The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. - HOUR' OF 001 , 1110N8 , --WEImE S DAY , NW= 7. The hones met at twelve s'elerk. NEW MEMBER. Mr. Mu- blob the oaths sad he sest es his re-oleo ties be @Weed. PURIM LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL. The hone levies gees lees esairaittes on the Public Lilbodes NM Mame Bill, araeiderahle discern°. bob limes lbe esasessive *leases of Me sawoore, and several ameselmsela Wan rowed eadeended, anemias the details *MOM Ammo Whites mei" moved by Mr. Ewa's, dr eueblies desaredee estabibbed under the measure to takeia se wasedepted epee a divides. by * lot jarity 61 t:= TM hill west through committee, sad was ordered to be repereed es Wedseeday sect. JUDQUENTS ELICUTION. dm, BILL. The mend reeilias of the lodgings% Esecution, AS, Eel wir:egpsust by Mr. MACLIIINST, who moved that the MU le read • email time that day sin Illestkm. Legal 'reenacts for sad atalset the bill were advanced rthe SOLICITOI.OI24IIkAL, Mr. MAPIlit, the ATTOII3III- anga&i., Mr. WXII.IIIIDI, Mr. 1. Bert, sad other members. TEA DUTIES DECLINE SUSPENSION BILL. Thu bill paned through committee. MARINE MUTINY BILL. This bill pawed *roast eossalttee. SUPPLY.—REPORT. Oa the swam that the report be received, Mr. PALE drew attention to the state of the madly regiments is the East, sad urged that mast iodides* troops had bees seat est, sad imperfectly drilled. Is use regiment, ea the Ist of February, there were wanting 20 ~eats sad 40 *morals. These vaeansifo would nue& idly be filled by Ilea imperfectly drilled, and unequal to link dude , . It was impossible to make a maim in Ism than 12 or 18 swathe. He condemned the sp cavalry ies of re. midge fer the cavalry. sad said that old soldiers entirely diergyeaved et the rystau of riding-schools. He believed dad doe Gawky at hose wee lees fit to go taro action thaa it ergs 12 sines ego. The reset wee their agreed to. EXCHEQUER BILLS (£17,183,000) BILL. Oa the motion for the third reeding of this bill, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked If she goversmest would vivo as asearasee that no portion of this amount would be eimverted Into funded debt without the unction of parlia- mosed. Mr. WILSON said it was impossible this could be done without an express act of parliament ; therefore, he had no hesitation in twig tee assumes asked. (Rear, hear.) Sir R. WI LO GREY said it Gould be done through the medium of savings banks stock. The bill was then read a third time and parsed. SECRETARIES AND TINDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE (HOUSE OF COMMONS) DILL. This bill paned through committee. RETURNS.. On the motion of Mr. Minas the followieg return were ordered :—Copy of all eosnuanications which have takes plate between the President of the Privy Cassell and t►e Prudasnt of the Poor Law Board Islistlve to the echicatka of children receiving oat-door relief; Meesesopy of all oonamsnications which have taken place be the President of the Poo/ Lew Board and the End 'ration Conuniadoeen relative to appoiating boys and girls from any parish or board of vitae'ss of and above the age of thirteeo. with the constnt of their parents or the guardians, under entail conditions, to employers in Now South Wales. LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND). Colossi DUNNE moved for some returas under this bad. After a conversation the retires were agreed tn. The house adjourned at five o'clock. THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just tuned gives the following results: First Quut•r. Besond Daily News . 319,191 346,044 Morning Herald . 303,000 299,000 Massing Post . . 203,000 226,000 Mutates Chnnieb . 182,300 186,000 Express . . 177,133 198,389 Globe . . . 175,000 195,000 Bun . 168,000 1027000 . . . 103,000 104,000 ghe eV30,00. TO COI Ad OM tatended for "The Repror," Loudon Evening paper, MOM be at the Otaoe, le, Boueerte-aztet, by Two eldock a s the day of poliketioe. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tao Thor—liorasa, 4h. am......Aftersoca, Ms. la. SO•llloLlOW—Xornisib lb. lia dk. S2a. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (IT CONTI AAAAA L BERLIN. TIMUDAT Molinaro. General Wedsll, the Prussian Envoy to the French Court, lett again last night for Paris. (DT CONTINIIIITAL VIENNA, WZDSZSDAT EVIXIIIO. by overland mail via Bucharest, news has arrived from Constantinople up to the let March, which states, that since the 28th February, strong earth quakes have been felt. The town of Brawn has been entirely destroyed, and 2,000 inhabitants have been killed. General Prince Gortchakoff has received the supreme command in the Crimea. General Liiders will replace him.—Datly News. I. Utica 7. The dissolution of the remains of the Emperor was so rapid that it prevented the exhibition of the body to the public.—Deily News. The German Journal of has a letter from Vienna, which states that Lord John Russell and M. di Bourqueney have agreed upon an idiotic me morandum to be submitted to the Vienna Cooterenos ea the part of England and France. The interpreta tion of the third point is indicated as distinctly in cluding the transformation of Sebastopol into a sim ple commercial port—the fortresses thereof bong destroyed. The proceedings of the conference are to be circumscribed within Sheen days ; within which period the Russian Envoy must give in his reply to the proposition of the Allies. TRz somas To TEI Taman Azmz.—A mit igation woe demi ed Imam es the 24th of lessary bonnie het Modiety gad the Ispiese of the Fns* rela tive to the point to be funned te the Tarklik army. The ellwan eilleobb the 111 ollso ls equal piegenting, se seedy as podia*. Is die ore of gao of no two died main foniebios larps.notallis of tbe don shell, with a Tirir oiri mi trjrhohdoor 100 P•Pared every then sun= sit espollee hemmed : l . sob pop; the MUM nags of the Ow. q y easeasei chew le ken= no gage owl of the Oka erodes *all hot lt nouns - lie ielsalles el the oppgdoe aiming to s UMW btrissly ri rig is ' two et ai rtatr ai lbellth old : LAW Rows preasessed by his Majesty the Isom, Meas. an Woe Cron Borlis, wee ed• =to the Isms : " Tell Frederick (the King of )"' wide be, "to costime to retools aftslW, to • Sada et be los hitherto hem, sad sent to forget tho ebbs of hl. Ignor." Bezaszanz FamOTlox. —The Os gOireies of din Levis ,tes " t 4 P 44 onlildosef taddliongb, Ins a l p 16.21% tin VIM* 114 4=1" i t Id " t erd, was no at th eersa Aa a lgt in the moms amp , Esq„ ddlet nos Lewis W. lea, In., M.P. the North Deno, sin er forwerdeaseirgesdie petio4p4Oef bee azz. Jan tbeesapbeel ammo aid. se-thii rasay emesd, regebigat .~ t THE EXPRESS, pIIIItSpA THE COMMITTEE OFOUIRT.. . Mi. ROEBUCK'S Committer is net reseeded with very friendly sentimental° high quarters. Helldag would afford greater Pleasure to- isiluentialpreem who have lately held, or who still condom to hold, office, than a plausible pretext for intarapting its inquiries. And, if common fame my true, then leek not among its members some who are by as seem indisposed to lend their assistance towards tarnishing pooh a pretest. It, therefore, behoves the meashme who are homely anxious to push on the inquiry some practically useful result is obtained, to be wary in their proceedings. The pm* of England have demanded the in quiry, not for the purpose of exposing the folly or culpability of individuals, and inflicting an naprolltable vengeance upon them, but for the purpose of ascertain ing the causes of the suffering to which our soldiers have been subjected, with a view to devise means for averting the recurrence of similar calamities. Per haps it was scarcely necessary to this end to waste three whole days in trying to establish the feet that the troops have suffered very much, and ward mainly from defective arrangements. So awe lei been admitted even by that favourite of fortune (er of the Horse Guards), General Bournecr, who yes terday endeavoured to paint everything en km, and at last contrived to wriggle for the time out of the embarrassing cross-examination of Mr. LAMM ft the courtly plea that he wished to attend the QUEEN'S levee. General BENTINCK admitted that typhus and fever prevailed among his sseo ; that they were too weak to carry their own knapsacks ; that only half the amber of medical officers were attached to his brigade that ought to have been ; that the troops were not properly supplied with medicines; that he left the Crimea before the bad weather set in, but that even by that time the clothing of the men was worn out, and no fresh supplies bad been received; that the winter clothing for the soldiers was at Con stantinople by the end of August, but did not reach Balaklava till December ; and so forth. The accounts of the sufferings of the troops, and of the inadequate provisions made for their sustenance, comfort, and health, given by Mr. DUNDAS, General Blum, Cap tain WRIOTESLT, and others, are still stronger. It is established—indeed, it has never been denied—that our troops have been subjected to great and unneceesary suffering, and that the system, more than any individuals, is to blame. For this the history of the Peninsular eampalgas I ought to have prepared us. During the last two W three years WELLINGTON took the control d the entire commissariat and conveyance arrangiesats into his own hands. This could only be became he found the home administration incompetent be the charge, although the country had then been Minty years at war. There was no inconvenient Parliament in those days, and yet the administrative Government was so inefficient as now. Forty years have made no change in its inefficiency. It is the system that is to blame, and if Mr. ROEBUCK'S committee really desires to make itself of any use—the only way in which it can conciliate that popu lar support which ii required to uphold it against the ill-will and machinations of men in office and their tools—it will, without further loss of time, set to work in a business-like manner to trace the evils in the Crimea to the fountain-bead in the home land ioi The valuable practical speech delivered by Sir Resent Ruins, on Monday last, in the Committee on the Ordnance Estimates, may indicate to the Com mittee the manner in which they ought to go to work. Mr. MONSELL had claimed great credit for Government, on ;Lemont of the energy with which they have set about the construction of the cup at Aldershot. Sir JOSEPH, by a simple business esti mate of the time and labour that will be re quired to complete the works, and of the time allowed in the Government tenders, de monstrated that Government really does not under. stand the business it has taken in hand, and is consequently incompetent to execute it. Now, with regard to the Crimea, it is clear that the troops have been decimated by disease ; it is clear that food, medi cine, clothing, shelter from the weather, were not supplied to them, and hence the disease. Govern ment will, of course, make an ostentatious parade of the stores of food, medicine, clothing, comforts', and huts, which they have collected and transmitted to the Bast. But let each of their specious v►gas statements be examined in detail, after the PAITON fashion. Let the Committee begin, for example, with the huts, and inquire when they were or dered P.--when they were shipped ?—to whom were the manifests of the ships in which they were embarked transmitted with orders to re ceive and forward them ?—who was charged with the land transport and the erection of the huts ? and so on. Let a similar course of inquiry be insti tuted with regard to the winter clothing of the troops, the medical stores, the provisions, the " green coffee" and other " comforts." Let the time when each article was ordered be ascertained, and what care was taken to ensure its timely arrival at its proper destination. Let the progress of each article be traced from the warehouses of the contractors to its ultimate destination—or to Varna or the bottom of the Black Sea, or wherever it was last heard of. If a close, *urchin', well-directed, minute inquiry of this kind is instituted with regard to every article for which the country has paid, and for want of which our soldiers have perished, a case of gross igno rance, unholiness, or jobbing, will be established against every department of the home administra tion, for which the country, after all that has been said on the subiect, is not_prepared. If the Commit tee honestly take up this line, they cannot fail to prove the deficiencies of the home departments— where the real source of all the evils complained of is to be *ought —and to indicate measures for their amendment. If they institute such an inquiry as is here recommended, confine themselves strictly to it, and follow it up from day to day, they will, on the one hand, escape all danger of ex eating the susceptibilities of oar allies—the buggaboo with which Government seeks to scare them from inquiry—and will enlist all the business feeling of the country on their side. They will Om strengthen themselves foe promoting useful and necessary reforms of our administrative system in a temperate spirit, and with perfect safety. If they do act honestly and steadily follow out this course, they will furnish a pretext for their own dissolution ; will help to conceal, not to expos% abuses ; and 1411 leave the people no alternative bet to seek for redress by more neigh and more &e -genes meads. —Daily News. blow at the supremacy of the Ifoneales, 0 a direct * attach spla as religions liberty. mice a stens molt an hod not been witnessed ...--- these realm since the days of the Reform isiblir dm Every Englishman—that is, every Protestant aIIINIMISIIIIIII ready to do battle for his faith. The preacher and the statesman vied with each tithes !salons opposition to the invader. The one diesght which filled all breasts was how we should hest defend that bulwark of all our liberties—the Posirtut faith. This, too, passed away ; and after a short space on had almost forgotten the existence of the Bishop of Rosa. At this moment, we are all intent upon war. That is the gnat WOW cd the day. To accomplish the objects for which in ant forth our fleets and annies—to humble the pride bt Russia, to succour the hapless Turk, to =sistan the ancient splendour of our army--these are the only topics of public interest on which it is prudent to insist. Now we are not in the least ashamed to make this confession. We rather believe that the great success of Englishmen is to be attributed in no small degree to their habit of doing one thing at a time. But what will our readers think of the assumption put forth the other day by a contemporary, that the people of , this country only read, or only care to read, one journal? The only newspaper in Eng land is the Tunes. When Sir JAM= GRAHAM talked of the power of the preen, he meant the power of the TOW. When the Government proposes to make a law which may possibly do some harm to the existing journals, it is trying to pall down the Timu. That, at all events, is the complaint put forth by our contemporary. Eagland could not survive his fall. Like the air we breathe, like the bread we sat, like the beds we sleep in, be is necessary to our very existence. He is of more importance to us than " our old nobility." Laws Li learning, trial by jury, the two Houses of Par liament, Westminster Abbey, and all our most loved, most honoured institutions, might vanish from before us, or crumble beneath our feet—but let us preserve our Titan. As the vestal virgins watched the sacred fire, so let Englishmen preserve that journal, whose mighty thunder echoes through the world from Printing-house Square. Rat justitia, riot cabins. Better had the sun cease to shine, better had the Alderman lose his turbot, or the bargee his pot of porter, than England lose her Times. Now let us say, without more ado, that we neither envy our great contemporary, nor quarrel with his success. We should be very glad to attain to his , profitable circulation. We should like to circulate as many copies—to be listened to with as implicit belief—to be a fashionable necessary in the same sense as he is. But let him exult in secret over his success. Surely he has trumpeters enough. He need not tell us, in emphatic language, what it would be much more modest to hold his tongue about. And, after all, he does not state the case with his accustomed precision. We beg leave to differ from him when he argues that the Newspaper Stamp Bill is a blow It the Times alone. So far as, the abolition of the stamp goes, we take it that the nom will benefit or suffer (whichever the case may be) in the same degree as the other morning papers—neither more nor less. The other question is the transmission of newspapers through the Post offlos. It is expected that the Government is about to impose new fetters on the public press in place of the Ai saes which it removes. This is not exactly the ease. Even if the proposed bill passes into law, the press will scarcely be worse off than it is at peoseaL Those newspapers which now pass through the post for a penny will still do so at the same price, and those which now pay three-halfpence will continue to pay three-halfpence, the only Melones being that the gratis transmission through the post will merely last for one week instead of being perpetual. Bat even ,if this was not the real meaning of Mr. GLADSTONE'S bill, even if the measure was likely to be as oppressive and unjust as is asserted by the Times, it is obvious that it would not affect our contemporary alone. It affects every journal which henceforth may exceed the pro posed limits. NI hat right, therefore, has the Time to demand for itself the undivided sympathies ol the public? It will, indeed, be the first to nat, but has not high position its duties as well as its privileges—must not they who take the lead in tho day of prosperity be prepared to suffer when advsn city comes? Let us hear no more of this one-sided lamentation. We are, perhaps, but lean kine, whim compared with our well-fed, well-favoured mates porary ; but is not the miserable hack, who drop the meanest ash, of bony kith and kin with the prancing steeds who run in royal carriages? No, indeed. We do not wish any ill to our vim temporary. We are competitors in a race in whisk he got the first start, and has hitherto distanced everybody else. But it is equally true that England could do without the Times. If Printing-hoses Square were to be destroyed, and the Thus with al ' its machinery of brains and type were to pod* the public would not the less be presented, every meraing s with information of passing events. We have gar. Mud many things in our day. We survived Catholic Ineancipation. We survived the loss of Protection. Aad we could survive the loss of that which appears, saw-a-days, u the most acceptable dish on the Inakfast-tables of so many thousands of our country men. /asides, is there not room enough for all ?—or hes even the Moss itself reached the extreme limits of its possible circulation P—Daily News. The special correspondent of the Daily Newt at Paris intimates that the opening of the Exhibition is " irrevocably" fixed hie the let of May ; and that the Emperor and /Impress will be present at the in auguration. The Imperial expeditions to the Crimea have been given up. We are. gratified, says the Brighton Gazette, to learn that the health of the Duke of Devonshire has gel materially improved daring the last month. His gems still at Kemp Town ' and 111.110/11 frequent visits from Sir Augusto, Clifford , , Mir Joseph Parton, sad the Cavendish family. Colonel Chutes Lemma Maitland, who was rather I severely grounded at the battle of lakermano, arrived in England about a fortnight ago, and immediately on bad- Zumeproseeded .to the residence of his He , the Doke of d, at Brighton whom the gallant attend is dill soonoksing. Colonel GMalse is the eldest sea of the lat. 84 =. Maitland ; sad reaching the Due of Zia ° maidens% en Bast Lodge, fa Brighton, his mother, tho Leo Bent Maitland, was titers to receive him. We as, frem to asst. that tha wound which the :pliaat onisael he seedbed is not likely to be writes or sled Ids read health. Nleael Maitland was Mamba to dissent Oelasert's era dm" after the frailest weed resitied his 4s 'egad Wesel lileithas's alai WAS Lr isma Li s oh owed shea f she at arblir teak effes sad bidt jis a mew salfrefes. We Mesh Ideftbted is MI is ira+ l weiiaded ass. Camel Hard of the Odessa bade, is with his swifter fa Brightest se mash debilitated, ken the anasaa aka wound% thaq he is al pima NAM So pay say Ada. Captele Imhoff, at the 17th Ledge" retuned ben ties 4i 'best Ili weeks ego in a very vistaitatml rats of sail took :;isi ze sertars at Pegg's Sepat 'York H otel tide tows. The impala was ale of al the first to sesta Prises after the battle of Alas ; sad he Ids _ *te a ample 31:11joke% takes frees the lieleeies Ito = re After a six weeks' adeeia Is Ilartopp's. health beaten mash aserefted, sad he be.. re study leftirlghtca for Coda's 111111, israyerarest. .. •Elll4llT numuP.....W. 168111 With 1 BMW tepid that Ohio assonalhesd ellorow for ..... t , F , ........ 41 ...,....re,.: sses a t a velsaisaies of lie go al ere.= mit: pessary , . I. ses to out s. , whisk Is is palatal le eltplehr--Xaticksia• Mardi" THE w TIMES" AND THE STAMP DUTY. Ir is said: that Eoglishmen can never attend to &ore than one thing at a time. Whatever be the subject of thair-tbapghts,it willadmit of no rival. It nips in solitary grandeur, supreme, omnipotent, all•abeorhing. Not long ago everybody was mad about railways go white yea;, w‘ald, you could hear of nothing elm. -Vie taly lavit was a riiilway, lio" only puma in lifis was migineering. This bobble, however, bunt, mid essli bean wen* hi.' Way, opp 19114 Arm, moth* to Ms alieroliandies, and, for wig* • thm island wee at via t. • Preinitly, a foolish bishop, who has his seat sums Mildred' Y G, MARCH 8, 1 illß RUSSIAN DEFEAT AT EUPATORIA. (!EM the Second Baltic. of the Daily Now of this day.) BI7PATORIA, Pan. 17. About half-ea-hour beta► daybreak this morning I was roused from a sound and comfortable sleep by the clang of arms, the heavy tread of marching men, Ruing at double quick time, words of command yelled labs? than shouted; and on listening more atten tively, the dull, heavy roar of the cannon fell on my ear, as distinctly as the roar of the surge outside would let it, and caused the windows to vibrate faintly at every discharge. I had hardly yet got all my melee into working order when my companion entered my room, booted, spurred, and armed, and announced the advance of the Russians. Upon going out I found the streets crowded with troops, all hurrying to the point of attack,—officers tearing at a mad gallop over the frozen mud, the steamers in the harbour getting up their steam with all possible haste; the morning breaking slowly through a thick hare on cloudy sky, which every few seconds was lighted up by the flash of the rockets, which, in their fiery course through the air, threw a ghastly light upon the upturned facia of the Tartars clustered on the housetops, or standing in groups at the corners of the streets, and watching the progress of the com bat in silent expectation. When I reached the en trenchment a furious cannonade was going on to the right, at an outwork thrown forward a short distance on the plain, and almost surrounded by diminutive windmills; for four or five minutes nothing could be heard but the rapid and tumultuous barking of the field artillery, and then the heavy pieces broke in with a roar which drowned all other sounds, and seemed to rend the clouds, from which the rosy light of the morning now began to stream faintly upon the town and the plain. The ground surrounding Eupa toria is a vast sandy plain, broken now and then by hillocks, and close to the entrenchments, by two or three small ravines. To the ex treme right there is a large salt lake, which completely protects it on that side, and on the loft an eminence of no great elevation runs away in a north-westerly direction till lost in the distance. Upon the summit of this were two large masses of Russian cavalry, lancers and dragoons, drawn up io squares,and further on tothe right were huge columns of infantry, some displayed on the slope, but larger numbers still, I suspect, were behind the hill, the glit tering of their bayonets when the sun rose being distinctly visible. In front of these, in a long line, were at least seventy guns, about a third of which were pouring a torrent of shot upon the Turkish hornwork and the adjacent portions of the entrenchment in the rear, the fire being vigorously returned, not only from the point of attack, but from all the redoubts on the lett and centre of the Turkish lines. Anything more pic turesque than the flash and smoke of the guns, be fore the day broke slowly, can hardly be imagined; but, when the sun burst through the clouds, and revealed clearly the enormous masses of artillery and infantry that crowned the eminence and lined the slope, I confess—and there were many who partook of my fears—that I could not contemplate the result without considerable apprehension, above all when I remembered that the only means of retreat open in Nee of reverse, was the Black See, which roared andbamed in our rear with considerable violence. The cannonade lasted in this way without any striking result on either side till nearly eight o'clock, when the Russians brought down another battery of eight pieces et full gallop, and taking up a position within eight hundred yards of the hornwork, (the garrison of which, though the works were still unfi nished, had defended itself with unshaken courage), opened a furious enfilading fire. To draw off a portion of this, a redoubt, the position occupied by the regiment of Colonel Ogilby, opened its fire, from one pa, and drew on it instantly a succession of dis charges from four pieces out of the eight. Happily though in one or two instances, they got the range very fairly, and knocked clay off the top of the rampart in the men's farm, the majority of the shots went very high, and, after whizzing over some tents, fell in amongst some cavalry on the heights in the centre of the position, or dropped right into the sea, without hurting any one. This lasted about an hour, during the whole of which the cannonade continued towards the outwork and on the extreme right with the same violence as ever, and sow became mingled with a sharp rattle of musketry, which inspired some apprehension for those parts of the field from this point not visible. In the mirky part of the day I had planted myself in the redoubt held by Colonel Ogleby's regiment, but as soon as it opened fire it became untenable for lookers on, partly on account of the smoke, and the im possibility of remaining upright, without making one's person a target for such portions of the Russian artillery as might think it a suitable point of aim. On going higher up along the entrench ment I 'witnessed some splendid practice from the Valorous steamer I. the the harbour, which threw shells with great precision across the mounds of sand on the sea shore, and n amongst the cavalry on the left, causing them to shift their position several times, till they got fairly out of range. 'Throughout the Turkish artillery ac quitted itself remarkably well; after every shot we could see the enemy's home rolling over, or flying off riderless across the field. Their artillery must certainly have suffered severely, es was testified by the number of dead horses, and fragments of gun carriages found afterwards. About ten o'clock a column composed of the Azovski regiment was pushed forward to the assault on the extreme right, where they had less to fear from the fire of the artil lery, through a large graveyard filled with memo rials of departed worth in the Jape of stones of every sine and form, from the simple was er bead-stone of the peasant to the square and ponderous tomb of some wealthy shopkeeper, or climber of the quarantine. What induced them teams such a spot us this for the attack, it is hard to imagine, as the inequalities of the ground must have thrown them more or less into disorder from the first mowed. A few minutes previously the Various had sent a rocket party ashore, who landed an the extreme right of tlie town, and coming roiled amongst the windmills, opened their fire on the Russians just as the head of the solemn boned from the burying-ground and appeared on the glade, and at the same moment the musketry commenced from the entrenchment. The column pushed on to a distance of not more than twenty yards from the ditch, but there gave way and fell into disorder. Baling Pasha now made a sortie with a brigade of Egyptian*, and charged them with the bayonet; but in the fact of leading his men on received a musket-ball through the body, and fell dead. Ismail Bey was also wounded on the same wallows. Tbe Ranians . now fell into disorder, gave way, and retired, leaving the graveyard strewed with their dead. The artillery limbered up, and went off, Bring occasional shots till it passed the brew of the hill. The cavalry preceded it at a easter, but when on the other side the whole retreated in the most beautiful order, to a distance of about two `miles, where they isiveneekett on Use piabi. Is diately after the ceseetiea of the this& I walked Mew to the Crowawork, and at every yard along itbelaside of the inner entrenchment found traces et So conflict, in the chaps of battered house, *sir burs" and here and there wounded or islal sea. These were, however, the natural cones Imam of four hours' fierce cannonading, and I pima them without bestowing much attention on then, till I was stopped in a narrow passage between the parapet and a ruined wall, by two soldiers immeshing abreast, with a very excited triumphant air, sod each carrying in his hand, what at first I took to be a pig's head, but which on nearer approach I found to my infinite disgust to be the heads of two unfortunate Russians who had fallen in the grave yard ; one, from the long hair. evidently that of a Greek volunteer ; the other the oloselycropped skull of a soldier of the line—both gory and disfigured, and leaving bloody traces on the ground over which they passed. I had scarce recovered from my surprise and horror, when I met two other savages bearing aloft on the points of their bayonets two other trophies of a similar nature. They had hardly passed me, how ever, when they were stopped by the news that their two confreres who had preceded them on laying their hideous voila at the feet of Omar Puha, instead, as they expected. of being patted on the back, and re ceiving a good baksheesh, were instantly arrested, and marched off to prison. The two last instantly lost their enthusiasm, drooped their bayonets, and went back, with a very downcast air. all the way looking as if they wished to rid themselves of their bur den without exhibiting their fears or their weakness to their comrades. The scene in theinterior of the outwork was terrific. Men lay on every side gashed and torn by those frightful wounds which round-shot inva riably inflict. Here a gory trunk, looking as if the head had been wrenched from the shoulders by the hand of a giant ; there an artilleryman, lying across a splinter of his own gun-carriage—the splintered bones of his thighs protruding from the flesh ; another cut in two as if by a knife, and his body doubled up like a strip of brown paper. The artillery horses and their drivers were stationed amongst the windmills which stand in thick clusters between the outwork and the fortifications of the interior, and as the whole of this space was swept for ' nearly two hours by the fire of the battery which was last brought up, the havoc was dreadful. Nearly eighty artillery horses were killed on a small p►tch of ground, some by the shot, others by the splinters of wood and stone, which flew in showers from the mills at every discharge, and the soil was strewed with their blood and entrails. I saw all the horses of one gun knocked together into one indiscriminate mass, as if some mighty force had squeezed them up like so much butter. The mills presented a most ludicrous spectacle ; some had one arm left ; 'others two ; and some were tumbled into a mess of ruins, from which a wheel or a wing stuck up in the air as if protesting against the outrage. None of all these things, however, attracted much attention from the defenders of the position. All were talking loudly, some few laughing; artillerymen, taking the harness off the dead horses, and making repairs on the damaged guns; some throwing up fresh clay where the works had suffered ; others carrying off the wounded in blankets, many of the latter groaning loudly ; others reverently covering the faces of the dead with the skirts of their coats, and all this amidst • hum and buzz of voices which rose as merrily and cheerfully upon the morning air, towards the sunny sky, as if it were the close of a fete, and no grim, evidences of • bloody struggle lay on every yard of the soil. Omer Pacha rode round soon after, with a large staff and most of the European officers who were in the place, tad in his train I went down to the graveyard. The firing had certainly not ceased twenty minutes, and yet at least 2,000 Tartars had rushed out of the town, and stripped and plundered the dead Russians. When Omer Pacha reached the spot he drove them all away, but not before every one orthe bodies was stark naked. The greater num ber seemed very young men, some mere boys ; all wore an expression of perfect repose ; no straining or distortion wasvisible either in the featuresor the limbs; they lay like men who were weary and slept. Many were half buried and crushed under the tomb-stones. i which the round-shot and the rockets had hurled from their places, and sent flying in pieces in all directions. Many of the Russians had still a shred of a shirt or an old pair of drawers clinging to their mangled remains, and it would have required no great stretch of imagination to have supposed them the peaceable tenants of the tombs around, who had risen to ask the cause of the wild tumult which ranged above their abodes. In all 200 bodies were collected and buried by the Turks. As the artillery must have carried off a large portion of theirs, as is usually the case, think the Russian loss May be fairly estimated at 300 killed and 700 wounded. The Turks have lost 80 killed and , 900 wounded. These accounts both exceed my rough guess given in a telegraphic despatch immediately after the action. The damage done to the fortifica tions was very trifling, and was repaired in three or four hours. The troops are now working night and day in strengthening the position, and I think no fears whatever, considering the large force which garrisons it, and notwithstanding the enor mous muses of artillery with which the Russians threaten it, need be entertained as to its safety. The whole of Liprandi's di, i eion is supposed to be here. They have an 'overwhelming force of cavalry all round the town, and they are right, for no finer cavalry ground, I suppose, exists in the world. The whole country from this to Perekop is one immense plain, smooth as • bowling green. Fss. 19. Another attack was expected to-day and yesterday, but both have passed off without any occurrence worthy of note. The disembarkation of troops and stores goes on, notwithstanding the stormy weather which renders all operations of this kind very diffi cult. The Tribune and Curlew arrived from the fleet yesterday. The Russians have retired nearly two leagues hence. The mainguard of their cavalry le, however, still in the plain below the town. The videttes are less numerous than before the attack. It is considered not improbable that their next attempt will be made in the night. I omitted to mention that seven of the inhabitants of the town were killed and twenty wounded in the affair of the 17th. The want of surgeons was greatly felt. The Tartars have eaten or salted all the dead horses of both parties. For the last two days they have been feasting and making merry. This need excite neither pity nor surprise, as horse-flesh, more majorum, is their usual food, even is their villages. RUSSIAN ACCOUNT. The Invalid. Ruse hes the following amount the affair of the 17th, at Etipatoria : " We knew by the report of Prince Mentehikoffis aide-de-eamp of the 12th, that on the 3rd the Turkish troops disembarked at Enpatoria had made as offensive movement upon the village of Saki, in numbers of more than 10,000. "In order to assure himmit of the exact amouut of the enemy's forces in occupation of Papaw* and to ascertain if there was not a possibility of them. Prince Mentohikoff ordered Lient ag len e t g.teouleit to execute u the 17th a 110911 g reco+ naisance apoo..that town.witia a party of troops BUL- L timed in the vicinity. " The troops destined for this operation applo te hm Eupatoria within the distance of 250 yardr, and opened a cross fire of artillery upon the place. "The enemy responded with a lively cannonade from the fortifications which surround the city ; never• tholes, the aetion of our artillery was so happily executed that in a few seconds five ammunition wag. gone belonging to the Turks were blown up, a n d several pieces of cannon dismounted. "Carried away by this somas, the 3rd and 4th battalions of the regiment of the Asoff infantry, the battalion of Greek Volunteers, and three Bonita of the regiment No. 61 of Cossacks of Don de JerotT, got nearer to the town, and profiting by the shelter which the locality offered, commenced a smart fusillade with the enemy; nevertheless, Lieut.-General lihr ol d e g being assured that the town contained nearly 40,000 troops with 100 pieces of artillery, and t h at further effort on our part promised no result, gay s orders to the troops.to retire. This difficult move ment was executed with remarkable order. " Oar loss in this affair amounts to nearly 500 men killed or wounded. The loss of the enemy was ia all probability much greater, for his troops, pent op in narrow streets, remained for a long time exposed to the terrible fire of our artillery—the projectiles of which had clear range of the entire town." PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The Moniteur contains to-day the official report of the attack by the Russians on Eupatoria on Feb. 17. The Russian army amounted to 25,000 men. The battle lasted six hours, and ended in the complete defeat of the Russians, who lost 500 men killed and 2,000 wounded. THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL We have received letters from our Special Corre. epondent at Balaklava, bearing date Feb. 23. They speak of the singular change of the weather from oppressive heat to severe cold, and of the erection of new batteries by the Russians—batteries which we have since learned by telegraph were destroyed cm the night of the 26th. There was a painful rumour that an officer, high in command in the French army, had been carrying on treasonable correspondence with the enemy, acquainting him with the exact plans of the siege works, &c. There wes a report that General Canrobert had ordered a court-martial, but our correspondent expresses his disbelief in the criminality of the officer accused. (PYLOY 283 SPECIAL OF THY DAILY X3WS ) BALAHLAVA, Fla lg. The sirocco was over on the morning of the 161. It was followed by a few hours' rain, and the rain in its turn was followed by a cutting south easterly wind, which has blown without intermission ever since the afternoon of the l'ith. The sudden change in the temperature has been very perceptible, and al most painful, especially at nights. The night from Saturday to Sunday in particular reminded us of the severest period of the winter. There was no keeping out that sharp, thin air, which would go through everything, and which more particularly seemed to have the better of woollen and worsted pickets and covers. borne time ago—a good while too late, by the bye—a controversy sprang up in some London papers as to the relative merits of furs and worsteds in cold climates. Gentlemen who boasted of having gone through periods of very low temperature fa voured the world with the results of their expo- rience, and it was universally decided, even by those who had managed to winter by far nearer to the north pole than was good for them, that worsted is the thing to keep the cold out. Now, I cannot say what the cold is like in the Polar regions, and what will and what will not keep it out. But few of those who • have passed their winter on Sebastopol heights will disagree with me when I assert that woollen clothing is of very little protection in the cold thin air of an Eastern winter. Aad I beg to submit that the therm meter has very little to do with the question. I myself have in Eastern Prussia and Poland gone through winters, which as far as the thermometer goes, were by far severer than this Crimean winter, worn leas clothing, and suffered lees from cold. This is neither the place nor the time to enter into an inquiry as to the reasons why the cold air in certain countries seems not to invade the system, but to suck the animal heat out of it. Enough that the fact is on record, and that the Crimean air has the very dis agreeable propensity I mentioned above. Nothing bat fur seems to check its actions, and sad as the fact may be, the woollen mite and comforters provided by the women of England for their shiveriog countrymen in the East are not near so comfortable and comforting as fur gloves and stout sheepskin coats. Such coats are Will being sent up to the regiments in the front. Mat assuredly they get them late, and this season will not wear them long ; but if they do service for four or six weeks only, their coat will be amply repaid by the saving of health and of lives. It would have been better for all parties concerned if these coats and the high boots that accompany them had been served out in October, but even now in the better half of February, and with Spring already playin his boisterous pranks in the air, these far coats pardon a camp phrase) are " not to be sneezed at." The roads are thoroughly dry, and so is the plain. This strong steady wind promises a continuance of dry weather. Yet the intended reconnaissance has not taken place. For reasons unknown to any one but the commanders, it is pot off from day to day. It was rumoured on Saturday that the expedition had taken place in the even ing of Friday—that 10,000 French and 1,000 of our own troops had, in the silence of night, marched out of our entrenchments, and ascended the Kaman hills, with a view of attacking the defiles, and scouring the valley of Baidar. Nothing, I should say, ought to be more pleasing to our friends in England than to find that the harsh realities of campaigning have not impaired the poesy of our minds, and that our inventive faculties are as fruitful' and vigorous as ever. It is the triumph of mind over matter—the fiery steed of our chivalry champing the bit, awl with a fretful hoof recording actions which have been fought—the creative faculty of the poet — which fi lls the present void with the shadows of events. Here is an apology for campaigning lies, if such lies as some malicious people assert really stand in need of an apology. I believe it is Byron's defini tion that a he is ' truth in dis . guise," and cer tainly one of the last " stories" goes far to prove that he is right. On Thursday it was generally said that the Earl of Luca had been relieved of his command. Every one re ' peated the story; few believed it. The resignation "of every officer in command of anything, from the highest to the lowest, has of late been almost daily announced, and so great is the mania for inventing resignations that the newsof the abdication even of the Czar would excite small surprise, and merely tarnish a few remarks for the breakfast table to while away the tedium of waiting for the second hot rasher. Lord Lucan's recall was quite a matter of mural very natural, very proper, very cre ditable. Bat as aurally the camp were t aken by surprise when the news of the general's immediate departure was cir culated on Thursday evening, and when on Friday it became known th at his lordship had left that morning. The railroad is progressing with great rapidity.. It is now asoending the heights beyond Yadikoi._ • all feel quite at home, and consider it a bit of or Birmingham to see these bluff, wow esiiiiklosed "navies"—as yet not jaundiced, I" tea aced by uncouth drawee of foreign mar letbalong the heavy trucks loaded w ith rail!. (*snot exactly me what the thing is gad for, but now that heavy cartlowis are with ml haled alone by a few men, the understen i tly =being opened to their minds. But 1 r we a intercourse with the Franke b*b 1 them with wonders. They admire the I