The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN ENLISTMENL

POSEN, Disc. 28.
The Governor of the province of Posen has this
day issued the following notification :
" The criminal code of Prussia prescribes that
whoever enlists a Prussian into the military service
of foreign state., or introduces him to their recruiting
agents, likewise whoever intentionally seduces a
Prussian soldier to desert or knowingly assists his
desertion, will be punished with from three months'
to three years' imprisonment. Any attempt at the
above will be visited with a similar punishment. As
offioes are now about to be opened in the Netherlands
and free towns, for the purpose of enlisting men
into foreign service, I take this opportunity of bring-
ing the above penal law to mind, and call upon all
the police authorities of the province immediately to
arrest any recruiting agent, and hand him over to
the state prosecutor, to take from him his papers,
and, if he is a foreigner, to take measures for his
being sent over the frontier after undergoing his
punishment. I require to be informed of each sepa-
rate instance."

MAN THZ CORIZSPONDIXT OP THII DATLT
BRUSSELS, SUNDAY.
The question of the enrolment of foreign troops for
the English service is exciting much attention in
Belgium, and also—as I had an opportunity of ascer-
taining during a recent excursion—in Holland. In
both countries, but particularly in this, there are
many retired sub-officers desirous of entering the
above service. Numerous young officers, too, in the
Belgian army are also willing to quit it for the Eng-
lish one, provided they have the guarantee that at
the end of the war they will be received back into
the former with the grade they have &gained in the
latter. There is, however, no little difficulty in the
way of suck a guarantee, particularly as Belgium is,
by virtue of existing treaties, a neutral country. An
experienced officer whom I have consulted on the
subject suggests that the English government should
undertake to allow foreign officers the fall pay of the
rank they may reach in the British service until they
attain a corresponding position in their own
native country. He thinks it would be no very difficult
matter to effect between the English and Belgian
governments a tacit arrangement allowing Bel-
gian officers on their return home to re-enter
the Belgian army with the grade they may have
won in the English one. No hopes whatever of a
pacific solution are entertained in well-informed
circles in the capital, and it has transpired that
Prints Gortchakuff on hearing, at the recent diplo-
matio conference in Vienna, the demands of the three
other parties present, declared that ho was without
instructions with reference to those demands, and
that he must refer to his government. The confer-
ence then broke up without any result.

The Swiss papers speck of an interview having
been held between our representative in Switzerland
and the president of the confederation, the object of
which was understood to be the desire of our govern-
ment openly to enlist men in Switzerland for the
purposes of the war with Russia. Several Swiss
officers of rank were spoken of as willing to raise
auxiliary troops for England.

LETTER FRQM THE CRIMEA.

PROM GEORGE HUDSON, ♦ PRIVATE IN ERB e♦PPI

♦ND MINERS.

Heights of Sebastopol, Nov. 25, 1854.
My dear Brother,—l received your kind letter, or rather
mother's, dated August last, but upon my word I have not
had time to answer it before. I will now try te give you
some account of my last four months' experience of my
campaigning life. We left Varna in a ship calbd the Rip
Van Winkle, and sailed to the coast of the Crimes, where
we landed on the 18th of September; but there was no
enemy in sight. We began our march on the nth, and on
the 20th (a day that I shall remember the longest day of my
Ilk) we game insight of the enemy, crowning the heights of
About 1 o'clock in the day the battle began. I
osommly describe to you the state of my mind when the
firing commenced : our captains led us to the right of the
English army, bringing us on the left of the French army.
Over the river we went, the grape and the canister shot
sending the mud and water all over us, and yet there was
not one pf our comneny killed: in fact, we were so :small
in number: out of 100 men who left Gibraltrr, 76 were all
that were left, 24 having died. We had one lieutenant very
dangerously wounded, but he is getting better. When we
got to the top of the hill I could see the Busiest in fell re-
treat, and our troops chasing them. About bur o'clock the
bugles sounded the reesll,when we came back to the heights,
and began to pick up the wounded. I sew there above
fear thousand bleeding, grossing, and silent men. That
was a scene ! And from that lot I was spared. I bound
up some of their wounds ; to some I gave a light to smoke,
to some I gave water, some I raised for ease, and some I
lowered. Some requited my kindness by giving me money,
tobacco, and whisky. spent that night as usual, sleeping
in my blanket and great coat. We stopped three days,
and then marched on to Sebastopol, where, on the 17th of
last month, we opened fire upon them: it was like the
very thunder of Heaven, end we have been battering away
at it ever since. On the sth of this mouth the enemy
ems upon In early in the morning, and an awful fight eon-
memeed, which lasted till night; the Russians lost thousands
K men, and so did we ; they came into our camp, and I
Ibmight it was a case with us, but the brave French came
op and saved as. Our poor fellows are looking very nedg;
[ me have not got things to wear, such as shirts and atosidoge,
flat the place is ready to take by storm, and in a few mom
days we shall have plenty of everything. Dear brother, I
bops you and your wife are well and in god health, as,
thank God, I never was in better health. Give my kind
love to my sister and her husband and the children, not for-
getting your little daughter. And poor father and mother,
I shall seed them 10s. to buy them their Christmas dinner,
thouih I am not over-burdened with money, for everything
berets very dear. Oar duties are severe ; we are 16 or 18
hours out of every 24 in the trenches. Ton would smile if
you could hut see me marching to the trenches, at the head
perhaps of 100 or 200 Turks; my legs bound up with sheep
skint, and beard and moustache one foot long.