The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

HEIGHTS ABOVB SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 28.—Deputy
Inspector Cuinming's promotion to the rank o
Inspector-General of Hospitals, and that of Surgeon
Gordon, M.D., to be staff surgeon of the first-class
appeared in to-day's General Orders. Leave ofab!
sence is granted to-Lieut.-Colonel N. Lake, R.A.,
and to Lieut. F. Moose, 21st Regiment, A.D.C.
to Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, to proceed
to England for the recovery of their health.
Nov. 30.—Assistant-Commissary Archer and
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Generals Selby and
Marsh have joined the staff of this army, and
Drs. Dunlop, ' Longhead, and Paleologus have
been attached to the 9th Regiment until further
order. Between our pickets and Sebastobol, and
also within our pickets, there are numbers of bttt
horses strolling about, and many stray animals
have been taken care of by officers who found them
starving. There is to be a general restoration,
judging from the following order :—" A number of
mules, horses, and mule carts, having been aban-
doned by Turkish and Maltese drivers during the
late hurricane and bad weather, and many of these
being in possession of regiments, detachments, or
others, the Commander of the Forces desires that
they may be immediately sent to the commissariat
office of the nearest division, who will cause the
same to be returned to the transport depot with-
out delay." There has evidently been some scru-
tiny about the rations of the " Benno Johnnies,"
as a new regulation has cane out to the following
effect :—" The ration of Turkish troops serving
with the British army is to be 11b. of biscuit, 5 oz.
rice, and every 30 men will have 11b. of Turkish
butter ; when fresh meat is issued, the ration is to
be 11b. of biscuit, 2 oz. of rice, and Vb. meat."
DECEMBER I.—Nothing of particular importance
has occurred throughout the day. A French
officer kindly gave me the following order, which I
could not send by the last mail on account of the
severity of the weather. It is a document of the
greatest interest.
" ORDRE GENERAL.
" Dans la nuit an 20 au 21, ear la demand° de conconrs
qua favais adressee au Commandant en Chef de l'Armee
Anglaise, en lui faisant observer que lee tirailleurs Russel
s'etablissaient a convert en avant de see lignee pour prendre
a revere nos travailleurs. Cent riflemea conduits par le
Capitaine Tryon sont sortie des tranchees Anglaisee, out
tourne par Is gauche les positions occnpees par I'ennemie
et lee out enlevees spree l'avoir dibusque. Les Busses
formees en colonnee profondes ont tento troi3 fois de lee
reprendre a la hayennette, spree avoir fait, pleuvoir la
mitraille sur le adtachment Anglais. Nos allies, ont tenu
ferme avec l'energie que nous lour connaissons et soot
restes maitres de la position on nous pouvons les aperce-
voir ee matin.
" Jai youlu rendre hoinmage devant vous a la vigueur,
avec la quelle e'est accomplice hardi coup de main, qui a
cause la mort an vaillant Capitaine Tryon : none lui don-
nerous lee regrets das é, ea fin glorieuse. Elle resserara les
liens de loyale confraterniti d'armes qui nous unieeent
nos allies.
"Au Quartier General, le 22 Otre, 51,
" Le General Commandant-en-Chef,
"E. GANBOBERT."
Who can read such an order without admiring
the spirit and taste of the general who put it forth I
The movements, tlrc., are as follows :—Leave of
absence has been granted at the recommendation
of medical boards to the under-mentioned officers
to proceed to England for the recovery of health
Major 0. Gore, 13th Light Dragoons ; 'Major J.
Staveley, 44th Regiment ; Brevet-Major J. Coats,
55th Regiment ; Brevet-Major S. Beardmore, 20th
Regiment ; Captain T. Martin, 4th Regiment ;
Captain G. Cooper, 44th Regiment ; Captain F.
Wilkinson, 42d Highlanders ; Lieutenant G. Mor-
gan, 4th Dragoon Guards ; Lieutenant M. Dow-
biggin, 4th Regiment ; Lieutenant H. Merely, 42d
Highlanders ; Lieutenant R. Gunter, 4th Dragoon
Guards ; Assistant-Surgeon Gilborne, R.A. ; As-
sistant-Surgeon F. Baker, Bth Fusilier Guards ;
Assistant-Surgeon J. Coates, 2Gth Regiment; Cor-
net and Arjutant D. Webb, 4th Dragoon Guards.
The Rev. E. Owen, officiating chaplain to the
forces, has joined the staff of this army, and will
be attached to the 2J Division ; and the Rev. J.
Conty and J. Doyle, Roman Catholic chaplains,
will be attached to the 23 and 3d Divisions re-
spectively.
DEC. 2.—We have had two courts-martial for
offences of the most unsoldierly character. The
first charge was that against W. Holmes, 44th
Regiment, " For disgraceful conduct, in having, g,
camp, before Sebastopol, on or about the 22d No-
vember, stolen one pair of boots, one shirt, one pair
of drawers, a towel, handkerchief, a candle, some
writing paper, and a sword, the property of non.
COMIUIBBiQ4O.I officers B Wenn() Grollie alicl Jean

The St. Petersburg Court Journal has a bitter
article against all those who persist in vilifying and
misrepresenting the disinterested, truly Christian,
and honourable intentions of Russia. The follow-
ing is an extract
"Russia raised her voice in the political world entirely
in a religious, moral, and philanthropic sense, when
she reminded the Porte of earlier treaties, whereby the
latter was bound to protect the Christian population
of the Turkish empire, and especially those of the
orthodox profession of faith. Nevertheless Turkey
' acted in violation of all treaties purchased with
Russian blood, and in its bre-tch of faith oppressed
all orthodox Christians. Conscience and sound
reason induced rational men throughout Europe (?) to
believe that all
.European Christian States would sup-
port the disinterested (1) demands of Russia. But
the reverse was the case. The party which thirsts
for the destructive overthrow of Europe has excited
the war' against Russia, under the pretext that Euro-
pean civilisation is menaced. This is nothing more nor
less than pitiful and ridiculous. The protectorate
over Christians in the East has been thrown in by
Russia's enemies as dangerous to European civilisation.
Such indecency could scarcely have been hazarded in a
theatrical farce, and yet it has found an echo in the
political world. And England, it is added, stands at
the head of this base conspiracy ; and its journals, copied
by those of France and G-ern,any, are the trumpets of
these and other venomous calumnies."

The Russian journal then praises the mag-
nanimity of Russia towards prisoners of war—
this show of magnanimity, as well observed by tne
able and well-informed St. Petersburg corre-
spondent of the Berlin National, being the ex-
ception rather than the rule, and one of those
pantomimic or theatrical stratagems which Russia
knows well how to employ exceptionally, to capti-
vate and throw dust in -the eyes of Europe. It
appears, on the authority of this correspondent,
that the account of the disasters which befel the
Allied ships on the 14th caused an outburst of joy
at St. Petersburg. Fresh glorious trophies were
expected to be captured from the wrecks ; but this
joy was damped by other reports from the Crimea,
which told of the pitiful state of the Russian
troops themselves. They had been almost without
provisions or forage during several days. The
tempest had not only scattered and destroyed con-
voys, but even the ricks of forage, and so forth, of
the inhabitants. "In the midst of peace even,"
says a report from Perekop, "such a hurricane
would have been more destructive than a visit of
locusts, and would have brought famine and plague
with it, for, to the destruction of cropsonust be
added that of habitations." Reports have reached
the Government from the administrative authori-
ties in the Crimea, relative to the destructive
effects of the hurricane, which sufficiently explain
the causes why Menschikoff has been obliged to
suspend active operations.
The intention of her Alajesty Queen Victoria, not
only to accord medals and clasps to our heroic
soldiers in the Crimea, but to perpetuate their in-
comparable valour, by inscribing " Crimea,"
" Alma," " Inkerman," and victories yet to come,
on their standards and appointments, is known at
St. Petersburg. It is said to have caused inde-
scribable annoyance to the Emperor and the Rus-
sian military. This perpetuation of the record of
their defeats galls them to the quick. French stan-
dards bear the records of mighty triumphs obtained
over Russia; but these, they say, were effaced by the
record of terrible subsequent disasters. But that
'every British soldier should bear on his appoint-
ments, so long as Britain exists, these records of
Russian defeat—of defeat without a single favour-
able turn or trophy save those dug up from wrecks
—it is a fearful blow to Imperial pride and national
vanity.