The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-29 00:00:00

TEE MURDER AT CUDRAM

Up to last evening the polies had not ettooteded in
agerehendieg either of the two rasa swat who suspicion
11•11 lolled. Theis names ere Robert Pestles and
Clark. The former is • ticket of leave coavist, and was
Mina la the mighbeerbood of Callum within a few days of
the murder. Os Sanday moraine, after information
md the murder bad bees received at Croydon, bat
belles it was knows that he woo suspected, some
ef the 'meaty polies, it appears, actually stopped
Peelle, es the eatakirts of Croydon, and searched
Ws, bet IstAiag aotliiig of a suspicious character tapes
bilk metered bias to ennead to Louden, where he stated be
sees going le seek work are • shoemaker. He is described u
behig abut 24 posted's*, Mt. Its. high, without whiskers,
end suite • little. Had en a dark shootidg coat, dark Mali-
an, sad black hat. Clark, themes suspected by the Croydon
is Matey'd to be • deserter hors the Grenadier
, sad ealls hismelf • navigator. He is 43 yams of age,
1111 10m. is keight,very spright,with • lesg seek, dark ma-
V, aad large bushy whiskers. Mrs. Bayley still lies
admigeseariess and insensible conditiee. It seems to hare
bees kaowa that ake had saved a suss of mosey On the
perinea of puts' her tumoral expellees, keeping it M the
setup, and it was at drat supple ed that this imam bad
been molts by ti • murderer. It mew appears that this was
set the aim, as, although several bones were bashes sees,
this enmity was not Woad, sad Ma only mossy serried
er wee • arra of about 30s. Some articles of clothing were,
however, takes from the cottage, an attempt to dispose of
Thad may lead to the detection of the gaily party. They
meeleed of two women's dream*, ea Ostord misters abut
fog teat, sad a pair ef dark anyone with bread stripe
dews the kgs, sad the hip of the waiatbaad bawd with

BATTLE

THE TCHERNAYA.

THE NEW BOMBARDMENT.

(FROM OVA

LATE ON THE

DANUBE.)

TURKISH WO, %AMARA, AllOl7lll IS.

The disastrous affair of the 18th Jane was at least
in a great measure atoned for by a decisive victory
;pin' on Thursday over a large body of Russians,
by the French and Sardinians on the Toisernaya.
To give you anything like a correct ides of a con-
flict which, though fought out, considering the num-
ber of the combatants, in a very small epee, derived
a great deal of its incidental importance from
the natant of the terra" it is almost necessary le
call attention to a few of the leading feature* of the
itro
well known, now so often described, district
Balaklava. If you descend from the northers side
of the plateau, on which the besieging armies are
encamped, into the gorge through which the
Toheynaya empties itself into the harbour, sad
follow the banks of the river for a short diatoms
upwards, you find yourself in a narrow valley,
with the heights of Mackenzie's Farm rising
abruptly on your left, like tall cliffs on the sea
shore; and on your right a row of small hills, ex-
tending, with greater or less intervals between them,
on to Tchorgoun. Beyond them is the plain of Bala-
Wave, which is broken in its centre by a somewhat
similar line of eminences, bet in this instance so
small as hardly to be entitled to aey better appella-
tion than that of monads. It was on these last
that the Turkish redoubts were thrown up,
which were so precipitately abandoned by their
defenders on the 25th of October. The highest of
these hillocks does not rise above two or three hun-
dred feet from the level of the plain. Between
Tchorgoun and Inkermann they are some of the most
remarkable features in the landscape; but on crossing
the river on the road from Balaklava to the former of
those plates, they no longer stand apart, each from its
neighbour, but become more and more closely
crowded together, and are soon last in the picturesque
confusion of the great range of hills which extend
without interruption along the whole of the southern
coast. On two or three of these, which lie in a
cluster on the aide of the plain next Inkermann, and
directly facing the Mackenzie Heights, the road from
which passes between them, have encamped for some
time past three divisions of French. On the side
next the Tchernaya the position was defended by a
precipitoes and escarpe descent, on which sotnestunted
brushwood still remained, but which in most places,
stripped of the soil by the rain of ages, presents but
the white enemies of the chalk which plays Do im-
portant a part in the geology of the whole district; on
the side next Balaklava the descent is comparatively
easy. On the summit rested the right wing of Li-
prandi's army on the 25th of October, and on the
southern side were pleated the greater number of
the batteries which mowed down the British Light
Cavalry, as they charged along the slope which leads
gently towards the ford on the road to Tchorgoun.
This ford is reached through a tolerably wide open-
ing, which separates the French position from that
of the Piedmonts**, who occupied the heights imme-
diately under the village of Kamera, extending a
short distance to the right. The valley still
ristbar to their right, which is traversed by
the Wereasoff-road, leading on to Baidar, was
alemied by the Turks. The three armies occupied
a skis of eminences forming a semi-circle drawn
hem Inhermann to the sea, and embracing Balaklava
sea the ;phis within its two winge—or, in other
wok pot the position taken up by Liprandi but
alma. lbs French divisions were encamped on the
Imp of the hills ; between these hills runs the road
leallag up to Mackeozie's Farm, and crossing the river
le the valley by a stone bridge, for the protection of
which a small redoubt had been thrown up in front.
This Me de pont was on the night of the 18th inst.
varied by the 20th of the line. The Piedmontese
bed batteries regularly fortified on all the heights
eueleakieg the ford on the road to Tchorgoun, and
bail Os wiper end of the valley completely within
enh asp. On the other aide of the river, on the
Impel • lel. similar in every respect to those I have
hem describing, they had on the same night an out-
post esespcsed of two companies of infantry, for whose
greater security, considering their distance from
Muir own lines, a small entrenchment had been
them tip
Per some time past, as I mentioned in several of
my recut letters, rumours have been afloat each
night that an attack in force along the whole line
`would be made on the morrow. Fora long while,
however, these appear to have bad no better founda-
tion they the fact, which seemed pretty well sear-
tibia, that the Russians had received large rein-
toresseents, and, from hearing 10 essay warnings,which
time did not justify, as is usually the case, the French
and Piedmonts'', both, I think, fell into a state of
greater carelessness than if they had never received
any warning at all. Still the air seemed thick with
eons; nobody could fully satisfy himself that no
danger was imminent, though he could not make up
his mind as to when or in what shape it would present
Sea The deserters had so often proved false prophets
that people began to doubt all their stories, until on
Wednesday evening three spies came io, who posi-
tively declared that an attack would be made in force
on the following morning ; and hardly had they
ceased speaking when General Allonville, command-
ing the French cavalry at Raider, telegraphed that
the heights around were covered with troops, and
that he wished to retire, from the fear that he might
,he cut off, but could not, owing to the road
being blocked up by some licndreds of com-
missariat waggons. He went on to give some
details regarding the attack, which made it evident
that he had likewise received some information,
when a fog came on, and the telegraph ceased work-
ing. The Turks remained under arms all night,
bat, strange to say, the French, who were most of all
interested in the matter, seem to have given them-
selves no trouble whatever about it, but went to bed
and slept tranquilly. A peloton of Chaaseursd'Afrique
went out to patrol daring the night, and on