The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-23 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDRNT.)
CAMP BEFORE BBBABTOPOL, Amin 11.

The renewed bombardment and attack against the
enemy's works, which are expected to take place
shortly, are still subjects of conversation. Specula-
tion is rife as to the nature of the intended opera-
tions. The prevailing idea is that the assault will
be preceded by a bombardment of the chief points in
the Russian line of Weems, together with a direct
attack against the shipping. It seems probable that
the wank will at first be mainly directed against the
Mslakhoff-hili, and that this will be undertaken by
oar allies; while on the left and centre a general fire
against the enemy's works will be maintained, and
other means of active co-operation adopted according
to circumstances. It is presumed that some diver-
sioo, if mot a serials attack, will be made by the armies
occupying the plain and neighbourhood of Toborgegn.
It is generally supposed that the attack against
the Roden will not be made until after
the Malakhoff position is secured. Captain
Horace Montage, of the Royal Engineers, who was
taken prisoner on the 22nd of March last during the
repulse ola Russian sortie against the works of the
left attack, has lately been exchanged, and is now in
camp. He was taken over the works of the Redan,
and they were fully, probably in a spirit of braced°,
exhibited to him. No doubt they have been consi-
derably changed and streegthened since he saw
them, but their general character must remain the
same. His description of the Redan itself and the
works beyond would lead to the conclusion that a
.direct attack against them would be very injudicious
if made while the enemy still held the Malakhoff hill ;
while, if that position were silenced, the subsequent
capture of the Redan, and the redoubts in rear, would
be comparatively an way task. The loss of our allies
in attacking the Malakhoff is also likely to be
'sneezed if all the efforts at one time are directed to
the accomplishment of this object. The French say
that they are ready to open at any time, although
they are still adding to the number and strength
of their batteries. Already they possess thirty-
four batteries on the right, many of very
powerful armament. There are various reports m-
oped:4r the state of our stores of shell and ammuni-
tion. On the one band it is asserted that certain
descriptions of shell are exhausted, and that we
must wait for fresh supplies; on the other hand, we
Mar that our magazines are stocked with every kind
of projectile that can be required for the bombard-
ment. The daily lose from wounds, although many
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are of a slight nature, is both on the part of oar allies
and ourselves so great that there is every inducement
to commence operations as speedily as possible.
The enemy, by keeping in the town and works only
the strength actually required to man the works, and
providing extraordinary protection for these troops,
do not suffer but in a very slight degree
compared with what would be their loss
were the siege conducted under ordinary circum-
stances. Their daily loss in the batteries most yet
be very groat, owing to the great superiority is the
weight of our metal ; and, at night, it is not pro-
bable that sufficient cover can be found for the re-
serves which probably 'occupy the works for their
protection, so as to shelter them against the effects
of our fire. The enemy is said to have 120,000 men
in the camps on the north side within the distance of
kfmksazie's fares, bat this number is probably much
exaggerated. A reconnaissance was made a few days
since by a strong body of our cavalry, as far as fifteen
miles beyond the village of Balder, in a direction
toward Yalta, and no troops were met with on that
route, excepting a f.w Cossacks, evidently scattered
foe purposes of observation.
I subjoin • diary of events and circumstances
which have occurred during the last few days.
August 6.—A hot, clear morning. A land breeze
from the eastward, and very oppressive atmosphere.
As usual lately, a very sharp fire was sustained
throughout the night, but our casualties were compa-
ratively few in number.
The tire last evening is now seen to have destroyed
two buildings at some distance in the rear of the
Redan. They were situated to the left of the long
line of the large barrack building, and not tar from
a structure supposed to be a church, rendered con-
spicuous by a green dome and spire. The two build-
ings were themselves rather remarkable from being
precisely similar in size and simplicity of form, and
from both having red-tiled roofs, while all the other
barracks and houses in the Leighbonrhood were
covered with lead or slates. Perhaps they were two
guard-homes at the entrance to the arsenal. A
smoke is still emending from the site of the ruins.
One of the end walls remains upright, and is all that
can now be seen from our position : the fall of the
remainder of the buildings was probably the cause of
the fire seeming to be suddenly extinguished.

The Rambla; are observed to be busily engaged
in changing the direction of several of the embra-
sures en the proper left of the Redan. The alteration
is calculated to give to certain guns, which previ-
ously were directed against the works on French-
man's hill, a flanking tire to sweep over the slope of
the Redan hill on our right of the ascent. The guns
of the Garden battery enfilade the approach on the
left and in front of the Redao. No change can be
noticed in the condition of the French approaches on
the Malakhoff hill. Farther to the right, the
trenches of our Allies are daily becoming nearer to
the line of defences. The foremost trench is now

0n143 yardh from the Little Redan. Between this I
work and the proper left curtain, which is armed with
Mx guns, of the Korniloff bastion, there is a hollow or
dip in the surface of the ground. The left of the Ma-
lakhoff hill descends towards it, and there is also a
gradual slope in the mums direction from the Little
Redan. The French engineers appear to be direct-
ing a sap aim% this hollow, as if to intercept the line
of communication between the works mentioned.
Colonel Henry Cobbs, commanding the 4th Ring's
Own Regiment, died to-day from the effects of
wounds received on the 18th of June. He com-
manded in the trenches ot the left attack while the
assault was made against the Redan on the one side,
and by the second brigade of the third division,
under Major-General Eyre, against the works to the
left of the south harbour on the other side. Colonel
Cobb.'. regiment belonged to the first brigade ot the
third division, and wee in reserve. lite colonel
reesived two wounds—one in the right arm, the other
in the bided the neck, and both from musket balls.
The wound in the arm he received while giving some
direction@ in one of the advanced approaches. He
subsequently, to avoid the impediment ot a number
of men who were in the trench along which
he was pawing, went on the open ground
far enough to expose himself to view above
the parapet, and thus received the second
shot at the back of the neck. Neither wound
was in itself dangerous, but Colonel Cubbe's minute-
tion had suffered severely from long service in the
2nd West India Regiment, and he had not strength
enough to resist the effects of the fever which followed
I the injuries. His name appeared in general orders
about ten days ago to go to Ragland, but he was
feast to be too weak to be removed. He was highly

=Win his regiment, and was well known man
eller and a mos et dating courage. The late
eemeassiseqn-oldet spoke highly of kis services in
the Amp= ralatiag to the operations in which Col.
Cebbesseaseepi at the time be was wounded.
Rook= mans lead into the town in the course of
the ermine feet batteries on the left.
Aug= 7.—A very heavy fire occurred last night
until the moon rms. The enemy threw a vast num-
bers( 'mode% dime/bargee of grape, and " bouquets,"
or, NM= of the men facetiously style them " happy
against• the seppoesd palliest; of the
working parties of the allies. From time to time
they threw out also fire-bells to illuminate the
ground in front of their works.
While it was yst. dark, about three•quartera of an
hoot before moonrise, a suspicion was aroused that
the Russians were contemplating an attack upon the
right et our most advanoed approaches on French-
man's hill. Brevet-Major John Maegowan, of the
93rd Highlanders, who was acting as ore of the
field tams in the right attack, was sent by the
general ot the frftobas to reinforce with some
men of the 42nd Highlanders a small party placed
to defend a rifie.pit in front. This rifle-
pit is about fifty yards in advance of our
fifth parallel—an approach which was originally
the Russian trench nearest to the enemy's principal
line of defence, and, therefore, the most distant as
regarded our works. It appears that Major Moo-
rman, who was in the trenches in front of the
marry battery, in order to reach the rifiepit as
speedily as possible, got over the parapet with kis
men into the open ground, intending to take a direct
mate to it instead of following the winding of the
covered way. Misled by the darkness, and not being
well acquainted with the ground, it being only his
second or third tour of duty in the trenches, he lost
hie way, and approached an outlying picket of the
enemy, somewhere in front of the left curtain of the
Man. The Russians heard their footsteps, and fired
a volley. Major Maegowan has been sines missing,
and it n feared that be was wounded and taken pri-
soner. One man of the 42nd was killed, and one
wounded: the rest escaped back unhurt to the
trenches. lhe Russians did not make any sortie.

The morning was again ushered is by a land breeze
from the east. This wind, which has none of the
refreshing qualities of the usual sea breeze, blew
very strongly for a couple of hours, and then gra-
dually subsided into a perfect calm. The sky be-
came severed about 11 o'clock with grey misty
clouds, and a most oppressively close and still condi-
tion of the atmosphere followed. The distant moun-
tains were covered with heavy clouds, but there were
no indications of electric disturbance.
Cones of cholera are still occurring in various parts
of the camp, chiefly among soldiers who have recently
arrived in the Crimea. It has no characters of an
epidemic kind, although the disease is reported to be
prevailing among the troops of the enemy at Perekop
and other stations.

August B.—Another hot. oppressive morning. The
deep cutting through the &battle in front of the salient
angle of the Borniloff bastion was in a great degree
filled up, but &considerable depression remains in the
position which the cutting occupied. The French ap-
pear to have attempted to carry on a direct sap from
a projectiog angle of their foremost approach, opposite
to the cutting just alluded to, but to have been inter-
rupted.
The parapet near the angle is much de-
stroyed. sandbags are scattered about, and
a small beep of gabions is lying a short
distance in front. A line of slightly-raised fresh
earth, leading from the opening cut in the abattis,
and for some distance creeping close under it, and
then suddenly turning in the direction of the head of
the French right boyau, appears like the commence-
ment of a Russian counter-approach. The curved

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extremity of the boas has been considerably damaged
by the fire from the guns of the bastion in front.
The French have made some traverses for the pro-
tection of the troops in the &lan.
The death of Captain Arthur Lapin', of the 38th
Regiment, a very intelligent and active officer, and
brother to the celebrated Assyrian explorer and poli-
tician of the same name, has been announced. He had
been attacked by dysentery, and early in the present
month was recommended by a medical board to leave
for England, but was too weak to bear the journey.
His loss will be deeply felt in his regiment, where he
has long been conspicuous on amount of his talents,
and a general favourite for his many social qualities.
For some time past he has been acting in the Quarter-
master General's department, and attached to the
Second Division. He was selected for the appoint-
ment without solicitation. Captain Layard was
nearly at the head of the list of captains in his regi-
ment at the time of his decease.

A party of the Land Transport Corps, with a sup-
ply of carts, went in the direction of Baidar to-day,
it is said, with the intention of making a foray upon
a store of wine and other provisions which they had
heard of is the country establishment of some Crimean
landholder. Unfortunately for the success of the
expedition, they encountered a party of Cossacks,
who, from a convenient distance, succeeded in wound-
ing two of the drivers, and killing one of the mules.
The object of the undertaking was then given up.
The French have brought into the neighbourhood of
Balaklava an enormous quantity of hay from the
Baidar district, but the late rains appear to have
caused considerable damage to its quality. It is
being dried and stacked for future consumption.
Five deserters from the Russian camp on the north
heights ve themselves up to-day. They were
• at the British head-quarters, and, it is
said, gave useful information respecting the strength
sadreeent movements of the Russian forces. It la added
that they reported the troops encamped on the
heights were at present badly off for rations, on ac-
count of the state of the roads. If this report wan
made, it ill agrees with the observations made daily
of enormous convoys of waggons laden with hay,
gabions, timber, dui, coming in on the north
If the supply of food wore deficient, it can hardly be
credited but that these carts would be employed in
meeting so important an exigency. One large depot
of bay is visible on the north aide, and a large number
of sacks arranged in pyramidal heaps are also under
view. These sacks do not appear to contain corn, as
they are left wholly unprotected against the effects of
rain. Both the stacks of hay, and heaps of sacks just
mentioned, have greatly increased in size of late.
Two pairs of pigeons were observed to takes direst
course into Sebastopol to day, which some person
who were looking on at the time asserted to be, from
the nature of their flight and appearance, carrier
pigeons. This might be the case or not, but it is es
well that this means of sending messages should not
be forgotten. Now that communication with our
wide spread camps can be so easily effected through
the pluses at Tchorgoun or along the Baidar Valley,
the importation of a few pigeons and their despatch
from Balaklava or the camp with messages at con-
venient hours, can be a matter of no difficulty.
The tempest which has been gathering the last two
days broke over the mountains, and afterwards over
the camp, this afternoon. For some hours, while
the atmosphere above the plateau still remained
bright and clear, dense black and grey clouds were
massed over the mountains, and the continuous roll
of thunder and occasional Rubes of lightning, told
of the storms which were raging among their rocky
pante. As the tempest approached the Inkermann
mountain and height' immediately bordering on the
plain, it appeared to gain in all its dimensions and in
intensity. There was at this times marked stillness
over the camp. Suddenly, over the heights, at the
extreme right of our position, a large cloud of dust
was seen to be suddenly drawn up into the air, and
this dark broad column, increasing as it approached.
came with rapid whirls across the front of the camps.
A perfect teens& followed. The air became darkened
as if by a fog, and every effort was required
to lassie tin tants in their places. Heavy rain,
einespaisd by vivid ligktabig and Wad pude de

thunder, stiooesded. The stunt pealed to the north. I
ward, leaving behind it • misty state of the *Amos.
Phcu l which increased the darkness of the evening.
arising from the &been°. of the moos. A constant
firs was kept up by the enemy, u well to guard
against any surprise as to interrupt the operations of
our working parties.

August 9.—Between twelve and dee o'oloelt this
morning, either an attempt at a sortie on the part
of the enemy, or a false alarm respecting one
on the
_part of the French, occurred on the
right. Its moon had not yet risen, bat
the mists which had followed the storm of
the afternoon and the heavy clouds had in a
great degree disappeared; the sky overhead was
clear and starlit ; frequent shooting stars were noise-
lessly gliding through the air; on the horison to the
seaward, flashes of lightning, without thunder,
showed from time to time a dark curtain of clouds.
But in front, along the hostile linos, for some time a
very pandemonium was presented. Incessant noises,
from the deep rambling thunder of the to
the sharp crack of musketry, filled the sir,
was lit up in all directions by the successive flashed
of the gnus and mortars, the sparkling momentary
brilliancy of bursting shells, or the more
prolonged glare of fireballs. An immense
number of shells were thrown from the
Russian batteries; in some instances four or five
rising into the air nearly at the same instant from
one and the same battery. On oar side the direct
fire of heavysuos against the enemy was more re-
sorted to. The French threw many shells. The
musketry fire was very brief, and the sortie was evi-
dently of an unimportant character. The cannon-
ading was continued with vigour until the moon
afforded some increase of light.
Notwithstanding the very heavy fire last night
from the Russian batteries, and the number of shells
discharged into oar works, the casualties were very
limited in number. One officer only was struck,
Lieutenant Nicol Grahams, of the 90th Regiment,
and he was but slightly injured by a piece of shell.
A considerable number of ambulance wagons,
mounted on vulcanised India-rubber springs, and each
intended to accemmodate eight wounded men, have
arrived, for the use of the English army. A Board,
which wee ordered to examine into their efficiency, is
said to have reported them, after a variety of experi-
ments, to be very defective, chiefly on account of the
great amount of unbitten movement to which the
patients conveyed in them most necessarily be sub-
jected. Some mule litters and mole* which have
also arrived, are said to be less easy for the wounded,
than those used by the French. In consequence of
the want of conductors expressly @sleeted for the
duty, men taken (tom the ranks of the army have'
still to be employed in this duty.
The camp was again visited this afternoon by very
heavy storms of rain, and for a time some of the
ravines were converted into torrents, the water of
which was so deep and flowed with such force and
rapidity, that it became a very difficult matter to ford
them. Towards evening the clouds disappeared, and
a fine starlight night followed. A large number of
shooting stars were observed.

August 10.—A clear sunny morning. A refreshing
breeze from the north-wort is moderating the high
temperature caused by the sun's rays. The cholera
is reported to be generally on the decline throughout
the whole of the camps.
Boareely any change_ appears to have been effected
last night in the reMive positions of the siege
works. The Trent% are still working at increasing
the strength and armament of their works,
destined to act against the Russian shipping. They
are said to have now no leo than 34 batteries on the
right, between the Larabeinsia ravine and their posi-
tion at Inkermann.

The Russians are known to be engaged in extensive
works in rear of the Little Redan ; their workieg
parties can be observed from our shippingos,tationed
near the entrance of the roadstead. quanti-
ties of timber are also observed still to be carried into
the long barrack building behind the Redan, and
many of the openings, formerly occupied by the
windows, are now IMO to be supported and strength-
ened by beams of wood.
There was very little fire in the batteries to-day
until about five &clock, when the Redan opened a
heavy fire egaiut our left attack. It was replied to
vigorously, and some excellent hits were made into
the vei embrasures of the enemy's work.
During the last two nights the Russians have
thrown some shots among the tents of our Third
Division. They also performed the same feat five or
six times this morning. It is accomplished by ele-
vating a gen at an angled 46 deg., as if it were a
mortar. The gun employed against the Third Divi-
sion is at the proper right of the Malakhoif works,
and this practice has been retorted to on several
occasions in the course of the siege. The distance
most be about three miles, and it is difficult to imagine,
considering the violent recoil which must be given
to the gin, and probable damage, what compen-
sating advantage the enemy can expect to obtain from
such distant and uncertain shots. We see remarked in
some of the London journals that Admiral Dundee
has discovered a long range by swinging a 32-
pounder at a similar angle. This process was
adopted by the Russians on board one of their large
ships moored at the upper part of the south harbour
on the first establishment of the camps of the allies
before Sebastopol, and by its means they succeeded
in sending shots beyond the commencement of the
left, or Woronsoft ravine.
A new appointment in this army has been made,
having special reference to subjects connected with
small arms, which may lead to very useful results.
Hitherto there has been no distinct and general
superintendence of the receipt, issue, exchanging,
and storing of the various descriptions of rifles and
muskets in use with the army, and confusion and
difficulty have very frequently resulted from want of
this arrangement. There have also been so many
discrepancies of opinion expressed respecting the me-
rits of certain weapons, that the necessity of a sys-
tematic examination into the subject was experienced.
The practical testing of some of these points could
nowhere be followed out so completely as on
the spot where the active warfare was being carried
on, and offered opportunities of examination by
constant daily experience. An officer het, there-
fore, been appointed not only to systematise and
simplify the distribution of small arms, but also to
report from time to time on the advantages and merits
of the various kinds sent out for trial. Lieutenant-1
Colonel Kennedy, of the 18th Regiment, who was
lately chief instructor of the school of musketry at
Hythe, has received this office, and will act, subject
to the directions of the Adjutant-General.
August 11.—The fire in the batteries was as active
as usual lee night. According to their custom of late,
the Russians threw a vast quantity of shells against
our works, and those of the French. The night was
cloudless and starlight.
The weather continues dry and fine.

(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LATE ON THE
DANUBE.)

TURKISH CAMP, KAMARA, AUGIIST 11.
Thus is positively nothing possessing the slightest
interest to be said about the siege operations. Lieu-
tenant Montague, who was taken prisoner a short
time ago, bu ban exchanged, and v now again is
camp. There is a report abroad—l am unable to
vouch for its accuracy—that the Russians showed
him their works, so that he might satisfy himself
with his own eyes of their absolute impreg-
nability ; that he states that there is ditch upon
ditch, battery on battery, abattis upon abattis, and
that, if we wen inside the Mau to-morrow, we
should end ourselves as far 'sever from the object in
view. It all this be true, it is certainly. not very ea
eft. It is added, it tits Imo time, dot sot-

withstanding the diligence with which the French
are pushing on their sap against the Malakhoif, they
cannot effect a footing in it till a number of batteries
on the right have been desheyed.

The destructive of Russian batteries constructed
fa earthwork by the firs of artillery has biasses
proved a very tedious and very difficult business; it
is doubtless now more so than ever, and, taking all
this into consideration, as well as the fact that the
troops of both nation, are arriving so slowly as
barely to fill the vacancies occasioned by disease and
aisullies, without our adding much to the effective
force of the besiegers. and that there are oily two
and a halt months of fine weather still remaining, it is
bard to avoid coming to theeonclusisn that the pros-
pect of say decides success this summer looks very
blue. These is a feeling very generally prevalent
that, until a sufficient force moves from Eupatoris,
or some other point on the coast, so as to out off the
enemy's communication with Perekop and Simphero
pol, there is nothing to be looked for but "weary.
weary, waiting,' and another muddy, wet, sleety.
emery, comfortless winter. There is a good deal
of firing now every night, particularly about
the hour at which the Russians suppose the
trench guard is relieved. Some of the
shot on Friday evening were thrown up
close to the head of the ravine leading down from the
Light Division, and in the Third Division killed an
artilleryman. It is said that on the other side of the
harbour the inhabitants dance and make merry,
merry, and are given in marriage; and the ladies go
aohoppingjust as if the allies were a thousand miles
away, and " the little affair" going on around Malt-
khoff and the Redan nowise concerned them.
Large numbers of carts are seen going in every day.
From the profuse expenditure of ammunition on the
part of the Russians lately, it is supposed that they
have received new supplies. They fire for the shadow of
an excuse, even when the English and French remain
silent, as they frequently do. Lieutenant Evans, of
the 88th, had a narrow escape on Thursday night in
the quarries. His sword hilt was bent by a piece of
• shell. Some of the men have very droll notions
about the capabilities of round shot and bombs. One
of the above regiment informed his captain that a shell
had fallen on thermal' of the backof oneof hiscorsrades
and " hopped off ;" another mentioned that a soldier
had been wounded in the forehead by a round shot,
and",on being asked if he was not dead, said," Oh no ;
it has only dhrawn some blood." The French have
lately received a large number of mortars of the
heaviest calibre at Kamiesch, destination not known,
and superiority over smaller ones doubted, owing to
the great length of time it takes to load them.
You are aware that French and English cavalry
are now quartered in the valley beyond Baidar.
The Woronzuff road, after passing through the
village, mounts the hill in a southerly direction,
and after a long ascent, and on turning a sharp angle,
you come upon something like a triumphal arch,
evidently used as a guard-home by the Russian—
s lofty erection of cut stone, spanning the
road, and through it a view of the sea and of the
bold cliffs below bursts suddenly upon you in all their
summer glory—one of the finest pieces of coast scenery
the eye can rest upon. Attar passing the archway
the road descends gradually, and winds along the sea
shore to Aloupka. Along the whole way villas
abound—villas of generals, counts, princes, and what
not, in which Russian aristocrats passed the summer
months in forgettulness of northern snows, under one
of the finest skies, over one of the boldest coasts in
the world—ending with the Woronsoff Palace, the
most magnificent of all. As a matter of course,
everyone of these is deserted. Very few families
would have courage to await with calmness the
arrival of the captors of Kertcb, and as moat of them
appear to have taken their departure in a hurry,
they have left their furniture behind. All this
private property, by all the laws of war
and honour, we are bound to protect end
leave untouched, or if we can't keep our hands
off it, it ought at least to be appropriated to public
use. An army his no excuse for plundering except
after a battle, and after taking a town by assault,
when of course it is impossible to restrain men hot
from the combat. Here, however, we clear the
country as we advance. For the last fortnight
passes have been regularly issued to French
soldiers to enable them to pass the English
picket at the archway, and baggage mules
and their drivers supplied them to go down to
plunder along the coast. On riding down there the
other day, with some officers, we were stopped by
the cavalry, and while standing enjoying the view,
at least fifty mules and packhorses passed us laden
with chairs, tables, crockery ware, books, bedding,
and beds, lamps, carpets, samovaree for making tea—
in fact, everything you can imagine in a well fur-
nished house. All of these were in charge of French
soldiers, and they had under their orders a number of
the vile horde of Turks, Greeks, and Maltese, who
are employed in the Crimea as drivers, and who, I
suppose, as specimens of cut-throats, might fairly
stand competition with any other set of men in the
world. Finding one or two of the latter alone, they
sold us a few trifles; but on this being discovered by
the French, the delinquents were threatened with the
infliction of sixty blows of a stick each on arriving in
the camp. The officer commanding the picket informed
us that this had been going on from morning till
night for the last fortnight, and the refusal of the
French to sell us anything, as well as their being
all poseessed of passes and employing the transport
males, proved that it was an organised, if not official,
proceeding. But whoever it may be who directs it,
I can only say that I feel happy in the thought that
up to the present the English have taken
no part in it—that it reflects disgrace upon
the allied armies—that it will cause the
population, whenever we advance, if we ever do ad-
vance, to fly us as a horde of brigands, knowing that
bands of plundering ruffians precede our advanced
guard, and that military purr are supplied to the
scum of the Levant, authorising them to waste, to
destroy, or carry away everything they light upon.
When I saw these fellows Sting past me, with pistols
in their sashes, or sabres at their sides, with
villany of every kind stamped on their faces, ferocity
and avarice and bloodthirstiness in their eyes,
cowardice and sensuality in their came mouths, and
saw them quarelling over the spoil on the road back,
like so many hungry dogs over a bone, I could
hardly persuade myself that they were in the French
service ; that all this was going on inside the allied
lines, under the noses of the English cavalry,
and under the guns of French war steamers,
who actually cover the road that these bri-
gands may use it; and endeavoured to con-
sole myself with the hope that surely General
Pelissier is not aware of it—that it is merely the
work of penniless subalterns, and that when he
hears of it he will prevent the French flag and the
common cause from being sullied by acts, whose foul-
ness and abomination is not even palliated by personal
danger in their perpetration. lam glad to say that
the inhabitants had the good sense to run away, or
I should have probably plenty of atrocities to record ;
but some Germans—women amongst the number—
who were employed as spies by the English staff,
have been brutally ill-treated.

Amongst the various curiosities exhibited it the
temporary museum of the Archeological Institute at the
Free Schools was a rare oil painting, on a silver plate, shoot
ten inches by eight inches. The subject is that of the Vir-
gin, with a halo of eleven stars round her head, and crowned,
standing on the entsamt pissed on the dragon, »promoting
Christ's triumph over infidelity. Grouped round the Apure
are cherabims, bearing the conventual symbols of the Vir-
gin, such as the star of the see, the fountain, the mirror, the
palm, dm lily, and the root, &c. The Imes have been
chased out ear to lave them in fiat relief. It wee origiaally
brought from Rome to Lima. South America, about the
year 1623, with other decorations for the church of Bt. Jobs
lof God, and is called "Mantra &mon Puidaur (oat Aga
rut Lail— Shivetatry Jewasi