The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-22 00:00:00

SUN PICTURES IN THE EAST.

THE photograph is in daily use now under the
bright sun of the Crimea. We who have been sit-
ting at home under the grey sky. which has hidden
the summer sun from us till now, please ourselves
with thinking of the sun-pictures which may be
gratifying the eyes of our countrymen in old Taurids,
and with seeing in " the mind's eye" the groups
which we should like to have brought home when our
victorious armies return.

There was the bright, handsome town of Kertch,
one day lately. What a picture it must have been
when the townspeople were about their ordinary
business, and the ladies were abroad in the streets,
shopping and making visits, to talk about what was
doing at the other end of the peninsula, as if it
were in a far country—so confident were
they of safety while the Russian army
lay between them and the camp of the Allies.
Day by day they had seen long trains of waggons
pass by, laden with supplies, which would, as they
were informed, enable their defenders to tire out the
invaders. They were told nothing but the good news,
and were elate with pride in the resources of the
CZAR, and looked with contempt on the folly of the
infidels who attempted violence against Holy Mother
Russia. Some of them were probably counting the
days which would suffice to drive away the foe, and
leave the road clear for the nobles to bring their
households down for their annual sea-bathing on the
' south coast, which they justly consider the Paradise
of the world. In a moment, a general cry turned all
eyes towards the heights, where a host, with glitter-
ing army, were passing over the ridge, and pouring
down upon the town. Before the gay ladies could
reach their homes, they met parties of the enemy
filling the streets; and when at home they found the
gates standing wide, and British soldiers coming
forth laden with spoils. What a picture it must
have been—unspoiled by bloodshed, but in all else
• rude awakening from the dream of security.
Another picture was presently to be seen on board
the ships. Sailors dressed in gaudy ball array, or in
rich Russian uniforms, while heaps of plate aid pic-
tures were put up to a mock auction, where the trea-
eures fetched nothing because of the difficulty of
carriage. A silver salver to be had for five shillings,
and nobody to buy, because it was so heavy! Mirth
and fun abounded, because nobody was killed or hurt ;
and shouts arose as batteries and magazines were
blown up in quick succession by Russian hands, and
exploded harmlessly in the air. A singular picture
it must have been !

Next day, there was another, on the verge of the
great precipice at Simpheropol. Behind there was
the hot barren steppe, slopieg gradually down to the
north, with not a house upon it—nothing but the
wild thyme, hiding the nests of tae night hawk, and
peopled only by the stalking cranes. Before and
below were the beechwoode on the slope far beneath,
and the ravines where the brooks were leaping sea-
wards, and Tartar dwellings peeped from their ledges
or the hill-sides, and between the gorges of the
mcuntains the blue sea line rose high on the
horizon. Instead of looking before or behind,
the somas of the army and of the anxious inhabitants
were gszieg eastwards, on the watch for the supplies
from the Sea of Azoff. For a day or two they
watched in vain ; and then the news could no longer
be concealed that no more supplies would come that
way. They were probably told that supplies would
henceforth come from the north, across the Putrid
I Sea. But, in a few hours more, a horseman would
come scouring over the steppe, to tell that no more
aid would arrive from Genitchi,—that the enemy
had burnt the stores, and captured the ships, and
had the command of the passage of the Putrid Sea.
The blank faces of the multitude who looked at one
another in dismay must have made a picture which
the potent sun himself could not stamp so deeply as
despair on the minds of all who saw it.

If this was a picture of despair, there was one of
genial hope, not very far off. Those who attended the
troops, Sardinian, French, and English, who swept
the valley of the Tchernaya, tell us of the slopes where
the horses were knee deep in grass and flowers, and
where every poor quadruped which survived the
hardships of the winter might now grow sleek, en-
joying the life in clover, after picking up barley from
the mud, and drooping all night with tail turned to
the midnight blast. But the change to the soldier is
not less than that to his horse. Under the spring
sunshine and rains the new gardens about the camps
are growing their vegetables as fast as nature will
serve those whom she had put to so severe a proba-
tion. And the good fellows see, not only a fine pro-
mise of vegetable dainties, after a long course of salt
meat, cooked or raw, but there is SOTEZ among them,
turning their very salt meat and biscuit into dain-
ties, and promising dinners fit for noblemen when a
little more sunshine shall have given them the re-
source of the gardens. The hospital patients no
longer turn with loathing from their food, but watch
its coming with hungry eyes, and say of their broth
acd rice and fragrant coffee that these are the things
that will set them up again. BOYER is the magician
who hands them the charmed cup which renews
their strength. Lord Racitan welcoming him as a
guest would make a pretty picture enough; but one
would rather see him among the sick and shrunk
soldiery, who say that his is the true medicine, and
that he is worth all the physicians put together.
Not far from the spot, down in the harbour
below, there is a spectacle which assuredly was
never seen before—the returned prisoners and
deserters sent into Sebastopol. The sending those
men back has been a severer blow to Russia
than taking any number of new prisoners.'
Those poor wretches cannot be prevented
from telling what it is fatal to the CUR that his
people should hear. They tell that the British sol-
dier is a man, and no slave. They tell that no one
in all that army has been taken from home against his
will—that no one of those tens of thousands has been
dragged from his sleep at midnight, bound and
shaven, and driven to the war like a beast to the
slaughter—that every man of them considers himself
of the same species with his odious and his
Sovereign—that every one may speak what he
has to say, and lives under the protection of law,
and the law of kindness. They tell what priests
are in the camps of the Allies,—levying no tan, utter-
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promises instead of threats, and giving away their

town comforts to sufferer., instead of pilferh
their own profit, like the Popes of the Greek char*
They tell of the solemn Sunday services in the in*
camps, and what the clergy say and do at the beds the dying. If what these men say has reached td
much more must it have spread in the other dir
eet4,•4l
—into the provinces of Russia. The insurreetion it
the Ukraine is not put down. On the contrary iti
spreading so that the landowners are hastening to
Warsaw, to be out of the way of the impeod44
vengeance. The clergy are having their turn int
at the bands of the exasperated peasantry, cid
nobles know that they must escape before the lei
have done with the clergy, or meet a fate too hnn6
ble for the mind's eye to dwell steadily upon it.
There is no need to dwell upon it. It is enough 4
know that, without any plottiog on our side, el 4
seeds of disaft ction are carried from our camps Mtn
the dominions of the enemy, and that the ideas and feel,
ings sent forth into the heart of the hostile empire
seem likely to do more for the success of the riot
than all the material projectiles which we send to
burst on the devoted city. Ka group in that
city can present a more striking spectacle than dean
which cluster round the returned prisoner, listening
with amazement to his report of what the impine
invades are really like.

There is another picture which might essilyban
been taken on the spot, so as to be presented to the
bodily eye; but none is less needed, because it h
impressed on every heart. Lord RAGLAN has visited
FLORENCE NIGIITINGALE in her bickoess. Who
cannot tell—or rather, who can tell whet heknom
must have been in the veteran's heart when he le.
tered her presence ! He went to the Crimea, u
now know, not on his own judgment, but in ate.
dience to the orders of Government. He witnessed
the horrors of the winter, and has had before hi
eyes ever since, wherever he turned, the
graves of his soldiers. If all other hearts
have sickened at the details of the hospitals,
how must it have been with hi,! If he, who has
passed forty years in superintending army organist
Lion, has seen it fail, and all his toil issue in whole.
sale misery and death, worse than mere warfare ever
inflicted, what must have been his feeliugs towards
that woman whose daring set at nought all official
impediments, whose simple sense confounded profs►
sional pedantry, and whose devottdoeas redeemed
multitude whom a cruel negligence was tending to
the grave ! The old general long ago gave a limb
to the service. She, who lay pale and debilitated
before him, had well nigh given her life. His cha-
racteristic "calm" must have nearly given way ha.
fore a pressure of emotions,—such admiration, each
humbling gratitude as a grey-haired man has seldom
felt towards a woman so unpretending, so careless of
praise, so unconscious of her claims to the gratitude
of the great and powerful, as well as of the lowly sad
helpless.

The general commanding in this great war mast
have felt that he was rendering his homage to the
true potentate. The honours of years, sex, rank, and
office all humbled themselves at that moment before
the dignity of youth, womanhood, simplicity, and
voluntary service, rendered effectual by sense and
the self-reliance of devotedness. Such a picture dote
not need the sun to paint it. There is a source of
light and warmth in every human heart which will
render it even more faithfully. Sun pictures fade,
sooner or later ; but this will lose nothing by the
lapse of ages.—Daily News.

THE NEW RUSSIAN JOURNAL AT BRUSSELS.

We have received the specimen cumber of Le Nora,
'journal intended to appear daily at Brunets, as the adeo•
eats of Russian interests.

The number in queetion—iuued on Wednesday evening
—commences' with a long article setting forth the objects of
the journal, and its gen,ral character. While openly
avowing the end of its existence to be tie defence of Ramis.
a denial is given of the statement that it is the direct organ
of the Muscovite government. True its projectors an
chiefly Russians, but " we did not know that a journal to te
impartial, and other than an organ of the Rutile° govern.
meat, must necemarily originate with Englishmen a
Frenchmen." The aim of the journal is to dispel existing
prejudices against Russia; to correct the misstitements of
travellers ; to prove that Russia is abreast is the walks of
civilisation with the other countries of Europe, and that it
contains elements of social, order, which cannot bet be Of
the greatest service to other n►tions.

In succeeding pages of the journal we find commur leaked
from London, Paris, Vieraia, Berlin, St. Petersburg, ,14,
There is also an article written to palliate the Hango mar .
sacre, and offering by its bitterness an amusing comment
upon the sugary promises of the programme. The
" London Correspondent " sends a communicaticw,
purporting to be the copy of • plac►rd disrdi
buted over the United Kingdom, headed ', Why cob
thins the war ?" and urging an instant acceptance of the
Russian terms. The handbill in question, if it casts in
England at all, was probably issued by the Peace Society;
but we meet it for the first time in the columns of Le Nord.
The letter from St. Petersburg chirfiy consists of a recital d
the movements of the Imperial Family. Taking this
as a " specimen number," Le Nord is a respectable
production, but not calculated, either in its leading ;
article columns or in its correspondence, to create In es
minds of English and French readers any profound *Mr* :
lion of Russian literature or Russian enterprise.
The regular issue of Le Nord commences on July 1.

THE " INVALIDE RUSSE " ON THE HAZING

MASSACRE.

We have received the St. Petersburg journal d
the 13th and 14th. In the Invaide Busse we 6d
the article on the }bingo massacre, which has excited
so much attention, and of which we were the first to
give an account. It is as follows:

"Aide-de-camp General de Berg, commander of
the troops in Finland, sends an account of a very
happily executed skirmish (utte escarmouche fort he*
reuse) near Hango-Udd, between the volunteers of
the 2d battalion of the regiment of the King of
Prussia Grenadiers, and • portion of the crew of
the English frigate Kozak (Cossack). •
"The following are the facts:
"On the sth, at noon, the frigate Cossack ap•
peered in the road of Hango-Udd, and sent to shore
a long boat, which, after bringing to in the vicinity
of the Telegraph, disembarked a small detachment
Ensign Svertchkoff, of the regiment of the King of
Prussia Grenadiers, who defended this part of the
coast, having had timely warning of the enemy's aF
tempt, posted some men of his detachment in ambush
behind a building opposite the landing place, and
sent another party with Non-Commissioned Offiest
Pavloff along the shore, in order to cut off from ess
English all possibility of retreat. Attacked unaware.
(d rinaproviste), the enemy made but a feeble deism%
and bad down their arms. The success of this 'Ur
is attributable to the rang fruit' and to the sensible
arrangements of Ensign Svertchkoff.
"The enemy's loss consists of 5 men killed ; we bave
taken an officer, a surgeon, a midshipman, and eight
seamen prisoners ; 4 of them are wounded. The
boat's flag, with 7 muskets and 7 sabres, were also
taken. As to the boat itself, it was sunk, together
wish the piece of cannon with which it war armsd.
" On the following morning the frigate app
Hango-Udd, and fired on the houses for nearly an i
hour and a half, but without doing much harm!

The mission of Count Aught>, to the Courts of Patio
and London, is connected with the demand of Sr'ai $
be allowed a voles in say future negotiations for peseta

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FRANCE

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lute 00000 was a more striking owe of the
• knowlog ones" being taken in than is the matter
d the Convocation of the Corps Legislatif fur
IDs purpose of voting a new lean, or, to
'cols the Mini/fur literally, for the purpose
g considering " financial measures." Yesterday
the Bourse felt completely relieved from the
WO which has est heavy upon it for the last week.
It was known that a Council of Ministers had been
held in the moreing, and it was positively stated
tint the plan several times thought of, of borrowing
130 mallows provisionally from the Bank of Preece,
sad postponing the loan tell November, had been
„wired upon. This account was, I have no doubt,
written to London yesterday, and what is more it was
mg. Bat at an unusually late hour last night the
decree convoking the legislature, accompanied by the
little explanatory paragraph, was sent down to the
Monitor by the highest authority, and most, if not
all, of the Ministers were extremely surprised when
they read it in the otli.ial journal on awaking this
moroieg.
I have reason to believe that the Bank hesitated
to advance the 150 millions unless the full amount of
the dividends of July 7, which are payable to-mor-
row, were first deposited. It was impossible to com-
ply with this condition, for the Treasury was all but
rolg7.
It le reported that the loan will be effected partly
is Foseand-a-H4ll per Cents. and Three per Cents.,
and partly in terminable annuities. 'Pith regard to
the amount, 800 millions has been commonly spoke%
of for a long while. I have beard it said to-day that
as much as one milliard will be raised. Another re-
port is that the exact sum will be 750 million.,
which, added to the former loans, will make the round
number of 1,500 millions. Of coureo there can be
bat little reliance upon any of these rumour., because
the arrangements are susceptible of alteration at the
last moment
The Bourse opened with great depression, under
the idlitenc• of the unexpected financial news of the
day. There was greater firmness towards the close
abalone, but the (Widths fall was no leas than
lfr. 5c., the Recite closing at 681 r. 65c. 'lles railways
fall considerably. Lyons and Mediterranean closed
with a fall of 20fr.; Lyons, 12fr. 50c.; Orleans, 10fr.;
St. G:rmain, 10fr., after having been still lower in
the course of the day. Some of the lines which had
fallen recovered considerably in the afternoon. Credit
Roadie! fell 20tr.
The Sing of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto,
accompanied by their suite, left Paris at nine o'clock
this morniog by railway for Lyons, whence they will
proceed to %treadles.
"The new Russian loan of 1854," says the Pays,
"was offered on the 14th at the Warsaw Bourse at
90 roubles 42 kopecks, without finding purchasers."
The journal La Mode has been suppressed for
having discussed politics without depositing the cau-
tion money exacted by law from a political journal.
The editor is sentenced to two months' imprisonment
and a fine of 3001 r.

ITALY.

THE ATTACK ON CARDINAL ANTONELLI.
ROHR, Juns 13.

Yesterday evening, about seven o'clock, Cardinal
Alumni, after a couterence with some artists engaged by
the government on different works, proposed to one of those
isatlisass, Y. Minardi, to go and see the church of St.
Paul. While demanding the steps of the Vatican, his
Balsam* perceived on the lest step but one a man of very
npalsies appearance, who it was thought wanted to present
a petition. The Cardinal, who was struck even at the first
glum with the einguist chaos' passing over the man's foo-
tsies, expected to see him approach with his hat off,
when, oar the contrary, as his Eminence was only a couple
of peas from the straorr, he saw him move his hand
min his cost, se if Re were going to take out some weapon.
This movenseat induced the Cardinal to quicken his pace,
aid to torn sharply from one balustrade to the other, in
elder to take shelter behind the partition wall. The assassin
bad in fact grasped a poniard, but losing the opportunity of
stn►ieg at does quarters, in consequence of the Cardinal's
rapt pees, he hurled the weapon at his Eminence. Most
fortuately, being ►idly aimed, it struck the wall and
mired the object intended. The servants who accompanied •
the Cerdiest instantly rushed on the assassio, galling to •
their aid the sentinels of the Swiss sward. The assassin
wee soon overpow.red, and was soon recognised as one De
felisi, a hatter, who has been under the surveillance of the