The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Head-QuarteigleitTregangtopor,2.6th Marsh, 1656.
At a general court•msrtial assem►led at Camp before
Sebastopol on the 14th day of March, 1855, by order of
Field Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., Commander of the
Forces, and continued by adjournment to 16th of March, of
which Col. Scott Iteignolds, C. 8., 18th Royal Irish Regi-
ment, wax president, Lieutenant A. M. Richards, 77th Re-
giment, was tried upon the following
t. fignoh.—" For conduct unbecoming the character of an
officer and a gentleman, in having, is eamp before Sebas-
topol. on or about the 19:h of, February, 1855, deliberately
and wilfully stated to a regimental court of enquiry that a
certain paper writing, then produced to the court of en-
quiry, was not in his handwriting, be well knowing the
said statement to be false," of which charge the court found
the prisoner guilty.
SENTENCE—The court having found the prisoner guilty
of the charge preferred against him, does now adjudge bin,
the prisoner, Lieutenant Arthur hlautice Richards, 77th
Regiment, to be dismissed her Majesty's service.
(Signed)
W. G. ROMAINE, Deputy Judge-Advocate.
T. SCOTT RZIONOLDR, Colonel 18th Regt., President.
Approved and confirmed.
16:h Marsh, 1856.
In consequence of that which accompanies the proceed
lop, I will recommend that Mr. Richards be allowed to re-
ceive the value of his cou mission.

(sign.a)

RAGLAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aram 10.

The order for the General Screw Company's
steamer Argo to proceed from Southampton to Poramouth,
to convey detachments of cavalry from the latter place to
Scutari, was countermanded to-day. The Argo is to take

oat from Southampton to the Crimea, a field battery of
artillery complete. consisting of 213 artillerymen, with
officer., and 190 artillery horses. These men and horses
form two troops. Captain Millman's troop arrived to-day,
and embarked on board the Argo, and Captain Gibbon's
troop will arrive at midnight to-night, and will embark
early to-morrow morning. Refreshment has been provided
on board the Argo for the men of Captain Gibbon's troop
as soon as they reach Southampton. The heroes will be
stalled in a capital cattle shed in the Southampton docks.
The Argo will, it is expected, leave Southampton to-morrow
afternoon.

PORTSMOUTH, Aran. 10.
The Dunbar, sailing transport, Captain Scott,
arrived at Spithead this morning from the Black Sea. She
left the Bosphorus on the 24th of January, having on board
460 sick and wounded troops from the British hosuitals
there, who were sent away owing to these hospitals being
overcrowded. They were all landed at Corfu, with the el-
ception of four who die :on tho passsge. The Dunbar left
Corfu for this port on the 16th of February, having on
board Colonel Buchanan. Royal Artillery, lady, and four
children; Lieut. Moore, 34th Regt.; Quartermaster Ander-
son, 48th Regt., and three children; and the following
ladies whose husbands have gone with their regiments from
Corfu to the Crimea :—Mrs. Baleomb, and four children;
Mrs. Grace, and three children; Mrs. Wrey, and two chil-
dren
; Mrs. Walker, and four children; and Mrs. Rowan,
and three children. The Dunbar also brings home 162 in-
valids from the regiments gone from Corfu to the seat of
war; and 163 women and 288 children whose husbands and
fathers have also gone to the same destination. The Dun.
bar has made a good passage home ; she called at Gibraltar,
wtere she remained some days, leaving again for this port
on the 28th of February. The Vengeance, 84, Captain
Lord Edward Russell, left Gibraltar two days before the
Dunbar.

DUBLIN, AFRIL 10.
A detachment of commissariat drivers, consisting
of 48 drivers, • superintendent, sod two sub.superinten-
, dents, arrived in Cork on Saturday evening, to await the
arrival of &transport to convey them to the Crimea. As many
more were expected to arrive yesterday.
Recruiting for the three regiments of Cork militia is at
present proceeding with great activity, but the number of
men daily volunteering into the line still keep the regiments
below their standard. The Cork Examiner says: "As an
example of the success which has attended the exertions of
the recruiting agents in Cork, it may be stated that one
sergeant in the Cork Artillery has himself had upwards of
fifty recruits attested within the last month, independently,
of course, of the recruits obtained by the other sergeants
and corporals of the same regiment."

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 10.—PROMOTION: Second
Mester G. 8. Aldrich, (1847), promoted to the rook of
Muter.

APPOINTMENTB.—Lieutenant W. F. Johnson (1655), to
the Orion, in, screw steam-ship, of 600 horss•power, at
Chatham. _

Muter J. R. Fittock (1827), to the Fiagard, 42, at Wool-
wich.

Clerk C. K. Foulkes, to the Childen, 12, at Chatham.

THE FIRST WARWICKSHIRE, in pursuance of a
circular letter from the War Department, dated the 27th
ult., which contained instructions that all the militia men
' enrolled prior to the 12th of May last had an opportunity
of returning to their home., after having served &Voile
days, until their next period of training, upwards of 3410
men left. and returned their clothes during the past week.
About 120 volunteered to remain, aad received 20s. each,
and were sworn in under the new act. Since then many
others have returned from the country, sad enrolled them-
selves a-fresh, for the purpose of doing duty with the regi-
ment. There are now abut 400 privates in the regiment,
a great many of whom have been allowed two or three werks
to visit their friends ; and it is expected, from the:number
of recruits constantly coming io, that in the course of a
month or so the regiment will have attained its usual
strength.
A majority of the men belonging to the 2nd Regi-
ment of tbo Warwickshire Militia, who took advantage of
their 66 days' service having terminated, have returned to
the regiment, and many more are expected. The men of
the tad Warwickshire, in this respect, have shown a good
example to other regiments, and when marching orders are
received for Aldershot they will probality be 600 strong.
The regiment has its fall complement of field offleseis, cap-
tains, and lieutenants, and is only wanting five ensigns to
make this portion of the corps complete. The conduct of
the men while in training has been of the most praise-
worthy description; and it is expected that this regiment
will be among the first to march to the new encampment,
but the precise time of its departure is not yet known.
OUR SOLDIERS IN TUE STOCKS.—" Who put my
men in the stocks ? " will to the natural exclamation of
Queen Victoria when she hears tnat, in consequence el no
substitute being provided for the leathern instruments with
which our soldiers were formerly throttled, they are to be
choked off with the old leather stocks from which, some
months ago, common sense and humanity succeeded in re-
lessiog them. Newspaper reports inform us that Sir George
Brown bad scarcely returned from Malta before he issued
an order for seising every man under his command by the
throat and cheektng his respiration with that leathern'
apparatu., which may perhaps stifle the voice of complaint,
though they will not be able to bow their seeks in submis-
sion to the decree of their general. Considering that they
have already pretty stiff work in the Crimea, it is too bad
to make their work still stiffer by the stocks, which have
been already once discarded, and are now resumed with a
sort of neck or nothing recklessness on the part of the
authorities, who have not 'lmpeded in suggesting some
more agreeable ties by which to bind oar men to the ser-
vice of their country.—Purtels.

THE WAR.

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A letter from Kamiesch of the 25th ult., in the
Noniteur de la Flotte, says :—" It is General Parole.
who commands the part of Sebastopol known by ths
name of Karbielna, or the Faubourg of the Marine,
He has under his command five regiments of in,
fantry, et company of engineers, and 2,000 Greeks,
General Zalwking, an officer of reputation among
Russians, serves under him. Our rockets have ow
sinned rather considerable damage to the town; ohe
of them fell on the house of Mentchikoff and killed
two orderlies, and another of them set fire to a 'rasa.
steamboat. \Ve have received favourable Weil
gence from the coast of Circassia. It appears that the,
Russians have decidedly commenced the evaettettes.
of Soudjak, not however without being harassed by
the Circassian., who are said to hove taken an dime
and some soldiers prisoners. The forces assembled./
Kertch are under the orders of the Hettnan Chi;
moutoff. They are principally composed of Copes
From 30 to 40 vessels have been sunk in the Channel
of_Kertch, and to the east of the Quarantine port, in
order to prevent our steamers from approaching the
place. There are at this moment at Kertch three
war steamers, the Molode'z, the Birltz, and the Col.
ahida, and also three armed sailing transports, bet
none of them have had the poli'eness to come oat
and have a brush with the Fulton or Highflyee,
which are cruising off the port. There are also there
a number of small merchant vessels and feu
steamers.

A letter from Varna, in the Danube of Vienna,
aye:—" Omer Pacha undertook, on the 23rd Marth,
a reconnaissance in force against the kursian poy,
tiona in front of Eupatoria, and a rather sharp
encounter between the advanced posts took place,
This combat would probably have become a geared
engagement had not Prince Got tchakoff given orders
to retreat."

Letters from Toulon state that the number of troop
embarked at that port for the East since the 26th of
February amounts to 14,717 men, and the vessels d
all kinds cmp!oyed to transport them to 21. Ths
Charlemagne alone took 1,206.

ODESSA, Msacat 20.

Governor-General Annenkoff left yesterday *
Kberson. 11e is charged with the commissariat and tram.
port, of all the troops under the command of Prise
lOortchalto4f. Captain Baron Oateo•Seern weed gat*
day with despatches from St. Petersburg. He mat Prise
Gortehekoff at Nicolr iew, end delivered his despatches%
him, and the general at once left for Perekop. &tun
from Eapatoria state skirmishes were taking platm eemy
day round that place. In the affair of the 9th the RI&
sians had 800 men put has de combat. One regimsat If
dragoons had 93 men killed, and 114 banes killed.

The following is an extract of a letter from a lab
I geon, dated Camp before Sebastopol, March 23:
• • • I was up till hall-past three this MM.
ing with wounded Frenchmen. The Z ;staves will 10311 be
exterminated at the rate they are losing meo. These night
attacks are horrid offsirs; there are always mistaless: lug
night the French on the left of their advanced works es&
took Russians foe English, and the English on the extreme
right thought the Russians were French. Some fellows of
the 97th, who brought in poor Captaia Vicars (since deed)
would insist in telling me that the French bed fired iate
our troops; the Russian dead in our trench is of coursetise
strongest reply. A number of Greeks and Armenia's
fought with the Russians last sight. The French killed&
Greek officer whom they declare to be 7 feet high—a giant.
There is now lying dead is our trench an officer, suppled.
at first to be a Runian, but his papers show him to be a
Greek. Re had 35 gold pieces on his person. The deal
on the Mamelon hill are nearly as thick for about the four&
of an acre as they were at Inkermann. We have sorties
and skirmishes eve y night, and I am kept constantly 011 iht
qui me, Wag so near to the Mamelon attack.