The Express. — London, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

fat exinctiiii. =MOTO COIL !WENT& aa.-efik—W Orr "The ftersa." Lades Erring p.m by Two stook as do . - - NIGH WATIR AT LONDON Tuts Mr—Mariam lb. Aftel Ttlseasow—llleralag, ha --Alto _ IL 41a. 1 416. I. 1 LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 31. Tess general viewswe have so frequently expremed sato the desultory and incoosiderate manner in which Aetna: Parliament are pained, and the unworkable form they in consequence too often assume, receive a sties; confirmation from the remit of the Committee oil the Sale of Beer Act. Here was a statute hastily smuggled through the House of Commons towards the Gloss of a Session, during the late hours of its sit tinge. It was a compromise by which certain parties delegated to watch over the interests of a numerous and influential body of traders sought to escape the messeeity of declaring explicitly in favour either of the advocates or the opponents of laws professing to promote temperance and the decorous observance of the Sabbath. It was a measure that could not stand the test of principle. It was a measure that, if rightly understood, would have raised a dorm against some of its most zealous promoters that they could ill milord to brave. And therefore was it pressed, hurriedly and noiselessly, through sittings of the House of Commons, attended by only a few drowsy and jaded members, " whipped " together to go through the form of assenting to whatever mea. • sores the managers of the House had pre-determined to carry on the eve of prorogation. As might have been expected, the Act was as unintelligible in its details ss irreconeileable with any principle. During the brief period of its existence it has already gives occasion to a world of vexations meddling and irri tating oppression. And now, at the fag-end of a seemioo, it is found necessary to relax its stringency in somewhat the sums hurried manner in which it was enacted, in order to avert worse consequences. We feel to their full extent the obligations under which Mr. BERIELET has laid the public by his bold and skilful generalship. He saw that to seek to ob tain the attention of the Legislature to the whole of the broad question involved in a decision on the merits of the Act, during a session disturbed by the weighty discussions on the management of the war, the crash of falling cabinet', and the intrigues attendant on their reconstruction, would be fruitless. He there fore waited quietly till an unequivocal expres sion of public feeling demonstrated the uni versal exasperation diffused through society by the operation of the Act; and then struck in at once, demanded a committee of inquiry, the investigations of which he urged on with equal tact and decision, and upon its report tendered a bill to the House of Commons, which will afford imme diets relief from the moot intolerable of the annoy. anoes inflicted by the Act. We confess that, in our opinion, Mr. Briticeutr, in framing his bill, has kept in view too exclusively the grievances of excursiocista. It will afford no relief to the greater part of those members of the industrious classes who are under the necessity of resuming their labours during the night which intervenes between Sunday and Monday; and we do not clearly see how it is to meet the case of the numerous class of lodgers who habitually take their meals in coffee-houses or taverns. But Mr. BEIMLIAT knows the temper of the Assembly with which he has to deal, and probably has good reasons for not attempting too much at this advanced period of the session. As we have made special allusion, at the outset of thus remarks, to the part taken by certain pro famed champions of the Licensed Victuallers, it may be se well to guard against the possibility of our being supposed to consider the Sale of Beer Act as peculiarly a grievance of the publican class. True, the famous "bona fide traveller" clause gave that trade a great deal of annoyance, but the im• pertinently meddling provisions of the statute passed far more heavily on the general public than on the vendors of refreshments. The Sale of Beer Act is but as a drop in the bucket of insult and oppression which certain legis lating dilettanti have for years been filling up for the especial use of the publicans, though perhaps it may have been the last drop that makes the vessel run over. Publicans have long been set up to be peren nially pelted by sanctimonious or ascetic legislators, exactly as cocks used to be set op to be pelted by the rabble on Shrove Tuesdays. The name of their grievances from this cause is Legion—the Sale of Beer Act, vexatious though it be, being one of the least. But in the general public —among those who are no publicans, whether they be sinners or not— there is scarcely one individual who has not, at some time or another, been annoyed and inconvenienced by that contemptible statute. Already a formidable opposition to Mr. Branum's Relief Bill is being marshalled and set in motion. The paid agency which has a "vested interest" in the perennial agitation for Sale of Beer Bills, Sunday Trading Bills, Maine Liquor Law Bills, and all kinds of kindred absurdities, is already actively at work. The members of the House of Commons are inun dated with memorials complaining of the early termi nation of the inquiries of Mr. BERKELEY'S commit tee. Its investigations are called " one-sided;" whereas the fact is that their great merit consists in their having been "no-sided." Neither publicans or excursionists on the one side, nor tee-totallers or Bab latarians on the other, were examined, but the principal police magistrates of the metropolis. These gentlemen, who have no interest either in the perpetuation or the repeal of the hale of Beer Act, and who have opportu- nities of studying its operation such as no other class of men enjoy, have pronounced an all but unanimous sentenc of condemnation against it. This being the ease, where would have been the use of wasting time by allowing a few individuals, hungry for public display, to iofiict over again on a nauseated public their dreary platitudes and deceptive half-truths which are already imbedded in the most unreadable of all Blue Books ? We sincerely wish all success to Mr. Beartzute's Relief Bill, but it is evident that the controversy gannet terminate with its being passed into a law. The amateur promoters of the class et statutes to which the Sale of Beer Act belongs, will not allow the matter to rest there. Next session they will return to the attack with new and more stringent measures. Nor, even if they were disposed to remain quiet, is it likely that the public will quietly acquiesce in the perpetuation of the numerous measures these men have ere now sue seeded in obtruding on the Statute-book. The great question whether religion and morality can be pro meted by restrictive laws in matters which involve as breech of the peace —no infringement of the secu rity of person and property —must be thoroughly investigated in all its bearings, and decided is cal amity with the dictates of common sense. THE NEW NT sulauania MOM ova 114.40018tnetiess Us algal report gives the amount salworibed for Si; Tarriit niariy tic: ei thoiisid - six - iiinaiid miaow of &NM. The subscribers number 310,000. • of 60fr. reach MO mi ll ions.- The subscriptions from abroad, in Europe, from England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, dco., exceed 600,000,000 fr. RETURN OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS. (as SIIIIIILAJUMI AND IBRITIIg 111L10/IAPZ.) PARIS, TUESDAY MOIMING. The Emperor and Empress have arrived. DENMARK. (FlOll 0173 OWN 0011111111T0ND11T.) COPENHAGIS, SUNDAY. A royal decree convokes the Diet for the 11th of August. ELSINORE. Svmsa.s. The screw corvette Cruiser bee arrived from Eag les& The French war-etcamer Tooperve, from the Baltic, has proceeded north. KONIGSBERG, IvLir 30. Accounts received from St. Petersburg state that General Gortohakoff has published an order of the day thanking the inhabitants of New Russia sad Bessarabia for their patriotism, and mentioning the arrival in the Crimea of the 7th and 16th divisions of infantry of the reserve from Bender and Odessa. Y ',dot trwrily puma a little Wit byt She Ilderslil -1111*, tlie *Swots to real *lda oar *bps * dry wu posted _ =maimed. of die eseseses as to the great quantity of Turkish provielops at the villsp of Blight Ham,* I sett Colonel Lori. 'a volunteers, with Captain Gardner, attaotted to the stiff, to remunciter. Whit. approaching the village the militia is.. athountend • party of Buthl•Beneuks, who eenuseseed o altinakh, but were not loft before they took to flight, leaving sae tam killed sad two primers. "Large provisions Mt!, la feet, hand at Baghl-Yair, sad moordiagly, ea lily 2,1 seat a detashment, ander the °ow mead of Lieut.-Gauen! de Drummer, with orden to ad. Team to Barsourgitaa sad TAvizia. 0 Moultsg was found in the last of them villages, bet some depots were foetid in the first. "Oa July 2 and 3, the troop, were °coupled is amiss the Impaired previsions, destroying Wes it was leepoosible to take away, to the Turkish antresehment apes the pees at the ontarait of the mountain, to whisk the detachment itself had been transferred is the amnia, of the tad. " In carry*: away these provisions. the means of tramr port possessed by the troops sad the althea helmets' to the inhabiteats were employed ; bat, as them means were ineadakmt, a oonsiderable portion we. destroyed upon the spot by Are or by water. _ " Ice this space of time we hays takes sad dutroyed Told& provisions consisting of barley, wheat, =Met dour, sad biscuits, asouating to at least 80,000 'abstracts. TM baking bosses, established by the meaty la these villages, have beta destroyed, sad tbs Greek bakers who were sea meted with theta hays expressed a wish to reads with oar troop• "After finishing this work. and satisfying myself that my object wss 'masted, I sometesesd on J sly 4 to being bask the sehelose towards the Turkish entrenchment at the mountaia pass, and oa the same day I resumed my march upon Kars by the route followed by our troop' in 1829. "Oa July 4 the advanced Dolma reached the viUage of Tchourikli (Tchounnykkly) and halted for the night ; the other tr-mps bivouacked in the pass itself. " The night of July 6 wad pasted by all the detachment near the village of Tapedjik, and on the nest dsy (July 6) joined Lieutenant General Prism Omarine's troop at the former camp, near the hamlet of Kany-Kieul. "According to accounts received at the camp, Irely- Paelsa arrived at Kerol-Keter, learning the movement of our troops upon the Begaaloug, halted, and began to en trench himself, without offering tbe slightest resistanes to the destruction of the Turkish provisions. "Daring oar return march. several chiefs of Kurdish tribes, who wander upon both aides of the Sagauloog, and are subject to the Turks, mate to me to maks their subraia dos sad to offer Owl, wrviees. j," In order to watch the routes which eras the melt of the Saganlong, I have left upon the western declivity a fly ing detachment, oesuremded by Colonel Priam Dondoukoff- Komakoff, of the Priam Royal of Wortemberg's Regiment of Dragoon.. This eemaander is charged, in addition to the surveillance of the enemy, to bring back and re-esta blish in their deserted villages the Inhabitants who had taken flight. " I ha;e left Majes•fieasral Baklsnotf at the hamlet of Tikme, upon the Kantakei, to keep watch by patrols upon the roads which had from Kan to Bsseroutu, and to cover of the flylog detachment spoken of " Notwithstanding the momentary division of our troops, the Turk. have not ones left Kan, andinljazeresider the; protection of their batteries. Gnu the Bashi-Baiouks attampted to approach our finks, but, surprised in the attack by our Cusack., they fled, leaving a prisoner in our hands. The Turks have not even dared to disturb the movement of a convoy of provisions, which irrivia att Alesandropol on July 6, for Prince Guarino'. column. " Tin following is tho news daring this period from the Edna detachment : " ' General Sousloff in following the retreat of Vely Pscha's detachment reached Toprakh-Hale on July 2, and pushed his outpost up to the tillage of Moullah tioukieran. " Besides the provisions immediately distributed to the troops, they hays in store nearly 4,000 ehetverts of the quantity found in the Turkish camp of Bourb-Oghanes sad in the neighbouring villages. "' Depths were also found at Toprakh-Kale and at Mout lah-Soult man. The whole ham been sent to Sourb-Oghanes and will serve for the sustenance of our trrops. Daring this march of the Erivan detachment, the seniors of the Kurdish tribes wko;wander in these latitudes and are sub ject to the Turks came to us to make their submission. " The last report from General Soulloff, received this day, announces that, on July 5, the Erie= detachment was near the village of Karteonr.' " • This village is not found upon the map, but it is situ ated upon the former alto of the village of Ali-Bigry- ?ROM .AlutoA4 . 9. l 9eee the mate of the Turkish Peet , Vida Pt , 1 P % 1h4,. a ihsiiiss hibreed la 181 -- e --, . II , lisps mar the eseleteall of ti W FRENCIONDAtt :.... •* 4 Watisw Owes tea*. ' The 1 A p a rt ya meiu g ear , halted ' felt the Wild Ilpea tl --...1em1...• .;r9 ll s ..` dia. ...... ill the spot lo tddeb the I owl .....-:,..--or, • - ahoy retteivieg vents that Wm: Itt et PARIS, Tonne! Komi/No. 1829, sad a eyesidereble peados of the *Wry eine tho amount subscribed for near tbe Tarkiali eatreselteteate heritages met THE OVERLAND MAIL. (FILOII ODR OWN 001111SPONDINI.) [The following appeared in a portion of our impression yesterday 1 TRIESTE, MONDAY APTIONOON. The steamer Calcutta arrived here this day, at 81 a.m., in 1221 hours from Alexandria. The India and China Mails lett Alexandria, on the 24th July, with advice' from Calcutta, July 18 I Bombay, June 27; Shanghai, Jane 4; Canton, June 8; Hong Kong, June 10. Exchange at Shanghai, 6s. 64. ; Canton, 4s. 10d. (ST 111711LUITZ AMID BILITISA TILIBOTAPIL) MARSEILLES, TuzaDAr Mowing°. The Valetta, with the above mail., arrived here at 6 o'clock, cm. THE WAR IN ASIA. RUSSIAN DESPATCHES. An extraordinary supplement to the Journal de St. Potersbourg of July 22 contains the following: NEWS FROM ASIATIC TURKEY. Aide.de•Camp General Monravleff writ.a as follows from the camp near the village of Kany•Kieei (at half a station at the south of San), under date July 8: " The heavy rains, which commeneed after the arrival of the troops of the corps of operation at the village of )[oa• garadjik, continued inoessently op to lane 26. "Since then the weather has brightened up ; the niountais streams peculiar to this high country, which were becoming tormats, ham mbsided, and the roads are passable. " Profiting by this cheep, I sent Col. Priam Ladronni koff on the night of the 25th with the Regiment No. 1 of Nossubsen cavalry, sad two minim of mountain militia to patrol. Ia tho evening of the 25th, the No. 2 Regiment of Horde, who had been sent to assist Gen. Baklances cavalry ia the deserve*. of the Turkish provisions, returned to camp. The bad state of Use roads, and the flood from the stream, prevented this regiment from reaching Bardous, as originally proposed ; nevertheless it destroyed, near the summit of the Baganlong, a little convoy of wheat dos tined for Kam " Oa the 26th Joao I mad. a moans tho east aad loath aides of the forum. of Kars from .. The Tarks kept within their entrenchments. Their infantry were midst arms, and their cavalry were in the saddle. Towards the end of the reconnoissance a portion of the cavalry left the camp, but without quitting the range of the batteries, sad even the Turkish outsiders would not advance to skirmish with our horsemen. " From the position occupied by our troops we mold see the fortifications of Kan oa the right bank of the Kars- Tchat very clearly, and also a portion of those on the left bank—thus acquiring the power of verifying and complet ing the plans which were formed upon previous inquiries and after the reeonnaisanoe of June 16. " Oa the 27th we received intelligence that VellPacha, marching with his detachment from Bourb-Ogitanes, was advancing by the valley of the Euphrates to the meow of the garrison of Kers. " On the 28th I sieved the troops from Mougaradjik to the village of Kany-Kieti, choosing a strong position, and one favourable to the utablishment of the baggage trains. Leaving here a party of troops, commanded by Lieutenant- General Prince Gegen'', chief of the 18th infantry divi sion, to watch Kers and look to the heavy haggle, I left for Baganloug the next day, the 29th, with the remainder of my VMS. " I passed the night of Jane 29 near the village of Ketanly. At this place I received a report from the chief of the &Ivan detachment, which confirmed the news of Vely Pasha's movement. General Bessieff announced that having been informed on the 24th of the movement from Bourb Ogitanes, undertaken by Vely Packs, he went in that direction the next day ; that on that day (the 26th) he attacked and die. parsed a detachment of Turkish cavalry which had been left near Brearb Oghanee, and which he had encountered, and made pekonees the Balm Puha of Basareth, who commanded, and the commander of the regular cavalry left upon this point, Hassan Aga, together with nineteen horse men ; the enemy, moreover, had 70 men killed, while we lost one Cossack killed, and four militiamen wounded. The troops, continuing to march upon Seganlong, reached the foot of the mountain on the 30th Jane, and halted for the night three vents in advance of the hamlet of Tchiplakhi. Losing no time, I the same night sent Major General Baklanoff, with a ilying detachment, to the hamlet of Bardone, where, report said, a considerable quantity of Turkish provisions would be found, and a party of the enemy's cavalry. n densest Balaaoff reached the pass at the top of the mountain by break of day on July 1, and found there an unfinished Turkish entrenchment, which, according to the traces of tents and flees, had been but recently abandoned. The village of Bardoua is situated at about sin vents upon the right of the pass, but General Bakianoff, leaving the dragoons, the artillery, and the infantry in the entrench ment, descended towards the village with the rest of his troops. " Nearly three thoutands tchetverts of different kinds of grain and biscaits, and 200 horse loads of artillery amssnal lion, intended for Kars,were here toned. Some teats, and the calash, and effects of Byri•Paeha, purveyor•general of the Turkish army, wen also seised. The latter, with 300 Buhl-Bs:take, took to flight the previous day on kerning from so English aloud, arrived from Kan, of the approach of oar troops. All his admiaistratios, the centre of which was at Bardoas, was dispersed at the same time. " Gen. Baklanoff having learned at Bardoas that a con siderable convoy of Turkish provision had left the village at day-break with a feeble saeort, went with his Cossacks in pursuit, sad ovate* tbe party is the defile of a stream (which crosses Hardens) at 12 vents from that village. On seeing oar cavalry, the seat sad the drivers fled, managing to carry away scans nem, bat abandoning all the rat of the convoy, which enlisted of 137 'tabu laden with provisions. After throwing the provisions Into the river, Gem. Bakker off retuned to the village with the chariots and one. " In the negation the rain body of our forces crossed the satanic of the Sigamloag is the day of July Ist. For this TURKEY IN ASIA. The Vienna Military Gazette states that the Com mander, of the Allied Armies in the Crimea have forwarded to the Porte a professional opinion re specting the fittest measures to be taken conse quent upon the Russian offensive movement upon Kars. They propose, according to this authority, in the first place, to concentrate a force of at least 38,000 men in Batoum and Churuksu, with the ob. jest of operating offensively from those points against the Russians, in case Mustapha Penh' should be compelled to retire by General Andronikors force opposed to him at Kalensi. It is computed that the Porte will require six weeks to organise this tons and transport it to Batoum. Meanwhile, con trary to the Marseilles accounts, Bars is invested, and the communications with Trebizond and Erze- roam are cat off GERMANY AND THE WAR. We have received from Frankfort an account of the resolution of the Germanic Diet on the Austrian communication, considered in its sitting of the 26th, already briefly reported by telegraph. The Diet thanks Austria for its exertions in the cause of peace, commends her for not seeking to extend the obliga tions of the confederation, &clans that Germany is not at this moment called to take new engagements upon itself, and finally resolves to maintain the fede ral contingents of the several states in a posture of 1 preparedness for war. The voting was unanimous. THE SEA OF AZOFF. The Northern Bee, of St. Petersburg, has the fol lowing from Roetoff, on the Don : The most vigorous measures have been taken here. Both the banks of the Don and the Donets have beta armed with batteries. The river is defended with gunboats and the town by Cossacks. Telegraphic poets have been appointed to firm a oasamanioation with Taganrog. The inhabitants, tranquillised by the messuns of the government, return to their habitations. Our export trade is stopped, but our wools, although not sent abroad, maintain their high price, and this branch of commerce feels less than any other the pres sure of the war. The manufacturers of Voronei, Tamboff, and Hounk, take off lug. quantities. The pool of un washed wool is worth from 10f. 25c. to 10f. 50e.. At present the sales amount to 50,000 peods. Naw OMAN Man Lutz FROM LIVERPOOL.—The Liverpool These gutless the recent establishment, ander a lugs and influential Bpsaish company, of a line of steamers to ply from Liverpool to koala sad Havana. It Is intended that • regular monthly sommuare' atioa shall b. kept up between Liverpool and 13 , the steamers calling at Vigo, on the coast of Spain, and Porto Rico, in the West India, to had sad embark passengers. The Ammer vessel of the fleet (the Rabies), a first aloe screw steamer, is already tiosapleted, sad the others an rapidly constracting. The aseasuremeat of the Habeas is 1,750 teas, and she will have mean of 400 bees. power, and espial for 80 first Mete, 40 wend class , end 80 third class penmen, about 1,000 toss of cargo, sad 20 days' eeasemptica of soaL 'De other four vessels are about the same Sin, sad will be laaaehed daring the not Uwe sheaths. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. 1 (now • STIPPLIKINT TO TNT imannw.) War Department, July SO. Lord Paamnia has this day received two dmpatches and their onsisamos. of which the following are amiss, addressed to his lordship by Lient-Geseral Simper, commanding her Majesty's forms in' the Before-Sebastopol. July 17,1855. My Lerde-1 have the honour to submit for your ripiship'siatiriaitimi the accompanying letters from Lient:-Colemd Campbell, 90th Regiment—the one referring to his persdnal services, sod the other to those of a party of the 55th Regiment en the occasion of the capture of the Quarries in front of the Redan on the night of the 7th alt. With regard to Lient.-Colooel Campbell's own ser vices, I think it right to inform your lordship that I find, upon inquiry, that the charge of holding the Quarries on the night in question, and of repelling the repeated attacks of the enemy, was confided to that officer after he had led the assault, and was, in fact, a separate and detached command from that of Colonel Shirley, who noted u general of the day in the trenches of the right attack; the despatch of the late Field Marshal Lord Raglan has already shown how admirably that duty was performed by the brave men who were under the immediate direction of Lient-Colonel Campbell. The Lieut.-Colonel's letter, recording the good con duet of the party of the Stith Regiment, speaks for itself. I have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lieutenant-04mnd Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c. Camp, Light Division, July 13, 1855. Sir,—The despatch of the late lamented Field- Marshal Lord Raglan, of 9th June, mentions that I commanded the storming party on the Quarries on the evening of the 7th June. May I beg most re spectfully that you will bring it to the notice of Lientenant•Osneral Simpeon,Commanding the Forces, that I not only had the honour of commanding the storming party, but that having been twice wounded in the assault, I retained the sole and undivided command in the Quarries, not only of the original attacking force and supports, but of all reinforce ments, during the whole night, until relieved at 7 a.m. on the Bth. The despatches must have explained al ready that the enemy made several desperate efforts, during the night, to regain the works, and that on three occasions overpowering numbers succeeded in re-en tering, but were, on all occasions, driven back at the point of the bayonet. The entire night was, indeed, one continued struggle for this position, the fatigue and anxiety of which I have recovered from. When Lord Raglan's despatch was completed, I have reason to suppose his lordship had not received the details, es my own report to Colonel Shirley, general of the trenches, wan unavoidably delayed in consequence of my wounds, and not being able to write. In justice to myself, conscious of having performed en impor tant'duty, to the best of my ability, and successfully, I now respectfully submit this statement to the Commander of the Forces, with the hope that he may be pleased to have my services on this occasion mentioned and particularised. At present, several officers have equal praise in the despatch who were not in the Quarries at all.—l have, &0., Ron. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel, C mmanding 90th Light Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Brownrigg, Military Secretary, &c., Head Quarters. Camp, July 10. Sir,—l have the honour of forwarding the enclosed letter for the consideration of the Lieutenant. General Command ing the Forces; but I beg to remark, that in my report of the ociurrences on the night of the 7th of Jane, I took care to mention the services of the 65th Regiment, which appear to have been overlooked in the late Field-Marshal's despatch. —I have, dto., li. Swathe, Colonel, 88th Foot, Commanding in the trenches on the night of 7th June. The Military Secretary, Head Quarters. Before Sebastopol, July 8, 1855. 134,-1 beg to draw your attention to the inadvertent omission, in Lord Raglan s despatch of the 9th June, of any mention of the 60th Regiment as sharing in the att ack and defence of the Quarries, during the night of the 7th June. I did not mention the regiment in my report, as they were not given over to me as part of the attacking party; but the officer commanding the party informs me that they, being originally told off as a working party, were directed by the engineer (Capt. Browne) to throw down their tools, and that they were moved by you as a support to Egerton's Rifle.pit,whence they moved to support the attacking party, and did good service in clearing the Russian trenches, and in the defence throughout the night, as their severe list of killed and wounded attests (53 out of 100), many of the former not being found until the flag of truce, when their bodies were found in the trenches they had gained. The officer in eommand of the party, Captain, now Major,Cure, reports that the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Stone, who was killed at the heed of his men, charging the Russians in their trench with the bayonet, and of Captain Elton, who, with a small body of men, formed a covering party on the right to those who were reversing the trench, is particularly deserving of mention, as is that also of Lieu tenants Scott and Williams, who were most active in per forming their duties. Hoping that the commander of the forces may deem this statement sufficiently satisfactory to enable him to move in the subject, I have, tto , ROIL Cuirszia., Lieut.-Colonel, 90th Stet., Commanding Assault. To Colonel Shirley, Commanding tad Brigade, Light Division. Before Sebastopol, Jolv 17. My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit here with the nominal and numerical return of casualties in this army, from the 13th to the 15th instant; also the weekly report of the Inspector.Oeneral of Hos pitals, which will be most gratifying to your lord ship, u showing a steady decrease in the number of cases of sparmodic cholera. I have but little to report to your lordship : our siege operations are steadily progressing. Last night, about 11 o'clock, a sortie was made by the enemy on the right of the French works, in front of the Mamelon ; the cannonade and fire of musketry was exceedingly heavy, but I have not u yet been made acquainted with any particulars of the attack. I regret to have to announce to ,your lordship the death of Captain Rowland A. Fraser, of the 42nd Highlanders, a very talented young officer, who was killed in the trenches of the right attack, last night, by the splinter of a shell.—l have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lieutenant-General Commanding. _ _ _ The Lord Panmure, &o. Head Quartet*, Camp before Sebastopol, July 17, 1855. Sir, —ln transmitting the weekly state of sick, I have mudsatisfaction in being able to report to you a continued improvement in the health of the army. There has New an increase of fever cases this week, but a marked decrease) in both the frequently and severity of bowel affections.—l have, &a., Joux HALL, InspeetorGsneral of Hospitals, To Lieut.-General Simpson, Commanding-in•Cbief. Nunsmen. Inman or Canaan= nom Taa lire To nut 15re or JOLT, 1655, rocznana—Srd Battalion, drearier Onards —I rank and 4 file wounded, let Battalion, Boots Fusiliennards-1 rack and file 1 killed, 1 rank and dli rural. Ist Battalion, let Regiment of , Foot-1 rank and die wounded. Ilk Foot - 1 rank and Ile wounded. ', lath Foot-4 rank and file wounded. 19th Foot-3 rank and file warded. 61st Foot —1 rank and file killed 2 rank and file rends& 84th Foot-1 Tank and file kille d; 4 rank and file werdel. Ur Foot-2 rank and file wounded. 41st Foot-1 rank sad Om wounded. 47th Foot-1 riser, 8 rank and file, wounded. j ea.k reat-1 rank and file klllad ; k rank and file wounded. 50th Foot-4 rank malls wounded. 69th Foot—l rank and file wounded. gird Per-2 rank and filo wounded. 95th Foot-3 rank and file . words& lad Battalion Ride Brigade-1 rank and file , warded. Total-4 rank and file killed; 1 office/434 rank and file, worded. NOIIIMAL BRIO= or OTEICEAS DUO DAVI lUD WADED= non ma lira to PM lb= JOLT, 1655, nianian.—July 15.-47th Foot— ClVTimm Repo slightly. ILIAN DAMN or Non-Ccuunmeno) Omar AND Pawn= Brno Mat to Ore to ma Ifea JOLT, INCLAUVA.—Sith Foot—Pride Weir Wad, tat liettalla. Mess Podlar Guards— Prints Jose MIL MO reet—Pdaste Mom Miklos. Slit I NOMINAL BOOM VP ikINADINIDINDIVAD OTINCIRS AND PRIVATES WOOSDIN VASE VMS Ik. to vas lkat Jot. 18,3, umanne.—July IS.—lot Battalkr let Peat—Private WWI= Seward, dl6hUs. Rh Pact—Private MON Bleadat, meanly. 18th Fad—Prnato John Tr severely. WO Port—Privale Moos Oelleirroad. siOtly. 4iat iien—Frinte hick Bowles, severelp. MO Fool—Private Daniel Kelly .07 severely. 93rd Fact—Corponikes Perko ertately; Private Jabs Pekto,_ July 10.—ada Mao= Grarlier Olods—Ptirde .tol BattallokeetsPeraer Cleade WS. . 18th Fore—Prtvalse Jed Usreve6ll; Th u m atly ; Prink Raab) SINGNIII , N a N t.ct.. Patois/ante lift relay. 47th Foot—Telara did Sallsberry, etvanly ; name Ilesters i didittl. Oak Peit—PlowJeke Woo villa. devenly. Ilkitleet—fatvelea 'Ames Mamie. 8111khtly; Joao was, allwy fd4k Feat—Oaaporal Minas, alight" Private IWO der diekllN July 11.-110 Pio—Privates Hob lasatry. adwraly ; Dem. filet*. Slat Peut—lttrate ado Dm% nowely. 811 k Fait—ParaMaa MOM Com dem* ; Jame Oast. WOO". ; L= se m =a i r ib lel" ti ttaamZ= ho tt getzt rest— . rrhatib . hekTilek. allatla4L oodi oebt_ eavroly. led Brlpd—Privata Judo OW. • etToeN Sr CASVAL7IIO DI TVS 110 TAR. SWANS ROW autoroto res Ors to ltve num. 1833. Wooded—JO' Tome. looter. estaty . Kinad—jasms Upton, AA. ROW. I :OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. ('ROM • 'SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Am: 17. When I comp;aiiefl. in my last letter, of the unre strained rapacity of the dealers at Ba'Alava and Xadikoi I was unaware of a very excellent order issued a day or two previously by Captain Heath, the principal agent of transports, with a view to effect a reform over those of them at least to whom his jurisdiction extends—the muter* and stewards of transports. The latter of these especially had for a long time been in the habit of taking advantage of the famine prices imposed on those in camp, and selling, over the ships' sides, beer, preserved meats, poultry, butter, flour, and other similar articles of con sumption at a trifling redaction on the tariff esta blished by the regular dealers. Instead of being oontent with a fair or even a high profit on the articles in which they carried on this half surrepti tious trade, these individuals undersold the Kadikoi gentry only by so much as was barely sufficient to constitute an inducement to purchasers, instead of giving the latter the benefit of their immunity from freight and the other attendant charges for importa tion. This practice having at length tardily found its way to Captain Heath's ears, that very zealous and efficient officer speedily promulgated an order, forbidding for the future the sale of any of the before mentioned articles at prices above what may yield a fair profit to the sellers; such, for example, as bottled beer at 13s. a dozen instead of 24e. The Alma came in in the beginning of last week, and attempted, in defiance or evasion of this regulation, to dispose of her steward's investment at the usual enormous rates; but I that a pointed reminder from Captain Heath speedily brought down her charges nearly fifty per cent. Since then, the Golden Horn has arrived with a large stock of beers, wines, and preserves, and commences a sale of the whole to-day at the rates fixed by the principal agent's order a rare boon to short-parsed young gentlemen in the front. This is no reason, however, to expect that this happy reduction will condone; for stewards and masters will scarcely deem it worth their while to invest money in goods which must be sold at fairly remunerating prices, and probably, under Captain Heath's approaching successor, the order will become practically obsolete, and prices on board ship be again what they have been and now are on shore. The only effectual re medy for the evil lies in some such step as I sug gested in my last letter—namely, the periodical des patch by the government of a ship, or ships, with goods to be sold in Balaklava at prices which should cover simply cost price at home, with freight. in surance, and other charges of exportation hither. The army would then be able to have its needful comforts at a fair price—in every case a hundred per cent. cheaper than at present, and in many cases twice that; for the cheapness would not be confined to these consignments, but would extend to those of every conscienceless speculator who in at present battening on necessities which can be no way else supplied. General. Simpson's very sensible refusal to accept the command-in-chief, and the continued delay in Lord Panmure's finding some one else, still keep us in the same state of wearying and discouraging inac tivity that existed when I last wrote. To be sure, the routine business of the siege goes on ; much ammu nition and some lives are daily and nightly expended, and our advanced works are still prosecuted in a way ; but it would need sharper vision than I can pretend to to trace the progress of one week over that which went before, or to see how the grand end we aim at is being at all brought nearer. Be he who he may— Lord Gough or Sir Harry Smith—the new comman der-in-chief will find a task before him with which no ordinary energy will suffice to grapple—nothing lees than the labour of infusing new life and activity into every arm and department of his force; of weeding out incapacity, and substituting well qualified ability in its stead; and of redeeming by prompt and well directed vigour the wasted months frittered away by the feeble indecision of his prede cessor. His advanced age and personal infir mities unfit General Simpson for the task ; and though it is difficult to say who of our senior Generals is much better off in these respects, he has acted wisely, as well for his own reputation sake as for that of the public service, in declining a post for which he knew himself to be unfit. It would be well if the same honest principle had weight with many of his inferiors. You will have heard from your correspondent with Omer Pitches force of the continued inactivity in the neighbourhood of the Tchernaya—after all the trumpeting and lofty parading. of what was to have been done there by Turks, Sardinians, and French. Instead of pursuing their course round towards Mac kenzie's Farm by Maugop Kale, the whole allied force appears to have quarteret. itself permanently— for the present, at all events—along the grassy and wooded slopes round Balder and overlooking the sea, pleasantly employing its men in the erection of leafy wicker huts, and other contrivances conducing to indi vidual comfort, and leaving the Cossacks to career undisturbed along the slopes and summits of the opposite plateaux. Whilst campaigning, however, is thus at a stand-still, the situation of this advanced force affords an opportunity for exploration interior wards, which was agreeably taken advantage of a few days I ago by a party of English and French officers. Bent on a day's adventurous enjoyment, some eight or nine of these gentlemen, properly mounted and armed, started, in the middle of last week, for an excursion beyood the most advanced of the Turkish advanced pickets. After riding on through some six miles of wooded ravines without meeting with any of the " everlasting" Cossack., they suddenly came upon a large and handsome villa, before which they pulled up and commenced a council of war as to the advisability of entering. Their delibera tions, however, were cut short by the owner— s Ramie.' nobleman—coming out himself, and, with the best grace in the world, inviting " the strangers" in—assuring them, at the same time, that there were no Cossacks within two or three miles of the house, and that they might therefore make them selves perfectly easy. In, accordingly, the party went, were entertained with an excellent luncheon— with champagne ad lib.—and after spending a couple of hours in as pleasant a manner as campaigners could desire, took leave of the hospitable Muscovite, and re turned to the Turkish otitpoir.s altogether unmolested. The report of this pleasant episode has, I am told, sent more than one company of luncheon-lovers to the Russian villa since ; but whether or not their experi- I once ham, in every case, been similar to that of the first, I have not learned—though probably the same sensible policy which drew out the champagne corks before, may have done so as freely since. Amongst some other very sensible orders issued from head-quarters since the beginning of the present interregnum, one merits mention as embodying a marked improvement upon the custom in force during Lord Raglan's time—namely, the allotment of trench duty to the three Divisions—Light, Second, and Fourth—by rotation, instead of indiscriminately, as before. Not only is the actual amount of duty falling to the share of each regiment in these divisions les sened by the new arrangement, but it now comes at regular intervals, and consequently with a much less sense of severity to both officers and men employed. An undue and rather hard share, however, still falls to tie lot of the Light Division, considering its great numerical inferiority to either of the other two; but when new drafts shall have made up its regiments to their normal strength, the hardship which is now not unfairly complained of will be mitigated. Why Sir George Brown was so long permitted to indulge his whim of overworking his division as he did was a secret to everyone not at head-quarters; for nothing could have been more patent than the utter dispro portion of duty—both fighting and working—which fell to the unhappy regiments who owned his imme diate control. yesterday made a circuit through the trencher, on our own left and right attacks, in hopes of dis covering some marked signs of progress Enos the fatal 18th; but the toil and peril of theiourney were , but badly recompensed—little or nothing meeting my eye beyond what I have reported many days ago. To by sure, the advanold trenches am carried some , what nearer to the enemy ; and besides the spoiled 0- gun battery—now turned into • mortar battery— a small one, for two Lau:aster elic ts, * coons of erection, in &dy es° e o f the o ld 8-gu e eraik This last product of our engineers' inventive %mad; r. :i t s ietac,nitkitw point tlehibeyh early l s i h tt o l u e in i,dweephrai are cvem bet wanie.. leanr:; 4 4v is designed to play on the shippin g i n the Duthie.' of the harbone,_whencie if they shift over to this ope*, - site bank, the French will be abl e t o p l ay upon aceek on vaned with t e o e a ff t s ec o ta t t t h e e of Th p engineering as we proceed, and discovering our deiNt e and errors only by some d ear -b oug h t p i ece of expel oncein almost every case. In th e l arge 21.gan battery the eye tell upon practical evidence of the work which that well-fought battery b ee through, in the shape of several burst guns, and still more disabled ones, strewed around half-buried or altogether uncovered in fly rear of the work. Most of the guns in pola r* have just been " bushed" anew, the excessive &meant of fire which they have gone through having nearly altogether worn away the old vents. I n connexion with this piece of repairs, I may mention a piece of official culpability which is spoken of throughout the camp in terms much more forcible than compli mentary. Inside the past ten days two—if not three —of the sixty-eights with which this battery is armed have burst through fair dint of overwork, and the knowledge that several of the remaining pieces have likewise been worn into a dangerous state in duced the authorities at bead-quarters to have the whole examined by a board of officers early last week. The result of the examination wu a report condemn ing the whole of the remaining guns in the battery as unserviceable and dangerous, many of them having been fired as often as three thousand times, or six times u often wrench pieces are usually calcu lated to bear. In the face of this report, however, the guns have since been new -vented, as I have remarked, and are again in daily and nightly use the whole of them liable at any moment to fly to pieces, and play havoc amongst the un fortunate blue jackets who work them. The plea urged in justification, I believe, is the want of other sixty-eights with which to replace them ; but surely it would be better to draft the needful number from those still with the fleet—who are not likely to make any earthly use of them—or to shut up the battery entirely for the fourteen or fifteen days tie usury to have others sent out from England: any. thing better than the strong chance of killing our own man. From our right attack 1 had a good view of the French sap in advance of the Mamelon, and was surprised to find it pushed on so far: its further extremity is fully two-thirds of the distance towards the Malakhoff—being at present within a short two hundred yards of the latter redoubt, and, °will to the sudden rise of the ground, quite safe from the Russian guns, which cannot be sufficiently depressed to fire into it without an alteration of some of the em brasnres,which the enemy are not at all likely to make. In addition to its being commanded by the guns of the Mamelon behind, four fieldpieces are stationed in the sap itself, to r ceive sallying parties with grape and canister. These attacks are now almost nightly; on Saturday night a strong one was again made and vigorously kept up for nearly half an hour, when the sortiers were driven back with considerable loss, after having, I believe, effected an entrance into the trench. Last night, again, another took place, evidently on a still larger scale, for nearly the whole of the guns in our right, as well as those of the Mamelon and its adjacent French works, blazed away furiously for nearly three-quarters of an, hour about midnight ; whilst an incessant storm of musketry from the neighbourhood of the sap rendered it still further evident that that was the point attacked. The night was pitch dark, and yet the fire was so heavy that the whole sky over the scene of the strug gle was as lucidly bright as the Surrey Gardens or Vauxhall during a "Grand Eruption of Vesuvius," or some similar pyrotechnic display on a large scale. These nightly episodes, however, have long ago be come so common as to excite hardly a remark; and one sees showers of shells rolling through the air, and rockets tearing upwards on their long course, with as much unconcern as if the whole were merely some sth of November display of schoolboy fireworks, instead of bona fide warfare, with all its ugly results. A more unpleasant subject for remark just now lies in the expected certainty of the army's being encamped for another winter on these bleak heights, with which memory associates so many hardships and disasters. Camp rumour declares that twenty-one miles of stabling is en route, or on the eve of starting from England ; and, in all sober ness, the discontent arising from the prospect of passing through another ordeal of winter horrors — however softened by improved arrangements and better supplies—is very general amongst both officers and men. It seems as it those in authority expected one of two things—either that Sebastopol will not be taken before winter, or that its capture will take place too late in the season to admit of field opera tions afterwards—a choice of contingencies neither of which can be considered complimentary to our ma nagement of affairs. The only hope seems to lie in the possible vigour with which the new general may inaugurate his accession to the command. If he display a proper amount of that rare quality, we may be in Simpheropol or Backtchi Serai yet be. fore the end of October; if not, we are "in" tor an other winter's decimation here, as sure as ever mis management bore fruit in failure. To be sure three months are yet available for a prevention of this cala mity ; but when one reflects on the little which has been done during the three last, there is little ground for hoping that the status quo will he much advanced or improved. Supposing the new commander-in chief, however, to arrive in the meantime, another fortnight, or three weeks, at farthest, is likely to witness a renewal of the attempt of the 18th, as the advanced saps will then be completed ; and let us hope that better generalship will save us from the calamitous experience which blundering arrangements and bad execution resulted in last time. i,ls THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 91, 1855. THE NORTH SEA. HELIGOLAND, Jets 27. The British Government appears to entertain seriously the intention of making this island some thing better than a mere depot or recruiting station, and it is not to be wondered at when one considers its admirable geographical position, and how little is needed to be done by science to complete its natural advantages. Rising perpendicularly from the sea, and surrounded completely by high cliffs, with only one accessible spot, it doer not require much to tura it into a second Gibraltar. Something of this sort appears also to to be going on. Officers of the Royal Engineers have been for some time past engaged in making plans and estimates, which are now com pleted, and have been forwarded to London for the approbation of government. The soundings have not been neglected, and a hydrographical survey has been made. It is stated to be the intention of government to make a harbour of refuge, with batter ' ries of formidable strength, on the Sandy Island, whilst a first rate citadel is to be constructed on the heights of Heligoland itself. Coknel von Stutterheim arrived here on Tuesday last to inspect the wooden huts erected for the troops of the Foreign Legion which are being orga nised here. He however expressed himself dissatis fied with them, and has suggested some alterations. As they are in a cold and exposed situation they will scarcely be habitable in the winter even for the healthy, whilst the sick would be even worse off in them. For this reason the inhabitants have been invited by means of plan ads to make tenders of a good sized dwelling-house to be fitted up as a tart' hospital, and let to government as such from the Ist of November till the Ist of April next. Recruiting goes on very favourably. There are again about 250 men who have nearly finished their drilling education, and will be ready to be trans ! furred to Shorncliffe in a week or two. SPAIN. MADRID, JOLT 28• There is a talk of a scheme of reforming the co. toms tariff, according to which the duties on flour made from American wheat will be augmented at the Havannah, while those on sugars will be diminished in Spain. The Lloyd, published at Peeth, reports the death of Alezander Gbiks, formerly reigning prince of Wsllsebu• The prises died at Toeplile, in bohemia, an d will be burial at Bsebansi.