The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-07 00:00:00

alenly me that it waddle be no mesas Attie, or proper for
me, to the iituatlea wish& I hold, that of a high staff 'hoer
of the army. to ewer lath Wu topics.
ll uded is, (Hen, blear., My
end A
endue la the CMS hula, bees a pampa
may, la a taw wards, IA yes low I have been imitied
lase I was mot oat te the asst. It was ray geed
is the first instates M be seat forward by the Commenter-
ia-Ckief with the Light Canby to the our the
Dank. It wee eat well halms where the VIM
at the don whew en MON of Whlria we Being ma I mad
I was ordered fig easeelMs the prides of half army aad
outposts. Fee that parpses, I lied te pallet the whets of
the cesstrY by mesas if deMede ham the ,
troops under my uniathad. UM* aftssuards,
at a very early haw
.4% the asseeph 'tidy"
awl pereePftrY W ""'"'
• lasag-qaarteri praes ~Mad, •
sesatisfactocy to , ...a • HMV
body of gulag mu, had bourses of the le►
dis me, w slop Of &WA' haviag shim bees raised,
being totally ignorant whether
the Utile= ware about to reseed towards Vases sad
attack ear position. or to retreat toward' their own ermany.
Yea eta easily imagine that this was rather an easiest
mod sae that required UN exercise of nu
31eate. We might have come at say mosseat
With linssisa army, or the Rust= outpost'. We
=bever the (sentry, which I may call • perfectly
1 desert; for • datum of 300 miles. For 130 oils
=8 .for
to mated to Trojan's Well,
el the Dubnideelta. We adveaced 110 miles with-
out over ening a homes being. There was met a single
lean M a stase of repair cielahabited ; there was not an
enema to be mesa xcept those whisk inhabit the wildest
regions Maytag e
sustained that the Buda& army bed
returned byffiabadaga, and having given thenuation to the
someasader-la-chief upon that subject ; having seat beak
nay side•de.eamp, Captain Hassey,the geademaa who is
sitting on my right, I then proceeded ea a very isterestMg
much, alone the banks et the Danube to Rats.
auk Silistria, and reamed theses by that grand
filitrem, Okuda, which has bola Mem attacked,
IMIPM taker, it being, Is feet, perfeetly int-
After oar return from these parts to
rambiL .esais the order to proceed to the Crimea. Lad
here, I mut say, that that was a sable andertakleg—Oheas,
hear)—• worthy object of ambition to two great and power
tel satires. Immediately efter we loaded in the Crimea I
was employed, with a strong body of cavalry, artillery, mad
Weary, in eadeneharbig to cut of some Ruston cavalry
which were suppose+ to be marching from Simphnopol, the
capital of the mentay . I an sorry to say that I did not
succeed ; and for this simple reason, that I esidd never
lad Ipso Rilleilleep (Laughter.) Two or three days after
math that Shift lair, the bottle of the Aloe. Lid hen,
I mast say, dish la may bumble judgment, aiding woad be
more yokel than all the prepsratins node by a
great messy hr the attack. After needing MSS
a wide phis he a great disuses, we arrived
suddenly ekes to the fortifications. whoa there
broke ia spa as a of bettenks punted upn
.bat *wand to he sal inseenible heights,
soaking a souse sash sekrati.eni Mood before, mud do
sot thud' I have Maid skis, magas' with the ille-flring
and the Mind ball Issalles. Ilas,
_I ny, wee seen the
advantage of the prepentleme wide had been Iliad' for
the attack. The whole stair boons at sees perfectly
simple. The columns of oar Wesley edish hod marched
imperfect order for atteethimeently hie *me lines,
and &deuced straight dews the talky the river,
moving forward in the oast mugaillesst style. esseading
the bill on the opposite side, marching elrafght WS forte
and batteries which appeared inpregaill=mal diking
est at the point of - the baronet h
of 46,0011 men in the short sass of two here sada=
The ana of the kale la widah I served had met the beam
of bens napes' la NOW, bimodal* ea that essaien
We sat mess our bases toter a heavy Ike kr a keg thee,
sad in that titles witasesed the glestens uplift et eat
brother ooldfs e. (Cheers.)_ Been able this event mama
the Battle at Salaams. Unfortmatelya at Ms esonisme-
seat, our elks, the Turks, anoint& link snake la •
very short time, without having eamdel a nay sealent.
Late in the afternooa I readied es mew to attack
the enemy in as valley. The limin tutees Is
the valley wadded of a hag Rae Of pas draws
up Is the shape of batteries. I reeelhei that maw,
my lord, sad I obeyed it. (Traionikas Om)
I delivered that order myself to the brigade raw =
mud. I ordered them to much ; lliedered them Ile
I ordered them to attack the Reedees in the valley. AM,
my lord. I meet sey this, that, it Wag sei duty to (teethe
order to them, I did give it, sad, *ugh I deeply .41.1151
it at the time, I am sure I airs haw mesh men deeply
regretted it afterwards if eaytidag bad pronated r uwer
forming the rest M my duty, Whines to due the
with my men. (Loud cheers.) Whatever then
rasa incurred I shared it with be.. (Bamim Awe)
'deuced do en a gradual dismal of sees then One
quarters of a mile, with Wads, mai*g hob shells
sad round sad grape het, with no battery on
the right desk and usher on tho left, all e
iatermediate penal beiag covered with Ranks sidemen;
no that when In bad got down within • datum of fifty
yards from the masks of the Rossi= aztlitery whisk bed
"la URI Offl! Sep we were is ea{ sausoggagg by a blue
el be,
_in alines to dot of the datisseavwhe bed upon
• k Ink. As in astemle4 ate hill the oblique fire of
the salakry bras made to *yes oar rear. We bad, there-
=stem fire in heat, k the rear, sad ea bath of our
We entered the balawy—we west knee R—
oma sheen)—the two leaks regimens anew dews a
peat amber of the Inept guano. Is the two regi-
ments whirl I had the beam to lead, ellen, with
gem inesptin, was either killed or vrmtMsd himself,
or had his Mese killed or wounded. Thom regiments were
*Dewed I. their sinus by the asses' Rm. consist-
tag et two awe snaky Nakano, whisk samthisol tumor
Own the duty efontki dews the Russian gussets. Then
sum the third lime, anyesed of analaw regiment, which
soileavoursd to 11111n0110111 Sk• duty assigned to the brigade.
I believe that the work was due with great
omen The result was, that this body of about
OR ma succeeded in passing through the mass of Russian
eavalsy, which, as we have learned since, was 6,200 suing—
gibters)—sad having broken through that mass, they went,
asesediag to our technical military expresion, " Threes
about." and retired in the same way, doing as much execs-
des la Ask sewn as they possibly could upon the Russian
Whisky. Oa returns( up the hill, which we bad
Amnia k nabs ear attack, we had to ran
tba Millefilarlielatt sad to lane the nine risk,
km km jut to
*Olean that we had soma.
bulls adoinkg. Illembers of oar ma were shot down,
twat mad IMMO wire
IM Idallilsd many of those
moirtnaabe woo who hod their hones were
last tibia fialmaidai to wake their ways. Sat
slot was the Wks she what the busks et these
Wks »hyoid 1 Mere the noble and pikes Meer was
sitiently overseen with emotion.] Of ash Missal than
returned but a snail detachment, two.thirle If the ma
having been destroyed ; and those who did return,taMav-
is; at the summit of the hill wheats they had ....weed
the attack but a short time before, gave three cheers ef
triumph and *rejoicing at the exploit which they
had performed. (Loud sheers.) They had ridden
over a Russian battery, and attacked a manillas body el
Bastian cavalry is the rear. (Cheats) It has been staled
that the British lanky are of a very inferior description,
and main a thamesk_nium—that they are badly old-
meted, isles es■mawd by gentlemen of too high a rank in
the catant7, sail that iheyeeat to be better officered. Oa
that gutsiest I wlil ealks: , that Ido not think you
will find say body of more careful of their men dust
those who new exist sad perform the duties, or that you
find any regiments in the world in which there
penile sash a mutual attachment between officers and men
as there is to the British unary. (Cheers.) The cease'
an at all times perfectly ready to assist sad to attend to the
comforts of their men. The men are as attached to their
slam, that wherever thou ofilun lead them, in the nun
of hirer sad glory, the men are sure to follow. (Chun.)
In oadinies. I will only say that in the minds of these
who escaped is the cavalry charge to whisk I bus referred,
there are reflections of which they cannot divest them.
salves. I think every man who war engaged in that affair,
and who has been fortunate enough to survive it, must fed
that it was only by a merciful Providence that he was saved
hem the peril et death that could possibly be ima-
gined. rarthear.)
Some formal toasts followed, and the company retired at
an early hour.