The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-29 00:00:00

Clic Oxprellso. .—~eemenctia • Growl and building-yard of Ai men navy Apr apes toss attack as Odessa and Himpea. Now that affairs ea the Be t eine)stee otra i grlipmlt a &teenage espied, a terriblif eespoosibilitt will Yest spa the Allied GovellioatillP effectually humbled. to cassias that oltlect— so indisputable to the peace and liberties, of Estropp.-oothing is wanted but a vigorous follow ing ap of the advantages which have been gained. The precipitate retreat of the Russians, both at Keno and on the Teherneya, indicates that the sol diery are disheartened and the resources of the Casa ly exhausts& It would be false generosity to spare a Government which, foe more than two hun dred years, has been plundering all its neighbours by its armies, and introducing anarchy among them by its intrigues. The cant of the Aberdeenites that it is hereby proposed to carry on the war for an object not contemplated at first can de alive no one. The object of the war was from the first to give security to Turkey, end through Turkey to Europe, against the systematic aggreesive and rapacious policy of Russia. If the progress of the war opens up to us more eillasisis Mss to effect this purpose than were at first eon tampisisd, it is the duty of the Allies to adopt them. It must now be apparent even to the most irresolute that the time for such unsatisfactory compromises as were mooted at the Conferences of Vienna ballpoint Presumptuously confident in her ability to throw dust is the eyes of the European Powers, Russia rejected arms tar more lenient than her misdeeds or real strength entitled her to expect ; Russia must now tato the consequen ce s of her own duplicity and arroganash The Crimes ought not to be restored to her. It is far the Poles and the inhabitants of Southern Russia to determine in what relations they are henceforth to stand to the Muscovite Government. And it is now time that a question which has scarcely been raised as yet should be ripely and deliberately considered. , When any private individual disturbs his neighbour by bringing an action against hint which has so ficandation in justice, the courts of law decree that he shall pay the costs of both parties. Wars are the litigation of nations. Russia has been carrying on a scandalously unjust suit, and ought by every principle of justice to be amerced in costs. Russia ought to be compelled to pay not only the expense the war has entailed upon her, but the ex pense it has obliged the Allies to incur. In so far as Russia is concerned, this is no more than an applica tion of the les hthottig, for in every war in which she has been victorious she has exacted an indemnity fres bar adversary. If Russia can afford to pay, the nlst will make her more cautious of engaging in unjust wars in future; if she cannot, Europe will be effectually disabused of its exaggerated estimate of the resources of that Colossus " with front of brass and feet of eley."—Daily News. TO da 00111Mervir......—. I A leisedid Mr lbe Iheme." ImelOWN parr, ywrW be asap OS" by Teo retorts the eay of paillsido. gpt WATIIR AT LONDON BIUDOI. Tar Paralersim OA. Ito Aftanoom, OIL A. US . TrriNNl/e—lionlig. ils Attorsoss, lam LORDON. TUESDAY. WAY Ilk LATEST FROM ABROAD. RUSSIAN DESPATCH• (11T SLICTILIO 111.1.101•Pli ST. PE MR.5817110, MONDAY. Prices Gortchakolf, writing oa the 23rd, says : " Last night we were attacked, in a thick fog, by pontoon battalions of the Allies. " The battle lasted all night. Oar loss is 2,500 men. They fell mostly by the bayonet•"—Da l ly News. SPAIN. (11 ZLIOTRIC TZLZOILAPE) MADRID, M&Y 26. The stajority of the committee appointed to con sider the government application for extraordinary powers has granted the request. The cavalry of the Baylen regiment, which revolted at Saragossa, have marched to join the infantry insurgents. Six columns of regulars pursue them. The forced loan project m postponed. —Daily News. THE NEW VICTORIES AT THE CRIMEA. Two news which reached London in the course of yesterday morning and forenoon, is the most impor tant that has been received from the Crimea sines the landing at Old Fort and the storming of the 'heights ot the Alms. At the south-eastern exts. mity of the Peninsula, Kertch and Yenikale helve been taken and occupied by a detachment from the allied armies under S:r OZORGE BROWS—en opemel Lion which makes as masters of the entry into the Sea of Azoff. At the south-western extremity of the Peninsula the allied armies have occupied the line at the Tchernsys. Oa the Sttaits of Vendtale the Ro► sians retreated, after destroying their fortificatirme, without striking a blow. On the Teheroaya they do not appear to have offered any serious mistimes to the advance of the Allies. The occupation of Kerte& by the Allies is a seven blow to the Russians is the Crimea. Between Ka& (in lat. 45 deg. N., beg. 364 deg. E.) and the delta . the Kuban (lat. 45 deg. N., long. 38 deg. B.), the strip of land which separates the flee of Azoff freim the Buzine is extremely narrow. Between the bottom of Ks& Bay (in the Basin.) and the bottom of Arabat Bay (in the Sea of Azoff) its breadth does not * exceed ten miles. Between Cape Tehanda (the sesta= headland of Life Bay) and the Straits of /Latch its average breadth is about thirty miles. East of the Straits it narrows again to about twenty miles, great part of its surface being, however, under water. The south opening into the Straits is about sixty miles east of Kaffe. The width ot the opening (from Cape Takli to Cape Panagia) is about eight miles, but off Ak Buren (twenty miles within the Straits) the navigable waterway narrows to about a mile. From the entry of the Straits to Ak Burns their direc tion is due north; thence, to the Sea of Asoff (a die taxes of about twenty miles more), their direction is about north-east. A couple of miles north of Ak Buren, in the bight of a bay, is the town of Kertett ; about seven miles doe east of it is Yenikale. Kertch is built entirely of stone, and hes a population of about 10,000 souls. Its only export is a little salt ; but it is here that vesselsof deep draught atop and transship their cargoes for the ports of the Sea of Azoff into smaller craft. Vessels of lesser draught, too, are here obliged to unload a portion of their cargoes into lighters, and take it in again at Yenikale. Hence it comes that in time of peace there is always a oda 'Mashie accumulation of shipping at this part of the Straits. We mentioned some time ago that informa tion, to which we were inclined to give credit, led as to believe that this stoppage or deep draught vowels sod unloading of smaller ones was, in a great measure, • farce enacted by the Russian authorities with a view to deceive the met of the world with respect to the depth of water is the Straits of Kertch. if we may lay any stress on an expression in the French despatches (to the effect that "the Sea of Azeff is aeadpisd by the Allied squadron"), the informa tion to which we allude may be regarded as confirmed. lie this es it may, it appears that at . Kertch the Allies have captured several Russian vessels of 60 guns, have obliged the gamy to destroy several war steamers, and have de stroyed a foundry where shot, shells, and minie balls were manufactured. One source, therefore, whence the defenders of Sebastopol have received their supplies of ammunition, has been taken fawn these ; the Reagan means of carrying on a contmuti,t Wien between the Crimes and the main have bees cut off; and the Allies command all the principal ports of the Sea of Azoff—Taganrog, where the iron of Siberia and the ordnance manufactured is the Ural are shipped, and the rising grain depots bf Berdisnsk and MarianopoL These important advantages were gained on the same day that the Allies were allowed to occupy, almost without resistance, the line of the Tchernays. These combined movements appear to indicate a determination on the pert of the Allied commanders to deal first with the Russian army in the field as a prepiratory step to the eomplete investmeet and capture of Sebastopol. To this inference additional probability is lent by the ears with which the French appear to have been strengthening the positions of which they obtained possession on the 23rd and 24th. Of course while the Allied armies are dealing with the Russians in the field it will be necessary to strengthen the lines before Sebastopol, for the couble purpose of preventing their falling into the hands of the Russians, and prevest lag the Russians from attacking our troops in the rear. The Russian army between Simpheropol and Bektchi Sergi is now closely pressed on its left flank and seriously menaced on its right. It is to be hoped that a few days will bring us news of a de monstration, or more serious attack having been made by Oxus PAM from the side of Eupatoria. The necessity under which the Russians are of concentrating their forces, placed between two fires by the Allies, will probably afford en opportunity of striking a blow at Perekop. It ought also to be bore* in mind, that the same authority from which we derived the information that the depth of water in the Straits of Kertch . .exceeds what has been given out by the Russian sintbrottiss, added that the Bag between Nicolakeff end the ma, is navigable for ships of considerable den& et woks. 11 We be menet, that rte _ ...et the Russian roads howl suffered from .• emulations rain to an extent sulielent to impede =rem of vehicles. A large body of troops down to the opposite side of the Great Har• boor on the 12th inst. Among the amusements in camp the 2nd Bee meat of Zonaves have established a thestre. Tee performances, by the men of the regiment, take place twice a week, and are excellently menage& 'file prices of admission are voluntary, and the funds devoted to the benefit of the French prisoners in Sebastopol and elsewhere. (111.01/ A SPACIAL 001DZ5POPIDENT OP TEI DAILY OPR ARMY IN -TILE , CRIMEA.. oi' ,: • * - c . WNOWZBPICI4 00 umcbc OF TEN DAUM t. NZW 4 ", : CAldir ABOVE 611BASTO.BOL, Kee 15. Daring the labt few nigh t s the Hessian* have taken advantage of the darkness bud made attempts to psi into oar works for the purpose- of eumetitting soy us a jeeies they might and the opportunity of in them. These sorties have fortunately' bees unsuccessful as to the objects inten&C ask attended with loss by us, have produced NIB ter loss on the assailants. When there is darkness to conceal their movements the MOW frequently sends smuts toward our work. So ceiscoeitre. Ordinarily if a weak or neglected point it sand, an attack follows ; but, it our men are ob served to be on the alert, it is Weird. On the night of the 11th instant a sortie was made is fixes against our left attack, while a feint was Mk at the same time spirt our right with the tidiest motive of distracting attention. There was high wind blowing at the time , and ra in W been falling nearly the whole day. The attack was made chiefly against a portion st the advanced works, which were guar at the 'thee by men of the 68th and 46th Regim d en ed ts, the Meow being most engaged in the contest. The Rus sians contrived to get up the brow of the hill unper rived, and it was not till they were close upon the tenth that their approach was understood. A sharp lett followed, and Dome of the enemy twice managed is get into our trench, but they were on both o °Dea denss driven out with loss. In this affair Captain Llyd Edwards, of the 68th Regiment, lately pro moted to the charge of a company, was killed. There were also four men killed and twenty wounded of the same regiment. Three men of the 46th Regi ment were wounded. The Rueaian loss is not known, for nearly all their wounded and many of their dead were removed at the time or soon after the attack. One Russian prisoner, who was wounded, had a barbed steel instrument in his possession for spiking a gun. It is stated that the loss in the 68th regiment was increased by difficulty having been experienced in discharging their rifles. In some instances the ram rods had become " wood-bound" from the long mo tioned rain, and in others the pieces missed fi re on account of the caps or nipple-tubes having become damp or clogged. The British soldiers do not, as a general rale, take the same amount of interest in protecting their fire locks and always having them in order for immediate use, that other troops seem to do, especially troops who have been used to active service in the field. In our trenches the barrels of the muskets may be con stantly seen leaning against the parapets, and, in rainy weather, damp earth and wet must no doubt frequently find their way into the chambers, and bores of the nipples. It is only lately, since a school of musketry has been established, that anything like a sportman's care of the weapon has been inculcated as a regular part of a soldier's instruction. The Russians have a small leather nipple-cover attached to every rifle, to guard more completely against the intrusion of damp or dot; and their percussion caps are protected in the cap pockets by each side-opening of the pocket being very closely fitted to its fellow, and, moreover, by placing to a certain depth within the aperture • lining of fur. A hint might also be taken from their muzzle-stoppers, which consist of little more than a pointed piece of stick with a button at the broad end. But the broad end beneath the button is encircled by a rim of coarse cloth where it touches the inner cir entoference of the muzzle, and is tuns* made to adapt itself very nicely, so that all dirt and foreign matter ate completely excluded; while, if by accident left in when the firelock is discharged, their hold below this narrow rim ia so slight that no mischief can happen to the weeps. Oars is more highly finished, and neater in appearance; but from the elasticity and spring of the cleft wood, its hold within the t=etes much stronger—too strong, it the wood swollen from the effects of damp. Moreover, if the firelock is discharged while the stopper remains is, se eseesissally happens with young soldiers called wen to In suddenly, the explosive force enters the 'left, and drives the separate parts of the wood literally against the barrel, which is generally rent mender by the force thus excited against it. This cannot happen with the tapering muzzlrestopper used by the Russians. On the night between the 12th and 13th the enemy on two occasions approached our advanced works, but speedily retired on finding our troope waiting to receive them. The attempts were made chiefly against the advanced works on the French man's-hill attack. On the first occasion our men, finding that the Russians went back after the first volley, set up a loud cheer, in which the French on the right joined. This cheering has been denounced in general orders (excepting in case of a charge), for it is calculated to bring down a fire from the enemy's large guns upon the position whence the cheering proceeds, and the men have been warned Against repeating it. There has been no progress made in our ap proaches towards the defences of the fortress, for we cannot proceed further until the French operations against the Kamtachatka luoette and Malakhoff works are more advanced. These operations are continued with vigour, and, it is hoped, will shortly clear the way for our further advance in front. In the mesa time our breaching batteries and new mortar bat teries are progressing rapidly. The nature of the movements which may be ex pected to take place shortly remains a profound , secret. It is rumoured that a part of the Sardinian contingent will take up a position on the points toward Kamer, where the redoubts were which the Russians gaine from the Ottoman troops at the battle of Balsklava. This is all surmise. The Sar dinians who have landed at Deshler are encamped at present near the village of Karari. They are fine, active, well-equipped men, and express a high respect for the British, with whom they are more especially to rt. Many of their Noses can speak French, and some few among them speak English. An order has been given by Lord Raglan to his own troops for every officer immediately to provide himself with the authorised number of bit horses. This indicates marching somewhere, and it is quite certain that the vast army which ill very shortly be assembled here cannot remain long in this position. But what particular part of the force will make the move, what remains to protect our basis of operations, and carry on the siege operations—in what direction the expeditionary troops will pro ceed,—all these things are known only to the respec tive commanders and admirals, and will only trans. pare when the arrangements are about to be carried into effect. The Russians have seemingly given op their hold in the direction of Samara, though no doubt the approaches to the Baidar district are worded beyond, and are devoting themselves to s ilt i r il ic l ali a ti r thenoe deren ces abciv a t ni the variouschu and ap preachesthe tress the Tchernaya valley, toward the position ocired by the army on the north side of liebestopoL The valley of the Tahernaya is at pre sent completely flooded, and can only be travelled over by the roads which skirt the base of the hills on either side. The rain ceased on the 13th instant, and the weather has been fine since. So much wet had fallen that the mud on the plain began to assume the ap pearance with which all were Do familiar during the past winter. This, and particularly the state of the trenches, has led to an increase in the sickness among the troops engaged in the siege operations, more I especially among the new comers. The number of 1 , cholera cases became greatly increased. They have again diminished since the fine weather set in. The 1 3rd Buffs, and some other regiments, lately arrived, 'suffered particularly. The First Division, which re mains near &Ashlar,. and does not take part in the trench duties, it is said, has escaped altogether. Lieutenant-Cieneral Sir Coin Campbell has, at his , own request, been relieved from the duties of Com , mandant of Balaklava. The military arrangements) Ifor the defence of the position will, however, be re pined by him, while Colonel Harding will exercise [ all the pearl duties connected with the town and =bounng bazaar of Hadikoi. This briar. so', has been the growth of wooden and iron 'strontium, might now well usurps the title of tows in preference to Balaklava, for it greatly exceeds it in the number of houses and extant of ground covered. No envoys have been observed to approaeh the north side of the hirbase fee mow days put. It is saws.) KaDIKOI, MAT 14. The heavy rains and winds which I mentioned in I my lest letter continued until Sunday morning, when the sun shone out bright, and a strong drying breeze I swept over the land. The progress of the cure was las vapid and wonderful as the evil had been. The I rain of three days and nights sufficed to turn the fields ioto quagmires, and the roads into streams of mud land water. The sunshine and wind of two days— of yesterday and to-day—havedried up the fields, and improved the roads into a moderately dirty state. Another four-and-twenty hours of dry weather will most probably make everything as clean and comfortable as it was at the commencement of last week, before that disagreeable interlude of the I May rains. The plain, however, will for some time to come show the traces of the late wet weather. It bas been frequently mentioned, but still I think it is sot superfluous every now and then to remind your readers, that what we call Balaklava plain—the low land between the hills of Balaklava and ladikoi, the heights of Sebastopol, and the heights that ries on the other bank of the Tchernaya—is as undulating piece of ground, divided by *event ridges of low hills and by a corresponding number of fiat dells and low marshy I plots ot ground. It looks smooth and level enough from the rising ground which we occupy, and the I contrast it forms with the high land is sufficiently I striking to justify the term of plain, which, by com mon consent, has been applied to this portion ot the debateable country. But thrum that travois, dal ground for the first time will have diffioulty to un derstand the justice of bestowing such a name upon this most billy and daley piece of ground. In the plain. then, the waters which have accumulated are not likely to be dried up by a few days' sunshine and wind—the more so as the lower swampy places had hardly recovered from the inunda tions of the winter. We saw that in the course of the reconnaissances a fortnight ego. The cavalry had to avoid many places—in others the horses sank in up to the fetlocks ; and if the same Oren were now tried, the animals, with their natu ral instinct, would recoil from crossing them. For a week at leest Balsklava plain will be impassable for large masses ot cavalry and artillery ; end for above a fortnight the condition of the ground will be in favour of those that have to defend themselves, while the aggressors will have everything against them. The Russians are aware of this fact ; for de: ing the last two days they have ma de preparations to push their lines from the Tcbernaya forward to I the ridge of low hills which intersects the plains in a straight line from Karama to Sebastopol he ights. I 1 On these bills we have always seen their videttes, and small troops of Comets that occasionally came down and attracted the attention of our batteries, showed that a portion of their cavalry was hid behind the slope on the opposite side. The late re connaissances showed that this cavalry was very I weak, and that the hills were considered as an advanced post for observation—not for defence. I understand that the Allies had formed the plan to occupy these hills for the same purpose, for they command a view of the lines of the Tcheroaya quite as much as of those of Bala- klava. I understand further that it was proposed that the Sardinian troops should occupy these hills. The Russians, however, have taken the initiative, and are at this moment busily occupied in fortifying the position. It is but too probable that they, too, have received strong reinforcements and can afford to cover an additional portion of ground. Since yester day earthworks are being thrown up along the whole of the ridge ; earthbuts and tents are seen peeping over the brow of the hills, and guns are standing ready to be placed in position. the end of ' the week, if we want these hi ß lls, y we shall have to fight for them ; and such is the condition of the plain, that an advantageous de fence might be made by bodies of troops holding the high ground, with no other protection than a few infantry redoubts, some of which were on the bills when we reconnoitred them, and these, according to the best of my belief, were not destroyed on that occa sion. Whether or not they were destroyed matters very little, because they are almost as easily made as unmade. Whatever may have been our plans with respect to these bills, it is not probable that immediate opera tions against them are in contemplation. The first detachment of Sardinian troops—a regiment of Rifles—landed this morning, and took up an encampment near Karani, in the rear of our Balaklava position. These troops are fine men, and look hardy, energetic, and Wive. They marsh with the firm and yet lazy step which marks the mountaineer, and as they passed along there was a sort of swagger in their manner which is general to corps d'elite, or crack corps, and which is hardly unbecoming to them. Our own 11th Hussars have it in a high degree, and it is the distinguishing feature in the manners of the Zooave. The dress ot the Piedmontese Rifles—which some object to as being too much brigand fashion--seems, for all that, useful and practical, and certainly it looks be coming. It is true that their hats are rather shocking to eyes accustomed to bearskin caps and slakes, but with our Highland regiments lying full in our front Ido not see how we can object to feathers. I intend to pay an early visit to the Pied monism camp, and make promise of a letter, interest ing, if not instructive, to military tailors and tailor ing generf.ls. For the last few days Omer Pacha has been is camp, and assisted at the councils of war held at, head-quarters. His p resence here has led to many speculations, and it is thought that head-quarters think spin of an advance from the Balaklava posi tion upon the Tchernays, and a simultaneous advance of the forces at Bopatona upon the Alma. The hopes that are entertained on this score are strengthened by a paragraph in general orders advising officers to precool for themselves the bit horses allowed to them by the rules and regulations of the service. Some think this order conclusive against the renewal of the Kertch expedition and the much-desired occupation of Foretop. If maritime expeditions were in ca.; temptation would bead-quarters be so solicitous to keep up the regulateknumber of bit hones? On the other hand, I am assured that the Kutch expedi tion is most strongly urged upon the commanders. The fact is, of late there has been a good deal of racing and riding about, and Levi Raglan may have seen that though the forage allowed to officers for bit horses is duly drawn, it is not drawn for the sustenance of animals fit to carry baggage. Though most officers are mounted, it is to be feared there are few baggage horses—not the property of departments—in the camp. It is just probable that the general order about the horses is similar to the examination of the soldiers' cartoeche-boxes—a precautionary measure dictated by the commendable desire to be prepared tor all eventualities. It is also gratifying to find that the Land Transport Corps will not, for the pre sent at least, be burdened with the conveyance of officers' baggage. When the corps has once been on active service on a march—when the men and the subalterns have been tried—when it has gained a footing in the important position it is to hold in our military economy—then it will be time to extend its sphere of action, and increase its responsibilities. Until that time shall arrive the measure is precocious, and its adoption would have been rash. It is well it has been abandoned. Our bete noir, the Sebastopol front, has been re. markably poor of events since Friday last. The whole of Friday night, and also daring . Saturday night, there was a prodigious firing in our advanced treatises, bemuse our men had persuaded themselves into a belief that the Russia= wen to get into our works. As a matter of cause, returned the fire from their advanced works. The two nights were windy, rainy, and pitek dark, and sea side directed their dm epos the lashes of ifs firing of the other line. Oar men—who I must Iwo been very unruly on that Membra—in-1 ehteisa etaadiag up sad Mania, ever the ter et the pmefet, is order to " pot" isnagiaary Romione (710* ♦ PAIVATZ LITTII.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAT 14. We have bad terrible work here. Last night, the 18th Regiment fired on the 68th by mistake. The Rua sMos made an attack on the advance batteries and were repelled by the 68th and Rifles ; the Russians returned in a short time with a reinforcement, again attacked the batteries, and a fearful struggle took place. The reserves were then sent op—the 9113,18tb, and 44th—and when they got into the advanced trench both sides were so covered with mud that we could not tell Russians from English ; so the reserve opened fire ; but it was unfortunately on the poor 68th ; they then charged on them, when they found out their mistake, but not till a good many of the 68th had fallen ; however, the Russians bad it hot and warm afterwards. The poor fellows who are wounded io advance of the trench are obliged to lie there all day till dark, as the Russians fire on any of our people who go to bring them in. Many of the wounded might recover it brought in, but they lie and bleed to death. The Russians make sorties daily and nightly, as, since General Jones came up, we are pushing the works close up to the town, so the work is very hard upon our poor fellows, often being three or four nights without rest. man y of them were their Dew encamping ground before the rain set in, ware al at Its base. Of course a good re . p n ar o scl Jot Bitch aw 0011111MOIP ire and their t.ut,, wig& "potted," instead of " potting." On the whole , the P firing was by far less &idly than might have een ha d battalion of the Royals. in the tad Division,' beth b :etly The t 4 8",: bran rz i ,, y ., t- i: ch th el ! ' 4 w thD s ral l O i n ly a ard 4ed t ' t a l I l expected from the proximity of the combatants and the awful moles of the fusillade. No adman - arrived regiment*, had been a few days longer in camp and l mp was • plena- by either party. Matters have were somewhat better prepared, but the sites of their amps COMO to a stand-still, and must remain so until we are not good, nor are those of the Buffs or 7 1 st either. The 48th are on • level piece of ground, where the 63rd hosp';ej attempt to take the Russian advanced works, or they _. establishments were in the winter; the soil is tens ' sk - i n a t -- the water lodges in pools, and remains until evaporated hi y . attempt to take ours. And it should be recollecte d that this is in the middle of May, on the 210th day the stn's rays. The Buffs and 2nd battalion of the after the commencement of the 'first battering fire, Royals ore on low ground between the 2nd and 4th Di_visirrAs s , with the same roor disadvantages to as the tgsb ; and the 36th day after the commencement of the second! Can any one doubt that we must change ' ib tente sni t pitched occupy just t where t tl:'• ground , ground b a : R • n rt our mode of operations, if we would master the rise to form the hill on which the huts of the 14th sad '39th fortress P have been built; but I think all these regiments might Is No one in the camp can understand why the fleet removed with great advantage to their health to the high*, makes no movement against Odessa. Can no light I hope , from the short distas t e ' , and drier ground, and material detriment to their military re. from home be thrown upon the subject? Ido not w ai l = bout soy very believe it would be interfering with the conduct of The health of the let Division continues to improve, Sat the war if an independent member—it any such be shetnntoher of fever cues in the 79th and 93rd i s am i de ,. still extant—were to inquire whether the inactivity ably radnced. The men are well supplied, and the du n s of Sir Edmund Lyons is the result of his own inch- and fatigues comparatively light. nation, or whether his hands are tied by instructions tinned a :t o te e t r t ; l i . e v e e e m u:t u t= daraatit:egk 1r some Z a l!o e t , t of tl: o 7 74. from home? Here it is generally believed that the intending surgeon, thick., from fatigues in the bes e t o f s th; latter is the ease. If such were our misfortune, this day and exposure to damp at night. Two serious accidents campaign cannot be successful, and our labours would haws mewed during the week, one requiring amputation wars against the general. of the French Republic :ittee.;stboet,°t re her oi a ri n og inj r u e z ov o o f l tho i foot,the r o la . i o un n e d d a by tbe be vain, like those of the Austrian armies in the first of -the thigh, on account of canoon-suot injury of the boo and of Napoleon. Tnen, too, a few bigwigs in the adjoining it, requiring the astrigalue. These injuries us. Hof Krtegarath presumed, at the distance of thou- curred on the 7th, and are both doing well. There 'is sands of miles, to regulate the movements of armies another interesting ease in the hospital of the left dee that were within sight of the enemy. The history train, where the greater part of the lower jaw on both sifts w a :Le an ur d te i d n : e w i e s e tig by b a le es ca ti re no u a r to ta t if-A T . h is is ta e n a t. ar iu u r nd o er the of these wars is on record. When will the world know the true history of the Crimean campaign ? H. Taylor, is rapidly proceeding to a cure ; and, Surgeon 1 11. ciossly drawing the parts together, the deformity will byee means been considerable as might be imegioed. The Om is now walking about, and though he as yet requires 14 be led through a tube, he is able to smoke his pipe. The Cavalry Division is improving in health. There are fewer fever eases ; and the man of the 13th Light Dragom% who lest week was considered in a hopeless state, is, Idea ' glad to say, prrgressing favourab y. The 19th Room is the only regiment in the Cavalry Division that ha, anythiog like a heavy sick list, and they are inffering from dysentery contracted in Egypt, and kept up by steeping en the ground hers after the comforts of Indian barrack life. In the 2nd Divittion febrile complaints Mill continue to,be ' the most numerous class of dise eeee e but bowel atEntions are becoming more common, and spasmodic cholera has mule its appearance: eighteen cases have occurred during the weak, of which seven proved fatal. Ildthe 3rd Division although there le no marked diming ties fa the number otsick, the decreased mortality market mitigation in the form of I hat is prevailing. The ma. tality this week is only hail what it was last week. 4ta Division —Cholera has made its appearance in tkie division during the week, and thirteen cases have occurred, seven of which died, and four of them belonged to the 48th Reitimeist. On the night of the 11th, the Russians made a sortie, asi 1 officer and 5 men, of the 68 it, were killed, and 22 lota were wounded—amomat the latter is a case of mutket be lodged in the brain The man must have been shot from at*, as thi ball entered the upper part of the head sod Lod*. The trephine was applied, and 1 spicult of btu', tbg bad, bees drier n down, removed, but the ball was so dee* emhedSed in the brain, ft could net be discovered. Ha e still alive, but triers is little or ao bops of his tilting, LIGHT DIVISION. In this division, u in all others, fever is the puniest disease, but only two deaths have occurred from it dons' the week. Seven men have died from wounds and teed choice', one in the 77th and the oth-r in the 23rd Bap. moot. Fitty.five eases of gun-shot wounds were iidmitwi during the week, the greater portion of them fresh woad'. GUM Wren deems that occurred, one was a wound of tie , w ere wound of ;honete abdomen, in which the fosall ist.Opo wounded agesket-ball, another a severe fracture of the thigh u 1 askle, by the bursting of a shell, besides bullet womis through both arms. Tnere was a second case of injury's( the head, as well as a second injury of the lungs. Big seventh death is not detailed. Avery precaution is being taken to remove nuisances fru 'the camps and their n.ighbourlseols and to improve Mid 'imitary condition, as • eil as that of t he ' locality, and in this the sanitary commissioners sent nut from England did their cordial insistence.— I have, &c., J. BALL, I atipector• General of Hospitali: To Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., • Commuding•in-Chief. • A telegraph has been received of a substqwtat date $ the above, announcing that the cholera was deems*. The camps of the Buffe, 48th, and 71st, have all him obagge4 to the only available sites, but to a greater dishes, to where their services will be required ; and it is allege problematical what degree of benefit may be derived. Li the ground is now dry. Although the weather was beast& when these regiments encamped, the rain came on with is, usual suddenness end violence, causing the mud to be say a foot deep over the whole surface of the country, u 6 manner that must he seen to be believed. They Woo time to tntrencb their teats, although they were sap 'phi with the proper tools. JA IS Si MPSON, Chief of the Stai MK court. OSBORNE, MAT 28. The Queen and Prince walked out in the grounds this amain. The royal °Wires also took their usual exercise. The Duchess of Rest will setura to Loudon to-morrow. Despatehes were received from the Go rrrrrr of Henry. land, and from the Governer of Vancouver's Island, yes terday, at the Coloaird•office. Despatches were also received from the Governor of Canad a and the Lord High COON miesioner of the lonian Islands. The apartments at Windsor Cutle lately acon pied by the Emperor and Empress of the French, and to which the peblic have been admitted by orders batted from the Lord Chamberlain's °Kee, will be finally closed altar this day, the 29th instant. On Friday, the lit of Inns, the State apartments will be opened to the public, subject as heretofore to the production of an order, which may be ob tained of Kr. Kitchell, bookseller, 33, Old Bond-street Kraus. Paul and Dominic Colnaglii, printsellers, 14, Pal ma Kest; sad limas. Ackerman sad Co., printsellen, 96, Strand. The Hon. Mr. Fillmore, lately President of the United States, arrived in England by the Atlantic on Sudsy. The Countess of Derby holds an eseembly on Thursday, aad a ball to-morrow west. Moot races commence on Tuesday. A visit from Royalty is expected en the Cop day. The Earl of Malmeebury presides at the Eton anni versary. Axed to be held at the Thatched House Tama on liaturdst, Jana 9. The Westminster anniversary dinner wil: be bald at the me pla y on Wedneaday, June 13. A second horticultural fete will be given at Chia. wick on the 20th of tke amain month. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are now at Biota House, Isieworth. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lord Ronald Love e= Gower are stayias on a visit to the COODONS of Carlisle at Castle Howard. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll left Campden hill, yesterday. ea a visit to the Doke of Batherlead at Clit. dew, Dear Maidenhead. The Marquis of Granby and Lord John Manners have left tows to joie the Duke of Asthma at Behalf Code, Leicestershire. I Vincent Palmerston left town, with Viecou- Pelinerston, last eveniog, for his seat, Broadlends, Hants. Bear-Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., has left the Admiralty for a few days. Mr. Phion, Q.C., has entered upon his dotage as n od secretary to the Admiralty. Last evening Lord Leodeeborough. as Peodiwt if the Numismatic Society, Invited the members to liosoodis is Cultor gardens, to meet the councils of miens streiedem and the members of the Royal Aredemy. Mama emeadied to mom then 300, and for choir kle Midllbip had assembled is his nos a variety of ad of a very meherehi hied. MAW Castle sod its oppoodagto on now gives u p by Me Demise' Lady Peamun. Her ladyship has !mod a midesso as Fame. Lady Loadeaboroagh's ball, which was announced Ousts pine to-morrow evening, is, is sostsequeses of the eg* of Lord Manners, postponed until Monday seat. The annual grand fancy drag ball in aid of the Royal Caledonian Asylum and Royal Scottish Hospital is eaamumed to take place at Willies Loma, King.stnet, St. James's, on Friday, Jane 16. There is a great competition among the leaders of the bar for the appointments vacated by Mr. Thins, the Bossed Secretary to the Admiralty, vin. :—Counsel to the Admiralty, Jades-Advocate of the Fleet, Recorder of Dr Maven, Counsel to Pomodice on Western Circuit sad to the Royal Forests in Hampshire. The first appointment is teal 600 f. per annum. Jilts Life has that following in reference to 'the Hon. P. Villiets, H.P. —" It has boos rumoured daring the past week that Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., has been aret sulted.in them nefoetnisate matters, and that under his ad vice some arrangement may be made." The Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty (Rear- Admiral Berkeley) apologising for inability to attend a mediaeg of his entailments, to disease the bast means of romeelag the evils ezletiag is the administrative depart. meats of the goverment, writes—" i am quite alive to the meeseity of leferaileg, or rather eradicating, those evils. At the same time I greatly regret that se much szagpration sad se many false statemeats ham been made within sod without the walls of parliament an such subjects." TO Hampshire Advertiser argues that the land elf the New Forest should be hued upon such terms as to se nee the pleads' of a certain masher of ;oaks and othir timber for the see of the navy ; some portion of the Albeit fame mem to be preserved as it is to gratify the pnbig taste, sod a sompsosation gives for proved Forest rig m. The new scheme foe the management of St. Hospital, se far as allowing the brethren 7s. /sr week 1 1 in addition a their sant ratites. eine into enrages Sato* lait. DESPATCHES FROM LORD RAGLAN. (FROM LAST NIGHT'S SI7PPLEMENT TO THE" GAZETTE.") WAR DEPARTMENT, MAT 28. Lord Fulmars has this day received two despatches aed their enclosuree, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, May 16. My Lord,—Sinee my despatch of the 12th inst., nothing has occurred worthy of being reported to your lordship. The fire has been very slack, and that of the enemy has been directed ovule the French works rather than against the English trenches. The remainder of the 12th Lancers has arrived and will be disembarked to-day. All our means are devoted to the landing of the Sardi also troops, which the bad weather had prevented on the arrival of the first ship,. I have found it necessary, In some instances, to land ar tillery horses at liaaatch Bay, to avoid further crowding the harbour of Balaklava. I enclose the rotate; of casualties to the 13th instant in clusivc.-1 have, dte., RAGLAN. The Lord PIMUSITt, &c., &C. Runny or CASUALTIES FROM Till I TO TM MR or MAT 111 hi, nomusivs.—lnd Battalion. let Regiment of foot-3 rank and file, killed; 2 rank and Ole, wounded. gin Foot—l rank and Ale, Weil ; sergeant, 1 rank and file. wounded. 7th Foot-1 rank and Pie. wo unded. 19th Most-1 rank and Se, killed; 3 rank and file. wounded. hid Foot.-2 rank and fie, wouneed. Wird Foot-3 rank sad file, wounded. afth loot-9 rank and file,wounded. 39th Foot -1 rack and Ste wounded. 46th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded. geth Moot—l rank and Ine,weended. 49th Foot —1 rankana file.lulled; 2 rank and file, wounded. 99th rout-2 rank and Ole, wounded. filith Foot —1 othoer, 5 rank sod Ille, kV lad; ltrank awl lie, wounJed 1 rank and Ole, inlasing. Seth foot-1 pennant, 2 rank and Me, wounoed. 117111 Foot-2 rank and file, wounded. Total-1 alter, 1 rank and lilt, killed; 2 sergeante. al tank sad file, wounded; 1 rank sad ale, Liam,. Noisiest. MITIOUI or Orrscras woo oars sass En.Lno now INC i Ito so sus Lisa MAT, 1 6 2 2 . inctxtuvi.—lsih rout: Captain b. L. Edwards. Noraisitt !Worm or Nort•Ccessurconso °mimes aro Pam, Kim.. a, /ZOO TUN 11TB TO Mt 13T11 MAY, it3S, INCIAZIIIII.-2nd Batts%a, let Foot: Private* Patrick Cloonan, William Shallots sot George Wakefield, omitted la last return. 4th Tent: Private John rano. 66th loot : Privates Tomas Resnick, Robert Ashby. John binstooos, William Tolley. and Gwen McGee/cr. 19th Foot : Private John Reynolds. 49th Foot: Corporal Junes Campbell. NOMINAL Remits or NOW-TOIOIIMIONID 0171C11111 AND PSI TTTTT T WOUNDhI , FROM THZ Mil TO Tlla 18TH OF MAT. 16.5 A, tad havalion, let Foot: Privates Patrick Carey, severely; Patrick Caraway, slightly. 19th Foot : Privates , Thomas Mb, severely ; Ed ward Pointing. severely. 14th Poet: Privates George Ashton, den. prosody• Mwhael Turbady, severely; George Firlwell, dasgerou-ly Allr,d Whittaker, dangerously; John Dyer, severely. Beth Foot: Private Timothy Thalami, aughtle. 46th Foot. privates %Maur Martin, severely; Sampson Smile, daapraualr; Tivialaa Sahib, dasprouely. 15th Foot: Privates Charles Raulinson, slightly ; John Drury, slightly. both Foot: Corporals Edward italoh, severely ; .brims. Glinsiane, severely; Privates William Ferris, eeveraly; Fa trick Doyle, severely: Levi Whenmen. severely; Richard Ma itre, eeverely ; Wil lam fills, slightly; Mertes Row, Mightly; James Hilton, gamely ; John Brennen, severely ; Themes L'rbamine, slightly; Janus Davideoa, @seemly; Nark Walsh, dangerously ; James Moloy, dangerously; Rosh, severely; John Duggan, dan gerously; Thomas Dui, dangerously' Waterman, Mogen. ousty ; Robert Sender, severely; William billosiald, severely; Bar. Imbuing. Jnyce, dangerously ; Ilesjastin Campbell, slightly. 1194 Foot : Colour Sergeant. Michael Hampton, slightly; Corporal Michael Lambert, severely; Private Joseph Green, *merely. 97th Foot: Frt. vats. Jobe Howlaad, severely; Charles entionne severely. Mk root Private Gawp Pinang, severely. 2qd Foot: Privates Wil. liam Jenkins, W illia m s, , Richard Watch. severely. Urd Foot: Pri. va es George sev er y ; Patrkk Kelly, severely; William methiffey, slightly. 49th Foot: Private Michael MWBNi, slightly; Nicholls Boorman, dangerously. 4th Foot : Sergeant Joseph Hunt, srallhtly ; Private Luke Mayhew, slightly. 45th Foot: Private Than. Woodward, slightly. NOMINAL U1T11.14 or Nor.eoronsmoss OVVICTIS AIM TZTTATII cm is lITM TO Mau NAT. MS, tociaars.-611th Foot: lraMide Rebut tt HEALTH OF THE TROOPS. Before Pobeatipol, Stay 15. My Lord,—l have the hcmour to enclose &letter from the leepector Geeeral of Hospital, forwariieg the weekly report on the sick °edit' army under my command. I deeply regret to have to draw your lordship's attention to t►e tact that cholera he. reappeared here; that 20 men have died, sad that 52 men were y day labouring under the fatal disease. The tacope had been free from it for several months, and I was in hopes that we should have bad no return of it. General Csarobert informs so that it had ceased to prevail in the French army in a greater or leaser degree. —I have, *c., RAGLAN. The Lord rinakllTO, 10. Head Quarters, Camp before Sebastopol, May 14. My Lord,—l have the honour to report on the weekly mate of sick of the army serving in the Crimea, from the 6th to the 12th instant, and to observe that the following are the proportions, which are extremely moderate ; via. : Ratio of admissions to strength during the week, 3.92 per cent.; Ratio of deaths to strength during the week, 0.20 per cent ; but I regret to have to add that, sines the 12th instant, spasmodic cholera has considerably increased, and ae many as 18 deaths, sad 62 eases under treatment, have. beta re ported within the last twenty-four hours. The 4th, including the Buffs and 71st, the god and the Light Divisions, with B 0 and P batteries of Artillery, have suffered most; but as yet the diseaae can hardly be said to exist in the cavalry. let and 3rd Divisions, nor in the siege train. This exemption, however, there is 'WWI to appre hend, will not be of any very long duration. Hitherto the disease has chiefly attacked new comers, and spay of the cases have occurred when the men were either actually in the trenches, or immediately after their return from duty in them. This may have been owing to the combined causes of fatigue and local miasma, but to neither in particular; fer we find the men of the B, 0, sad P batteries, who go Into the trenches at all, and who are not overworked, have suffered nearly as much as any others. All the men attacked in them, with I believe one exception, had recently arrived in the Crimea. In the P battery, two of the men attacked had only just landed ; one, I think, had been about 24 and the other 36 hours on shore when they were attacked, and in both the disease followed - - intempermoss. Ties weather, which for some dip Previous to the 10th had been extremely warm, was followed on that day by heavy rake, which continued, hibernating with petiods of demo fog daring the whole of the Mix and 12th, bat it has now cleared no again. and the temperature bas been cowsiderably redeood. The Baghdad net, *Ugh bud only jog 1111robod op to lir RUSSIA. • ST. PETERSBURG, Mae IS. The short period that elapsed last year Mutt the withdrawal of the Baltic fleet and the setting it of the winter was made use of by the Russians far effecting several changes in the stations of their Wel forces. Thus five line-of-battle ships that had beta stationed at Sweaborg were removed before thefts to ,Cronatadt, and a large part of the gunboatsted from Sweaborg to Rotahensalm. It was during tkii manmuvre that an accident happened, occaustill thq i total loss of a war steamer, which has only sit become generally known from the result of theme martial tieing published in the Karst Journal. it appearp that on the 30th of October last year St 'two steam corvettes Diana and Lavizza (Lioaeu)kft Sweaborg for Rotshensalm, having in tow the gill• biiits of the first brigade of the rowing flotilla. Tes hoar. atter their departure, whilst off the island d Groacher, the Diana struck with such violence on sunken rock that she immediately tilled, and welt down.. in. deep water in less than ten minutes, TM officers and crew had just time to save their fins and take with them the books and papers of tko steamer. All attempts to find the spot where sla sank have hitherto proved fruitless. The cout martial which eat on the commanding officer lamb hive bees fully convinced that the Diana struck at a rock not laid down in the charts, and honourobil acquitted him of all blame. On Saturday lest Prince Metvchikoff arrived k this city by the railroad from Moscow, and theta da, had an audience of the Emperor. In the present dearth of soldiers, which 4 1 4 6 ' sing to be most seusihly felt, the Emperor favourably livened to a proposal made by the oorrt seta benersl of Caucasus for embodying the irrtlidg I I see p s of Tartars and Bobyles • inhabiting the FP vinous of Orenburg, Samara, Wiatka. and Pas Count Peroffsky is empowered to organise audit body the nomadic hordes of the Bashkirs and Tartar of the Steppes into regular military colonies, et each family thirty desastines of land belonging Wt deniable of the crown. Great complaints are made daily to the Minister 6 the Interior respecting the insecurity of therm' which, in consequence of the blockade, aroused,. more thee ever for the land carriage of natively" duce for exportation from Prussian ports. lusa✓ strings of loaded waggons, several miles in kali', are frequently met with on the road betweeu ic• city and Koffnow ; and the facilities of parlciakl, large quantities of the more valuable deacripticas goods confided to their care is freely made the of byt the carriers, so that the merchants have let tioned the government to establish Dome kind iI trot, in order to prevent the recurrence of thimble gularities in future. Another party, consisting of eight ee n sisters i l shanty, left this yesterday by the railroad to Mar sow, era rovte for the Crimea, where they have rot! teered their services as nurses on the sick P.; wounded in the hospitals. There are a l r eady 9 6 • these ladies in the Crimea, no less than Go of trk# we at Sebastopol alone. The governors, and, military co mmanders of Pit land and the Baltic provinces have received ori es :. declare the tistricti under their several commands P a state of siege. The Czar Alexander has caused the paMol entitled" TlWllfit WISPS and Dying Word s of t_, Emperor Nichols." . td be translated into sew!, Oriental lanjtuages and - rinted at the goveroloo' alt press. 11 It: THE FRENCH AI ME OS. THE CILIMEA.-4 0 1 1 1 to • mistime's% of somi.olla s i a t / Ammeter, 182.000 tin troopahaye been sent oat to the Crimea and Turkey!: the ooninietteemint Oetlii 2 War. Of thus 120,00 0 On &Venable ; the remainirgy zninsaer reprstents, bssidia casualties and the &abit by ordinary mortality, tbo and wounded now in kospiaaL Till EXPRESS. TUESDAY ING, MAY 29, 11 ,‘ " • •