The Press.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

The following comparison of the supplies of men,
horses, and material lately sent, or about to be
despatched, to the army in the Crimea, with the
requirements of theservice, is published by the
Times :

We believe that from the commencement of the cam-
paign of the Crimea up to the present time there have
been despatched some 7,IXX) men to reinforce the army.
Of these some have arrived anti been engaged in active
conflict; others, for instance the 40th, have probably
reached the camp since the 2741 i ; some may even yet be
on their way. 'These reinforcements are principally node
up of detachments sent to complete the void which dis-
ease or battle has left in the ranks of our regiments. In

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no more useful form oould reinforcements be sent, though
also in none which would leas attract the public eye, or
wake a smaller show on paper. Adulating this, we must
still think that such reinforcements, even if they had

already arrived, are but a small addition to an army ex-
posed, as ours has been, to the ravages of a devouring pes-
tilence, as well as to the attacks of an enemy greatly
superior in numbers, in resources, and in knowledge of
the country. War has a devouring maw, which must con-
stantly be fed, and even in times of the greatest ease and
inaction, when large bodies of men are gathered together,
he never foregoes his daily banquet. We are not, we be-
lieve, too presumptuous in hoping that the losses of the
siege and of the actions which have been fought may, by
the supplies already sent, be pretty well compensated, and
that for the future, in order to raise our army to its original
efficiency, all that is required will be the supply of 10,000
men to take the places of the sick, who, we fear, amount
to fully that number. The following is an outline of the
manner in which it is intended to accomplish this object:—
It is intended to send to the Crimea one more battalion of
the Guards, the 97th Regiment from the Piraeus, the
02nd from Gallipoli, the :14th from Malta, the 71st from
Corfu, the Yana from Edinburgh, and the 90th from
Ireland. There will be no difficulty, we understand,
in obtaining the services of an amount of any militia that
may be repaired to do garrison duty in the fortresses thus
left unganisoned, so that this very considerable reinforce-
ment can be sent without running any risk, or stripping
the empire of any of its necessary defences, nor are the
111e9218 wanting of supplying this great additional train on
our resources. Notwithstanding the Peace Society, not-
withstanding the increased demand for labour in all rades
and occupations, we are recruiting at the rate of 1,000
men a week, and have as little fear of wanting the raw ma-
terial of soldiers as if we had a legion of spies and a whole
army of crimps to cutoree the utmost rigours of conscrip-
tion. The martial and adventurous spirit of the nation to
roused by the stining tidings which almost every post
brings to our shores ; and the service has regained in the
midst of a bloody and desperate war that popularity which
it, was in some danger of losing in the piping times of
peace. The cavalry regiments at Lonnie will nut be wet
abroad, but will serve ILS training schools for the recruits
of the regiments on foreign service. it is intruded to
raise each troop to seventy-five men and to add two troops
to each regiment, which will give a total increase of 1,500
sabres to the force in the Crivea ; and, besides, all defi-
ciency occasioned by casualties is to be made up. It is
proposed to purchase for the use of the cavalry seasoned
horses instead of three-year olds, as better able to bear the
fatigues and privations of a ciuupsign, and less liable to
injury by a long voyage.
The following infantry battalions will constitute
the reinforcements to be despatched immediately :
The tat battalion of the Grenadier Guards.
The :34th Regiment, now at Corfu.
The 62d Regiment from Malta.
The 71st Highland Light Infantry from Corfu.
The 90th Light Infantry from
The 97th Regiment from Athens.
The 82nd Regiment, new at Edinburgh, will not be sent
to the East, as stated.

The Europe steamer, belonging to the Cunard
Company, was expected to arrive ►n Kingston harbour
to-day (Saturday) to receive on board the LKlth Re-
giment, which musters 1,00(1 strong.
A 3 regards the cavalry, au arrangement has been
come to different from what was or►ginally intended.
Instead of sending out the cavalry regiments on
home service as regiments, the effective men of
those corps will be incorporated with the regiments
now in the Crimea, so as to bring them up to such a
strength as a cavalry regiment in time of war should
possess. Each cavalry regiment in the Crimea will
be made up to eight troops of 75 men each, or COO
in the whole, besides the regimental staff. The
officers of the cavalry regiments at home will not be
transferred to those abroad, but will remain with
their own corps, and will be usefully employed in
keeping up an effective supply of trained man and
horses to the regiments abroad. Owing to the recent
losses, the ten cavalry regiments now in the Crimea
cannot be said to muster I,OtXO men. When the new
arrangements are carried into effect they will be in-
creased by 5,000 men, and from the regiments at
home there will be no difficulty in at once supplying
2,000 of this number.
The Yen►nsular and Oriental Company have
notified that they have rece►ved " imperative ►rders
from Government to prepare the Candle, Ripon,
and other large steamers for the transport of troops
to the Crimea." _ _

The Royal Albert, 121, screw steamship, Captain
Sir T. Palley, has been ordered to Portsmouth, whero
she is expected to sail for the Black Sea with troops
almost immediately. She is capable of conveying
from 1,500 to 2,000 men
On the side of our allies, preparations are busily
proceeding for a speedy and large supply of rein-
forcements to their army. A despatch from Paris on
Thursday stated that two new French divisions are
about to sail for the East, and all preparations are
being made at Toulon and at Marseilles for their
departure before the end of the month.
Of the additional reinforcements from Varna and
Gallipoli, 9,000 had already arrived at the data of
General Cattrobert's last despatch, which, with other
reinforcements before Sebastopol, gave the French
general 08,000 troops. The effective number is of
course less. The late reinforcements from France

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amount to 14,000, of which, however, only a portion
had landed at the Crimea.
The divisions of Generals Dulac and De Salles,
who had been sent to the camp of the south, received
orders last week to embark at Toulon. These two
divisions are now on their way to the Crimea.
The English Government has placed transports
at the disposal cf the French Government, and
the greatest activity prevails at Toulon and
Marseilles.
The dock labourers work on Sundays and fête
days, the orders from the Ministry of Marine being
daily more and more pressing. Twelve hundred men
are working at gun-boats alone. The Sentinelle says
that six more ships from the Baltic fleet are, as soon
as they have completed the repairs they are making
in the ports of Brest and Cherbourg, to come to
Toulon totake out troops.
Besides the sixteen gun-boats now building at the
four naval dockyards, M. Nurmand, the well-known
ship-builder at Havre, has received orders to build
four gun boats on the same plan, thus making a
total of twenty. The steam-engines for these boats
are being made at Indret.
A number of floating batteries are in progress of
construction at Brest. About 20,000 kilogrammes of
iron plates, intended for those batteries, have already
arrived there, and more are expected shortly.
Directions have been given to the military opera-
fives of the different regiments to suspend for a time
whatever work they have on hand, in order to finish
off, with as little delay as possible, a supply of great-
coats for the army of the East.
THE CIRCASSIAN WAR.
We read in the Times letter from Constanti•
nople :
The British embassy is endeavouring to recover the
Russian ladies who were carried off by the Daghistanees
in their late foray on the villages north of Tiflis. Letters
have been written to Schamyl, and three persons are se-
parately endeavouring to open a communication with him.
It would be a great thing to be assured of this warrior's
existence. He is always named as the supposed leader of
the Lesges and neighbouring tribes who inhabit the Eastern
Caucasus, but that he is still alive and conducts their
movements we have no proof. Such pieces of intelligence
as that " Schamyl has offered 50,000 men to the Porte,"
" Schamyl has totally defeated the Russian army in Asia,"
are favourite efforts of Perote and Bucharestian invention ;
but the fact is, that for some time past we have no certain
knowledge of the celebrated leader. Emir Bey, a man
who has done much iu the Western Caucasus, was origi-
nally the Naib or Lieutenant of Schamyl, but no com-
munication has passed between them for three or four
years. The tribes which he used to influence have
of late been very active against the Russians, and this
gives reason to suppose that he still preserves his rigour
and authority ; but he is so little known, and so much that
is mythical has been mixed up with his real actions, that
an enterprising traveller who could give us some trust-
worthy information would be a benefactor not only to the
cause of the allies but to those who take nn interest in a
most singular passage of the world's history.
STATE OF THE BESIEGED.
A letter, stated to have been received from a Rus-
sian officer belonging to the garrison of Sebastopol,
and dated Oct. 24, is published in the Kreutz Lei-

bung :
After being bombarded for eight days the town has in-
deed suffered a good deal, but the fleet is unhurt; only the
steamer Vladimir has got two balls in her. The sailors
who man the works erected by Col. Todtleben suffer the
most. The resistance seems to irritate the besiegers, for,
for the last few days, they have been firing with red-hot
balls. You cannot escape them anywhere in the town. If
the bombardment lasts long the streets of the southern
part will be, so to say, paved with iron. The sailors under
Todtleben are, as it were, the living bulwark of the Crimea.
They are admirable ! Nachimoff, who formerly had never
been outside a horse, is now continually riding along the
linos of batteries. In his own concise manner he ad-
dresses his sailors, who adore him. The mural influence
of such men makes them saviours in great crises. Men-
schikoff,' too, does not spare himself. As he was lately
riding along the fortifications in the briskest of the fire,
the artillerymen called out to him, " This is not the place
for your Highness !" The commander of a bastion said to
him, " Have you come here because you do not trust us ?
I swear to you we shall all of us to the very last do our
duty." "Then let me also do mine," said the Prince,
calmly. I)annenberg will arrive at Sebastopol on the '2nd
or 3rd of November.
A French officer who had escaped from Sebastopol,
after having been taken prisoner, states that he saw
several persons hanging—he thought Poles—who had
been suspected of treason. Women and children
were employed, and forced to work. All who showed
the least indifference were immediately hung.
EUPATORIA.
This town appears to be at present in a state of
siege. Its occupation, in deference to the wishes of
the admirals, was reluctantly assented to by the ge-
nerals. The former were anxious to have a footing
at a place whence they could obtain stock for the
army and fleet, and in this respect their views have
been fully carried out, for no sooner was the place
occupied than the Tartars poured in with their flocks
and herds from all the surrounding villages; great
numbers of the males at the same time throwing off

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all allegiance to the Russians, and, being supplied
with muskets by the French, formed themselves into
a sort of irregular horse, who are daily skirmishing
with the Cossacks. The place is at present gar-
risoned by 1,500 Turks and 900 English and French,
and the two principal roads leading into the town are
defended by earthworks, in which have been placed
six 24-pounders from the ships. Meanwhile the fort,
the beach, almost the whole place, is crowded with
flocks and herds, the place being on the 20th
threatened by 4,000 cavalry and four guns. However,
it was not supposed that the Russians now dare to
make an assault.
INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE.
Prince Menschikoff boasts, in one of his despatches,
that a body of Russians in a sortie effected an entrance
into a French battery and spiked some guns. The following
passage, in a letter from Lieut. Image, of the 21st, gives a
true version of the affair :—" The night before lust, Oct.
20, a party of one officer and about 60 Russians came out
of the town, and advanced to the French works. When
they were challenged, the officer answered in French that
they were friends, and not to fire on them, and they were
taken into the batteries. They appeared to have no arms
about them. But they had not been long in the battery
before they set to work to spike the guns. This being a
most unfriendly proceeding, the officer was seized, and the
men were turned over the parapet and shot before they
got back, but they had spiked six guns."
A series of hand-to•hand encounters go on between our
skirmishers and those of the enemy all day long, and in
which our fellows are uniformly successful. They go out
to these encounters with almost childish delight, and the
escapes of some of them seem almost miraculous. In
one of these encounters a rifleman was taken on the 26th,
and carried prisoner into the Russian trenches. There,
in the presence of our army, he succeeded in killing and
wounding three of the enemy, broke through all who tried
to stop him, scrambled over the Russian works, and though
whole volleys of shot were sent after him, and he was pur-
sued by hundreds, he contrived to elude all, and reached
our camp amid tremendous cheers. Lord Raglan, to mark
his successful gallantry, made him a present of 51., and
paid him a high compliment on his courage and activity.
The following details respecting the francs tireurs are
given in a letter from a Zouave to his father. They are
published by the Journal de liaine•et•Loire:—" I am almost
like a poacher ! I go out every day to shoot Russians !
This is the way we do it: As early as two o'clock in the
morning, our toilette completed—and that of a Zouave is
not long—we leave, carrying with us ammunition, and one
or two biscuits. Arrived in the intrenchments we take
sandbags, a spade, and a pickaxe ; then, at a given signal,
we leap from the parapets with the rapidity of deer, and
establish our homes close to the forts. There we dig a
hole, a sort of warren to hide ourselves in. We place our
bags to protect us, and our residence is then terminated.
We remain in these holes all the day, and it is not until
night is rather advanced that we are permitted to leave
them. This we often do amidst a shower of grapeshot.
You will ask me, my dear father, what we do in the holes
all day. Very good work, I assure you. We fire almost
as fast as we can load, and every discharge demolishes a
Russian artilleryman. The other day two officers climbed
up a large pole on the summit of a tower opposite my
lodgings, and they began to examine our works. With
two shots I brought them both down. Then a storm of
balls, shells, and grapeshot, was directed against us; but,
happily, we were so near the forts that it passed over our
heads without touching any one of us."
Captain Fellowes, who was despatched with a flag of
truce, had an interview with General Cortschakoff, in the
valley of Balaklava, on the 25th, and ascertained that
Cornets Clowes and Chadwick were prisoners and wounded,
but well treated.
PATRIOTIC FUND.
A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster
was commenced on Thursday at St. Martin's-ball.
Shortly after two o'clock the High Bailiff took the
chair, and there were present the Earl of Aberdeen,
the Bishop of London, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., end
several other noblemen and gentlemen. In conse-
quence, however, of the wet weather and the thin
attendance, it was determined to adjourn the meeting
until that day fortnight, on which occasion the Earl
of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, and the Earl of
Granville, will speak.
In Ireland the subscriptions continue to pour in
liberally. The Lord-Lieutenant has contributed
2001., and also subscribed DM. in England. The
Provincial Bank of Ireland has subscribed 3001.,
and the Vicar of St. Andrew's, Dublin, 1001., towards
the fund.
RETURNS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
'The non-arrival of Lord Raglan's despatches of the
18th October left the list of casualties published in
our last number incomplete, so far as the returns of
loss in the land forces on the first days of the bom-
bardment were concerned. These despatches have
now been received by the War-office, and the follow-
ing list accordingly comprises the return for the periods
between the 13th and 17th and between the 22nd
and 211th ult., inclusively. The returns for the inter-
mediate days (18th to 21st inclusive) appeared in the
last PRESS :

INFANTRY.

Staff-1 officer killed.
Artillery-2 rank and file killed ; 1 sergeant, 25 rank and file
wounded.
3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards-1 officer, Captain Rowley,
killed ; 11 rank and tile wounded.
Ist Regiment of Foot-4 bracer wounded; 1 rank and file
killed, 10 wounded,

SATURDAY,

7th Foot-11 rank and tile wounded.
19th Foot-1 sergeunt, 1 drummer, and 10 rank and file
wounded.
20th Foot-2 rank and file killed, 6 wounded.
21st Foot-2 rank and tile wounded.
23rd Foot-7 rank and tile wounded.
28th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
30th Foot-2 officera and 1 sergeant wounded; 6 rank and file
killed, 22 wounded.
33rd Foot-1 sergeant, 4 rank and file wounded.
38th Foot-1 rank and tile lulled ; 1 sergeant, 10 rank lied
file wounded.
41st Foot-1 officer wounded; 1 rank and file killed, 9 wounded.
42nd Foot-1 sergeant, 1 rank and tile wounded.
44th Foot-3 rank and tile killed; 1 officer, Lieutenant Wood
(slightly), 1 sergeant, 5 rank and tile wounded.
47th Fout-2 rank and tile killed, 11 wounded.
49th Foct-2 officers, 1 sergeant, and 1 drummer wounded; 1
rank and tile killed, 16 woundd.
50th Foot-2 officers wounded ; 1 sergeant, 8 rank end file
wounded.
55th Foot-1 officer, Ensign Twysden, slightly wounded.
57th Foot-1 officer wounded; 3 rank and file wounded.
Ord Foot-1 rank and tile wounded.
Beth Foot-1 °dicer, Assietaut-Surgeon O'Leary, 3 rack and
file killed and 3 wounded.
77th Foot-2 milk and file killed, 2 wounded.
79/11 Foot—l rank and file wounded.
88th Foot-1 officer Mounded; 1 sergeant, 8 rank and tile
killed; 1 se. gearlt, 20 rank cud tile wounded.
95th Foot—l sergeant wounded; 1 rank and file killed, 8
wounded.
let Battalion Ride Brigade-1 rank and file killed; 1 sergeant,
4 rank and tile wounded.
2nd Battalion Ride Brigade-3 rank and file killed ; 1 drum-
mer, 12 rank and tile wounded.
Total: 3 officers, 1 sergeant, 35 rank and file killed; 12 officers,
12 sergeants, 3 drummers,
AVALI C 225 rank and tile wounded.
t
Staff-2 officers killed ; 4 officers wounded.
4th Light Dragoons-2 officers, 5 sergeants, 3 drummers. 24
privates, 50 horses, killed; 2 officers, 1 sergeant, 21 privates
wounded.
eth Hussars-2 officers, 3 sergeants, 23 privates, 38 horses,
killed; 2 officers, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer. 14 privates, wounded.
11th Hussars-2 sergeants, 30 privates, 72 horses, killed; 3
officers, 3 sergeants, 20 privates, wounded.
13th Light Dragoons-3 officers, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 20
privates, 76 horses, killed; 2 sergeants, 14 privates, wounded.
17th Lancers-8 officers, 1 sergeant, $2 privates, 92 horses,
killed ; 4 officers, I sergeant. 2 drummers, 31 privates, wounded.
4th Dragoon Guards-1 pnvate, 1 horse, killed ; 2 sergeants,
3 privates, wounded.
let Royal Dragoons-2 privates, 10 horses, killed ; 4 officers,
1 sergeant, 1 drummer, 5 private*, wounded.
2nd North British Dragoons-2 privates, 14 horses, killed ;
4 officers, 5 sergeants, 48 privates, wounded.
oth Dragoons-2 privates, horses, killed ; 3 sergeants, 10
privates, wounded.
sth Dragoon Guards-2 privates, 19 horses, 2 officers,
9 privates, wounded.
Royal Artillery-1 officer, 2 sergeants, 4 privates, killed; 2
officers, 1 sergeant, 23 privates, wounoed.
Royal Engineers and Sappers and Miners-9 privates,
wounded.
Total: 1.3 officers, le sergeants, 4 drummers, 142 privates, 3el
horses, killed; 27 officers, 21 sergeants, 4 drummers, 199 privates,
wounded.
In the Naval Brigade, the following is the list of
casualties:—
Oct 23.—Wounded, 5. Oct. 21.—Wounded, 6 (one, James Sim.
mons, H.M.S. Queen, died of his wounds). Oct. 29.—Nune.
Oct. 26.—Killed. James Coleman, TN/Wear; wounded, 2.
Total : Killed, 5; Woundecl,l2.
The following is the nominal return of the casual-
ties among officers from Oct. 22 to 20, both inclu-
sive.
Staff—Lieutenant-General the Earl of Lucan, wounded slightly;
Brigadier-General the Hun. J. Y. Scarlett, slightly ; Captain the
Hon. W. Charteris, killed ' • Captain George Lockwood, killed or
missing; Lieutenants H. F. Masse and A. I. slightly.
sth Dragoon Guards—Lieuteuunt F. H. Swiufen, wounded
althttly ;
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Yorke,
Captains
W. de Elnisall cud George Campbell, and Cornet W. W. Harwpp,
wounded severely.
2nd Dragoons—Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Griffith, wounded
slightly Captain G. C. Clarke and Cornet Lenox. Prendergast,
severely; Curvet H. E. Handley,
4th Light Dragoons—Major J. T. D. lialkett and Lieutenant
H. A. Spurke, killed; Captaius U. J. Brown and Thomas Hutton,
wounded severely.
Bth Hussars—Lieutenant J. C. Viscount Fitzgibbon and Cornet
G. Clowes, killed or missing; Lieutenant D. Clutterbuck and
14811/808/1/ and Adjutant Edward Seeger, wounded slightly.
Hussar—Captiu E. A. Cook aud Lieutenant It Trey&
lyan, wounded slightly; Cornet G. I'. Houghton, neve' ely.
13th Light Dragoons—Captain J. A. Oldham, killed; Captain
T. H. Goad and Cornet H. Montgomery. missing.
17th Lancers—Captain J. P. Winter, Lieutenant J. H. Thomp-
son, and Cornet and Adjutant J. Chadwick. killed or missing;
Captains William Morris, Robert White, A. F. C. Webb, Lieute-
, neut. Sir William Uordou, wounded severely.
Artillery—Caption S. Childers, killed; Captain E. Moubray
and Lieutenant J. E. Hope, wounded slightly.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant .1. M. Brown, wounded
slightly.
30th Regiment—Captains F. T. Atcherley and P. Bay e)',
wounded slightly.
41st Regiment—Lieutenant H. C. Harriett, wounded severely.
43th Regiment—Lieutenant J. A. Conolly, wounded danger-
ously ; Ensign P. Cahill, severely.
50th Regiment--Brevet:Major Hon. J. P. Maxwell, wounds
slightly.
57th Regiment—Lieutenant H. J. Buller, wounded severely.
88th Regiment—Lieutenant and Adjutant L. D. Maude,
wounded severely.
to Brigadler-General Airey Captain L. E. Nolan,

OFFICIAL STATEMENTS of the results of the Public.
house Act in Dundee show that, during the period
from 15th May to 24th October, of this year, there
have been 663 individuals fewer brought before the
police court for Sabbath offences than during the
same period of 1853; the number of cases having
also diminished by 377. Of the crimes that are
with special propriety attributed to the inspiration
of public-houses—drunkenness and disorderly con
duct—there has, during the same period, been
diminution of 201, or, as nearlf as ma). be, fifty per
cents