The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-12 00:00:00

In the Frenoh army neither of the often whom

came are hem stated--an dwe have but judged them
by Lord RAGLAN'S own weeds—would have remained
so long without advancement. The one would pro-
bably have been a Colonel of Dragoons before he was
carried cif by cholera, and the other, at the very
least, a Major of Infantry; while both would
have been decorated. With such difference in the
manner in which services before the enemy are
appreciated in the armies of Prance and England,
what wonder that the system of the former country
works better than that of the latter I Still lees sur-
prising is it that there is a peremptory demand in this
country for a searching reform in these matters.
Abuses like those which the public pros has, during
the Wt twelve months, denounced as existing in our
army, cannot be left n nredressed, unless, the dogtrot).
tion of the service is the object of those who have its
administration in their bands. It is almost impossi-
ble to overstate the abuses now existing in our military
system, all of which are stoutly upheld by a certain
clique in ended of Parliament. Money, interest, family
coenexions, or Horse Guards influence, are of us in
pushing a young man on ia the service; but profseelonal
distinction, personal bravery, or the highest military
acquirements, are of no avail whatever. If a young
man can command any of the former, he will get on
a hundred per cent. faster, though he never leave the
United Kingdom, than he would by serving in the
four quarters of the globe, with nothing but his sword
and merit to trust to.

gbt Court.

OSBORNE, JULT 11.

The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Xing
of the Belgians, the Count of Flanders, the Prim of Wales,
and Priam Alfred, inspected the troops at Aldenhott amp
yesterday, ea the way from London to Osborne. The Royal
party arrived at Osborne soon after 7 o'clock in the
.
evening

The Priam. PA*, Princess Alice, Primer Hobos,
Princess Louisa, end Primo Arthur, with the Princess Char-
lotte of Belgium, had anima from London between one and
two o'doek.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday at her residual, Clarence-horse, Eit. James's.
The Dashers of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the
Hereditary Grand Denham of Mocklenbergh Btrelits dined
with the Duchess of Host at Clarence-house, Eit. James's,
last seeming.

Mr. Thornton, Mr. Ward, and Mr. Hodgson, a depute
tios his the sonwittee of Anglo-Peravian bondhol-
ders treseseted business with Lord Wedelns's at the
Foreignoaes yesterday.

811/11111011101 were issued yesterday morning to the
ministers to attend a Cabinet Council in the Airmen
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. Mai half-
peat three o'clock the following ministers ambled,
viz., Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey. the Earl of. Clarendon.
Lord John Ruses% Lord Panmure, dm Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the R4ht Hon.
R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Mamma, Vimonst
Canning, and the Earl of Harrowlep. The earl
broke up at twenty-five minutes behreseves °Vest.

Tax LATE LORD NAOLAN.—This morning arnnge-
meals won made fee the reeeptiou of the lot. Lord Raglan,
whose remiss are melted to arrive in this *milky about
the 24th inst. from the Crimea. They will be sent from
ileuthavaptow by speeiel train of the South- Western R.ailway
to his mildews, Nab, Great Struthopretreet, and will be
finally deposited in the swasoleuss of his Gress the Duke
of ikenereet, All Soule Cemetery, Kemal Green, Harrow.

road. Tito famed will be es pivots as droaiasianoss will
persiL
Lord Haddo, M.P., is rending with Lady Haddo
aad tastily at the Ringer's Lodge, Blackhaatit, the red-
dens' of the lied of Abadan. We are limy to say that his
lordship madman is a very delicate state of health.

The Bight Ron. Sir Charles sad Lady Mary Wood
resolved the Bari of Durham, the Earl aad Comatose Stair
Yaps, Lord mad Lady Seymour, Lord Adolphus Fitselaresee,
Lady Geseglaaa Grey, Sir Robert Peel, Omani Sir Joha
Bargoyait Admisal Mr David Deus mad Lady Bally
Mr. sad Lady Mary Stanley and the Boa. Biomass
&Way, Oland For, Captain Maas, sad a distinguished
*de, at Mame, yesterday, at the Bight Hon. Baronet's
Adel residsase, at tie Adminhy.

Yesterday everting the Dowager Coasts. of Er-
roll gave a peed ball at the sew measles la &lime-
Rama TM ratlike, was licaoand by the agendum of ea
eseeedially smarm eampsay of the liability nil bear
mak balsam a select arils of the Sup. ilipionlatipa
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--
A prim of OW. a-year bee jut ioesi grestid by
the govaansast, boa the Civil VA, to tits wall-kaown and
'popular Naar of many works of Ckristias pkikoopby and
lamb" Dr. Dick. _ _ _

Mr. iiOlisad (liberal) was yesterday elected re-1

of Irisbaa, without opposition.

rnNo swim oppcoltiOn is to b tondo to tbe
em MILL O. C. L Derkeby fa Cheltenham tomeenew.

OF THE

OUR

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAt EVENING, JULY 12, 1855.

IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROU A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
-2 CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Jona 29.
Ifertd d the painfully sudden death of the
f3e■~ has superseded every other topie
of fit the damp ; and in the ameba of
say 'Ol the part of the enemy sines the
last amil. li hoe little of resent interest, beyond it,
le menmaideste. The interval has been too short to
posit of any sensible improvement in the sanitary
ie
mw
of
regiments amongst whom choleraic and
thy symptoms were mainly prevalent;
ass rapidly fluctuating changes which the
weather has moos undergone likely to result in good
to the general health of the troops. When I last
wrote the thermometer averaged something like a
Lily height of 94 degree., which an Tuesday fell to.
re::yesterday. . afternoon went down even to 57.
the whole of Tuesday night and Wednesday
metiling a severe rain and thunder storm swept over
the ramp; and the same occurred again last night,
rithe temperature, as I have said, most renal-
g% lijimeeletftextrengd, for the time
lass has
tbosiolg., is::
es the rain appears to have passed on northwards,
we may probably expect a continued rise in the
temperature till it again reaches a broiling point.
I am sorry to learn that a large proportion of the
wounds received by our men in the affair of the 18th
are terminating fatally. The awfully severe nature of
grape-shot wounds, to be sure, gave reason to expect
this; though hardly, perhaps, to the extent in
which the daily returns show it to be oricurring.
Round shot or shell wounds, from their extent, are in
most oases fatal when received ; whilst those inflicted
by grape or canister—though sadly extensive too—
more frequently leave life in the sufferer, at least for
a time. Still, a limb struck by either of these last can
seldom be saved from amputation, and after the vast
hceinorrhsge which must in the meantime have taken
place, few systems can survive the operation. So has
it proved in themes of very many of those carried off
the field on the 18th—after lingering on doubtfully
far days they are gradually sinking and dropping
off see by one. Apropos of this subject of the
wounded, however, and in remarkable contrast to
those who are thus deify succumbing, I may mention
particularly one case which is considered of singularly
great surgical interest—that of a young man named
Palmer, a private in the 7th Fusiliers, who was shot
~ the

through —_ left parietal bone of the head by a Millie
bullet on the morning of the attempted storming.
When carried into the field hospital, an hour or so
after receiving the wound, the brain was actually pro-
truding through an) orifice in the skull large enough
to admit of the entrance of the doctor's finger into the
interior of the head in search of the ball. The
surgeon assured me that he had to thrust his index
finger to its full length within the brain, to dis-
cover the bullet and the portion of the skull
which it carried inwards with it. Neither, however.
could be found, nor has yet been extracted. In the
meantime the fractured bone is closing, and the pa-
tient continues "alive and alive like," eating Ms
prescribed food regularly, and displaying his wonted
intelligence. By a large number of doctors who
have seen it the cue is considered one of the most

remarkable in the history of modern surgery ; and it
certainly strikes an unprofessional looker-on as sub-
versive of every preconceived notion of the brain—
videerability. A few somewhat similar cases are, I
believe, ea record; but in every one of them the
sufferer died on or about the ninth day—whilst the
individual to whom I now refer has at present every
appearance of surviving, without at the same time
sustaining any lasting cerebral injury. The case
would well merit a detailed professional report in one
of the home medical journal'.
Within the past week we have had more than one
visit from curious observers from within the town.
On Monday one of these gentlemen was exercising
his faculties within the French lines with a degree
of earnestness which appears to have worked its own
defeat, for he was arrested, tried, and shot at day-
light on the following morning. On the afternoon
of the same day (Tuesday) another also fell into the
hands of a couple of patrolling gendarmes ; but, as be
was dressed in plain clothes, spoke English fluently,
and assured his captors he was an English amateur,
they unfortunately permitted him to slip through their
fingers. Half an hour later, however, the real character
of their soi-disant Englishman by some means became
known, and a hots penult was started throughout
the French camp after him and a companion, who
was ascertained to be on the joint tour of inspection,
the latter dressed in a French undress uniform, and
both mounted. At sunset that evening I happened
to be in the camp of the 34th Regiment, in the Light
Division, listening to the bend playing our grand
old national anthem, when a couple of horsemen rode
past, apparently from the direction of the French
Second Division. Hearing the air, one of them
reined up, and rode over to the close neighbourhood
of the band, where he remained till the music was
finished, and then rode off to join his companion,
who had pulled up some hundred yards ahead. They
then centered on into the crowd of tents, and were
soon out of sight. Twenty minutes afterwards a
minute description of the two gentlemen came down
from head-quarters, accompanied by : strict
injunctions to look out for and arrest them
as Russian spies ; but the birds had flown,
and were probably by that time centering into
Sebastopol, as they have not since been heard of.
They were both excellently mounted; and the ad-
mirer of " God revs the Queen" looked on and lie-
tened to the performance with as much cool noncha-
lance as any of the 60 or more idlers who surrounded
him. Tricks of this sort, however, may be played
much more easily on as than on the French ; indeed, I
have been often stopped within their lines at the rate
of half a dozen those to as many hundred yards, and
compelled to give a perfectly clear account of myself
before being allowed to proceed. Still, the more spies
the merrier—the allied; camp present' a spectacle of
crowded, lively, and generally healthy men which
must be anything but gratifying to Russian optics,
and a knowledge of our strength and condition can
do us no harm in the minds of the garrison.
I am forgetting to mention that Lord Raglan's
remains are to be sent home to England, in charge
of Lord Burghersh, one of his late aides-deeamp ;
and will probably be embarked on board the mail
steamer, which leaves to-morrow morning for Con-
stantinople.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Joi.y 2.

Sir George Brown iiai:iiii7eieningirom this for
England in the Nubia.
The barracks at Scutari are this day to be vacated
by the healthy troops, who will be encamped a little
distance off, and the whole of the buildings will be
appropriated for the reception of sick and wounded.
The deaths are not more now than four and five a
day, but cholera making its appearance.
Miss Nightingale is at Therapia, and does not in-
tend to return to England unless obliged.
The Oneida arrived here this morning, and sails
again this evening for Balaklava with all on board
except the officers of the Turkish Contingent.

shot, and the other, Mr. Raw Homo, hu, it appears,
bus uoundad by ths fragment of a shell, and is now
nuke txeatinsat at the hospital.
We are all here, as you may well imagine, in in-
tense anxiety, and howl awaiting the result of the
prciseted attack an the Tower.

GEN. BEATSONS IRREGULAR CAVALRY.
TOWN OP DARDANELL3B, Jury 1.
General Boatman's corps of Turkish Irregular Ca-
valry has formed its camp about a mile out of this
Wirth on a hill overlooking the sea, having arrived
about three weeks ago in detachments from Satanic',
Constantinople, and the European coast. It now
musters five officers and 900 men. General Bastion
states that he has in other porta 2,000 more men,
and that when the corps is 4,000 strong it is to pro-
ceed to the Crimea. Horse-shoes are much required,
so mash so that the feet of the officers' horses, parti-
cularly, are much damaged, and as many shoes as
could be spared were asked and given from the
cavalry on board the Oneida, which vessel arrived off
hese this morning, and anchored to land two officers,
Major Heyman and Captain Forrest, one horse, and
one servant, to be attached to the Turkish Irregular
Cavalry. She sailed the same afternoon for Con-
stantinople and Balaklava, all well on board. Two
more horses had died since she left Malta on the
morning of the 28th June.

(MON OUZ OWN 0011WIPONDINTI
ERZERO UM, Jim 12.
General Williams started with his staff for Kars in
the beginning of this month, in order to see what nee
could be made of the existing fortifications, and to
raise the morale of the army, which had been at the
lowest ebb, in consequence, as you are aware, of a
long series of disasters and privations. Its numeri-
cal strength at the present moment may be estimated
at about 18,000 men of all arms ; but the effective I
do not consider to amount to above 12,000—the
scurvy having prevailed, and thinned its ranks con-
siderably. The disease, however, is not of a virulent
character ; and of the 400 lately invalided and sent
Iheye, the greater number are doing well, and are in a
fair way of recovery. Oar hospitals are in the best
possible state, thanks to the exertions and influence
of General Williams. Abundant nourishment is pro-
vided, and every possible care and attention are be-
stowed on the suffering inmates. It is much to be
regretted that he is not better seconded by the
Turkish authorities, and nothing is to be obtained
bat by constant and urgent solicitations.
The Turkish army of Kars is encamped within a
short distance of the city, and still continues much
in the same miserable state—ill paid and worse
clothed ; but arms, ammunition, and artillery are in
great abundance, as well as the means of transport,
owing to the vast number of horses and other ani-
mals sent from the interior by order of the govern-
ment.

The Russian army-60,000 strong—is encamped
at Ingedere, within about six leagues of Kars. The
presence of such a formidable force would seem to
favour the rumour in circulation respecting the neu-
trality—some say the death—of Sheik &homy' ; and
it is thus that the Russians have been enabled to de-
tach a considerable force from the army of the Cau-
casus, and concentrate it at Gumri.

We learn from Kan that the population, more
especially women and children, have received orders
to evacuate the city; and this necessarily leads one to
suppose that there is an intention of occupying it on
the part of the Russians. If such be the cue, it can
scarcely be effected without a great struggle and loss
of life, should the commanders on this side resolve to
defend it to the utmost, inasmuch as even last year
the fortifications of the city were in tolerable order.
The Armenians here have learned that their na-
tion is henceforth to be subject to the conscription,
and to furnish a contingent to the Ottoman ranks.
Some are alarmed, others understand perfectly the
nature of this measure, and are quite ready to serve
the government, provided it be based on the principle
of perfect political equality. There are, however,
many difficulties in the way of this useful project—
aad I regret to say that the Turkish officials in the
provinces are little calculated to accomplish their
mission, end carry out the beaevolent intentions of
the Sultan.

We are now in full spring, the fields in the highest
state of cultivation, and there is every. prospect of
abundant crops. The public health is excellent.
Oar accounts from the Turkish army of Bateum are
unsatisfactory. It has suffered great privations
during the winter, and is at present encamped in a
most unhealthy locality.
The Allies have entirely neglected the campaign
in Anatolia, and left us, in a manner utterly
incredible and inexplicable, entirely to our fate. A
small force of even 10,000 men, co-operating with
the Turks, would really have done wonders, and the
whole of Georgia would have been long since in our
possession,a most admirable the de position for further
and more extensive operations. Boddes,these countries
are all rich and fertile, affording, as regards provi-
sions and quarter., all that is requisite for the supply
of any army possessing moderate funds. This is a
subject which merits the highest attention of the
allied governments, and I beg most strenuously to re-
commend it, through your columns, to their con-
sideration.

We have just heard that the Russians attacked
and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to re-take the
Shefkalil (Fort St. Nicholas), captured, you recol-
lect, by the Tartu at the very outset of the war.

ERZEROUIf, Jul(' 19•
I have just this moment received intelligence from
Kars announcing that the Turkish advanced posts
had been attacked on the 14th inst. by the Cossacks,
with about eight or ten men on both sides hors de
combat. Again, on Saturday, the 16th instant, the
enemy, consisting of three regiments of cavalry, with
one field battery, returned to the charge. The Turks
on this occasion gave them a warm reception with
the artillery of their redoubts, which acted admirably
and swept away their ranks. The enemy replied
with his field pieces and some rockets, which, how-
ever, fell short and did no damage. This encounter
lasted about an tour, when the Russians were forced
to retreat, leaving but one dead body with about a
dozen horses on the ground. Their loss, however,
between killed and wounded, is estimated at above
100. They carefully removed the killed and wounded
in order to conceal their discomfiture. The casualties
of the Turks amounted in all to about 20 men between
killed and wounded.

Last week a Russian force of about 8,000 strong
was detached from the army before Kan, and
marched on to Ardahah, where they encountered
some squadrons of Turkish cavalry, which retreated
towards Kars on their approach. The enemy re-
mained in that position for a couple of days, de-
stroyed some works thrown up by the Turks in the
course of last year—and having purchased grain for
700 tomars which they sent on toAlexandropol—finally
evacuated that point, retreating in the direction of
their camp before Kars.
Our ardent hope and prayer may be summed up In
this one thing needful, namely, that a contingent of
the allied armies may be sent to join u promptly as
possible in the operations of the campaign, and in
such cue I can answer for a glorious result.

The imperial famil has been plunged into deep RUSSIA.
affliction by the death of the young Prince Djemal- 8:. PETERSBURG, JULY I.
Edden, who expired on Friday last, after a short A revolt of an alarmhig character has broken out
illness. His remains were conveyed with great amongst the Siberian regiments of the line, but which,
pomp to the mausoleum of Sultan Mehemed, and all as a matter of course, is not permitted to be mentioned
the great functionaries assisted at this mournful in our shackled journals. The following short, though
ceremony. significant, official notice, published in the Military
Mohamed Bey, ambassador at the French court, is Journal, gives, however, a deep insight into what is
about to start in a few days for that destination, and there gilded over as a want or subordination : " By
will, I believe, be accompanied by M. Musurus, who sentence of a court-martial Captain liirikoff and
has been lately appointed chargé d'atkiree atrurin. Staff Captain Iwanoff of the 13th, Major Suboffsky
Yesterday, General Vivian, anompenisd by his of the 14th, Lieut.-Colonel Kirgtoff D., and Captain
staff, had a long conference with the Seraelir, at Froloff of the 18th Siberian Regiment of the Line,
which the Minister of Foreign Affairs was also pre- are degraded to the ranks for insubordinate conduct;
seat. The Turkish Contingent is daily increasing, the two latter are, moreover, sentenced to the loss of
and smelts of about 8,000 rasa at the present the medals previoLsly granted them for meritorious
seement. They ere encamped at Moffatt-den, an els- services."
vete& gelds. between Beyskilsre and the Black It has been my duty on several occasions to point
Sea. Tbseheless had lirelms out amongst them, bat out to your readers the various shifts the govern-
beard from as elm that the health of meat is obliged. to resort to in order to fill up the
lame at present eathiastiwy. The epidemic enormous loam in the ranks of the Russian army
ken limit Need in the capitol and environs, with caused by the war, but mostly from diseaseand bad
the exespdow el the Jew village, Kouskounosonk, management of the sick and wounded. The extra-
where, I emilsestend also very few new attacks have ordinary levies of men, extended to Jews and "only
been aeons* within the last three days. sous," who were hitherto exempt from military serer
Dr. Elethwiend arrived here a tow dap ego, de- talk the extension of the age of the recruits up to 87
gatefold both his collages. Thee,_tes-/Dr. Gavin, yearn, and the levy en maw of the Cossacks of the
Wass yes resale*, unketemetely Mil by a pistol Doe, are of them elves significant proolo of the went of

men, which is daily becoming more apTh7e,,Z,
which another proof is afforded to-day. The &„7.
of the second department of the Secret Cabinet
Emperor publishes, by order of the Czar, a
nee, ""1
giation for the medical officers attached to the
ti on
authorities, respecting the examittatiee
conscripts, which is submitted to the Council of fitei;
for their approbation. Amongst other things it din,*
that certain personal infirmities, inch as
hunchbacks, squinting, lameness, loss of cir;:°!yeet
which hitherto exempted such men from sereieel'a
the line, are to be in future overlooked, and t eat
drafted into the different regiments. Pretended am
secret complaints are especially mentioned s
included in this new regulation, as well as mei:
time purposely made to escape military conscrlptkok
which of late have become so prevalent that tha a
given &sone of the 37 years chief reasons for extending the r.
Amongst the patriotic offerings made in Runk
and published in the most ostentatious manner by
the government, the following may be taken
pa
specimen :—The merchants of Bobruisk treated the
three reserve batteries of the second division of el.
tillery and the Ladoga rifle regiment, on pm*,
through that town, with 25 barrels of brandy. %
Archimandrits Peter presented the 20th cohort of the '
Novogorod militia with a picture of the bleed
Virgin, which was carried by the defenders of their '
country in the year 1812, and has been kept Ne
relic ever since. The brandy merchant Jartelew
treated 3,392 men on their march through Kiev
with a roll of bread and a glass of brandy each. The
troop of actors at Saratoff gave a benefit which
amounted to 481 silver roubles. Two mercantile
firms at Revel have reduced the price of salt 10 pet
cent. in favour of the army in Esthland, for the
quantity of 20,000 poods. The nobles of the pee.
since of Podolia have furnished the army with cr
yoke of oxen, with the necessary amount of waggon
for the land transport service.
Au imperial ukase has been published, ordering
the Cossacks of the provinces of Pultowa and leder.
nigow in Little Russia to be formed into six regi.
menta of regular cavalry, on the scale of 12 men ut
1,000 souls of the population. As each regiment is
to consist of six service sotnies or squadrons and a
reserve sotnie, and contain 1,083 men including the
officers, it follows that this measure will.produce as
additional corps of 8,500 cavalry. During the war
them men are exempted from the payment of tug,
and when peace is proclaimed they will be disbanded
and allowed to return to their homes. The uniform
ie the usual dress of the Cossacks modified by the in.
trodnotion of a tunic instead of the round jacket.
Their arms are to consist of a lance, pistol, sabre, and
the inevitable knout, which latter is for the benefit
of their horses, as the Cossacks ride with short stir.
raps and never wear spurs. The Emperor reserver
to himself the right of sending them wherever their
servioes may be deemed most required.