The Press.
London, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

THE FRENCH TROOPS.

Winter clothing does not seem to have been dis-
tributed to the French troops in the same ratio as
our own. In the valley of Baiaar, and throughout
the camp, the French are reported to suffer severely
from want of warmer clothing and fuel :

Our allies have no fuel served out to them as we have,
in addition to wbich they are not warmly clothed, have no
gloves or stockings except what they themselves buy at the
stores. As they walk along they appear haltstarved, and
to be suffering greatly from cold. Their hands, from the
severity of the weather and hard diet, appear in most eases
almost black. Yet they are very industrious, hard•wurking,
and fortunately have no pride. I have seen many picking
out bones and discarded sheeps' heads from our ashpits
or dunghills, and I have also seen others in camp selling
paper which they perhaps have bought tolerably cheap by
going to Kamiesch or Kadikoi. Every French soldier you
meet, from a (Masseur-it-Pied to a Zouave, will tell you, if
asked, that a great many of his regiment are frostbitten
in the toes and fingers, and that a large proportion of their
new arrivals are dying from a kind of cholera—just as our
men did last winter.--D. News cor., Dec. 22,

THE CAVALRY AFFAIR AT KERTCH.

A letter from Kertch,dated the 19th, and published
in the Journal de Constantinople, gives the following
version of the late affair with the Cossacks at
Kertch :

You know that of all the cavalry of the Anglo• Turkish
Contingent only a detachment of 150 horses remained here
as a guard and as an escort of General Vivian.
This morning sixtyfive men of this detachment, ordered
to go out foraging and to buy provisions from the inhabi•
tanta of the neighbouring villages, left the place, under the
command of Captain Sherwood.
This little troop, not having found the provisions in the
neighbourhood of the most advanced outposts, went
further into the country. All at once, when they least
expected it, they were surrounded and attacked by a hun-
dredfold their number.

Captain Sherwood ordered a retreat, but they were
obliged to cut their way through the mass of the enemy.
The Turkish soldiers, listening only to the voice of their
chief and the inspiration of their own courage, threw
themselves on their enemies and fought with heroism.
Captain Sherwood, who was conspicuous by his English
uniform, fell one of the first. His death did not check the

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ardour of the soldiers, who fought with renewed fury.
Twenty fire succeeded in cutting their way through and
so escaping. The remaining furty horsemen, officers and
soldiers, either died on the Lottle-field or were taken pri•
soners. . .

THE WAR IN ASIA.

Letters from Erzerotuu contain further details of
the surrender of Kars. General Mouravieff had
behaved with great nalensss of feeling, and that
high spirit which marks an honourable foe. In
drawing up the terms of capitulation, with his own
hand he inserted a clause allowing the officers to
retain their swords ; he allowed the non combatants
to leave, respected private property, protected the
inhabitants, anti readily granted passports to the
Hungarian officers in the Turkish service. His con-
duct throughout is spoken of as irreproachable. The
condition of the garrison at the tune of surrender
was frightful :