The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA IN TESTER-

DAY'S MONITIU.R.

We And the following paragraphs in the Monitor
yesterday :
We reed in the leurrsel of Grallentineple of the
:—" Ia spits of the rigour of the season, the
allied armies do not sear in the Crimea. Their
governments have amply provided there with flannels.
woollen stockings, boots, fur coats, good coverings,
end provisions of every description and of good
quality. The tents, it is known, have been replaced
by wooden huts, the materials of which, all ready
to be adjusted, are being seat every day by Francs
and England.
"The ships which have them in charge are con-
stantly traversing the Bosphorus, carrying them to
their destination. The Sublime Porte equally pro.
vides its army with these objects, and is having
some wooden huts made, which will be speedily sent
to the Crimea. We thus see that the three armies
can easily wait the propitious moment for striking
the decisive blows."

We have received letters from Balaklava dated the
Ist inst., announcing that' the Ramis& column which
was met at Kamaris, before Balaklava, has been
ehaeed by the English troops, and that the flight of the
Russians was so precipitate that they burnt their pro-
vender that they might not be impeded in their flight.
The same letters tell as that the new commander-in.

chief of the English fleet, Sir Edmund Lyons, has pat
his flag upon the Royal Albert, and that the Rear-
Admiral Stout was to hoist his upon the Aga-
memnon.

The great activity of Omar Penh* and the experi-
ence he has had in military affairs, lead as to believe
that by the 23th or 30th of this month, • corps
"ramie of 33,000 men will be disembarked in the
Crimea with all the necessary artillery. In addition,
Rim Peoh%, the minietar of war, displays the greatest
anal is Listening the departure of 11,000 men,
easpoued of a magaibent regiment of enmeshes
seat by Said-Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, and
*one Tunisian troops. With them different forme
added to the Ottoman division of 12,000 men now in
the Crimea, under the command of Osman Paoha,
Omer Ptah' will find himself, towards the close of
the month of January, at the head of an army of
60,000 men.

Letters from the Crimea inform us that some
portable telegraphs are established upon all the points
occupied by the allied armies, and that some Eng-
lish engineers are expiated to arrive very shortly at
BaWave, to form a railroad from that point to the
camps of the armies. By this double means all com-
munications between the chiefs, and between the
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armies and the points of disembarkation will be
speedy, that being so very great an advantage for the
operations.

GERMANY.

TREATMENT OF GERMAN ARMY-SURGEONS

IN RUSSIA.

(PROM Till COI

DAILY 743M1.)

BERLIN, Jaw. 16.
"Fair play is a jewel," but it cannot certainly be
called fair play to prohibit recruiting tor the West
and to permit it for the East. And yet this is the
position that Prueeia has run herself into, and this is
what she calls centrality. As soon as it became
known that England intended raising a foreign
legion, the governors of provisoes and other Prus-
sian officials were quick enough to publish manifes-
toes warning their countrymen not to be enticed by
inviting promises of pay and promotion to enter the
British Fot eign Legion, and pointing out the ille-
gality of such enlistment. These warnings, sup-
ported by similar ones from most of the other States
belonging to the German Confederation, and backed
by the opprobrious epithets so liberally applied
to the legionaries its sue by certain members of the
British parliament, which flattering compliments
have not tailed to find their way across the Channel,
and to be translated into every other European lan-
guage, and caused such an unfavourable impression,
that the above mentioned parliamentary orators may
plume themselves with the unenviable and unpatrio-
tic satisfaction of having deterred thousands of smart
young Germans from joining the Legion, and in fact
caused the whole measure to become a complete
failure as far 69 Germany is concerned, although the
Hamburg Correspondent and other impartial journals
have not tailed to raise their voices, and quote the
favourable opinions expressed in favour of the Ger-
man Legion employed by England in the last war,
and the brilliant achievements performed by them in
the Peninsula, by the late Duke of Wellington and
other military commanders able to form an opinion
on the subject.

Bat though Prussia has succeeded in frustrating the
enlistment of troops for England, she has permitted
it for Russia. During the last few months a copal-
derable number of young Prussians have been
engaged by M. de Budberg, the Russian envoy at this
court, under the meet favourable conditions, as
surgeons for the Russian army. They are to have
the rank of lieutenants on joining, they are to enjoy
the promotion usual in the Russian service, they are
to have an annual pay of 1,800 silver roubles as
assistant-surgeons, and, lastly, they are to have the
privilege of selecting the regiment they may wish
to join. This looks all very promising on paper—
but how have these conditions been kept? Letters
have been received here from some of these deluded
young men, complaining most bitterly of the treat-
ment they have received. Boma of them write,
that, instead of being allowed to select their
corps, they have been sent on boerd some
of the line-of-battle ships at Cronstadt ; others,
that instead of the liberal pay of 1,800 roubles
promised them, they only receive 180, or the tenth
part, and as for rank and uniform, that is all moon-
shine. In !Answer to all complaints on the subject
the universal reply they received was, that the Rus-
sian envoy had no instructions to grant such condi-
tions, and that as they had now entered the Russian
service they must be content to follow the usual regu-
lations of that service.

Fortunately this intolerable state of things, which
amounts to a traffic in human flesh, has been put an
end to, mainly by the representations of the British
ambassador here, supported by his Austrian cot-
e ; an interpretation baa been put upon the
Pith Article of the Act of Confederation, and as it
draws no distinction between combatants and non-'
combatants, it is admitted that the engagement of
military surgeons for an foreign power Is considered
illegal, and prohibited for the future. An amusing
anecdote is related of the Russian envoy, who, when
the Austrian ambassador complained to him of the
instice of the measure, defended it by replying,
"Only think of the comfort it will afford to the
wounded Germans who may fall into our hands, to be
traded by their own countrymen."

Our letters from Hamburg of the 16th inst. state
that, in consequence of the madden setting in of the
frost with great rigour (the thermometer in the pre-
vious night having been down to 10 deg. Resumer
below zero), the river Elbe was filling feet with
floating ice, and the greatest bustle and activity were
everywhere perceptible in the harbour to finish the
loading of the outward bound ships and get them off
before they were prevented 17 the ice. All the
steamers for the different English and Scotch porta,
whether loaded or not, were preparing to start the
am evening.
A north German correspondent writes :
The hurricane which caused such havoc amongst
life and property in the north of Germany on New.
Toar's-day appears to have bade diameter of 'lout
500 miles. It took its rise in the Polar Seas, swept'
over the Orkneys and Shetland blonde, covered the
whole of the North Ste, caused immense damage in
Reiland, Hanover, and Denmark, and went down to
Prussia and Austria, whore its fury broke. Copan.;