The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

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OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

English service; on the other hand, in consequence
of the general distribution of the Minit and the
bridals( of deteshments from all regiments on the'
same footing at the School of Mo•ketry at Hythei
some of the most expert riflemen in the British army
may now be found in the ordinary regiments of the
Bee. There can be no doubt that some new
Topmost is called for to meet the altered
ceroanastanose of the period—either the Light
Companies of regiments should be re-:veva-
bed, selected from men who have pecn
proofs of superior activity, and superior attainments
as marksmen—in fact, be what their name implies
and not, as is now generally the case, selected from
being of a certain height or smart appearance—and
the Rifle Corps, as a distinctive body, discontinued;
or the men of the Rifle Brigade should constitute a
corps Atlas, their superiority consisting in the
Qualifications of light troops and marks-
mansine field._

• (TROY Tlll2 SPICILL 00"l1
wn. UPIIIIO
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DAILY

CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Jews 2.
Very few events of general interest have occurred
daring the last lose days in the siege operation, nor
lac airy change take* place in the condition of the
imam 6nywd the gradual advance of the eppenehes
• Clthe enemy's more prominent pcieitious.
ay rumour has asserted that the following day
would see the opening of the new batteries, and the
• (commitment of the third bombardment; and each,
• is tern, by its stationary quistede, has given the lie
to the assertions of its predecessor. A council of war
was assembled at an early hour of the morning
et Head Qsarten on the 29th ult., when, it is
stated, the arrangements were completed respecting
• the/yenning
.of the fire, but their nature has not, of
edam transpired. It is not unlikely that the ree
'lowa of the fire will be delayed until matters an
rips for a connected series of combined useemente,
• on as will tend to engage the attendee of the Rea•
ski forma, if mot to detach a considerable portion of
the army from the immediate neighbourhood of Be.
lesstoPol.
News from the army at Butch has been looked
for with general interest, and the probable influence
co the Rusian tactics of their losses in that direc-
tion has been a subject of much speculation.
: Rill the enemy attempt to retake Kutch ? or
will he, without a struggle, abandon it, and with it
the whole peninsula of Kertch, his communications
ey Arabat, and hie supplies from the Bea of Azoff?
Vor the whole of the Russian territorial acquisitions
fanning the shores of the Sea of Azoff are suddenly
rendered valueless while our steamers and gunboats
' possession of the sea iteelL Will the enemy be
• AO to feed his large army, and provide the requi-
site munitions of war with the: one road by Porekop
' only left open to him ? What movements may be
• expected among the Russian troops along the line of
the river Kuban ? Will the Circassian. take advan-
tage of the interruption which has been caused by the
- occupation of Kertch between the communication.
of thole troops and the Ramona army in the Crimea?
Such an the questions now discussed by those among
our military men whose thoughts are directed to a
wider field than the circumscribed operations before
gibutopol itself. On all sides firmer hopes are now
• held of a snccessfsl issue to the great enterprise in
• which the allied armies are engaged ; and this, not
only on account of the vast superiority in fire which
will be brought to bear on the town and works as
umpired with the former bombardments, but also
Wass it is argued that the Realises cannot have
the means at hand of interrupting the operations
abost to take place in the field, or they would not
lave left the key to the Sea of Azoff so completely at
. OW mercy.
Our tidings from Kutch extend to the 29th ult.,
' sad were received here on the 30th. By these
ca wen
the military road along the Tongue of Arabat
bad been destroyed, and some magazines at Arabat
itself had been blown up. Large stores of corn had
boa seized, and three gunboats of the enemy and a
considerable number of merchant vessels, as many as
100, it is said, taken in the Sea of Azoff. More
troops are to be sent at once. The 72nd Regiment,
which had just arrived from Malta, received orders
sot to land, and put to sea again the night before last.
It is said to be destined for Kertch. The 3lst. Reg.,
lately arrived from the lonian Islands, and attached
to the First Division at Balaklava, was also named
for this Mr*" and left the same night. The Ru-
shes are said to have sunk several steamers.
The belief that the chief places on the peninsula of
s smash will be entrusted to the safe keeping of the
IlmtA and that the greater part of the land force sent
;.leNertch and Arabat will shortly return to co-
' =in a movement towards Simpheropol with
Puha.' force at Eupatoris, and General Cam-
ber. army in the plain, ts gaining ground. The
delay in the opening fire is attributed to the
necessity of waiting until these movements
can be undertaken, so that all may be
done in concert, and a part of the Rosetta
soy on the north heights diverted from operating
at Sebastopol. When the fire opens the Kamechatka
Redoubt on the Mamelonhill, and the quarry work
below the Radar will be the two principal objects of
attack at first • and, after a few hours' bombardment,
it le andentood that these works will be assaulted,
the knew by the French, the latter by the English
Deeps. No cos feels any doubt about the assault
being sucendal ; the main difficulty will be to retain
possesaiou until the daylight shall have :veep=
It will be importaat that the position on the
lon is secured at the same time that the quarry
is crowned, as there is little doubt that some of
the pas on the former hill bear on the quarry.
Whether the quarry is armed is not known ; its pest-
ilence the Haan hill prevents this from being serer
lied by observation, sodas yet no embrasures have
• bees opened. A discharge of shell has been occa-
• 'Wally thrown into the work, to interrupt the
pending* d the enemy within.
The fire has been slack along all the lines during
the last few days; both the Ras ian batteries and
those of the Allies have appeared to be reserving their
strength for a more important 'struggle. As usual
for some time past, what fire there has been,
has been moat continuous on the extreme
left, where the works of the French almost touch
the nenellated wall of the town. There has
elm been from time to time a sharp fire against the
French works, which are making rapid advances on
the east side of the Careening Bay ravine. The fire
against our centre attack has been very trifling. A
new device of the enemy has been loading some field
r usi;lownhich are placed at the lower part of the
-hill, and directed against our advanced
works, not only with the usual round shot, but also
with a quantity' of grape. This was very deceptive
at first, for the loud whiz of the round shot Fe-
vented the small grape from being heard in their
Bight, and moreover as the chief impetus was
given to the shot, it flew past first, and afterwards,
when all danger had apparently gone by, came the
pattering of the grape. -We have had very few ca-
sualties in the trenches, and such as have occurred
have happened principally from rifle balls. An
instance occurred early in the morning of the 31st
instant of the precision with which som e ofthe
Russian riflemen take their aim. Ensign Frederick
Playa., of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade,
who was in the advanced work on Frencbman's-hill,
had taken one shot at a Russian in a rifle pit, and
was in the act of elevating his piece with the inten-
tion of firing a second. Before he could accomplish
his object the Rogan had seen him and fired, and
with such seseracy that the ball lodged in the
Ensign's arm, so that he was compelled to give up
his rifle. The wound was not so severe, however,
as to prevent him from walking up to camp.
Orders have been given that a certain number of
marksmen selected from the Rifle Brirsgsde should be
told off daily to act as sharpshoote in front of the
advanced works, and that they should cease doing.,
the ordinary duty of the trenches. During the siege
operations the soldiers of the Rifle Brigade have not
been doing this duty, for which it might have been
expected they would have been more particularly
employed. They. hen, therefore, in a great measure
ceased to retain their distinctive character, and have
taken their tour of duty in the trenches o°
the same footing with the other line regi-
ments. When, at the commencement of the
liege, sharpshooters were employed they were
furnished by a certain number of volunteers from
each regiment
renrsmard before the town, in common
with the Rifle B e. This may have arisen from the
altered relative mrcumstances of the Rifle Brigade
and Line in respect to arms—the old musket in the
one case being diecoutinued, and both alike being
armed a ith the Millie rifle. The Chewers
Pied in the French service correspond with as
Rifle Brigade; and indeed sprung in the first
instance, and were made to annalists in their dress
and organisation, by Louis Philippe, under the name
of amassers d'Orleass, by imitation of our
Rifle Brigade. Subsequently they were called, under
the nifees of the Republic, Chall."!re de Vincent-4, I
name they freneemt':y retain in ordinary conver-
sation, although it 'was converted by the present Em
roe into Clumseus A Pied, which more portion.
defines their duty and constitution. But while
thetea iel Preach 810: vies the men for the Champlin i
Pied are most carefully selected, sad only received
late the v:eps when pomsesi• superiors powers
of end orans and pfiysioalactivity, no such
nee sod diatiostion is carried out in the

Now that our trenches are so close to the works of
the enemy, a well-directed rifle fire can be brought to
bear on the embrasures of their batteries with great
effect. The Russians have for some time resorted to
the usual expedient in the Reda* and elsewhere of
placing swinging screens, or " mantlets," for the pro-
!action of the gunners against our Mind.; but
in spite of these devices our men, placed in
favourable points, by watching and taking advantage
of favourable opportunities, can keep greatly under
control the fire of the guns. Some mantles have
lately been applied to several of our foremost batte-
ries.
Another battery was completed in the right attack
last night, and in both attacks every arrangement is
now completed for the opening of tire. The stores of
abet, shell, and ammunition are enormous ; the rounds
for sash gun were completed some days since to 800
per gan, and the shells for each 13-inch mortar now
sea& the number of 300. There was an explosion ot
gunpowder on the railway on the evening of May the
29th, but only two kegs of powder and a few friction
tubes were destroyed. One man was slightly injured.
Captain Owen, of the Royal Engineers, who suf-
fered amputation of the thigh, about a mouth since,
in consequence of a severe injury from a rifle-ball,
has left camp to proceed to England. Before coming
out he had been appointed and was acting as secretary
of the British committee for the Paris Exhibition,
and he voluntarily gave up this post to join his corps
before Sebastopol. He has been much liked by every
one of his comrades and by the Sappers, the latter ot
whom volunteered to carry him from amp to Bala-
irises, to prevent the jolting of a wheeled vehicle.
This was accomplished, the men being in three re-
lays, and he arrived at the port without any fatigue
from the
.journey.
Miss Nightingale has also left, still very debilitated
and soaring. A few days before her departure she
had a relapse of fever, which seriously interrupted her
progress toward convalescence. Lord Ward placed
his yacht at her disposal.
I regret to say that, although cholera has nearly
disappeared among the troops encamped before Se-
bastopol, it has increased among the forces at Bala-
klan, and several fatal cases have daily occurred
among the regiments of the Oneida quartered in
that neighbourhood. A nephew of Admiral Boxer,
a young man, and acting as his secretary, was at-
tacked at an early hour in the morning, and died at
1 p.m. of the same day. He had been quite well,
and actively engaged the day before in sedating to
arrest • lire which had broken out in one
of the vessels in the harbour. Captain King, of
the 32nd Regiment, who had seen considerable ser-
vice in India, has also died from cholera, after a short
Innen. lie was staying with a brother in the
Artillery near Balaklava. He same as a volunteer,
and brought high testimonials to introduce him to i
the notice of the Commander of the Forces. The
weather has medusa dry and fine, but the heat is
very oppressive, more especially in the plain.

07 TEN DAILY

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HAMARA, WAY 29.

Under these &moistener, and in the present .on smilingly while several quadrilles formed by her
critical state of affairs an event of no great import- chamberlain were danced by her own party. I never
anoe in itself that has just occurred here, obtains a saw more utritorms of all descriptions than on this
significance that makes it worth recording. In the occasion. It is raid that 6,300 guests were present;
lannual report of the St. Petersburg University just but, not withstanci:ng this enormous number, the
!published, we find that, whilst in every other depart- !rooms were not incolivenktotly crowded, and even
mint of the state the greatest retrenchments are gentlemen found a satin-covered arm-chair at hand
best carried out, and appointments and offices top- I whenever they desired to sit down. Refreshments
praed and abolished, a new Professorship of the Xof every kind were to be had in profusion without
Oriental languages hu been created, in addition to the least difficulty, so excellent were the arrange-
those already in existence.
From the report is question we further learn that
the students of the university amount to 459, of
whom 300 pay their own expenses, while the rest
are bursars receiving fixed stipends from the church
and different departments of the state.
In the army a great want of subaltern officers sad
military surgeons is beginning to be sensibly felt.
The different military colleges are now little better
Nan schools of primary instruction, u all the boys
are Ina than sixteen years old. All above that age
bane been sent off to the army, and are distributed
amongst the different ministate, where they have
obtained commissions without having undergone the
usual examination required by the regulations of the
service.
The same may be said with regard to the schools
of medicine and surgery, several of which are com-
pletely closed, both professors and pupils being sent
off to the army, whilst those that are still open are
nearly deserted. The want of army surgeons is so
very great that in many instances dentists, aceou-
clears, and even farriers and veterinary surgeons
have been engaged with the rank and pay of regular
army doctors for service in the military hospitals at
the seat of war in the South.

A letter from tit. Petersburg of the let, in the
Coustitutionwel, says :
I hare before me several letters written by Russian officers
from Binepheropol and Bsbestop4. They annowne• the
snivel at the former place of a fresh cohort of Greeks under
the command of Captain Delsgramatik. They first ad-
dressed themselves to Count d'Adlerberg, chief of the go.
vernment of Taurida, who ordered a mass to be celabreted
in their honour in the Church of the Holy Trinity. The
Greek priest, M. Nicolas Fatinsei, atterwards harangued
them in &speech appropriate to the state of affairs. " The
present war," he said, "is made for you, Greeks, and for
the glory of our religion. Rassia, far frost wishing to make
conquests, thinks only of the happiness of the subjects of the
Sultan." A relation of the Greek Chief Piston Diann-
matik, councillor of a Russian court, and president of the
nobility of Simmons, sod who contributed not a little to
the arrival of these volunteers, has undertaken to convey
them to Sebastopol.

ANAPA.

The Lord Mayor left the Hotel de Ville at 11
I o'clock this morning. Baron Hausmann, the Prefect
of the Seine, accompanied him to the Northern Rail-
way station, where a special train was in waiting to
convey his lordship and family and the English
deputation to Boulogne. The leave-taking was most
cordial.
Up to 5 o'cl. ck this afternoon the London letters
and evening papers had not arrived. No explanation
of tho delay is given at the Post-office. There has
probably been some accident.
Letters from Italy notice a certain revival of agi-
tation since the departure of the Austrian troops. On
the 291 of May, the anniversary of the combats of
Montanara and Curtatone, in which the Tuscan vo-
lunteers distinguished themselves in 1848, funeral
masses were celebrated in several churches. These
mamma assumed the proportions of popular demon-
strations of a serious nature.

Anapa the hurt is aloe IN every sense the most im-
portant of the towns and fortresses on the littoral of
the Black Sea, abandoned by Russia since the com-
mencement of this war. The town, situate on the ,
north-east ooast of the Euxine, at the northern
termination of the Cauoasian range, 47 miles south-east
of Yenikale,is inhabited bya miscellaneous population
of Circassian', Tartars, Greeks, Jews, Armenians,
Russian', and others, to the number of about
five thousand. The adverse relations of its masters
with the tribes inhabiting the mountain country in
its rear have almost neutralised the great advan-
tages offered by its situation, and prevented its
growth. Its exporta are at present grain, tallow,
batter, hides, peltriss, wax, &o. It *however, as
a military post that it has been most prized by
Russia, most deplored by Turkey. The fort, built
by the Turks in 1784, was taken by the Russians in
1791 and in 1807, and only given up with the
greatest reluctant*. In May, 1828, • detached
Russian corps, assisted by the fleet, and com-
manded by the redoubtable Mentchikoff, laid
siege to Asap, and with great difficulty sur-
rounded the place with a strong line of circumvalla-
don, intersecting the neck of land on which Anapa
is situated, and extending on each side to the sea.
In • few days the works were advanced to the glacis,
and three breaches having been made, the governor
was summoned to sarrezder. The garrison had con-
sisted of three thousand men ; they had defended the
fort for forty days; Navariao had destroyed the fleet
which might have brought them relief, and nothing
remained but to surrender.
Upon the conclusion of this war Anapa was not re-
stored ; at the pesos of Adrianople it was ceded to
Russia, with all the coast towns and forts, from the
Kouban to Fort St. Nicholas. The name of this last
fort will be remembered (although its Turkish deno.
mination of Shaf-katil is, perhaps, better known) as
having been taken by the Turks at the opening of last
year's Asiatic campaign. Anapa, at the other extre-
mity of the coast line, closes the list. At any other
time the transfer of this military position from the
Russians to the Ciroassians—the most vigorous and
constant of their enemies—might have been deemed
event of considerable importance, but its evacue-

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