New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-09
LATE FROM TIE SEAT OF WAR.

Lord Psmerston publishes two dispatches from
General simpson dated JAY a. 1855, announcing the
death Of Lieut.. Colonel Woo, the French COmmis-
siorer 10 the English army. The state OF things be-
fore Sevastopo is thus epitomized:
"The weather, which had been opp,essiveIy 10.
snce the date Of my last dispatch has since chsnged
to far cooler and more agreeable temperature.
"The health of the army continues good and their
confidence and cbeerfulness are undated.
"Tbere has been change in the disposition OF the
allied troops since my last dispatch
The following letter s from English veteran Off
Ger before Sevssiopol:
II will be DO news 20 tel yOu that we have not
taken Sevastopol bu; may surprise you TO boar that
going on a. al present, shall never see the
inside Of Z place The fact is hat We want rot
but several leaders. General Smp-on Is all very well
IN his way and would DO doubt make very excellent
divisional commander but he lacks the experience. the
bodness of Judgment and the decision of character
quste for the leader of an army like this. He is eau
hous, and SO long as he commands us Tie enemy will
never either gain victory OF drive Us one inch out Of
our presen position The Russians and ourselves
like two chess players who have brought their con-
feet 10 what II called " stale mate; neither can hurt
the other bU; neither can advance his own Interests
one io,a Marx nv words when ! tell you that we are
both nO9 waiting for a mis- axe on tue part OF adj
yefsarv and the fret that max Is n ~ mistake will lose
The state Of the army-bOth physical aud morals
by 10 means what should wish 10 70 be. You must
RENE mber well how Lord keanes army suffered
from disrrhea in A6ehants,on. Wei, assure you
the troops are suffering much more from the same
complaint II Is not By the numbers in hspltal that
one ought 10 Judge although these are very great
bat IL is only those present in camp who can tell how
men and officers daily doing their duty IN the trenches
arr troubled with this most annoying compliant The
new arrivals suffer far than The old hands, 50
much 30 that II h really almost useless sending out
recruits from England for the corqs.uow here. Not
thai the number OF deaths is great but the &c, so
weakened BY continual attacks OF this illness that
they have really not Tie heart 10 20 through ueH or
binary duties ,
management of army Affairs has mos, decidedly I'M
proved of late. The whole force Is more solderliSe IN
M lie IDEAS than il year ago. In iact We arc
now commencing 20 be IN the state We ought 70 haye
becn In when We first landed in the Cnmea- And in
spite OF all their nislortunss the uoops, officers and
men ART fun Of pluck and regardless Of danger. But
4 rerea; that sadly want leaders. We require
men 10 command divisions aud brigGdes,
who in The hour of danger ana The moment OF need,
would not fear responsibility any more they 30 Russian
bullets. Ii our bdgadieTs and generals were as
morally as they are lhyslcsly brave, We would have
been IN Seyasfoyol on the letl OF last month nen
Gen Eyre 70 CALAMITY carried everything before him,
and established his brigade IN the houses about the
cemetery had two or three fresh braGes been poured
IL 10 support him, believe the day would have been
ours IL would have been he introduction OF The
wedge: and II AZ day hgtt next Jay <oOVJ FRENCH aud
EneEsh fresh troops had made dash 81 tie suburbs,
should row most likely have been Whiting % You
from the interior OF SevastOpol. What We should now
do is 70 take tie field agails; the army outside Oar
cavalry is every day receiving horses iom England
and viii in mouth hence be in splendid condition Tor
msrcbifg. Eyeu now they look very, very different
from lie remains OF The former Cayay Division that
wac 70 be seen here In tie Winter To my mind The
two corps that joined from lndis-the Ion Hassars
and 2ih Lanc,rs-aIe, bcs Ond DOUBT he most ser
yicesble looking regiments in The Cavalry Division.
The men are smaller than those of other CORPS and
mounted upon small, hardy stations whose aver
age hight Is just fifteen hands. IL Is amusing 20 see
oure of 80 nd naIsn MI
almost a. muoh the tudbred horses IN Bengal used
~ do