The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-05 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. CP/011 THE SPECIAL maws.) CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, MAT 22. Before this reaches England, news will in all probability have been received by telegraph, not only that an expedition has sailed from the ports of the Allies in the Crimea, but also of its successful issue. Arrangements have been made for the embarka tion of the troops this day, and the force will most probably leave early to-morrow. Its destinatiou is ultimately Kertcb, bet at what precise part of the peninsula of Kertch the landing is to be effected is not known ; kis generally believed that it will take place on the shore of the bay a little south of the projecting cape called Cape Akburun. The depth of water in this part of the Strait is said to be favour able for the close approach of vessels to sweep the land with their : guns in case of opposition being offered to the disembarkation of the troops, while a landing once effected, the march upon Kertch would not be attended with much difficulty. There are seve ral batteries mounted on the high ground of the Cape commanding the approach to Kertcb by the regular channeL Plans of these works were obtained previous , to the starting of the former expedition, and it is un derstood that the additions made to these and other defences nearer to Kedah, have not since been of much importance. Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown goes, as before, in command of the expedition, and his well known daring and bravery will, no doubt, carry it to a speedy and successful result. The Highland =le, two regiments of Light Cavalry, three com et Sappers, and Major Barker. battery of artillery, are named as the British force to be em bodied. Some of the regiments lately arrived from Coda and elsewhere expected to join the force, but bad not received orders to that effect yesterday morning. It is reported that the general made a great effort to take his own division, but that he encoun tered insuperable difficulties in the attempt from not being able to obtain substitutes to take the siege duties in its stead. It has caused a great deal of disappoint ment, for all would have been delighted to have exchanged the monotonous occupation of the trenches foe more active service in the field. Part of the French force embarked yesterday, and the remainder are going on board today at Kamiesch. It is asserted that on the last occasion one battery of French artil lery and one battalion of infantry fewer were sent than the strength which Sir George Brown had been led to expect was to join in the undertaking. The achievement of gaining possession of Kerb* will be ajmost important movement toward the re duction of the whole peninsula of the Crimea. The communication with the Isle of Taman, through which there is now no doubt that the Russians have obtained a vast quantity of military stores, will be destroyed, and a stoppage to the supplies of grain and provisions from the shores of the Sell of Azoff must shortly follow. A considerable fleet of mer. chant vessels is said to be now lying in the harbour of Kertcb. The undertaking against Kertch will not be a soli tary movement. Associated with it, it is understood, will be a descent into the plain of Balaklava by a force of cavalry and other troops, which will not un likely lead to the possession of a portion of the Tchernaya, near Tehorguna, if not to a farther ad- 1 vance towards the Inkermann heights. The camp& tion of a part of the river Tcbernaya is rendered more imperatively necessary, because already diffi culty is experienced in supplying the immense num ber of troops and horses now encamped in the plateau with water; and, should the dry season continue, as is expected, for two months longer, the springs will have become totally inadequate to meet the demand spin them. The day atter to-morrow (May 24) is said to be the day fixed for themovement into the The Ottoman force which embarked at Kamiesch a few days since suddenly returned yesterday morn ing. They have this day pitched their camp along the side of the hills toward Balaklava, in a conspi cuous position over the plain of Balaklava. Their departure, which must have been witnessed by the enemy, may have caused a diversion by drawing off part of the force on the north heights in a direction towards Eupatoria, in the expectation of Omer Pacha making a movement from that position. Rumours have been prevailing that the batteries would re-open their fire to-morrow. Should this prove to be the case, then the bombardment will be again commenced with several works in an unfinished state. But, without taking . theee into account, no less than twelve batteries in our left attack, and fifteen batteries in our right attack, armed with guns sad mortars of the heaviest metal and largest calibre, are prepared to operate against the enemy's defences. These batteries at present comprise one hundred and thirty guns, none less than 32-pounders, and thirty &smarter', many of which are 13-inch, in the two .attacks. Moreover, they are so much advanced that what were the advanced works, may now be regarded almost as the first parallel, for the new lines of batte ries are beta few yards in rear of them. Whenever it opens, the fire of this third bombardment will as lunch exceed that of the second, both in weight and destructive force, as the second exceeded that of the first. Already 200 rounds have been brought up . foe each gun, and the ground about the railway terminus which is fast approaching the front, and the gun wharf at Balaklava, are strewed with heaps of shot and shell, ready to be transported to their place of Aestination. We have been taken by surprise at the annonne ment of General Canrobert hiving ceased to hold the supreme command of the French army ; and the more, that having resigned it into the hands of General Folksier, he should have accepted the subordinate post which was thus rendered vacant. The on dit Is that the resignation was a voluntary act on the part of General Canrobert, and that sumach as General Folksier is his senior in the service, there is nothing derogatory in the change of position. General Pastier, since his arrival from Africa, has had the command of the let corps of the French army, that engaged in all the operations on the left. But in spite of the assertion that the resignation was a voluntary act, every one believes that the Emperor Napoleon's will was exerted in the matter, and by many it is supposed that the misunderstand ling which led to the return of the last Kertch expe dition was one of the causes to which General Can robert's fall is attributable. Those only can judge correctly of the capacity of the late General-in-Chief for properly conducting his weighty charge who know what his instructions and powers were, and what difficulties he had to contend with : but no one who has been with the allied army since he assumed the command of the French force, can do otherwise then bear testimony to his gallant courage and esneteat activity in the fiekl. His fearlessness sad presence of mind were much noticed at the battle of Inkermann. It is said that he wee offered by the Emperor • high command in Africa, but that the reply was that he would rather seasin with the army in the Crimea, even if he wore the uniform of no higher grade than that of a pri ests There have been scarcely any change in the rela tive position of the Russian walks and the works of the centre attack the last few days. During the sight between the 18th and 19th instant, the enemy beseght out a very large working party, and suc ended in connecting the rifle pits in front of the xig sei and boyars prolonged from our advanced work on Frenchman's-hill, and forming them into one con , daimons trench communicating with their other trenches in war. It was well known that they were working in As neighbourhood, for the sound of their pick axes and spades was plainly audible, but no inter ruption to the work was offered. The artillery officers is the batteries were applied to for some fireballs ore lIIIIMINI to be thrown in the direction of the Rus sia looddis pram but none were need. If the aim d Os assay's operations could have been 1.11611111 visible is some have =Wiles, • well-di vested awsketii Ire mighostaioned consider able ht nth to them. It is muted, but with what tenth I am net aware, that we have scerosly useful articles in Tumults. We also On the Mamelon Vcrt hill the enemy are throwing up some additional works. They have had for ten days or more a very deep trench with parapet, ex tending from the left of the Kamtschatka redoubt (our right) across the hill toward the Careening-bay ravine. At the upper part of this trench, not far from the point where it is connected with the fosse of the redoubt, a battery has been constructed, and already five guns are mounted, which will bear on the French approaches in front. This work is being extended. They have also brought some small mor tars into a part of the rifle trench near the French parallel to reply to others which had been previously brought down by the French to their advanced work. The covered ways in the Mamelon now form a net work of trenches. There has been very little firing, during the last two or three nights, opposite to our centre attack. The enemy bee been quiet, apparently from a desire not to bring down any interruption to the works of counter-approach which they have been executing near our trenches. There has been a good deal of signalling both along the hills and from the north to the south side of the harbour. About 1 a.m. on the 120th inst. three lights were twisted at the mast-beads of a three-decker, and retained there for upwards of an hour. A small steamer was also observed by its lights to be frequently traversing the harbour during the greater part of the night. On the left the fire has been more continuous, cad the enemy have been frequently discharging carcase lights, as if in anticipation of an assault in that direction. Oa the right the fire has been kept up with considerable constancy both from the Russian batteries about Inkerinann and the batteries on the east and west sides of Careening Bay. The last constructed redoubt on the east side (the third redoubt) has been very active in its fire, while the most advanced has been noticed to be very slack for a week past. The French are continuing to sap up, notwithstanding the fire to which they are exposed. It is said that a battery of immense strength has just been discovered within the town, and that it is within range of the ships, which will be able to throw shells against the work from a position in which they themselves will not be exposed to much danger. A Russian exhibited remarkable coolness in the per formance of a very daring, and, as far as could be understood, unnecessary act, about 11 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, the 19th instant. The man alluded to walked out of a trench on the aide of the Diamelon Vert, running nearly parallel with the ravine between the Mamelon and Frenchmait's-hill. He was completely enveloped in a white covering, of linen or some such material, his head being wrapped round with it as well as his body. The object : seemed to be to render himself as conspicuous as L possible, for as the sun was shining with a strong glare at the time, the contrast with the grass and L dark ground was very marked. The upper part of . his body was first seen, but as he walked coolly on , to the open ground he became fully exposed to , view. When first observed he could not have been more than five hundred yards from the boyars at the right of the advanced works, towards which his back wee turned ; but the men in this trench did not seemingly perceive him, as they did not fire. A party of men and officers, however, about two hundred yards further off along the advanced work saw him at once, and discharged altogether about thirty shots at him from their Minies. The first few bullets fell short, but the range being altered, the remainder were observed to kick up the dust on all sides of him. The white gentleman of the Mamelon took no notice, beyond looking round twice ; he neither hastened his pace, bent his body, nor in any way evinced a desire to elude the leaden messengers which were sent to arrest his progress. Six or seven minutes elapsed before he was again under shelter of the works. As there was a covered way at no great distance, along which he could have passed in safety, this extraordi nary exposure was manifestly voluntary, or, if forced, must have been as a punishment. Perhaps it was done for a wager We have had less iatense heat during the last two days. Cases of cholera have continued, bat they have been generally " sporadic "in character. A few cases have occurred among the Sardinians, and one or two have appeared in the Highland brigade. In one instance six mule drivers from the same hut were attacked by the disease, and taken to the general hospital at Balaklava. The regiments of cavalry have remained without a case. There has been a diminution in the number of fresh cases in front, but Major Norton, the senior major of the Connaught Hangers, has fallen a victim to the disease. He waa attacked in the course of Saturday, the 19th inst., and died early in the morning of the following day. Although senior major of the regiment, he had I only been promoted from having charge of a company since December last. He had served throughout the whole campaign, and appears to have been as much respected as an officer as he was admired as a friend by all who knew him. A large concourse of officers attended his funeral. It will be satisfactory to the world-wide circle of admirers of the heroic and devoted Miss Nightingale to learn that, though much weakened by her attack of fever, she is reported to be progressing favourably towards recovery. Miss Nightingale remains at the convalescent hospital above Balaklava, where, it need hardly be said, she receives every care that kind and considerate attention can bestow. TO TDB 101707 07 771 DAILY NEWS. re isi il mai ibs nod km 1 104 for one, cannot read the article in your *nal of this morning upon the perilous condition to which many of oar brave men in the But expos* themselves by the ohms of spirituous drinks, without a more demon-, Motive expression of thanks than the emotion which your fearless sad ezeelleat remarks called forth. Oa the ground which you take, I cannot more to enter farther than to add that the prevalence of such intemperance in our army, having long pressed heavily on the hearts of many deeply interested, has also been mesa to owe its existence to ea wailer origin than the present exposure of our soldiers to a hot alienate, or the events of war. The shame in many cases begins where, in all cases, civilisation demands that it should end. Now is the man made a soldier ? It would appear, by whet is *nested, that to enlist men for OW army wording to Tyros, it is either necessary that each man or boy should be made regimentally tato:Jested, or that the recruit is taught to outsider it his first privilege to be so—all ander the eye of • well-seasoned recruiting sergeant, who is gravely to look on and watch the workings of that spell which, we are thee told, is the only owe by which military rage in Instead is brought oat. If that were the cue, what ea argument for Mr. Bright. But the truth is, it is practised, and it messeds enly because drunkenness is Eng lead's trail eestom, aad men forget that it is England's astir vice, the seed of meet of Emgland's heaviest crimes. The painful manes witnessed at recruiting stations tell tie tale why " ping foe • soldier" breaks the hearts, with each bitter sorrow, of mothers, sisters, sad lovers, sad why it is synonymous In their minds with reckless eanerjastead of, as it should be, with ea entrance on ea honoareble pro. Session, leading to reformation of character where needed, and to a wider Geld of action and advancement in life for all. The Wier of this present war are, we hope lad be lieve, wading to many high results; and the re of Florence Nightingale may marl a period is MOW% history Doped heroic woman's devotion far as So a pooplo's osii-meaod dignity, which can own no (allowably widedught so degrading to humanity as drunkenness.—l am, ha, Juno 2 A SOLDIER'S FRIEND. :W ee op W. DI AZ EIJAL/ eabl1111107:Trald the ' rreepsiiiisa - Webs and desponding 'Liberals to rimy aaa. - to be tbe Miss Arabella Goddard, who hr been giving core- hi Ty -of theme un to . „ t id e , i n pomm i es w - t a urinal v . Eteui L e i as sa bea, be erase *at Ws both ell" nen r ; rsila wma ,L l i i om es diedb mamma ijighs be da The °lllY gth gccdn of thflai . berals °luls a i n ie d COhhill Th ' • et TAW* with t km lett for Venice. in "this attack have thrown op a line of t;ench 9 aboot wr:t7edllay- Em P irewn - , wes rm the sending of a nonciier PlEhmorr —The Convents Bill has received the rec to Mr; bisralbasiretsi s T A& thiiiiiw s seithe *die lbw s e wee well brought out. The aggregate number M. Roger, the tenor, bee . received very liberal forty yards in front of the li ne of oar advanced work, - if troops a cti on ac and Ikon: R ob komEr ee th l r d s h cotr e Royal m „ , M a has thus became the law oft in s % act / 81.1 46° esilla se voters is within 1 000 of the nominal amount of offers of as easettencent from Anesies. Sens 9,0001. but not far forward al the extritatty of oar apag to effmt a jonctionzorteis the blob Wig the plan con Ti ggi vu'° r otasori the 1'411" ungwiniwil ...dire II" ma e" ullb 1111 . se..emenee Wilke oral meow', or bourn araty. tether , w - a aes . ktba et ks. sonims. argletered Totem, which is always greatly in emus rig mistios•di • • ow--- Mar, boar.) Mash referees' habeas mad* to Austria— am power which was always Toady to negotiate while it Imitated to oat. The time had Per emu for considering w h a t was the neat positi n we could hold with reference to t hat power ; and be earnestly entreated the house to distin guish between the friendship of that country WI Itai (Her, hear.) If they wished to limit the MIMI within narrow booed', he thought they ought to assintaid family relations with Austria so long as she Mr Mined neutral, became they could sot injure that Mae without injuring the balance of power is humps. It wee easy to say that Amnia might be reduced to a fourth ralg power. but her answer ytouid be this—lf you go to war to preserve the Inhume of posit, remember that Austria Is as necessary as a sonatornoge to France, as Turkey is as a esaatarpoise to NUM. For these an d other reams he ma y Preserve blindly Milieu with Agana, bat be doubted the wisdom of that palsy whisk had so earnestly minted her alliance. Suppe" you bad attained that a lli a nce, what would you have pined ? He said " Batter leave Austria alone, bide your time, don't offend or irritste tier, and inevitable events will bring her to your side." Re thought that out attitude towards Austria had bora much too supplicating. (Hear.) He now came to the pro blem laid down by the right bon. member for Manchester — we were to cameo* this war, of what shape was the war te be? Was it to be of a large sad ecomprehesoive character, ultimately involving changes in the government, of Europe ? Be wanted them against raising Isoms which they might get be ibis to satisfy. (Hoar, hear.) He would not admit that th ere were no kepis of the restoration of ?Mod ; ha would not prejudge what might be gems with the Crimea when we got it ' • but Ins would aft smourago vertu language which it might nit one minister to use, and his ssocessor to appodiate. Woo and shame to the British statesman who should rains Pitons spinet their rulers, not foroseeisg that in throe ceastitotioaal changes to whseh their govern ments were subject, they might promise today that which their secession would withdraw to-morrow. (Hur, hear.) Those nations who hoped for democracy must not look to benign soldiers, or the votes of foreign popular mem bliss. They could not receive liberty as • boon or Mort it ea • right, except it wee signed at their owe Ranapitede and under the shadow their own oak. (Cheers.) Therefore, let them imam this wee to the object for which it had b een begun— the Miami./ and independence of Turkey, with such guaranties tor the tru.nre as statesmen might devise, and victory might enable us to Mania. (Hear, hear.) That ramorded, he was not going to ask what new former was gibe attached ; that was no affair of the House of Com mons. Matters of strategy must be settled by the allied uhinetr, and in councils of war. That house could judge only of results ; and although the end of the war might be purely defensive, if they wanted to drive Howie tato tarsus they mast grap • with her wherever they could. (Cheers.) The no le lord the member for Lyn& bad said that there was nothing so impolitic as head. Willi a foe when you could not crush him, quoting lasehi avelli in support of his proposition. He warned his noble friend tamest the attempt to reduce the grand setae, of statesmanship to scholastic maxima. We could not, it wee true, crush Russia, as Russia. but we could crush her attempt to be anything more then Russia. (Hear, bear.) It might be mid that William of Orange could not have crashed Loris the Foartosath, or that the burgesses of the Netherlands aota sot crash the house of Austria—but William of Orange did mash Louis in upeonve action upon Hol and, and the burghers resisted success fully the hems of Austria. Is the same way, his 'obis laud might doped upon it, we could crush Russia in her attempts In Were our ancient ally. The right hoe. gentleman the member for Manchester had asked when, if the policy indinatth was followed oat, would the war end ? He (Sir B. Lynes) believed that if we were oaly in earnest in imyhig mud limited it to its legiti mate object', It thaldiatliit bag. la these days war was mosey, and it wei lingothbla he thy power to sustain a king war with a short pass. The pouniery mourners of Russia were already beamiag eahansted—ber trade was almost annihilated—while her recruiting system was being carried on is a way which, besides drain lag the country of its adult male population, braided • heavy loss upset the lords of the soil and incal culable misery and disemessat upon the people. In con clusion the hon. baronet expand a hope that when it should be asked what service the pins, gustation had perfumed, history would reply that it drew the sword to mthenthe weak against the strong, and that it had not skeet ed it until it had redeemed the pledge given to hamaity epos the faith of two Christian sovereigas, and Milleatod the cause of justice sad liberty. The LORD ADVOCATE thanked the hon. baronet not ealy for tb• clear exposing' be had given of his own views, bat also for having sucomfalty disposed of the argu ments of those who were the opponents of the government in the present debate. It had boss said that the country had drifted into war. He altogether disputed the accuracy of that statement. Never had • war been entered into by the people of this country with so mush deliberation. It was not • war of pinion—it was sot • war of dynasties—it was a war of jostles mid of necessity; and he did not believe the country would stop in its course until the object for which the war had been commenced had been Mimed. With regard to the origin of the war, when the right honourable member kr Manchester said that it wee owing to the tone of the prase and of the supposed impossibility of England and Fresco multiaxial* an alliance to resist Russian aggression, the right ham pm. thous conceded the point that the Emperor of Rath Mg ell along waiting for the opportunity to attack Tudil u bll interest we bad in defending Turkey was this:—That the sides of Turkey our own liberties were menaced. • had a plain and obvious danger to ward off, and the ques tion now to consider wee„ how beet we could place Turkey is such a position that the liberties of Europe should be secure for the future. It by no means followed, when the war was actually commenced, that the stogie gwo should be the condition of peace. The tight bosourable gentleman the member for Oxford had said that we ought not to raise our terms se the war went on ; bat the principle of altering the terms according to the altered state of circumstances consequent on the war was admitttd by Lord Aberdeen himself, who increased the terms upon which iris government were prepared to treat for peace as the war want on. The terms upon which poses might be negotiated on the one ride and on the other must always depend in • great measure upon the results of the war ; and the results atone military operations, even before the rectnt successes, were certainly not such as should in duce us to accept lower terms than those originally proposed, but the contrary. (Hear, hear.) The main demand was the limitation of the Rustier' preponderance in the Black Sea, as embodied in the third point. The only effectual mesas of carrying out that object was by the measures by the allies, for it was clear that if C c". e:ither 'proposition were adopted vie. that Turkey should have the right to call in t he limas of Franco and England, if she were menaced—in the event of Francs and England net being agreed, or either of those powers not being agreed with Turkey, there would be no protection for Turkey. Looking at the result of the debate, he did not think the Emperor of Ruda, or any power in Error, could now entertai n a doubt that the opi - Mon of the Home of Commons and of the country was that we had entered upon • war upon just grounds, and were determised not to relinquish it until the end we had in view was attained. (Hear.) Mr. COBDEN moved the adjournment of the debate. Lord PALMERSTON suggested that the present amend meat should be first disposed eL He preened that the amendment upon which the hos. member for the West Rid lag desired to express his sentiments was that of the hon. member for Oxford, and he would have the opportunity of doing that after the division upon the present amendment me taken. Mr. COBDEN begged the noble lord's pardon, but be Wished rather to speak upon the present amendment, which, as so two members were agreed upon it, he thought required further discussion. ILL DISRAELI observed that though there were several amendments oa the paper, the reed business the bow was discussing was w theme am helm them. Whether the Views& conferees's were to p ea or to elm sway, the home had to manier wbethor the omegas employed by the Mart Shape best inetheth pewee M sk e s rEurope, wee and of potting a Batt ei the - mu of Rasa& in the Black Sea. That was an imp remat questiou, and involved net rely the whole pithy of the government, but the moms by whisk the totem peace of Esser should be sulatithall. He thought that the hinge ought to take the egpartagihg el discussing the wing' with meth to the wpm magthr el patting an sad to the gregignionale of Ramis in the Math Sea. (Hour, hear.) lie hoed also to have the eggertanlty Of anatomic, the remedmi of the Iced Ad eithe. who maid to think there tree but use of ihrildas that preponderance. It was the any el Oa iteeo thOmmiate le enter fully into the dimension,' the wads& 'The thet part of the anundaseat of the hon. member hir ILthiminlas star really embraced the while sistgost, the ignesee big leather sad prowl's." lie Ithught, theatheina goverameat costa mot but aggisles la tho maths h an ea/most The debate wia then adjoaraod seta this day. NORTMAIN BILL. This bill was read a mead time. TENANTS' IMPROVEME(IRELAND)NTS COMPENSATION I BILL. Oa the order of the day kr going into committee on thth bill bola. read, Cohen DUNNE expressed • hope that Sib MONO meld act be prosemlad with until the assisimigh p.S pad to be latrodmed by the governmen Mr. t were la Ili edam ot members. HORSMANru se would the itheonntiati In tomtit/. gm's paper. He that 'be bora p Simaittes upon it on bum* NEL Kr. S. FITZGERALD to the =man Wag him ea Tharoday, u it wows ryes lig OM M asedkriai the amendments. Lard NAAS also objected to so early a day biegissell. tried PALMERSTON flied Thursday wink fi Ile hp the, esadderatioa of the aware. OHANTIS OF LAND BILL. This bill we road • mead time. ORDNANCE BOARD BILL. Oa the mines for the mead riaillog of this bill. Mr. STAFFORD thought the* • memo of nub as it di' DAIL! Mr. MONSELL was as emulous as hen. gentlemen Oppo site that the measure should rectum) a fell dismission. At the same time charges, having been already made by the cancellation of the letters patent under which the old Ord nance Board was constituted, and the functions of that body being transferred to one of her Majesty's Secretaries of State, it was very desirable that this bill should pass as speedily as possible. He bad therefore asked his noble friend at the head of the government to give him a day upon which the measure could be discussed, and he (Lord Pal menton) had promised to do to. He trusted, therefore, that the house would now read the bill a mead time, and take the discussion upon going into committee. (Cries of N o " ) Mr. iIACARTNEY objected to the second reading of a bill which was net yet in the heads of members. (Hear.) The second reading was postponed. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES BILL. This bill passed through committee pro forma. TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTON BILL: A di;cuseTo; — WON with Ilki&ItC117)at11 - (14 011/EiCh the adjourned deist* on this bill wu to be died, in the coons of which, 'the SOLICITOR•GENERAL stated that the Church Discipline Act would he introduced in she House of Lords usual of in this holm. NATIONAL GALLERY (DUBLIN) BILL. This bill paned tbrosgh committee. EDINBURGH LANDS BILL This bill erao7reii;thinitisne and passed. YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS ACT. Mr. ADDERLEY obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the Yontkial Offenders Act. EXCISE ACTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that he should this day move that the hoses go into ooze. mattes to consider the ',wise acts. . _ THE ADJOURNED WAR DEBATE. Lord PALMERSTON ezpreseed a hope that gentlemen who had notion on the paper for this evening would follow the example of Mr. Walpole, so as to allow the adjourned debate on as rosesation of the war to come on the first thing. 1 do home &disarmed at 20 minutes to 1. ebe exant#o. TO CORRESPONDENTS. hdowdstuente breaded for "The loproo," Loodoa Toledo' paw, nest be et the Odka, 11, Bouterte-etreet, by Two Ado& oa the day of pobUestka. HMI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taw DAT—ltoralag, 56. 11Ta Afternoon, Sk. 39•6 10-1101110W—Sicalng, 61. es iftarsesa. 61A. Um. LOhDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE EVACUATION BY THE' RUSSIANS OF SOUJAK KALI. WAR DEPARTMENT, Jinn 5, 10.30 A.x. Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the Editor of the Daily News, and has great pleasure n transmitting the enclosed intelligence which has this day reached him from Lord Raglan : .Itrxi 3. " News from Kertch of the 2nd instant. " Everything is going on satisfactorily. " Captain Moore had arrived from Circusia, with the intelligence that Soujak Kali was evacuated on the 28th May. The Russians had bout the prin cipal buildings, and abandoned sixty guns and six mortars, having first rendered them unserviceable." The Moniteur of this day (we learn by telegraph) announces that the Minister of War has received the following despatch from General Polisher : "CRIMEA, Jura 2, 10 P.M. " Advices received from Kutch, dated the 31st of May, announce that, on the refusal of the military authorities of Genitchi, situate on the northern extre mity of the tongue of land of Arabat, to give up the government stores and 90 wools laden with provi sions for the Russian army in the Crimea, the squad ron, under the orders of Captain Lyons, bombarded the place, drove out the troops, and destroyed all the stores. " The enemy has thus lost, in four day., an im mense quantity of provisions, four war steamers, and 240 vessels employed exclusively in provisioning the troops in the Crimea." RUSSL4-N ACCOUNTS. of the reality; and oily 233 fewer recorded their votes for Trre and WHATELEY on the present occasion than for PHINN and WHATELEY at the last election. Mr. TITE'S total fell short of Mr. PHINN'S by 111 votes ; Mr. WHATELEY'S of his own previous poll by 124. The half-hourly returns show that Mr. Tire took and kept the lead till half-past 10 ctn.; Mr. WHATELEY then shot ahead of him and remained first on the poll till 2 p.m. ; Mr. Tire after time that regained his majority and kept it till the close. This is a phenomenon we have often wit nessed in boas fide earnest electoral contests between the independent Liberals and Conservatives. The former, consisting principally of the substantial middle classes and the electors less favoured by for tune, are on the alert early in the morning and gain the advantage. As the day advances, the easy and genteel classes creep out and bring their dependents to the poll, and the Liberals drop behind. But soon after midday the " gentlemanly interest " has polled itself out, and if the Liberals are in earnest they re gain the lead and keep it. In the Bath election the real Liberals have put forth their strength under every disadvantage, and carried their candidate. Mr. TITE, though favourably known as a man of high talent and energy, has yet to win his spurs as a politician. Politics are in a great measure a new field for him. Hie career will be watched by the Liberals with hope, but not at first with implicit confidence. The Liberal electors of Bath have returned, not Mr. TITE, but the Admi nistrative Reformer. The old Highlaaders had a tupentition that in war the party which drew the first blood was sure to conquer in the fray. In the great struggle for Administrative Reform which is now commencing, the Administrative Reformers have drawn the first blood. We accept the omen.—Daily News. PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE ARMY. LORD HARDINGE has lately published an order, which will meet with the cordial approval of every well-wisher of the English Army. During the last few months more than one instance , of low practical joking , amongst military men has come before the pablis, and the officers mixed up in one at lent of thus &imputable affrays have now been punished in a manner that they will not soon forget. The MOO WO allude to is one which happened in the depot of the 30th Regiment, stationed at Fermoy, in Ireland; and the delinquents who have caused the COMIUNDIER-IN-CHlElell order to be issued are Ensigns SANDERS and NEVILLE of the , aforesaid corps. It is foreign to our purpose to enter again Into the details of the barrack disturbance, which was nisch ventilated in the month of March last; what we would now point out is the punishment which Lord HARDINGE has inflicted on these officers, and the very effectual manner in which it is calculated to stop anything like a repetition of such offences throughout the service. Hitherto there have been but two modes of punishing officers in the English Army, besides the more serious one of having recourse to courts-martial. Of these the first was making the offender sell out of the serviee, and thus—for, perhaps, some very trivial or boyish offence—ruining his prospects for life. The second was more unjust—and, certainly, equally in effectual as a means of reforming thole who had offended. It was to stop promotion in the Regi ment, and to fill up all vacancies from other Regiments or from half-pay. The injustice of this system lay in the fact that not only were the guilty punished, but all officers junior to them whether innocent or guilty—suffered equally with those who were in fault. So universal had these two methods of military chastisement for commissioned officers become in the Army, that they were almost regarded as roles of the service. When the Duke of WELLINO TON was Commander-in-Chief, no deviation what ever took place from these quasi regulations. Lord HARDINGE has, however, now broken through these aboard customs, and has established a precedent which will go far towards improving the dis cipline of the junior commissioned ranks in the English Army. Two Lieutenancies in the 30th Regiment became vacant a short time ago, upon which the Commander-in-Chief wrote to Lord SEATON, commanding the troops in Ireland, that in consequence of the misconduct of the two senior Ensigns—Messrs. SANDERS and NEVILLE—his Lord ship could not recommend either of these gentlemen to her MAJESTY for promotion to the higher grade; and that they must not expect or look for promotion until their conduct had been favourably reported upon by their superior officers for at least two successive quarters. His Lordship, however, adds, that "as it is not just that the other Ensigns of the corps, junior to these, should suffer for the misconduct of their seniors, the said juniors would 'successively pass over them' whenever vacant Lieutenancies may be filled up in the Regiment, till the period of probation laid down shall have expired." And, further, Lord HARDINGE ends his official letter or order, by stating that he is determined "to take this course in every similar cue that may not appear to require a still more severe punishment."—Daily Newt. —.— The following despatch has been published at St. Petersburg : J oxt 1. „ On the 27th ult. the enemy burnt, at Berdianaki, two houses, some coasting vessels, and a large depot of wheat. ” Oa the 29th, 17 of the enemy's vessels cannona ded Genitscherk, and burnt there some transports and some oorn upon the coast. Two of our pieces forced the enemy's longboats, from which the fire proceeded, to retire. " On the 30th, the enemy had not undertaken any thing new against Genitscherk.”--Daily News. END OF THE (ST SV)UL&II (191011 TU COSSISPONE DRINKING IN THE ARMY. OF TIES DOILY NINOL) VIENNA, MONDAY. A final sitting of the Conference was held to-day, sad the negotiations have been formally terminated. RUSSIA. Prince Oortchakoff reports by telegraph that on the 26th his outpost' were in possession of the right bank of the Tchernaya.—Daily News. THE BATH ELECTION. Ton election for Bath is the first in which a can didate has rested his claims to electoral support on Me being an Administrative Reformer. Mr. WRATH /1M it is true, professed to be friendly to the caws hinigstrestive Reform, bat not till after Mr. TITZ hid heisribed that device on his banners. And Mr. WHATTLY kept puling about not making Adminis trative Mann " a party question r which means not urging it in a manner and at times that might incon venience his Mend Lord MOIST. The Adminis trative Reformer hes only carried the day after a close contest, but he was placed miff peat dis advantages. Government had played theism of the Tory candidate by sending down as their miss a man whom no sincere Liberal said son f. Is much time was lost in consumes*, *se as pew dotal politician of recognised standing as die Lbw ral side would risk a contest. At the lAA heir the Administrative Reformer called upon ths Alusganised and desponding 'Liberals to rally around him; and THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1855. GENERAL CANROBERT. A respectful tribute to this gallant soldier is paid by the special correspondent whose letter from the camp above Sebastopol we publish to-day. Another of our special correspondents in the allied camp apelike of the general in still warmer terms ; "If General Canrobert does indeed return to France, hie departure will cause much regret, and quite as much in our own army as among the forces under hie command. It is true his career in the Crimea has, to a certain extent, damaged the cha racter he had established in his African campaigns. It was expected he would be a fire-eater.' Our personal experience of him makes him fellow consul to Fabius Cunctator. It is impossible to penetrate — it were impertinent even to guess at—the sacred mysteries of the councils of war. Who ruled, and who submitted to the course which has been pur sued, is a matter for future history, and time will furnish the materials for the judgment which now it would be rash to pronounce; but those who have watched General Canrobert during the anxious months of our Crimean trials will always think of him with feelings of gratitude and admiration. We can never forget the time when his eye and his hand were on all points of our amp; when he and his cortege of general officers by their daily rides almost traced out the lines which it behoved us to occupy; when his superior soldiership supplied him with resources for our assistance, which all the wealth et Great Britain could not supply for us at the time ; when hie transport took down our sick, and his men took up our shot ; when his regiments turned out to fake the very roads that connected our lines with our depot, and when all eyes in the camp were turned to the French commander, not as our general, but as ear preserver. These are matters which none but the bus and ungrateful can ever forget, and even their oblivion is a pretence." In justice to a brave soldier and good man, we pub lish these expressions of what Englishmen who have seen him in the field, acting along with our troops, think of him. Our Paris correspondent has trans mitted to as an abstract of a private letter, relating what is believed by well-informed officers of high rank in the French army respecting the circum stances under which General Canrobert tendered his resignation of the chief command in the Crimea : I " am permitted to make use of a private letter from an officer of rank which has been shown to me, and which explains from the best source the imme diate came which led to the resignation of General Oaarebset, as they are reported by his intimate Mends. Long before that event General Canrobert had strongly felt the necessity for a new plan of vigorous action, and had continually . his sapwood opinion to that effect to Lord Raglan. In ins view, considerations of strategy, as welt as considerations relating to the health and morale of the troops, made it impossible that bis army could remain long in the lines before Sebastopol, slowly carrying on a siege, without the most riisestrous consequences. There two principal yihemea for tetra. One, eag tha P Iceived by General Canrobert himself, was to march from south to north—to reverse, in fact, the turning march performed after the battle of Alma. General Canrobeit saw difficulties in the way of the Em peror's proposal, but he made great and unsuccessful efforts to induce Lord Raglan to concur in his own. Two councils of war were held in quick succession, at the second of which Omer Pacha was present. At this second council Lord Raglan with difficulty was brought to consent to the proposition, but the next day he sent word to General Canrobert that he could not spare a man from the trenches. Canrobert was so disheartened at this that he sent off at once the telegraphic despatch requesting to be superseded which appeared in the Moniteur. The letter de , scribes Lord Raglan as endowed with the vie inertia to such an extent as to leave little room for any I other quality. He remembers the siege of Badajoz. He finds that he makes progress, although bus slowly, and with bull-dog tenacity he is resolved, come what may, to stick by his trenches. General Pelissier, it is said, at once came to au understanding with him, and combined a scheme for a more extended action on the part of the French army with the concession to Lord Raglan that the bulk of the English troops should remain in their present positions. It is in tended to take or destroy the southern part of Sebastopol by instalments. The Nlamelon Vert was likely to be the first place stormed, and it was cal culated that it might be taken with a loss of 2,000 men. The movement of the French forces upon the Tchernaya is represented in this letter as a necessity occasioned by the impossibility of finding room in the old positions for the reinforcements which had lately arrived. The above narrative is open to the exception that it may possibly, I do not say that it is, be tainted with partiality for General Canrobert, but I give it as an undoubted private military report of great authority." (FROM THE TURKEY. /ENT OF Till DAILY NEWS.) CONSTANTINOFLE, MAY 24. Reschid Pacha is living in retirement at his splendid palace, the late acquisition at Emirghian, on the Bos phorus,and hisVieana mission, it appears, is adjourned sine die. Mehemet Ali Pacha also, since his return from exile, has been living in strict seclusion, and never once appeared in public. It is, however, sur mised that both these functionaries will again be re called to power, and ere long included—doubtless for harmony sake—in some new ministerial combina tion. Mnetapha Pacha, so well and so honourably known to fame during his thirty years' paternal administration of the island of Candle, is still also without office, and has been so ever since his dismissal from the high functions of Grand Vizier. lie is held in the highest estimation by all classes, as a man of honour and integrity, and pos sessing besides much practical knowledge and expe rience in all the details of state administration. His son Vely Pacha, ex-ambassador at the French court, arrived here lately, and is destined to succeed his ex cellent father in the governorship of Cindia, the native isle where their memory is revered and graven on the hearts of the whole population. The French Charge d'Affaires, M. Benedetti, had been appointed by a late decision of his sovereign minister at the court of Persia ; but counter-orders have since then recalled him to the French capital, and he wilt start immediately on the arrival of M. Thouvenel, the new ambassador. Mehemet Bey, Reschid Pacha's son, destined to the post of ambassador at the Tuile ries, has not as yet left Constantinople, and waits, it is said, the arrival of the French Emperor, of which the Turkish government has not still abandoned all hopes. The health of the capital and environs is excellent, and only 13 cases of cholera during the week were reported yesterday at the lest sitting of the council of health. The weather is splendid, and our port presents a most animated appearance—the ships all decked out in gayest holiday trim, and the thunders of artillery on all sides arousing true believers from their slum bers, and announcing the birthday of our most gra cious Sovereign. A grand banquet also comes off this evening at the British Palace, to celebrate this joyous event, where we all hope to drink to her health in a brimming bumper, and sing in chorus our national anthem. FRANCE. (MOM TILE COiIIESPONDINT OF THE DAILY NUM) PARIS, MONDAY EVENINO. The grand review, in honour of the King of Por tugal, went off exceedingly well. I never saw the Champs de Mars more crowded. Numbers of well-dressed ladies took their places on the terraces among blouses and caps. The King of Portugal rode a dappled grey horse, rather a weedy animal, which, by the side of the Emperor's splendid charger, did not show to great advantage. His juvenile Majesty sat his horse very well. The whole area of the Champs de Mars was filled by the troops. MARSEILLES, MONDAY, EVENING. The Indus has arrived with Constanticople news to the 28th of May. The Turkish government is ne gotiating a new loan. It is rumoured that Aa li Packs, who was recently appointed Grand Vizier in the place of Reschid Pacha, has resigned. The re organisation of the army of Anatolia continues. It now consists of 3,500 men and 130 guns. The Kertch expedition was commanded by the English General Brown. The troops effected their landing on the south side of the town. The Russian garrison, about 10,000 strong, retired in dismay. The governor carried off the archives. The town was occupied by the Allied troops, who found in it 41 guns spiked. The Allies are repairing the fortifications destroyed by the Russians. An expedition from Kertch to Kaffa is very seriously thought of. Letters from Kamiesch are of May 26. The last of the Sardinian regiments have arrived at head quarters. In the night of May 21-22 we attacked the Russian ambuscades on our extreme left, in front of the Central Bastion. The Russians energetically defended themselves, and the works were taken and retaken five times over. In the morning of the 22nd the enemy's artillery forced us to retire, bat in the folowing night we again attacked the works and carried them. We are now no longer exposed to the guns of the Quarantine Fort. General de Salle. commanded the attack. Oar loss was very sensible, amounting to 600 killed and 2,000 wounded, but the Russians lost 1,500 killed and 6,000 wounded. The voltigenrs of the Imperial Guard displayed immense elan and heroism, but they suffered consi derable loss. The health of the troops is exce,lent, and the weather fine. The following telegraphic despatch appears in the ' Petrie : " VIENNA, 111 NE 3. "The Western Powers, in rejecting the Austrian propositions, have declared that they confider the negotiations as completely exhausted, and that the question must now be settled by the sword." The Bourse was in an extraordinary state ts•day. Notwithstanding a rise of i per cent. in Consols, and a report that, in consequence of an immense accumula tion of money in the vaults of the Bank of England, a further lowering of discount will take plane this week, and that Consols may be expected to rise con siderably—the Rents was very heavy. It declined 55c., closing at 70fr. 40c., within a fraction of the lowest price of the day. Some people explain the fall by the peculiar state of the account; but it is also said that the decidedly unfriendly attitude of Austria is at length exciting uneasiness in monied circles. Railways fell considerably. Orleans, 20fr.; Eastern, lsfr.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 12fr. 50c.1 Southern, 15fr. Austrian railways fell iOtr. :