The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

-edifice untouched but one. This is a fine storehouse, with a
.grand semicircular front, ornamented with rich entablatures
and a few Grecian pillars. The windows permit .one to -see
massive mirrors and the framework of pictures andike glitter
of brasswork. Inside the open door an old man in an arm-
chair receives ,everybody. How deferential he is.l how he
bows ! how graceful, deprecatory, and soothing the modulation
•of his trunk and arms ! But these are nothing to his smile.
His face seems a kind of laughing clock, wound up to act for
so many hours. When the machinery is feeble, towards
'evening, the laugh degenerates into a grin, but he has
managed -hitherto with nods, and cheeks wreathed in smiles,
and a little 'bad German and French, which enables him -to
inform all-comers that this house is specially under English
And French protection, to save it from plunder and pillage.
The house belongs, on dit, to Prince Woronzoff, and the
guardian angel is an aged servitor of the Prince, who, being
paralytic, was left behind, and has done good service in his arm
chair.

In concluffing his account of the expedition, -under
:date. June 14th, he says :

The French fleet have returned to Kamiesch, withtite ex-
ception of a few small vessels left at Yenikale and Kertch.
The English fleet remains at Ambelaki. The Arrow (Lie' ut.
Joliffe) and the Recruit are on guard in Kertch Bay; the
Furious, Sidon, Gladiator, and Valorous were, up to last night,
anchored at the entrance to the bay, and the Sphinx was sta-
tioned at Yenikale. As Ak-Bournou and Pavlovskaia are
•such commanding positions, it is intended to renew the in-
trenehments ,of the Russians, and to form new lines in addi-
tion-to-them. Half of the 71st regiment, a battalion of
French infantry, and 3000 Turks will be marched round from
Yenikale to execute these *orks,and when they are completed
they will be garrisoned by 2000 men. This position will to
a great extent command Kertch, and will be perfectly se-
cure so long as the sea is open. It will, in fact, form the
left of the allied position—the centre being represented by
the feet, and the right by the works at Yenikale.
The embarkation can be covered by the fleet, or at least by,
the smaller and lighter vessels. All the guns at Pavlovskaia
Ak-Bournou, Kertch, Yenikale, and the Sandbank batteries
are taken or destroyed. the cannon at Arabat are described
as being so that they could barely reach our ships at
1,200 yards. The guns at Anapa have had the trunnions
knocked off, and are rendered useless. There is a rumour
that another expedition will start in a few days for a very im-
portant purpose, and that it will be on a large scale. The
Orinoco is discharging the horses of the Carbineers at Bala-
klava. The Colombo ran into harbour this evening, and Sir
John Campbell and his staff will, probably, disembark. This
steamer ran into the St. Jean d'Acre and inflicted some injury
on herself, such as the loss of her bowsprit and jibboom, and of
figurehead, &c. By some mistake, the Land Transport Corps
were sent round to Kamiesch. The Trent, which is laden
with horses for their use, has returned with the expedition,
and did not land any of the cargo she carried up to Ambelaki.
The weather is exceedingly hot.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing on Friday,
says :—" If Russia has maleand female spies in Paris or London,
I suspect that we are not entirely deprived of a similar advan-
tage at St. Petersburg. lam assured in another quarter that
accounts have been received which describe the state of Russia
itself to be menacing to its actual rulers. The peasants are
ground to the earth by exactions and thinned by the conscrip-
tion, and the nobles do not conceal the scorn they feel towards
their present Emperor, for what they term his vacillating and
pusillanimous conduct, while his brother is constantly exalted
to the skies as a hero, and as the only one worthy of swaying
the destinies of the empire. These accounts speak of a revolu-
tion as not at all improbable, with the object of driving Alex-
ander 11. from the throne and raising Constantine to it. As for
the numerous armies which, we are told, Russia intends hurling
on the Crimea, it is ascertained as a fact that it is out of her
power to maintain there more than 150,000 men at the utmost,
and this at the greatest sacrifice, simply because she cannot
feed them. The Crimea is a monster which has devoured the
Russians, and will yet devour them. We are suffering in
some degree from sickness, but the Russians are dealt with
more mercilessly.