The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT
SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 11

Just this day week, on the 4th of April, I wrote
to. you with all the rigours of winter upon us.
Clotheil in fur•lined coats, wrapped in woollens and
flannels, we were endeavouring in some way to
protectofirselves against a November Easter, whose

very touch blistered the skin like heated iron. The
ground was covered with snow, and all was wintry
and miserable. I now write with the thermometer
at 70°, and the air so oppressively hot, that the
very act of writing is a laborious exertion. A
Sirocco wind is blowing, and the very thought of
last week's snow is refreshing. The day after the
terrible day of frost and snow (the 4th), a S.W.
wind set in, and we seem to have been
suddenly transferred into the middle of summer.
Spring, there has been none ; probably, the
Crimea is too barbarous a soil for that gentle
season to visit, Be that as it may here we are in
the middle of summer, most suddenly and
uncomfortably warm. With respect to news the
tables are now turned again, and England looks
to the Crimea for the latest intelligence. There
is, however, little to tell, the last excitement being
the announcement the day before yesterday in
General Orders of permission being given to the
army to pass the Tcbernaya without any limit,
and also that three days leave would be given to
officers who wished to explore the country. The
favourite baggagers of infantry mounted officers
will suffer in proportion, and the Russians will
have an opportunity of seeing how the British
soldier can make 5/. worth of horse flesh go across
country. Great interchange of civilities, more
convivial than creditable, have already taken
place, and Russian soldiers in that state—which
Bacchus would be proud to see them—are met in
every camp.

I rode yesterday to the ruins of Inkermann, on
the Russian side of the Tchernaya, which go by
the name of the " City of the Dead." The most
interesting part of the ruins are the crypts or
excavations in the rock. They were first supposed
to have been made by the Tavri. On the top of
the rock still stand the remains of a castle, built
by Diophantes, the general of the then date, who
was sent to the aid of the inhabitants of Kherson,
(the present Sebastopol) against these Tavri,
about 50 BC. These ruins, considering they are
about 1900 years old, are in wonderful preservation.
They are built in a semicircle of about 200 feet,
on the very summit of a rock, and are surrounded
by a fosse and wall as a protection against incursion
from the neighbouring steppes. The name of the
castle was Eupatoria, and the view from it is
very grand. From the interior of the castle there is
a staircase, hewn out of the solid rock, leading
to the crypts below, and from them to a small
Greek chapel, also hewn out of the solid rock.
This chapel is very curious ; in front of it has been
erected a small balcony, from which there is a
beautiful view of the valley. The crypts were in
later times inhabited by a sect of Christians called
the Arians. They consist of one room, have doors
of wood, a hole in the centre for an oven, and a
corner of the rock raised about a foot for a bed;
they have been, however, much destroyed by the
excavations made for stone in building Sebastopol.
Inkermann, I might add, is derived from the two
words, " in," and " kerman," a castle. The more
you see of the Russian soldiers, the more you are
struck with their hardy and soldier-like appearance.
They are peculiarly strong made, powerful men,
and always have their arms in first-rate order. In
my next I hope to give you an account of Backtche-
serai, and the interior of the country.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

It is quite true, as I told you yesterday, that the
Government, expecting that the treaty of peace
would be published in Le Nord, the Russian jour•
nal at Brussels, gave orders that the paper should
be seized ; but as it turns out that the Independance
of the same city, and the Daily News, of London,
have got hold of the treaty as well, it was seen that
it would be useless to seize one paper, and accord-
ingly it and the other two have been allowed free
admission. But the Government is greatly exas-
perated at the publication. " Bribery and corrup-
tion" were of course employed to get at the
treaty, and the government has commenced a
strict search, to ascertain on whom, and by whom
it was employed. It has reason, I understand, to
believe that the treaty was got from the National
Printing Office, where it was sent to be printed.
You will have observed that, in the text of the
Daily News, several articles are omitted, and the
same articles do not appear in the Independance or
the Nord. The Daily News ascribe the
omission to the loss of a " slip" of copy ; but
the fact, I am told, is that the said articles
were given to one single workman to compose,
whereas all the others were, as is usual in
printing offices, distributed amongst several ; and
this man either would not give up his copy, or
composition, or for some reason it was not consi-
dered safe to ask him for either.

Neither of the semi-official journals of this
evening. reproduce the treaty, and both declare
that they will wait until it shall, after official
ratification, be published in the official Moniteur.
This publication, I am told, will take place on
Sunday.
The ratification of Turkey to the treaty has
arrived to-day; that of Russia was sent off on the
14th, and if not already arrived, will do so shortly;
that of Austria had not been given up to the 20th.
What I told you the day before yesterday as to
Count de Morny being about to go to Russia, and
to retire from his stock jobbing and other specula-
tions, is confirmed to me today. He is now engaged
in winding up his affairs, and is about to resign
the chairmanship of the Grand Central Railway
Company. I hear that the Emperor requires
that all high functionaries who, like Count de
Morny, have been enuaged in stock exchange
operations, shall put an end to them ; they having,
as he says, bad ample time to enrich themselves,
and a continuance in such transactions being
calculated to bring discredit on him personally.
As Count Murat, son of Prince Murat, was
yesterday riding .on horseback in the Rue
Vauneau, his horse was knocked down by a street
cab, and the count had his shoulder dislocated. •

At a meeting of the Credit Mobilier Society yes-
terday, a dividend of 178 f. 70c. was declared.
This added to the twenty-five franc interest paid
on the Ist January, makes the total revenue per
share 203 francs 70c. (rather more than £B.)
From a return published by the Moniteut it
appears that the average price of wheat for all
France for the month of April is If. 33c. per hector
lite less than it was last month.

It is said that Prince Napoleon is about to spend
two months in visiting England, Ireland, and
Scotland.

The police have seized to-day the London
Morning Advertiser, Morning Chronicle, and
Telegraph, for halving published articles, stating
that the Emperor is in debt to a large amount ;
that the losses of the French from typhus, in
the Crimea, has been much greater than the
government admits, &c,
Some sensation has been caused here to-day
by the publication of a letter, announcing that the
Prussian government has resolv!d to carry out,
forthwith, its long entertained project, of surround-
ing Berlin with a double line of fortifications,
similar to those round Paris. The plans of the
fortifications are already drawn up, and
the government proposes to employ the sum of
15,000,000 thalers, which remain .in its bands, of
the votes made by the Chamber for military
preparations with regard to the Eastern war.
A Russian despatch says that M. de NI eyendorff
is to be Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, in
the moth of Count Nesseirode, and that Prince de
Gortschakoff is only to replace him temporarily.
The same despatch says that a Te Deem had been
chanted at St. Peter's in honour of the birth of
the Imperial Prince of F 7 ance.