The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

On kb, • extraordlaary fact resulting from the
last number of the London Gazette, that the creation
el three field marshals was part of the machinery
necessary to the due rewarding of Lieutenant-General
Elimpeon's services in the Crimea by making him a
full General, the Promo has the following sarcastic
observation :—" We see by these nominations that the
military hierarchy is more complicated in England
than in France."

The following telegraphic deepatchea have been
received in Paris :

HAMBURG, OCT. 3.

sight Br.glish vessels arrived on Sept. 27 before Riga,
and bombarded the Duoamunde batteries and the village of
Barlien during several hours. _ -

TIIIIITI. OCT. 8.

Accounts have beau received from Constantinople to the
24th. 13,000 men of the Anglo. Turkish contingent have
left for Verna, when they will take up their winter quar-
ters. The Ottoman government has not received any con-
firmation of the cheek which the Russians were reported to
have met with near Kan. Omer Pacha is concentrating
50.000 nun near Chetketie, a fort on the frontier of Asia,
which toe Turks took from the Russians at the commence-
ment of the war.

VIIINNA, OCT. 2.

No clofirmation of the latest news from the Crimes which
announced the retreat of the Russians, ham yet been re•
ceived here.

A letter from an officer at Sebastopol, in the Con-
stittilionnel, says :
It was a corperal of the Ist Zonaves who planted the
first French standard on the Malakholf. His name is
Eugene Liban', of Paris. It was G 1 MacMillan's
standard of the Ist division, the hoisting of which was to
be the signal for the attacks on est other points. The
General gave him the standard with his own hands, with'
the words, " This is the sigoal•flag ;go " Libaut was
the first to spring cut cf our trenches. While getting into
the enemy's ditch, he was struck by a stone, but notwith-
standing the pain, he scaled the parapet in the midst of a
h sil.storzn of projectiles of every kind, and at length
planted the flag around which oar brave soldier; soon
Hiked, and maintained their ground.

Tile same letter says:
Eighteen women 12.0 remained in the town were made
prisoner,. At lint it was thought they bad been left be
hind to tire the mines, but it was soon found that such was
not the case. They are treated with every respect.
A letter from Odessa, of the 19th, says :

Otficial accounts state that the Emperor will return to
this place to leave for the interior of the empire; but some
persths pretend that to will go to the Crimea to encourage
thy army to perseverance. Oenerol Ancenkoff, Governor-
General of the Crimea, bas interdicted the sending
of merchanthze and provisions into the province,
the stocks on hand being alresoy so large, he
gap, that they cannot be disposed of. On the
other band, the h Arch of reinforcements for the
Crimea has been stopped. Ail these circumstances
cense it to be all: posed that our affairs are not going on
we,l is the Crimea. Traveller. sad couriers are our only
sources of intormation, and they tell us that the main body
of our army is concentrated from Eimpluropol and Bakte,,i•
Semi to Bithankoi and Avonkoi, and that stroog detha-
vents of cavalry have advanced from Lushes by Les and
Tulat, on the road to E.npatoria.
A letter from Braila states that two Greek mer-
chants of that town went mad on learning the fall of
Sebastopol, and that another at Bucharest was struck
with apoplexy for the eume reaaon. The same .ever
states that one Swedish and three Greek relOkaii have
foundered at the mouth of Suline, and rerdered :he
wasp still more difficult, there being cow no mare
than one fathom of water over the bar.

THE CRIMEA.

The following is an extract from an Odessa letter
of the 19:h ult., published in the Military Gazette of
Vienna :

"It is noticed with suspicion that the Governor- I
General of the Crimea has countermanded and pro-
hibited
the further introduction of provisions and
goods into that peninsula, on the ground that the
stores already accumulated there are in excess. It
isalsothought singular that the reinforcement of the
army in the Crimea has been suspended. Whatever ex-
planation may be given of these facts, the universal
opinion of the public here !s that things are going
on badly in the Crimea, and that we are on the eve
of great events. The lose of Sebastopol we cannot
get over. People ask why something was not done
on the Tchernaya during the last three days of the
bomb►rdment. It might not have averted, but it
would have delayed the fall of the place, and the
shock cau.ed by the event would have been less
when at last it must take place. Why, they say,
was not Nachimoff encouraged in his noble desire to
go out with the ships, and sacrifice grandly in battle a
fleet which was known to be foredoomed to destruc-
tion ? It would have at least gained the respect of
the enemy, and perished with honour."
What we know of the positions occupied by the
army in the Crimea is gleaned from the statements of
travellers and couriers, but all their statements agree.
They tell us that the main body of the Russian army
occupies a line from Duvankoi to Avankoi, Bak:chi-
Semi, and Simpheropol, and that strong cavalry corps
are advarced from Sarabus, by way of Lee and Tulat,
1 on the road to Enpatoria.
The Military Gazette of Vienna publishes the
following :

The demonstration—so often declared and en often de
ni .d—of the Allic• from Ripatoria anneare, after all, to he
matte about to he made. Prince Gottchakoff reprrta on
the 23rd that nearly 30,000 men are concentrated at that
.pot, that his left wing is repeatedly alarmed, and that on
the 22nd there was a enllisi,m with the Russian infantry,
atttr which the allies withdrew to Urkusti ; dercend?d.
however,the plateau again on the 23rd, and repaired a road.
Siec• Urkusti,nr it'ulcasta, lies to the north-easr of the right
hank of the Teherneye, and Russian detachments stood
he the Bth of Sentember near Bink Miskamia, en the
I.ft bank of the Tot...roam it results from the above
~e•pateh that the district of the Tehernaya is in
the herds of the Allier, and th,t the Russians
have rtationed their left wing in Tchnlia and Nandi, their
centre near Mattoon Kaleh and Mackenzie's farm, and
their right wing beyond Inkermann se far as the north
f -Tep, while the bulk of their army is at Baktch, Semi.
The attack on the Russhin left wing near Tehulia, if
rrpeat'd end successfully followed un, may be intended to
produce the evacuation of the positions mentioned above,
and thus force the Rtlgfialla to fall back on their main
body. The difficulties of the ground are, nevertheless, of
such a deseription, that a practicable route for c anon only
,slats steno the reenter resd beyond the Tcherneya, near
'
I Kant Mnet ferns, through Khutor Mekenaia, then across the
Belbek, near Khutor. The possession of this road must first
he ',cured before any furthtr tffens.tre operations GM be
carried on.