The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-22 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROM AN OCCASIONAL _
CAMP BRIPORI SR BABTOPOL, Duo. 8.
If our allies the French had last winter the advan-
tage over as in point of clothes and hats, they cer-
tainly have not this winter in on. single point. No
soldiers could be better clothed, better fed, and sae
ought to be able to say better butted than ours. Zest
man gets the following rations daily :-1 pouted of
bread or 1 pound of biscuit, 1 pound of meat, 1 gill
of rum, 1 canoe of rite, j owns of pa.pfor fe raiz
sight men, 1 pound of preserved vegetables or .1 puma
of potatoes, 2 ounces of candles to every twelve meet,
41 pounds of wood or 21 pounds of coal, 2 neon of
sew, 1 ounce of coffee or / ounce of tea, and 1 eeeme
of salt. When lime juice is served out as Sow Is
given to earth man, bat this lest laxury is set glues
oftener now than once in three weeks. Fresh teed
aniseed bread ere always now served out daily =
ea Sender and Moadaye, when salt meat sad
are given instead. As regards drooN each men gets
gratis, in addition to his usual kit in the field, 1 pair
of long boots, 2 pair of drawees. 2 jerseys (blue
or white, as he may prefer), 1 comforter, 1 pair of
mite, 1 hood, 1 fur cap, 1 mackintosh and leggings,
1 pair of wooden clogs lined with wool, 1 extra rug,
and 1 winter coat in addition to his venal great mat.
If the huts had been sent at a month sooner from
home, and there had been no scarcity of nails, carpen-
ters' tools, and diamonds to oat glass with, all the
healthy and sick would have been seeder good cover
before the wet and cold weather set in.
Nothing oonld be worse than the t weather
for either hutting, draining, or * . One
may say that it has scarcely ever stopped and
blowing pretty hard slow the last mail left, or I
ought more properly to say the night of the IA Oa
Wednesday night it blew very hard. The natural
result is that the different camps and roads, WOW,
with the three ravines leading down to
are in a state which renders it almost ' to
walk on or in them. If one does attempt to walk
any distance, he will very shortly be obliged to pull
op to rest and take breath ; of coons he must not
inked getting up to his knees in mud One of the
Midst most required out here after tar is felt—the
biro It sow being got to the front from &lake%
sad the latter has only lately been served out to the
divisions, and then I. miserable quantities. On.
Assistant-Quartermaster-General told me that all he
weld get for his division was 70 roll, of felt. How
Gan this small quantity ever have been considered
sufficient to retell all the old smell huts for me.,
officers, and hospitals, and also to stop the rain
is between the ratter platted all the new huts/eIS2
walls can be built to the old huts, bat the roofs mast
be either covered with felt, timber, or old teats, sad
then tarred over. There is not a sufficiency
felt, no timber is to be bad, except in a rough
state, from Karabelnaia, the old condemned
tents have been all used up for different
purposes, and the tar has only just arrived.
A few cross-maws and hand-saws, together with nails,
might work wonders. The last arrived huts, the
"Gloucester," I hear well spoken of, but they must
be very good to beat the old Portsmouth ones. Felt
requires sanding and tarring woe oe twice each year,
During the summer on account of the cholera many
regiments pat lime inside and outside the huts,
thereby destrosbig the left. Pitch sod tar, if ,w 4
mind, and put oe almost boiling, will stick in any 1
weather, but yet rain and cold are great drawbacks.
The demolition of the docks, now under the charge
of Major Nicholson, it E., but originally under Lies-
Want Cumberland, is carried on night and day,
but I don't think that a fortnight will see all
ready. The weather has been against speedy work,
bat there has been scarcely any firing from
the enemy. By the General Orders you will
perceive that Captain Hall, 4th Regiment, has
been appointed Aide-do-Camp to the Commander
of the Forces; that general odious commanding divi-
sion; are authorised to use the hides of slaughtered
Wm& tower the hutswith ; that Lieut.-Col.Torams,l
late 7th Fusiliers, takes charge of Harabelnaisi
that a road polio. is established, and that Lieut.-Cori
Hay thorne, Ist Royals, is made an A.A-0., and is
attached to the Highland Division. Capt. Richard,.
66th Regiment, is appointed Acting Aide-de-Camp
to his commanding officer, Brigadier-General Wow
rem, C. 8., commanding first brigade, Third Divisive,
vice Captain Brook, 30th Regiment, appointed
D.A.A.0., or D.A.Q.M.G., and I understand that
Major-General Lord William Familia is about to ap-
point Captain Milligan, 39th Regiment, as his second'
A.D.C. Between the 2nd and Mot December, both
days inclaseve, 33 officers obtained leave to proceed
to England-10 on medical certificates, and 23 on
"urgent private affairs." Two or more decorations
of the " Legion of Honour" are to be given to
mots regiment, according to its length of tine in
the East. Any one is eligible, from the major to
the drummer boy. The Guards are not going to re-
ward any private. The Ist Royals only get three
instead of four crosses, because one of the battalioes
did not arrive till last April. In the same manner
the 97th is only to get one arcs, and so on. The lot
Royals, at lust the soldiers, have already selected one
nos-commissioned officer and one officer, Capt. Wells.
The steamer Sardinian, with MemerebielEklealter and
Howell's parcels, has been anxiously for. It
is reported that she is now at Constantinople, die-
shaming PIN of her parcels, which must be very
numerous, for I have one coming oat in her, No.
2,600 odd, I think. It is always a great point to hear
of the ship one's parcel is in getting this side of Malta,
for there have been known oases of ships originally
for Balaklava being ordered to discharge their cello
at that island and return to England. Great num-
bers of officers went down yesterday to Balsklava,
thinking that the Sardinian had come is, but it
turned out that it was another &Wiens that had
arrived, and, odd as it may appear, this steamer had
several parcels on baud too.
At Iladikoi a capital pork shop has been started,
and Cambridge sausages are to be bought. The mall
due ore Thursday arrived yesterday afternoon, bat
brought no Saturday stoning papers of the 24th of
November; and consequently, unless one took in the
London Gazette, we should loot know its entente.
This is a great bore to the army, and many a one is
heard to blame the new postal regulations and the
slow French mail packets. Monday's mail will now be
more anxiously wished fer. The porter which can be
obtained by every regiment if it chooses, from the
brigade cosamisat, at the rate of Is. a gallon for a 64
gallon cask, and If. for the cask itself, is a great boon.
Althoußh 11„ for the cask is rather too mush, still the
soldier an now get to drink good draught porter at
21d. a pint. Previously, porter was not to be bought
except in bottles, at an enormous price. Drunken-
ness is, I on the &mew again, and I attri-
bate this to there not being so many paid working
parties. Rel upon it, it is a mistake ever to pay a
soldier anything extra for work on the or in the
trenches—it ought to bean considered as part of his
military duties, and the work would be does terms
gsetek as
and twice as well. The cavalry-
lag sets:day for Scutari, and none of that force is to
remain la the Wines, except the 11th Hussars, who
will do the orderly work. When the Sarah Sands
returns, whisk is expected in shoat 10 days, the 20
companies of the Siege Train Artilleyy are to embark
for gad, after filling up vacancies hire.

Bowers Fuirciass De ButrinisAxcz.—A boas-
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is 1849. fee the relief of dietwood Freest passes) will
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STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Chairman's answer to the Report of the Com-
mittee of Investigation has been issued. In the con-
clusion Mr. Waddington thus reviews some circum-
stances attending his menexion with the Eastern
Counties Railway
The position whisk I have held ensure re for Ave
years has been nnexampled is railway east& You placed
ine en the direction for the express purppleses of presiding
our your affair, at an hour of great disedt7 and peril
to the company. To meet and °mouse your danger, you
endowed me with extraordinary powers and eluded au-
thority. Those who lay it toy charge that I have as.
sward the OW sessagement forget that it wee yew inten-
tion I should dole. They forget the undentuding which
there was between se—that ay wham time was to be devoted
to your servioe—that I wee to have so other bantam than
the interests of your company—and that I was tomato it,
what it waa sot when I accepted ones, but what it has

siaos begone, s divideud-paybig property
My elution wu opposed by see sow lost to Ms Meads,
and, I will add, to his anustry also, who, although arrayed
against no sun that osessioa, was eserous enough to do
me jabot attorwarda. At cam of the earliest half•yearly
nessings attar your Ann, Kr. Ouch propoud, sad you
pried with atelanstioa, a special vas of nuke for tbe
menu I bad endued to your imeapaay. Your &treason
!bast the sous putod, placed es their board niallble ski

followingreeolatioa: -
" That this board feel it their duty to reseed their high
seas of the advantages derived by this company front the
devotion by its chairman of his whole time to the helium
of the oompaay, to which they menu but attribute mesh of
Its improved pukka and provosts."
Bias that resoled= was recorded I hays obtained turn
far greater adnategits than I had then secured. The Bastees
Comities Railway has bun established as the railway of the
Buten Cosaties—y our mousse have been redneed—your
wakes Inereseed—your trails developed—the vase et
have
shares salissced-800,01101. paid you is dividend—yen
have been bone triumphantly over the difilealties of peer
prides—sad saved fro, that fatal policy of strife, tufo-
den, easepatitioa, litigation, and expenditure, whieb am,
uhestpity, seem likely to rotors to your sow& mid
altahs.
How some it, thes, that I have sneountered the
revealed in the report of the Committee of lonstigabstalsw
It is, I repeat, Weans, you have, in your omplioated bas-
tion, se influent, which, if permitted to prevail, mut per-
measetly injure your property. You have then direness
lees interested in ••increasing your natio than in Waft it
into other channel". You have there men who will plait
mesh more largely by making you pay • toll thee by
participating layou dividend. Look at the while tenor
and abaretter of the report, emeoeted principally epos
dub seems, sad suds their Influence. What are the
mien spookily assailed ? Lowestoft Harbour • Use
sal Welk which hoe been developed ; the steam-
pa
ast balk which we Wm eedesvoured to create ou the
pans et die sect end; the Zest Suffolk line, whit*, how-
ever aulasiedie be naoreeld undoubtedly assist that oust ;
the Haeltsey Wick Wenches, which form so important a
imemietieg link between our Eastern system and the North
mod Sends Weston Hess of railwey ; our advances for the
of the Norfolk d Bast Union lines, and the addi-
=r an
empital for working thou and other railways. A
Must meatier will show you that this apparently
Mallered hostility has bat ac aim and one object. That
Mm is to supplant our eastern system by a northers
c= o—to substitute the East Angina for the Norfolk
make Lynn the "hid port of your system, and
thereby to subject your musings to a toll which will go,
without benefit to you, into the pockets of the But Anglian
abareholden, and which will enable them to depreciate
your nook and raise the value of their own when the time
for compulsory fasten arrives in 1861.
The issue which the Eastern Counties shareholders now
have to deeds is—Will they be entrapped iato making the
East Aagliaa profitable at the expense of their own din-
dead, and to the ruin of the system in which they an asso-
ciated ?
To carry out our arrangements with the Bast Anglian
honestly and fairly is, ao deubt, our duty as well as our
policy ; we can have so interest is dinning from their line
tee deals particle of the ma" which rightly Wimp to it.
Bet to divert the twee of the Norfolk lie, or of oar owe
thee, into that of the Bast Auglian,lis striemly not our
pithy, aed sot le war wastage. W • share with the Nor-
folk we pay te the Rost Anglian. It meet be to our benefit
Is drwep tae INA" in which we share, rather than to add
te the tele fir teldeik we pay.
I all year attutiee, shersholden of the Beaters Comities
Company, to the followieg retaliating pared on the llth
December, at a meetiag of the " residuary body," who, skin
the withdrawal of Ilkeston devoted to your iaterests, are
new the working nimbus of your Word :
Break from Minutes of the Special Board of Tuesday,
the 11th day at Dumber, 1866 :
" It was reepolved,—That Mr. Bruce be appointed deputy.
shaismse of the board of directors in the room of Mr.
Patinae, resigud.
" That the officers of this company be requested to mogul%
the doesty•chairman on all questions affecting the interests
of the company preliminary to their dimension and decision
by the board or committees.
" That the officers be informed that if they receive any
illbestions from Mr. Waddington, there directions an not
M be somplied with unless mentioned by the deputy-
ebairman."
The motive here is obvious. First, Mr. Brim, the chair.
UM et the East Anglian, makes himself View Chairman.
Wish ussolgembs huts, he requires the officers o f the
lllMpley is assault him on everything relating_ to the
isimmeny, before communication with the board. He seta-
blhhes himself, therefore, as director (*anal of your '
elihke; wad thee, lest I, who knew his scheinee,should have
tedinumell k to avert than, he passes a resollatise
rudder/ ell sleeve who retain inseams" from 'no net in
amply with than without his seactioe.
I apprehend that, is the derision at whisk you will have
so arrive upon the statemeate now before you, your first
ablest will be the safety and improvement of your property.
Is the chairman of the Bast Anhui the person to whom
you will roafide it ? Consider your position with Menem
, to that toll•essetieeline, sad you cannot doubt for a annul
se to your reply. Is it to Mr. Love, a stook jobber, that you
will knelt your slain ? If you do you will violate us of
the suedes* prisciples on which safe directions are one
posed; sad ice a niastent of puska will commit an snot
whisk will be sun to produce its own punishment. Is it
Mr. Ball, late a Newmarket sad Bury director, whom pox
would select ? Mr. Ball has reported to you that some of
the directors' interests "are net your interests;" and wen
he toweled in reducing, to your loss, your rates as his
Cambridgeshire beasts, he would exemplify the iaet in his
own person. As yet, however, sad most happily for yea,
the *gannet " Mr. Ball has is your line is of • limited
deeeriptioa, unless, indeed, he sontinues to attach import.
we to the possession of that " free pass for life" which I
refused to grant to solicitations which were as humiliating
to him as they wen pitiful to me.
When I look at the way in which, as I have shown you,
evidence was manipulated, distorted, and suppressed by the
oommitteps—wheo I remember the attempt which was made
to set up a trasissetioa "pink myself on the evident, of a
witness whose falsehood was attested by the very persons
from when be declared that be detivici his knowlede—
when I be in mind the reckless aunties which bas been
mede of your property by the authors ot this unwarranta-
ble, indefensible, sad mischievous document, I regret that
the shareholders were not more cautious is appointee( the
committee. Your experience will now, I suspect, agree
with that of Mr. Beckett Deanne who, at the last half-
yearly
_meeting of the Great Northern, thee sued
shareholders respecting oommittees of km/athletics ;
"I flat the imprison (he said) on their guard. I lee
net object to the principle of a committee of investiga.
dee ; but I ask you to to endue in selecting sad
appointing your eatanlittee. (Hear. hear.) I hen bed
sena iteperieme in railroads, and I know perfectly well
the a gnat deal of the future prosperity and harmony
et the eenspasy will dopead upon the durum of the
gentlemen and the shiest they bays in Juke into such
an ianatigation. To a fair, Impartial, and outdid inquiry
we hue net the slightest chiseler. • • All I ask you
Is in be eautiows, and sot heedlessly to ran the risk of
deb( berm. lam told, upon very good authority, that
horn has accrued when a ounatittes of inirestiption has
bees appoieted, for it hei °rested distrust and led to
In=net beemeay ever afterwards."
IMO. makes, ea" would almost 'appose, is a
obit et entlsipatiee es tar year "Skin, were attend only
three days before the day on which you appointed your
essmittee of investigation. I hope that they may not
leo* is their full fares to a company with which I have
bees eo intimately asesidated. I hops that, ender moderate
sonasele, and with real repressetation of your Wens*, the
harmony is all your relations which I was the fled to
establish, and which it hubs= my great object te
may be speedily reamed to **Restore Counties Bailway.
Brews and mistakes I may have committed as directing
your vast, varied, and somplisated affairs; but this I ma
homely say, that for five years past lbw pissed at your
disposal all my time, the best of my iscalties, sad whatever
experkees dreamy affain lug sad 'adman sausaiatence
with Mess hes afforded no. T. Wire denties to nut
lateseels, and eanmittlag labour I. your aairs,l have
lidded integrity of purpose sad of °Weal, which I will i
allow se au to imposeh.
I sew lean my answer te the judgment of usprolisikei
stied'. That it will satisfy mem and menu I mem' me
put. But that it will emanate me when truth sedierthe
prevail from foul imettatioas ead felseeitTri!ersai an
tan • and la the eminetioa that I have weed es
an taunt sad as beeserabli mace, I hue* to he,
my lards, ladies, sad geademen, your Men ebtilient. very
IMAM menet, DAVID WAIODIVISTeIt.
Beam cow** Railway Blake, Des. 10, 1686.

BT. JAMES'S THEATRE.
A performance was given at this theatre last
sight he the lemmas of the family of Mille. Julie, the
aafortuaale actress who perished so deplorably, from hes
dress Welting are apes the ;stage. This poor girl was
exesedingly reepeetabk sad well eoadnetod ; and, yosag
as she wee-04 eighties—woe the sole support of a
widowed mother sad two lied, sisters, who, by this sad
bersenseest, are left destitute. Their owe is exciting much
empathy; sad as sympathy in Ode @heritable eountn a never
bosses we hope that some prevision will be mined for
this desolate family. A somber *1 members of the them-
(loW and madesi professions eelsateered their services fee
the perfornumee et last sight ; and, Mom the appearanee of
the house, we treat that Use proms& will go a good wey is
fartheranee of this work of benefices's. The programme
premeated an ample bill of tam. The satertainmeets began
with the lively oomediette, A Game of Romps, acted with
great spirit by Mears. Harley and Raymond, Mu. Win-
staaley, sad Mimeo Daly, Tense, Leelereq. Heath, and
Murray. There was ant as
litemble Gomm el
shoes* vocallas
sad trameatal se, condemned by lien
Goldberg sad Emit ori, is which Mr. and
Mrs. TIIIII&Ik% paw Lugano, the Misses Brougham,
Mr. E. Murray, Mika, Freesia, Mr. Winn, Signor Albi-
▪ the Maki Arthur Napoleon, and &gain Simi,
took appertain of Sinn, who has not bees
fa Ludes kilt mural years, created a great sensation.
He played kis rastaik ea %Dena from Loma di Lammer-
moor ; sad, being eathasiamisally moored, amesered the
call by 'Win his famous Carnival of Venice, a emobiaa-
don et marmdkee exemstisa sad grotesque humour which
he ahem is able te peedeem The musical world will be glad
to lean that this game *Gain means to pose the nest
musical mama la Leaks. The concert was followed by
Beekstene's admirable deems, Ti.. Wreck Ashore, in which
the characters of Alias mad Bella were played by Mn. Leigh
Many mg UM Man Ripely, land the remainder of the
parts ware sinellaked by the amateurs whose performances
at Ws theatre me wail lumen. The whole concluded with
a Ballet, is whisk Mks Reeks Wright, Mr. C. Brows,
Miss Therese, Mile Smith, Miss M. A. Charles, Miss Brown,
and the ladies of the Drury-lane corps de ballet, appeared.
The various eatertaineasets were excestiogly well get up,
Mr. Leigh Murray and Mr. Frank Matthews having oft—
eiated as stage managers.

7118 CASE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.

The following petition on behalf of Mr. Bates has
been addressed to her Majesty by the jury which tried him
with his pennon:
" To the Queen's Most Rzoallent Majesty.
"The bumble Petition of the Jurymen who tried the
indictment of the Gases on the prosecution of Dr. OrtMth
against William Straka., Sir John Dean Paul, and Robert
Makin Bates at the Sessions holden at the Central Criminal
Court in the month of October, 1866,
" Showetb,—That having read and carefully considered
the printed petition of the said Robert Makin Batas to year
Majesty, a cony of which ia hereunto ed, we firmly
believe that, had the contents of such petition been proved
at the trial of the said indictment, we should have acquitted
the said Robert Makin Bates.
" That it is a subject of extreme regret to your petitioners
that the etateweau set forth in the said petition were wholly
withheld from their consideration.
" That notwithstanding inch omission, and in order that
Justice may be done, we humbly pray that the truth of the
allegations contained in such ention may be inquired into,
and, is the
jesty will be graciously pleased to accede to the prayer of
the said Robert Makin Battu.
" had your petitioners will ever PM.
" Stephen Gower (foreman), Henry Lavin, Richard
Matthew Hutchinson, George Lowe, John Lucas, John
Matador., John Odhams, Stephen Prentice, William
Howard Lowia,:Challes Jordan, Richard Hargrave, Wil-
liam Thomas Lyon."