The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1855

THE QUEEN'S THANKS TO THE ARMY
IN THE CRIMEA.

We, the Morning Post, have received letters
from our correspondents before Sebastopol, with
dates up to the 27th of December.

There had been the usual sorties by the enemy
and the customary bloody repulses by the Allies,
almost daily up to that date.

The greatest joy had been diffused among the
troops by the publication of the followinc, General
Order, communicating her most gracious Majesty's
approbation of the conduct of the army on the oc-
casion of the memorable Battle of Inkerman :
" GENERAL ORDER.
" HEAD-QUARTERS, BEBORE
SEBASTOPOL,
24TH DECEMBER, 1854.
" The Commander of the Forces has the greatest
satisfaction in publishing to the army two despatches
from the Minister of War, the one expressing the
Queen's ertire approbation of the conduct of the troops
at theb::ttle of Inkerman, the other signifying her Ma-
jesty's gracious intention of conferring a medal upon all
the officers and soldiers of the army who have been en-
gaged in the arduous and brilliant campaign in the
Crimea.

" The Commander of the Forces congratulates the
army on receiving sa distinguished a mark of her
Majesty's favour and high appreciation of their gal-
lant exertions ; and he deems it his duty at the
same time to draw the particular attention of all to the
following passage in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch
of the 27th inst. :—" Let not any private soldier in the
ranks believe that his conduct is unheeded—the Queen
thanks him—his country honours him."

WA,R DEPARTMENT,
27th NOVEMBER, 1854.
"My Lord--I received on the 22d instant your lord-
ship's despatch of the Bth of this month, communicating
the intelligence of the glorious battle of the sth, in
which a determined attack by vastly superior numbers
of the enemy was completely repulsed by the unfaltering
steadiness and gallantry of the Allied Armies.
" I immediately laid before the Queen the details of
this important victory, and it is now my grateful duty
to express to your lordship her Majesty's high apprecia-
tion of the noble exertions of her troops i❑ a conflict
which is unsurpassed in the annals of war for persever-
ing valour and chivalrous devotion. The strength and
fury of the attacks, repeatedly renewed by fresh columns
with a desperation which appeared t• be irresistible,
were spent in vain against the unbroken lines, and the
matchless intrepidity of the men they had to encounter.
Such attacks could only be repulsed by that cool cou-
rage under circumstances the most adverse, and that
confidence of victory which have ever animated the
British army.

" The banks of the Alma proved that no advantages
of position can withstand the impetuous assault of the
army under your command. The heights of Inkerman
have now shown that the dense columns of an entire
army are unable to force the ranks of less than one-
fourth their numbers in the hand-to-hand encounters
with the bayonet which characterised this bloody day.
"Her Majesty has observed with the liveliest feelings
of gratification the manner in which the troops of her Ally
the Emperor of the French came to the aid of the divisions
of the British army engaged in this numerically unequal
contest. The Queen is deeply sensible of the cordial
co-operation of the French Commander-in-Chief, General
Canrobert, and the gallant conduct of that distinguished
officer General Bosquet, and her Majesty recognises in
the cheers with which the men of both nations encou-
raged each other in their united charge proofs of the
esteem and admiration mutually engendered by the cam-
paign, and the deeds of heroism it has produced.
"The Queen desires that your lordship will receive
her thanks far your conduct throughout this noble and
successful struggle, and that you will take measures
for making known her no less warm approval of the
services of all the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and soldiers, who have so gloriously won by their blood,
freely shed, fresh honours for the army of a country
which sympathises as deeply with their privations and
exertions as it glories in their victories and exults in
their fame. Let not any private soldier in those ranks
believe that his conduct is unheeded. The Queen thanks
him, his country honours him.
" Her Majesty will anxiously expect the further de-
spatch in which your lordship proposes to name those
officers whose services have been especially worthy of
notice. In the meantime, I am commanded by her
Majesty to signify her approbation of the admirable be-
haviour of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Geo. Brown, and her regret
that he has been wounded in action. Her Majesty has
received with feelings of no ordinary pleasure your
lordship's report of the manner in which Lieut.-General
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge distin-
guished himself. That one of the illustrious mem-
bers of her royal house should be associated with the
toils and glories of such an army, is to the Queen a
source of great pride and congratulation.
" To Major Bentinck, Major-General Codrington,*
Brigadier-Generals Adams, Torrens, and Buller, your
lordship will be pleased to convey the Queen's sympathy
in their wounds, and thanks for their services.

"To the other officers named by your lordship, I am
directed to express her Majesty's approbation. The
gallant conduct of Lieut.-General Sir De Lacy Evans
has attracted the Queen's especial thanks. Weak from
a bed of sickness, he rose at the sound of the battle—
not to claim his share in prominent command, but to aid
with his veteran counsel and assistance the junior offi-
cer upon whom in his absence had devolved the duty of
leading his division.

" Proud of the victory won by her brave army—
grateful to those who wear the laurels of this great
conflict—the Queen is painfully affected by the heavy
loss which has been incurred, and deeply sensible of
what is owing to the dead. Those illustrious men
cannot, indeed, receive the thanks of their Sovereign,
which have so often cheered the soldier in his
severest trials, but their blood has not been shed in
vain. Laid low in their grave of victory, their names
will he cherished for ever by a grateful country, and
posterity will look upon the list of officers wino have
fallen as a proof of the ardent courage and zeal with
which they pointed out the path of honour to no less
Willing followers.

" the loss of Lieutenant-General the Hon, Sir George
Cathcart is to the Queen and to her people a cause of
sorrow which even dims the triumph of this great occa-
sion. His loyalty, his patriotism, and self-devotion
were not less conspicuous than his high military reputa-
tion. One of a family of warriors, he was an honour to
them and an ornament to his profession. Arrived in
his native land from a colony to which he had succeeded
in restoring peace and contentment, he obeyed at a
moment's notice the call of duty, and hastened to join
that army in which the Queen and the country fondly
hoped he would have lived to win increased renown.
"The death of Brigadier-General Strangways and
Brigadier-General Goldie has added to the sorrow which
mingles in the rejoicing of this memorable battle.
" The Queen sympathises in the loss sustained by this
families of her officers and soldiers, but her Majesty
bids them reflect with her, and derive consolation from
the thought, that they fell iu the sacred cause of
justice, and in the ranks of a noble army.—l have the
honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient humble
servant,

" NEWCASTLE.
Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, C.C.B.
&c., &c., &e." ,

My LORD,—I have received the Queen's commands
to signify to your lordship her Majesty's intention to
confer a medal upon all the officers and soldiers of the
army who have been engaged in the arduous and bril-
liant campaign in the Crimea.
"This medal will bear on it the word 'Crimea,' with
an appropriate device—a design for which has been
ordered to he prepared.
"It is also her Majesty's desire that clasps with the
names of Alma and liikerrnan' inscribed upon them,
shall be accorded to those who have been in either, or
both, of those hard-fought battles, and that the same
Names shall in future be borne on the colours of all the
regiments which were engaged on those bloody and glo-
rious days.
Your lordship will be pleased to convey to the
army this Royal command, an additional proof of her
Majesty's appreciation of its noble services, and her
sympathy with its valour and renown.—l have the hon-
our to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient humble
servant,

"NEWCASTLE.
"Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8.,
&c., &e.
"By order.
" • B. 13. ESTCOURT,
Aar, GEN."

(Signed)

The following despatch from his Grace the Duke of

Newcastle, Minister at War, has been published in
General Orders, and read to the troops serving in the

Crimea :

" War Department, Nov. 20, 1854.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your lordship's despatches, Nos. 83 and 84, of
the 18th and 23d of October.

" I have submitted to the Queen the interesting re-
ports with which your lordship has furnished me in these
despatches of the commencement and subsequent pro-
gress of those vast gyrations in which the allied armies
and fleets of her Arajesty and of the Emperor of the
French, in conjunction with taose of the Sultan, are en-
gaged against the stronghold of their common enemy ;
and I am commanded by her Majesty to express to your
lordship, and, through you, to the army under your
command, the high satisfaction with which she has re-
ceived the intelligence, no less of the very effective man-
ner in which the fire of the allied batteries were opened
than of the encrgy and determination with which the
fire was subsequently sustained. The unfortunate occur-
rence of the explosion of a magazine in one of the French
batteries, which took place at an early stage of the ope-
rations, must doubtless have prevented any immediate
effect of a decisive nature being produced on the enemy's
works ; but her Majesty rejoices to find that the ener-
getic ani persevering efforts of the French commander
enabled him to overcome the temporary check which
this disaster appears to have imposed upon the exertions
of the forces under his command.
..

" Her Majesty is fully sensible of the motives
which induced your lordship. to secure the co-opera-
tion of the combined fleets in the attack upon the
enemy's works at the mouth of the harbour, simul-
taneously with the fire from the batteries on the land
side. The aid which, so far as they were enabled to
render it, was thus afforded by the naval to the exer-

* "Major-General Codrington is erroneously stated to
114Y0 been wounded." -