The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-01 00:00:00

I.MARTIAL IN THE CRIMEA.-
OFFICERS' EXCESSES.

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01131111 AL OIDIU.

Mad-quarters before: Sebastopol. July 20, 1865.

At a palial wart martial, held at damp betore
Italtaatapel. In Tuesday, Ik. 17th day at July, 1&56, by

(order oi

Sispeaa, Colimindtng tie

Fosossolated IS* day of July, 1866, Captain ColinMu-
wall, 43rd iliediadars, was tried upon Ow followiog
_ _ _ _ _

Cusizoi—" For hoofs* bs.a drank at duty under arms,
whs. parading foe the treadles, on the .•oniag of the 10th
July, ISM, at the Camp before Sebastopol," of which chugs
the court (mad the primer guilty.

Sturisnos—The court hating limed the prisoner guilty
of the charge preferred against his, do now adjudge his,
the prisoner, Captain Celia Hazwell, 93rd Highlanders, to
be awhiered.

(Iligaed) nap. Hoax, Col. and Lint-Col.,
20th Begt.,l"reeideat
(13lisod) W. G. ROMAINI, Doputi Judge
Advocate.

Before Sebastopol, 17th July, 1865.
LITIBIL

ilir,—The 'out hula; performed a painful duty Is find-
ing the prima, Captain C. Maxwell, 93rd Regiment,
guilty of the sharp preferred against him, which leaves the
wart no atonality is senteseing the prisoner to be ca-
shiered, beg to reseestend him to your favourable casside-
ratios, is conensenoe of his previous length of service, his
'astride's, and the debility of health under which he hu
bat ling mania'.

F. BORN, Col. and Lieut.-Col.,
20th Regiment, President
11 3. Simpson, Commeading the Forme.
Approved sad sondrated.
(8111‘441) J. Samson,
Llest.-Cleseral Commanding.
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Rinthari.—l mash regret that I esimet mooned; it
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with my mare of duty to give say farther drat to the re-
-1 comusadstios of the mart than to submit it for the rand•
duation of the Gtheral Cosimanding-thobief.

(BiVW) J. Samos,

Head-qauters beton Bebutopol, July 18,1865.

At a moral court-martial bald at Camp before Sebasto-
pol, on the 16th day of laly, 1866, in panuaneo of an order

Of Lientenant•General Simpson, commanding the forms,
dated the 13th day of Judy, 1165, Captain Charles Spencer
Gaynor, 9th Regiment, was tried upon the following

Caaaoit—" For baying been drank oa duty under arm,
when marobiag is command of a guard to the trenches of
the left attack before Sebastopol, on or about the evening of
the Bth of July, 1866." Of which charge the court found
the prisoner
. . . .

Sintirtoi:—Tite court having found the prisoner guilty
of the charge preferred against him, do now adjudge him,
the prisoner, Captain Charles Spencer Gaynor, 9th Ifni-
moat, to be cashiered.

(Signed) Pam). Hoax, Colonel and
Lient..Colonel, 20ih Begt , President.

(Signed) W. G. RomAnn:Deputy-
Judge Advocate.

Before Sebastopol, July 16, 1866:
L 817311.

The court having performed the painful duty of sentenc-
ing the prisoner to be cashiered, beg respectfully to recom-
mend him to the favourable consideration of the Lieutenant
General Commanding, on the ground of his former services.
(Signed on behalf of the court), num. HORN,
Cal. and Lieut.-Col., 20th Ent., President.
16th hily, 1856- _

Approved end renamed,
(Signed) _ _ J. Ennrson,

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Lient.-General Commanding.
Rnitnin..—l mach regret that I cannot reconcile it with
my sense of duty to giro any further effect to the nommen-
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dation of the °out than to submit it to the General Con-
sandiag•in-Chiet (Sigeod) J. SIMPSON,

-Limit: General Comatandiai,
Before Sebastopol, July 17, 1855.

By Order,

(Signed) H. W:BAIINZ/1, Chief of the Staff.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg goes off into
hysterics of gratulation on the occasion of the Czar's
review of six legions of the national militia. The
sight of these bearded men, in their antique national
costume, with black rugged beards, might induce the
belief—we are told—that they sprung spontaneously
from the soil itself, realising the picturesque language
of old Russia : .

—lf danpr isanaaa oar own door land,
Datenden Ewing e'en from anosawal tombs.
So the people of the west are told to beware that
from all quarters of Russia the people are rising en
mane: they are in arms—they are marching. „It
is your fault," says the grandiloquent writer, address-
ing imaginary disputants; "you would have it!
The sluices are opened. The torrent of men rushes
and roars, and increases. It is inexhaustible, for the
last drop of Russia's blood must be exhausted before
the national impulse can be checked," &c.
The perfect discipline of the raw recruits is then
alluded to, and hypothetical foreigners are made to
say, " Surely this is a miracle." Of course it is, but
the explanation is easy. " Look at the banner round
which those legions of the militia are clustered. You
we the cross, and a text of the Holy Scriptures.
There is the whole of the miracle." It is " the ban-
ner of the church, the orifiamme of the country.
Amongst those hasty levies there are no novices, no
conscripts. The people are there armed for the
defence of their native soil. Russia, Christian and
militant, is there."
After this magniloquent description, we are not
surprised to be told that the only wish of the specta-
tors was to join the happy militiamen—that these lat-
ter were followed with envious eyes—that the crowd
could only content themselves with the reflection that
" To-day it is their turn—to-morrow it is ours :" and
so on. There is one little admission, how-
ever, at the end of this tirade, which seems
to throw some doubt as to the nature of
the feeling which is said to boil so fiercely in the
brain; of these militia heroes. It is worth trans-
lating literally. "The most surprising feature
is the attitude of these mii--separated unceremoni-
ously (brusquetnent) from their families, taken sway
from their rural labours by the necessities of a national
war—was the perfect calm with which they motes-
plated their position, and the utter want of irritatioa
towards the enemy against whom they are marching."
It may do very well to represent this perfect calm as
a holy feeling of resignation, but the majority will
consider it as the symptom of utter indifference, per-
haps of doptir.

The letters received this morning from our Crimean
cotrespoedents inform ne of a very painful fact. It
will be seen, by the General Orders which we give
above, that two officers have been tried
by court-martial for drunkenness. and have been
cashiered. We learn that previous to these trials
three oust; had occurred in which officers were put
under arrest for the same motes, but were released
after a severe reprimand. The sentence on the others
has been received by Lord Hardinge, together with
the recommendation to mercy which General Simpson
declined to entertain. One case—that of a double
offender—is peculiarly distressing, as the officer in
question is a captain of long standing, who served
throughout the whole of the Indian war—for which
he has three medals-♦s well as the greater part of
the Crimean campaign.