The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

thrown a long distance off. A stamp of the foot on
the part of the tube above ground suffices to cause
the explosion. Healy of them have been discovered
and dog up. BOON seconds elapse before the explo-
sion takes places, even after the tube has been
trodden upon, and its contents set free, to pass to the
chamber containiog the combustibles. To this cir-
cumstance General Airey owed his preservation on
the day of the last armistice. His horse trod on one
of these mines, but being in a canter at the time was
sufficiently advanced for the general to escape unhurt.
The tail of the horse was singed. In the instance
also mentioned above, when some men of the 55th
Regiment were injured, the soldier who happened to
treed on the tube was in front when the box ex-
ploded, and fortunately was uninjured.
Lieutenant-General Brown returned to camp last
evening, but is not yet in orders to resume command
of the Light Division.
The following general order was published on the
14th instant, in reference to the late successes on the
Circassian coast and in the Sea of Azoff.

Mead-quarten before Sabutepol, Jane 14, 1865.
Ia coutinuation of former orders, the Commander of the
Ferns has the great satisfaction to announce to the troops
the further saceesen of the expedition to Kertcb.
The naval operations against Taganrog, Marioupol, and
Eibatik, which took place on the 3rd, 6th, and Oth instant,
have been perfectly successful.
The public haildlogs and numerous insignia's of provi-
sions have been burned, thereby causing immense loss of
supplies to the enemy.
Tbe fortress of Amapa was abandoned and destroyed by
the enemy on the 6th instant.
Thirty thousand sacks of Sour were destroyed in the
neighbourhood of Anhet ea the 9th instant.
The expedition is now returning.
By order,
(Signed) J. Suarsov, Chief of the Staff.
The weather has continued dry. The temperature
during the day time hu been very high. Cases of
cholera are still occurring. Major Mills, of the 7th
Fusiliers, who was wounded in the attack ou the
Quarry, has been seized by the disease, but his symp-
toms are reputed to be of a favourable character.
Lieutenant Alfred Ball, of the 93rd Highlanders, has
sunk under it, but he had been much weakened by a
previous attack of fever. _

Juni 16.
The attack last night appears to have been of
a very determined character. The Russians advanced
against the French works in front of the Mamelon
from both aides of the Malakhoff. Their skirmishers
were however, notwithstanding the darkness, ob-
served, and the enemy found our allies fully prepared.
They were compelled to retire after about ten
minutes' fighting, and must have suffered immense
loss. Not only the line of musketry fire from the
French advanced parallel, but also some field pieces
which had been brought forward and were kept
ready loaded with canister and grape, poured a deadly
fire into their ranks. The severity of their loss was
best shown by the fact that they fell back after their
first failure, and did not repeat the attempt during
the night. The attack was made just at midnight.
The French casualties were very few. Both the
English batteries on the right attack, and the French
works on the other aide of the Careening Bay ravine,
opened against the enemy as they pushed forward to
the attack, and kept up a fire against them as they
were retiring.
There is little doubt that this attack was made by
the fresh troops who had been observed to cross from
the north side during the previous afternoon and
evening. The encounter must have tended to die-
spirit them considerably.
A rumour is going about that the new works are
to open this afternoon at 2 o'clock against the Malek-
hoff, but similar reports have prevailed the last two
' days, without any truth in them, as the event has
' proved.

THE TURKISH CAMP.

(101011 TIE SPICIAL

OF TEI DAILY

Nzwo.)
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JuNz 15.
After a long absence from the seat of war, spent in
running through the various phases of an intermit-
tent fever, I rejoined my old friends the Turks a few
days ago, and found them on the same ground they
occupied when last Omer Pacha brought a portion of
his forces to Sebeetopol. Without entering into de-
tails regarding the arrival of the expedition, which
are doubtless already known to your readers, I may
mention that its proceedings up to the present have
not been very satisfactory. 25,000 men have bees
withdrawn from Eopatona—the beet troops of the
garrison, and fully capable of rendering important
sublime in the operations of the siege, but
Maio usefulness is hindered, or at least marred,
by &feeling of dissatisfaction on Omer Pacha's part
regarding has position here. It is certainly pardon.
ratifr for a man who, for the last two years, has been
exercising a sway not only over his own soldiers, but
over the province occupied by his army, little short
lof absolute, to feel diseatiafied on finding that, the mo-
ment he pas...from the north to the south aide of Sebes-
lapel, he sinks from the position of a generalissimo We
see of so greater importance than that of a general
of divides. This failing has shows itself in a fled I
deal of little bickering. with the French, whici do
not reflect the least credit on either party, although,
somidering the various weaknesses which mark
the best characters, it is difficult to blame
either one or the other. General Peliasier
demanded aid from the Turkish diviaon under Os-
man Pacha, posted in advance near Inkermann, in
the shape of a fatigue party to carry gabions, which
was refused, and this was followed by a letter from
Omer Puha, in which he informed the French
General that he cams here simply to aid in the
operations in the field, and by no means in those of
the siege, and that he would, from considerations
regarding their health, at ones withdraw his'
trap Issas the Tohernays. This was met by
a mot esply, in which he was informed he
might Is so as soon as he liked. The breach
was healed by a personal interview, and the Turkish
Midst onmaimad in the trenches, where they have,
mil to the present, had 50 men put hors de combat.
The greater number have returned to head-quarters,
however, yesterday, for the purpose of celebrating
the bast of Burma. Omer Pacha's return to
=rim, even if his corps d'armee remains
is still talked of, as matters do
sat yet seem to have been made quite
rut censuring Without anybody for all this,
ine:st say it shows in the strongest manner the
evils of divided command. The mildest and beet
tempered men in the world could not always get on
well together, situated u the varied allied generals
are. Poor ater Puha is the most unfortunate of
all, as he, in virtue of his being the leader of " bar-
barian" troops, has been compelled almost ever since
the beginning of the war to act under advice—now
wanting from the French and now from the Eng-
lish—and, I imagine, must have been very effectually
bewildered, until he threw the French overboard, and
surrendered himself bodily to English influence. Since
then, I think, there has never been much cordiality
between him and our " lively neighbours ;" and, on
the what', he is much in the position of the old man
and his us.
I must add to this plain statement of facts an ex-
pression of my own humble opinion, that Omer
Pacha has shown in this matter, that he does not
take a correct view of the capabilities of his army,
and consequently of his own patine. That both one
and the other are materially different from those of
the English and French armies and generals, is
evidenced by the fact that he has not twenty officers
in the whole number possessed of a particle of cou-
rage or honour • no general of division capable of
conducting a separate movement for two days conse-
cutively ; no general of cavalry (Turk put sang),
with sufficient pluck to order or lead a charge.
1
Under these circumstances, it seems tolerably plain
that the Turkish army cannot hope for any very bril-
liant successes in the open field if acting apart. The
services it should seek to render in this war—and
surely Turkey is as much interested in the result as
say one else engaged in it—ought to be such as it
can render effectually and well. If Omer Pacha were
really doing good work at Eupatoria, if he were cut-
ting off conveys, making diversion., or in any. other
way under heaven rendering help, aid, or assistance
to the common cause, I certainly would think him
fully justified in wishing to return, or in standing out
a little stiffiy for the dignity, of his army here ; but
during the four months the Turkish forces have been
there, they have dome nothing beyond repulsing a
single attack, eating a certain quantity of courmas
and rice, and constructing an incredible number of
useless fortifications, which the Russians will never
give themselves the trouble of wiggling.