The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Oer. 11.
Lord Panmure has this day received a delpitch
and ita enclosuree, of which the following are ono%
addressed to his Lordship by General Simpson
Sebastopol, Sept. 29,
My Lord,—Since my last despatch the troops hue
been employed, to the number of 9,500 men, 44,4
making the road from Selektive to the camp; lad
es, after a few hours of rain the whole distance is
converted into a mass of deep mud, the work the
has to be performed, from this reason as well el the
great distanoe that the stones have to be tresip:,,44l,
render it one of great labour and diffieulty.
Large fatigue parties are daily employed is dies
town, dismantling and conveying timber end other
materials from the ruins of the building', and /
hope, by this means, to get a considerable portion
of the troops under cover previous to the commence,
ment of the bad weather.
The enemy have been firing from the batteries on
the north aide at the working parties in the town, and
although causing some little annoyance, they he,,
not prevented the work being carried on: and lam
happy to add *at one man killed and one wouedei
are the only casualties occasioned by their fire,
I regret to have to report to your lordship du
owing to the explosion of a Russian magazine
on the 27th instant one officer and 19 men were
wounded. I ordered an investigation to be made, and
from the report I have received the origin wee from
the explosion of a hidden !bagfuls, a number or which
' have been dog up in various parts of the town end
batteries.

The invention of this machine is peculiarly Rm.
Sian.

I have received a letter from Lieutenant• Colonel
Ready, 71st Regiment, commending her 111sjesty's
troops at Yenikale, reporting the proceedings el
a trifling affair, in which a detachment of the
10th Hussars, in company with the Charms
d'Afri ue, were engaged on the 21st inst. with the
Colonel D'Oemont, commending the French from
at Kertch, received intormation that the C4reare
were collecting and driving away all the arabes from
the neighbourhood, and, as he determined to ends.
your to prevent this, he invited the assistance of the
English cavalry to co operate with the Chew=
d'Afrigne. For this service, Lieutenant• Colonel
Ready ordered two troops, commanded by Captains
the Hon. F. FetzClarence and Clarke, of the 10th
Humus.

The Coesacks were supposed to have amemblid
their ambits at two villages, named Koss-Sersi Julia
and Seit Ali, equidistant from Kertch aboutls mile,
and from one another, 63. Captain Fitz Charted,
troop was ordered to the first village, and NMI
Clarke's to the latter. At each of these villages they
were to join a troop of the Chasaeura d'Afrique who
had preceded them. On arriving at Kose-Serai
Captain Fitz Clarence found both troop. of the French
Dragoons, and immediately sent off an order to Cap.
tain Clarke to join him that night ; the letter in,
unfortunately not delivered until the followiog mom.
ing. In complying with this order, Captain Clarke,
whose troop consisted on ly 01 34 men,fell in with 'body
of about 30 Cossacks, which he immediately ohm*
and pursued, but as they were soon reinforced by
upwards of 300, he was forced to retire open the
village, with a lose of his sergeant-major, farrier, ard
13 men taken prisoners.
Captain FitzClarence'a troop, with the Chums,
the whole under the command of the officer command.
ing the French troops, having seen a large body el
the enemy, skirmished with them at some distance,
and moved in the direction of the village of Semi
Min ; where, after having joined Captain Clarkes
troop, the whoa. force commenced their march apoa
Kertch. _

At about the distance of half a mile from the Tiller
they were attacked by a large body of Consols, who
were, however, beaten back by repeated charges.
The loss of the 10th Hussars consisted of 2 vivito,
supposed to have been killed ; 1 wounded; 1 troop
sergeant-major, I farrier, 13 men, 15 horses, misting.
From information that has since been rewind,
the Cossacks were supported, within a quarter of ea
hour's march, by eight squadrons of Hussars sad
'eight guns.
Colonel Ready informs me that nothing could
exceed the coelneas and courage of the troops in the
presence of such overwhelming numbers of the
enemy, who were only kept at bay by their steady
movemente.
I have the honour to enclose the list of casualties.
The health of the army, I rejoice to say, is ens!.
lent.

I have, &c.,
JAMES SIMPSON,
General Commanding.
The Lord Palmate, &c.,

Numerical Return of Casualties from the 9th to thanes
September, inc:usive.-3rd Foot-1 rank and file killed, M
the town. 4th Foot-1 officer, 1 sergeant, 11 reek ud ffib
wounded, by an explosion, in the town. 68th Foot-1 soak
and file wounded, by a shell. Total-1 reek and the
killed ; 1 offic.r, 1 sergeant, 19 rank and file wounded.
N..rnioal Return of Officers Wounded from the 9th total
27th September, inclusive.—Ensign W. Nash, slightly, by
en explosion in he town.
Nominal Return of Privates Killed frees the 9th to dm
, 27c h September.-3rd Foot—Private Henry Bost, is
'Sebastopol.
Nominal Return of Non-Commissi ved °Jaunted Pri•
j vats Wounded, from the 9th to the 27th September, keit-
Sill,. By an explosion in the town on the 27th Septearnsi,-
' 4th Foot—Sergeant John Clsrkson, Luiewlkes
' gust Joins Wingate, ly. Privates William Jame
Thomson, G , Timothy Roach, dangerous) Thous
lisetnell, severely; Henry Luther, slightly; Jahn Kern
uedy, slightly; William Johnston, slightly; John Club,
slightly; George Wilke, slightly; Samuel Mahoney,
slightly; Abraham Yates, slightly; William Borba,
slightly; John Rutley, alighdy; William Moore, slightln
John Bates, lv; Thomas Dunn, severely; Jim
Forster, slightly. 68 h Foot—Private Charles Calls/kat
slightly, by a shill.