The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-13 00:00:00

RUSSIAN DESPATCHES FROM THE CRIMEA.

PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF'S JOURNAL.

A despatch from Prince Gortchakoff, dated the Btb,
rays : " Nothing has changed in the situation before
Sebastopol. The enemy's fire continues to be feeble."
Another despatch, dated the evening of the 9th,
rays: "Nothing new. The enemy's cannonade is
feeble."

An extraordinary supplement to the Incalide Ruue,
received this day, contains tho following extracts
from Prince Gartchakuffs journal, extending from
July 22 to July 26, and in continuation of the extracts
given in the Express of Friday last :
Daring this lapse of time (from July 22 to July 26) the
enemy, se heretofore, has kept up a fire alternately verde'.
and a ieeping, directing it occasionally upon some one par-
ticolsr purl of our line of defence. The besiegers fired
vertically against the city, hurling into it immense quanti-
ties of rockets and various kinds of projectiles.
This obstinate and prolonged cannonade and bombard-
ment, added to the most incessant fire from the Creama
earabiniers, has not prevented the brave garrison of Sebas-
topol from repairing the &mars in its works, constructing
new batteries, taking active messuros fir reinforcing the
interior defences of the place, and, profiting by favourable
circumstances, making sorties in little detachments, against
the nearest of the enemy's lodgement..

To this general sketch the c,mmander-in.chief adds the
following more circumstantial details:

JULY 22.—At three o'clock this morning we need the
cassouflet with much success against the enemy's tnfonnoiss,
at the left of the chief point of Bastion No. 4 (Mast Bastion).
The enemy on his side, fired two chambers of a mine, bat
they did us no harm. Ho also connected by one trench the
lodgements against the Hof/Ulna bastion; raised and thick-
ened the embaukments of his approach:s against the s:h
section of the line of detente, and commenced digging new
trenches before Bastion No. 2. The fire from oar artillery
at these spots impeded his works.

Towards ten o'clock is the evening, and at two o'clock
after midnight, two alums wero raised, occasioned by acci•
dental Tenor:intros between our secret puts and those of
the besiegers. The tirailleurs-cu.biniers on both sides
opened a fusiilade, and this was followed by a vigorous rolling
lire of musketry and a cannonade of half an hour's duration.

We observed that the enemy redoubled his activity at the
works near the &relate Boy.
JULY 23.—The enemy's fire to-day has been very brisk.
Otar works fired upon the batteries in play as well as upon
enemy's nearest works. On the north side of Seboatopol we
fired against the approaches before Bastion N 0.2, and swept
the space between the ancient redoubts of Sdinghinsk end
Volbynie and the bay. The brsiegers co.nmenced an
I approach towards the blamelon Vert, increased a little the
height and thickness of the covering of his trench before the
Kornileff Basion, and commenced new lodgements for his
tirailleurs before Borion No. 2.

JULY 21.—At the end of a cannonade, and at intervals, a
very brisk bombardment, directed principally against
Karenhula suburb, the enemy sprung a mine upon the
left of the principal point of the Bastion No. 4, but he did
not Faceted in injuring our gilleries. His work melted
In finishing the trench before um Koraili;ff Bastion.
Tnn NIGHT or JULY 21.—At about 2 o'clock thin
morning our volunteers, esenmended by Capt. Beatkovsky,
and supported by a company of the Krementcoug regiment
of Chasseurr, behind whom were two companies of the
Alezopel regiment of Chasseurr, completely rendy to act,
left the rear of Bastion No. 2, attacked with impetuosity
the central lodgment of the besiegers, situated is front of
this bastion, and demolished it, after driving oat the enemy.
Our loss in this sortie consisted of 7 men killed end 18
wounded. Among the latter was Capt. Bratkovsky. The
enemy's lo .s must have been greater ; for in repelling our
attack, his reserves found themselves under the tire of our
works and of our steamer.

JULY 25 —The enemy continues his cannonade with
redoubled violence, especially agtinit the 3rd and sth sec-
tions of the line of defence ; but he has made no new ap-
proaches, probably on acconut of the briskness of the fire
from our works.

THE WAR IN ASIATIC TURKEY.

We read in the Journal de Constantinople of
Aug. 2 :

"Letters just received from Erzeroum inform us
that Mehemet Pacha, Governor-General of Erzeroum,
had collected 4,. 00 men, infantry and cavalry, of the
militia, and advanced at their head in the direction of
Kars, and that he had effected a junction with Voly
Pacha, who held a strong position. These letters add,
that, in consequence of this movement, several strong
Russian detachments, which were disposed to pene-
trate the provinces of Tchilder and Erzeroom, re-
ceived orders to fall back, and precipitately effected a
retreat."

The Impartial, of Smyrna, of Aug. 2, received this
day, contains the following letter from its correspond.
ent at EfZerOUIL :

Emmons, July 11.
On Friday we receivtd news from Kgra dated the 10th.
Tbe Amiens, numbering near:y 30,000 nun, are before the
place, and press it closely. The only road open is that of
Oai, sod the enemy's indifference for this way of oonstnuni-
cation appears to be justly suspected, At this moment the
only pusengers on this road are • few isolated horse
-
me., sod teen these, for bettor security, crass the moun-
tains to arrive hero.

The Ottoman army seems resolved to fight valiantly, and
nary one is ►t hie post at the batteries, expecting the attack
from one moment to an other. General Williams is every-
where, and allows himself no repose either day or night.
He wishes to see everything hinteelf, and this extraordinary
vigilance and activity,which he come►nnicates to all aroned,l
has had, up to the present time, the happiest results. The
garrison is in no want of provisions. Barley and hay are
the only things in depot of which the supply is very limited.
We have every hope that Kars will hold out. The song-
dame in it is very great ; but if the channels of war should
run against us, the army can fall back upon ErSlllOlllll,
where the eonetrrattion of the batteries is progressing
rapidly. 11,ited with the troops of Kapri Kioi, it would be
enabled to maintain itself is a vary favourable position.
A Russian division is fortifying itself at Bolashi-Dagh, id
the defile Unkiu-Dissi, half-way between here and Ken.
During the past week • force of 2,000 regular Torkish
horsemen advanced from Kopri Kloi towards this monntala ;
arriving very late they did not see the enemy, and arranged
for posies the night upon the heights, but at day-break
they were surprised to find the Cossacks before them. The
Teske, however, did not lose enrage; they bravely dr

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENXNI

4andad themselves, and sseeseded in escaping from this
suit pas=g bat Its or six, dead, and mme
to and. es.
Realigns aloe have maintained themselves in the dis•
triet ofl3aysaid, ia • force of nearly 10,0* men, distributed
K 4teh Kliteaoryeadin, and Topra-Kalb.
The Turkish "army at K qui Kioi incrcasee every day;
the irregulars coming in from all parts. Bet we are aware
that these troops, very useful in certain circumstances, are
far from being so in others, and we should better like to see
some well disciplined regiments there. Two battalions of
our excellent infantry are constantly expected from Diarbe-
kir.

Hada Paths, Governor general of Trebizond, is at Bar-
bout, with from 6,000 to 7.000 anldiers. He sent us sums-
lively corps of from 1,000 to 1,600 um, who proceed to
Kapri Kioi, and he awaits the arrival of new troops from
Treble3nd and from the environs of Barboub, to put him-
self at their head and come hers in person.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, SATURDAY.

The Diet was opened to-day by M. Bang, the
Premier, in the name of the King. M. Rottwith
was elected President of the Polksthing by 75 votes.
Bishop Monrad was elected Vice-President.

SPAIN.

MADRID, AUG. 11.

The Government has received the Pope's allo-
cution, addressed to the Secret emeiatory. Canovaa
is going to Rome with letters, and without any offi-
cial character.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

(IT 111
(PROW OUR OWN

AND Emma

TRIESTE, MONDAY.
The steamer Bombay arrived yesterday, at half-past
six, p.m., in 119 hours from Alexandria.

ALEXANDRIA, Ana. 7.
The India Mail leaves here this day, with advises
from Calcutta, July 4; Bombay, July 11.

FRANCE.

(nom ova owl(

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

At Lille Duisart, Cordier, and Diaumonerez have
been acquitted, D'Hennin is found guilty of conspiring
to kill the Emperor. and Deiquiens of a participation
in a plot. Extenuating circumstances are admitted.
D'llennin is sentenced to hard labour for life, and
Deequiens to five years' imprisonment.
The following (slightly abridged) translation of the
acts d'accusation contains all the important details of
the plot, as represented by the Government. It
must be borne in mind in reading it, that indictments
in France are habitually drawn up with great skill,
with a view to make an unanswerable case against
the accused, and that many of the facts therein stated
positively are often based upon very slight evidence.
In the present case it will be observed that the accu-
sation bears as hardly upon some of the prisoners
whom the jury have acquitted as it does upon those
convicted :

Oa Monday, Sept. 11, 1851, an inspector named Gallas
observed, while walkirg along the rails on the line from
Lille to Calais, that Fame sleepers on the right rail seemed to
have been recently disturbed. He imparted his sospiciona
to a colleague, and an examination made by the two resulted
in the discovery of a b s placed under toe railway filled with
explosive materials,and connected by two wires with a Bunten
battery, in a field adj oiling one of t• a embankments.
These materials, the precise nature of which was unknown
to them, were carried by the railway officers to the Commis-
sary of Surveillance at the Lille station, and in consequence
of information furnished by them, the judicial investigation
We Let on foot which led to the present prosecution. It was
evident that the convectors of this infernal machinery must
have:laid it down with:a view telicill:the Emperor,who,accord-
Mg to common report at that time, was to base gone to Bel-
gium from the northern camp, to return the visit
paid to him by King Leopold in Calais, and to see
the Tourney fetes of Sept. 12. It is known to the Go-
verament that immediately after the events of 1851 a num-
ber of demagogues, who fitel to England and Belgium, felt it
expedient for the accomplishment of their revolutionary
projects to entertain secret relations with people in Lille,
among whom, oa the first propitious opportunity, they felt
sure of finding men who would shriek from nothing, not
even murder. Under these iefluenees was founded at Lffie
a secret society, which furnished its contingent for the
attempt made at the Hippodrome. Doctor Watteau, one of
the managers of this society, was found guilty in that Ohs.
racier by the Assize Court of the Seine. A man named
letelerc a member of another secret society, called "The
I'onierdr," was heard to say, a few days previous to the
affair of the Hippodrome, ' Some of our people have
gone to Paris. The Emperor cannot escape. They are
all going to fire their pistols at him." This at-
tempt happily proved abortive, and the jury of the
Seine did justice upon the criminals. Later, in
September, 1853. when the Emperor paid a visit to Lille,
the MSS MU still nourished the same design' and the autho-
rities 1 d that an internal machine bad then been intro-
duced into France through the instrumentality of D' liennin
(one of the accused), who was in constant communiution
with conspirators in Paris, England, and Belgium. They
were found out, and a'.l that D'llennin could then do was
to take refuee with his axomplices in the vast quarries of
Lennon. Mors recently still, the arrest and condemnation
by the 'seize court eat the Nord, of one Finest, for being
affiliated to a secret society, preyed that the enemies of the
public tranquillity were still at their work. It was the
duty of the instruction" to investigate three principal
questions:-Ist, What was the astute of the machine disco-
vered on the railway ? 2nd, Against whom was it directed ?
And 3rd, Who were the guilty parties through whose
instrumentality it had been placed there. On the
first question the evidence of competent scientific
witeer es proves conclusively that the machine was one of
terribly deg- °cave power. The cylindrical box discovered
under the railway contained 2 kilogrammes 407 grains of that
description of powder employed is the manufacture of per-
cussion caps. The quantity of powder was sufficient to make
75,000 copper caps. The explosion, when a train was passing,
would certainly have caused a frightful slaughter. As to
the victim especially designated, there can be no doubt it
was the Emperor. The French and Belgian journals had all
announced that be was to go to Lille by railway from Calais,
end the belief in the journey was uni lin the North.
Proofs are abundant that this expected journey of his Ma-
jesty was thought by tome of the accused to furnish an op-
portunity for using spinet him machinery which they had
begun to Dolls ct as early as the month of June. During
the summer of 1&51, a man named Luseron, who like
Leclerc, has been condemned as a member o' a secret seeiety,
manufactured some poniard., and was heard to pronounce
these significant "Very soon we shall ell be fur-
nished with these; we shall soon have need of them." A
little while before this expected wear, of the Emperor
along the Lille line Leclerc said, 'He may do his best, the
asesernguier (a patois word, signifying snare) is laid, and we
shall catch him. Oa the very day when the infernal ma-
chine wu expected to do its work, this man said, " We
shall see sometkiag this evening—perhaps a revolution."
On the same day one Bolen (since convicted as a member
of a secret society) held a meeting of fifty or sixty persons
in Lille, all of whom were armed with poniards. After it
was known that the existence of the infernal machine had
been discovered, Leclerc said, " if he has not been blown
ap this time, he will be sooner or later. If he Is
not killed he will at least be wounded." But it
is needless to multiply proofs. Sme of the pH-
misers, especially Desquiens and Deusart,o are obliged on
being pressed with questions to admit that the crime was
directed against his lisjesty. The members of the society,
whether they were initiated into this particular plot or not,
were on the look oat for the result, in the accomplishment
of which they were aiding and abetting. A railway ticket
pasted upon the box containing the Bunsen battery, gave
the first eine to the discovery of the guilty parties. It was
ascertained that on August 28, en individual assuming the
name of Leung', but who was in fact a man named
Louis Derma, who had been expelled from Francs,
bad brought to the custom house at Lille
a package containing copper wire covered with green silk
on which he paid du•y. On the 9th September this same
person retired from the custom-house an electric battery
(known as Bootee's battery) enclosed in a wooden ease,
which battery has since been identified as the one found on
the railway on the day mentioned in the indictment. This
battery was brought by the men calling himself Lacoste
to an eafinished hoes*, belonging to M. le President Lanier,
the works at which house were going on under the direction
of the prisoner D'ilencia. Oo the vet) day of the discovery
of the machine, ea. Cordier, a painter and plasier,ceise to the
Commissary of Polies Fiel, and informed him that D'Hennin
had asked Mai to join a plot to blow up the Emperor; and
this Cardin- entered into particulars so minute, that, con-
firmed
as they are in other quarters, it is impossible to die-
believe him. Working =aeons under D'Hennin's erten
depots that from the end of the preceding week persons
unknown in Lille had bean is costiaaal ooammaiestics

• Dessert, it appears by the telegraphic despatch, is as-
quitted.