The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-05 00:00:00

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL PELISSIER.

(From the Ifonifeer.)
Heed Quarters, before Sebastopol, Jane 22.
Monsieur le Muechal,—After the capture of the
interior works on the 7th of June, I rapidly made arrange-
meats for constituting them the bases of our attack upon
the enclosed space of Navaholnaia. We armed them with
powerful artillery ; the Russian communications and places
d' armee were adapted for ear use ; the ground and t►e dir
positions for the combat were studied in detail; and the
allied armies divided their task. The English were to force
the Gnat Maas ; and we on Our part wire to carry
the Malakhoff batteries, the Careening Medan, and
the entrenchments that cover this extremity of the suburb.
It is superfluous, Monsieur le Mardchal, to enhance in the
eyes of your Ezcellesey the consequences which the sue-
eesefal issue of each en operation would bare led to. Since
oar last success the attitude of the enemy and the enthu-
siasm of our troops promised victory. There was no motive
for procrastination.

By agreement with Lord Raglan, on the 17th, we over-
whelmed the place, and eepeeially the works we had re-
solved to carry, wit► a crushing fire. The enemy non
ceased to reply from the Ralakheff and the Great Sedan
It is probable he wished to spare ►is beanies and
his Ate, and that he did not suffer so much as we supposed
from the effects of oar artillery.
Bs that as it may, the superiority of our C&1111012
con-
firmed Olin the project of attacking on the 18th of Jose ;
and daring the preceding night we made all the arrange-
ments summary for effecting our general movement by
break of day..
Three divisions were to take put in the combat—the di.
visions of Mayran and Brunet, of the second corps; the
division of D'Auternarre, of the first. The division of the
Im_perial Guard formed the reserve.
The division of Mayran had the right of the titlarks, and
was to carry the intruichasente, that extend from the bat-
ten of the point to the Careening Roden.
Branet's division was to turn the ►lelakboff on the right.
D'Autemarre's division was to maumavre on the loft in
order to carry this important work.
General Haynie' mission was difficult. His first brigade,
oomminded by Colonel Souris, of the 3rd Regiment of
Zoseves, was to lane from the Careening Bay ravine, at the
. ' along the left
from

spot whirs the aqueduct is, to -..0
of the ravine by defiling as murarPtiible 11.. A the fire of skin Crimea. They were billeted at the various publitehouses
ice the town, and were ordered to parade in the Bull-ring at
the enemy's lines, and to turn by the gorge the battery of
the point two o'clock on Monday morning, to leave by train at six
The second brigade, under the orders of General de Felllly, for Liverpool, where they were to embark the same even-
wee to endeavour to act on the right of the Careening Re- leg. The hospitality of the people whom they met was so
due. It was supplied with all the means for scaling. freely acoorded, the humbler classes felt ouch a kindly intr.
The special mein of this divisioe consisted of two bat-
talions of as Ist legimasat of the vulisaarr of the Guard. rest in the men who were about to fight the country's bat.
All them troops were stationed at an early hour at their ties, that fall cups were proffered on every side, and the result
pests, was that a very large somber of the men became intoxicated,
Brunet's division had one of its behead.. in front and to several of tie streets on Sunday evening being made coral
the right of the Brandon Redoubt (Green Mamelon); the by the jollity of the revellers. At the hour of parade on
other was in the parallel to Um rear and the right of this Monday morning the effects of this kindly meant though
redoubt. indiscriminate hospitality were apparent. There were no
An analogous disposition had been made for D'Aute- fewer than sixty-five men Anent at roll-call. All those
marree division ; the brigade of Noel in front and to the that did muster at parade, as well as all the officers, left by
left of the Brencion Redoubt; the brigade of Breton in the the six o'clock train, a sergeant remaining in town to bring
parallel behind. on the stragglers. This, however, turned out to be by no
Two batteries of artillery, capable of being worked a 14 means an easy matter. Some of the men came staggering
brawls, were pieced behind the Brandon Redoubt, so as to along long after their comrades were on their way to Liver-
be brought to bear on the enemy's positione, if we Inc pool, hung their knapsacks, cartridge-boxes, belts, and side-
seeded in taking them. arms upon the iron spikes round Nelson's Monument, in the
The division of the Imperial Gaud, forming a general Bull Wog, and piled their arms near the same sp.t, the
reserve for the three attacks, was eoncentrated behind the owners either occupying themselves by getting up small
Victoria Redoubt. quarrels on %bele own account, or indulgiog in the more
I had chosen for my post the Lancaster battery, and it peaceful amusement of going off to sleep. A large peaty
was thence I was to give the signal, by means of star met at the railway station, where they became very violent,
rockets, for the general movement. Notwithstanding great and interrupted the traffic; other parties were making die.
difficulties in the ground, notwithstanding the obstacles Urbanites in various pars of the town. In the
secumulated by the enemy, sad although the Russians, circumstances, Mr. Stephens' chief superintendent of pollee,
decidedly informed of our projects, were on their guard sad made an application to the officer commanding the detach-
ready to repel the assault, I may be permitted to believe ment of the 36th Regiment at present stationed in the
that if the attack could have been general and instantaneous barracks, and a picket of 150 men, under the commend
along the whole extent of the line, if there had been sudden- of Lieutenant Orange, was immediately sent out
one and unity of action in the efforts of our brave troops, This force was sub-divided, •ariens portions proceeding
the object would have been attained. Unfortunately such through different puts of the town, and a strong body to
was not the cue, and an insonceinble fatality caused oar the Central Station in New-street. Here they found about
failure twenty men of the 28th behaving in the moot violent way to
I was still more tnan 1,000 metres from the spot where I the railway officials and the passengers Colonel Bamford,
was to give the signal when a brisk fusillade, mingled with who happened to be present, remonstrated with some of the.
grape ot, told me that the action had bees seriously cow- men, when one of them attempted to knock the officer down
monad towards the richt. In fact, shortly before three with the butt-end of his musket. Some of the 36th, how-
o'eloek,Generra Mayran thought he saw my signal in a bomb ever, rushed in upon the fellow, disarmed and secured him ;
with its Remiss faze that had bran fired off from the but the drunken ruffian made a violent kick at Camel
Brancios redoubt. He was informed, bat to no purpose, Bamford, which ceu,ht him upon the leg, and inured it
of his mistake. somewhat severely. Lieutenant Orange, of the 36th, was
This brave and unfortunate geearal gave the order to .Iso grossly abused; sod, it is said, uraulted. At this
amasses the attack. The celestas of Swazis and de Fain, crisis, and at the suggestion of Superintend ant Stephens, the
dashed finitude at once. Tee first rash was magnificent; whole of the men were disarmed; ear. as they continued
bat hardly had these heads of columns sdvuaeed when they riotously inclined,. they were marched down—not, however,
were &mailed bye shower of balls and grape. This over• without some resistance and considerable uproar—through
whelminit grape came not merely from the works we wanted the 801 l Ring to Moor. street Irek-tap. They were cheered
to Garry, but from the enemy's steamers also, which arrived by some of the crowds who speedily gathered, end hooted by
with foU steam on, end near rained with equal good fortune when ; bat at length they were got into the station, and
and skill. We, however, must have isflicted some damage with considerable difficulty ands few fights properly secured.
on them. This prodigious fire muted the effort of our The pickets of the 360 a perambulated the town during
troops. It become impossible ter our soldiers to march for- Monday, sad sueceedela in picking up several of the strag-
wards, bat not one made a single stop in retreat It wee glers. Altogether &nth feerty.two of the men were locked
then Ma Omani Mayran, twits hit already, was struck up at Moor-Meet until Tosierong morning, who, they won
down by grape-shot, and compelled to give up the osenniand marched off to the Railway Station by one hundred men
of his division. el the 36th, end *rat off to Liverpool, under command of
All this was the work of a moment, and General Lieutenant 0..a0g, Abest gate" of the 28th an awl
*wreaked hoes already carried off the field of battle, miming °ellen wen in Monday gives to the polies by
;
when I ,e the deal fres the spot I lied reneked of the Super r.endent Stephan to make inquiries at the various
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NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 4.—FROMOTION.----Asiietatd-
-Burgeon C. D. Shepherd (1846), promoted to the rack of
surgeon.
AFPOUITMINTB.—Surgeon J. Sloan (1933), 31 D., to the
Saturn, at Pembroke; D. G. Miller (1834), M.D., to the
Wellesley, 72, guard ship of ordinary, at Chatham ; J.
Gallagher (1846), M.D., to the Royal George, 120, screw
steam ship, of 400 horse-power, at Sheerness; D. Ritchie
(1846), to the Arrogant, 46, screw steam frigate, of 360
horse-power, with the Baltic fleet; J. Stirling (1846), M.D.,
to the Queer, 110, Mediterraucaa Station ; J. D. Tweed-
dale (1843), to the Fury, 8, paddle-wheel steam sloop, of
616 hone-power, Mediterranean Station ; and W. T. Dom-
villa (1852), M.D., to the Agantemum, 91, anew steam ship
of 800 horse-power, in the Black Sea.
Assistant-Surgeon W. Crawford (1846), to the Woolwich
Marian.

WOOLWICH, JULY 4.
One captain, one sergeant, ode corporal, and 47
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, left this
Dockyard Station of the North Kent Railway, and pro-
needed to Sheerness this morning at 8 o'clock. This detach-
ment will take passage on Wald her Majesty's ship Power-
ful, for the Mediterranean, to fill up vacancies.
The Hermes, steam sloop, Commander Hoary Coryton,
had received orders to prepare for ass immediately. It is
said she is to take one of the fluotiag—hetterisa eat to the
Baltic.
The Meteor, Boating battery, Captain Frederick Beau-
champ Seymour, received her boats and requisites for the
boats this morning, and left Woolwich for (hermitlike to
have her compasses schooled.

PORTSMOUTH, Jrir 4.
The Lord Raglan, No. 89, steam transport, arrived
at Spithead this morning from the Crimea. Bbe brings
home about 160 invalids. She him come into harbour this
afternoon to land them.

A number of °Mars of the dockyard have gone out to
Spithead to-day, to inspect the Iliumlays, screw troopship.
She is to go to Southampton, to make good some defects
prior to being again brought into requisition.
The Arabia, No. S 5, ataam transport, is to embark
to-morrow drafts of the let, Gth, and 13th Dragoons, for the
Crimea.

The Diligence, transport, soiled this morning, with storm
foe the eastern yards.
The Pigmy, steamer, has ►rought in, from the Himalaya,
the few manna and manse invalids she has ►rought home.

DUBLIN, Jeer 4.
The following drafts arrived in Cork on Monday
from Forney, for embarkation, viz. : —l4O rank and file of
the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's, or the Hertford-
shire) Regiment, under Captain William Watts Corban, and
Lieutenaate Henry Gordon Rogen and William Madan.;
80 rank and file of the 68th (
Regiment, Durham) Regiment, under
Captain HenrWhite; 70 rank and file of the 30th (Cam-
bridgeshire) under Brevet Major Archibald
Campbell, Captain William John Brook, Lieutenant Richard
Grenville Deane, and Ensign Robert Olpbert Campbell;
60 rank and file of the 60th (Queen's Own) Regiment, under
Lacutenants William Theodore Hickman and John Woods
Dimond.

PEURROKR YARD.—In consequence of the groat
demand for smallclaies vessels, the energies of this establish-
ment have almost entirely been withdrawn from the large
ships, and applied to the former. Among thr se, a despatch
boat, a vessel of promised gre.t speed, is to be built with all
possible quickness. Her keel was laid on Saturday last, and
a powerful array of artisans will shortly be employed upon
her. Notwithi.taniing this change of tactics, the black-
smith are employed from 6 cm. till 10 p.m. on the Re-
pulse, though she is not likely to be launched for some times
her ironwork being in a very backward state. The con-
tract for the erection of gasworks and main of pipes has
just been taken, and the contract specifies the arsenal Is lo
be lighted by the 14 of October. TM. will be a great ac-
commodation to the establistment. This Is at present the
only dockyard that produces its own gas. The enlargement
of the dry dock is progressing rapidly, as is the formation of
the new slips and boat bean.

Oa Tuesday afternoon 67 men who came in th.
Queen from Calcutta arrived at Fort Pitt. There were 10
men of the 9th Lancers, 14 of the 14th Light Dragoons, 24
of the 40,, 15 of IL. 8011.. fletto out of the whole wet*
taken Into hospital. Not one died on the passage, as is too
frequent with men coming from the Indian stations with
shattered constitutions. Two of this bateh were left at
Gravesend, being too unwell to proceed.
The Ellen Rawson which arrived at Gravesend
from the Cape, landed 80 invalids, who proceeded in
vans to Chatham in °herr* of a surgeon, ten being received
into hospital, the remainder proceeding to the invalid bar-
racks.

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One hundred and fifty men of the 29th Regiment
left Chatham on Tuesday for Gravesend to embark for
Calcutta by the ship Southamptcn. Capt. Kuecbone, Lieut.
Dane, Ensign Lidgard accompanied them.
Major Charles Gordon, 76th Regiment, is appointed
to the staff office of major of brigade, Chatham.
The Prince of Wales, screw steam transport, laden
with shot, shell, and gu, powder, for the Crimea, which put
in here yesterday evening, from Woolwich, has finished
coaling, and 1 for her destination this afternoon. She
has on hoard for Constantinople five Purveyor's Clerkr—
Messrs. Nicholson, White, Cooper, Bull, and Walker; cad
ten other passengers. The British ship Tudor, Captain,
Rawson, which brought the 2nd West York Militia to this
garrison on the 17th inst., sailed yesterday fur the Rut
ladiss.—Gibrattor Chronicle, June 28.