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London, England, 1855-07-11 00:00:00

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the camp in front, but we could see it in a steep
glistening cascade, illuminated by the lightning,
falling all across the camp from sea to land, just in
frozit of Lord Raglan's, and nearly in a straight
line, as if marked out by a ruler. The
.rain is a
great relief to•our parched reservoirs.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24.

General Estcourt, Adjutant-General of the Army,
died this morning at half-past 9 o'clock, after three
days' illness. His death has produced a profound
impression of regret on all who knew him, for a
kinder•or more amiable man did not exist. He was
unremitting in the discharge of his duties, and no
officer ever applied himself to the labours of the
desk, which constitute so large a portion of the
business of the department over which he presided,
with more assiduity and. devotion. When others
were gloomy and desponding General Estcourt was
cheerful and calm, and he possessed that equanimity
in adverse circumstances which antiquity admired,
and which we at least respect, and so long as the
General Orders issued from his office they were
written in pure English, and justified the pride
which General Estcourt felt in the roundness of his
periods, the choiceness of his phraseology, and the
clearness of hiS directions. His loss is felt by the
army—by none more than by the General who
commands it, whose affection for the deceased has
been so rudely tested by death almost within his
very doors. General EstcoUrt was taken ill with
diarrhoea six days before he died, and at the end of
the third day was attacked with cholera, which his
strength of constitution and powerful frame en-
abled
him to resist for three days more, but on
Saturday night a crisis came on, a dangerous
change supervened, and he expired in the morning,
soothed by the presence of his wife and of a near
female relative. Every care and attention were
paid to him. He was attended by Dr.. Prender-
gast and Dr. F. Smith with the utmost liolicitude
and skill.

MONDAY, JUNE 25.
The storm which burst over the south-eastern
portion of the Cheisonese oh Saturday night has
done more damage than we could have anticipated.
Men were drowned in ravines converted by the tor-
nado into angry watercourses, were carried off roads
by mountain torrents, and dashed against hill-sides;
beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne
to sea ; huts were broken up and floated out into
the ocean ; the burial-grounds near Balaklava were
swept bare, and disclosed their grim army of the
dead in ghastly resurrection, washed into strange
shapes from out their shallow graves; and, greatest
calamity of all, the railway was in various places
decomposed, ripped up and broken down so as to
be unserviceable at our greatest need. Orders
have been sent" down to urge on the necessary re-
pairs, for .the demands of the batteries for shot and
shell are pressing, and the electric telegraph has
been repeatedly in use to-day to force on the atten-
tion of the authorities at Balaklava the necessity
there is for their promptest exertions, and to order
them to send up supplies of materiel for our fifth
. bombardment as speedily as possible. The French say
they are quite ready, and they have received from us
1,500 32-lb. shot for their guns to-day. The railway
fails at a critical period, but even if it were in its
usual state we could not hope to be in a condition
to begin a heavy fire for some time to come, and I
believe it will be fully a fortnight or three weeks
before the necessary supplies will be brought up to
the front. The repairs to tho railway will be ef-
fected in ten days. Mr. Beatty and Mr. Campbell
are away at Heraclea surveying the coal district,
but their representatives are men of energy, and
the only obstructions to be dreaded will arise from
the " navvies," some of whom have been behaving
very badly lately. ' They nearly all " struck work"
a short time back, on the plea that they were not
properly rationed or paid, or that, in other words,
they were starved and cheated ; but the Provost-
Marshal brought some of them to a sense of
their situation, and, indeed, the office of that
active and worthy person and of his myrmidon
sergeants has been by no means a sinecure
between " navvies," Greeks, and scoundrels of
all sorts. The Croat insurrection is suppressed,
but the Croat idleness has not been by any

means stimulated into usefulness. How Eng-
land is squandering her money broadcast all over
this part of the world ! The Eupatorians with
their 2s. 6d. and 3s. Gd. a day, and the Croat with
the same stipend, aro indeed " beggars set ou
horseback," and they fulfil the rest of the proverb.
The poor Turkish soldiers, who get scant pay, say
that it would be much better for them to be those
dogs of Croats, who receive as much as their own
bimbashis, or majors, than to march in the armies
of the Sultan ; but Lord Stratford's hard bargain
for us must bo accomplished ; and it was he
who was the benevolent genius who deluged
Croatian and Tartar hordes with this flood of
wealth. No wonder Colonel M'Murdo finds it
difficult to get men for the Land Transport Corps,
although oven lie is obliged to pay 2s. Gd. and 3s.
a day to native suridjees, so completely have we
ruined the market.
The losses in the Land Transport Corps by
death would be extraordinary did we not find a
parallel to them in the Sardinian army of Tchor-
goun, which has lost in three weeks nearly 1,000
men by cholera, dysentery, and diarrhoea. The Turks
and French encamped in the valley suffer some-
what from the same diseases, but it is observable
that the men who die are recruits and old men who
are mostly unaclimatised. At Yenikale the de-
tachment of Land Transport Corps lost in a fort-
night 50 men, of whom 25 were English and. 25
native drivers. In its present state it cannot supply
all the wants of our army. V/e could not advance
any body of troops without running risks of star-
vation, and even the 10th Hussars are said to have
been unable to keep their horses so far from Bala-
klava, owing to the want of forage, and their re-
treat from their advanced position is attributed to
that cause rather than to the field-pieces which the
Russians brought to bear upon them from an ad-
joining height. To understand the difficulties in the
way of what is called at home " taking the field" one
must come out and stay out here. It would be much
easier to take Sebastopol than to take the field.
There are only three accessible passes, up the preci-
pitous wall of rock which rises on the north side of
the Tchernaya, to the plateau on which the Russians
are encamped, and the precipice runs round to the
Belbek. These passes are so steep that an army
would have some difficulty in ascending them at
its leisure, without resistance from any enemy.
But they are occupied wherever engineering eyes
detect the smallest weakness—they are commanded
by batteries, intersected by positions threatened by
overhanging cliffs all ready for the lever. March
round and turn them ! Where and how ? We
have no transport even if we could march, and we
cannot march, because Napoleon himself would
never lead au army into such defiles as guard the
Russian position. Whether wo are not strong
enough to detach a great corps of 40,000 or 50,000
men to operate against the Russians north of Sebas-
topol is not for me to say; but it is certain that the
base of operation for any such corps must be the
sea, till ample transport is provided. The Crimea is
to all intents and purports a desert—a Sahra, water-
less and foodless before an invading army. There is
no news of importance to-day. A long train of provi-
sions came into Sebastopol to-day, and the mirror
telegraph, which works by flashes from a mound
over the Belbek, was exceedingly busy all the fore-
noon. Troops were observed in motion on the hills
opposite Inkerman. The weather is warm, but
there is a strong breeze of wind, which tempers its
heat. The rain has developed horrible effluvia in
camp, and sickness is rather on the increase. With
great regret and surprise we heard of Captain
Lyons's death this evening.
Lord Raglan is indisposed. A reconnaissance
will be made, or has already been effected, to-day
on the Russian left, towards the ridges beyond
Mackenzie's-farm and the Belbek, if it can be
effected. If not, the troops will make an explo-
ration towards Yalta. The mail is closing. There
is no firing or anything of consequence in the
front.