The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

and on Sunday returned to their old quarters at the
side of Catbeart's Hill. The lateness of the season,
and the imputability of doing anything of impotence
before the inset of the rain and snow, are generally
alleged as the causes which have led to the abandon-
ment of the project till spring. As it will then, how-
ever, very minty depend on the enemy what line of
tactics we shell pursue, Haifa may probably fall into
'our hinds only "ie a lamp" with the rest of the
peninsula—supposing oar new chief to pot forth the
amount of energy Requisite for the accomplishment
of that much-to-badesired end. In the meantime,
Admiral Brost and the greater part of his fleet have
sailed he France, carrying with them the Imperial
Sind, and portions of such other regiments as are
to be relieved by fresh troops from the home dee*.
Our own ships are as yet in their old mooring-
isEn=teh Bay, but they will at once
to clear oat for the Bosphorus, Malta, or Eng-
land. es their individual destination may be—only
some gunboats and the smaller steam frigates being
left to guard the Boast; not that mach is to be hexed
boss any naval coup of the may whilst Bit:burn
samba it ear Made. Zeseything. on land and sea,
le thus brag made "snug" for the winter, and not a
shadew of scheme of any further operations exists;
oases, indeed, the Rumens themselves the
unlikely tactics°, bringing the mountain to
On Sunday, oar Sardinian allies bad gybe a Ike-
day is the plain. After a most imposing comaawy of
high mass, Weeded by the whole force, a penal
parade of the entire army, 15,000 strong, took plea.;
and a more brilliant affair of the sort has not been
witnessed in the Crimes since the Tricolor and Union
Jack first waved over the walls of Eupatoria. Our own
=ignitions and Marshal Polisher, accompanied by a
diutsling staff, were present, not to mention whole
crowds of the inferior of cars of both armies. The
brilliancy of the day added much to the effect of the
spectacle; though the admirable soldier-like appear-
ance of the Pintese troops of all arms, and the
of their evcdatioas,would have in themselves
perfection
eient to give no ordinary degree of eclat to the
whole scene. Our Italian allies are also busy in prepar-
ing to lay down their branch line of railway from our
own at the head of Balaklava harbour out to their
encampment ia the plait', and a considerable quan-
tity of their "plant has already arrived and been
leaded. Their railway waggms seem altogether of a
saperior quality to oar own. being fitted with springs
and other, aids to locomotive smoothnees which we
have not thought requisite. Last week, our first
engine, the " was leaded, and is now upon
the rails ready for use as soon as the alteration and
repairs at present in progress along the limiest oom-
plated. dfprossis of these lest, I must not forget to
mention the discovery of some interesting Omsk or
Oesoese remains just made by Colonel /dam, et
the 39th, in the muse of some labours by a work-
ing party of his regiment close to the railway depot,
between the well-known Mrs. Seacole's and the Eng-
lish head-quarters. Tlielarcompries weave masonry
foundations of a rattan Wilding, measuring some
seventy by a hundred t, and besides a singularly
constructed wall—narrow at top and gradually
widening to a broad bottom at a depth of shoat
thirty feet—include an apartment, the floor of which
is entirely covered with the bottoms of sixteen large
earthen tars, many of them cracked, and repaired
with fastsaings .of lead, which paste the small
share of antiquarian lore at pelmet doing duty with
the army. Some Piekwieltiaa mons iaugiue the.
to have boss a winseellar ; others assert that
it was a meal store ; whilst a third elms of theorists
saaistain that it was a family bath-room I At the
opposite angle of the building to the eirredaz apart!
meat which contains theme crockery bones of masa-
tioa between mop asvamologints is a smaller rem,
with some lees perfect remiss of the same kind ; and
elsewhere there are broken stone troughs and rudely-
turned cylinders, on the origin and uses of which
local scientific opinion is equally divided.
To these items of camp news I have only to add a
winding up complaint, which is very general,
against the Poet-ce authorities somewhere. To say
nothing of thetas of newspapers, which is constantly
occurring, the frequency with which the most care-
fully. directed letters to and from England are said
to miscarry is a goatee of very great and by no means
exceptional annoyance. Personally, I have esisred
from this postal misemegment to a degree which
adds not a little to the other drawbacks on this saa-
paigaisi life ; and I can therefore the better sympa-
thies with the many whom I hear complaining daily
of the same grievance. It is only just, however, to
the gmetlemen in managemeot of the offices lover
to
head-qaarters midst Halation, to say that the blame
is not laid to their amnia : their personal sourteey
and madams to oblige are unexceptionable ;Ina the
constant occurrence of these letter losses goes on not-
withstanding. The pascal belief in camp is that
the fault lies with the home officials, and the sooner
it is amended the better for many a score of cam-
plants, both amongst officers and men.

(PB.OII A CORRESPONDENT.)
CAMP BEFORE SBBASTOPOL. Nov. 13.
At last, after lying 12 days off Kamiesch, the Iv.
soared Kale (late Kiabero) expedition, under the
command of Brigadier-Gleneral Hon. A. Spender, has
to a men landed in the Crimea again. On their
arrival is their old amp, near Cathcart's Hill, this
brigade found that their comrades, thinning they
would not return, bad removed everything almost
in the shape of rood, nails, &c., worth carrying
away. What a pity it is that we have
not, before winter sets in, taken Haifa and
Arabat, as we then should have been able to have
withdrawn our troops from Bench and Waikato,
leaving of mums just one or two men-of war steamers
se gunboats to lie off. By this means the whole of
that peninsula to the east of Arabat and Haifa must
have fallen into our hands. Rumour says that it was
the English government that was against the Haffs
trip. The whole staff is on the poi vim. If
you had pat all their names into a hat and drawn
them oat main by a kind of lottery to fill certain
appointments, greater changes could not have well
followed. I furnish yen with some of the bons fide
and some of the talke4of transfers—all of which may
almost be relied upon es correct. Lieut.-General (now
General) Sir William Codrington, K.C.B. to com-
mand the army from the llth inst., Vice-Creneral Sir
lames Simpson, G.C.B-, who resigned his command
~My,da gone home.
ajor General Windham, C. 8., now command-
ing the Fourth Division, to be Chief of
the Staff, Vice Lieutenant-General Sir H. Barnard,
who returns again to command the 2nd Division.
Col. Hon. Percy Herbert, C. 8., unattached, late 43rd
Regiment, now Assistant Quartermaster General
2nd Divisioa, to be Quartermaster General, vice Lieut.-
General Sir Michael Airey, K.C.8., shortly going
bores to relieve General Preeth, K.H., as Quarter-
master General at the Horse Guards; Brigadier
Genstal Lard William Pautat, C. 8., who lately com-
mended at Scutari, now in command of the Ist
Brigade 4th Division, to succeed General Codrington
sommaad of the Li&t Division.
Brigadier-General Garrett, K.H., 46th Regiment,
now commanding the Second Division, to return
where kis regiment is, to command the Fourth Divi-
sion vice Windham, appointed Chief of the Staff.
The two corps d'armbee to be commanded by Lieut.-
Generals Sir H. Barnard, K.C.8., and Sir William
Eyre, H.C.B.—the latter now commands the Third
Division—but one to be first offered to Sir Coln
coOssztbell. General Barnard's corps d'armte is to
of the Light, 2nd, and 4th Divisions, and
General Byre's of the 3rd, Ist and Highland Div'.
skin
Brigadier Tynan, C. 8., 23rd Pugilism, now tempo-
rarily in eocamand ef the 2nd Brigade Light Division,
is likely to be peneasently appointed.
Colonel Steele, C. 8., Coldstream Guards, Military
Secretary, is going home, to be succeeded by Colonel
Stephenson, of the Soots Fusilier Guards. Two

of General Bispesn's late Aides-de-Cusp are
abuady provided Jr. The first, Major the Hest. W.
Colville Bide ir given leave to go
till the: 29th Fery, 1856, on urgent private
affairs, when hie services are much required with him
battalion, and others on the same grounds, if not more
urgent, are refined ; and the second, Brevet Major
M. H. Dowbiggen, 4th Foot, late 11st Highland
Light Infantry, a near relation to Lord Panseme, is
made deputy amistant-adjutant or quartermaster.
sse his services may be matted, until her
Majesty'sl pleasure is known. This of one would
have thought, when he obtained his brevet rank, had
been meek looked after. By the peered orders of
the 101 k and 12th you will see the "farewell" of the
rate 9animemier•in•Chist and the address to the army

of his ONOSSIOL The latter is much liked, and 4 mai
include in this remark both the address and General
taSao. He certainly is one of the most fortunate
nnijthe army. Haring originally come ont
as major and colonel of the Coldstream Guards,
he is new a general, and in all probabi-
lity will shortly—oertainl before six months,
if he lives—be a Field. Colonel Pas,
Herbert I newly se leaky ; bat than bio sa-
tirist is great. Report always lays that the bard
which made him, when in the 43rd at the (bps,
Lientensat-Colonel, was kept back to enable bile to
g this regimental majority first. He was made fall
colossi oat hen on the 29th of June, 1865, soils

we now to be gives the local rank. of Brigadier-
General.

Both he and Goland Wetherell, of the Beets Fusi-
lier Guards, are well suited for the appointment of
quartermaster-reseal The latter arrived by last
mail. It is currently stated that he has bees badly
treated, as he had been promised the appoistment„
bat I do not think, when he looks around, that he
has mach to grumble at, considering he joined this
army as lieutenant and captain of the Guards, and is
now liatecolosel in our army, besides full atonal of the
Turkish Contingent fora, to which I suppose he will
return or else be given a good berth her. for the winter.
Nothing on any side has taken Own of important*
sinew my last, except what I have already told you.
On the night of the 11th, or I should say about two
in the morning of the 12th, the French tried to set
fire to the steamer in the harbour which lies on its
side near Fort Michael, bat their boats were heard,
two volleys of muskeby,obout 40 muskets, fired ups&
them, and they were obbrd to getup. Our pickets
of the 34th and 88th Regiments were informed of this
intention on the part of the French, so as to prevent
them firing en the boats of our allies if they beard a
nee. The Town-Major Captain Dewar, 49th Re-
enlist, was manure of this attack till informed by
Captain Chorine, of the 34th Regiment, in com-
mand of Fort Paul picket, and the latter was in-
formed by a corporal of the 88th, on picket also. The
winter coats have arrived, and the different assistant
quarterrosetergenseals keep patterns of each in
their dims tar the inspection of the different officers.
A seal skin oast for immediate issue is to oat 31.65., a
superfine fur bad oat for immediate issue is also
to oat the same; bat the ,tweed fur lined coat for
11.95., is not to be breed to officers tilt all the men
have been furnished with one By all acoonats
the superfine fur lined oat is the moat sought for, but
for my part I like the seal skin cost—of course
it is not reel seal akin. The Doke of Newcastle left
as last week, and there is some talk that he will en-
deavour to got the Crimean ribald ohanged. It cer-
tainly is far bibelot in appearance to either the Cape
or Burnish ribands.
At headquarters they my a servants' corps is tabs
famed, for the purpose of providing staff °gloms
with servants. I imagine that in the field this corps
would prove • failure. At present any civilian asks
from 41. 10s. to iL per month for wages, besides
rations, which an erica has to pay Ile. 3d. for a
month, or 4i41. a day. I know many officers on the
medical, commtmariat, or general staff who are pay-
ing 71. and 91. a moth to good grooms or oaks, as
wages, bat then they get 3s. a day for each servant
that they an allowed; The Engineers, I have
hard, only get Is. 13d. a day. This ought to
M nailed, and lasi sere that it only wants to be
brought forward to be so. It is a well-known fact
that every engineer officer who died during the Penis-
whir War or was killed, died in debt. The same has
almost occurred here-=their expenses, in comparison
to the rest of the army, being greater in proportion
than the difference of pay. It is rather hard for •
pear anbaltern to get only 21.5 a. fora civilian servant
per math in the field, and be obliged to pay from
41. 10s. to 91. At the Monastery quite a town of huts is
being built, under the superintendence of Acting En-
glom Lieut. Sheehy, 84th Regt. They now number
13 large and 6 small ones, affording accommodation
for 223 patients, 4 medical officers, en apothecary, and
4 names; the latter are shortly to arrive there from
the general hospital. This, of course, includes two
atoms, stable, cook-boom, two surgeries, dead-house,
gee. Now thereto* only 24 patients, but the cavalry,
te the number of 78, left on the gth. This very
well half a mile from the real monastery, does very
well for the eniumer, but it must always be a bleak
er' in winter. Captain Whitmore, of the Ist Royals,
banimandent, and the Rev. Mr. Cooney protestant
eimplas. The former Is son of Bir George Whitmore,
samosa et Engineers, and has a younger brother
in the nth Regiment, who is a Lieutenant-Colonel.
At dm sigh eaters! part of the building there are nclw
Ems alisers—Mvor Lowndes, 47th ; Lieutenant De
Warr. 47th; and another lieutenant—but seven can
be sessamodated after giving rooms to the comman-
dant, etrmtlfelzgineer. Below live the two
time' three—employed on the
I=te telegraph, the 21 monks, and the 14
ROWS, slaves who wait upon them. All the women
and the four daughters of the late commandant at
Ralakleve have left for Odessa, via Constantinople.
The monks muse together, and go to the church on
the water side three times a day, viz., at 6 S.M.,
Igo;llavihualiftrungrwhPuichbyt 9oclissionsm.h'umaildpbeatahequafir:waveerbeLPristareo4n Ptgoomleinra"g
to
church the mocks wear a kind of bat without brim
and black hatbands behind. During the day tlay
either wear, with old long brown coats, a short black
fur cap, or alma low broad brimmed common black
hat. The officers employed in the telegraph are
Major Biddolph. R.A., now at Constantinople, ex-
pected back daily ; Captain Bpurway, at Eupatoria ;
and Lieats. Holdsworth and Mont. ; the last officer
is also at Eupatoria.
Just fancy—l am informed that for two whole
days no maser was received from England, aid
only one sent. Doctor Jameson has medical charge
of the Monastery. The mail due yesterday has dot
yet been noted as arriving at headquarters, and us
the mail going oat closes in half an hour I most also
close. A large brevet is expected out the mail after
the one that is doe, in other words on Thursday nett.
I must not omit to mention that General Howard
and Lord Robby, who commands the First Diviskin.
are both senior to our new Commander-in-Chief. I
hear the latter hes received a softening letter from
Lord Pamirs. Anyhow, seniority is knocked on
the head; in addition to which, seniors will nowrin
oar army serve under juniors.

THE WEATHER IN TUE BOWE OF BijetilA.—A
letter from Odessa of the 12th inst. contains the remark:
" for the lest three days we have thmoogh winter weather,
sad warm pelisses oat of doors sad stoves within are every-
where to be emea. It is very foggy, whence we oonalwile,
according to oar esperimsee, that to the Crimea it raise."
[AdVertifalltent,l—UOLLOWAT'A OINTMENT AND
Plus, wonsworm. eoa gm Cm es kocrota.—Cony of • letter
from Mr. Wm TA% hosimar. Otwedieer, Newton, to ?retsina
Heiloway Mr. Theme@ Maim Elealas Mame. Et- Nark
Dersatehirs, was lir IMNIF yaws Misted with scrotal.. Us
welt various labilima lothebeged aeon, bat all failed.
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