The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1855.

oar bayonets, sir. Whenever we rigid et them they
drew ham In It is style," at the soma dm beading his
tit ti Matins Wit Ws MM, mid puede. m a seared sad
MM. This Armee eariminme was Melly eellast
Ws comrades, who minds batman law" sand
the gamy fellow ea the bask. "It was herd bismna=l
at lakermaan," was resnasited to • oserwalsfebesehlifr,
dim Overdo, who had mosimill a bayenst Monet in Mk
sheet. "Na,• ws didn't ass this berenMs se mash Mr,
Mink. We knocked the assissi dews with the bell mil
of the mansket. The HMIs Mows Imelda% semi tbs
treMarge at all, sat wo wane hosed to bamourtilem
keep them from nimbi away by knocking them
shout with our muskets." • private of the 17th Light
Enigmas, whom arm has been amputated, was ens of the
pliant sarvimes of the cavalry charge at Sashimi. " Row
did yes fed WINS you got the order %o edemas ?" inquired a
gentleman skein on the bed beside Lisa. " Why, at, I felt
as if I odd Jump from the saddle with sesesery. We
dashed ea at a beautiful pan shwa the hill, cud left
test is Milnest for a countermand of orders. It was one
mindlit Ansi& of sabres. We were at the gam whoa a
ballet hie my swoosh arm, sad I mold to aothing. It was
es bad to tura hack as to go forward, so I followed right
ON Whoa we were retreating m bone stood still es the
WE OM. I sailed to a emerade to help meoff. • Jam, off,'
be WI. '1 sais't." Well, then, throw yeareelf off.' I
did es, andoende my way somehow or other ,to the ambit-
ions* omnit."
" What Mgt gi lightens me the Itemime I" • sorgesst of
the 44th elegiMmat see mahei 0021eptesom brave," he
meweeed.htllel disk was eel nalmarments, but
glislent ms the glnin and Mrs am Eod stuff. If
Mee dim mall tisk ,000, eel , wound, or
rdles. they've set melt Ins chaps."
The CVO the Itemise elm Mt Morals their muskets
when they ire is me imerelly haws. ,* The Romians
mem take aim," observed a private of the 23rd regimes;
" they lead their gar resting it oa the left hip, and Fermat
It hem the right hip when they Ire. They make bad shots,
mad mostly wound us in the legs. The shoulder after all."
It San stated by sous of this sick men that very great
IBMISMILM was tale In the army after the battle of the
Aims. The Russian wounded sad prisoners, they state,
Were Ohm OM el, sad bad plenty to eat sad drink, and
molialiallahlanne, while the allies wen utterly neglected,
sad had What bre days. There mom to be tan 'sympathy
angeas dm man for the Russian mean and amend
implieets mare related of wounded Park= Was their
pieces at ger peseinte men, and stabbing ass while lying
aide by die. This modest led to es mkt keel the Duke
of Coahuila le beak the kaiak of am weeded Ros-
rian. " yea me Me leaskometsh aa.meemled ?" was
a (pestles pat le • pottage at the 44th Regimeat. " No,
but I saw dm Easels. Allem stop from their horses
and stab them with their mionis.' One of the um
said he saw half-a-dozen Reiss at the battle of I Mee-
who were not mon this 100 yards from him, stab a
wsended Englishman. This min was current at fieutari.
Indized there was no doubt is the English ranks that such
:mess was common amongst the Ramiesta, and that their
sot ooly ormaived at, but actually encouraged it.
Amongst the mate remarkable wounds observed was
Om el a youth who had mosived a ballet is one side of
his a... It has penetrated deeply. and has hitherto
baled the skill of the surgeons to extract it. A bullet bad
hem cleverly extracted from the forehead of one man,
having a hole fully an inch deep. A young man, belong-
Mg to the rifle brigade, had received a gunshot wound in
the abdomen at the battle of the Alma, sad it has corn.
pletely doubled him. Another of the wounded had received
• bullet in his• toes, which had posit:Med his foot, and
same out at the instep.
Several Russian trophies are in the
_possession of the Ines.
Om of the Coldstream guards has a Russian knapsack, of
*Manned leather, which he picked up at Inkermann.
There are Russian swords, bayonets, and bras' frontlet& In
abundance. One soldier pond about the wards with a
whoa of a Russian lanes for a walking stick. Another
rommed • book, tams from a military library of the
oilier of the Alms, which was sacked after the battle. It
was a the Greek language, giving a military history of the
Peninsular war.
Whilst the Rev. Rector Campbell and the other members
of the select vestry were inspecting the wards oa Tuesday,
a velvets of the 4th regiment, wounded in the chest, and
who wore a flohnon medal, advaaced towards them, and
said," Gentlemen, we thask the citasesa of Liverpool for
the landaus. we have received since our arrival here, with
nil our hearts. It has quite sheered up our hearts to bad
that we were received so well by our countrymen ; and it
will be the means of exciting others that are now in the field,
when they corns to hear of the kindness done to us, to exert
themselves with all their might in the defence of their
oountry." This manly and straightforward address woo
applauded by the men, and wall expressed the gratified',
they all seemed to feel. The men were also unanimous io their
praise of the surgeon who attended them from Malts, Mr.'
W. P. Pinkerton, 11. D , and his medical assistant. Athough
the building in which the sick and wounoed men were accom-
modated is a workhouse, it is one of the most extensive and
best arranged establishments in the kingdom, and they could
not for a moment have supposed that they were at all de-
graded or neglected by being placed in such quarters. We
stated in our Tuesday's publication that the contractors of
the new words had fitted up the premises. This is an error.
The poor inmates of the establishment volunteered their
services for the purpcee, and prepared the rooms with the
utmost alaeeity and promptitude.
Amongst the horses brought by the Cambria were five
which had seen active service in the Crimes, and belonged
to Lord Cardigan. The animals are put up at the stabl. sot
Kenn. Laces. Ronald, a thorough-bred chesnot gelding,
sad a powerful looking animal, is the horse which his ldrd-
ship rode at the three engagements of Alma, Balsklava,
and lakertason. The other four bones consist of two bay
geldings and two cheroots, and exhibit great muscular
development. Since their arrival here • considerable num-
ber of gentlemen have Tufted the stables to gratify their
curiosity an looking upon animals that have played so im.
portent a part in mazy bloody eneounten. It is very re-
markable that not one of the horses has received a magic
wound.
The invalids speak in the most grateful terms of the ears
and kindness shown towards them by the crew and officers
of the stems ship Cambria. One of them said, " 1 have
been on board many Mips, bat never in one where greater
kindness was shown to the men."
It appears that the Cambria was told off to tow the Sri-
' tennis frigate into action. The crew were proud of the
offer, but they made • demand to the effect that it they
enraged in such service they ought to have the came pay
and privileges es the men of the fleet. The request was
considered a reasonable one, but from some cause or other
the Cambria was not employed in that service. She was
appointed, however, to pick ap any of the vessels which
might be disabled.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

ItsAndq. tb trait out since Saint Thomas's-day
Obi eigulasssisa dim Cameos Oeseeil), wee bold for
the despea /Ma balsam
The siert tree eesegied aeries the greater porticos of
the de/ le the esiestiee of ameibers to Dens a its visions
oometteses.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—A
general meeting of the magistracy of Middlesex was held
day, at the Bessions-hosse, Clerkenwell-green, Mr.
Pownall presiding. The report of the committee for ac.
counts, &c., after alluding to one or two mitten cf little
importance, treated upon the large excise (amounting to
14.686 L 16e. 11d.) of the county stxpeaditure for the year
over that of the year preceding, an excess to be attributed
to an increased number of prisoner*, and a great advance. in
the contract prices of provisions and stores. A county rate
of id. in the pound, and a lunatic asylum rate of id. in the
pound for the nest quarter were agreed to. The report was
adopted. A report was presented from the unwell Lunatic
Asylum • 169 patients were admitted during the year; 30
were discharged, cured ; 13 relieved, or improved ; deaths,
81. Mr Cottrell said that if the parishes sent incurable
patients instead of those recently attacked, the county
would ere long be called upon to erect a third asylum. The
report from Colney Hatch stated that the conditior of that
establishment was most satisfactory. The usual reports
from the prisons were brought up. 1
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONEL—At s meeting

of the council on the 11th instant the following members of
the college were admitted to the fellowship, vis. :—Messrs.
Richard &man, Tavistock, diploma of membership dated
23rd m. 7, 1832 ; Edward Parr Broadbent, Lincoln, 22nd
July, 1838 ; Henry Obro, Dieleomb•-place, Dorset-square,
3rd August, 1838 ; Alexasider William Crosier, Bengal
army, 24th May, 1839. At the same meeting Mr. Jahn
Kirkwood, of Hamilton-place, Ring's-cross, a licentiate of
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, was
admitted an ad erserkes member of the college ; and Dr.
Charles West, of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was elected
a member of the miiwifery hoard in the vacancy occasioned
by the deeease of Dr. James Reid.
BRITISH AND IRISH STEAM PACKET COMPANY.—
The half-yearly meeting of the above company we. held on
Wednesday, at their office in Dublin ; Mr. John Ennis in
the chair. It appeared from the report resat by the secre-
tary that the ordinary trading profits for the year, notwith-
standing the increased price of seals and of all the material.
used in the minimiser of steam navigation, were of an
encouraging nature, enabling the company to divide 5 per
teat. as usual. Allusion was made in the report to the
total less of the Nile, with all on board, towards the eine
of the year. The Nile had been insured for four-fifths of
her value as set down in the company's books—being an
amount much beyond the proportion for which steam pro-
perty is usually insured. The sarplas profits of the year
enabled the &tenon to meet the deticieinT occasioned by
-.this catastrophe; they also admitted of a:considerable sum
being applied towards the liquidation of a loss on capital
account occasioned by the sale 'lithe Shannon steamer at
figure below that at which du stood, after sundry 'odes-
Mons, in the books. The residue of the deficiency under this
head will he more than met by extraordinary profits seem
icy to the company by the charter of two of their steamers
to the government, leaving the income derivable from the
ordinary trade of the current year untouched.—The report
was ananisnosaly adopted.
MAILS FOE AIISTIALIA.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE,

Jixv*ny, 1865.—The General Screw Stesna Shippioe
Company beats unable, in eourpllanos with the terms of
their contract, to provide a steam vessel to °Davey the mails
to Australia in Fibruary ant, the Postmaster General has
consented to the transmission of those mails by the sailing
vessel Boomerang from Liverpool. The Boomerang is sp•
poiated to sail from Liverpool en the 6Sa of February, and
&ll letter. and newspapers for New South Wales, Victoria,
South Australia, and Van Diemen's Land, posted in Lou-
don up to the 'conies of the 6th February, or posyd or
received in Liverpool up to the morning of the Bch Feb-
ruary, and not addressed to be sent by say other vessel,
will be forwarded by the Boomerang. The packet
postage will be chargeable upon letters, but newspapers
will not be liable to any postage. Those postmesters whose
instructions direct them to forward letters to Liverpool by
cross post will send in the tame manner, on the present
occasion, letters posted at their cakes addressed to Australia.