The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-14

told tnat terr1Ac reckoning with % u 1t hand. II
may D -, thousA not ono among u believes but
greatest enemy n disease. The choIera, iii very
lately carried Oh moro than thirty Der diem When
len, the mortality nom that vistation was esti-
mated at more than third OF thi amount; but In
and while men do mot die. they become thoroughly
inespacisted. Their faces grow Iiyid-they are
shaking q With the palsy-snd the quinine or
arsenic which Is administered, checks the malady
laid prostrate the slightest exeron bathes them in
o profuse sweat; their hands burn like red hot
Goals, and their jaundicsd cheeks and yellow eyes
give them the appearance Of walking corpses.
Nothing can be done for them, for the keen
winds Of the night, under canvass, undoes all
the care OF the day. The only remedy is,
to ship the sick AZ speedily a. possible to Varna,
and hundreds are sent OF every two or three days.
as you; at any rate, what with piping and dancing
bugle Playing and card playing, It does not affect
our spirits, and even the sick seem made better by
seeing cheerfuness about them. The English work
Justify; their whole soul ID In their busness-pas
t-a little less silence could not prevent them
doing as much. See what we have done: before day
break on the 10th, notwithstanding heavy fire on
our position, where got this ugly wound in tho
arm with TIVE Thousand four hundred men we
finished ditch, parspet and bsnquette 200 metres
long, at distance of nine hundred metres from the
enemy's line. The ground WAS terribly hard and
rocky; but after penetrating foot or two, we found
photiC Wuku CAny, HuuIaUiy bultcu ioE Tue purpose
Of entrenching. Each man worked and kept guard
in turn, as one Of the covering parties, till daybreak
and by that time every man had finished his half
metre Of work, so that one thousand two hundred
metres were accomplished. We have got f0rty-six
guns lying behind this work, ready to mount when
the embIasures are made and faced with gaboss
and iascines, ard the platforms are ready. We are
about two buDdrt d or three hundred metres nearer
to the enemy's lines than the English; but the
weight of your siege guns, superior as is to will
than compensate for the difference OF distance.
TIE general impression is that Seoastopol win
yet give tie allies great dea Of trouble, and be the
cause of enormous bloodshed. IT. says the Pags,
the information from Germany is to be believed,
Prince Menschikof has decidedly withdrawn to.
wards the North, and ia about to pls himself at
the head Of the troops assembled a. Perekop. HIS
army Ia estimated at 10 600 men, but II is thought
that It will proceed towards Sebastopol to relieve
that place, il possible. But it will, in that CASE find
at least 600 French troops to oppose IT, ell anxious
lor battle believing my n and DESTROYS
too much to believe in decided triumph ia such
conditions? For our part we are quite convinced
that Prince Menscbikcf win make this last effort;
shutting himself up, after this defeat at the
Alma, within the walls Of Sebastopol, he
has had no object or strategy in view. The whole
question Is to know whether be viii arrive before
that I've may be under the walls Of that town about
the 2Sth of October. Should that be true An i'm
portant battle may be expected, quite Independent
Of the siege operations. But, we repeat 1t, that
lent conditions with very sucient means Of attack
or resistance on our side, and we feel apprehen
sion as to the result That conviction is evidently
felt BY the eminent generals at the head Of the al.
they fhow in condu ting the siege operations prove
clearly that they do not fear the reinforcements Of
Prince Menschikoff, otherwise they would perhaps
have Buried matters on, and attempted some
daring blow. Lord Raglan and General Caurobert
have calculated al the chances they have full faith
in the happy issue of this glorious expedition the
soldiers have In hem the utmost confidence, and
that feeling ought to be shared by the public.
os Of hs IN @
greesble criticisms which have been running
through Paris, to the effect that the army of the
East already misses the dash Of the dead Marshal,
and that Canr0bert, although man of unquestiona.
BILE science, and Of military education infinitely
superior to that of his late chief has not that bril-
liancy Of character which the state of affairs at the
Crimea-so entirely unique-requires. Al for Lord
Raglan the French military in Paris would consider
I. utterly bent ath them to speak Of him as anything
more than mere human machine. After the death
Of Marshal st. Armand, Lord Raglan might have
claimed the command in chief, for he is Invested
with rank to which there Is not now an equivalent
inthe French. arm He is General-ttat Is to say
higher than a Lieutenant Gems raj or . General Of
Division, and lower than Marshal: Under ths frst
ry, . Fist Inspector General OF Artillery, and
First Inspector General Of the Engineers
who were higher in rank than GeneIas OF
Division, aid lower than Marshas. It has
any urp easart telling, that he command should
remain pdel under the reserve of previous
cor cert between the generasnchief, For this pur-
pose, Frei Oh officers have been placed toe staff
Csn,obert The English, in truth throughout have
shown great consideration for the proverbial amour
pr0rre, rather, most inc dinate vanity of their
ally; and it is the only thing which the Emperor ia
the English Cabinet, . little exigens about but
Count VALE wsky, the French Ambassador in Eng.
land, was obliged TO Assure both the Duke of New.
castle and Lord Clarendon that on such point the
diately sensitive for the Emperor to interfere
that an attempt to do 90 would 6ouleurs the whole
policy.
From Madrid, we receive accounts that seem to
and lists of names Of new administration the
head OF which, however, always appears that
Of Espartero-are publicly handed about. The
chief exclusion is that Of ODonnell. who
liberal party The Carlists are stirring heaven and
earth to rouse the sleeping embers Of Legitimacy,
and in the opinion Of those best acquainted with
Spanish affairs, civil war OF unexampIed magni.
tude Ia imminent. One would almost suppose that
events were intent on repeating themselves. ex-
pTessly for the benefit of Napoleon the Third, and
that while all Europe, rs it were OF itself, seems
about to melt into its original chaos, 1t is reserved
and perhaps to try with better effect than his
uncle. Bonapartist reconstruction Of the throne
ofSpain.
mentioned some time ago that paatomimc mi.
litary feats were being enacted at the Hippodrome
on scale of g. eat magni6cence and that in order
to give proper eclat to them and perhaps rouse the
popular Mid to TIE true warrior PITCH large bodies
Of cavalry and infantry admitted into the arena
to do suit and service against Silistria of card
board, and to receive Is guerdon supplementary
bali trarc per Diem from the manager. Now,
however that blood has been drawn, and that
their comrades hsye fought, or fell conquered, at
the Crmea. the Emperor Is scandalized that any
portion CT the Frencharmy should be degraded to
such service, and accordingly notice has been is.
sued that, for tie future, soldier wilt be 10 we'd
10 avail himself Of snch additional souros OF blu.
mept The only wo1dsr ia that it should at any
tin have bee permitted at ALL but 1t IL sbsurd to
suppose that troops Of cavalry and infantry, AID o
magnificent military bard, could be marched up
four or five times week through the avenues of the
Champs Elysee, and st TO work With suitable
train ef artillery, without such having been the will
cvl lf Xn o - - - II 1.