The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-27 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JULY 14.

For several days and nights before the 10th
intat. the enemy had been most troublesome to our
advanced working parties, reducing their p
in fact, to a nullity. It was therefore resolved that
smart cannonade for a few hours should be admini-
stered by way of corrective; and accordingly, about
6 a.m. on Saturday morning, our batteries opened a
pretty. brisk fire of shot and shell on the Redan and
its neighbouring works, which was kept up without
much intermission till noon. The Redan offered no
reply till 8 o'clock, when it commenced a sharp fire ;
but after continuing this for two hours, ceased, and
withdrew its guns, nor took further notice of our
attack, though we opened spin at 4 p.m., and
blazed away for another couple of hours. Every
night since then, however, the Russian guns have
been as busy as our own, and to hear and see the
fire of both one would hardly imagine that a
" bombardment " is not going on. Latterly they
have adopted the practice of peppering our working
parties with cohorns, small thin shells which they
fire with little powder from pigmy mortars behind
the Redan, and which, as the report is hardly heard,
and the usual peculiar shell whiz wanting, fall plump
into the middle of a party without the smallest
warning. A few days ago an excellent infantry
captain, on duty with his party in the trenches, sug-
ited to an artillery officer in command done of the
batteries that we should try the same practice,
as it proved so mischievous to ourselves. After
consultation and some discussion with the ge-
neral for the day, it was agreed that the
suggestion should be carried into execution ; and a
couple of cohorn mortars were accordingly brought
from a distant battery and got into position, when
it was first remembered that there was no ammunition
wherewith to work them anywhere nearer hand than
Balaklava Accordingly no whoms have as yet
been sent in answer to the daily and nightly scores
which play havoc amongst our own men. I venture
to think there can be no harm in calling this bad
management. Thus, by help of oar own neglect, a
combined fire of cohorns, bouquets, and shells—with
fireballs by night to help their aim—the enemy have
as yet been able to retard our advance work@ very
considerably. Last night, however, the French and
oar own guns kept up a brisk fire for the greater part
of the night—the former, besides their practice on
the Malakhoff, throwing rockets from the Victoria
Redoubt into the town and the shipping. Nearly a
hundred of these last-named fearful missiles were
discharged in the course of the night, darting away
on their deadly errand like avenging comets.
Since I last wrote, we have taken posseasion of a
portion of St. George's Monastery, to be converted
into a sanitarium for sick album, for which no spot
within the whole range of our possession is half so
well adapted, either by beauty or healthiness of situa-
tion. Cholera and fever have both greatly abated,
throughout the camp, but dysentery has set in to work
much of the mischief of the other two, and I regret to
say is becoming increasingly prevalent. A roasting
run by day and damp heavy fogs overhanging and
permeating everything by night, need strong consti-
tutions and a careful regimen to resist them ; nor
have we reached the climax of either yet. Our thin
single tents, instead of sheltering from the heat, ap-
pear to concentrate its rays, and certainly subject all
who live in them to the daily atmosphere of an oven ;
nor are they proof spinet the murky disease-laden
air of night either. Already, I believe, the dispropor-
tion between the number of tent-dwelling patients
and those raining in huts, which are received into
the regimental hospitals, has been very marked ; nor
is it likely. to be lam, as the present heat rises to its
climax during the coming fortnight.

The Journal d. Constantinople. of the 15th, says:
Three days ap, as about half.past alas Wake& is tM
nosing, Kr. Knight, correspondent of the Mom* Hirai,
idle bed only arrived is the more* from the Crimea, sad
was Murales en board the Taunts, by which vassals vs
Om bark to the camp, wee assaulted by four mans is
the open street, who robbed him of everything ho bed sheet
Wm. Notwithstandlog his cries, no one bad AS seepage

to go to hie sacistaaes. We swot too strongly call the
attention el the polies to sash facie, whidt requite a uteri
repression."
We read in the Constitutionnel:—.l Siete the be-
gin*/ of the mesa, Month the annearers of gt. Buena*
lave bola very busily employed. They hare as eider for
70x000 'muskets for liailead."