The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

OUR ARMY 1N THE CRIMEA.

MOM AV OCCASIONAL COIIIISPONDVIC7.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Fla. W.
the enemy has been very quiet during the last
low dap, sod the destruction of the White Build-
;togs his come to a standstill for want of authority
from headquarters to load the alr: ady made mines.
Oar artillery are still busily employed in conveying
the 1,000 iron guns from Sebastopol, the works
thrown out in advance, and our siege train, to the
Diamed-wharf, Balsklays, for transmission as bal-
loon to England. In a few days a vessel is to sail
that is to be allowed to tarry any smolot of Sebas-
topol dogs and cats that officers may wish to send to
their friends: this circumstance is not generally
known to the army, and it is a pit 7 that it is not.
The Chimer steamer, which is employed along-
side the Ordnance-wharf as a steam factory, under
the command of Captain Brightman, is performing
prodigies of work for the Land Transport Corps in
this way of axles, and the railway in the way of fit-
tings to the four locomotives. Nothing can exceed
the civility and energy of the head manager, Mr.
Primer, who originally came out last 18th September
from Shields with this floating factory. On the shore
alongside, a foundry has been established, which
chancre the iron of the old Bassist, guns, shot, sad
alellonto every imaginable shape and contrivance.
Ia this building they are making a metal ball, 19
lathes in diameter, for breaking the iron guns. Mr.
Frazer has already received ten toes of Russian iron
for re-casting into different requirements.
Amongst the " hauls " of fish made lately is one by
Captain Frain, of the Queen of the South, powder-
ship, at the month of Brlaklava Harbour, when be
anteceded is netting 170 odd mackerel and other fish.
Bastards have during the last week also been flying
about on the hills by the esa in large flock..
The Gautte of the dtb, about the Victoria Cross
for valour, has given great satisfaction, but not so the
LC.B.'s and C.B.'s.

A borrd of four well-selected officers is ordered to
assemble and report upon the best description of hut
end stable to send out in future to an army in the
field. Their report is not to be made before the 20th
march, as they are to visit all the French and Sar-
dinian camps, as well as the private huts.
The dressers, dispensers, purveyors' clerks, and
medical clerks of the medical department, are to
wear a uniform Sc follows :—Blue forage caps, black
oak leaf band without ornament; plain blue frock
moat, single breasted, with stuff buttons; blue trou-
sers, without stripe or welt. This order has given
great delight to the surgeons, as the previously
aimed boys have been in the habit lately, particularly
at Scutari, of getting into rows, wearing the same
uniform at the time as Sir John Hall. S.C.B. The
coasequence his been that the " V. 11." oa their cap
his been denominated the Vasa Bien.

ST. PSTERSBURO, Fn. 26.
In its late sittings the Naval Education Commis-
ion has been much occupied by the examination and
consideration of several new discoveries and inven-
tions connected with war. Antoopt others a Mr.
Pahl produced a liquid substance capable of burning
as the surface of the water, and with which he pro-
poses to set the enemy's ships on fire, and another
which ignites of itself by being set free in the open
air if the temperature be above 16 deg. (66 deg. of
Fahrenheit). On this latter liquid the inventor laid
Er, stress, as being applicable in encoessfulliy cheek-
attacks of cavalry. The former was nbiseted to
• g investiption, but ultimately declined, es it
mu not fused to burn with sufficient power to set
lselibi ea Ire, and was moreover liable to be
sadly by the winds and acting of the
waves. The latter wee also considered not practical,
mad declined. Then then were several projeMe for
bailey ships to sail under water, a new invention
be destroying enemy's ships submitted by a Dutch-
men at the woe of Uttered*, and finally a plea for
tlsfeg mahmarins palisades by a Mr. Dade. Some
of these were rejected as impracticable, and others
ordered to be further mouldered.

TUMMY.

(710 K 01711, OWN COSILLIPONDINT.)
CONSTANTINOPLE. Pm 26.
The long expected Hati-hossniayoun, the AVMS
CAarta of Islam, was finally promulgated on the
18th inst. as a complement to the edict of Onlisue t
and this noble and salutary enactment indicates
above all the generous and magnanimous sentimasts
which animate the young Sultan, and stamina. U
inee4ly carried out under the auspices of an honest,
siTstested, and patriotic ministry, to add now Notre
tehn re;g., and strength and stability to this splendid
`umpire.
lb. public mind, it is true, bad been long sins.
folly prepared foe this great social and political
revolulos, whereof the provisions, although yet
ansancticand by the authority of an impe-
rial decree, had bon, nevertheless, practically run.
aimed, and partly is force, ever since the present
monarch's mused= to the throne. Christians, for
thatance, of all denomination., have for long years
enjoyed the most perfect freedom of oonsoince, as
well as their respective rights and immunities
in all Rattan relating to the manifold faun
of Eastern religions worship—nay even their
wildest superstitious have beta respected, and
aptly prioritised without let or hindrance. Monk.
and nuns in the singular and various habits of
their orders were seen rambling abeet the re-
motest districts In perfect security, unmolested by
imps and isieteirrans urchins, and, is their characters
of "Fakir" or "Fresh dorrish," fraternising in some
mart with the whole Musrulman population. Fano-
rain processions, and all the curious ceremonies usual
at tits constantly recurring religions festivals of the
various sects, have never been exposed on the part of
Mahometthe to the slightest interruption, and still
his to mockery or insult. But this is not all.
Political power was not, as is generally supposed,
the exclusive prerogative of the dominant race, inas-
much u some posts of distinction and swat responsi-
bility under government—the diplomatic career, for
thetanoe—had been loos since within the reach of all
pesseesing the requisite qualification., and as is, you
will admit, pre-eminently the case with M. Munroe,
the Sultan's amiable, intelligent, and popular reps-
Ithltative at our smut.

But Turks and Turkish affairs, as I have had more
than ones cession to remark, are little understood
in your part of the world, and in the hope, therefore,
that these few observations may prove not altogether
void of interest, at least to some readers. I venture to
add one word more respecting intoleranos and
fanaticism, which, according to the generally re-
aired notions, has been the opprobrium of the
Moslem and of the Moslem law. My remarks,
hiwever, it is well to premise, are exclusively
egafined to the capital, and founded on some personal
experience and observation—having bad but little to
est luckily, with the wild natives and choice spirits
el &glut Asiatic reviling*, whc, not unlike the low.
Voted, and ignorant rabble of all sects and per-
ammion., figure, I fancy, as the elect of the land,
ansirst ofir to themselves " a sole exclusive heaven,"
Eeoningning dissentients wholesale to eternal pr-
es.

In the first place, then, the Mussultnan acintow-
ledges, under the title of " Ingileheriff," our sacred
writings, as also our divine Redeemer end all the
prophets, whose names are never uttered bet with
en "Aleykisebeelern• end reverential awe. He recog-
nises, moreover, irresp(ctively of all sectarian forme
end formulas, the 'Bleary of prayer sod of the out-
parlay of a contrite heart, and hence claims the
mediation of all those who approach him fa the ma-
ma of 'mimeos or sorrow. The stricter *schist' the
performance of his religions rite., the mere be is re-
spected by the Miisselaisn ; and this is particularly
evidenced in the treatment of hie Christlsa deem
tits, who are
ezerese of their pious duties, in the observances of I
Lent, of fats, ?tut days, and so forth, which by the
way ere constantly recurring the whole year round,
"Ed are most serious obstacles to all household mum
don" Lastly, in most noble timers, stamp to say,
a Coriatian in the shape of Whim, or doctor, and each
lam fiances very generally as a Grst•raie personage,
the Ades AeAates end family Mead, the depositary
at wrote, the adviser mad meek in every emerge's, t
se that, from these few eursory remarks, oe
which you may place implicit reliance, it results that