The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-31 00:00:00

vibe exlpvcOlS• what we have witnessed of the dogged determination of those in power to concede nothing, and the un taught and Immutable folly of their competitors fee office in not taking advantage of the tide of pap ier feeling whereon they might have securely Mead into the haven of their desires, we sre forced to own that we are very sanguies as to the formal ►Malt of the investigatiom Be that, however, what it may, the substantial and important issue of the inquiry is not doubtful. Thom who are for calling things by their right names may pomibly be out-voted when the doors are shut in " Committee-room No. 17 upstairs ;" they may likewise be out-voted in the whole House, when they bring the matter before its appellate juriedistion ; bat by the public generally, to whose ultimate dislike the ewe must cre Wog be left, an apelike end irreversible judgment is certain to be preassmod, and that in terms not to be mistaken. The people are not vengeful or implacable in their Wesel ratty, but they love justice, and they will at bibdlrd in their resolution to prosecute to con cludes time who have not merely been participators in the initiation of a easel wrong upon the country, bat who, when caught in the fact, instead of suing for pardon, and helping to change the rotten system that lured them to their fall, have impudently denied altogether their accountability, and shamefully andel"- 'cared to resist all Administrative Reform. —Daily News. onvalesosnt hospitals. He did not think of the hardship of g iving small the risk and exposure of the °wapitis, with oar limited pay, and taking from us the ties of porietica. Yon may well judge, sigirisai i c orei9re brae of my remarks. that lam ne very esatests4 mood just sow; and I aware you than Is not ono segissental 'surgeon who has weathered the up to the present time, including the fearful win dung whisk I have many times envied your hone his stable, but feels as indignant and es sore as I do myself. OUR TO CORRESPONDBruns. eigerdeuselis belemiel Nea ye Obr M• Ewe"' Leeiles le, art be et its OM% 10. sebeetreet. by two Vele& se &ay .1 rebUebdba. UM WATER. AT LONDON BRIDOIL Tar 114T-144naL 11. 11144.....A1anaa , 11- Na. Toomasow-Blesubs. 111. 14a ....Aftsrocies. 11. Us. Vbe Court. , OBBORNE, MAT 30. The queen, accompanied by the Princess Hoban- Lehi, drove to Ryde yesterday afternoon. Prise, Albert sunbaked in the Royal yaeht Fairy, and went to see the new works eosstrooting at &owe Point. Captain the Ron. J. Dearman had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday. LORDON, THURSDAY, MAY 31. LATEST FROM ABROAD• The Duchess of Kest, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson end Sir George Cooper, went to Frogmore yester day, and returned to her residence, Clarence Roue, St. James's, in the afternoon. The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his dada resi dence, in Downing-street. Despatches were received at the Colonial-GSA yesterday from the Governor of South Australia. THE ALLIES AT KERTCH. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. WAR DEPARTMENT, KAT 31, 11.30 A.m. Lord Panmere presents his compliments to the Editor of the Daily News, and begs to inform him that intelligence has been rewind from Lord Rag lan, dated 29th inst., stating that Sir George Brown reports on the 28th that the troops continue healthy; that five Tamils laden with corn had run into Kedah, ignorant of the place having been taken, and were ceptared; and that the number of guns taken by the Allies exceeds 100. Matters continue much the same in the Crimes; troops healtby. The Countess Colloredo gave a ball last evening, at the residence of the Austrian Legation, Cbandoe House. The Cosnteis was honoured with the attendance of nearly 600 of the most distinguished member% of the fashionable weld. Antoopt the company were the Duke of Cambridge, the Bathes. of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, and the IMmlffien7 Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg &relit& The Earl of Albetnarle's son, Lord Bury, has as. treed on his legislative functions se • member of the coned of Gaud Lord and Lady Ashburton have been entertaining Isensessaloa of large and distinguished parties at dinner, &dee Moe present week, at Bath House, Belton street. I Lied Monteegle has returned to town from Castle laptrtry, the seat of the Marquis of Northampton. I The Ladies Patronesses have received a oottimuni- I mesa that her Msjssty has bees pleased to confer her pomp on the forthcoming Caledonian bell. /♦ shilling subscription has been entered into at Brighton for the purpose of raising a fend to pinhole a beet of General Sir De Lacy Evans, the work of Mr. Pepper, a local sculptor. Sir James Ferguson, the member for the county of Ayr, is now at home in Silken's. Mr. Mackay, the Bailie Nicol Jarvis of history, is revisiting the sane of his former triumphs. This aged per kroner has entered into an engagement at the Edinburgh Theatre Royal sustaining his favourite character of the I Saltmarket Magistrate. The Scotsman announces the death at Dumfries of Kis. Thomson, the Jassy Lerman of Robert Barns. See was nearly foursome years old. Jassy was on the most inti mate terms wish Barns and his family, and closed the eye of the poet's death—that eye of which Sir Walter Scott aid, " I have seen most of the eminent men of my day, but I saw an eye like Robert Burea's." The deficiencies in the properties of the theatre at Gloucester caused some merriment the other evening during the performances of an operatic company. In Fea Digest°, the " gods" observed the Marquis making belief to enjoy a repeat with the assistance of two knives and no fork. The shouts from the gallery of " Give the man a fork" re lieved him from the dilemma by causing the requisite to be provided. Next week "Twenty-two of South Wales" are to have a match with "The Eleven of all England." This is the first cricket club in Wales that has ever dared the at- Inapt, and nelittle excitement is observable in the country. Mr. Crawahay will send his splendid band, and a grand bell is to be given as "finale. On Monday next the Emperor of the French will pees in review, at the Champ-de-Mars, the garrison of Paris. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Cold stream Guards, has arrived at the Crimea, se the sucomeor of Major-General Cunningham.. Viscount Btrangford died on Tuesday at his red dance in Harley-street, at an advanced age. His lordship was In the diplomatic service of his country for a long series of years, and was successively appointed to represent this senetry at Lisbon, in the Brazils, at Stockholm, at Conine *Opts, and at St. Petersburg. He was the author of se veral literary productions. The title and estates devolve week his eldest son, the Hoa. George Sydney Smythe. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge pee. sided yesterday at the anniversary festival of the British Benefleent Institution. One of the speakers was Sir June Means% " whose name" said His Royal Highness "he. came famous fa history from his defence of Hougomont." The gallant officer narrated two interesting incidents whisk took place on the occasion of the presentation of the Crimean medals by her Majesty. " When that gallant officer, Sir Thomas Tronbridge," he said, " was wheeled se the dais on which her Majesty stood, her Majesty, in pre senting him with the medal which he had so dearly wen. declared to him that from that instant for the rest of his life he was her aide.drearep. (Loud cheers.) In mating that declaration, her Majesty expressed her deep connoisnraties for the misfortunes of that gallant man by dropping a attest tear—s tear which ought to be encased in plass and plesed in oar method annum. (Immense cheeriag.) Whoa ens of oar pliant and glorious British tan approached to re ceive his reward, the medal by some accident dropped to the ground. It was picked up and presented to him by the Misister-at-War, on which the gallant tar said he would much sooner have received it from the hands of the Queen. (Cheers.) Her Majesty immediately desired it to be re placed on the dais, and then took it up and presented it to the gallant fellow, whose feelings may be better imagined than described at this mark of her Majesty's favour." (Gnat cheering.) A volume of an interesting character, entitled "Fontainebleau," is on the eve of publicatioa in Paris. It Is the work of 42 French "%than, who have suited to testify finit quesday for M. Doneeourt, the eke, ego of the palace awl besot of litoatainebleas. Amongst the writers who have pima in this - prodootion, are MM. de Lemartine, Victor lege, George Strad, Miry, Thollphin Gautier, Alfred de Unseat, &a Last evening M. Monti delivered the:first of a striae of lectures on ancient sad moderusulpture to a select sedienes, is the Galwie des Beaux Arts, Great Marl hwough-street. A oorreepondent of the indeperulasees Belge askasilverting upon the want of 'annoy shown by the eadieelsies at the French Exhibition, observes that" if these eallsetrat of the management had been present at the ]mss at London, they would have learned to abstain ken Abalone airs of importaase not justified by the menses le which they have fulfilled their duties ; they might have taken then some excellent lessons in paying respect to the public and to the exhibitors. At London this respect was, as they term it. ' a matter of course t' they did not understand that it maid be dispensed with." Th• same [ warrespondtat adds that an Esglieh exhibitor, a " veritable gendeman, very good-natured, and thoroughly alive to the hemary and importance of the Exhibition," said to him the suer day," That which grieves me most is that this Exhibi tion is the Waterloo of French urbanity." The dearness of lodgings is creating much discon , teat amoegst the Paris populace. A petition has been got up at the Faubourg St. Jacques, praying for legislative in terference, and in other places a sort of " strike" on the part of the tenants is spoken of. The Empress Dowagerof Ruda intend., it instated, to pass a portion of this summer at a country house near the Hague. She will first visit Berlin. Rossini has arrived at Paris. The bill to amend the law of partnership brought late the House of Commons by Mr. Fitiroy, Mr. Boland", and Viscount Palmenton, has been this day printed. It provides that leaders to persons or partnerships (not beteg hankers) are not to be deemed partners. Particulars are gives as to the necessary registration of loans. In the event of the iasoloocy of the b 'rower, the lender of a regained Man must wait until the claims of other creditors are sags lied, and he will be liable to make good to the other nedi-, Mee of the borrower any deficiency et assets to the extent el all sums of mosey or other benefit received by him itariag the immediately preceding such event on en i s s ue of the pelnsipel of such loan. Agents, employers, ells., an sot to be deemed pertain by MIND of receiving la hiss of, or is addition to, wages, a portion of the profits, erteam varying according to the snout of sub profits. the Mt does not apply to Scotland. IN THE CRIMEA. The following is stated in a private letter from the Crimea, and may be relied on : There is an officer of the name of Baynes connected with the Commissariat Staff, a son of the Consul- Gocerel at Tunis, who speaks no less than six lan in addition to hie native tongue—viz.: l KlMGreek, Russian, French, German. and Russian he learned, when very young, at gr a P i e s ttsborg ; his father was consul there at that *ma His mother was a Greek lady, and this sir - 1 onmetanos led to his familiar acquaintance with Greek and Italian. During the winter he served with the Commissariat of the Light Division. After Inkermann, and many . times subsequently, he hes been of great service in interpreting for Raman wounded prisoners and others. One of his brothers. in the Royal Engineers, was lately wounded in the trenches, and has since died from the effects of the wound. He has two brothers, cap tains in the Bth Regiment of the line ; one, on leave from India, is now serving as a captain in the Mounted Staff Co r ps in the Crmea. His abi lities as a linguist are not unknown out of the sphere of his own immediate duties, for on several occasions he has been sent for to headquarters to act as inter preter. In the French or Russian service an officer thus usefully gifted would very probably have been selected as an aide-decamp, or attached in some other conspicuous position near the person of autho rity ; but as the Commissariat, according to Lord Palmerston, cannot boast of aristocratic or gentry co nnexions, the staff is not the fi eld for Mr. Baynes's talents, and he remains a commissariat clerk. If the true motives which have provided oar A.D.C.'s and Q.M.G.'s of all grades with their situ& tins could be collected and published, what a curious volume they would form! The anomalies in respect to our staff appointments are sometimes really indictor. The 14 right man in the right office seems t. be the last consideration. Here is an instance in a small way why a man must not get an appointment on the gaff. There is a lieutenant of the name of Preston in the 90th Regiment. He has a pendia, gift as a draughtsman, and is exceedingly devoted be the art, especially as applied to military sketching. Although only a lieutenant in rank, he is by as means a young officer, as compared with many tains. His talents were considered to fit him .. oularly for duty in the Quartermaster Generals de partment, and he was strongly recommended for in appointment. Plans which he had take n of the enemy's works, and other drawings, were shown at bad quarters, and copies were requested ; but it was grinned that he could not be made even a Deputy., Assistant Q u artermaster General, as it was , contrary to the rules of the service for gay Me Male the rank of • captain to serve in that amity. Now, if anyone would take the tremble to analyse the nature of some of the appoint meets which have been made from among officers bolding that important qualification—ofiicers,too,con sidered so accomplished and facile as to be equally fitted for any . department on the ' i staff without dis dilation—it might be presumed that even a lieute nant with a good knowledge of drawing and sur veying might be rather a catch for an humble posi tion among the glittering phalanx of our staff mag nets.. But no: the right men can't get into the right places, unless they possess rank, title, or some particular interest, which has no earthly connexion with the business or duties they will have to perform, and which not uofrequently are the very causes which prevent their performance. THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. Foust months exactly have now elapsed since I public opinion compelled the House of Commons to vote the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the mismanagement of the expedition to SebastopoL We all recollect how difficult it was to extort that preliminary sot of justice from a reluctant legislature; we all remember what solemn protests and authoritative denunciations were launched by the accused in high places against the proceeding ; and few have forgotten the CASSANDRA- Iike warnings of quarrels to come with our French allies should the investigation ever take place. Public feeling proved inexorable however, and, in accordance with the national will, the inquiry into the manner in which one.balf of a noble army was suffered to come to an inglorious death in their own tents, transports, and hospitals, went on. What Government failed to prevent altogether, it sedtVourly strove to frustrate by indirect means. All the usual arts and expedients were resorted to for filling the committee with what are technically called" safe men." AgAist the influences that can always be brought to bear for a purpose of this kind, in an assembly like the present House of Commons, it is perfectly hopeless for any individual, or any minority, however honest and faithful, to contend. It is easy to say, why not have eleven tried and trusty jurors in so clear a cue ; but people out of doors who ask such a question know little what they say. Every species of objection is sure to be raised to any name that may in the first instance be handed in by the author of an incriminatory motion ; and truth to say, the position in which Mr. ROEBUCK found himself on the 30th of January last, is one— thanks to the constituencies of the kingdom—of the greatest possible difficulty. The people themselves have not put the right men into the right places. There are but a handful in the present packed house from whom one might choose with confidence an adequate number to serve on much a jury ; and when this small and insufficient panel is further curtailed by the number of those who for various sufficient reasons may be fairly deemed ineligible for the spe cific duty required, the appellant for judicial in quiry finds himself in the main kft without materials for constituting the tribunal that he has himself proposed. We do not mean to insist that the list of names originally suggested by Mr. ROEBUCK sou intrinsically unobjectionable; but we unhesitatingly assert that if it were not the fault lay with the electoral bodies, who have suffered the House of Commons to be constituted as it now is, and not with the Honourable Member for Sheffield. Had fifty towns or counties in the United Kingdom exercised the right of choosing representa tives as wisely and as well as did the people of Shef field, there would in all probability have never oc curred the homicidal blundering of Varna, Balaklan, and Scutari; even if there had, inquiry would never have been refused by a guilty Ministry ; and the tri bunal for isvestigation into their acts would probably have been very differently composed, and its verdict, however long delayed, would have been awaited with feelings of tranquil confidence by the country. le such °milldams felt now? Why is it that on every side we hear impatient and incredulous murmurs, as to the tedious spinning-out of the evidence, and the indefinite delay in the presentation of the report? Some people ask querulously, is there to be any report at all?—others, —what will it be worth when it doss appear ? It is all very well to censure these popular mutterings as premature and unreasonable ; and there is not a highborn hack of oligarchy, or a low-minded larva, of exclusive rule, who is not ready to lisp forth in the Jesuitic dialect of jobbing—" Wait till you see what the report will contain.' As there is no help for it, wait we must ; only we crave liberty of our irresponsible lords and muter* to say, that the country at large knows nothing of parliamentary dodges, and neither is nor cares to be in the secret of stuffing and bone-ing a Re port, as skilful *oaks serve up a turkey, for dainty guests; and that to its unsophisticated appre hension the simpler the dish, so long looked for, the better. Will it be simple? Will a plain case be told in a plain way? Will the incapacity, negli gence, cupidity, and presumption of all the depart-1 meats, civil and military, concerned in sending forth the Crimean expedition, and then leaving it to perish ignominiously for want of clothing, food, and shel ter—will all, this, now proved and brought home to the doors of privileged monopoly, be honestly recorded in the Report of the Select Committee, and brooded, as it merits, there ? Will responsi bility be laid, without fear or favour, wherever it ought to rest ; or shall we have plebeian subordinates stigmatised, according to the Palmer monism theory, as worthy of all the blame, while chiefs abroad and chiefs at home, noble blunderers and honourable jobbers, Courtly and Cabinet sharers in the guilt of sacrificing the lives of fifteen thousand gallant men, are to be inferentially acquitted and exonerated ? There are some members of the Sebas topol Committee who we are sure will never lend the sanction of their names to any verdict of the kind ; and we shall be only too glad to find that, not withstanding the care with which a majority have been selected by the two oligarchic parties in . the Home, the sense of public right and high political duty will nada them all alike out-spoken and undid in the giving of their verdict. But after IMENTAL SURGEONS IN THE CRIMEA. (=TRACT PROM ♦ PIUVATII TAMIL.) I cannot tell you how depressing the continued slight of the services of the regimental surgeons bto us all. The Gazette has just come, bringing a wbob hut of honours and promotions to the regiussubl officere, and well do they deserve them ; it is only doing justice to them alter that glaring cocked hat brevet. But we have no friends, no parliamentary interest, and are not merely passed over unnoticed, but absolutely maltreated. Because a few imbeciles and Wadies in the upper grads' macaw the public good to the reckless will of their muter., without spirit oe sufficient remonstrance, the whole department, with out exception, is made a mark for neglect and con- In Bulgaria and in the Crimea, day and night, on the field or in the marquee, amid wounds or Osage,' defy a single person to may I have ever shrunk from my duty. There is not a sanitary evil which has happened to the men under my oar* respecting which I have not written official warnings and m oonstruck a to authorities, both medical and military, a. soon as the evil was seen to be approaching. I have given proofs of what I write to you to " COlll - sent out apparently to investigate these things, but I confess (judging from what I have sines read and heard) that, in my opinion, these Commis sions had a double object—to screen, as well as to investigate—and the one object has been made subservient to the other. I hope lam not unjust in my enspieloas, but what I see leads me to the conclu sion, se why do men who have been proved :o be—to see the mildest expressions—so listless and apathetic in their high positions, still retain them? Ido not sek for the brevet or substantive honours given to say regimental companions — we are told that such things are not to be looked for, any more than titles or decorations, by regimental medical officers; but I do ask for justice and fair play. Let not the guilty and innocent, the inefficient and efficient, all suffer alike. A little trouble would suffice to distinguish between the two. Military sur geons accept the limited pay and risks of their service on certain conditions. One is that, unless proved to be wanting in ability, promotion shell be open to them according to established rules. But because a certain few have failed, you are stopping promotion for all. The inactivity of peace led to my remaining I eleven years and upwards an assistant surgeon before 1 ay turn for a surgeoney arrived; the chances of war have since led to others getting the step io little more than half the time. But the chances of war do not 1 bring a corresponding advantage to the regimental surgeons; civil surgeons, with comparatively enor mous salaries and retiring allowances, are sent to occupy the higher positions. There are young men cow here—of talent, no doubt, but who have never performed a capital operation, and who honestly tell you that they have only mane for the ad. vantage@ of practice—who are receiving up wards of three times my present pay daily, with proportionate allowances, and the promise of a year's salary on leaving. All is gain to them; even the positions they have temporarily vacated at home reserved for them. Some person—Mr. Osborne„ I think it was—recommended that the military sur goons should be employed only in the field, civil surgeons to occupy ill the posts in the general and CRIMEA. oweer direst observation. This comprehends a wide excavated a broad and very deep dyke to interlope — sweep of eountry, in the general form of an aro. the passage. A small battery of three field pieces* There are two points of view from which this tract placed close behind this dyke, and a little way furth er (MON 11112 SPEC AL 00111ia... can be inspected with advantage. One of these is on is an encampment of huts for infantry. Tee mai maws.) obtained by looking op the plain in a northerly of the men, piled in regular rows, are on the cleared CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Her 19. direction from the heights above Balaklava ground in front of each line of huts, ready for imam. The camp has been rife with rumours during the on the east side ; the other, by looking diets use. The furthermost spur seems especi a ll y across t plain from our position over lokermann guarded. There is first a strong abetter work drawn last few days, and, as not unfrequently happens, of and from our right flank occupied by General Bore across it, above this again is a high parapet and the most opposite tendencies. At one time peace was. quet's corps of observation. From the former a more ditch, and still higher a well constructed battery in certain, the highest authorities being q uoted to sub- complete general view of the w hole p osition is which five embrasures can be counted. A large in. stantiate the assertion. Bets to a heavy amount had gained ; from the latter a more distinct view of the fantry ell encamp beaten road canment is close at seen han on the d. Part pe of of a wide ogi been offered that the negotiations would be eo n- w orks com p leted and in progress. a be slo eluded within a given period; Lord John Russell had Taking . a position then toward the Inkermann end spur ;it passes up to the table ef the mountain above, gone tor tuo us river from which it takes its name, are placed on a point commanding a view of the whole very back to Vienna, and Lord Stratford de Radcliffe of our rht flank, the Tchernaya valley, and the and soon reaches . one of the principal signal stations,' bad also proceeded there, and everything was ad seen at our feet. The general form of this plain is plain to Balaklava in one direction, and up the valley mincing satisfactorily. It is useless to attempt to square. It is enclosed on the north side by precipi- towards Kinder Mackenzie in another. There are aaslyse these reports, or to reconcile them with con- t oe s c liffs, towards the south by an isolated hill of two signal posts, one fitted with stays and lanyard', listing news which may have arrived from ordinary irregular form, rising from the plain and dividing the for day signals by flags, the other for hoisting lanterns 8011 The latest date from England by the mail Tchernaya from the Braille's valley, and to the at night. Three huts tor the men in charge are by received yesterday is May 4th, so that the authorities eastward by the lowermost of four ranges of mono- their side; a line of signal poets of a like kind see talus which rise successively one above the other, and placed at intervals along the mountain towards Sebes. who are in possession of the telegraphic cipher, and receding form the limit to the range of vision in that Lepel; and there is communication by similar m ew the favoured few who are honoured with the droppings direction. The fourth side is formed by the cliffs on with Tchorgun. No doubt a third line is also este. of intelligence which are permitted to ooze from this the summit of which our position is taken. The blished from this point to %litchi Sorel. The road is source, are a fortnight in advance of the main body area thus enclosed is about six or seven maitre miles seen be y ond the signal station, but is soon lost to in extent, and the river crossing it in a diagonal di- view wood. et the army in respect to information. • action divides it nearly into two equal parts. The About half way between the nearer spur and the Active operations in the field have also been talked part nearest to our position is the most fiat and Inkermann ruins, on the very verge of the cliff, is a of, and many circumstances have concurred to pro- marshy, and at present, from the effects of the late battery of ten guns, five of which are directed duce the belief that a portion of the British force is rains, is impassable : on the other side of the river against the redoubts occupied by the French at In.. shortly to leave this part of the Crimea. The troops there is a alight declivity, and the ground seems to kermann, while the remainder sweep a portion of the named are the First and Light Divisions. The be more firm. Three openings lead out of the valley Tchernaya valley. The fire from these latter gam —one at the tenth-eastern angle, where the river en- is frequently directed against the French fatigue place of destination is supposed not to have ten, and by which the passage to Tchorgun in parties while getting wood or water from below been mentioned, and various points of landing one direction or to Balaklava in another is made ; a the Canrobert redoubt. Considerable numbers of the in the Crimea and elsewhere have been talked second, through which the river finds its way to the enemy are now actively employed in repairing the of as equally probable. With most persons lokermann valley; and lastly a third, at the north parapets and embrasures of this work, which lees a renewal of the expedition against Kertch has eastern angle, where the road passes out to Khutor to have been injured by the late rain, and also in ex been surmi s ed to be the object. In the Highland nzT river is moot tortuous, and the tending it in a direction towards liikermann. To plain ii a t present most inundated as it approaches the north of this, fet . about 600 yar ds . distance, on n, Brigade the belief prevailed that they were to have e min valley. It has been sup- more elevated position, the enemy is busily engaged embarked this day; and this was said to be on the posed that the extensive marshes in this situation in constructing a new work. One face, looking to. authority of Sir Colin Campbell , who , havin g re- might become the source of fever to our troops. For - wards our po sition at Inkermann, is already mired signed the situation of commandant of Balaklava, will tuoately the plateau on which they are encamped is with eight embiasures. now be free to accompany the regiments over which at a considerable height above them, and the prevail- It will thus be observed that many of the new in g winds, which sweep so freely across it from the works of the enemy are so placed as to act for do he holds command. The Ottoman troops have left , it is seaweed, tend to carry the noxious vapours in an feusive purposes against an approach from the south, understood to rejoin the force assembled at Eupatoria. opposite direction. and also for offensive purposes against the position ed The Highlanders, and those of the Ottomans who have . l'he whole of the Tchernaya valley is now deserted, the allies on the extreme right. Commencing free" been engaged in the defence of Balaklava, are, it is excepting on the opposite side, where the high road the redoubts east of Careening Bay, bellowing tin said, to be replaced by the Sardinians, as are also between Balaklava and Baktchi-Semi panes. Along line of evoke on the verge of the cliffa over the nee*. the Light Division in the trench duties of the right this road there is a frequent passage of vehicles and side of the upper part of the roadstead, on the height' attack. Due notice has been given to the troops to troops, for the purposes of communication between north of the Inkermann valley, and terminating or, complete themselves in the neefield equip- the detached force at Tchorgun and the main body the cliffs above the Tchernaya valley, the eye sees a near Sebastopol. The rest of the plain seems to be succession of batteries from which a converging foe merit and the Commissariat has also received in ' given up to countless myriads of frogs, whose cond ca . nbe brought to radiate upon the works constructed 'tractions to be in readiness. Yesterday (May 18), nual chattering and croaking announces for a wide to protect the north-eastern angle of our position; jut. Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown inspected the distance round the fact of their possession of the terra- as the works of the allies form the segment of a larger whole of his division, and the artillery batteries at- tory in question. About two miles from the Tcher- circle than the works of the enemy around the town Cached, on the open space in front of the Picket- gun opening the Baktchi-Seri road is lost to view. and suburbs. From the mountain to the east of Balaklava it can Along the whole line of mountain facing the house. The condition of all the regiments was very still be seen passing along the gorge, then gradually Tchernaya on the north the number of troops has been. satisfactory, but the men suffered from the heat, ascending, cut in the sides of the cliff, till it reaches greatly . increased of late. During the winter two which was intense; the thermometer ranging from the summit of the high ground above. But small pickets only could be seen, placed so as best to 90 deg. F. to 96 deg. F. in the tents. To-day . it is from our flank position, the mountain, whose steep observe our movements on the right flank ; now the understood that the departure of the troops is for cliff forma the northern boundary of the Tchernaya huts of two large encampments are visible, and t the present postponed. The Sirdinians are unwilling valley, completely conceala the road from view, as battery of artillery, in addition to those already to take trench duties, and there is not, under existing soon as it has reached its north-eastern angle. This named. All the active employments of an army an circumstances, a sufficient British force to carry on mountain, which is just now the scene of some im- going on before our eyes. As with the main army the siege operations, assist in the defence of Bala- portant labours on the part of the enemy, is gene- on the north side of the great harbour, very little kites, and at the same time spare one or two divi- rally tabular above, is covered with wood among drilling or parade inspection seems to be instituted; sions for an undertaking elsewhere. which scarcely any high trees are to be seen, and has but in all directions work is going on. The men Moor The Sardinians who have landed are much admired. a very gradual inclination from the eastw ard down without coats or jackets, and seem to wear COM Their clothing and appointments are neat, substantial, towards the head of the great roadstead of Sebastopol. linen trowsers : some wear loose blouses. The of& and well adapted for service in the field. They carry Here it terminates in a comparatively low cliff, and, cere, as they give directions, can be distinguished by with them tenses d'abri, like the French. In their at the verge of the slope overhanging this cliff are their long grey eurtout coats. In addition to the waggon train and ambulance establishment they the remains of the castellated fortress known as the fatigue parties at the batteries, others seem to seem to have adopted all the recent improvements, Inkermann Ruins. It is in the perpendicular face of be collecting sticks for fascines and gabioes; and to have borrowed largely from the results of the rock below the ruins, that art has converted the others cutting the bush and clearing spaces foe the French experience. The men generally are stout, natural caves of the limestone cliff into dwelling- more free movement of troops. All the ordinary active, young, and wear the appearance of good places, in the middle of which the arched win- camp occupations of cooking, washing, sad clothe health; the riflemen and the Grenadier Regiment of dows and jutting balcony of a church still form a drying may be observed. One peculiarity with to the Guard particularly attracted notice in this re- prominent object of interest to the spectator. The epect to the arms piled in front of the camp green& meet. They are encamped on the shelving sides of general superficies of the mountain is triangular in is worthy of notice—each pile of muskets is capped the extensive valley of Kenai, the only other troops form, the base, the highest part, being the more die- by .• conical cover, in shape like a common este'. there being the English 32-pounder battery. tent, and the apex being the Inkermann cliff just gnisher, no doubt for the protection of the weapon On the 15th instant a very large force was mentioned. A road passes along each side, both roads against rain. observed to marching along the coast road, to join being in communication with the main Bi:lttchi-Serai The force near the entrance to Tchorgun seems to the army on the heights north of Sebastopol. By road which follows the line of its base. The road at be lessened. Two large hut camps on the Belukha reports from some of the ships u many as 50,000 the south side diverge' from the main road at the op- side have been abandoned, and the troops which troops were moving in this direction. It is quite posits side of the Tchernaya valley, crosses its north- remain seem little more in number than would ideally evident, from the much greater extent occupied by eastern portion, then gets under the cliffs, and be required to work the guns in the several batterin the encampments, and particularly the increase in follows closely their windings, to avoid the marshes, in this position, and line the trenches which bans number of the field batteries, that very considerable as far as the lokermann valley, where several roads been cut in the side of the hill on the 'Menus reinforcements have arrived. It was supposed, when arose. When the Russians first sent a force into the side. Reserves may be at hand, but concealed from first notice was given of the approach of so large a plain near Balaklava, and before we took complete view, for the view extends but a short way up the force, that an attack was contemplated, and instruc- possession of the right, this was the ordinary route of alle y itself, being interrupted by the natural irrege Lio ns, were given for the troops guarding the trenches communication between the detachments and the larities of the neighbouring bills. to be constantly on the alert. Some of the divisions troops In and about Sebastopol • but they can make The north side of the harbour, with its immemelf is front were also kept under arms for a great part of use of it no lo n g er. The French sharpshooters, from increased fortifications, its enormous magazines ea the night. Nothing unusual, however, occurred. The their hiding-places, on the extreme spurs of our pose depots, which are daily seen to receive accession', if following day, May 18, several large convoys of corn lion on the right, can pick off any one with now regarded as the great stronghold of the Roseate sadirone were seen on the north heights. At onetime hardihood enough to attempt to pass along it, and in this part of the Cr imea, for were Sebastopol tau there could not have been less than four hundred certain guns in the redoubts now occupying part of this would still remain intact ; and the efforts of the country arabas, each drawn by two oxen, on the high the ground w here the battle of Inkermann was enemy, such as I have described, to protect as ground near the encampment. A little below, and to fought, also command it. The road on the north approach to that position, show with what dea th* west of the Star Fort, is a large commissariat side passes for some distance along a ravine, w hich mication every avenue leading to it will be COlk. depot. In addition to some very large sheds, c overed server to separate this Inkermann mountain from the tested. A general survey of the enemy's prepare by red-tiled roofs, which have been observed to rest of the mountain plateau stretching toward the tions leads to the supposition that the policy of the be storehouses, and a little on one side of Belbec, then mounts to the top of the wooded table allies will be not to make a direct attack upon them, them, are two huge heaps of melte, probably land, and joins the Baktchi-Serai road, after it also but for the present, at least, to operate in a circuit containing corn. They are stacked up in a has ascended the cliffs, a little south and west of far wider than that which is represented by the ) pyramidal form. To these stacks a line of Khutor Mackenzie. It was between this point of operations of the enemy. one hundred and forty anima were conveying the road and Khutor Mackenzie itself that the debris During the last few days the weather has been similar sacks, and u each cart was relieved of its of the baggage train fallen in with by the British dry, but excessively hot and oppressive during the load, it passed away in another line with equal regu- force soon after emerging from the woods on the day time. A few cases of cholera are still occurring, larity. A number of men could be noticed busily em- march from the Belbec to Balaclava were chiefly and the disease seems to be chiefly treecofined among ployed in arranging the sacks, and connecting them strewed about. This road login used, but another road men who have been on duty in the nches. No with the pyramidal stacks, as fast as they were de- has been made further to the north, to establish &direct cases have occurred, it is stated, among the troops at posited on the ground. Higher up the hill, and to communication between Khator Mackenzie and the Balaklava. The regiments lately come to the float, the east of the Star Fort, another line of arebas northern camps without necessity of descending into the 3rd, 71st, and 48th, have hail severa of l cases moved from the direction of Mackenzie's Farm, and the low g round near Inkermann or elsewhere. The occurring in each of them. The ground their were lost to view as they passed behind a promi- north wall, as it may be called, of the Tchernaya encampment became exceedingly muddy duri n g the nonce on the brow of the slope. They were bringing valley, or the gorges at either end, would be the first rain which preceded the present hot we'tber , and I ' forage. In a third place were collected a large nnm- approaches to be carried in case of a direct attack drainage could not conveniently be effected, ' bar of arabes, drawn up in regular rows, and from the plain against the entrenched position of the they have shifted their position to m the bill stationary, and, as far as could be judged by . the army of the north. To provide against a passage in rear of the third division, fro ilea telescope, laden with gables'. Perhaps they might being forced by the west gorge, or Inkermann valley, there is on all sides a considerable moose be intended to remain there, and be brought across bat teries y has oonstructed no less than eight earth of natural declivity. A few cases have 110 at night. on the north side, whose guns will bear upon occurred among the sailors in the adjoining mist, There has been no particular event of importance the valley itself or the ascent from it to the high and it has been arranged that they also The moo daring the last week in the trenches. Our casualties ground above • and some of the vessels in the her- and encamp on higher ground. Fever has also bas have been few. It is doubtful whether new troops 'sour, if not o therwise employed, could also use their on the increase, evidently attributable to caul/so* would escape with so mock impunity, for coolness guns against an attack in this direction. The road elected with the altered temperature and state of de eider fire, and knowledge of the best means of tat- from the valley to the heights is steep, but broad and whe att r. I regret to say dis thease. at Miss Nightingale een Ist big advantage of the shelter afforded by the works in good order. It winds alon g the side of a ravine, beenattacked wit She bre are, like superiority in most other matters, only to be and at various points is swept by the fire of some of moved from board ship, and is now occupying oaf rf acquired by practice. The French continue on the the batteries above. Near the commencement of the the huts of the Sanitarium on the Castle-hill. de I right, sapping up to the Russian redoubts on the road,on the side of the hill which flanks it towards the cording to yesterday's report she was progressed east of Careening Bay, and also toward the Mame- great harbour, has been cut a deep trench, with a re- favourably, and no fears were experienced reepecloi lon Vert. Oar works are for the moment not ad- gular series of zigzag approaches, as a cover for in- her early recovery. lemming, but the new batteries aro nearly completed, fantry. In attempting to force a passage by the An intimation has appeared in general orders d land large stores of ammunition are continually going valley at the other end of the mountain, where the May the 17th, that the hospital sergeants l a to the front. high road to Baktchi - Serai pursues its course, several orderlies, while serving in the Crimes , are tr, The enemy has now completed a third redoubt i n obstacles would have to be encountered. The pas- receive an increased pay , in consequence 0 the east cliff, above Careening Bay, nearer to the sage by Tchorgun would first have to bee forced, the severe duties to which they are subjectea. shore of the Great Harbour. It is pierced with five and several batteries and works have been erected, Hitherto the pay of the hospital sergeante, no:divide embrasures. Its fire is directed against the French both on the plain and the hills, in this direction, standing the exposure and responsibility of their batteries on the same line of hill 'the works of our to prevent the accomplishment of this undertaking. position, and the nature of their duties etitailill allies in this position are subjected to a very severe On passing the opening to Tchorgun, a square fort, labour by night as well as day, has only been in li• fire, not only from the redoubts in their front, but mounting seven guns in the face and three on either lowance of 4d. per diem, while any non-commisem ed also from a powerful work on the west side of flank, placed at a little elevation above the high road, officer taken as a clerk in a brigade or other suf Careening Bay, on the height immediately above the would next oppose its fire. Near it is also a battery office, with simply an easy day's work in writing led harbour, andtromsome of the gunsof theKamtschatka of field artillery. These obstacles near Tchorguna copying, receives le. 6d. or 2s. per diem. The sec' Redoubt. The French reply vigorously, and have might be avoided by a more direct approach from our pante appointed to assist the provost marshal each lately added some new works to silence this opposi- right flank, but the marshes of the Tchernaya valley receive—also according to general order- 4 " 9d. Mr, doe. Thep irli of their sap does not appear to intervene, and a battery on the verge of the cliffs diem in addition to their ordinary pay. The h a p be moth imp, notwithstanding that the Russians above has been placed, and at this moment is being sergeants, according to the general order, are for ft' have two very large ambuscades, and numerous ex , ended, to guard against a movement from this future to have Bd. per diem, in addition to their old? others of smaller size, filled with riflemen, in front direction. The east gorge itself is, moreover, pro- nary pay, and are to draw their rations free, which it of their foremost redoubt, for the purpose of inter- teeted by a series of worlue Part of these ices be equivalent in all to a sum of Is. hospital iem. Thie wr rupting its advance. seen on the side of the mountain, where a projecting provement in the condition of th attendees The Russians are working with the greatest energy angle first hides this part of the valley from our view ; shows consideration on the part of Lord Raglan , EA b d at protecting the approaches by which a force would and no doubt there are other batteries beyond. it would be difficult to explain on what g rounds have to pass from our present position toward The ascent of the mountain itself is only practicable a difference is made in the amount of rem unerstile Baktchi-Seri. The reports of spies and deserters at two or three points, and these of course are espe- to non-commissioned officers acting in varlet:B cafe' that all the heights are being fortified and defiles pro- cially guarded. The side looking upon the Tcher- cities, as bas previously existed, and still eliete tooted, are confirmed by such observations as can be naya consists generally of white precipitous cliffs of Hospital sergeants must be intelligent, honest, lla made from the site of this plateau. As far as the eye limestone, but two extensive spurs jut out into the active men, for they have to carry o ut the orders d can reach, looking in a north-easterly direction, ridge valley. One of these forms the angle behind which the surgeons, and in the greater number of hospitai troops, although from the distance and the dense intermediate, between this and the Inkermann although the surgeons are directly after ridge is seen to be occupied by detachments of the Baktchi-Serai road is lost to view; the other is have charge and keep accosot of the hospital 001! woods which cover the hills in this direction, little can valley. As seen from our own position at In- them. It is stated that scarcely an of the heir rr' be decided as to the strength of each detachment. But kermann , the nearer and most prolonged of the two sergeants who first landed with their regiments is from the opening to the valley of Tchorguna—near t o spurs offers little natural difficulty to the ascent; Bulgaria are now alive, having fallen victims which which point the enemy's defences against an attack while near its junction with the main body of diseases incidental to their position. Whethe r ' from the plain now begin—along the lower range o f the mountain there is a gently incurred dip in statement is true or not I cannot assert, but I bele hill in the direction of the Khutor Mackenzie road the cliff line, and here a smooth grassy s ward heard of many instances ' h' h they . have see in w ic -I is about two miles, and thence, coming westward, aloag , facilitates a passage from the brow of the spur to the combed to maladies supposed to have orminsto... the Mountain to the encampment of the army on the top of the mountain. Ent the enemy has noticed their hospital duties. None of the men et the et north side of the roadstead, the UNDO works are this also, and across the sward before-mentioned has hospital corps , stated in some of the newsperee '' responsibleM 0/ !is DAIL! THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1855. ►z