The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-21 00:00:00

Guards to to be emaciated with a Fusilier Brigade to
form another divis'oe.
lc is net easy to overrate the advantages which
the beard have pined for the present, by their
success ia establishing the two new redoubts on the
east aided Oaremaiarharbour, and the large fort
nen seems the Mameke-hill in advance of
the Main They have secured behind their
line of astnem the Caressing port, which was pre-
tie,* musk of pad. and toward which seine the
new narks im the right were fast advanciog. They
have establhami a farther protection for the shipping.
By the large work on the Mamelon-hill they have
incased materially the obstructions to be overcome
an the weld= of an assault upon the %eyeholes=
sad its tortiatations, and by its advanced position
between the English works on Frenchman
and the works of the French beyond the right
spine, they have added to their means of annoyance,
and interference with our operations. Three impedi-
ments are but temporary, however, and must yield,
whenever the general attack takes place, to the trio-
nonleas weight of metal, and numerous lines of
Ins =MA will be brought to bear against them,
eed‘arowning all, to the determined courage of oar
Msubmerse are now made in the Magnetos
'tant et these being in the face looking
toward Frindlimis'whilL A very powerful mortar
has bees plena W term part of its armament, either
of 10-inehee Minh 'calibre. Two 13-inch mortars
have also beet breaght into position in a battery on
the Malakbefhal. It was at we time supposed that
thdßasima garrison only one of these large
metneme—{het which became familiar axons the men
unite the of " Whistling Disk." The
pasapets of Medan batteries have beencepeired,
and considerably thickened. The covered ammum-
cation between the new redoubts on the right of the
Careening harbour and the Mamelon-hill Meal& is
proceeding rapidly on the right, and another mane-
sication from the illamelon, on the left, to mama it
with the Redan batteries; is also fast advancing
towards completion. These commonioations cross the
respective ravines. New batteries are in mouse of
construction on the proper right of the Mankbeff hill,
and the apparent intention is to connect these with
the Man batteries, so as to form a cantinas= line
of armed earthworks between the two positions.
On our ride the new works in frost of what Well
the advanced works on Greenhill and Frenehman's-
bill are making great progress. In spite of a heavy
fire directed against them the workisg parties have
made great advances during the last four or five
nights. To impede the progress of the work on
Frenchman chill the Russians opened a number of
new rifle pits close to the trench, and on the sth inst.
they made a regular attack against it in force. The
attack was made in the evening, before the moon
rose, while ft was yet dark. Captain Bale, of the
34th Regiment, on posting some advanced sentries,
discovered the approach of the Russians, and at
once gave the alarm. The enemy were received
with a galling fire, and, though they made a
vigorous attack along the whole line of the new
advanced work, were gallantly repulsed. In this
affair Captain Bale had a finger shot off, and Captain
Jones, of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, received a severe
wound on the bead from • stone or fragment of
shell. Ooe man was killed, and eighteen men, be-
longing to the 7th, 77th, 33rd, and 34th Regiments,
were wounded. Colonel Yea was in command. This
is the third wound Captain Jones of the 7th Fusi-
liers has received in the Crimea, having been struck
once before in the trenches, and at Alma having re-
ceived a dangerous wound in the face,
_ for which he
was a long time under treatment at Scutari.
In the course of the afternoon of the 4th instant
two powerful shells were suddenly thrown from the
Maiakhoff works against the picket-horse on the
brow of Frenchman's hill. The enemy had observed
a crowd of men and officers who had assembled there,
and were watching the fire from the batteries. The
first shell was thrown with admirable precision. It
alighted in the yard—a very small enclosure attached
to the house, or, rather, the ruins of it—in which,
at the time, a considerable number of French
and English officers were standing in seeming
security under the protection of one of its stone walls.
There was no escape but fortunately the shell bad
preserved sufficient forward momentum to ones it to
moocher out of the yard again, and over to the other
aide of the house. Here it burst, and a French sol-
dier, who was standing near the English sentry, lost
an arm by being struck with a fragment of tt. A
crowd quickly congregated around the wounded man,
but were almost immediately dispersed by the second
shell, which fell in the midst of them. The explo-
sion did not take pion for some momenta, so that
every one effected hi escape, or, by lying flat on the
ground, avoided vosivisit injury. No doubt the
enemy wen loan 111 to imposist that pot
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tion had boo am Ow Oily me bozo SAMNA 1119
rapid disposals of the ; and, men-
over, they rye Boded n hams
scampering owldlol. bog Ali o. These horses
belonged to who bat poem in advance, and
were being hold ig mst who, when the shell fell in
the midst of the flask of little else but their
own security, and left the,ehexgers to seek for theirs.
This occurrence has brought forth a general order
forbidding any one not on duty to go beyond the
brow of the hill in this direction, so as to bring him-
self within observation of the town or its for-
tifications.