The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-21 00:00:00

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at the point of the spur to the east of Careening BaT,
the work which was deserted by the Russians after their
loss of the Volbynia and Belinghinsk redoubts,
showed its fire. It is armed with five guns, and has
also awns mortars in a battery immediately behind.
' Blanches

the only casualty among the officers in the batteries
since the present bombardment opened. Several
men have been wounded in the right attack to-day,
from the bursting of our own shells. Towards even-
ing a rocket tube burst in the Quarry battery, and
eight or nine men of the Rifle Brigade were wounded
by the fragments. The French have occasionally
fired by salvos. in the left attack; they have fired
very little in the right. The Russians have replied
from their works, but have scarcely fired one to twenty
of the guns of the allies. The Malakkoff has been alto-
gether silent, and the Redan almost so; but this was the
case previous to the 18th of June, when no want of
guns was found at the time of the assault.
Fourteen deserters gave themselves up to the
French in the Malakhoff a few nights ago. They
were headed by a Pole, who came forward on all
fours, whispering " Francais, Francais." lie also,
holding his cap in one hand, made a slight noise by
shaking his other hand in the cap, partly to attract
attention, and partly, perhaps, to show he was not
carrying arms. The French, after observation,
allowed him to come forward. The Pole explained
that he had brought some of the Russians with him,
and the shaking of his hand in the cap formed the
signal for them to advance, which they did, ais the
Pole bad done, by creeping in on all Jours. The
Russian sentries were not far distant, and coald
scarcely have missed them had they perceived the men
escaping while in the open ground. They described.
themselves to be very hardly worked and 12 fed; but
this is the usual statement of all deserters.
Clouds have gathered this evening, and the wind
is very shifting, so that rain is looked for.
Sept. 7.—The night was very tempestuous. A.
strong wind blew from the south-west, and about
daylight a squall, with a slight fall of rain, passed.
over the camp.
The fire was kept up all night actively, sad is
still going on, chiefly on the left.
Another ship in the harbour took fire between 3 and
4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the high wind pre-
vented its flames from being extinguished. It is
still burning, and throwing a reddish glare upon
the heavy canopy of clouds above. An active dis-
charge of shells is going on from all the works.
9 p.m.—The arrangements for attacking the Re-
dan, after the French attack of the Malakhoff, have
been announced officially. The Light and 2nd Divi-
sions are to share this important duty. The 2nd
Brigade, Light Division, and an equal number of the
2nd Division, form the first body of attack. The
covering party is to consist of 100 men of the 2nd Bat-
talion of the Rifle Brigade. The Ist and Highland
Divisions are to be formed in the Karabelnai a ravine
ea a reserve. The men are to take two days rations
with them into the trenches. The first body of attack
and the enuring party are to assemble at the usual
' rendezvous for the trenches at 7 s.m. ; the second
storming party, the supports, and reserve will parade
in the same place at intervals of half an hour each.
Sept. B.—A clear cool morning. Wind rather
high from the north. All the new batteries have
opened.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LATE ON THE
DANUBE.)
TURKISH CAMP, SEPT. 8.

Omer Pacha arrived here shortly after the depar-
ture of the last mail, and the following morning
paid a visit to General Pelissier, to announce to him
his intention of proceeding immediately to Asia, and
taking the troops that are here with him. It appears
that a very unpleasant "steno' followed, in conse-
quence of General Peliasier replying that of course
Omer Pacha would like to go to Asia, because there
he might do as he pleased, but that, inasmuch as his
troops were absolutely necessary for the defence of
Balaklava, their departure was a matter to which be
would by no means consent. A conference was held
at the English head-quarters the next day, at
which it was finally arranged that as soon as the
Turkish Contingent arrived from Constantinople, that
is to may, about fifteen days hence, Omer Pasha
should be allowed to withdraw one division of the
troops that are here, that of Osman Pacha • and that
the remainder, with 2,000 men from Keetch, and
two regiments of cavalry from Eupatoria, about
10,000 in all,should be merged in the contingent, and
remain on the Tchernaya. Reasonable as this ar-
rangement seems, and unreasonable as a proposal to
withdraw the force which defends the right flank of
the allies at a most important crisis, when the Anglo-
French soldiers are worn out by toil in the
trenches, must seem to any man not blinded by
egotism, his Highness appears to have been by no
means satisfied with it, and only accepted it as a
painful necessity—returned home apparently in high
dudgeon, wrote some unpleasant epistolary communi-
cations to the French head-quarters, and on Wednes-
day morning packed up his traps, and went off to
Constantinople, where it is said he has some little
business to perform before going to reconnoitre the
Asiatic coast, in order to choose a landing-place for
the troops. Let me now call your attention to the
fact that he we went down to Constantinople before,
more than a month ago, knowing previous to his
departure that Kars was invested—that he %there
spent five weeks of precious time in receiving
the G.C.B. from Lord Stratford, and some tchifiits,
worth, it is said, 40,0001., from the Sultan, and
I know not what beside ; and that be is now, on
the Bth of September, gone down again to remain a
week or two more, after which he will reconnoitre the
Asiatic coast simply, and then bring down his army,
although he well knows that Kars is hard pressed,
and that in the middle of October all military
operations in that region become impossible. If this
be the way that the war is to be carried on with
English and French money, all I can say is that the
sooner peace is made the better, for thus conducted
it is a snare and a delusion.
I venture to predict—l possibly may prove a false
prophet—that the Turkish army this year will
simply disembark on some point of the Asiatic coast,
intrench themselves, and, instead of either ad-
vancing on Tiflis, or proceeding to the relief
of Kars, will quietly go into winter quarters.
Achmet Pacha, the mashie who figured at Kalafat,
and who quarrelled with Omer Pacha at Eupatoria,
has been reconciled and goes back to the latter place
to command the troops there. Zaffir Pacha (Count
Koacelski) accompanies him as his chef d'etat major.
There is a good deal of murmuring among the Turks
at,the prospect of being handed over to the contin-
gent. What they mainly fear is, it appears, being
deprived of the fez, and compelled to wear e European
what°.
The bombardment has been going on on a tre-
mendous scale for the last three days. To-day
the assault will take place along the whole line at
noon. You will have heard the result long before
this reaches you.

DEATH Or LIEUTENANT-COLONEL KENNEDY.—WO
regret extremely to be obliged to record the death of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Arthur Kennedy, of Ilallybrook, Raudah-
town, third son of the late John Kennedy, Esq., of Cultra,
county Down. The deceased entered the 24th Itegimentof
Foot, July, 1803, by purchase, and was removed to the 18th
Sneer', March, 1804, in which distinguished regiment he
'erred until its disembodiment. He obtained the reninsulu
medal, with clasps, Toulouse, °zebu, Nile, Nivelle, Vit-
toria, &Wigan, and B eeeee nte, and that for Waterloo. In
life be was greatly respected, and he gaintd the esteem
of all classes. To the poor he was a generous and good
friend; and it may be truly said he was an honourable and
upright man.—Belfnif Items Letter.
AT BIRMINGHAM, yesterday, the belle were rung
in celebration of the anaiveremy of the battle of the Alma.
The Mayor has called a meeting of the inhabitants kr this
day, "to oonsider and decide upon the mo.t approprtate
massif of celebrating the glorious victory of the allies at
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LONDON, FRIDAY,

Tits part played by Austria in every Europium
war—at least, for the last two or three centuries—
has generally resembled that ascribed by Bum=
to the mother of Ferdinand Count Fathom. That
exemplary woman—it will be in the issesory of
most of our readers—was a follower of the camp
and it was her custom to lie snugly mowed as
long as the battle lasted, and as soon as it was
over, to prowl through the field, stripping and plun-
dering the slain and wounded. Like her, the trim-
ming and trey heroes Cabinet of Vienna uni-
formly shrinks from a war upon equal terms, and
uniformly interferes with its diplomacy when
negotiations between belligerents commence, with a
view to secure something for itself in the scramble.
This characteristic feature of Austrian statesman-
ship accounts for the numerous rumours of renewed
negotiations which are at this moment emanating
from Vienna—that central manufactory of falsehoods
launched upon the world in the hope that some
accident may convert them into truths. At one time
we are told that M. PROKESCU OsrEten mission to
Paris is to submit to the French Government an
ultimatum to be proposed to Russia, and to promise
that, in the event of its being rejected, Austria will
enter into a convention with the Military Powers.
At another time it is stated that M. Di BOURQUENIII

hu been instruoted by the French 00/torment to
request Austria to urge upon Russia the &Neptune,
of the four points as interpreted by the Western
Powers at the Vienna Conferences.
.. The plain

English of these, and of many similar rumours
is, that Austria is anxious to let the Allies
know that she will be happy to become
again the means of setting on foot negotia-
tions between them and Russia. It follows as a

matter of course, that the pro-Russians in England
and over the whole of the Continent are abetting
this Austrian move. But what is strange is, that
some who have no disposition to temporise with, or
yield one point to Russia, allege that they can ere no
harm in a renewal of negotiations at present. They
say that the close of the season for military opera-
tions it approaching—that when it arrives there

must be a de facto suspension of hostilities for sae
months—that affairs are in such a position that the
Allied Governments cannot come to terms with
Russia, even if they would—and that there can,
therefore, be no berm in allowing to diplomatists to
show off their tricks of fence during the winter
months, for the amusement of the public.
There would be infinite harm in it. We
know, indeed, how to value the devices and in-
trigues of diplomatists at their real worth.
They are a kind of moral spider-webs, spun
with inconceivable difficulty and waste of time,
which the popular will, as soon as it is raised, sweeps
away with as little effort as a housemaid does their
physical prototypes. Protocols, treatise, and conven-
ticle, when they are the expression of a nation's will,
have a value, because they express it distinctly—because
they may be appealed to hereafter as a record of what
it has decreed ; but when they are the mere devices
of public men, in which nations have been brought
to acquiesce by insidious misrepresentations, they
are not worth the paper upon which they are written.
The great European struggle, of which the war with
Roue is but one of the episodes, will not be
decided ultimately by protocols or conferences. But
its progress may be impeded, and the triumph
of justice temporarily postponed, if those Powers
which have stood forward as the champions of right
allow themselves to be again entangled in such miser-
able &treasuries. The strength of the Allies is in the
confidence which the peoples of England, Franco,
and Sarthaia, and the rational liberals throughout
the world, repose in them. This confidence was
weakened so long as the Vienna Conferences were in
progress. It would suffer a still more material
abatement, were the Governments of France and
England to condescend to play that faros over again.
The agents of Austria and Russia are already mean-
iog the Allies, separately, with insidious proposals.
Hints are thrown out to Sardinia that if she
abates her hostility to the Northern despo-
tisms, the acquisition of Tuscany and the
States of the Church may not be beyond her
reach ; tales of an imaginary MURAT dynasty
in the Two Sicilia are whispered in the ear of
France ; the English Government is assailed by re-
presentations that after the destruction of the Rus-
sian Black Sea fleet, and the reduction of Sebutopol,
enough will have been done to satisfy the people of
England. We have no fear that these dainty baits
will induce France, England, or Sardinia, to run
into the net that is spread in their sight. But if
they consent to renew negotiations, their tempters
will take good care to let all the world know what
has been offered to them, and to hint—perhaps posi-
tively affirm—that their virtuous resistance to tempta-
tion is tottering. The only safe course for the Allies
is ;sternly to reject all overtures for negotiation. By
allowing Austria to mediate between them and
Russia, they will only flatter the egregious vanity of
that feeble aced faithless Government. Their answer
to all applications ought to be—" The sword must
decide ; Russia has willed it so.* The war mast go
on until Russia herself sues for peace, and expresses
her readiness to accept the terms of the victors, be
these terms what they may. It will not be gathered
that the best blood of France and England shall have
been poured out like water in a make-believe and re-
saltless war.

gOt court.

BALMORAL, Bart. 19.

The Que., aooompanied by the Pri;es of Wain;
walked at yesterday moralsg is the seighboarbsed a the
Castle. la the aliens's', her Majesty drove eat, mewled
by Vbessatess Calming.

Tko Prises, with Prises Frederick William of Prase*
west out deorr-obJklog.
Tko Prima of Wales sad Fria*, Alfred rods oat ea
rakes.

D 410.111.11811 Inn received yettatday at the Calealikdies
hos the °owners et the Australia& Celesta, awl from
tie lead High Oemasirieser of tie helms Islas&

Rea Moron's ReTTAN MOM BAL3IOILiL.—Her
1111.7a5t7 hot already signified her Wanks of Manias to
the emelt over the Great Northam Railimy. Unlade h
ordered ter the lath prosirso.
The Marquis of Broad/16as, is now at his splre-1
did arrow lodge, Gleaorthy ; sad it is reported that away
&obis rusts will visit pier there this seem, t saki the
ellighttsl sport of deer shakily la the Hisekaossat lent.
The Earl sad Countess of %afield are at peewit
vadeerstag at Saletscass Brae, their masses ht the
ressaatie sad pictsreease valley of Olga trmahart.

1 LATEST FROM

ABROAD.'

PROPOSED NEGOTIATIONS.
MOM OVZ owx 00ZZZIPONDINT.)
HAMBURG, TIVISOLT.

We have good private intelligence from Vienna,'
to the effect that Austria signifies her willingness
spin to undertake the work of mediation, and pro.
poste new conterenou at Vienna.
Franco be. intimated a willingness to negotiate,
bat way at Paris.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM. Strr. 16.

In consequence of earnest representations made
Lore by the British embassy respecting the quantities
Cl lead shipped to Finland Ma Haparanda, a Royal
decree declares load to be contraband of war.

VIENNA. Barr. 18.

Intelligent* has been received hers that the diffi-
culty between England and Naples has been satis-
factorily settled.

MARIMILLES, WIDNUDAY Bosom*.
General Bermslt de St. Jean d'Angely, common.
dant-en-chef of the Imperial Guard, has arrived eon-
'element at Marseilles. The Gendarmes of the Guard
were to leave Maga on the 12th, and be replaced
by the 84th of the line. Admiral Brunt has caused
Tomo and Faaagoria, In front of Youngs's, to
be occupied by twelve hundred allied ma-
ran. Ram continued to be invested by a corps
of cavalry numbering eight thousand men. General
Monravieff occupied the defile of Boghanli.Day.
Provisions were not as yet warm. The Turks
were disembarking at Batoum. The first railroad
to be constructed will unite Constantinople to Bel-
grade.

MADRID, SEPT. 19.

The Cabeeilla Tuvany has been killed in a mu-
coutre with the Queen's troops, and the band he
commanded has dispersed. M:Zayas was officially
received by the Mexican government on the 6th
of August.