The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

Th. French journals publish with expressions of
satisfaction reporte of the improving condition of our
army. The Debuts gives insertion to a letter dated
Balaklava, Feb. 2, in which we read :
Oar allies are now in full restoration as they phrase It.
Provisions abound, the soldier has already forgotten that
hs was sin epos half rations, the winter clothing is distri-
buted, and barracks are beginaing to cover the quay of lir,
lablan. Keay of the men are dressed i• Hungarian fur
coats, and wear immense waterpooof bone. The improved
state of the weather hem greatly contributed tethers uselle-
name. The lately impassible gorge of Balaclava may now
be travelled with little difficulty. The Ind transport ser-
ving, meireeser, is now executed with considerable rapidity.
thanks is the rtieforeement of 260..niules brought by the

steamer Trent, saagustioent animals from Alienate, under
this eentrel of 46 Spanish and Maltese muleteers. I met •
Ms of them yesterday, ear:yang up the materials of the
wades hews.

The Journal de Loiret publishes another letter
from before Sebeatopol, by an officer of the 27. de

Yon are aware that we have had to come to the aid Of
the English, who are c►arged with one of the most impor-
taat polite of attack, and there was a rumour even that
they were going to resign their works to us altogether, and
become a oseps of observation. Bat whatever poet they
occupy, they will do their duty at It bravely. If they srenot
skilled in working with the pickaxe, they don't hang back
OK the day when it comes to wielding their weapons. We
ten depend oa them.
Our trenches ate now at certain spots, and particularly in
the third parallel, real works of art. Being at least tea feet
deep, they are on the side next the fortress kept almost
vertical by a facing of huge stones, quite as strong in their
bond es the best masonry. Even with the n►tural level of
the ground raw a narrow ledge or banquette for the sea.
tinels to stand on, and they are perfectly sheltered behind
the monads of earth thrown up from the ditches. At
In-
tervula there ere wide flights of steps, that enable the men to
go up to the top ; and lastly, by way of a finish, they have
stretched iron wire all along up to the top, so that when the
Russians wish to dash down into the trenches they will be
tripped up and fall head foremost.
This is not very courteous, perhaps, but It is a very fair
reprisal ; thee' Ramiro gentry use a great away treks of
their own. la order to make prisoners, they think every
stratagem is fair, down to using nets, or even the lamo,with
which they catch wild horses on their steppes. A few
officer' have been caught in this manner, and, therefore, in
order to avoid a similar mishap, I always carry about me a
imp ions r.
Wek the volunteers, have not been doing much daring
ewe Mealight nights. We know quite as well as the
EMIIIIIIIII that too good and sharp a lookout is kept to give
1126 tle lent dimes of makiag a surprise. The moon is
giving tteerEM &net holidays, bat we lose nothing by that.
We speed every third night in the trenches, and
by Jove ! oily a few metres from the Russians : when there
we exchange musket shots with them, not unskilfully,
though often quite useleuly, bat at least they serve to kill
time.

The other night, when it wu rather cloudy and dark, the
ambuscade was advanced a little. Just before dawn a cor-
poral went forward and told them to return and make a
short round. In the meantime a Russian patrol came along
and en leisurely, that the day actually broke just as it ding
peered. What was to be dour? Return? The corporal
had stowed himself away in the bastion-ditch of the Flag-
staff tower. if he came out, he would have been killed to a
dead certainty. Ile remained where he was. Daring the
day the Russian ambuscades were a little behind the promi-
nent part of the knelt. ; they could not see our man, and
only our sentinels tould perceive him. When night fell, he
returned without difficulty. He had had a narrow flellpt
but pined a sharp appetite, and something is., for the
general-in-chief has ROM) him 'medal. •
' • ' ' "

The same journal gives the following letter, writ-
ten by a non-commissioned officer of the 27th:
My company forms part of the battalion of picked men
who ars named the Wan* perdu. (forlorn hope). Our
duty consists in clearing the Russian ambuscades end bat-
tery in frost of our trenches by picking off their saes,
which we do under the enemy's very now. We march
with the moon, that is, we wait till she bides herself Won
Mil 'make oar essay. We crawl along on oar stasasebe, sad
amestamas are obliged to remain in that attitude for five or
&hem tartest. Tight work ! The siege is going on
tlpresely, and the army Is full of confidence. The guns
dem limes keep up an incessant ire, but ours are ping to
ifs* Mt very shortly, and the end of it all will be the
rGli Sithentigel. We must have it, and we will have
11,4assiess send us bouquets. These consist of
thirty or tarty petards enclosed in one whole piece, sad
they bunt la every direction. All that must come to an
end at last. We return them the compliment in like
messure.

OF THE WOUNDED.

The following is an extract of a letter from Con-
stantinople :
" I am not tore whether I told yea before that the Rar
lien major who wee taken priaoser at Inkiness', sad sow
vieted of raordeneg our wounded men, died** other day

at Scutari, appanntiy conscience-stricken. Hie owa broths-It
eaters petitioned to be removed from his society, as they
'pinta not associate with hint, and he pined away sad died
without any apparent divisor."

SPAIN.

In the Cortes, on the 14th, a bill of indemnity to
the ministers for having expelled Queen Christina
was brought forward. M. Buono opposed it on the
c: that the ministers ought to have given the
np to justice instead of exiling her. The
Minister of the Interior and General Ban Miguel
contended that the ministry had acted in the
only way that was possible in taking on itself
to exile the Queen. It could not, they said,
either as patriots or men of honour, have re-
quired Queen Isabella to sign a decree for her
mother's banishment ; whilst the consideration
due to Queen Christina as a woman, as the widow of
the last sovereign, and as ex regent of the kingdom,
rendered it unadvisable to take any more severe step
than that of banishment. M. Nooodal opposed the
bill, denounced the last revolution, blamed the
army for its part in it, and concluded by declaring
that he did not envy the glory of the Minister of War
(O'Donnell). On this the Duke de la Victoria
jumped up, and cried with indignation, "Know, air,
that the Count de Luoesa and myself accept the glory
of the revolution!" The Minister of War
maintained that the expulsion of the Queen
Mother bad saved both her and Queen Isa-
bella. This declaration created great emulation.
The bill was voted by 210 votes to 2. The Clamor
Public° announces the arrest of twenty Carlist con-
spirators in a house in the calla de lee dos Herman's,
end of two colonels of the same party. It appears,
it says, that the Carl at conspiracy at Madrid has
extensive ramifications. The Diario sap that it
results from the last accounts of the bank of San
Fernando that it has only 73,000,000 reale in specie
to meet liabilities to the amount of 227,000,000 realm
immediately due. Some disturbances had taken
place at Coruna, but had been put down.

HA3(111:110, F. 20.—The Second Danish Cham-
ber, not admitting the constitutional legality of the
Grand Council, common to the two ?emboss of the,
kingdom, rejected yesterday the credit demanded for
wino; the amiss relattve to that body.