The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-07 00:00:00

STOPPAGES FOR RATIONS IN THE CRIMEA.

A correspondent, dating Camp before Sebutopol,
Saturday, Dm. 16, writes:
.' Mating can be worse regulates' than the stoppages foe
rations. One would have thought that by this time such
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Fllder and Sir Ono. Maclean,
together with the help of the Treasury, woald hare
arranged to deduct the male 'mount from a soldier's pg 7
for his rations whether he is is the field, is hospital, or on
board ship ; bet to show how absurd and anosialou the
present system is, I give a list of the different daily
stoppages. A soldier doing duty ashore, out of Cisd
Britain and Ireland, has Cid. stopped for his radiant ff
he is in lempleal. Sid. ; and if he is en board ship, fld.
Id. Miasma between a min in the field end a men bl
beeped le esppsed to be accounted for by the ream !
half a egg ram, which beer in mind the soldier pap Me
ems if Melees not draw it. Again, the officer, whoa all 1611 y
1111116 set of Great Britain and Ireland pays only 2441. Me
las redone, although, as a captain sad subaltern, he pli
imam equal to 12 ma, end fuel equal to 8 men—in ether
mesas. I os. of sessile' and 12 lbs. of coal or wood. AO;
si &id eager geta light equal to 24 men, or 2 oe., and fad
sled to 12 MO, or 18 lbs. ; and a general offset light equal
Is lid 11114 or 7 ea., and fuel equal to 40 sera, or !Alba A
deaths servant has 61. a day charged for his rations, which
of amuse unfairly bite the medical and engineer officers and
Army Works Corps men. Ordnance civil artifieers ski
marries get their rations free. If an officer is in hospital
let !Scutari or Smyrna la. is stopped per day, sad if at
Mord slap is. 6d., aad for his servant 9L Another
smeminlmmi le, that when on board ship the go-
mowed allow the officer 2e. &I. a day for trim
et boor. This, together with the contract price is.
vkilesking, 7s. 61., makes in all, 10s. ; but °sly 3.. 64. is
dedsseed frees the officers' daily pay. What can be more
!Mastless, arid Mad more to complicate matters, keep spa
Magee sleeks, sad NON an infinity of ventchare, than these
Mouth lemppres ? Why not have one general delineate'
for saes or soldier, whether he be in the field, is hospital,
or es bowl chip ? Of therm a company of men, 60 old
etraig, Is sue hut, do not require so much fuel or light
foe oath mu as • single officer, and a 'shalom
easSet be ezpeeted to burn so much as • gene.
rel. although he perhaps requires as muck as a
add 'Soar. If Waled of granting the 64. a day field
411111=411 to all soldiers is the field, rations bad bees made
fres. the ~mat would have been considered a far peaks
bees, mad all voachere, returns, and paltry staff would have
bees saved. Is additioa to which letteenieg of unneesseery im-
pose, lid. a day for each man in the field would have bean
saved toGovernmeet. Patting on one side the ration quietist,
the aroma shout the Askt allowance is set one of the best,
foe I Woe knees a soldier not to report his feeling ill in '
order to keep out of hospital, and thereby draw his &Id
Amass, ; sad I have known 'easy a man who his bees
wounded 'thee the Ist of July feel it very hard that, obis
obliged to be in hospital through fighting for his conntry,
therefore he should be deprived of 6d. a day."

As Noy read by M. Mignet before the French
Aaiun, co Friday last, contained several political bits,
whials Groats& so slight asasatlsa.
Tax PIACI

letter from Berlin,
la the ratimetedstsco Be/go, says :—.• The eosatsr-p»poIF
tiom of Ramie am saleulated to divide Germany aid to
mast the Bamboo, league from bilking towards the
Wane Pewees, as It was band it would. It is ia that
POI gat them propositioes ars seendared hotroothem no one
believes sham to offer say Maass of mass."
A letter tre.n Vienne says —" The Emperor
Erma Joseph ramatly entered that telegraphic &manta
abseil be transmitted to him scary day on the health of
Prises Poekiewitaeh. For the lest wok, t►em despatches
ham ben regularly meowed, and after having been com•
masiastsd to tko Emperor, they are sent to Priam Gortv
*lmhoff, who doss not realm say news dime AM
Warsaw."

Rolls—A letter from Rome of the 31st alt. ear:
Tao feta gebilitOM Were celebrated by the Pops at Si.
Peter's with the usual solemnity. His Holiness did not.
tureenr, as last year, attend at Beata Maria Maggiore at
the religious anomaly which always takes place there a
Chnetmen-ere. Fee some days put a report, whisk Y be-
lieved to be well „funded, hes bees current, namely, that
the President of Mexico has 'appraised the Mexican lega-
tion is this city, aced bee ordered the minister who bas hen
residing here to erase his functions. The anhives of the
odes are being already sealed up. The President is ales
impaling es the Jesuits from Mexico, and bas authorised fall
freedman religions wonbip. Mgr. Pie, Bishop of Poitiers,
who has bola to Home about a fortnight, preached yester-
day at the French church of St. Louis."
AMMAN ITALT.—The Archbishop of Milan ham
tamed • Mrcalar, establishing, I. virtue of the new concor-
dat. Ofl ewlsaiaatlul ceaeorship OUT all book' printed
within, se handseled tato, his diocese.
EaYmT.—We have received the Spettatore Egi:iano
of Cairo of the 17th ult. The scientific committee for the
eating of a caul across the Isthmus of flues set oat for Sun
ea the 15th, thence to proceed across the desert to Pelusium,
where two steamer, are in waiting to take them along the
whole oust. Ashton Meoictly Puha, the Cleueral.in-
Chief of this Egyptian expeditionary army, arrived at Cairo
eo the 16th. Among the persons of bin suite wee the Polish
Colonel Eutehiuki, his aide-decam7, end several other
Ann. There were rumours current at Cairo of disturb-
ances hung broken oat at ?deem.
The monster specie freight landed front the West
India packet Type last Friday, at Southampton, was con-
tained is 1,116 packages. Many of the packages were
merely framease ben, more teen a man could hit. The
boxes arid bags of specie were not opened by the Custom-
hoese'eflure, bat were sent under the Costims seal to the
Bask of Ragland, aced a London Custoubouse official
attended at the Bask to see them opened. Although theryse
did &study, until nearly midday, the whole of the packages
wen leaded, biked off, sealed, and forwarded to London

the time eight.
During the year 1855. 30.000 passengers, g 6,00
paeltagoe_of baggage, and 2,300 distressed Btitish subjects.
were leaded at Westhampton from the foreign and Chord
bleed whets. 10,400 government emigrants for Su•trslis
left that poet, sad shipping amounting to fib S,MO tone
(post), seined the Southampton Docks during the sass
Pormc
The execution of Abraham Baker, (Convicted at
Wisebeater fee the seeder of his fellow-tenant, Nand
Kiegewell, at Southampton, is postponed from the sth es•
lil the Itchiest , to oessoquence of the anger meats of Ca-
mel, the enesetioaer.
Daomszo WHILE THIEVII4O.—Os Friday, an in-
s...tams held. at Manchester, on the bcdy of Jams
rook's. seed 26. Mrs. Sarah Wilkes mid that she retitled
at Ne. 76, Ddestreet. Her heal:red, wee storekeeper to
the Rambeale Caul Company. Shoat half. pest ail
Weisseity isersiag, she was le the kitehen, end heard •
BANOS the slates et site house, followed by a pleura iato
, the IMMO, the nosy which ewes
eaderamth the wisdom,
' Sae wood Ibe &sem tad fatted a quantity of lead hasatsi
40w6 to Weald dm boom; cad she due the Warne,
that • WS had haw lase the water, bat amid not tee any.
shthlag. Os the followieg day the deceased was foiled abed
e of dm Mem. It is supposed that deceased was
dremeschis is telslogymiumatim.i.essirematatta.ed:swasaardot
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