The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-05 00:00:00

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The Monidessr of this day antains the following
despatch iron General Polder

" CRIMEA, euvt 3, 4 P.".

The last duties have just been paid to Lord
Raglan by the two armies with all the pomp which
circumstances permitted.
" Our works progress satisfactorily.
" The health of the troops has improved."

OF HERTCH.

The Journal de Cootatant kople publishes • letter
from Samieseh. containing details of the destruction
of Kertoh. We extract as follows :
Hatch is se man! Oa the llth, four steamers, two
I/Mei& and two French, presented themselves before the
city, kw the purpose of destroy's( all the public establish-
ments still standing. Same magadnes and depots of cora
had bees erected along the sea-side, sad I. the first expedi-
tioa Ire was put to the wheat they mataiaed, but the
surface °sly had been burst. To ankh, ones for all,
some carcasses, a sort of shell fined with Greek
dm, were distributed amain the grains, sal elms nothing
escaped; all was blows up. Klaus visits were then paid
to all the private basses in ardor to ascertain whether they
ontalned say powder, sad after this inspection some di-
Whitest@ of swims perambulated the city, lonia, lire to
every edifies which mold be converted into a magazine or
sa establishment of public utility. This work of destruction
lasted cep to the 14th. _

They Gould Sad nothing la the Mame, all had bees
swept away sad had disappeared.

It is a curios. timPtiasteace that then was sot a
house which did set mania some very doh piens of furni-
ture, all of Europe= sunfastme, and that Monty bone,
without a single exception, two or three pines were fond.
What a pante for this Monument ! It is worse than at
Paris. Bat this palsies for mule is aothlag tampered with
the passion which the inhabitants seem to lune possessed
for gambling, that Is if we judge by the quantity of gam-
bling tables fosad in their hones.
The maintop of Henn has left More them 1,200 of
the inhabitants bats ben seat to Coastaatinple. Almost
all of them are of Galan origia, mad bad be.. mat to colo-
ns. the Crimes, for the most pert folioed"' the trades
of shonsaking sad tailoring.
There is today a project of ea 6:Witt's to the Putrid
Ice.

In another part of its columns the Journal de Con-
stantinople announces the arrival in that city of the
English steamer Ripon, having on board 230 of the
inhabitants of Kutch, men and women, old people
and infants. These unfortunate people were at first
stationed at the English Admiralty office, but Hula
Pasha has since planed a building at the disposal of
the Admiralty. The expenses of their maintenance
are provinionally to be defrayed by the English go-
, vernmsnt.

FRANCE

(fox ova oww CORIPASPONDZIO
PARIS, WIDW2IIDAT Immo.

General Pe Usher's despatch, while it concurs with
all the private accounts in representing the disastrous
result of the attack of the 18th of June sa attributa-
ble in a great degree to the unfortunate advance of
General Mayran's division before the signal was
given, says nothing of the Russian sortie to which
both your own correspondent and the letter in the
Conatitutiosuuti allude in terms so explicit that it is
difficult to suppose there was no such thing. The
French commander, however, who ought to know
best, says that a shell thrown from the Brandon
Redoubt was mistaken by General Mayran for his
signal rocket, and that, although warned of his
error, be ordered his division to advance. It
is to be noticed that this despatch is dated not
(as Lord Raglan's is) on the 19th, but on the
22nd, three days after the battle, so that had May-
ran's division advanced to repulse a sortie in the
manner described, General Polisher must nedessarily
have been informed of it at the time he wrote. But
to whatever cause the premature movement of this
division is to be assigned, it is dear that the foot en-
tirely altered the conditions of the assault. The
attack should have been, to nee the words of General
Polissier," general, sudden, and simultaneous along the

whole line." As it was, Mayran's devoted division,
exposed to the concentrated fire of numerous batteries
and of the war steamers in the harbour, " which maa-
ceuvred with as much good fortune as ability," was cut
up to such a degree that it found it "impossible to
go on, although it did not give way a step." General
Mayran, mortally wounded, was carried off the
ground before the commander-in-chief's appointed
signal had been given. All this, the despatch says, was
the "affair of a moment;" but this moment 3. de-
fined in a subsequent passage to be " from twenty to
twenty-five minutes"—time enough for immense
slaughter when muses of men, helpless as a pen of
stags at a Belgian battue, are exposed to the point
iblank range of well-served cannon from a tremen-
-1 dons fortress. The question now presses itself
on the mind whether, when General Palmier
found that that simultaneity of action upon which
be bad calculated as the condition of success had be-
come impossible, he should not rather have ordered
Mayran's division to retire, and have postponed the
assault to another opportunity, than have sent on the
other divisions to be exposed to destruction in detail.
To show more strongly that the calculations of the
besiegers were manifestly proved to have been
mis-
taken at the very moment when the signal for the
attack was given, I beg to refer to that very remark-
able passage in Lord Raglan's despatch in which
he says, " It was at first proposed that the artillery fire
should be resumed on the morning of the 18th, and
should be kept up for about two hours, for the purpose
of destroying any works the enemy raighqhave thrown
up in the night, and of opening passages through
the abattis that covered the Redan ; but on the eve-
ning of the 19th it was intimated to me, by General
Pelissier, that As had determined, upon further con-
sideration, that the attack by Ms troops should take
plans at three in the morning." It appears that
General Mader, deceived by the slack fire of the
Russians, in reply to his batteries on the 17th,
had overestimated the effects of our artillery, and it
seems probable that he dispensed with the prelimi-
nary bombardment, which, according to all ordinary
rules, should have been resorted to immediately pre-
vious to the moult, so that advantage might be
taken of the enemy's confusion, thinking that his
means of defence were siready nearly exhausted.
But when he heard the " hot fire of mitrailiesgainst
General Mayne, which convinced him that the en-
gagement was prematurely and "warmly engaged
on the right," should he not have related that hie
anticipations were already proved to be ill-founded,
and have palmed before pushing forward an attack
which he then knew was not organised as it ought to
have been against an enemy fully prepared to :cadet,
instead of being taken by surprise f I an aunts
you that very bitter criticisms are made by the pub-
lic, and it is much doubted whether General Peliasier
will retain his command. There is already a rumour
that he may be replaced by General Bonnet, who, it
appears, has been recalled from his position on the
Tobsruays, and was at the last advices marching with
his division upon BebastepoL
4 I understand IL Hubner has asked he oxplast-
tiong at the memos in the Emperor's speech relative'
to Amtz.4.. The nature of the armee be reosived
my mugs.",,; rDs epteisteer sew is the Arepitowr