The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-14 00:00:00

THE FOREION LEGION.

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IMOS TIM MISRMITOTIDIKt or TIM Tr
HBLIOOLAND, MAT 6.
Our little Wend is thrown into a state of the
gesetat excitement by the arrival of a batch of
up AOSTA. who are come to make the neseesary
arrangement* for the reception ot the Foreign Legion,
sod, as is geuerally supposed, fur a be 4 of Zeglish
and French regular troops. Besides imee ot the
Engineer., who are charged with the emotion of the
iriodeu huts--similar to those sent out to the Crimea
--there are quartermaster., paymasters, and officers
of the medical and commissariat departments, for the
of forming a dep4t of provisions and *stab-
= hospitals. From the circumstance of there
biing amongst the arrivals a French commissariat
odor, it is shrewdly suspected that we shall have a
visit horn a military party of our gallant allies, but
Y et nothing for certain has transpired on that
t. -1
siverday the officers accompanied our worthy
Liestensat-Governor, Captain Sir John Hindnian.h,
(ore of the few remaining heroes ot Aboukir
and Trafalgar), in an inspection of the public budd-
ies., which have all been appropriated for the dif-
ferent departments. Amongst others the large and
extensive range of buildings on the beach, belonging
to the Bathing Company, and used for housing their
bathing machines during the winter months, have
been 'elected for the stores of the commissariat de-
pantei nt, end the newly•ereeted handsome school-
Ludt partly by government and partly by pri-
vate subscriptions, is destined to serve as a hospital,
while the school will be held in the church. From
the exteneive nature of the arrangements making, it
is expected that we shall have a garrison of at least
19,000 men.
Although the presence of a large body of troops is
generally hailed with gratitude by the inhabitants ot
small colonies, and considered in the light of a god-
send Iran the profits they make and the money pat
le circulation by the officers and men, yet in this iri-
ses°s the effect produced on the Heligolandere is
diametrically opposite. Within the last 10 or 12
pars, owing to the exertions of some of the principal
Inhabitants, the island has become a fashioaati!e
snow bathing-place for the north of Oermany. and
is coosetpience of its easy access from Hamburg,
Bremen, mud Tooniog—from which three it lies
stni-disant, and can be reached from either of them
is six boure—competes successfully with Norderney,
Wangernog, and Wyck. Last slimmer the numbeilot
bathing visitors that came to Heligoland amounted
te 2,00ih sad as they all come to speed motley, the
Wendel. make a handsome living from them during
the three months of the bathing season, sufficient to
sapper them in affluence the whole of the year. It
is, Obviator?, with honor and consternation that they
new look forward to the arrival of a large body of
I/Opp, ..hieh. will not fail to alter completely the
serial pn3siogoomy of the island, and, as they tear,
to deter visitors from coming to Heligoland this
summer. and drive them to other rival Mailer
Thu This meet diminutive of all her Majesty's passe.
elms derives its only value from its geographical pm&
ties, commanding as it does the entrance to ihe Bibs,
Weser, and Eyder, bet therefore assumes a degree
el impci lanes in time of war. This miniature toluny
it in the Aare of a triangle, and its whole circutive-'
segos is sot more than 4,500 yards. It is only
etar seihte at one single point, where a Bight nt 190
steps, cut is the face of the everywhere perpeudicul ,r
alit admits communication with the town above,
which coma e§ about 400 small homes, the iiAht-,
how, a.. 41 the church, whilst nearly a hundred hate- I
taboos re built on a tongue ot land at the foot of the
'bps forming the beach. •
During the late severe winter we were completely
est oil from all communication with the main
he nearly two smiths, in consequence of ohieh the
stooks .1t many articles of consumption TIM UMW
pastel,. :hauled, and the others so reduced that the
prime sere nearly doubled. Fortunately, however.'
for the inhabitants who were prevented by the seve-
rity of the weather from following their sole meal
mocati,o of lehiog, Providence sent them unearth.
tedly smasher awaription of hood in the shape of at d
duck., se hie\ angllMl la myriads on our rocky island.l
and te,l by therieerille. sad without any trouble, into
the handle/ the histeders, by whom they were salted,
esokeo, mad peewee&