The Press.
London, England, 1856-06-28 00:00:00

grstefal country with that heartfelt warmth to which their
noble deeds justly entitle them.
" To you, general, I am indebted for being able to per-
form, with the dignity due to the occasion, the pleasing
task confiled to me ; and I pray you now to convey to
your noble comrades, and to accept for yourself, my warmest
thanks for the cheers which have greeted and honoured
my name, which I aocept as an assurance of goodwill to-
wards me, and as proof of my having during a long career
earnestly and faithfully performed my duty to my
country."
By order, C. A. WINDHAM, Chief of the Staff.
Despatches from General Codrington and Marshal
Pelissier recount the principal events of the day.
Before Lord Gough took his departure on the 11th
Marshal Pelissier entertained him at a grand dinner
and a review. The French officers are said to have
been exceedingly pleased with the order granted
them by the Queen.
The Times correspondent having no further oppor-
tunities of describing to us the " roar of artillery,"
the " wreaths of light smoke curling up," nor the
"dense masses of men and glittering bayonets," (tc.,
&c., at present expends his energies and his bile in a
series of philippics against the distribution of rewards.
His letter of the 7th—lOth of June contains little else.
First he complains of the hardship of the regimental
surgeons and assistant - surgeons being denied
all promotion, except by seniority, after going
through the two years' campaign. Then he
sneers at " the attempts made in high places to cast
a fictitious glory round departed memories," and
details the cGmforts of Lord Raglan's domestic life
while in command of the army. Wine, fresh meat,
poultry, vegetables, snow - white table-cloths, with
silver and covers, &c., never failed him—as if it
were indispensable to the proper management of an
army) that the commander in-chief should have
to grind his green coffee with a thirty-two
pounder. Then he touches lightly upon the
injustice of giving a K.C.B. to Lord Rokeby
and Sir H. Barnard, while Major-General Garrett,
an officer who has seen as much active service from
the days of the Peninsula to the present as any man,
who, in the Sebastopol trenches, almost from the
commencement of the siege to the capture of the
place, never missed a turn of duty, is left undeco-
rated plain Robert Garrett. Then the cases of
certain brigadiers not obtaining a confirmation of
their rank is alluded to, and the letter concludes
with a complaint of the general hardship of permit-
ting officers to exchange commands, such as in the
case of the Rifle Brigade, when Colonel Bradford
and Colonel Hill etlected an exchange whereby
Colonel Hill takes the brigade home, although he
never came out till after the war was over. There is
possibly some little truth in all these complaints.
The services of other, and perhaps more distin-
guished, men than "plain Robert Garrett" have
been—forgotten (?)
The quantity of property recovered by the Rus-
sians in plato and money from the ruins of Bala-
klaya and its environs is greater than could have
been supposed :
The Chief l'riest of I3alaklava has succeeded in finding a
quantity of church plate and silver spoons, forks, jewellery,
and pearls, which were hid in a well choked up with
butcher's offal. The pearls alone were discoloured. Ano-
ther Russian waited on Colonel Hardinge, the Comman-
dant of Balaklava, and requested leave to look for same
things he had left in his house; and on receiving it he
entered the half-ruined mansion, and, removing the stone
window-sill, behold ! there was an iron box full of geld and
silver, which, he informed the Commandant, was the
portion of his daughter, who was just about to be married.
He said be could not trust his wife, and so he had hidden
the money lest she should make away with it, and be was
delighted beyond measure when he got permission to take
away his treasure as soon as he had proved his right to
cor., June 10.

lth the troops are withdrawn from the Crimea, the
bost3 of scoundrels who have hitherto been kept in
awe by force of arms have begun to exercise their
avocation, and robbery, with violence, are on the in
crease on the outskirts of the camps:—

As Colonel Walker was quietly sketching the other day
near the Fednkhine heights a bullet whistled by him, and
on looking up he saw the smoke of the discharge, and
immediately afterwards observed a Greek running off at a
considerable distance over the broken ground, where a
horse would have had no chance. Another officer was fired
at from one of the deserted French camps on the Tscher-
nays, as he was riding homewards after dark. An officer
of the 19th was attacked by four men on the high road
from lialaklava to the front, robbed and beaten, but the
patrol came up before the ruffians could commit murder,
as they threatened. Horses are stolen wholesale—nine
were carried off from the light division camp in one night.
The French suttlers and canteen people et Kamiesch
have been informed by the authorities that the evacua
tion of the Crimea must be accomplished by the nth
of July, and that thew can receive no protection for their
property or themselves if they remain after that date.—Th.
The Turkish jlurnals confirm the demolition by
the Russians of the fortifications of Real and
Ismail. The Engineer °dicers employed on this
duty havo 2,000 workmen under their orders. The
att.tes taken from the ramparts are planed on board
WO craft, which convey them to Odessa.