The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-14 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL.

The following has been received from Trieste by
telegraph, in anticipation of the overland mail
The India mail left Alexandria on the 6th inst.,
with intelligence from Calcutta to the 10th ; Madras,
14th; Bombay, 18th March.
Mr. Lawrence has gone to Peshawur to negotiate
a treaty with Dost Mahomed. Lord Dalhousie was
at the Nielgherries. The reorganisation of the mili-
tary departments is complete, and the system works
admirably.
All usury laws throughout India have been
abolished. The natives are petitioning the Council
for an act to prevent polygamy. Trade in India is
dull. There is no intelligence from China.

Paris letters of yesterday's date mention a rummy
that there is to be another levy of 100,000 men in
France, and that from 60,000 to 80,000 troops will
be placed at the disposal of Austria, should war be
the issue of the Conferences of Vienna.
It is also said that a modification in the military
operations is shortly to be announced, which may
necessitate a removal of a considerable portion of
the army from before Sebastopol. Already people
are beginning to talk of strongly fortifying Bala-
klava and Kamisch with from 12,000 to 15,000 men
each, supported by the squadrons, and transferring
the mass of the army to some part of the southern
provinces of Russia. They may either proceed to
the attack of Odessa, or with the Imperial Guard
and the Sardinian contingent enter Bessarabia.
Advices from Constantinople state that the Otto-
man Government has determined that in future all
Christians may have rank in the Turkish army up
to that of colonel inclusively.
An accident to the electric telegraph between Duna•
burg and St. Petersburg, has added forty eight
hours to the time necessary for transmitting the
briefest communication from the Russian capital to
Vienna.

APRIL 14, 1855.

THE WAR.

The last advices from Balaklava and the camp
come down to the 6th inst. They report no occurrence
of moment. The Russians continued to make
sorties, which were continually repulsed. Fresh
movements and fortifications were perceived among
the enemy on the side of the Tschernaya. The
French held their ground before the Malakoff
Tower.

General Canrobert has conferred with Admiral
Ernst on the subject of a grand movement of the
fleets. Admiral Lyons was making the blockade in
the Black Sea more stringent.
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According to a telegraphic despatch from the
Crimea, received in Vienna, the allied armies were
quite ready to open their fire upon Sebastopol.
The generals probably only awaited the arrival of
despatches from home before beginning the bom-
bardment, which might be expected to take place any
day. They wished, it was reported, to spare the town
and public buildings.
The Russians still shelled the allied camp and
batteries, but the guns of the allies were nearly
silent. The fire of musketry on both sides was
active every night. The weather was fine and dry.
Two fires had occurred in Balaklava under cir-
cumstances which excited suspicions of treachery.
The garrison of Sebastopol was on short rations,
as the authorities preferred storing up their supplies
in magazines to issuing full rations.
The following despatches have been received:—
Before Sebastopol, March 27.
Adverting to my despatch of the 24th inst., I do myself
the honour to state that the following officers have been
brought to my notice les having distinguished themselves
on the night of the 22nd and morning of the 23rd, in midi-
don to those whose names I have already submitted to
yourlordship :—Major the Hon. James Lyon Browne, of the
21st Regiment, brother of the Hon. Captain Browne, of
the Royal Fusiliers, who, it has already been my painful
duty to report, fell upon this occasion; Captain Butler, of
the 20th ; and Captain Rickman, of the 77th.

I am happy to say that Captain Montagu, of the Royal
Engineers, who was taken prisoner, was not wounded, and
that Lientenant•Colonel Kelly, of the 34th Regiment, who
also fell into the enemy's hands, is not severely wounded,
though he received some injury both in his head and
hand.

M ajorGeneral Eyre, the General Officer of the Trenches,
highly eulogises the dispositions of Lieutenant-Colonel
Kelly. and laments the loss of his services.

The Major General also speaks in the warmest terms of
the conduct of Lieutenant• Colonel Tylden, Royal Engineers,
who received a contusion, which, however, I are glad to
be able to assure your lordship, does not incapacitate him
from continuing those exertions and displaying those
qualities which render him so valuable an officer.

There was a suspension of hostilities for about three
hours on Saturday for the purpose of burying those who
had fallen in the late encounters, and it was evident from
the numbers of bodies of the enemy, and of the French,
to whom the last sad offices had to be paid, that the loss
sustained both by the French and the Russians had been
very severe, particularly that of the latter. Some French,
too, were found lying close to the Mamelon, a proof that
their gallant spirit had carriod them up to the enemy's
intrenchments.

Nothing of importance has since occurred. The siege
operations continue to progress, and during the last two
nights the interruption from the fire of the enemy has been
inconsiderable.

The enemy are very assiduous in the improvement of
their defences, and in the establishment of a trench in
front of the Mamelon, towards which our ally is advancing
by serpentine sap.

. .
The weather continues very fine, and the appearance and
health of the troops are manifestly improving.
Dr. Gavin, of the Sanitary Commission, and Mr. Raw.
linson, civil engineer, have arrived, and are earnestly ap.
plying themselves to the discharge of the duties they have
undertaken to perform ; and I will take care that they
receive every assistance it may be in my power to afford
them.

The Himalaya has arrived, and has been disembarking
her horses yesterday and this day in Kasatch Bay.
Since writing the above, I have received the official re-
port that Captain A. E. Hill, of the 89th Regiment, was
severely wounded and taken prisoner last night while
posting his sentries in front of the advanced trench on onr
extreme left.

RitGLA.N.

Thursday's Moniteur publishes the following letter
of the same date from General Canrobert

Monsieur le Marechal,—As I informed you in my letter
of the 23rd, a snspeusion of hostilities for a few hours, de-
manded by General Osten•Sacken, took place for burying
the men killed in the combat of the night of the 22nd. The
Russians, in our presence, carried off about 400 of their dead
who had fallen in front of our trenches. On the preceding
n•ght they had been occupied carrying off the bodies of their
soldiers killed in the vicinity of their own lines.
We were thus enabled to form a pretty exact calculation
of their loss It must amount to tioo or 700 killed, and to
1,200 or 1,500 wounded, altogether at least 2,000 killed or
lion de combat. Our calculations, therefore, as has in-
variably been the case after every engagement, were below
the mark. Perhaps they are so now.