The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
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The belief gains ground that the Russians are
cover the retreat, and protect the rear-guard, of the
army. They are so arranged as to form mean, st
defence aphid any sudden assault of the posit'
whether from the sea or the roadstead, but do les
seem to have any character of permanence, nor to bs
calculated for the bombardment or annoyance of the
south side. It is also argued that the enemy could
not now gain any military object by holding the
heights on the opposite side, commensurate with •
the labours and difficulties which would be
entailed upon the troops by the approach.
tog winter, and the uncertainty respecting the
transport of the necessary supplies of provisions,
and stores of all kinds. In support of the conviction
that the Russians are making arrangements to retire,
it has been observed that numerous waggons which
have come into the north side from the direction of
the Mackenzie Heights, apparently empty, have re.
turned laden. Carts bringing io gabions have also
gone out carrying either grain or provision.. The
army encamped beyond Inkermann appears to draw
its supplies of food and forage from the stores aces.
mulated in the depots of the Sievernsie. Several
lines of filled waggons have been noticed leaving Fort
Constantine. The canvas town, or Kedikoi, of the
north side, is nearly deserted ; there are not more than
forty or fifty, if so many, wooden sheds left entire.
Before the abandonment of the south side, this village
presented all the appearance of a bustling, thriving,
well-ordered little town. It has now the cheerless
aspect of a deserted camp, with here and these
lonely habitation left standing. If it be true, u
used to be said, that this place was occupied by the
shopkeepers and civilians who had been compelled to
quit Sebastopol, persons depending for their lireli.
hood upon trading with the soldiery, their departure
is very significant.
The French have been very active in throwing
bombs from their new mortar batteries egainatthe
working parties, and in harassing the convoys
moving along the roads, on the north side. On
Wednesday, the 19th instant, a shell thrown from a
large 13-inch mortar was seen to explode close to a
line of waggons descending along the road below
the Star Fort. The horses drawing the carte started
in all directions, and confusion end alarm were mini.
feetly created along the whole lice of the convey,
Yesterday afternoon (20th) a fire broke out in a very
large pile of buildings close to the shore between
Fort Sievernaia and Fort Sukaia, not far from the
part of the bay where the greater number of steamer'
have been sunk. The buildings alluded to were not
lofty, but occupied a very large space of ground, and
formed the four sides of an enclosed square. They
appeared to consist of a succession of store-houses.
The fire broke out in the course of the afternoon, after
some shells had fallen in their direction, and die
presumed that it was attributable to the ineeediuy
effect of these projectiles. The fire not only con.
tinned to burn all last night, but as if other
buildings had become lighted in succession,
flames have been observed at intervals to
break out from certain parts of the enclosure to-
day. There are only a few small houses outside the
square, and as the outer walls of all the buildings
comprising the square itself aro made of atone, and
with comparatively small openings for air and light,
the fire will not have the opportunity of extending
itself. The principal mortar battery opened by the
French is on the west aide of the South Harbour, in
a very advanced position. It is armed with some of
the huge mortars of novel construction which se-
rived in the Crimea about two months ago for oar
Allies. Rockets have also been discharged &glint
the enemy on the opposite side. The Russians has
either very few mortars, or have some reason for not
using them against us. It is not at all improbable
that while they had brought nearly every available
mortar to the south side, they were unable to con
any away previous to the capture of the Islalakhok
and abandonment of the other fortifications. The
cumbrous form and great weight of this specie. of
ordnance, would very probably induce them to con.
vey across the bridge the more portable kinds d
artillery in the first instance, and there is very little
doubt that the assault took place before they bad hid
time to carry many guns even to the other side.
The few missiles thrown against the Allies since they
have occupied the town and arsenal, from the north
side, have been chiefly round shot, probably die.
charged from sunk guns.
It is still understood that a combined movement is
to take place against the enem)'s position ou the
Mackenzie Heights. A direct attack against Bakted.
Sersi is spoken of, the approach from the south being
made by a route which is kept secret, and which
will have the advantage of avoiding the enemy's
.foes
tified entrenchments. Troops have been embarking,
both yesterday and to-day, at Kamiesch, and it ti
understood that they are to proceed to Eupatom
Five French divisions are to leave, it is said, E. ape.
lone, and to march southwards, with the intention of
meeting and combining with a corresponding force
advancing from the south. The only English divie
Moos which have received orders to hold themselves
in readiness to move as yet are the First and Second,
but other divisions expect to receive orders of the
same nature. Should the enemy avoid battle, there
will be an opportunity in all probability d
destroying the principal stores of grain and
provisions which have been collected to provide
during the ensuing winter for the necessities of the
force deemed advisable to be retained in the Crimea.
These are said to be stored at Bektchi-Serai. ()mot
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Pacha is also spoken of as likely to ass's' n this
movement. Its execution may have been delayed by
the change of weather which has occurred during
the last few days. On the night of the IBth, and
morning of the 19th instant, a strong wind blew
from the north, amounting at times to a gale. Id
the course of the latter day the wind subsided, and
was followed by rain which fell continuously until
the 2
theOth. Itt ods
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appearedtobeverygteenseurasle,
and p'sol.
doubt
were rendered very unfavourable for the passage
troops and artillery. Occasional showers are conti•
and the atmosphere in atilt clouded and in an
unsettled state. The temperature is milder to-day
(21st), but has been very low and chilling.
On the 20th, the anniversary of the first battle
and victory in the Crimes, the medals which have
arrived were distributed to a proportionate number
of officers and men in the several regiments entitled.
to receive them. As only a limited supply of medal/
had arrived with clasps for Alma and Inkerrre
they were nailed from head-quarters to each division
in a ratio proportionate to the number of claimants.
The selection of the recipients was left to the ger.
rale commanding the divisions, and this selection
was in most instances determined by the greeted
amount of service in the Crime°. The medals were
distributed to officers and men at divisional ;wades!
In the evening most cf the regiments which bed
been particularly engaged at Alma htld festive
meetings, and numerous entertainments were kept
up till a late hour in the various camps.
weekly
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arvabeybilelteenitehmgeraadCpehribmYoefwaht shalleir pr !Foie rel'eff
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satisfaction o f h eal ttho.
the
moved from their tents or the field hospitals. As,
badly wounded as to bheveiglpertwievivleeelneprefrdotvh fere al! who
source
a being
general rule, the reports respecting the progress a I
beteen
nwuremomubtleadrr ekodafbeelyi
cases
occurred scarcely any hope was entertained of »'covery from the first. Among those who wets.
feteewere:nipmeinadterinteug ftvahetosearylly seheixehtlieehrhllitehhaterteerjr.•
swinomunddediedi,nitsheLtasseeateuoalt
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Lord Gough, who commanded the 33rd—Doke d

Wellington's regimeet—en that occasion. He re-1
calved three worked., two in the hip and thigh, and
one in the arm. He was severely wounded at the
battle of the Alma, and had suffered a long confine-
ment subsequently. He rejoined his regiment before
he had fully recovered, and his health has been
re-established since. This circumstance appears
to have hastened the fatal result of his injuries.
Lieutenant-Colonel Unett, who commanded the 19th
regiment at the same attack, has also succumbed to
his wounds. He had his right hip shattered, and
rteeived also a severe wound in the neck. Some of
the officers wounded on the Bth instant, whose inju-
ries were of such s nature as not to be aggravated
by the movement, have already embarked and left
for Englaltd.
Working parties are actively eng ged in repairing
and making roads. In some of the camps prepara-
tions are going on, suck as building stone cooking
sheds, raising paths, and draining, to meet the seve-
rity of the ooming winter. The ellevium which pre-
vails in the greater part of the town renders an en-
campmeot on the heights above much more desirable
in a sanitary point of view. Near some of the works,
as the Redan and the Malakhuff, the odour, more
especially in the latter work, is almost pestilential.
Decomposing matter of all kinds in the dark holes
and corners of the hiding places and underground
barrack., and bodies buried, but lightly covered by
loose earth, or hidden by the debris of stones and
gabions scattered by shells which have exploded,
are manifestly the causes of the offensive
effliVitirit. The removal of these sources of
malaria must be undertaken before the neigh-
bourhood of the Malakhof hill oao be occupied,
and this must necessarily be the work of ocusiderable
time and labour, more, probably, than can be be-
stowed at present, if the greater part of the troops
are called to active operations in the field. In the
larger part of the town on the won side of the south
hart no offensive odour is perceptible. This is the
result of the flee; and the pains which the enemy took
in rendering its effect complete, though adopted
and carried out with very different motives,
have doubtless proved an essential benefit to those
who may have to remain in the neighbourhood of the
town. In walking along the principal streets one
Buds the large houses on each side entirely reduW
to stone walls: everything inflammable has been
consumed. Theo neary all the offensive matter has
been destroyed and removed, and a deposit of carbon
spread over the ground to neutralise the effect of any
which may have escaped the fire and be lying
Beath the ruins. In the houses of the **busks
which the fire has not spread, offal of all kasellwand
not unfrequently human remains—are found,Tird the
natural repulsive consequences of course ensue.
The following has been published in general
orders, and refers to the Royal warrant of August the
16th, authorising the Wee of field allowance to troops
serving against an enemy :
Headquarters, Sebastopol, Sept. 21.
Her Majesty have* been grimouslyyles.ed x. grant as
errs field ailowance of sixpence per diem to the son-com-
mistimed uffixers and soioiera of her regular army, when
tamed in active operations in the field easiest an enemy,
the same will Insulted from the let July. 1866, to all nee-
comailuiosed officers and eol.tiers, inaluoing the Royal
Artillery, Royal Sappers sad Miners, Cavalry, and Infantry
of the army now serviag is be Crimes.
The Commander of the Forces trims that the troops will
woke • good lee of this alditim to their pay, and reminds
then of the faeilitica that now exist for remitting money
to England. He hopes that he may have the pleasure of
reporting hereafter that the mewl. of obtaining increased
s.niforis, which are Inas placed .t the disposal of the
soldiers, have not been the lesser of irregularity or nation-
perance.
Commanding officers are empowered to stop the field
allowasce of any soldier f)r a reriod not eaceeding Dena
day., in • proved ease of drankenneic
Dory* the period of • non-eorandsaioned officer or sol-
dier beteg is hospital, his field allowance will coal', bet
will be allowed from the day ha retires to duty in the field.
In all ease. is which the pay of a soldier is forfeited for
essays without leave, or when any portion of the pay of •
eoldtar u forfeited by eneviction by • court-martial, his
field allowance will be forfeited also.—Hy order,
(Stoned) H. W. B. , Chief of the Staff.
SEPT. 22.—The fire alluded to above, in the build-
ings near the shore on the north side of the roadstead,
continued burning all night. Shells were thrown at
intervals in the direution of the fire from the French
mortar battery near the eutrance to the south har-
bour, and have been continued until this morning.
Some rain fell daring the night.

THE CZAR PETER'S WAT OF NEGOTIATING

PRA-61.

(From Marko' lAA of Peter, Caw of Iluantey." Printed to 17404
When M. Osterman returned to Aland, in the
smith of April, it was LNG to negotiate than to 10,111101 the
Swede., for hie Czarist& Majesty (having captured Riga,
tit) had ordered his to declare, that auto.. they accepted
in two months' time of the conditions pulpwood, they meet
slyest ayieit from 40,000 plenipotentiaries, who would force

thus to it with sword in hand. • • • (Be thin made a
descout on Bweoles.) The account published at Peter*.
berg, by order of the Czar, 'to attention ' the memory of the
work of this plenipotentiaries, is as follows:—Admiral
Aprazin, for his part, bad burned or destroyed 6 good towns,
11 castles or palaces of brick. 109 of wood, belonging to ncu
blouson, 526 villages and hamlets, 3 milli, 10 magazines,
2 mines of copper, and 6 mines of irrn. hilajor-Grnersl
Lesly, on his part, had rad uctd to ash, s 2 towns. 21 cutlee
or noblemen's houses, 636 sills'., and hamlet., 40 mills, 161
11114111011118, and 9 mines of iron ((or one of which the Swedes
had offered 300,000 ris dollars, to save it from ruin). They
destroyed alio the corn and forage, and killed all the
cattle and horses that they could not carry off with them.
They pet on board their vessel. ill the iron they were able,
and the rest, to the combat of 80,009 bars, they threw into
the see.

" The design of the CM, In all these horning' and devise-
tatioas, was (says his eulogist) to bring the Court of Bwedta
to accept of such conditions as he was willing to impose
upon it. To which porpoise, he sent Counsellor Osterman
thither, charged with a commissi-n to make the hardest
propositions. And he, agreeably to the Aland project of
peace, demanded nothing leas then the absolute maim of
Esthooia, Ingrie, and Corolla, comprising the tows. of
Revel, Wyboorg, Nana, and Keeksholin, and the cession
for forty years of Livonia."
These and other diabolical doings of that crafty barba-
rian, commonly celled Peter the Great, soon compelled the
Crown of Swedes to submit to be robbed of a large part of
Its dominions, so that he loos cam. into possessiou of eaten-
sive shores on the eastern side ~f the [little ; and he speedily
took advantage of it to build many ships of war for his
fatale conquests.

THE CHLIICTI IN SWITTERLAND.—An event has
jest traospired at Aivolo, in Ticino, which is little sales-
!it'd to heal the breach between the clergy sod a large
number of the inhabitants of that canton. The Secretary of
tbet Municipality died so suddenly that it was impossible to
admisister to him the sacraments of the dying. The cure
refused to bury the deceased, and the bishop, on appeal,
approved hie resolution. Upon this, the syndic of the
place called eat the national guard, and with it proceeded
to bury his colleague without the ceremonial of the church.

----• -----
GREAT REJOICINGS ON THE TYNE TO CELEBRATE
TEE CAPTORS OF SWILSTOPOL.--SKIRLDII, NknIDAT.--
Tbe inhabitants of North and &nth Shields have to-day
kept a general holiday in commemoration of the fall of
Sebastopol. Nearly all the public places of basinw ars
closed in both towns, and the reseal• in the harbour are
mostly decorated with a profesion of fl 'Rs in h"nonr of the
great event. zany a day has passed sines Old Father Tye*
sported so Ray an appearance, with the mingling toge-
ther of the alp of almost all the great 'maritime powers of
the world.

ASSAULT ON • RACE STAND. —A few days ago,
at the West Bromwich Petty &MOON Mr. Joseph Beam,
of Upper Lansbourn, Berkshire, who is well known in
spatial; eludes as the proprietir of an external,' sled of
rarallerreee, appeared on a iseimons, chetahs' hi. with
having assaulted Mr. Bolton, landlord of the New Inn.
liaaoswortb. Tbo ocunplainent stated that be visited
Lichfield rases. and whilst goo of the races was being rue,
he stood upon the Grand Iliad looking through his glass
at it. In the OM, aas anew he remarked to himself
that one of ass hinge inippli in the race, called Cleve
laud, 'shish falba torsporty of Mr. &zoo, was in difficulties,
sad to show this the moult be had wads was
*amok the heese directly efterwards broke down.
A remark to that effect was made by a by-
atander, and Mr. Bolus remarked that Cleveland had not
bees trying to wia the gees. Mr. 811110 e, who stood our,
lastaatly gave hiss a severe blew on the foes, and threatened
to repeat the nee esodset ees• blow was ant 'sough.
Ms. Beata maul that the oats blow was saileisat, he
ehoold mile dellawlest ray for that. Mr. flexes admitted
boo* eentiluhe ewe salaam, bet Jed the result by
maybe that the somplossatilatgalidieli bilMillOOt
his haws heasetly. If es • fawn mods& he hard the
:Zileor say yams make • dollar obeelvadost he
atopat the moo seadeet. Ks had bet SOL la hots
ea Oho nee t end, boditee. his Wear VW& ho bed hew
ea INC had beim down. OM ha AIM* odd
It hi red
IL lie Bosh loSholed • Iwo of M. sod ode. sad
Mond Oho defeadost to Sod two soroties Is Mi. ouch,
The morn, emoollog told 12a. 10i, were
paid. fad two Mimi ergo Modes% who 47=
were heal wen the Mr. Ilmea•o____ geed goaded.
CITIRAL PAWL -•111MILLIIIII DAT, OCT. Ir
Mime= es oeyoteet. ; ditto by ewes tido%
417.—Total. 6,71*. Cleimpandlog day last year, 7,111.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

MITZI/112 On LN NiTlNerirl DiaTILLBAT.
M.r AN. Dammed sad Alia Melding were charged with
working aa esteasive illicit
It appeared from the acidotic that the often wont last
sight to 11, Barnes-pleas, Southgate- reset, Hingsland, and
having made as entry into the house, Its (Quad in the beck
hitches a large still sad 200 gallons of melanin wash. The
Wayne', were the owl, parties found in this house.
Tito prisoners were nssaaded till to-morrow, to allow of
inquiries ►eing maJe.

CAa►les Smith, residieg at 9, Ivy.place, Hoato•, yea
charged with the following peculiar assault on his wife :
Mn. Smith stated that the defendant had yesterday
morning melted mousy from his agent, and returnieg at
night le liquor, beat her all over her body as she lay is bed
with seek violence that his walkisg•stick broke, aid eke
was rammed from his attack by the interference of her
landlady, w►o beard her repeated Kiss for auistence.
Latterly he Yu been in the habit of continually drinking.
He is a lieutenant is the army.
Defeadeat—l am not. I am • brevet•captain, 51
yean in the service. I am 70 years of age neat Fatuity,
and me ei,' • pension of 31s. weekly.
The medical officer of the parish hare stewed the magis-
trate that the mistier before him was of serious import, the
defeatism* ►eing a terror to the parish officiate—lately he had
greatly alarmed Mr. Death, the churchwarden.
Defendant—Nousesess. I only asked him if he was death
on the pale bone that we read of in the Revelations
Kr. Coward, the divisional surgeon of the N division—lt
is my °piston that Hr. Smith is • most dangerous lunatic—
quits mad.

Defendant—Mad indeed. Why. you are a botcher, not a
out:Seated summon. Why not mend for my own medical
mss ? Don't you reeolleet that when George the Third
wee caked his opinion of 0 1 Wolfe, he replied—. Why,
he is mod, and I wish he would bite one of my Generals."
Magiairate—What do you say to beating lire. Smith ?
Defendant—Why, when I did it, I thought I was at
Dosaybrook fair.
Magistrate—l shall remand you for a nook.

Ihfendant—Tbaok you, sir: I have given you a great
deal of trouble, but I'll stud you a brace of partridges sod
a ptsesy-eat, too, if I sus seta oat.

pr he old lam emend the 17th Foot is the same year so
Mae to Lord Reese, sad I. sow ea half-pay from the 63rd
Foot ]
MARY LEBONIC.
SAVAGI ASSAIILTII BY AAAAA ILL

Merl Anne Sonia and Cat Aeries Lone were ►rought
before Mr. Long, charged with having committed assaults
of a wage salami upon a young walnut nuaed Mary
Anne Kelsey, residing in Oradea-street, Camden-tows.
Complaisant deposed that on her way ►ome last sight she
entered a public-bones is order to obtain a little refreshens?,
and that while there. Smith took from her a glee-,
sod drank a portion of the souteests thereof.
Complainant, not • iehieg to have any quarrel in
the place went: out for the purses of going straight to
her own apartments, when site was followed by Smith, who,
polled her down upon the pavement, and beat her repeatedly
with all her might upon different parts of the
body; the other prisoner then come up and atteekea
her in a similarly brutal manner. She called out IN loud:,
as eke mild for assistance, and a constable speedily arrived.
374 8 gave evidence corroborative of • portion of the pre-
coding statement.
The prisoners were each seat to tho House of Correction
for a month.