The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

'THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE TO THE ARMY,
OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF IN-
REBMANN.

The following general order has been hoed by
Yield-Manbal Lard &sea* :

1. Dead-Qaareen before 84bastopol, D,e. 24, 1864.

" The Commander albs Fortes ha the greases t sties
basin is publishiag to the army td despatches fres the
Killion of War, the ose expreseing the Qiiees's *Wire sp.
probetios of the conduct of the troops at the battle of !s-
-hamans, t►e other Mgallying her Majesty's graciess Lir
Intim of ..stewing a medal apes all the °Seers aad sol-
dier, of the army who have bees engird is tie arduous
sad hrilliut campaign is the Crimes.
" The Commander of the Force, congratulates the .ray
sa nit slag se distinguished a mark of her Majesty's favour
sad high appreciation of their sanest exertions ; and he
deems it his ditty at the same time to draw the parasitise.
Mention of all to the following passage in the Duke of
Newcastle's despatch of Us. 27th lastest : Let set say
Firsts soldier in the ranks believe that his condom is un-
heeded—a. Chess thanks hint—hie *natty bosoms
Ws."'

" War Department, NOT. 27, 1864.
"My Lcrd,—l received on the 22nd instant your Lord-
ship's despatch of the Bth of this month, communicating
the istelligence of the glorious battle of the 6th, in which
a &unrifled attack by vastly superior numbers of the
wow, was completely repulsed by the unfaltering steadi-
ness sad gallantry of the Allied Armies.
immediately laid before the queen the details of this
important victory, and it is now my grateful duty to express
to your Lordship her Majesty's high appreciation of the
noble ezertiems of her troops in a conflict which is aunt-
pared in the smash of war for persevering valour and chi-
valrous devotion. The strength and fury of the attacks,
repeatedly renewed by fresh columns wi h a desperation
which appeared to be kresietible, were spent in vain against
the nabrokea lines and the matchless intrepidity of the
moo they bad to eaceunter. Such attacks scald only be
'erased by *Maid peerage under circumstances the meet
adverse, and that sonlideuce of victory which have ever ant-
seated the British *nay...

The beaks of the Alma proved that no advantages of
psnitioa eau withataad the impetuous assault of the army
under your command. The heights of laketmenn have now
shows that the demo columns of an entire army are unable
to form the rants of lees than one-fourth their numben i•
the band-to-band encounters with the boyonet which ohs-
reeterieed thus bloody day.

Her Naivety has observed with the liveliest feelings Wf
patilicatioa the manner ia which the troops of he*,
the Emperor of the French, aunt to the aid of a.
siege of the British army engaged in this name**
wigs' 'outset. The Paseo is deeply sensible of don an.
dial cooperation of the French Contatamise-Imalad
Gana Canrobtrt, end the gallant winded et Om Moir
gaited otter, General Bouquet, and him WO. mg,
Mese la the sheers with whisk the mos of bah maim
emearaged each other in their united dog% pub aft
odium and admiration mutually amemahemil bg As saw
plies, sod the toads of heroism it by piallamml.
.• The gneen desire" that your 'orchid, will reedy*
her thanks for your conduct throughout this noble mai
suceenful struggle, and that you will take measures fm
satin known her no ler warm approval of the aweless
of all the °Score, ampeceunissioned (than, and moldiest,
. . . _

who have so glosioosly won by their blood, freely shod.
fresh honours for the array of a oiniatry which sympathises
as deeply with their privations and exertions as its glories
is their victories and exults in their fame. Let not any
private moldier in those mks believe that his conduit is
sabeeded. The Queen thanks him, his country honours
kin.

" Her Majesty will anxiously expect the fortherdeopetch
is which yosr lordship proposes to nuns those °Moen
whose services have bun especially worthy notice. In the
Illesatisio, I us oommanded by her Malmsey to signify her
approbation of the &desirable behaviour of Lieut.-General
Sir George Brown, and her regret that he has been
wounded in the seam. Her Majesty has received with
feelings of no ordinary pleasure your lordship's report of
the lIIIMIDST in which Lieutenant 0 1 his Royal High
uses the Duke of Cambridge distinguished himself. That
one of tb• ahonld ha
associated with the toils and glories of inch an army, is to
the Queen a source of greet pride and congratulation.
" To Major Battinck, Major.Grneral Codrington,* Bri-
gadier ls Adams, Torres, and Buller, your lord.
ship will be pleased to convey the Queen's sympathy in
their wounds, and thanks for their services.

" Ito the other officers panted by 7onr lordship, I as
directed t, express her M•jsty's approbation. The gallant
eciadeet of Lieutenant-General Sir Di Lacy Evans has

attracted the Queen's especial thanks. Weak from a bed
el siekneu, ho rose at the wand of the battle—not to claim
his sitars in prominent command, but to aid with his veteran
soamel and assistance the junior officer upon whom, is his
absence, had devolved the duty of leading his division.
" Proud of the victory won by her brave army—grateful
to those who wear the laurels of this peat conflict—the
Queen is painfully aff etad by the heavy It,. which has'
been incurred, and deeply sensi►le of what is owing to the
died. Those illustrious men cannot indeed, receive the
thanks of their sovereigns which have so often cheesed the
mldier in his severest trials, but their blood has not been
shed in vain. Laid low in their grave of victory. their
mates will De cherished for ever by a grateful country, aid
posterity will look upon the lit of officers who have fallen
u a proof of the ardent courage and seal with which they
pointed out the path of honour to uo less wiling followers.

" The loss of Lieutenant- General the Honourable Sir
▪ George Cathcart is to the Queen and to her people a cease
sorrow which even dims the triumph of this great Dew
t.Me. His loyalty, his patriotism, and self devotion were
a amt less .0044c:sons them his high military reputation. One
of a family of warriors, ha wu an honour to them and an
ir enument to his profession. Arrived in his native land
he colony to which he hail succeeded in restoriog peace
r toatentmeat, he obeyed at a moment's notice the call
a *duty, sad hastened to join that army in which the Queen
• and the country fondly hoped he would have lived to win
I" Wowed renown.
"The death of Brigadier G Stran‘ways and Bri-
vr Wier-General °Adis!, has added to the sorrow which min-
e* is the rejoiciog of this memorable battle.
mt "re. Queen sympathises in the loss sustained by the
le fogies of her officers and soldiers, bat her Majesty bids
• them reflect with her, and derive oonsolatioa from the
is 'Might that they fell in the sacred cense of justices and in
id Ike inks ea nobl. army. I have the beacur to be, my
at rd, you lordship's obedient hatable servant,
"Yield Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.R.,

to , 4te:"

NZWCASTLI,

"My Lard.—l have resolved the Quota's osounands $
'ilsifr to your lordship her Majesty's gracious intention to
water a medal apes all the °Mom and soldten of the essay
eke heroines engaged to the arduous and brilliant cant-
Ars is the Crises.
" medal will hoar ea it the word ' Crimea,' with sa
IPPopiate desists—a design for which has been ordered to
W
"It is also bur Majesty's desire that sleeps with the
wow of ' Also' sod' Lawmen* ' inscribed Ipso this,
M weeded to these who have hem ia either or both
tithe's har‘fenght battles, sad that the sane sum, shall
It ham be home es the eoleure of all the mimeses which
ilwithPged es these bloody sad gloriosa days.
"Tess beedeldp will be pleased be swavey to the army
We ford emousatid—es additional 'reef of her Majesty's
19Peeistie• of In mettle sorriest, sad her sYmPattil with
**awe sod resown.
"I bees the beam to be, my lard, your lordship's
*heat losable servaat, " Nnwouril.n.
"Iteld./larshal the Lord Raglan. a•C•a-•
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4e., 4a., Ite.
" By ordmr,
(Sited) "J.B. B. Erreovas, Adj.-Ges."

•
"UsJor-Gruerel Codriagtoo te erroneously stated to,
400 Mem wourted."

GENERAL ORDERS.
Head Quarters, before SebastoTai
December 20,1854.
1. The Commander of the Forces has such
*ewe in publishing, for the information of the Mears of
6.11117, the following letter from the Ileeretarred-Wer:

War-olise, Nev. 29, 1864.
4.ld,—Her Majesty's governoeut having deemed it
weals that every °Morro' well es soldier, should reedy'
LlOdskof Wow cluthieg at the pnbUe IMPlllieep I havith•
roil* newt that your lordship will be plowed to Imo
"al? Ant la the army under your exwassii a limp-
" 1111 a fir MN two pain of flannel dawns two posts

of wafts soda, tire oodles Jong's, sod two pews of
gismo. Y afteired by thew.
iM =sit oil lbw artieloe have bees .Teddy shipped from
fhb lithhiv7. MA
eady the resaieder will b.! forwarded es wee
as they ere r
I here the homer to he, aiy lord,
Year lordehip's meet Weediest humble *mot,
SIDMR? 111,11111 LT.
![old-Ilershel Lord aciesa, &e.,

The following letter from this Witte, flemeta
1 Vmoseut Hardier, General Comandiag-ixeChlef, is is
published for the iatom; ns
sattou of the troops:
Horse Gaud., Nov. 24, 1P64.
My Loed,—l have received the direction. of the General
in-Chief, to aequaint your lard.hip, that her
Majesty bin lamed Mapprore of the addilins of three
espenatineseny and three supernumerary
swaline, le nub of the eminent* of the line serving with
the enny unillow year leenthip's essueand.
1 lain lbe healer he be, my lord,
Your lerehhieee unintitbediest humble tempt.
C. Yoe's.
Vield•llareltal the Lent Rains, G.C.8., dte.

In masoquass of the input reprelentstions made by
some piths medial efilerre that mete of the prevailing
disease moos the British Steeps was attributable, not
merely to the seatieued UM of salt rations and absence of
',pubis diet, but also to she imperfect maneer in which
the toed was cooked. Lord Reglea has rimmed an inquiry
to be instituted on the subject. The &Bowleg is the petrel
order relative to this important matter.

axis Kam. ORDIIIII.
Head Quarters. bears Sebastopol, Dee. 20, 1854.
The Commander of the Forces vetoers that the puerals
of divisioas will be so good as to ascertain, and report, hew
the mooing of sash of the regiments under their orders is
carried on.
It is In the highest degree desirable that the system of
messing established by her Majesty's regulations should be
d to, where the reeimeata are is pateastiaa of sump
kettles • and the Cocam•adsr tithe Fame dash, that, as
required by the malaria's, as tem should the
MUM, and see that the provisicos In properly

(71110 Y TIM OFICIAL COItIYAPONDINT Or VIZ DAILY
YAWS

DAMP OF THE LIGHT DIVISION BEFORE
SEBASTOPOL Dn. 21.

We see from the papers that everybody at home
is anxiously looking out for Crimean news, and I
can assure you it is no small satisfaction to the arm
to find that we are in a fair way of keeping pace with
our rivals—the Russian prisosers at Lewes—and that
a few more reverses and tremendous natural phe-
nomena are likely to make us winners in the race.
As our rifles, that came in from duty in the morning,
sally forth alter gun-fire to resume their solitary and
perilous watches round the batteries that fire against
Sebastopol, they vow that they will be even with the
fellows yet, and that • free Briton is better by a long
chalk than a = captive Russian. -
Seriously speaking, our present condition and
future prospects are evidently a theme of extreme in-
terest to folks at home. The gravest misgivings are
entertained as to our safety and final success. No
one here wonders at that : here, too, we have had
misgivings and doubts. The brave were tempted into
expressions of despondency, and the prudent have
given manifest proofs of their discretion, by ostenta-
tiously parading all the symptoms of a mortal funk.
But these petty ebuliiiioos of temper are past now,
and the army—at !seat all the old troops--are
settling down into a sort of tranquil incl.
ettf
which is not carelessness, though it looks akin to it.
It is the equanimity of men who have borne a good
deal, and who know that • good deal more of hard-
ships, labour, and danger is in store for them. Pri-
vations are certainly not welsonse, nor does anyone
court them; but, when unavoidable, they are treated
as old and disagreeable acquaintance*, without sato-
nishment, and with the smallest possible amount of
anger. Things have been nearly as bad ; to-morrow
they may be worse. There is a good deal to be
lived through, which must be borne somehow, and
it's no use crying. We are in for it, and must go
through it. It isn't pleasant, but that can't be
helped. Bulgaria was not pleasant, nor was Alma,
nor the camping out, nor the starvation in the march
from the Hatch*. All these phases in our military
career were sufficiently disagreeable to justify the
strongest expressions, a choice selection of which
us in vogue in the camp. But thougfi many a
one has gone to the rear, and
part of the army has lived through it all, and
may live to see worse and do greater things.
The new comers, who fancy that in stirring
scenes like these we witness, every man's pules
must beat double quick time, and that a sol-
dier's breath is agitation, and enthusiasm the prog he
chiefly feeds on, are vastly astonished to find that
none of us show much either of hope or fear. Cap-
tain Frothy, who has long been a great man in a
small garrison in Nova Scotia, and who came out
' with an extra new outfit, which would have done
admirably for Cbobham Camp, is altogether at a loss
to understand how any number of men—of gentle-
men, he will say—can goon from day today exposing
their lives to the enemy's shot and shell, without
'rushing in and doing something out of the way—
something that people will talk of—something that
will astonish the Russians, and make friends at
home say : "Go it, my lads! That's the way to
sAtle the business!" And young Blades, late of the
Mint, and great at the theatres and dancing saloons,
but now of the Commissariat, swears—by Jove!
there is no saying how awfully-he has been "let into
it" when he volunteered to go out to Turkey. For
young Blades, as smart and hard a lad as ever trod
the Walwertg-road, came out with the profound
conviction that to lie on a divan, smoke chibouks,
drink a sort of pale ale which the Turks call sher-
bet, and watch the bewitching movements of • select
company of dancing girls, would be the sum and
substance of his official duties in the East. How
any number of chibooks he might smoke, or any
number of hours he might watch the dancing girls,
would affect the public service or promote the well-
being and victualling of the troops, he did not
know, and, what is more, he did not mare t hut he
came out with great joy, and—" Oh, my eye! wasn't
he let into it l—thats all !" For, instead of reclin-
ing on a divan, our friend Blades has to ride a head-
etrong, ill-begotten brute of a shaggy pony ; and
instead of superintending dancing girls he ties to
look after a peck of halt-starved mules; the only
money he spends is the coin he has to pay to a parcel
of lazy, beggarly Turks, attached to the transport
service. Oh ! and if this isn't a sell, young Blades
knows not what a sell is, and all he wonders at is
how you fellows can stand it, and why don't you all
strike and go home? Then there is Major Spades,
an old campaigner from Bath, who would come out
though everybody advised him not to do so, and who
walks about big with indignis ion because Sebastopol
still holds out, although he, Major Spades, has been
inspecting the batteries, and because he was down in
Bslaklave, and, by —A the commandant refused to
find him quarters ! Major Spades has seen a good deal
of rough work in the discharge of his arduous duties
as a gentleman at large, and more than one has been
the wetting he got when shooting, bunting, or
fishing. But then he had his dressing room, and
change of clothes, and bath, and a dinner smoking
for him on some titled man's table, and a fire burning
brightly behind a finder, polished expressly for the
touch of his (Major Spades's) patent leather boots.
But this sort of work is what no gentleman can and
ought to endure ; no cleanliness, no food fit for a
gentleman's stomach, and nothing going on; no
honour, no glory, no Waterloo ; nothing but that
eternal banging of guns and whizzing of shot, week-
days and Sundays; no exception made. And d—
me, air, do you pretend to tell me that this is the sort
of life a Christian man should lead? And Major
Spades is taken sick forthwith, and goes down to
Scutari, and home to play at ecarte at Bath, becalm
the camp is so dirty, and because Lord Raglan did
not ask him to dinner, and because the scandalous
desecration of the Sabbath is shocking to all gentle-
manly and Christian feelings.
These are exceptions; tor, as I said before, pro-
found indifference is the order of the day; and with
that indifference a touch of dryness of manner and a
preoccupation which savours of reflections that per-
haps are not overplessant, and of regrets which Jew
would care to conceal, while some volunteer to ex-
press them. Small talk has become traditional, and
attempts to raise laughter are signalised by an utter
failure. Even the wretchedness of the joke that
there ought to be plenty of women in the camp, for
each night the Russians oome out with a fresh
" Sally,' could only produce a spasmodic smile.
Everyone for once emcees the rough diction
of the camp everyone thinks he has a suf-
ficient excuse for looking sulky, because there
is little to laugh at. Swearing is much in
vague, but they are thoroughly mistaken who believe
it originates in quickness of feeling. It is • sort of
moral cough—an attempt to throw off psychical
phlegm, produced by a low condition of the system
generally—kettle-drums and cymbals to mask the
monotony of "We're all &nodding." For that very
reason oaths as not only void of meaning and
malice prepense, but they are also unconscious, unpre.
meditated, spontaneous. Cornet the Honourable St.
James Prettyman, who but eight months ago was all
smiles and whispers, and silk velvet, and kid gloves,
got into a cursed mem in comieg up from Bala-
klava. By o—, air, I was riding with the parson
the whole of the way; and I was in a devil of a funk
because that blasted horse of mine would stumble,
and I could not keep myself from swear-
ing. I'll be d—d if I meant any harm;
but Pm sure I hurt his feelings consider-
ably! It's • blasted nasty habit, and I'll be
d—d if I don't give it up! Just fancy what would
they say at home if a fellow were to some out —at
table, for instance—with • d—d big oath?" Aod
Captain Green, who is rather of a serious turn of
mind, Vows the war shall not make him a Pagan
outright, and " he'll be d—d if he don't manage to
get rid of that confounded picket, and attend to
divine service next Sudsy I" _

Them are some of our inconsistencies. Feelings
and thoughts of home are as strong as ever, but
an outer crust of steamy, uncouth, outlandish
manners, savouring of the ill-temper of an ill-
spent campaign, and the litter of a most Inc.
gots: and filthy camp, his crept over them.
Existence in the mire is not calculated to improie
habits, language, and manners. Bat somehow or other
the army will get over this first rough ness,and when war
deals more fairly with ns ; when we shall have more