The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-31 00:00:00

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what we have witnessed of the dogged determination
of those in power to concede nothing, and the un-
taught and Immutable folly of their competitors fee
office in not taking advantage of the tide of pap ier
feeling whereon they might have securely Mead
into the haven of their desires, we sre forced to own
that we are very sanguies as to the formal ►Malt
of the investigatiom
Be that, however, what it may, the substantial
and important issue of the inquiry is not doubtful.
Thom who are for calling things by their right
names may pomibly be out-voted when the doors
are shut in " Committee-room No. 17 upstairs ;"
they may likewise be out-voted in the whole House,
when they bring the matter before its appellate
juriedistion ; bat by the public generally, to whose
ultimate dislike the ewe must cre Wog be left, an
apelike end irreversible judgment is certain to be
preassmod, and that in terms not to be mistaken.
The people are not vengeful or implacable in their
Wesel ratty, but they love justice, and they will
at bibdlrd in their resolution to prosecute to con-
cludes time who have not merely been participators
in the initiation of a easel wrong upon the country,
bat who, when caught in the fact, instead of suing
for pardon, and helping to change the rotten system
that lured them to their fall, have impudently denied
altogether their accountability, and shamefully andel"-
'cared to resist all Administrative Reform.—Daily
News.

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OBBORNE, MAT 30.

The queen, accompanied by the Princess Hoban-
Lehi, drove to Ryde yesterday afternoon.
Prise, Albert sunbaked in the Royal yaeht Fairy, and
went to see the new works eosstrooting at &owe Point.
Captain the Ron. J. Dearman had the honour of dining
with her Majesty yesterday.

LORDON, THURSDAY, MAY 31.

LATEST FROM ABROAD•

The Duchess of Kest, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson end Sir George Cooper, went to Frogmore yester-
day, and returned to her residence, Clarence Roue, St.
James's, in the afternoon.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his dada resi-
dence, in Downing-street.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-GSA yesterday
from the Governor of South Australia.

THE ALLIES AT KERTCH.

DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN.

WAR DEPARTMENT, KAT 31, 11.30 A.m.
Lord Panmere presents his compliments to the
Editor of the Daily News, and begs to inform him
that intelligence has been rewind from Lord Rag-
lan, dated 29th inst., stating that Sir George Brown
reports on the 28th that the troops continue healthy;
that five Tamils laden with corn had run into Kedah,
ignorant of the place having been taken, and were
ceptared; and that the number of guns taken by the
Allies exceeds 100.
Matters continue much the same in the Crimes;
troops healtby.

The Countess Colloredo gave a ball last evening,
at the residence of the Austrian Legation, Cbandoe House.
The Cosnteis was honoured with the attendance of nearly
600 of the most distinguished member% of the fashionable
weld. Antoopt the company were the Duke of Cambridge,
the Bathes. of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, and the
IMmlffien7 Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg &relit&
The Earl of Albetnarle's son, Lord Bury, has as.
treed on his legislative functions se • member of the coned
of Gaud
Lord and Lady Ashburton have been entertaining
Isensessaloa of large and distinguished parties at dinner,
&dee Moe present week, at Bath House, Belton street.
I Lied Monteegle has returned to town from Castle
laptrtry, the seat of the Marquis of Northampton.
I The Ladies Patronesses have received a oottimuni-
I mesa that her Msjssty has bees pleased to confer her
pomp on the forthcoming Caledonian bell.
/♦ shilling subscription has been entered into at
Brighton for the purpose of raising a fend to pinhole a
beet of General Sir De Lacy Evans, the work of Mr.
Pepper, a local sculptor.
Sir James Ferguson, the member for the county
of Ayr, is now at home in Silken's.
Mr. Mackay, the Bailie Nicol Jarvis of history, is
revisiting the sane of his former triumphs. This aged per-
kroner has entered into an engagement at the Edinburgh
Theatre Royal sustaining his favourite character of the I
Saltmarket Magistrate.
The Scotsman announces the death at Dumfries of
Kis. Thomson, the Jassy Lerman of Robert Barns. See
was nearly foursome years old. Jassy was on the most inti-
mate terms wish Barns and his family, and closed the eye
of the poet's death—that eye of which Sir Walter Scott
aid, " I have seen most of the eminent men of my day, but
I saw an eye like Robert Burea's."
The deficiencies in the properties of the theatre at
Gloucester caused some merriment the other evening
during the performances of an operatic company. In Fea
Digest°, the " gods" observed the Marquis making belief to
enjoy a repeat with the assistance of two knives and no fork.
The shouts from the gallery of " Give the man a fork" re-
lieved him from the dilemma by causing the requisite to be
provided.
Next week "Twenty-two of South Wales" are to
have a match with "The Eleven of all England." This is
the first cricket club in Wales that has ever dared the at-
Inapt, and nelittle excitement is observable in the country.
Mr. Crawahay will send his splendid band, and a grand bell
is to be given as "finale.
On Monday next the Emperor of the French will
pees in review, at the Champ-de-Mars, the garrison of Paris.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Cold-
stream Guards, has arrived at the Crimea, se the sucomeor
of Major-General Cunningham..
Viscount Btrangford died on Tuesday at his red-
dance in Harley-street, at an advanced age. His lordship
was In the diplomatic service of his country for a long series
of years, and was successively appointed to represent this
senetry at Lisbon, in the Brazils, at Stockholm, at Conine-
*Opts, and at St. Petersburg. He was the author of se-
veral literary productions. The title and estates devolve
week his eldest son, the Hoa. George Sydney Smythe.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge pee.
sided yesterday at the anniversary festival of the British
Benefleent Institution. One of the speakers was Sir June
Means% " whose name" said His Royal Highness "he.
came famous fa history from his defence of Hougomont."
The gallant officer narrated two interesting incidents whisk
took place on the occasion of the presentation of the
Crimean medals by her Majesty. " When that gallant
officer, Sir Thomas Tronbridge," he said, " was wheeled se
the dais on which her Majesty stood, her Majesty, in pre-
senting him with the medal which he had so dearly wen.
declared to him that from that instant for the rest of his life
he was her aide.drearep. (Loud cheers.) In mating that
declaration, her Majesty expressed her deep connoisnraties
for the misfortunes of that gallant man by dropping a attest
tear—s tear which ought to be encased in plass and plesed
in oar method annum. (Immense cheeriag.) Whoa ens
of oar pliant and glorious British tan approached to re-
ceive his reward, the medal by some accident dropped to
the ground. It was picked up and presented to him by the
Misister-at-War, on which the gallant tar said he would
much sooner have received it from the hands of the Queen.
(Cheers.) Her Majesty immediately desired it to be re-
placed on the dais, and then took it up and presented it to
the gallant fellow, whose feelings may be better imagined
than described at this mark of her Majesty's favour."
(Gnat cheering.)
A volume of an interesting character, entitled
"Fontainebleau," is on the eve of publicatioa in Paris. It
Is the work of 42 French "%than, who have suited to testify
finit quesday for M. Doneeourt, the eke, ego of the palace
awl besot of litoatainebleas. Amongst the writers who have
pima in this -prodootion, are MM. de Lemartine, Victor
lege, George Strad, Miry, Thollphin Gautier, Alfred de
Unseat, &a
Last evening M. Monti delivered the:first of a
striae of lectures on ancient sad moderusulpture to a select
sedienes, is the Galwie des Beaux Arts, Great Marl-
hwough-street.
A oorreepondent of the indeperulasees Belge
askasilverting upon the want of 'annoy shown by the
eadieelsies at the French Exhibition, observes that" if these
eallsetrat of the management had been present at the
]mss at London, they would have learned to abstain
ken Abalone airs of importaase not justified by the
menses le which they have fulfilled their duties ; they might
have taken then some excellent lessons in paying respect to
the public and to the exhibitors. At London this respect
was, as they term it. ' a matter of course t' they did not
understand that it maid be dispensed with." Th• same
[warrespondtat adds that an Esglieh exhibitor, a " veritable
gendeman, very good-natured, and thoroughly alive to the
hemary and importance of the Exhibition," said to him the
suer day," That which grieves me most is that this Exhibi-
tion is the Waterloo of French urbanity."
The dearness of lodgings is creating much discon-
, teat amoegst the Paris populace. A petition has been got
up at the Faubourg St. Jacques, praying for legislative in-
terference, and in other places a sort of " strike" on the part
of the tenants is spoken of.
The Empress Dowagerof Ruda intend., it instated,
to pass a portion of this summer at a country house near the
Hague. She will first visit Berlin.
Rossini has arrived at Paris.
The bill to amend the law of partnership brought
late the House of Commons by Mr. Fitiroy, Mr. Boland",
and Viscount Palmenton, has been this day printed. It
provides that leaders to persons or partnerships (not beteg
hankers) are not to be deemed partners. Particulars are gives
as to the necessary registration of loans. In the event of
the iasoloocy of the b 'rower, the lender of a regained
Man must wait until the claims of other creditors are sags-
lied, and he will be liable to make good to the other nedi-,
Mee of the borrower any deficiency et assets to the extent
el all sums of mosey or other benefit received by him
itariag the immediately preceding such event on en
issue of the pelnsipel of such loan. Agents, employers,
ells., an sot to be deemed pertain by MIND of receiving
la hiss of, or is addition to, wages, a portion of the profits,
erteam varying according to the snout of sub profits.
the Mt does not apply to Scotland.

IN THE CRIMEA.

The following is stated in a private letter from the
Crimea, and may be relied on :
There is an officer of the name of Baynes connected
with the Commissariat Staff, a son of the Consul-
Gocerel at Tunis, who speaks no less than six lan-
in addition to hie native tongue—viz.:l
KlMGreek, Russian, French, German. and
Russian he learned, when very young, at
graPiesttsborg ; his father was consul there at that
*ma His mother was a Greek lady, and this sir-1
onmetanos led to his familiar acquaintance with
Greek and Italian. During the winter he served
with the Commissariat of the Light Division. After
Inkermann, and many. times subsequently, he hes
been of great service in interpreting for Raman
wounded prisoners and others. One of his brothers.
in the Royal Engineers, was lately wounded in the
trenches, and has since died from the effects
of the wound. He has two brothers, cap-
tains in the Bth Regiment of the line ;
one, on leave from India, is now serving as a captain
in the Mounted Staff Corps in the Crmea. His abi-
lities as a linguist are not unknown out of the sphere
of his own immediate duties, for on several occasions
he has been sent for to headquarters to act as inter-
preter. In the French or Russian service an officer
thus usefully gifted would very probably have been
selected as an aide-decamp, or attached in some
other conspicuous position near the person of autho-
rity ; but as the Commissariat, according to Lord
Palmerston, cannot boast of aristocratic or gentry
connexions, the staff is not the field for Mr. Baynes's
talents, and he remains a commissariat clerk.
If the true motives which have provided oar
A.D.C.'s and Q.M.G.'s of all grades with their situ&
tins could be collected and published, what a curious
volume they would form! The anomalies in respect to
our staff appointments are sometimes really indictor.
The 14 right man in the right office seems t.
be the last consideration. Here is an instance in a
small way why a man must not get an appointment
on the gaff. There is a lieutenant of the name of
Preston in the 90th Regiment. He has a pendia,
gift as a draughtsman, and is exceedingly devoted be
the art, especially as applied to military sketching.
Although only a lieutenant in rank, he is by as
means a young officer, as compared with many
tains. His talents were considered to fit him ..
oularly for duty in the Quartermaster Generals de-
partment, and he was strongly recommended for in
appointment. Plans which he had taken of the
enemy's works, and other drawings, were shown at
bad quarters, and copies were requested ; but it was
grinned that he could not be made even a Deputy.,
Assistant Quartermaster General, as it was ,
contrary to the rules of the service for gay
Me Male the rank of • captain to serve in
that amity. Now, if anyone would take the
tremble to analyse the nature of some of the appoint-
meets which have been made from among officers
bolding that important qualification—ofiicers,too,con-
sidered so accomplished and facile as to be equally
fitted for any .department on the 'istaff without dis-
dilation—it might be presumed that even a lieute-
nant with a good knowledge of drawing and sur-
veying might be rather a catch for an humble posi-
tion among the glittering phalanx of our staff mag-
nets.. But no: the right men can't get into the
right places, unless they possess rank, title, or some
particular interest, which has no earthly connexion
with the business or duties they will have to perform,
and which not uofrequently are the very causes
which prevent their performance.

THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE.

Foust months exactly have now elapsed since I
public opinion compelled the House of Commons to
vote the appointment of a Select Committee to
inquire into the mismanagement of the expedition to
SebastopoL We all recollect how difficult it was
to extort that preliminary sot of justice from a
reluctant legislature; we all remember what solemn
protests and authoritative denunciations were
launched by the accused in high places against the
proceeding ; and few have forgotten the CASSANDRA-
Iike warnings of quarrels to come with our French
allies should the investigation ever take place.
Public feeling proved inexorable however, and, in
accordance with the national will, the inquiry into
the manner in which one.balf of a noble army
was suffered to come to an inglorious death
in their own tents, transports, and hospitals,
went on. What Government failed to prevent
altogether, it sedtVourly strove to frustrate by
indirect means. All the usual arts and expedients
were resorted to for filling the committee with
what are technically called" safe men." AgAist the
influences that can always be brought to bear for a
purpose of this kind, in an assembly like the present
House of Commons, it is perfectly hopeless for any
individual, or any minority, however honest and
faithful, to contend. It is easy to say, why not
have eleven tried and trusty jurors in so clear a cue ;
but people out of doors who ask such a question
know little what they say. Every species of
objection is sure to be raised to any name that
may in the first instance be handed in by the
author of an incriminatory motion ; and truth
to say, the position in which Mr. ROEBUCK found
himself on the 30th of January last, is one—
thanks to the constituencies of the kingdom—of the
greatest possible difficulty. The people themselves
have not put the right men into the right places.
There are but a handful in the present packed house
from whom one might choose with confidence an
adequate number to serve on much a jury ; and when
this small and insufficient panel is further curtailed
by the number of those who for various sufficient
reasons may be fairly deemed ineligible for the spe-
cific duty required, the appellant for judicial in-
quiry finds himself in the main kft without
materials for constituting the tribunal that he
has himself proposed. We do not mean to insist
that the list of names originally suggested by Mr.
ROEBUCK sou intrinsically unobjectionable; but we
unhesitatingly assert that if it were not the fault lay
with the electoral bodies, who have suffered the
House of Commons to be constituted as it
now is, and not with the Honourable Member for
Sheffield. Had fifty towns or counties in the United
Kingdom exercised the right of choosing representa-
tives as wisely and as well as did the people of Shef-
field, there would in all probability have never oc-
curred the homicidal blundering of Varna, Balaklan,
and Scutari; even if there had, inquiry would never
have been refused by a guilty Ministry ; and the tri-
bunal for isvestigation into their acts would probably
have been very differently composed, and its verdict,
however long delayed, would have been awaited
with feelings of tranquil confidence by the country.
le such °milldams felt now? Why is it that on
every side we hear impatient and incredulous
murmurs, as to the tedious spinning-out of the
evidence, and the indefinite delay in the
presentation of the report? Some people ask
querulously, is there to be any report at all?—others,
—what will it be worth when it doss appear ? It is
all very well to censure these popular mutterings as
premature and unreasonable ; and there is not a
highborn hack of oligarchy, or a low-minded larva,
of exclusive rule, who is not ready to lisp forth in
the Jesuitic dialect of jobbing—" Wait till you see
what the report will contain.' As there is no help
for it, wait we must ; only we crave liberty of our
irresponsible lords and muter* to say, that the
country at large knows nothing of parliamentary
dodges, and neither is nor cares to be
in the secret of stuffing and bone-ing a Re-
port, as skilful *oaks serve up a turkey, for
dainty guests; and that to its unsophisticated appre-
hension the simpler the dish, so long looked for, the
better. Will it be simple? Will a plain case be
told in a plain way? Will the incapacity, negli-
gence, cupidity, and presumption of all the depart-1
meats, civil and military, concerned in sending forth
the Crimean expedition, and then leaving it to perish
ignominiously for want of clothing, food, and shel-
ter—will all, this, now proved and brought home
to the doors of privileged monopoly, be honestly
recorded in the Report of the Select Committee,
and brooded, as it merits, there ? Will responsi-
bility be laid, without fear or favour, wherever it
ought to rest ; or shall we have plebeian
subordinates stigmatised, according to the Palmer-
monism theory, as worthy of all the blame, while
chiefs abroad and chiefs at home, noble blunderers
and honourable jobbers, Courtly and Cabinet sharers
in the guilt of sacrificing the lives of fifteen thousand
gallant men, are to be inferentially acquitted and
exonerated ? There are some members of the Sebas-
topol Committee who we are sure will never lend
the sanction of their names to any verdict of the
kind ; and we shall be only too glad to find that, not-
withstanding the care with which a majority have
been selected by the two oligarchic parties
in
.the Home, the sense of public right and high
political duty will nada them all alike out-spoken
and undid in the giving of their verdict. But after

IMENTAL SURGEONS IN THE CRIMEA.
(=TRACT PROM ♦ PIUVATII TAMIL.)

I cannot tell you how depressing the continued
slight of the services of the regimental surgeons bto
us
all. The Gazette has just come, bringing a wbob
hut of honours and promotions to the regiussubl
officere, and well do they deserve them ; it is only
doing justice to them alter that glaring cocked hat
brevet. But we have no friends, no parliamentary
interest, and are not merely passed over unnoticed, but
absolutely maltreated. Because a few imbeciles and
Wadies in the upper grads' macaw the public good
to the reckless will of their muter., without spirit oe
sufficient remonstrance, the whole department, with-
out exception, is made a mark for neglect and con-
In Bulgaria and in the Crimea, day and
night, on the field or in the marquee, amid wounds or
Osage,' defy a single person to may I have ever shrunk
from my duty. There is not a sanitary evil which has
happened to the men under my oar* respecting
which I have not written official warnings and m-
oonstruck a to authorities, both medical and military,
a. soon as the evil was seen to be approaching. I
have given proofs of what I write to you to " COlll-
- sent out apparently to investigate these
things, but I confess (judging from what I have sines
read and heard) that, in my opinion, these Commis-
sions had a double object—to screen, as well as to
investigate—and the one object has been made
subservient to the other. I hope lam not unjust in
my enspieloas, but what I see leads me to the conclu-
sion, se why do men who have been proved :o be—to
see the mildest expressions—so listless and apathetic
in their high positions, still retain them? Ido not
sek for the brevet or substantive honours given to
say regimental companions—we are told that such
things are not to be looked for, any more than
titles or decorations, by regimental medical officers;
but I do ask for justice and fair play.
Let not the guilty and innocent, the inefficient and
efficient, all suffer alike. A little trouble would
suffice to distinguish between the two. Military sur-
geons accept the limited pay and risks of their service
on certain conditions. One is that, unless proved to
be wanting in ability, promotion shell be open to
them according to established rules. But because a
certain few have failed, you are stopping promotion
for all. The inactivity of peace led to my remaining I
eleven years and upwards an assistant surgeon before 1
ay turn for a surgeoney arrived; the chances of war
have since led to others getting the step io little more
than half the time. But the chances of war do not 1
bring a corresponding advantage to the regimental
surgeons; civil surgeons, with comparatively enor-
mous salaries and retiring allowances, are sent to
occupy the higher positions. There are young men
cow here—of talent, no doubt, but who have never
performed a capital operation, and who honestly tell
you that they have only mane for the ad.
vantage@ of practice—who are receiving up-
wards of three times my present pay daily,
with proportionate allowances, and the promise
of a year's salary on leaving. All is gain to them;
even the positions they have temporarily vacated at
home reserved for them. Some person—Mr. Osborne„
I think it was—recommended that the military sur-
goons should be employed only in the field, civil
surgeons to occupy ill the posts in the general and

CRIMEA.

oweer direst observation. This comprehends a wide excavated a broad and very deep dyke to interlope—
sweep of eountry, in the general form of an aro. the passage. A small battery of three field pieces*
There are two points of view from which this tract placed close behind this dyke, and a little way further
(MON 11112 SPEC AL 00111ia... can be inspected with advantage. One of these is on is an encampment of huts for infantry. Tee mai
maws.) obtained by looking op the plain in a northerly of the men, piled in regular rows, are on the cleared
CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Her 19. direction from the heights above Balaklava ground in front of each line of huts, ready for imam.
The camp has been rife with rumours during the on the
east side ; the other, by looking diets use. The furthermost spur seems especially
across t plain from our position over lokermann guarded. There is first a strong abetter work drawn
last few days, and, as not unfrequently happens, of
and from our right flank occupied by General Bore across it, above this again is a high parapet and
the most opposite tendencies. At one time peace was.
quet's corps of observation. From the former a more ditch, and still higher a well constructed battery in
certain, the highest authorities being quoted to sub- complete general view of the whole position is which five embrasures can be counted. A large in.
stantiate the assertion. Bets to a heavy amount had gained ; from the latter a more distinct view of the fantry
ell encamp
beaten road canment is close at
seen hanon the d. Part
pe of of a wide
ogi
been offered that the negotiations would be eon- works completed and in progress. a be slo
eluded within a given period; Lord John Russell had Taking. a position then toward the Inkermann end spur ;it passes up to the table ef the mountain above,
gone tortuous river from which it takes its name, are placed on a point commanding a view of the whole
very
back to Vienna, and Lord Stratford de Radcliffe of our rht flank, the Tchernaya valley, and the and soon reaches. one of the principal signal stations,'
bad also proceeded there, and everything was ad-
seen at our feet. The general form of this plain is plain to Balaklava in one direction, and up the valley
mincing satisfactorily. It is useless to attempt to square. It is enclosed on the north side by precipi- towards Kinder Mackenzie in another. There are
aaslyse these reports, or to reconcile them with con- toes cliffs, towards the south by an isolated hill of two signal posts, one fitted with stays and lanyard',
listing news which may have arrived from ordinary irregular form, rising from the plain and dividing the for day signals by flags, the other for hoisting lanterns
8011 The latest date from England by the mail Tchernaya from the Braille's valley, and to the at night. Three huts tor the men in charge are by
received yesterday is May 4th, so that the authorities eastward by the lowermost of four ranges of mono- their side; a line of signal poets of a like kind see
talus which rise successively one above the other, and placed at intervals along the mountain towards Sebes.
who are in possession of the telegraphic cipher, and receding form the limit to the range of vision in that Lepel; and there is communication by similar mew
the favoured few who are honoured with the droppings direction. The fourth side is formed by the cliffs on with Tchorgun. No doubt a third line is also este.
of intelligence which are permitted to ooze from this the summit of which our position is taken. The blished from this point to %litchi Sorel. The road is
source, are a fortnight in advance of the main body area thus enclosed is about six or seven maitre miles seen
beyond the signal station, but is soon lost to
in extent, and the river crossing it in a diagonal di- view wood.
et the army in respect to information. •
action divides it nearly into two equal parts. The About half way between the nearer spur and the
Active operations in the field have also been talked
part nearest to our position is the most fiat and Inkermann ruins, on the very verge of the cliff, is a
of, and many circumstances have concurred to pro- marshy, and at present, from the effects of the late battery of ten guns, five of which are directed
duce the belief that a portion of the British force is rains, is impassable : on the other side of the river against the redoubts occupied by the French at In..
shortly to leave this part of the Crimea. The troops there is a alight declivity, and the ground seems to kermann, while the remainder sweep a portion of the
named are the First and Light Divisions. The be more firm. Three openings lead out of the valley Tchernaya valley. The fire from these latter gam
—one at the tenth-eastern angle, where the river en- is frequently directed against the French fatigue
place of destination is supposed not to have
ten, and by which the passage to Tchorgun in parties while getting wood or water from below
been mentioned, and various points of landing
one direction or to Balaklava in another is made ; a the Canrobert redoubt. Considerable numbers of the
in the Crimea and elsewhere have been talked second, through which the river finds its way to the enemy are now actively employed in repairing the
of as equally probable. With most persons lokermann valley; and lastly a third, at the north parapets and embrasures of this work, which lees
a renewal of the expedition against Kertch has eastern angle, where the road passes out to Khutor to have been injured by the late rain, and also
in ex-
been surmised to be the object. In the Highland nzT river is moot tortuous, and the tending it in a direction towards liikermann. To
plainii at present most inundated as it approaches the north of this, fet. about 600 yards
. distance, on n,
Brigade the belief prevailed that they were to haveemin valley. It has been sup- more elevated position, the enemy is busily engaged
embarked this day; and this was said to be on the posed that the extensive marshes in this situation in constructing a new work. One face, looking to.
authority of Sir Colin Campbell, who, having re-
might become the source of fever to our troops. For- wards our position at Inkermann, is already mired
signed the situation of commandant of Balaklava, will tuoately the plateau on which they are encamped is with eight embiasures.
now be free to accompany the regiments over which at a considerable height above them, and the prevail- It will thus be observed that many of the new
in g winds, which sweep so freely across it from the works of the enemy are so placed as to act for do
he holds command. The Ottoman troops have left, it is
seaweed, tend to carry the noxious vapours in an feusive purposes against an approach from the south,
understood to rejoin the force assembled at Eupatoria. opposite direction. and also for offensive purposes against the positioned
The Highlanders, and those of the Ottomans who have .
l'he whole of the Tchernaya valley is now deserted, the allies on the extreme right. Commencing free"
been engaged in the defence of Balaklava, are, it is excepting on the opposite side, where the high road the redoubts east of Careening Bay, bellowing tin
said, to be replaced by the Sardinians, as are also between Balaklava and Baktchi-Semi panes. Along line of evoke on the verge of the cliffa over the nee*.
the Light Division in the trench duties of the right this road there is a frequent passage of vehicles and side of the upper part of the roadstead, on the height'
attack. Due notice has been given to the troops to troops, for the purposes of communication between north of the Inkermann valley, and terminating or,
complete themselves in the neefield equip- the detached force at Tchorgun and the main body the cliffs above the Tchernaya valley, the eye sees a
near Sebastopol. The rest of the plain seems to be succession of batteries from which a converging foe
merit and the Commissariat has also received in-
' given up to countless myriads of frogs, whose cond ca . nbe brought to radiate upon the works constructed
'tractions to be in readiness. Yesterday (May 18), nual chattering and croaking announces for a wide to protect the north-eastern angle of our position; jut.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown inspected the distance round the fact of their possession of the terra- as the works of the allies form the segment of a larger
whole of his division, and the artillery batteries at- tory in question. About two miles from the Tcher- circle than the works of the enemy around the town
Cached, on the open space in front of the Picket- gun opening the Baktchi-Seri road is lost to view. and suburbs.
From the mountain to the east of Balaklava it can Along the whole line of mountain facing the
house. The condition of all the regiments was very still be seen passing along the gorge, then gradually Tchernaya on the north the number of troops has been.
satisfactory, but the men suffered from the heat, ascending, cut in the sides of the cliff, till it reaches greatly. increased of late. During the winter two
which was intense; the thermometer ranging from the summit of the high ground above. But small pickets only could be seen, placed so as best to
90 deg. F. to 96 deg. F. in the tents. To-day. it is from our flank position, the mountain, whose steep observe our movements on the right flank ; now the
understood that the departure of the troops is for cliff forma the northern boundary of the Tchernaya huts of two large encampments are visible, and t
the present postponed. The Sirdinians are unwilling valley, completely conceala the road from view, as battery of artillery, in addition to those already
to take trench duties, and there is not, under existing soon as it has reached its north-eastern angle. This named. All the active employments of an army an
circumstances, a sufficient British force to carry on mountain, which is just now the scene of some im- going on before our eyes. As with the main army
the siege operations, assist in the defence of Bala- portant labours on the part of the enemy, is gene- on the north side of the great harbour, very little
kites, and at the same time spare one or two divi- rally tabular above, is covered with wood among drilling or parade inspection seems to be instituted;
sions for an undertaking elsewhere. which scarcely any high trees are to be seen, and has but in all directions work is going on. The men Moor
The Sardinians who have landed are much admired. a very gradual inclination from the eastward down without coats or jackets, and seem to wear COM
Their clothing and appointments are neat, substantial, towards the head of the great roadstead of Sebastopol. linen trowsers : some wear loose blouses. The of&
and well adapted for service in the field. They carry Here it terminates in a comparatively low cliff, and, cere, as they give directions, can be distinguished by
with them tenses d'abri, like the French. In their at the verge of the slope overhanging this cliff are their long grey eurtout coats. In addition to the
waggon train and ambulance establishment they the remains of the castellated fortress known as the fatigue parties at the batteries, others seem to
seem to have adopted all the recent improvements, Inkermann Ruins. It is in the perpendicular face of be collecting sticks for fascines and gabioes;
and to have borrowed largely from the results of the rock below the ruins, that art has converted the others cutting the bush and clearing spaces foe the
French experience. The men generally are stout, natural caves of the limestone cliff into dwelling- more free movement of troops. All the ordinary
active, young, and wear the appearance of good places, in the middle of which the arched win- camp occupations of cooking, washing, sad clothe
health; the riflemen and the Grenadier Regiment of dows and jutting balcony of a church still form a drying may be observed. One peculiarity with to
the Guard particularly attracted notice in this re- prominent object of interest to the spectator. The epect to the arms piled in front of the camp green&
meet. They are encamped on the shelving sides of general superficies of the mountain is triangular in is worthy of notice—each pile of muskets is capped
the extensive valley of Kenai, the only other troops form, the base, the highest part, being the more die- by
.• conical cover, in shape like a common este'.
there being the English 32-pounder battery. tent, and the apex being the Inkermann cliff just gnisher, no doubt for the protection of the weapon
On the 15th instant a very large force was mentioned. A road passes along each side, both roads against rain.
observed to marching along the coast road, to join being in communication with the main Bi:lttchi-Serai The force near the entrance to Tchorgun seems to
the army on the heights north of Sebastopol. By road which follows the line of its base. The road at be lessened. Two large hut camps on the Belukha
reports from some of the ships u many as 50,000 the south side diverge' from the main road at the op- side have been abandoned, and the troops which
troops were moving in this direction. It is quite posits side of the Tchernaya valley, crosses its north- remain seem little more in number than would ideally
evident, from the much greater extent occupied by eastern portion, then gets under the cliffs, and be required to work the guns in the several batterin
the encampments, and particularly the increase in follows closely their windings, to avoid the marshes, in this position, and line the trenches which bans
number of the field batteries, that very considerable as far as the lokermann valley, where several roads been cut in the side of the hill on the 'Menus
reinforcements have arrived. It was supposed, when arose. When the Russians first sent a force into the side. Reserves may be at hand, but concealed from
first notice was given of the approach of so large a plain near Balaklava, and before we took complete view, for the view extends but a short way up the
force, that an attack was contemplated, and instruc- possession of the right, this was the ordinary route of alley itself, being interrupted by the natural irrege
Lions,
were given for the troops guarding the trenches communication between the detachments and the larities of the neighbouring bills.
to be constantly on the alert. Some of the divisions troops In and about Sebastopol • but they can make The north side of the harbour, with its immemelf
is front were also kept under arms for a great part of use of it no longer. The French sharpshooters, from increased fortifications, its enormous magazines ea
the night. Nothing unusual, however, occurred. The their hiding-places, on the extreme spurs of our pose depots, which are daily seen to receive accession', if
following day, May 18, several large convoys of corn lion on the right, can pick off any one with now regarded as the great stronghold of the Roseate
sadirone were seen on the north heights. At onetime hardihood enough to attempt to pass along it, and in this part of the Crimea, for were Sebastopol tau
there could not have been less than four hundred certain guns in the redoubts now occupying part of this would still remain intact ; and the efforts of the
country arabas, each drawn by two oxen, on the high the ground where the battle of Inkermann was enemy, such as I have described, to protect as
ground near the encampment. A little below, and to fought, also command it. The road on the north approach to that position, show with what dea-
th* west of the Star Fort, is a large commissariat side passes for some distance along a ravine, which mication every avenue leading to it will be COlk.
depot. In addition to some very large sheds, covered server to separate this Inkermann mountain from the tested. A general survey of the enemy's prepare
by red-tiled roofs, which have been observed to rest of the mountain plateau stretching toward the tions leads to the supposition that the policy of the
be storehouses, and a little on one side of Belbec, then mounts to the top of the wooded table allies will be not to make a direct attack upon them,
them, are two huge heaps of melte, probably land, and joins the Baktchi-Serai road, after it also but for the present, at least, to operate in a circuit
containing corn. They are stacked up in a has ascended the cliffs, a little south and west of far wider than that which is represented by the )
pyramidal form. To these stacks a line of Khutor Mackenzie. It was between this point of operations of the enemy.
one hundred and forty anima were conveying the road and Khutor Mackenzie itself that the debris During the last few days the weather has been
similar sacks, and u each cart was relieved of its of the baggage train fallen in with by the British dry, but excessively hot and oppressive during the
load, it passed away in another line with equal regu- force soon after emerging from the woods on the day time. A few cases of cholera are still occurring,
larity. A number of men could be noticed busily em- march from the Belbec to Balaclava were chiefly and the disease seems to be chiefly
treecofined among
ployed in arranging the sacks, and connecting them strewed about. This road login used, but another road men who have been on duty in the nches. No
with the pyramidal stacks, as fast as they were de- has been made further to the north, to establish &direct cases have occurred, it is stated, among the troops at
posited on the ground. Higher up the hill, and to communication between Khator Mackenzie and the Balaklava. The regiments lately come to the float,
the east of the Star Fort, another line of arebas northern camps without necessity of descending into the 3rd, 71st, and 48th, have hail
severa
of l cases
moved from the direction of Mackenzie's Farm, and the low ground near Inkermann or elsewhere. The occurring in each of them. The ground their
were lost to view as they passed behind a promi- north wall, as it may be called, of the Tchernaya encampment became exceedingly muddy during the
nonce on the brow of the slope. They were bringing valley, or the gorges at either end, would be the first rain which preceded the present hot we'tber, and I
' forage. In a third place were collected a large nnm- approaches to be carried in case of a direct attack drainage could not conveniently be effected,
' bar of arabes, drawn up in regular rows, and from the plain against the entrenched position of the they have shifted their position to
mthe bill
stationary, and, as far as could be judged by
.the army of the north. To provide against a passage in rear of the third division, fro ilea
telescope, laden with gables'. Perhaps they might being forced by the west gorge, or Inkermann valley, there is on all sides a considerable moose
be intended to remain there, and be brought across batteriesy has oonstructed no less than eight earth of natural declivity. A few cases have 110
at night. on the north side, whose guns will bear upon occurred among the sailors in the adjoining mist,
There has been no particular event of importance the valley itself or the ascent from it to the high and it has been arranged that they also The moo
daring the last week in the trenches. Our casualties ground above • and some of the vessels in the her- and encamp on higher ground. Fever has also bas
have been few. It is doubtful whether new troops 'sour, if not otherwise employed, could also use their on the increase, evidently attributable to caul/so*
would escape with so mock impunity, for coolness guns against an attack in this direction. The road elected with the altered temperature and state of de
eider fire, and knowledge of the best means of tat- from the valley to the heights is steep, but broad and wheattr. I regret to say
dis thease. at Miss Nightingale
een Ist
big advantage of the shelter afforded by the works in good order. It winds along the side of a ravine, beenattacked wit She bre
are, like superiority in most other matters, only to be and at various points is swept by the fire of some of moved from board ship, and is now occupying oaf rf
acquired by practice. The French continue on the the batteries above. Near the commencement of the the huts of the Sanitarium on the Castle-hill. de
I right, sapping up to the Russian redoubts on the road,on the side of the hill which flanks it towards the cording to yesterday's report she was progressed
east of Careening Bay, and also toward the Mame- great harbour, has been cut a deep trench, with a re- favourably, and no fears were experienced reepecloi
lon Vert. Oar works are for the moment not ad- gular series of zigzag approaches, as a cover for in- her early recovery.
lemming, but the new batteries aro nearly completed, fantry. In attempting to force a passage by the An intimation has appeared in general orders d
land large stores of ammunition are continually going valley at the other end of the mountain, where the May the 17th, that the hospital sergeants la
to the front. high road to Baktchi-Serai pursues its course, several orderlies, while serving in the Crimes, are tr,
The enemy has now completed a third redoubt in obstacles would have to be encountered. The pas- receive an increased pay, in consequence 0
the east cliff, above Careening Bay, nearer to the sage by Tchorgun would first have to bee forced, the severe duties to which they are subjectea.
shore of the Great Harbour. It is pierced with five and several batteries and works have been erected, Hitherto the pay of the hospital sergeante, no:divide
embrasures. Its fire is directed against the French both on the plain and the hills, in this direction, standing the exposure and responsibility of their
batteries on the same line of hill 'the works of our to prevent the accomplishment of this undertaking. position, and the nature of their duties etitailill
allies in this position are subjected to a very severe On passing the opening to Tchorgun, a square fort, labour by night as well as day, has only been in li•
fire, not only from the redoubts in their front, but mounting seven guns in the face and three on either lowance of 4d. per diem, while any non-commisemed
also from a powerful work on the west side of flank, placed at a little elevation above the high road, officer taken as a clerk in a brigade or other suf
Careening Bay, on the height immediately above the would next oppose its fire. Near it is also a battery office, with simply an easy day's work in writing led
harbour, andtromsome of the gunsof theKamtschatka of field artillery. These obstacles near Tchorguna copying, receives le. 6d. or 2s. per diem. The sec'
Redoubt. The French reply vigorously, and have might be avoided by a more direct approach from our pante appointed to assist the provost marshal each
lately added some new works to silence this opposi- right flank, but the marshes of the Tchernaya valley receive—also according to general order-4" 9d. Mr,
doe. Thepirli of their sap does not appear to intervene, and a battery on the verge of the cliffs diem in addition to their ordinary pay. The hap
be moth imp, notwithstanding that the Russians above has been placed, and at this moment is being sergeants, according to the general order, are for ft'
have two very large ambuscades, and numerous ex ,ended, to guard against a movement from this future to have Bd. per diem, in addition to their old?
others of smaller size, filled with riflemen, in front direction. The east gorge itself is, moreover, pro- nary pay, and are to draw their rations free, which it
of their foremost redoubt, for the purpose of inter- teeted by a series of worlue Part of these ices be equivalent in all to a sum of Is. hospital iem. Thie wr
rupting its advance. seen on the side of the mountain, where a projecting provement in the condition of th attendees
The Russians are working with the greatest energy angle first hides this part of the valley from our view ; shows consideration on the part of Lord Raglan,EA bd
at protecting the approaches by which a force would and no doubt there are other batteries beyond. it would be difficult to explain on what grounds
have to pass from our present position toward The ascent of the mountain itself is only practicable a difference is made in the amount of remunerstile
Baktchi-Seri. The reports of spies and deserters at two or three points, and these of course are espe- to non-commissioned officers acting in varlet:B cafe'
that all the heights are being fortified and defiles pro- cially guarded. The side looking upon the Tcher- cities, as bas previously existed, and still eliete
tooted, are confirmed by such observations as can be naya consists generally of white precipitous cliffs of Hospital sergeants must be intelligent, honest, lla
made from the site of this plateau. As far as the eye limestone, but two extensive spurs jut out into the active men, for they have to carry out the orders d
can reach, looking in a north-easterly direction, ridge valley. One of these forms the angle behind which the surgeons, and in the greater number of hospitai
troops, although from the distance and the dense intermediate, between this and the Inkermann although the surgeons are directly after ridge is seen to be occupied by detachments of the Baktchi-Serai road is lost to view; the other is have charge and keep accosot of the hospital 001!
woods which cover the hills in this direction, little can valley. As seen from our own position at In- them. It is stated that scarcely an of the heir rr'
be decided as to the strength of each detachment. But kermann, the nearer and most prolonged of the two sergeants who first landed with their regiments is
from the opening to the valley of Tchorguna—near to spurs offers little natural difficulty to the ascent; Bulgaria are now alive, having fallen victims
which which point the enemy's defences against an attack while near its junction with the main body of diseases incidental to their position. Whether '
from the plain now begin—along the lower range of the mountain there is a gently incurred dip in statement is true or not I cannot assert, but I bele
hill in the direction of the Khutor Mackenzie road the cliff line, and here a smooth grassy sward heard of many instances ' h' h they. have see
in w ic -I is
about two miles, and thence, coming westward, aloag , facilitates a passage from the brow of the spur to the combed to maladies supposed to have orminsto...
the Mountain to the encampment of the army on the top of the mountain. Ent the enemy has noticed their hospital duties. None of the men et the et
north side of the roadstead, the UNDO works are this also, and across the sward before-mentioned has hospital corps, stated in some of the newsperee ''
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