The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-19 00:00:00

Greeks speculate on the defines of the Eupatoria po-
adios against the overwhelming forces of the Czar.
Our own regiments discuss the chances of a second
advance of the trove detached upon the Alma and
Latch& If General Ostia-Sackers has not been
more clear-slighted than our camp—and if, as we all
hope, the men sent to Kermit do not dandle over their
work, we shall have done all we want to do bag
before any Russian corps from iiimpheropol can have
steered half the distance which separates that town
from Bench.
I should have been very glad to have accompanied
an expedition which must lead to such important re"
salts, if the thing had been practicable ; but the trans-
ports refused to take civilians without a written order
or authority from bead-quarters. Head-quarters had
no objection to civilians accompanying the expedition,
bat declined giving an order or authority fee their
being taken on board. I cannot tell whether others
were more fortunate. Nor can lin justice somplain
that a passage was refused me. On the oestrary,
every one was most kind and attentive, mid sager to
be obliging, if somebody elms would bat let hiss.
Nothing could be more gracious, satiefeetary, and
charming—only it is a pity that the expedition sailed
before it was properly settled to whom I should be
obliged for the &von of a
The firing on the BeimertAoselo4r front has been •rely
slack of late, but some excitement has been caused
by the frequent sorties of the Russians on the
extreme right and left of the attacks of the allies. Oa
the left the French have worked their way from the
Motion do Mkt to the crenelled wall, of which they
hold possession ; nor have the frantic struggles of the
Hamden', who sought to regain that position, been of
any avail. A desperate sortie was made in the,
afternoon of the 2nd instant, and on this occasion
the besieged fought with unexampled fury and deter-
mination. The French repulsed them, and with lam
A deal of unusual activity has of late days bees
displayed on the Balaklava front. The departure of
the Highland regiment. occasioned some stir. Their
places in the line were taken by fresh troops, the
3rd (Buffs), and by troops from the rear, the Glands,
who bare been reinforced by the new arrivals
Laded dullJ since. the let of the month. The Bab
are seoablirhed in the encampment of the 93rd; the
Guards are on the hills on the extreme right, in the
sobsapsent of the 79th. The detachment at %areal
lisie been drawn in. Two reconnaissances were
needs on the 2nd and 3rd instant; the
first by ten thousand Turks, foot, horse sad
artillery ; the second by our own cavalry. In either
cats the troops went out into the plain, Grossed the
hills of the old Turkish batteries, and skirmished
with the Coseack• No results whatever wars eb•
tined in either case. But in each delightful weather
as we have these promenades do a nut deal closed
to the troops, and, as the men are under aims he a
ouple of hours only, there is hardly any fatigue. I
can hardly think that these reconnaimanoes have bees
intended to amuse the Russians, and to divert their
attention from the points threatened by oar expedi-
tion to Bertsch. For such a purpose the hum sent
out were neither large enough, nor did they go
enough. I take it that the sorties from our postxm
serve, the purpose of field days, and I hops, so long
as it is dry and cool, these field days will be bequest.
Wehave a beautiful plain at our feet, and capital
skirmishers ea the hills opposite to us ; nor is there
any raison why we should not make all the use we
can of either.
This merning we had a mutiny among the Are-
bakes attached to the transport of the army. The
sisk stuck for an imam of wages—for the second
time within the last fear weeks. Their rations and
pay are for more than they ever earned before—more
than they will ever earn again;; in fen, I know that
thevegse w
welted great difficulty in hiring Arabia's., because
e offered wen so Baal. The men fan-
cied that we could not really mean to give them SO
much money for taking care of a couple of bullocks
andloress, and that we wanted to entice them to en-
list in the army. Now that these Orientals have
found oat that we are indeed liberal or foolish enough
to ply so mush money for the very small amount of
service they perform, they persuade themselves into
a notion that the game liberality or folly will induce
us to lacrosse their wages, if they can but manage
to awe us by their detensinkka. Hence they
combine to strike —and they do strike—uanally
on pay day. The seems this morning would have
been ludicrous bat far the iodates.se of the utas-
=tt& might have brink on. A few has-
ubules passed round one of their chiefs,
w the
him
orke time about to t. They were
k a state vishateoditsamat, forarres the great object
was "to frighten the gleams into instant compli-
ance with the requited the tene-believingwaggoners.
The Provost Musk! and a couple of his men were
in the midst of this rebellious multitude, ud there is
no saying how they would have fared, but for the
"Fetus snivel of • detachment of soldiers from
one of the neighbouring encampments. The moment
this force arrived the mutineers gave up the captive,
sad returned to their duty. Thus fellows—the
laziest of the lazy—have their boded and lodging
found them, and get more pay than the generality of
oar working men at home. Still they insist on an
imam of pay. It their wages were lowered, we
should bear no more of strikes.

*DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN.

(MOM • 1111001 D SOPTLIXINT TO TEN " eLzarra"
OT TOSIDAT 'Aim)

WAR DEPARTMENT, MAT 18, 1856.

Laid humors has this day received a despatch
and its enclosing., of which the following are copies,
addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord
Raglan, G.C.B. :
Before Sebastopol, May 5, 1855.
Mr Loin,—Since I wrote to your ladehip on the
Ist inatant, nothing of importance has arisen ; the
enemy still appear to be collecting troops upon the
high ground on the opposite side of the Talisman,
is the neighbourhood of Sevastopol, and convoys ars
constantly seen moving in that direction.
The. firs from the pleas upon our trenches has not
been heavy; but, notwithstanding, I have some
eassalties to report to you, as shown in the scoots-
panyiog returns ; and I have to lament the death of
three promising young officers, Lieutenants Carter,
of the Royal Eogieeers! Curtis, of the 46th, and
Whits, of the 62nd Regiments.
Os the night of the Ist instant the French attecksi
a kind of eounterguard which the Russians had sob.
blished in hunt of the central bastion.
The • was quite successful, and the enemy
weredriven oat with great logs, leaving behind them
nine wall mortars. Our Allies have remained in
the work, notwithstanding the heavy tire to which
they have been exposed, and have established them.
selves therein, frustrating the efforts made by their
adversaries to dispossess them of it on the following
day, when a vigorous sortie was repulsed, and the
Russians were again great sufferers.
The conduct of the French troops was very
brilliant.
The Lord Pennine, &a. Bre.
I have, he.,
RAGLAN.

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