The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S THANKS TO THE ARMY IN

THE CRIMEA.

The following despatch from his Orace the Doke
of Neweutle, Minister at War, has been published in
General Orders, and read to the troops serving in the
Crimea:

" War Department, Nov. 20, 1854.

"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your lordship's despatcher, Nos. 83 and 84, of the
18th and 23rd of October.

" I have submitted to the Queen the interesting reports
with which your lordship has furnished me in these de-
spatches of the commencement and subsequent progress of
those vast operations in which the allied armies and fleets
of her Majesty and of the Emperor of the French, in
conjunction with those of the Sultan, are engaged against
the rtronghold of their common enemy ; and I am corn,
mended by ber Majesty to express to your lordship, and,
through you, to the army under your command, the high
satisfaction with which she has received the intelli-
gence, no less of the very effective manner in
which the fire of the allied batteries was opened,
than of the energy and determination with which
that fire was subsequently sestnined. The un-
fortunate occurrence of the explosion of a magazine in one
of the French batteries, which took place at an early stage
of the operations, most doubtless have prevented any imme-
diate effect of a decisive nature bring produced on the

enemy's works; but her Majesty rejoices to find that the
energetic and persevering effort' of the French commander
enabled him to overcome the temporary check which thi'
disaster appears to have imp..aed upon the exertions of the
forces under his command.

" Her Majesty is fully sensible of the motive. which
induced your lordship to secure tho co•operatioa of the com-
bined fleets in the attack upon the enemy's works at the
mouth of the harbour, simultaueously with the fire horn the
batterits ou the laud side. The aid which, so far as they

were enabled to render it, was thus afforded by the naval, to
the exertions of the land forces, is highly appreciated by bcr
Majesty; and I am further commanded to express the gra-
tification with which her Majesty has received the intelli-
gence communicated by you of the able and gallant assist.

ance afforded by the sailors from the fleet, under the corn.
mend of Captain Lushington and Captain Peel, in the land
batteries.

" Her Majesty deeply sympathises with those who, during
the progress of the operations which form the subject of
your present despatches, have been wounded in the service
of their country, and has received with sincere sorrow your
report of the loss of those of her gallant soldiers and sailors
who have been killed. It is impossible that operations of
such great magnitude and difficulty, more especii:ly when
tho vast resources of the enemy, and his powerful means of
resistance, aro taken into consideration, should be unat
tended by loss ; and her Majesty cannot bat rejoice that'
under the continued exposure t•a the incessant fire of an
enemy vastly superior in numbers, to which her Circa,
both naval and military, have been subjected, that loss,
during the period included in the returns of casualties en-
closed in your despatches, is not so great as might have
been anticipated.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your
lordship's most obedient bumble servant,

"NEWCASTLE.
" Field Manhel the Lord RaglaL, G.C.8., &c., ttc."

The foregoing despatch, although dated later than the
Duke of Newcastle's despatch Fhich we published on
Christmas-day, relates, as will have been observed, to ope-
rations in the Crimea anterior to those there gracefully com-
mended.

The following have also been pnbtiebed in General
Orden :

Extract from a letter of the Duke of Neweartle to Lord

Raglan, dated November 21, 1864

" I take the present opportunity to assure your lordship of
the satisfaction with which I have reosived the testimony
borne by Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in his re-
port enclosed in your despatch of the 28th of October, to
the assistance rendered by the Royal Marine Artillery and
Royal Marine!, in opposing the advance of the enemy's

ca;alry in the action ieforo 13alaklava of the 25th of that
month."

" War Department, Nov. 23, 1854.

"My Lord,-1 Dave the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your lordship's despsteb, No. 94, of the 31st of
October, which reached me on the 17th instant.

" I have lost no time in submitting to the Queen the
names of those officers whom Lieutenant• General the Earl

of Lucas considers ae entitled to be specially mentioned for
their service in the action of the 25th of October in front of
Balaklava, and whom your lordship commends to my
notice; and I have received her Majesty's commands to
desire that your lordship will convey to each of the officers
in question the high approbation with which her Majesty
has viewed their valour and excellent conduct in that
action.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lord-
ship's most obedient and humble servant,
.. -.

Niswcsem
" Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8., tte."

THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL.
GENERAL ORDERS.

By the following general order it was announced
that fuel and lights were to be finned to the army is the
East :
" General Order.
"Head Quarters, before Sebastopol, Deo. 4, 1854. 1
" No. 2.—The Commissary-General will issue at the
stores at Balaklava osrtaia quantities of patent fuel and
charcoal, as also lights, for the use of the troops."
When, however, the fuel was nut for, none was issued,
because the scale at which It was to be issued had sot, been