The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-24

gsloies u ~ tins wait tin Ne can balance the
claims Of ths ngiusnt and that and, while leaving
al unS feFtse&es - iully gsYrsoned - they would
Isqair6to - We were no longer masters Of Ahe
s Shrss wasts are sstsfes 70 assist The army in the
Csi1nea1 SQch course, however recOMmeAoed BY the
dull spirit Of routine which cannot rse with events
any mere than Il en- dwarf them down 70 its own
narrow conceptions, h neither becoming the great
ness Of tAe MASON, DE nagnitude Of t6s stake we
play for, nor ~ nature u ~ crisis which hax
ar1ved. Fer eur part, We wonder tnat Ne
comforts and luxuies We enjoy, the soft beds On
spread for rs, do net revolt the senses they are
intended to soOthe whom No reflect that We, on
whom all these enjoyments psf by habit, are leav-
ing tAe bravest and best Of our land IN cold In mis-
cry in as;pShds1cy e struggle against over ,hsm
and ourselves TO relieve them. We need not merely
halfa dozen regiments, but $4,000 or 10000 men,
to redeem our army from destruction, and to make
goa 0osd IT., the position We have taken Shall y Be
Of her revolution, could send forth to her frontiers
an army which could drive backfuDi.ed Europe in
dismsy and defeat, or that Napoleon, after the
drain o. twenty years. war and the dreadful Losses
Of the Moscow campaign, conld appear next spring
in Germany st the head OF 900 msn; and shall
net we, with our 26, 000, 900 OF people, bound
less wealth. our martial spirit, and unani nifty
in appreciation Of the war, find the means 70 sue.
by the addition Of 30,0002 War IL . hard task.
master; he will not be content with eyesfrvice, but
reserves his fav0Is for those who boldly and freely
adventure in the dreadful game stake commeusu.
rate with the prize they hope to win and the
amount Ney fear TO lsse.
Russian Expedition from the Caspian Sea %
Central Asia.
bombay (Oct. 2S) Correspondence Of London Times ]
The report mentioned in my last, that the King
Of K0kan had sent to request British aid again st
the Russians u repeated. The Ameer has heard
from his correspondents at Peshawur that before
the departure Of the commissioner for Peshawur, Oh
ambassador from the King Of Kokan arrived ct that
place. Whether r chilly or wrongly, this ambasa-
dor gave himself out to be "Shahzadah Sooftan %
son Of the 6hahzadah 6olaiman Of Shahzaman's
family. Hs is escorted by about twenty horse, and
Saheb Of Peshawur, and entertained daily ct the
cost OF the British government, and lodged In the
house 81 Lutchmunpersaad, ex-of6cer under the
Sikhs. He has presented the commissioner with .
the British government to interfere and either by
negotiation force save tho dominions Of the King
e Kokan from subjuga&ion BY the Russians. he
1ks for supply Of arms, and says that his kind
Connolly lD-in former days gives him claim to
English friendship. The Kokan chief wished to 70
10 Hurree to eco the chief commissioner, but was
told that he would be sent for II wanted.
during the last two ysaz. regarding the equipment,
departure, and constant progress Of the Russian
expedition to the Oxus and Jaxaytes, have not, /
think, received nom the English press the attcn-
agreement Of reports arriving through such various
and independent channels q Scinde, Peshawur,
Persia, and Cashmere, might have fairly warranted,
and nosc, schsn the fresence of Russian force in
Kokan Is fact a. ce,fsintv ascetained as that Of
the Amstrians in Wa'lachia, everybody appears to
.rosdsr ho,o they could haUe got there 90 quietly
Yet there is really nothing wonderful in the matter
st all; on reference to your files Of the last 70
years You VIII find reports Of the progress Of the
two years sgo since the first reports were %ubhshed
on the subject they were given on the authority Of
letters ftm an officer in the Russisn service, and
stated that an expedition against Central Asia, on
4 most extensive scale, was being equipped on the
It Eust be remembered that these preparations
were effected, and the expedition started, before
the Turkish difficulties had arisen, and when the
Orenburg Is the headquarters of division Of the
Russian regular amy. Few regular troops would,
however, have been employed OF required on such
An expedition. The Russians undergtand the value
Of Irregular Or provincial corPs - veil as We do
frontiers. A force Of this sort admits Of being
readily and rapidly augmented on frontier where
every other man is Dogald Dalgetty. The irregu-
ssss Sa S On the pasuS
the native army, though provided with only two or
three European officers apiece, and they were raised
in few months. Il Is evident that by similar
means Russian expedition 70 the Oxus might have
convenient demand oh tho strength Of the regular
army, and It must be remembered that the pfotec-
ton end monopoly Of the trade Of Central Asia and
Western China would well pay the expenses Of such
Russian Amateur ON the Walls OF sebastepol.
We extract the following from . journal Of the
iutsOnne, Il is under the date q the 27th ulsno:
The best shots In the various corps provided with
rifles have been collected into two volunteer compa
mics, and the address Of these men often puts step
to the Russian batteries. However, they have sth
The following is the explanation Of that phrase. The
ptnon In question u IN amateur old soldier PER
hsps, who every day at some undetermined h0uf,
advances In front Of the Notifications with piece Of
cannon, drawn By men; no has Il placed in battery
BY his attendants, giving himself the pleasure Of
firing it of himself he ordinarily plants his tent
not far from the gun, and after each shot be with
draws to 1t for about ten minutes probably to smoke
the piece il again charged, he comes out and fires
another shot This course Of proceeding takes place
every day, and lasts an hour CT two. There is no
conceivable pleasantly that our sharpshooters do not
amuse themselves with relative to this white paIetot
II appears that he has number Of domestics, for
the eharpshooters have already killed about fsty Of
his attendants, and new ones always present them
selves Some of the Zouaves pretend that the great
est number Of these persons are only lay figures
which the master pulls down with piece of string
when they fire. But in the end he viii himself be
uRht.
Russian Relnforcements.
The FSc,nden Biatt has received authentic" in
formation from Odessa relative to the reinforce
ments sent to the Crimea. The elective force Of
Prince Menschikof IL 115 900 men, Of whom Is 900
men have joined him within the last month. The
achievements marched from Perekop in three
columns, and met with no molestation on their
way. The first, which was 80, 600 strong, with 100
guns, under Liprsndi, reached Sebastopo about the
middle Of October, and got into position on the
18th, the day after the first bombardment. Tae
80 600 men belong to Ostsn- 6ackens corps The
two other columns belong to Dannenberg's corps.
Tie first Of them, consisting of rs 900 men, reached
Stbassopol at the end Of last month; the other
10000 strong, was in communication with the main
army al the beginning Of this month. It is highly
probable that the forcs Of Prncel Meuschikoff il
greatly exaggerated, but it is here considered
certain that 35 900 men had arriyed3 at Sc
bastopol before the two Grand Dukes went to the
camp in the Crimea. The Soldaten Freund states