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THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA,.

( From the Times Special Correspondent.)

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 13.
The enemy hive made no sign—they are only
making huts and preparations for the winter. Still
the allies expect, or rather hope, that the Russians
will be considerate enough to play our game and
come down to assault our position, and it is quite
possible that the Russians are deluded enough to
indulge in similar anticipations, and look forward
to a number of little morgartens amid the moun-
tain passes of Aitodor and Mackenzie before the
winter sets in. The extraordinary fineness of the
weather affords a daily reproach to whatever Gene-
ral it may be who ought to act offensively. Within
one day of the first anniversary of that terrible
14th of November, which will never be forgotten
by those who spent it on this plateau, it is still
calm. Since the expedition returned from Kin-
bourn there has not fallen one drop of rain, and
each day has been cloudless, sunny, and almost
too warm. The mornings and nights, however,
begin to warn us that winter is impending. As I
write the sky is overcast and the atmosphere is
heavy—a good specimen of a London November
day, minus the fog, drizzle, or rain ; but there is
not a breath of wind. Under these orfamistances
it is to be regretted that the Admiral's could not
carry out their wishes concerning the expedition
to Kaffa, for the only ostensible obstacle to the
undertaking was the weather, and our experience
and traditions of last year certainly suggested ex-
treme caution before we ventured a flotilla filled
with soldiers on such an awful coast at this season,
even for the very short passage to Theodosia. The
event of the week has, of course, been the change
of Commanders-in-Chief. The retirement of General
Simpson was by no means unexpected, but it was
not known who would be his successor, and very
few indeed ventured to hope Sir W. Codrington
would be selected for the post. Although too ac-
tive and able a soldier to be neglected in a war like
this, it is possible that Sir W. Codrington would
not have had a chance of obtaining his present dis-
tinguished position, but for a piece of good fortune.
On the 20th of June last year certain promotions
took place, more particularly among colonels of the
Guards, and among them was that of Col. Cod-
rington to Major-General. Of course the effect of
such a promotion would have been to remove him
from his regiment and take him home ; but the
Major-general was most anxious for active service.
By the time the Gazette was promulgated the ex-
pedition to the Crimea was spoken of, and Mai"-
General Codrington tried hard to evade the neces-
sity of returning home, which to many was by no
means disagreeable, judging by the alacrity with
which they availed themselves of it. He was.

lucky enough to succeed in his object, and thus got
an opportunity of entering on the career which in
a very short period has led him to such great
honours and to such a proud position. The Acting
Quartermaster-General bad just died, and Briga-
dier-General Airy, who commanded a brigade of
the Light Division, was selected as his successor.
The brigade thus left vacaxt was given to Major-
General Codrington, whose anxiety for active ser-
vice led him to turn every stone to seek it, and I
well remember that, being with the Light Divi-
sion at the time, I heard some expressions of dis-
satisfaction at the "lucky Guardsman" getting
the command. A very short time, however,
elapsed before officers and men began to dis-
cover that he was one of the best soldiers in the
army, and his reputation extended beyond the limits
of his brigade to every regiment is the field. The
Light Division hailed his accession to command on
the second and final retirement of Sir George
Brown with the liveliest satisfaction, for he had won
the confidence of the men by coolness and unexag-
gerated intrepidity in the field, and had gained the
affection of the officers by his amenity and kind
manners, which secured them against insult or vio-
lent abuse in their communications with their Gene-
ral, while they placed full reliance on his vigilance
and his love and knowledge of his profession.
General Simpson left for Marseilles direct in the
steamer Telegraph yesterday. No one regrets that
he has ceased to be Commander-in-Chief of this
army. All must feel sorrow for the circumstances
under which a veteran officer like Sir J. Simpson
resigned his command. His simplicity of manners
and singlenessof mind never failed to conciliate the
regard, if not the respect and admiration, of those
around him, but he failed in determination and
firmness in amatterof vital importance to our army
when opposed to a sterner will, greater vehemence
and force of character. Such an error in judgment,
or rather such weakness, wasespecially culpable in
the Commander-in-Chief of an Inv situated as our
own is, and the most ardent admirer of Sir James
Simpson will scarcely for a moment pretend to say
that he possessed the physical vigour to lead an
army in anactive campaign, ar the strategical skill
and fertility of resources which would enable him to
conduct difficult operations against an enterprising
and able enemy, or to extricate his troops with
honour out of danger. Thelate General was a vic-
tim to writing, like his lameited predecessor. He
was more like a clerk than aSteneral. Now, is it the
Horse Guards which enfo'ces all this scrivenry ?
If the army cannot be commanded without all these
forms and returns, let ushave, as you propose, a
writing General and a fighting General. It cer-
tainly is not despatch-writing which consumed our
Generals' time hitherto, pr those documents have
always been brief enough-
The main road has n)vir been completed from
Balaklava (Kadikoi) to tie central depot, a distance
of 6 miles. It is a gland military work which
will last for centuries. In less than seven weeks
the road has been competed, and in that time up-
wards of 60,000 tons of road metal have been pre-
pared and laid down tc fit it for traffic. There are
yet several branches to be completed ; one to
Karanyl-valley is nearly ready, and the others are
in a fair state of progiess. When Mr. Doyne be-
gan his roads he had only 1,500 soldiers to assist
him, but by degrees he received increased aid every
day from the QuarWpaotor-Geuerare deurtment,

until he had no less than 8,000 men at work,
which, with his own navvies and native labourers,
gave him a force of about 10,000 men. The drain-
age of the road is excellent, and numerous and
capacious culverts have been constructed to carry
off the rush of water in the ravines. Altogether
we shall have at last left a Romanesque work be-
hind 113 when we abandon the Crimea, and if we
bequeath no marks of our existence to posterity in
India, we shall at least do so to future generations
of MuscoviCes and Tartars. _

There is little more to say. The duello between
the north and south sides is intensely tedious and
profitless ; it is also without loss—the Stones alone
suffer. I shall not be kind enough to tell the Rus-
sians where our batteries are to be, or what guns
are to he in them.
In the Times of the 24th of October, which has
just arrived, there is an inventory of the stores
found at Sebastopol by the allies, and, as it may be
interesting to give some particulars of the proceed-
ings of the Mixed Commission, I have procured
the foTlowing information respecting them with
some little difficulty. On the 10th of July this
year a treaty was entered into between France
and England with respect to the distribution of
booty and trophies, which enabled the French and
English Governments to form a mixed commission
for the purpose of classifying and arranging such
articles. In compliance with this provision,
Marshal Pellisier named the following officers on
behalf of the French army immediately after the
capture of Sebastopol :—General of Division Niel,
Aide-ele-Camp de l'Empereur, President, and com-
manding the Engineers ; General of Division Thiry,
commanding Artillery ; Admiral Regault de Ge-
nouilly, commanding Marine Artillery ; M. Paris,
Intendent (Commissary-General) ; M. • Budin,
Pay° ur-Gen eral. General Simmon nymerl the, fol-
lowing officers for the English -army ;—Sii G:
Dacres, commanding Royal Artillery ;
.Captain
Drummond, R.N. ; Colonel Chapman, command-
ing Royal Engineers ; Mr. Drake, Assistant Corn.
missary-General. It will be observed that the
English officers are not equal in rank or numbers
to the French members of the Commission.

The Commission met on the 15th of September
at the quarters of General Niel. Its first act was
to order an inventory in detail to be made of every-
thing found in Sebastopol. To effect this the city
and forts were divided, and the care of exploring
each part devolved upon sub-commissions. The
first of these, charged with the exploration of the
west of the city, and of Forts Nicholas and Alex-
ander, of the Quarantine and of the Central Bas-
tion, and of the Bastion du Mat (]flagstaff), were
M. Mazare, General of Artillery, President M.
Cacozo, Captain Of Artillery, French, Capt. Dick-
son, R.A., Comte Feldtrappe, French Engineers,.
Cat. Montagu, R.E., Lieut. Laurent, French
Navy, Lieut. Buller, R.N., M. Gontier, French
Assistant Commisary-General, and Mr. Lundy,
Deputy Assistant Commissary-General. The second
sub-commission, charged to explore the east of the
city, the Redan of Careening Bay, the Malakhoff,
the Great Redan, and the adjacent works, consisted
of—Brigadier-General Dupuis, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, President ; Captain Shaw, Royal Artillery,
Comte de Callac, Imperial Artillery, Major Staun-
ton, R.E. ; Major Cadart, Imperial Engineers ;
Commander Marten, R.N.; Commander de Genoux,
Imperial Navy ; Mr. Crookshank, Deputy-Assist-
ant Commissary-General ; M. Gqutran, same rank
French army ; and Lieutenant Rumble, R.M.A.
On the 25th of September the Commission held its
second sitting, and all the members were present
except General Thiry, who was represented by
General Mazare. That officer and Brigadier-
General Dupuis, as presidents of the sub-commis-
sion, then laid on the table a detailed statement of
everything found in Sebastopol. The number of
cannon iu bronze (brass) is 128 ; that of iron guns,
3,711; total, 3,839. The President read the con-
vention of the 10th of July, and it was then unani-
mously agreed that the guns should be divided
into two equal parts,:paying due regard to the dif-
ferent calibres, and that one-half should be sent to
France, the other half to Great Britain with the
exception of two field brass pieces, which should
be offered to General de la Marmora, with the
approbation of the Commanders-in-Chief ; but
that for the present they should remain in Sebas-
topol, and in the redoubts and fortifications of
Kamiesh and Balaklava, till such time as they
were not required for the defence of the place,
when each Government might do what they liked
with their own share. These decisions, taken
conformably to the first act of the convention,
leave the valuation of the pieces out of the ques-
tion ; but by the 4th article of the same conven-
tion it is agreed that the value of the booty, &a.,
shall bo divided between the two Powers propor-
tionally to the numlipr of men each had serving
in the siege. The affective strength of the
Anglo-Sardinian army on the Bth of September
was 63,715 men, and that of the French army on
the same day was 126,705 men. The Commission,
therefore, decided that Franc' should have two-
thirds, and Great Britain one-third of the value of
the booty and trophies. It was declared impossi-
ble to fix the value of the guns immediately, in
consequence of want of sufficient information and
of the necessity of employing the iron guns in the
defence of the place. The Commission, therefore,
passed on to the partition of the other materiel
taken, and divided the following into three parts,
two for France and one-third for England, with
the understanding that they are to remain for the
supply of the defence :-407,314 round shot ; shell
101,755 ; canister cases, 21,080 ; gunpowder,
525,0001 b. • ball cartridges for muskets and car-
bines, 470,000 in good condition, and 160,000 da-
maged ; waggons, 80 ; yawls, 6 ; logs of lignum
vitce, 500 ; anchors of port moorings, 400; anchors,
of different sizes, 90 ; grapplings and small anchors,
50 ; chains for anchors, 200 yards ; old copper for
sheathing, 104,0001 b. ; old ropes, 100,000 lb. ;
water casks, 300 ; new ropes of different sizes,
50,0001 b. ; pulleys, 400 ; spars, 40 ; tools, 300 ;
bar iron and steel, 1,460,0001 b. ; iron wire, 4001 b.;
iron checks, 3201 b. ; sheet iron, 16,0001 b. ; tin
plate, 14,0001 b. ; red copper, 120,0001 b. ; nails,
6,0001 b.; firwood, a large quantity; pitch and tar,
200 barrels ; barrels of paint, 150 ; small boilers,
weighing 6,0001 b.; the remains of a steam-engine
of 220-horse power, taken out of a steamer burnt
by the Russians ; large copper boilers, weighing
100,0001 b., 8 ; old copper, 100,000 lb. ; copper
screws, 10,0001 b.; old iron, 160,0001 b.; large bells,
6 ; hospital beds, 350 ; iron forges, in great num-
bers ; main tackles, 12 ; coal, 2,000 tons ' • steam-
engines, of 30-horse power, for the basins, 2; large
pumps, for the basins, 3; iron boilers, 3; 1 high-pres-
sure engine of 16-horse power, for the basins ; iron
cranes, 17 ; an engine of 12-horse power in the
military bakery ; 2 dredging machines of 30-horse
power, unserviceable ; a still, a clock, six marble
statues, two sphinxes, a large basso-relieve; biscuit,
500 tons ; flour, 150 ; barley, 9 ; buckwheat, 117 ;1
oats, 18 ; millet, 54 ; wheat, 20 • peas, 1i ; salt
meat, 60 ; wheat in the granaries, 500 quarters, &c.
The Commission, having examined the quantity
and quality of the breadstuffs found in the maga-
zines, declared them unfit for the use of the allied
armies, and decided that they should be sent to
Eupatoria for the support of the Tartars, to whom
the allies furnish subsistence, and the French In-
tendance is charged with that duty. They con-
sisted of 11,000 sacks, weighing 500 tons, of black
bread ; 370 sacks, or 150 tons, of flour ; 100 sacks,
or 9 tons, of barley ; 1,300 sacks, or 117 tons, of
black barley ; 18 tons of hay, 54 tons of millet, 20
tons of barley, 14 tons of peas, 60 tens of salt meat,
and 500 quarters of barley in the granaries. The
Commission decided further that the few objects of
art found in the place should be planed at the dis-
posal of the Generals-in-Chief, and finished the sit-
ting by nominating as secretary M. de Genoux,
Capitaine de Fregate.
The third sitting took place on the 30th of Sep-
tember, and the subject of their deliberation was
the valuation of the guns. As the calibres of the
Russian artillery do not correspond with those of
the allies, it was decided unanimously that in the
valuation of the guns they should only take count
of the value of the metal, which was fixed at 2f.
50c. per kilogramme for brass guns, and at 10c. for
iron guns. One- of the members observed that
among the brass guns there were two Turkish field
pieces, and it was at once declared to be the wish
of the Commander to put these guns at the dispo-
sal of the Ottoman Porte. It was further decided
that, as many of 'the articles could not be divided
a distribution should take place as might be best
arranged, and, accordingly, a high pressure en-
gine of 20-horse power, a distilling machine, and
a clock, were comprised in the French list, and in
the English list were comprised a high-pressure
engine of 16-horse power and a furnace. As it
would be impossible to divide the wood of the
houses and buildings to be demolished, the city
itself was divided, and to the English was allotted
the east and to the French the western portion.
The list already published gives the gross amount
found, butlthere were immense quantities of all
kinds of articles, muskets, clothing, &0., impro
perly removed. Mr. Johnson, naval instructor,
was named as English secretary; and Mr. Cruik-
shank, since the close of the sittings, has discovered
attire coutaiabg Abot 6,000 pmts of Ell4fijAll la!