The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

"Further orders" were waited for, and no truce was Tchorgoun, from the ruins of whiel I now
again asked tilt 4 o'clock, when it was* once granted, both were passes. The stranger's wen ane""4,„.!
and when oar dead and wounded, the latter in a most face still bore traces of considerable beauty.
- oaintul ewe. were brought in. The Russians threw . story waeaverysad one, and she had scarcely bsee,l7,
out an advaooed line ot sentries to keep off prying tell it when her eye* filled with tears, and in spits i
eyes from the Roden, and a similar precaution having all her eff nits they continued to burst out ole-
been takes on our side the neutral space was thus every time she spoke during the remainder of
narrowed greatly. The scones of battle carnage have I visit. When the allies pushed on their outpost
been often enough described, so I need only say that I wards the Teheran', on the banks of which Tam;
this one was like the rest—harrowing to look on. goon stands, the Cossacks wrecked the homes,
ul
Dead and dying lay all over the ground. Duriog 'carried off all the male inhabitants, lest they eleii
this proceeding a numberof Russian °Sons mingled' render any service to the enemy. She thus kid.,
amongst - our • party, and as several of them one strike her husband and her home, and was is
spoke English fluently, a good deal was dependent on the charity of her neighbours for
said. Their" pumping" inclination, however, was so sigmas*. Her ease is but another drop, a little dee
marked se in most caws to defect itself; though one in the great ocean of misery which war has (Attled.
of oar enders was guilty of the indiscretion of in • roll over the heads of mankind ever since wars help '
forming a very interrogator that their grape Notwithstanding all that has been said ag
did sad injury to our men in possession of written of battle-field horrors. it is not tinfoil*
the lately-taken Quarries—a remark which pro- war wears its worst aspect. One easily becomes
cured his instant order to the rear by General tueted to every variety of physical suffering, an% •
Airey. It war by one of these polite foes that more easily because they are fighting men 'shoe**, 4
the inquiry was made of an Englishman at my side it, but it is not easy to assume insensibility to es
whether " our generals had really been drunk or not great mass of moral torture that is to be gist lee
during the recent assault." 'the Russians having in every hamlet and village, but which, in the
helped us to gather in the dead. the whole sad duty sem* of great victories and great results, the meld
was soon performed, and the truce brought to an hears but little of. One curious circumstance
end. Since then nothing of interest has occurred, related to us by these people, was, that they suffer*
and the firing has nearly been suspended altogether. more persecution, for their sympathy with the Ida,
from the Tartar aristocracy—the bey, and mimeo.
than from the Russians themselves.
Firming our baggage would not come to us,*
determined to imitate Mahomeescondue: with rem
to the mountain—to go to the baggage ; end finds*
that Omer Pacha had descended from the height
and was encamped in Tchorgoun, we encamped*
the left bank of the river, got the cart repaired, am
waited the progress of events. This evening the
troops have received orders to be ready to march be.
tore daybreak. It is only the dii majors' Ins)
know in what direction.
Valley of Baidar, twelve miles south-east of Bile.
klava, June 22. the movement of the troops cem,
menced about one o'clock this morning; by fired*
last battalion had descended from tt.e heights above
Komi:him, and was weeding its way along the
Woronzoff road towards Belmar. This, though net
exactly "advancing backward," is something rather
like it. It is certainly a step towards fighting, ee
there are Ressian troops in this qu.rter, but it ii net
a step towards anything decisive as regards the
general objects of the war. No movement think
not directed against Simpheropol can very seriously
affect the Russians. However, throwing strategy
sod politics aside for the moment, I must say tle
march has been a veritable pleasure excursion, fork
lay through some of the finest and richest sceaeryia
the world. After the bleak hills around Sebastopol,
the bleak, brown plain of Balaklava, and all the her.
rible sights and smells which infest both one and de
other, when one enters the gorges which debauch*
the latter towards the west, one feels himself, g
it were, in a new world. Thenceforward title
what direction one will, along the rugged byroad
which leads to Baktchi Send, cr the well engineered,
smoothly macadamised route, which the father of the
present Prince Woronzofi caused to be constructed at
his own expense from Sebastopol to Alouchta, every
turn reveals fresh and more startling beauties. Rocky
heights, shady valleys, awful ravines, verdure of the
deepest greeo, trees oithe loftiest and moat Wearied
growth, cool clear water bubbling in the wellmagi
sparkling from the fountains, gushing in the 'mem,
and temptiug the rover aside at every step—what it
grandest and tenderest in nature are crowded togs.
ther in this favoured region, as if to atone, by thiepe.
fusion of beauty and fertility in one spot for the mil
wastes which cover so large a portion of the mid
the peninsula. On emerging from Tchorgnun, ge
followed the Woronzoff road for four or five mils
through a ravine, the rocks towering perpendicularly
over our heads, and descending with equal abrepteem
to the stream below, half choked with the dust mimed
by an immense foraging party of French cavalry,
whin, upon turning a sharp angle, we suddenly
emerged from the gorge, and the Vete ot &eider, the
famous vale which a celebrated Polish poet, Mickio
vice, has sung so rapturously, in which spring :tips
eternally, in which the nightingales sing in concert
all the day long, the waters ever cool, and the trees
ever green, lay before us. I know not whether it
was the real beauties of the landscape, or the gloried
contrast it presented with the bleak and scorched hills
around Sebastopol which caused it to produce such
an impression upon me—l know that I ham
rarely, if ever, gazed upon a eceoe which af-
fected my imagination in the same degree
Tee vale at the opening slopes gently, covered with
averdant sward, to the banks of the river. It is CADe
flee d by hills high enough to produce the effect of
variety, without exciting the sensation of awe; and
on their sides oak, elm, and ash swarm like giants,
and cast the protecting shelter of their huge arms
over the wild rases, the strawberries, the woodbine
and eglantine which scent the air around their stems.
The richest herbage flourishes on every clear spot;
two villages nestle each in its clump of trees; rows of
leafy huts murk the ground occupied he a Russint
cavalry picket. The while is like an English park
on a Sunday morning. Over all the deadliest silence
reigned ; the villages were deserted, not even a dog
wtheasettiolinb:sesse.
aennd;
trait
t nee ep
em deadwlaiktehesagerarilmegbey thoaabtrea akaf
armed men. There was something sad iu the coo
trust between the scene around us, and the dad,
noise, and confusion attendant on the march of a
large column of half barbarian troops; one's imagi-
'nation revolted at seeing huge Arriaouts bursting
through bowers and thickets that teemed made for
lovers to bill and coo in ; there was something ex-
ceedingly unpleasant in hearing the silver notes of the
nightingale drowned by the perf 'faience, of a mule-
teer screeching the refrain of the well-known song,
"Ketch guzel," in a way that might put a
donkey to the blush. Farther on the valley become'
narrower, the timber thicker, and the shade deeper,
till on ascending a slight eminence, it again expands
into a small wooded plain, in the midst of which
lies Deader. On this eminence stands the country
house of Count Piroffiki, commas ding one of the
finest views, perhaps, in the woi Id. Ie is a small but
very tasteful building, of purely Reisman whites
tare, surmounted
and very mock resembling a church
surmounted by a wooden tower, surrounded
b by
steeple. It has as yet received no injury beyond
sundry inscriptions in pencil on the walls, recording
the exploits of the " 20ine regiment de Is ligne," and
le " eiziEcne dragons," as well as of the French no
tion in general, who are declared to be superior to
all other members of the human race. Omer
Pacha has placed sentinels at the doorto prevent as
depredation. In short, no man could, as I did, w
out of the house, lie down under a broad elm, tarn
his horse loose to crop the savoury grass, look out
through the thick Mint.s of foliage at the flood of
light which inundated the whole vale from a sky of
,the deepest blue, which seemed to smile on nature as
nature smiled on it, listen to the warbling of the
nightingales overhead, and pluck the wed straw-
berries on the green bank, withont feeling that for a
eountry which contained even one such spot, it vr!l
se wonder the Russians should fight, and fight well.
We do not expect to move to-morrow, but for the
day alter I cermet answer. Our outposts are on
near Bidder. The Piedmontese, who crossed the
Tchernaya at the same time as Omer Yacht, end
I were likewise encamped near Tchorgoun, were alto
.
to have marched to-day, but, as yet, e e have 'holt nos
thing of them. They are still suffering from cholera
There is some talk of Beguiled division acting la

0111.011 OUR DANI7I

TCIIOIIOOIIN, Joe, 21.
After witnessing the brave, but fruitless, assault
upon the Mamelon and Roden on the mo,ning of the
18th, at daybreak, I rejoined the Turks on the
plateau above the village of Upoo, on the other side
of the Tchernays, in a north-easterly direction from
Balaklava. they had quitted their position close ro
Lord Itsglan's head-quarters early on the 17th, with
—so ran the tale—the full intention of rocking a final
movement in advance io concert with the Pied-
montese and twt divisions of the French. They took
no tents with them, except some half dozen for the
use of the puhas and other dignitaries. Everybody
under that rack was obliged to content himself with
each covering as could be afteded by the "arch ot
heaven," and in fact but for the rather heavy dew
of the nights, no one could desire better. Upoo was
occupied. a tew shots were exchanged with some
hundred Greek volunteers and l)onski Cossacks—the
only Russian troops to be seen, and the night of the
17th was passed on the plateau above the village.l
In the afternoon of the following day, Omer
Pasha received the news of the failure of
the attacks on the Malakhoff and Radom, and the
same evening retired two milts, and took up his
position on another plateau above Routchka. This
retrograde movement was said to be caused partly
by the check received by the allies, and partly
by some vague fears of being "cut off," though what
they were founded on I could never clearly ascertain.
Thera were certainly no Russians in the vicinity be-
yond the Greek volunteers, and the army might have
marched right to Baktehi Serai without hindrance.
Sir Stephen Lskeman, accompanied only by his ser-
vant, rude to within nine miles of it on the very day
without seeing a soul except a few Cossacks.
I do not mean to say that such a movement
would have been advisable, but the very fact that
it was possible proved the inadvisability of retrograd-
ing. The business of a general is to prevent himself
being cut oft while moving onwards, and if he never
moves till there is no danger whatever of such a con-
tingency occurring he will never move at all, as it ie
of course always within the range of physical possi-
bility that any enemy may enter the space he 1
behind him in advancing.
The plain above Houtchka was covered with brush-
wood, and in default of tents the soldiers cut off leafy
branches, and in a few hours had constructed a whole
town of summer-houses, which formed an admirable
protection from the burning heat of the sun, as well
as from the night. In this sort of work the Turkish
soldiers display no small amount of skill and inge-
nuity. The bowers of this sort which they constructed
for the paellas might grace any English garden. A
row of stakes is stuck in the ground, at regular
intervals, and are then interlaced with gteeo
branches. The roof is formed in much the same
manner; doors and windows are made to allow a
current of air to pass through, and in fact the whole
structure would answer equally well the purposes of
love or war. With this accomplishment, the Turkish
soldier reeks little whether he has a tent or not as
long as he is in a wooded country. He raises a leafy
hut almost in as short a time as it would take to
pitch a canvas one, and. far all the porposee of health
and comfort, the ormer is by far the better. The
interior of the canvas tent in the present state of the
weather, in temperature approximates very closely
to a baker's oven, whether doubled or single, and no
matter what precaution one takes in opening it or
raising it. The day of my arrival at Routahka,
just as I was looking out for a suitable spot
for a night's lodging, the melancholy intel-
ligence was conveyed to us of the break-
ing down of our baggage cart, at some
unknown distance from the camp. On riding down
we found the body of the vehicle in the Tchernare,
the baggage on the bank, and the servants " making
their reph,' to use the Turkish equivalent for enjoy-
ing the do/cc far niente. Having abstracted a cloak
from the mass, we climbed the heights and returned
to the camp, where we dined in the evening with a
pacha, who adopted a compromise between Frankish
and Turkish customs in his manner of eating.. We
formed a large party, the majority captains, colonels,
and knights in arms. The table weea round piece of
leather placed on the ground; each dish was placed
in the centre; each guest, as an improvement upon
his fingers, was furnished with a spoon ; and thus
armed we scooped out the dainties tolerably well.
As a specimen of Turkish cookery I may mention
that amongst other things placed before us were
stewed apples in sour cream and melted butter and a
dash ot garlic, which, disgusting as the unreflecting
reader may think it, we are of opinion was not bad.
One's stomach, after a short residence, is drilled into
an amount of obedience it rarely knows in England
We slept that night there in a bower, on
the ground, wrapped in our cloaks or
rugs, and as it was the practice to sleep
with one's clothes on, as I verily believe without
the smallest reason, the servant of the birnbashi
whose guest I was expressed considerable surprise
at my hardihood in pulling off my boots and mimeo-
tionebles, and seemed all but convinced that the said
articles would ere morning pass into the possession of
an enterprising Cossack, and their tormer owner be
conducted in a state of semi-nudity into Stbetia.
Happily his expectations were nut realised. The
night passed over without any alarm, and in the
morning we stepped down to pay a visit to the
village of Ruutcbks, which lay in the glen at our feet,
where we were hospitably received by a venerable
looking Tartar, and we gladly took refuge in his beet
chamber from the scorching heat of the sun, which,
down in the bottom of the valley, glared tearfully.
We stretched ourselves full length on his divan, par-
took of some yomvart (sour cream) and coffee, and
then performed our reph in smoking and talking.
Our host, like most of the Tartars ot the southern por-
tion of the peninsula, had thoroughly Turkish features,
and was no doubt of lurked) descent. The Tartars
of the north, whose blood fi me still purely from the
original stock of Casio and Samarcand, the mighty
warriors of Tamerlane end Genghis Khali, exhibit
unchanged the high cheek-bones, the small twiukliog
black eyes, and the rt ceding foreheads of their
Moogol forefathers. I had noticed that here, as in
Eupstoria, many of the Tartar women, in deference to
the notions of the Turk, veiled, or hid their faced in
some way in the presence ot any of the soldiers. As
we were accompanied by Turkish officers when we
entered the house, the harem ot our entertainer
" bolted" precipitately, though we could see them
peeping at us through a half-opened door. The old
man passed nearly an hour in relating the various
ways in which he and his neighbours had been per-
secuted by the Russians during the winter. Their
horses and carts hat:lbws all taken; great numbers also
of their sheep and cattle; andandsnyof the inhabitauts
spoo whom English or French money was found paid
for services rendered when the allied armies passed
through, on their march front Alma, were carried
oft bodily, and have never since been heard of.
When the Turks had left us, the women, es we had
expected, came in, and insisted on kissing our
bands, and then laying them against their fore-
heeds. This ceremooial over, they squatted down at
a tosportful distaste,. Ooe was the wife of our host,
and **other was fawn the neighbooriog Tiller of

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The American steamer Ericsson has arrived at
Havre in 14 days from Na. York. She experienced adds!
of 24 hours on her passage, in onosequence of some accided
to one of her wheels. It may be rememberel t)at the
Ericsson is the vessel on bond of which some norlia'all
were made of a new system of propulsion invented by uhf
gentleman whose name she bears, but which unfortuostal
turned out a failure. The engines which she now curia
are, however, worked on a 'pious which effect.' * grist
saving of fuel, as her consumption has only been shunt 2O
tons in the 24 hours. Tier voyage to Havre is inertly ax
experimental one in order to try this system, and she orlf
brings as passengers some of the gentlemen belonging to
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company at whom, expense she has been built, sod tbt'

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paend peed= of the astarelintlea of fee•fpare.