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

THE ALLIED PACIFIC SQUADRON.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nor. 24.
The Echo du Pacifigue hu the following in rela-
tion to the allied fleet, which sailed on Saturday and
yesterday :

" The Eurydice, having on board the Russian pri-
soners, mailed for the Sandwich Islands. The
government has ordered the prisoners to be kept
there until further instructions regarding them shall
be remivsi. The Forte and President will proceed
to Mazatlan, from whence, after a stay of a hw
days, they will sail for Valparaiso, where they will

await
nation

oche &Ai-

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1855.

of the aristoeraey bey, by

and insphid by s sirs entiri sympathy with
their (Wisp and opinions. We shall be told
that inch assn do find their way into oar
Cabinets : yes, by ones aid twos, to feel themselves
in a hopeless atinceity, isolated among their asso-
ciates in business—wild elephants placed between

two tame ones, whose business it is to dtub them
late conformity. To be of any use, the admission of
‘' man who are the sons of their own works," into
high offices of state, must be on a sufficiently eiten-
sive scale to enable them to modify the general tone
of our Cabinets. This is urged in so temper of dis-
respect or animosity to our nobility; .it is urged as
the most likely means to strengthen their position by
teaching them more entire sympathy with the people,
and exposing them to the salutary and strengthening
influence of emulation and ,'competition. It may be
alleged that we have not at present among
those clams from which Ministers of State,
have hitherto been rarely taken if at - all,
men of sufficiently commanding talent to render
the experiment easy. This is a mistake. It
is not noisy demagogues that are wanted, batmen
with administrative capacities, and free from Aar

kvism. Such men there are among our representa-
tive., and they who have been brought into close
contact with them by the business of the House know
their qualities and their value. It is fck the people
at large to choose their representatives; it is for
their representatives to decide who are sufficiently
worthy of confidence to be recommended to the
Crown as Ministers.—Daily News.

nt soul!.

WINDSOR, Die. 80.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess
of Kent, the Mugs& of Breadalbane, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Spath, dm Bishop of New Zealand end Mn,
Selwyn, and Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour.
_ _

Her Majesty's private brad was in attendance after
dinner.

The Queen, with the Princess Alice, walked in the Home
Park this morning.

Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, went shooting.
Captain Seymour had the honour to accompany •e Prince.

supplement -
"A report from General Prince Mentchikoff, dated
Deo. 13, informs the Emperor that sines the Bth of the
same month the fire of the besiegers had been u weak
as before, inflicting hardly any lose upon the besieged.
Altheregh the enemy was continuing his entrench-
ments so his left flank, being harassed by our well
rriflemen, he was not pushing forward his lines
freod at but extending them to the left." The report
goes on to say :—" On our side the defence is strength-
ened, and we make nightly sorties. On the night of
the 10th inst., amongst other feats, the naval cadet
Thelg of the ship's company, No. 40, taking advan-
tage of the darkneu before the rising of the moon,
to* with him from one of our redoubts two mountain-
howitzers and 20 men from the fleet. He raked the
French trench where their men were at work with
discharges of case-shot, and he then returned to the re-
doubt without sustaining &nylon On another side and
simultaneously Major Goloviosky, commanding the
battalion No. 2 of the Black Sea Cossacks, at the
head of a few brave Cossacks, made a dash at the
French trenches, took 8 Frenchmen prisoners (omit
whom, an ofßoer, was wounded), captured time
small mortars, and spiked the large ones. The awe-
tars thus carried off were immediately turned splint
the same trenches of the enemy."
The German papers just now very generally give,
and especially in the form of news from St. Peters-
burg, ex n to the conviction that no concession
macula to lead to a peace is to be looked for from
the Csar at the present juncture. It is observed that
the most important of his recent military prepara-
tions are calculated for a long war, and cannot
receive their full execution in much lee than twelve
months.

The French papers publish correspondence from
before Sebastopol of the 12th ult. (the date, it will
be remembered, of our ample correspondence given on
Friday). Some of the facts recorded in the following
extract, which we find 1* the Courrier of Marseilles,
are too valuable to be overlooked:

The Russians have made two sorties against the French
batteries. The first was in the evening of Sunday, the 10th,
at about half-past 8. The night was very dark and stormy—
in fact, the wind blew like a hurricane. The enemy in
very strong force left Sebastopol by the gardea battery,
which is in face of the most advanced works of the French.
Favoured by the darkness, the Russians approached to
within 40 yards of the French batteries. Au alarm was
immediately given ; but before our trOopS were ready the
Russians arrived, and some of them even climbed up the
parapets of the batteries. The awl:wipe was, however, only
momentary. Such of the Russians as succeeded in entering
our works were killed, and the French, 700 or 800 in num-
ber, fell on the enemy with the bayonet. The Russians,
terrified by the impetuosity of our soldiers, fled as fast as
they toted, leaving behind a great number of men, who
were killed or made prisonen. The French pursued them
to the walls of the town. All the forts immediately
opened fire to protect their retreat, but the French, per-
fectly sheltered by the irregularities of the ground, were
not touched. At about one o'clock in the same night the
second sortie was made. Strong detachments of Russian
infantry attempted to dislodge the French from the posi-
tions in which they were in ambuscade. On their approach,
the latter, retiring in the greatest silence, dispersed amongst
the ruins not far from their ambuscade. The Russians ad-
vanced, and not finding our *Didion, believed that they had
returned to their camp, but all at once the French opened
on them a murderous fire of musketry. The enemy, so
cruelly surprised, wee obliged to beat • retreat, and to re-
tire to the town in the most complete disorder. It was a
veritable sows pit peat. All the batteries of the place
then fired on the French, and with such vigour that the
h seeined on fire, and the earth shook. In these
attacks the French had not more than 60 men hors do
combat; the lose of the Russians mast have been
800 at least. Our troops have placed the cannon which
they have just received in their third parallel, and
they are ready to open fire with 100 guns, amongst which
are a good many mortar' of a large calibre. We ars now
waiting until the English are ready. The state of the roads
has delayed them. The French took their precautions be-
fore the arrival of the bad weather, and constructed • good
military road from Kberson to their camp. By means of
it they have been able to obtain emit tuition and provisions
at any hear. The English, unfortunately, had less fore-
sight ; bat their allies went to their aid, and laboured day
startled to construct a magnificent road from Baskin& to
the amp. They besides lent them their horses and
male, to convey the English artillery. It is a fact admitted
by all English officers, that whilst their horses are in a
pitiable state, these of the French are in the beet condition.
Oar allies emu* understand how it is that our men and
horses have been so well. Before the end of the
week the will have 80 gnus in position ; and
they have to establish • second parallel. The
two batteries whisk love been eocitteueled at Inkermann
are admirably phisedi and it is intended to construct two
redoubts beMni than, a little higher up the bill. These
batteries will le maul with 4 10-frek aceutirs and 12 guns
of 32. This pukka will be held by the French, and the
two redoubts will be confided te the English, who will
have 4 8-inalt mortars, 10 gams of 32, sad some piens, of a
long range. All this artillery will be placed la such a way
ss to fire on all the parts of the town, mars especially the
forts. Indeed, it is principally against the Ran vessels
that the lire will be divested. It is enpected that these new
works will be very Forinastely, fine weather
has returned • it I. now sad steam hot. The French
have lent their ashy/mg waggon W convey the English
sick to Balaklava. The Ti<igWl frequently visit the port of
Kaniesh, which, as yea know, is the French port. They
are utonishad to find it so well arranged, and all things in
It so admirably organised. The French sailors have con-
structed three quays on it—one for the cavalry, anther for
the infantry, and the third for ammunition and storm

according to
dent etiquette . / place, more
especially as Napoleon hal received the
Sultan's 'flit at the French palace. The prince's
two other aides-de-amp, Lord Pullet and Captain
Clifton, remain for the present at the hotel.
A new and important postal regulation has been
accomplished, whereby we shall have in future eight
arrivals from France and eight departures every
month. This will almost render superfluous the
Austrian mail, more particularly as the French will
start twice a week on the same days with it,
The cholera is again happily on the decline, and
from the 29th ult. to the 13th inst. the total amount
of deaths was only 22, according to the report sent in
at the last sitting of the Council of Health.

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high offices of state thuswho man. : • •_•.. • • •replooed by i nate", cordon.
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slitting a number of such men to Cabinet offices the The following Russian news from the Crimea, Atm few dAys with his aidc.de.camp, map, .
the Pique also—destination Honolulu—Doily News. , , inter aka, an account of the two tootles boa Elovernment would be brought into 'mom bums. ennlopri Sell, at ear embassy. This arranpment it
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