, or perhaps some one—maybe the Emperor himself — had come down to have a look at the British fleet in his waters. Risbank was again visited ; they west three miles from it by dusk, and the day's recon noitering was finished. Now, under all the circum stances, when daylight continues for nearly 24 hours and the weather is fine, that the gun-boats should make their appearance in such a dribbling manner, and that the batteries that have cost so much should not have as yet entered the Baltic, when so much stress was laid upon their want last year—and no doubt they are the very thing—is very odd. When they do come, very green in every thing, and like all other new ship s and new crews requiring to! be subjected to drill and exercise, the season will be far advanced, days shortening, and dirty wen Cher upon us; and the gunboats and the batteries' will have to return. The country might have been spared so much money. Our third admiral has not arrived, nor is there indeed any news of him. The Oulf of Bothnia appears forgotten. However, this is the spot to deal with—eo near to their capital, and aer- i tainly more accessible than gumbo% ' • and while every shot would tell its tale on their batteries, in silencing their guns, its effect would reverberate , through the council chamber of St. Petersburg, and do good by shaking their firmness of purpose tkere.l We &reedit in hopes of something being dem Wel have made a straight course, with a few stoppages, to this locality, and it is to be hoped shall not quit it without leaving our mark. This morning the fleet shifted position, more in-shore traffic having been discovered going on. Four vessels pseud yesterday. The Dantzio mail has not arrived. The Pylades and three gunboats have just arrived, 10 p.m. illt OF lve wo• it NI. tie is to ell- MIS ail