The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-05 00:00:00

GENERAL CANROBERT.

A respectful tribute to this gallant soldier is paid
by the special correspondent whose letter from the
camp above Sebastopol we publish to-day. Another
of our special correspondents in the allied camp
apelike of the general in still warmer terms ;
"If General Canrobert does indeed return to
France, hie departure will cause much regret, and
quite as much in our own army as among the forces
under hie command. It is true his career in the
Crimea has, to a certain extent, damaged the cha-
racter he had established in his African campaigns.
It was expected he would be a fire-eater.' Our
personal experience of him makes him fellow consul
to Fabius Cunctator. It is impossible to penetrate—
it were impertinent even to guess at—the sacred
mysteries of the councils of war. Who ruled, and
who submitted to the course which has been pur-
sued, is a matter for future history, and time will
furnish the materials for the judgment which now it
would be rash to pronounce; but those who have
watched General Canrobert during the anxious
months of our Crimean trials will always think of
him with feelings of gratitude and admiration. We
can never forget the time when his eye and his
hand were on all points of our amp; when he and
his cortege of general officers by their daily rides
almost traced out the lines which it behoved us to
occupy; when his superior soldiership supplied him
with resources for our assistance, which all the wealth
et Great Britain could not supply for us at the time ;
when hie transport took down our sick, and his men
took up our shot ; when his regiments turned out to
fake the very roads that connected our lines with our
depot, and when all eyes in the camp were turned to
the French commander, not as our general, but as
ear preserver. These are matters which none but
the bus and ungrateful can ever forget, and even
their oblivion is a pretence."
In justice to a brave soldier and good man, we pub-
lish these expressions of what Englishmen who have
seen him in the field, acting along with our troops,
think of him. Our Paris correspondent has trans-
mitted to as an abstract of a private letter, relating
what is believed by well-informed officers of high
rank in the French army respecting the circum-
stances under which General Canrobert tendered his
resignation of the chief command in the Crimea :
I " am permitted to make use of a private letter
from an officer of rank which has been shown to me,
and which explains from the best source the imme-
diate came which led to the resignation of General
Oaarebset, as they are reported by his intimate
Mends. Long before that event General Canrobert
had strongly felt the necessity for a new plan of
vigorous action, and had continually . his
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opinion to that effect to Lord Raglan. In ins view,
considerations of strategy, as welt as considerations
relating to the health and morale of the troops,
made it impossible that bis army could remain long
in the lines before Sebastopol, slowly carrying on a
siege, without the most riisestrous consequences. There
two principal yihemea for tetra. One,
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Iceived by General Canrobert himself, was to march
from south to north—to reverse, in fact, the turning
march performed after the battle of Alma. General
Canrobeit saw difficulties in the way of the Em-
peror's proposal, but he made great and unsuccessful
efforts to induce Lord Raglan to concur in his own.
Two councils of war were held in quick succession, at
the second of which Omer Pacha was present. At
this second council Lord Raglan with difficulty was
brought to consent to the proposition, but the next
day he sent word to General Canrobert that he could
not spare a man from the trenches. Canrobert was
so disheartened at this that he sent off at once the
telegraphic despatch requesting to be superseded
which appeared in the Moniteur. The letter de-
, scribes Lord Raglan as endowed with the vie inertia
to such an extent as to leave little room for any
I other quality. He remembers the siege of Badajoz.
He finds that he makes progress, although bus
slowly, and with bull-dog tenacity he is resolved, come
what may, to stick by his trenches. General Pelissier,
it is said, at once came to au understanding with him,
and combined a scheme for a more extended action
on the part of the French army with the concession
to Lord Raglan that the bulk of the English troops
should remain in their present positions. It is in-
tended to take or destroy the southern part of
Sebastopol by instalments. The Nlamelon Vert was
likely to be the first place stormed, and it was cal-
culated that it might be taken with a loss of 2,000
men. The movement of the French forces upon the
Tchernaya is represented in this letter as a necessity
occasioned by the impossibility of finding room in
the old positions for the reinforcements which had
lately arrived. The above narrative is open to the
exception that it may possibly, I do not say that it is,
be tainted with partiality for General Canrobert, but
I give it as an undoubted private military report of
great authority."

(FROM THE

TURKEY.

/ENT OF Till DAILY NEWS.)

CONSTANTINOFLE, MAY 24.
Reschid Pacha is living in retirement at his splendid
palace, the late acquisition at Emirghian, on the Bos-
phorus,and hisVieana mission, it appears, is adjourned
sine die. Mehemet Ali Pacha also, since his return
from exile, has been living in strict seclusion, and
never once appeared in public. It is, however, sur-
mised that both these functionaries will again be re-
called to power, and ere long included—doubtless for
harmony sake—in some new ministerial combina-
tion. Mnetapha Pacha, so well and so honourably
known to fame during his thirty years' paternal
administration of the island of Candle, is still
also without office, and has been so ever since
his dismissal from the high functions of Grand
Vizier. lie is held in the highest estimation by all
classes, as a man of honour and integrity, and pos-
sessing besides much practical knowledge and expe-
rience in all the details of state administration. His
son Vely Pacha, ex-ambassador at the French court,
arrived here lately, and is destined to succeed his ex-
cellent father in the governorship of Cindia, the

native isle where their memory is revered and graven
on the hearts of the whole population. The French
Charge d'Affaires, M. Benedetti, had been appointed
by a late decision of his sovereign minister at the
court of Persia ; but counter-orders have since then
recalled him to the French capital, and he wilt
start immediately on the arrival of M. Thouvenel,
the new ambassador. Mehemet Bey, Reschid Pacha's
son, destined to the post of ambassador at the Tuile-
ries, has not as yet left Constantinople, and waits, it is
said, the arrival of the French Emperor, of which the
Turkish government has not still abandoned all

hopes.
The health of the capital and environs is excellent,
and only 13 cases of cholera during the week were
reported yesterday at the lest sitting of the council of
health.

The weather is splendid, and our port presents a
most animated appearance—the ships all decked out
in gayest holiday trim, and the thunders of artillery
on all sides arousing true believers from their slum-
bers, and announcing the birthday of our most gra-
cious Sovereign. A grand banquet also comes off
this evening at the British Palace, to celebrate this
joyous event, where we all hope to drink to her
health in a brimming bumper, and sing in chorus our
national anthem.