The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

A MEETING ' IN. THE CRIMEA..

A meeting was held yesterday morning of
officers of the Highland DivisiOn to inspect speci-
mens of waterproof winter clothing, which were
found excellent, and only slight alterations were
suggested. Sir Colin Campbell took the opportu—
nity to read to his officers the copy of a note re-
ceived by General Pelissier from the Emperor of
the French, in which the Emperor informed him
that he had positive intelligence that the Russians
would not be able to pass the winter here. This
would, doubtless, be by reason of the impossibility
of getting up stores and provisions. Several de-
serters, who have lately come in, have agreed in
stating that ammunition is plentiful in Sebastopol,
but food hard to obtain.

THE LAST " SHAVE."

As regards scarcity in the Russian camp, the
current is that Gortschakoff tele-
graphedgorouki that he had but six days'
latest"rato ns shave
to Duj
left,
,"whereupon Dolgorouki telegraphed
back to Gortschakoff that there was plenty at
Balaklava, and he had better go and take them.

SOMETHING IN THE WIND.
There is something in the wind this evening.
The Guards and Highland Divisions were to fur-
niSh men for the trenches, and these were actually
paraded wheh they were ordered to turn in and
hold themselves in readiness for other duty. The
men gave a smothered cheer as they obeyed the
order. Since then I have seen a small body of
men from one of those two divisions marching
down through the dusk in the direction of the
trenches, but there was but a company or two, be-
sides a working party. The report in the divisions
which received this unexpected and unusual order
employed to repel a Russian
chernaya, whither all
expectation of work.
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turned
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The French were under arms last night, as well as
the Sardinians. General Pelissier apprehended an
attack.

- HEALTH OF THE AEI%IY.
• The health •of -the army continues excellent.
The weather is 'dry, clear, and not excessively
warm. Sir. W. Eyre, commanding the Third Divi-
sion, reports to the Quartermaster-General, under
date of the 14th inst., in very high terms concern-
ing the excellent order in which he found the hos-
pitals on a recent inspection. " I cannot conceive,"
he says, " that soldiers in the field can be more
orderly or comfortably accommodated." He adds
that the sick are in possession of every comfort,
and gives great credit to the medical men of the
division. The weather is decidedly favourable to
field-hospitals, permitting doors to be left open and
canvas raised so as to ventilate, thoroughly, and I
am often struck, when passiiig throukh the camp,
by the clean, cool, and comfortable mearauce of

4,,p:ISP.ECTED SPY.
The soldier of the 44th Regiment, reputed to be
a. Pole, and who charged the keeper of -a canteen in
the 62d Regiment with being a spy, is himself
missing, and is suspected of having deserted to the
.enemy. He was enlisted and ,drilled with the
Depot Bitithlion at Wiliner,'intl appears to have
given plansible reasons for dpin so.. He -stated
that he, had made up his mind to serve with a
foreign legion, but would prefer joining: the Tanks
of,an English regiment. It was thought that his
knowledge of Russian might be turned to useful
account: His charge against-the canteen man was
no doubt intended to divert attention from his own
proceedings. It is not unlikely that he may have
had something to do with the fire which has lately
been directed against the position of the British
camps. ;As to the emeute raised against the sup-
posed spy in the canteen, which has, been already
alluded to above, the unjustifiable and disgraceful
character of the whole proceeding has been fully
establiAhed after due investigation, and General
Simpson'has published the following order on the
subject :7

- -
Head-quarters before Sebastopol, Aug. 21.
• The Commander of the Forces regrets that he has to
notice,in terms of marked displeasure, an outrage that
was committed on the 17th instant- in' the camp of the
Fourth Division, the perpetrators of which, to the dis-
credit of the army, are still undiscoVered.
A number of soldiers, assembled under pretence of
pursuing a supposed spy, destroyed the tent of a canteen
keeper, pltnideied its contents, including a considerable
sum of money, and escaped in the darkness.
By the articles of war the ptinishnient of such a crime
_is a disgraceful. death.
The_ soldiers of this army have met their enemies nobly
in the-field—they have endured hardship and danger
with admirable fortitude—let them not forfeit their high
character by reckless disorders in camp, or by ouch dis-
creditable breaches of discipline as that now published.

A NARROW ESCAPE.
Major-General Markham; C. 8., commanding the.
2d Division, had a narrow escape on the 22d., He
had gone into a stable to look at a newly-purchased
horse belonging to Captain King; one of the aides-
de-camp,
when one of the long range round shots
frOm the enemy penetrated the shed and killed the
horse. Captain King and one or two other per-
sons were present in the stable •at the time that
this singular escape occurred. It is .remarkable
that, notwithstanding the number of shot and
shell sent up: towards the camp, only one man, an
artilleryman, has been wounded. This single
casually can hardly compensate the Russians for
their expenditure of labour and materiel. Had
General Markham been hit, they"might have
thought their trouble, sufficiently rewarded.
ACTIVITY OF THE ENEMY. • ,
riermous working parties of the enemy have
been obserVed to. be busily employed upon the
mole near Fort Nicholas about the landing place
all day. They are raising a high, breastwork, con-
nected at one, end with the curved end of the fort,
and prolonged to the extreme end of the tongue of
land forming the mole. When- completed, the
passage from the end of the bridge across the mole
to the front of Fort Nicholas will be totally con.:
eealed from view. Judging from the movement of
the parties, who are apparently carrying sandbags,
they are also constructing a battery in this situation,
Some long-range guns have been fired from the
21-gun.battery in the right attack, and also from
Chapman's' battery in the left attack ;
_but the enor-
mous distance has prevnked as yet any precision
of aim. Some shots have been observed to pass
beyond the bridge, and several have fallen imme-
diately in rear of? the horseshoe outline of Fort
Nieholas. ,One shot from the left attack is said to
have sunk a lighter:which was passing alongside of
the ;bridge. A comparative limited space in the
Centre bf thebridge itself now only remains to
complete the communication. From time to time,
7rafts,•each towed by two' large rowing boats, ate
brought to the opening in the bridge, at each end
whiChiconsiderable numbers of workmen are seen
to be employed.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN DRUMMOND.
Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. Robert Drum.,
mond, of the Coldstream Guards, was mortally
wounded 'by a rifle ball in the chest on the night of
the 24th. He met his fate with remarkable resig-
nation, and though suffering from excessive faint-
ness from loss of blood, quietly made' arrangements
that he should be buried near the graves of his
brother officers at Inkerman. He was an active
and' zealous officer, religious, and gifted with many
mental endowments, and his loss will be severely
felt in his regiment. Captain James Frankfort
Browne, of the Royal Engineers, and Brevet-Major
Warden, 19th Regiment, were also reported
wounded, but not dangerously, by fragments or
shells.

THE'TURN-OUT OF THE 17TH.
The sudden alarm and tern-out of the several
divisions in front on the night of the 17th arose from
au order given by Lieut.-General Sir William Cod-
rington, commanding the Light Division, to sound
the " assembly." The following is given as the ex-
planation. Suspicion was excited that a certain per-
son at one of the canteens of the 62d Regiment, in
the Fourth Division, was a spy. He was a friend
of the proprietor of the canteen. Some soldiers
determined to arrest thi4 stranger, for the purpose
of bringing him before the proper authorities, and
submitting him to exawination ; but, having dis-
covered the intention, the man suddenly de-1
camped. A chase. ensued. A few soldiers only
followed at first, but others, hearihg the cry of " a
spy escaping," quickly joined, and in a short
time a considerable number were in pursuit. The
fugitive bent his course towards the left ravine,
along which the Woronzod' road leads directly into
Sebastopol, by way of the South Harbour. General
Codrington was near the upper part of the ravine
when the crowd passed by, and finding a body of
men were thus running towards the enemy's posi-
tion, and fearing some mischief might ensue, adopted
the only available expedient for at once bringing
them back to camp. A bugler—one being in at-
tendance on the General, ready for any emergency
—was ordered to sound the assembly, which was
aptivisoncioen,
and repeatedsomblytathkeen up by the regiments ofregiments of the Light
the 2d and 4th Divisiors, encamped next to it.
The alarm at once brought the soldiers back to their
respective regiments, but before the bugle sounds
bad been heard they had already secured the ob-
ject of their chase, and were leading him back to
camp.

THE POLICE IN THE CRIMEA.
,
Few things are more required, under the peculiar
of our positidn. , The erdinary)
circurastanoes of 'our extended camp, than a better'
system df-camp police.- That which- exists at pre=sent is almost nominal, and quite inadequate, to
meet `the eiiggneies
establishment df tbd PrOvost-MarshaY and assist-
ants, consistingof a captain and a certain number
of sergeants and others selected from the regiments
in the field, though fit and sufficient for an army
under common circumstances, is too limited and
imperfect for a force occupying such an extended
position in an enemy's Country. Its organisation
enables it to do little more than correct open and
flagrant abuses, and to prevent or punish manifest
infringements of military discipline. Something
more is required, for it must not he forgotten that we
have a Crowded harbour filled with most valuable
military atoms, aud that mingling amog tb.cin are

WOUNDED OFFICERS.
Since the 21:st the folloWiiig officers have been
wounded in the right attack. -On -the 23d, Lieut.'
Wield, 95th Regiment, severely in left breast by
a grape shot. This officer rose froth the ranks. On
the morning of the 24th Lieut. " Evered, of
the Queen, wounded severely on"the side by a
piece of shell. This offiCer is brother of Lieut.
Evered of the 54th Regiment, formerly of the 7t,ii
Dragoon Guards: Yesterday evening, while creep-
ing along the sth parallel, where his body was, pot
sufficiently covered through the rock in the trench
not having been sufficiently blasted away, Captain
James Browne, Royal Engineers, was wounded in
the left shoulder severely, -but not dangerously, by
a Minie rifle ball. This officer is the only son of the
Dean of Kilkenny, and grandson of Lord Kilmaine.
He has a sister, the Hon. Mrs. Lindsay; wife of
Colonel Lindsay, of the Grenadier Guards, now,
living at Therapia. lam told that this is .the
fourth Browne of the same family killed or
wounded in the present war.

A NEGLECTED OFFICER.
I suppose if there is one officer more than another
that has been grossly passed over, and who ought
to have been made a brevet-tnajor for the Quarries,
that officer is this Captain Browne. Ho not only,
on the 7th June commanded the Engineers and
the whole of the working parties, but ho himself
actually caused to be made, after the first assault,
both the lodgment and communication, and thereby
was chiefly the means of enabling us to hold the
Quarries from the repeated attacks of the enemy.
In addition to all this, his services were " eulo-
gised" in Lord Raglan's despatches. I am informed
that on his return from Therapia, on the • 14th of
August, where he had been for the recovery of his
health, for about 14 daYs finding that he had not
been promoted even amongst the large number of
captains that were, both for the 7th and 18th of
June, he spoke to. Sir. Harry Jones on the subject,
who then said to him, " Yes, you decidedly ought 01
to have been .promoted., It is not my fault., I it
will speak er .write to the Commander-in-Chief
about it." I regret to say that Captain Browne's 81
.case happens to be only one of many in which the P
corps of engineers is sadly neglected by its own di
authoritieS at home, who naturally enough are Pi
not anxious to see young men, comparatively C
speaking, promoted.

A SORTIE REPULSED.
AUG. 25, Noorr.—We have had an agitated nigh,
and morning. There was a good deal of firing in
the evening, which increased towards 1 o'clock,
about which time a sortie was attempted by the.
Russians against the Mameloti, but. promptly -re-
pelled. The troops not being up from the trenches, FI
lam unable to give you details. The firing was
very heavy for a short time—as heavy as any jel
night-firing that has been heard here for a long th
time past. At 2 a.m. the Highland Division sh
marched to support the Sardinians. The whole a.
army was under arms before daylight, an :attack F:
being fully expeCted, and General Simpson and w
his staff went out and round the lines. At this pi
present time all is quiet, but the troops' are or- tc
deredto be in readiness. So strong was the expee- o
tation of an acticn on the Tchernaya, owing to V
the movements of the Highlanders and other indi-
cations' that several amateurs went down to the
ground where the battle, it was thought, would- ti
occur. Theliour compels me to close this letter, s'
but, according to every appearance, my next must (
take you news of a collision, It is intensely hot
to-day, and the Russians generally are very quiet
from noon till 1 or 2 o'clock, probably eating or
reposing.

We have received the Monfteur of yesterday. d
It publishes the. following lettera, taken from the ttl
correspondence brought to the Minister of War by
the last mail • from the East : b
"THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ENGLIBH ARMY 0
TO ' THE COMHANDER IN-CHIEP OF THE *BENCH p
ARMY. ii

"Head-quarters before Sebastopol, Aug. 13. I a
"Monsieur le General-en-Chef,—l hasten to commu-
nicate to you a telegraphic despatch I have just received
from Lord Panmure, our Minister of War.
"His Excellency informs me that the news of the vic-
tory of the 16th of August reached London on the 17th,
and that the Qneen ivas immediately informed thereof.
He aids that her Majesty has charged, me to congratu-
late, in her name, her brave allies on the result of this
engagement, in which they have wprthily maintained
the military reputation of their respectiie nations.
"I am happy at being on this occasion the interpreter
of the sentiments of our Sovereign.—l am &c.,
"J. SIMPSON."

"THE COMMANDER-IN'-CHIEF OF THE FRENCH ARMY TO
THE MINISTER OF WAR.

" Head•quarter4 before Sebastopol, Aug, 20,

" Monsieur le jqarechal,-- I have the honour to send
to you the annexed copy of the correspondence which
has, within the last few days, been exchanged with
Prince Gortschakciff relative to the carrying off the
wounded and the burial of the Russian 'slain after the
affair of the'l6th of August.
"The Russian batteries of Mackenzie committed, the
inexplicable error of firing upon our field ambulances
while employed in picking up such of our wounded ad-
versaries as still remained on the field of battle; and long
after our riflemen had ceased to fire.
"The commanders of those batteries have given an
inadmissible explanation to their general, to whom I
complained of their sad conduct. Such, conduct does
not do honour to the enemy's artillery.
" In endeavouring to palliate the faults of his subor-
dinates, Prince Gort4chakoff has thought fit, however, to
render full homage to the humanity eo strikingly evinced
by our soldiers. They were, in fact, as generous after
victory as they were brave in the fight, and I feel proud
to command such men.—l am, &c.,
" PELISSIER."

" THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OP THE FRENCH ARMY TO '
PRINCE GORTSCHAOKFF, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF
THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
" Head•quarters before Sebastopol, Aug. 16.
"Monsieur le General-en•Ohef,--I hasten to forward
to year ExCellency':a pocket book, Contaibing meiney
and a letter which, on examination; were found to belong
to General Read; 'comniandet-of a Corps'of the Russian
army.
" I have reason to believe that the body of that
general officer remains on the field of battle, and orders
have been given to , make a strict search for it.—
' I have, ttc., " PELISSIER."

" PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF TO THE COMMA.NDEE-IN•CHIEI"

OP THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
" Sebastopol, Aug.:7th (19th)-
" Monsieur le Commandant-en-Chef,--I have the
honour to acknowledge your Excellency's communica-
tion of the 16th of August, with the pocket-book con-
taining money, and 6 letter .belonging to Or' eneritl,lead.
" I publicly acknowledge an act of so much courtesy,
an the generous solicitude which izcluccd Elgol,