The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN HOSPITALS AFTER THE

BATTLE OF TEATITIEL

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TON IT. .L.., ♦ SUM& 07 1111107.

Auo. 20.

Let lstter to yen was dated the 17th. de the lam-
ing of 'bat day we peeked oar ears closely with ell kinds
of things for the wouded—bread, shirts, treason, band-
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ages, lint, Main water, twin', morphine powders, castor-
aU, and some red wine that I had kept for a special um-
don, and whisk I found very seasonable both for *Gan
and MU. All we mold take with mwe took to Mackenzie.
The ionsat we mined I begin inking to the patients,
Inoue eriondia bad bound op the day before. I took with
me a box of parrs (Wpm), and west tens °More' plat
Death for she pupae of distributing them. AU the
offline wen point sad well-bred, musuelly gentle sad
patient ander their great orafferinp; sot ea* sister coo
planed of their hung nomaidente or szeothig. Under-
gong many pieratieen they thought only of the
'maul meow at the reentleas low of the route t,
and node se eompkint on their own aeconnt.
This is • Mae, ea "nimble twit; the Osten
who are appointed to waft m the offhworand name them,
speak with teen of their gestated inoduet. Many rung
them ban mortal wounds; it woe hard ta•upproan their
beds and console them with bepeeoflite. Believe or., your
seal melte with pity within yintuyin do so. One otter
had his shoulder epliatared with • rite ball, which this
pared fate his left side, when it meshed it :sihntesibiet
to take it oat, sad he stiffen so dreatibitley that his arise an
Obtrudes. He is oaly 24 years aid, • boastful yowls
man, end a good Christian. He peep with greabfervour.
When the etroag pane some on he instreate us piteously to
help him, as If we meld. I brought our beet sur-
geon" to him, but all pm me far auserer, " Imposible.''
At last the poor sufferer named their sentence and pre-
pared himself for death like a Christ/so Oue sister does
not hue him; her aunt( sad sympathy appear to do
him good. Moarafel sad sad is all this to mu. Another
*Meer had a antenna on his bind, and his elbow was
completely shattered ; the sisters told me • good deal about
him, bat I wished to look into his ease with my owe eyes,
and went to him. I head him sitting; be asked me my
alum; I told it him, and be immediately begged me to
second a favour he bad asked of Count Vielbersky. He hso
One benison, so they are four in ell. One fell in the Cam
emus, mother here, sad two ere now severely wounded;
they have au aged mother, who lives in great
poverty. Before the battle he had prayed and said
to himself :—" My first wound is for the Emperor,—
the eusssd for my mother." He received • strong "oaths
doe, did sot mind it ; bat rushed at the enemy's battery.
Then It was that be had hie elbow crushed; the wound is
said to be • zonal one. He bagged with tears Count Via-
horny to get a pension settled on his old mother—he spoke
to him so tosehingly, that the Count himself was moved to
tears and promised to de him best. The filial love mad can
of the young's= is very beautiful; nor can we hear him
without emotion preying for the welfare of our glinted pro-
tectress. TM Rumba soldier is unique. With joy do we
bead the hose and task God for keeping up the courage
and fortitude of our brave fellows. Oar hauls
ezmed when we hoar how resignedly they en-
dure every kind of torture, and say in the most ex-
cruciating moment—" Sweet sister, we fought like seen !"
Then, reeked with pain, they give a sharp groan, but ex-
dabs direetly after, " It le nothing, I an Mu it, perhaps
it will go off I" Such words rend the soul, yet your breast
dame set bean, end for their sakes you check the almost
wasietlinefeopisefsour team. For Emperor and Father-
had they shed williagly their blood, sad die in the
hope that God will help the Barna people, and nub their
foes. This beide will madame to be ever memorable.
through the valour of our loops.
Not one of the engagements that have matured sea
us has made son an Impression upon us as this.
Deeply impressed with the seriousness of the time,
we mimes feared to lose a minute. For two
whole dep, from early mersing to late at night, we worked
without eating or &risking, and the Lord himself kept up
our strength. AU were so realms that I could not tingle
out one who did lees than the others, and the soldiers kept
on exelaimiag " Deafest mother, do you bind our wounds.
you do it better than the surgeon." What a quantity of
lime has been gives out: by me alone 1,100 shine mad 400
pair of trouser", by the staff 700, and we hardly had
enough. Yoe ma namely impel' what a variety of scenes
aeon; at times you weep as you gem on the wounds, and
a few moments after you laugh. For instance: I stepped
ap to • stretcher jest laid on the ground, ad "eked
the wounded gaga if he wouldn't like te drink, handing
him semetbiag to drink at the same time ; he begged me
Mad up the wooed in his side. I "eked—" My Mead.
are pa shot through the body 1" " Yee," he unwind.
I stooped over him to march for the wound, and was so
horrified that I almost shrieked, for the viscera suddenly
burst out. When he saw the wound himself, he said, with
the greatest ealimen—" The wound is good ! Don't trouble
yourself about Wading it up—such wounds dcu't heal!"
Alas! How did I feel I I looked him in the face; it was lie
placid a. that of • sleeping child, and something holy played
over his (estates. I asked him if he would like to see •
clergyman ? He said he should, and he took the sacrament.
Peacefully he lay where he was, and said, low—" Dear mo-
ther, dome leave me r' If I meld have given my life for hie,
I would hue dome it ehearbally. Net to lose eight of him, I
kept wades back to Dim; at length they carried him
away, sad I did sot kaow whets to. While %Audios sad
dressing la a distant tent I found my poor sufferer again.
He rejoiced greatly to see me, raised himself a little, and
bogged me to lean over him. I knelt down aod sated
" What do you with, my friend ? " He enewered,
" Mother, let me kiss year forehead." With that he took
bold of my bead and hired it, saying, " That was my fleet,
bat now take my soldier's bleniag before my death." Aad
he blood me with the sign of the ones. I was greatly
affected, end received with deep faith the blessing of
such a man. My team overpowered me, he peed on me
and said, " Mother, why do you cry ? Yoe regret as ?
We die for Christ's "eke, and you see we are angled." At
the sante natant I hear Iseghisig, and • voice CMS bellied
me, 0 Mother, sister ! " I taro round and ask, " Who
calla " A voice answen, " A roast pig." I was amansd,
and all the rusticate laughed. Then • truly htreib:e sight
led itself to these eyes; head, face, all wee black, sad
so Maned, so swollen, that it locked roe masa. The arms
too were thockiogly mutilated and burnt. I asked him bow
he got burnt so, and he said • chest fall of cartridges Led
exploded dose to him. I began to dress him, made • mask
for his boo, and he so cheered all the root with kis
stories, that even those who were severely wounded
were astonished at him ; my poor friend himself
ensiled ; he actually helped me himself, too, to pot the lint
right while I wee diming hie wands. The burnt artillerist
asked for wanting sour to drink. Ira off to our earthen
hut ("mink.), end in lest than • quarter of an hoar was
beck again, bat he had just died. The other soldier did
set die before night, and retained his moles to the last.

CHRISTMAS IN THE CRIMEA.

A correspondent writes, soder date &askhere, Deo.
24 :—" It is to be hoped that all the grand folks in Regime!
are as well provided for Christmas as we I. every depart•
sent are here. It dose one's heart good to sea the (read
preparations for the festival. Omer, turkeys, pigs, glop,
and bullish., ars in great plenty, and it is a cbarmiag sight
to see the steamer main into Halals's'', garnished all
resod with dead poultry, whiob is loos sold. The Bad ed
Durham bad a string of pees bung round her. I am wary,
bowers', to my she lost ea the voyage about 12 ballad's
sad SOO fowls. I Sassy ether vessel. bad lost the um* la
preperties, for yesterday, off %hailers, I paned througli
wales a arm of dead poetry.
" By a ousel arrived from Kerte% we be sr that the sea in
the aeighbeerbeed is trona over. The weather bens la
beastlfaL As Assedese bargee wired yesterday. from
New York. in SO days, with a (largo of flour, which Best
there 6} dollars the barn!. Flew was sold at Kadtkoi
Is►erty 1110 ler 81. the bunk She doer by the Americas is
lee tbANesimeadat.

what, thee, are we to attribute the annexation of
Finland, the Bahia provinces, Poland and Bessarabia
to the empire—to what the repeated attempts to
seise on Wallachia and Moldavia?—to !Out the
machinations which had in view.** en of
Hungary ? "The Russian," hi "Os agiktuAlop-
sasses in an eminent degree G. organ ,fron,
phrenologists have given thirnance of ' adlosivenem.
He is passionately wedded to his vilingickarne."
Yet in another page we find him smarting, "There
is no other country, with the exception of the United
States, where the inhabitants will undertake such long
journeysby road or river as in Russia." Again : "With
11 the exception of the disposition to encroach upon
neighbouring Mahometan countries" [such as Fin-
land, the Baltic provinces, and Poland], " the
people feel no interest in foreign politics, and the in-
tervention in the affairs of Europe excites no sympathy
in Russia. Oa the contrary, I found smug the' old
Russian party' at Moscow a spirit of hostility to the
incessant interference of the CZAR in the polities of
the West. In fact, the foreign policy of the late
reign wee very much the offspring of the personal
character of Nicirol.u." Wherein did the foreign
policy of the reign of PirrHoLts differ from that of
the reigns of PETER L, CATRIBINE IL, and ALBS-
ANDER I. ? Were sot the ministers of those maw
arch@ Mairrowtores, thuorrs, and Posimearre ?
What is the foreign policy of the reign of AMAX-
DER 11. ? This last question Mr. COBDEN has himself
answered. "There is not 'fact or conjecture respecting
the finances of Franco that has not been passed in
review at Bt. Petersburg,where everything connected
with the resources of the Allies in men and mosey is
as well known as in Paris or Loudon." Could this
information be obtained without the aid of a perma-
nently organised system of local espionage? And
does the maintenance of such :a system look like a
want of interest in the polities of Western Europe?
As an illustration of Mr. CoBDEN'S aulaisto of the
vales of his own authorities, take the following :
"I subjoin a detailed secant of the income and
expeediture of the Russian Government, which I
obtained at St. Petersburg. The accounts are of old
date, and for various years ; and although I have uo
reason to doubt is the main their correctness, yet I
do not offer them as of any statistical value." And yet
he expects his readers to accept the inferences be
draws from these ontof-date, unreliable documents.
He could have got more recent, and more trustworthy
amounts is YON RID'S; but then he could not have
prelseed them with, " I obtained them at St. Peter.-
burg."
Bat we must hasten to Mr. COBDEN'S exposition
of " what course I should take if I were,without refer-
ence to the peat, responsible for the policy of the
eountry." Mr. CoBDEN'S scheme of a future foreign
policy for England has, indeed, no conceivable con-
nexion with the previous dissertation, but it may be
an object of curiosity as the programme of COBDEN
the expectant Premier of Great Britain.
In the first place, then, Mr. COBDRN "would seek,
above all things, to withdraw every British soldier
from Russian territory.' The reason he assigns is:
" Oar army may now be brought away without far-
ther loge or discredit. It may not always be so.'
Is the second place, " with regard to the terms of a
peace I should attach no value whatever to the pro-
mises of Ramis."

In the third plat, he would rely upon a tripartite
treaty et Austria with Frame and England to mike
dermany the bulwark of Western Europa against
Rena= signorina.

In the fo;rth place, if he could not prevail upon
Austria to enter into such a treaty, he "should be
disposed to reconsider his own views on the subject,
and doubt whether he had not been led away by an
exaggerated alarm." Mr. COBDIN, it is obvious, has
studied honest Dogberry to good porpoise.

Doriarry. • • • Tel. is year 'largo; you .ball
aearrithead ell regrow as ; yea me Is hid every as
ataml la Um Priam'. ammo.

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