The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-12 00:00:00

proper °peados for speaking of General Ceorobert
and Lord Ilaglao, as history will spank of
Their part in this great scene has been worthy of the
two countries of which they wield the swords. placed
fan to tan with immense obstacles, they have esti-
mated them orgy to triumph over them by their catnip,
programme, cad devotedness. The army, sustained
by their example, has borne all without ootoplaining
exposed to all the rigours of a terrible winter, having,
to preserve them from the cold, the snow, the tor-
rents of raio,nothiog but pits, and small tenter. abri ; it
has refused no sacrifice for the honour of the flag and
the country, or to gain the confidence of the chiefs
whom it had learned on the field of battle to love and
honour. • • • • •

We have explained the military conduct of the
allied governments sine the commencement of the
Eastern expedition. With the same precision and
impartiality we shall treat of the negotiation■, their
various phases, their reasons, and their aims.

THE TURKISH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

Omit Tits orscui
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EUPATOBIA, )(mica 24.

DAILY

I omitted in my last letter to mention the arrival
of Dr. Farquhar, one of the chiefs of a medical staff
of twenty English surgeons seat oat and paid by the
government, for the purpose of organising the hospi-
tals and medical service of Omer Pacha's army.
Omer Puha has hailed their arrival, as well he may,
with delight ; for anything more deplorable than the
state of his sick and wounded hitherto can hardly be
imagined. - - _ _

Fighting with the best army in the world at your I
back—with Nightingales, books, bales of lint, the ,
tenderest care, the most consummate skill awaiting
' you in case of accident—with thousands of prayers
' and blessings hovering over your head, with millions
of approving eyes fixed upon you—led on by men ,
who never order what they dare not execute them-
wives, is terrible work enough ; but fighting as the ,
Turkish soldiers have been fighting since the firing of
the first shot at Oltenitza down to the present Eno- ,
must—without doctors, without hospitals, without ,
officers, with bad pay and hard work, without " a ,
public," without hope of promotion or distinction,
followed by a thousand diseases whisk for every one
struck down on the battlefield strike down their
thousands by slower and more awful tortures—is,
believe me, more terrible still. And with all this
before our eyes, I cannot help thinking that those
who have encouraged or permitted the buffeting, abus-
log, and calumniating of these men, have been guilty
not only of the most absurd injustice, but
of outrages that would reflect disgrace on barbs-
riane, and are doubly criminal when perpetrated by
people boasting themselves to be the apostles of
liberty and civilisation.
Typhus and dysentery have already set in here.
The majority of the sick have hitherto been sent to
Varna, from which I not persuaded they will never
return. I am afraid that as long as the troops are gear-
tered in the town disease will increase; but happily
the outer line of fortification is now so near comple-
tion that the majority will in a few days be enabled
to encamp oatside. Eupatoria will then certainly be
one of the strongest positions of the kind in Europe.
In addition to the works immediately surrounding
the town, at the distance of 1,600 yards there
is a circle of formidable redoubts, armed
with an immense park of artillery, and
sweeping the plain in every direction in
a way that renders the fall of the plata, except by a
regular siege, all but impassible. They have been
fenced by Colonel Simmons, and executed under his
superintendence, and are admirable in every respect.
March 26.—The weather is magnificent. The dis-
embarkation of the cavalry still continues. Amongst
the numerous accounts of the affair of the 17th Feb.,
I see one in lialignanis .Musesiger of the 10th in,t.,
in the shape of an extract from a letter from
Eapatoria, which, as it contains a statement
which considerably diminishes the credit attaching
to the conduct of the Turks, is worth notice, notwith-
standing the oldness of the date. The writer says
the Russians advanced to the edge of the ditch, which
was very deep and fall of water, with planks and
cords, fur the purpose of bridging it over, but found
on reaching it that the planks were too short, and
consequently had to fall back, dfc. This is all pure
invention. On the right, where the assault was
attempted, there was no ditch, no parapet, nor fortifi-
cation of any kind, beyond an old wall of the
courtyards of the houses, from behind which
the Turks broke, and threw the column
into disorder by file-firing, before a single
man had come nearer than twenty or thirty
yards. There is not, and was, any water in
the ditch at any one place. On the day of the fight
the lies of fortification was completed only half way
round the town, and the Russians, of course, chase the
weakest point.

FRANCE.

iPONDINT OF TEI DAILY SOWS)
PARIS, WIDNUDAY EVINING.

The rumour at the Bourse that an important '
manifesto would appear in to-day's Moniteur turns
out to have been correct, bat as the six columns de-
voted to the " Eastern expedition " are but the first
pert of an article, to be completed in to-mor-
row's (or some subsequent) number, it remains
to be seen whether the Boares was right
Is anticipating that Government was dent
to proclaim its adhesion to the proposition that the
solid peace aimed at by the Allies need not involve
the taking or destruction of Sebastopol. The artiste
—eagerly read by everybody—is variously inter-
preted. Some think that if explanations are given
about the conduct of the Crimean campaign, it
is a proof that the war is substantially over, and
that the government is preparing public opinion to
receive the news of a retreat. My own opinion is,
on the contrary, that the public avowal of the caner
to which the Emperor scribes the comparative
failure of the expedition hitherto isbut the preface to
the announcement that a new campaign is &boat to
be entered upon under the personal gWdasse of the
man whose counsels were unfortunately not fol.
lowed"—namely, the Emperor himself. The private
instructions of the Emperor to Marshal St. Armed
will be read with intense interest. By their
publication in the official journal, has Im-
perial Majesty, for the first time, preelaims
to the world—what has hitherto bees only
conjectured from certain significant eyispisms con-
amatory of unauthorised statements—dist be feels
competent to assume the responsibility of
command, and that although until be was
of Francis he never held high rank in any army, est
sever" eat a squadron in the field" in earnest, be
bee soslidsaes enough in his own genius not to Ada
from ordering the most eminent and experiesseil
that the French army can produce to Mb.
Curaleistrestioes in the conduct of a warlike opeandse,
described by the Morniser as an enterprise the Il
eelty whisk is unexampled in the history of meant
nations.
At the Bourse the article in the llositew was

elmoet the eieinTrivioiubjeot of eoweenatioe. At first
the view favourable to a peeinfal hdirpeetatioa was
ia the emeadast, bat, se dlessmiaw went on, simu-
lators bss =oh Is essidleat. The Rents ulti-
mately WI Wia, amiss et M. 750. The railways
were all lower.

TEE BALTIC FLEET.

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21.81NOILE, Aran. 5.
The live ships of the flying squadron whisk arrived
here on Bentley were obliged to pet to sea again es
myosin dthe Ise-fields which threateeed toserrosed
them. Sams at them lost their anthem and cables,
end mos gat aground on the shoals ailed Ribero,.
when she remabdd for a couple of beers, but got off
without damage. They lave goes over to the
Swedish side of the Boned, and will sash shelter, if
predicable, in the barboar et landsmen&
Monate from Stockholm of March 90 date that
the weather bad at leegth changed, and a dead thaw
set in, by whisk the snow was Mumpser and the
ice getting very rotten. The thermometer stood at
S deg. Reasoner (SO deg. Forenheit).