, 1855-02-10
The Winter Campaign in the
Crimea.

Crimea.
A correspondent Of the London Times
gives the following picture Of the horrors
the Allied army must expect to encounter
during q winter campaign, which now APP
pears inevitable, in the Crimea 1t was
the general understanding that the PENN
sula was free from such intense cold as ap-
pears from this writer to prevail there:
You will be told that the cold is not SO
severe in the Crimea as in the north. This
is half true, and therefore the more likely
to deceive The mercury is not so often
hard in the bulb of the thermometer as
have seen it in the north, but there are vio-
lent winds in the Crimea which never occur
in the north, and 10 degrees Of frost with
wind are more intolerable than 80 degrees
without it,
For the troops let tyo Sheepskins be sewn
together with the WOOL inside, and the ac-
coutrements put over them. The fingers,
without gloves, cannot touch iron, and with
them muskets are difficult to handle. If
fur cannot be had, then leather pantaloons
and waistcoats, worn under the ordinary
clothes. Next to them are all the prepar-
atoms of waterproof cloth, particularly
sheets. No amount of wooden is sufficient
particularly in wind. The most difficult
thing to manage for the troops is the shoes
1t is NOT uncommon for Russian officers, in
pulling of their boets, to pull of their feet
or toes with them for in severe cold the
extremites ore entirely devoid Of sensation.
II the feet are once wet during severe frost
it is almost impossible to save the toes, and
the Russian fur shoes called "kinghies" are
too cumbrous to move about in with activ-
ity. Expensive furs are not required COW
erlets Of rabbit-skin will answer all purpo-
Ses but Englishmen are bad hands at
ada ptng themselves TO circumstances they
are unaccustomed TO.
The Lendon Times unreservedly tells the
country that the weekly loss in the Armies
from battle, disease and fatigue amounts to
Ave thousand, while reinforcements were
arriving at the rate of only about seven
thousand q week. From the outset the
brunt q the battle seems to have fallen up,
on the English At Alma their loss was
q thousand larger than that Of the French;
we're engaged, and they suffered but little /;
and the same was the case in the terrible
affair Of the 9Th, at Inkermann. The des-
truction of English officers has been inn
mense in proportion, and doubtless in a
great measure arises from the fact that the
brilliancy of their uniforms signalizes at
once their official character, and draws up
on them the deadly aim Of the Mime rifle,
with which it is known that the Russians
also are extensively armed. Thousands Of
the happiest households in England have
already been darkened by the havoc and
yet there is every reason to fear that the
worst is to come
A letter from Sebastopol, in French
journal, says Zone would say that in all
the great feats Of war France is destined to
furnish arms to her enemies Without
speaking of the Duke de Bourbon, Prince
Eugene and Bernadotteey at the Siege Of
Rome the artillery of the besieged was
commanded by an old pupil of the Poly
technic School. AtSebastopol, it appears,
that it is General or Colonel Goodwin
q who commands it and that officer was
IOTiltu III buO hSuOOlo VI Jul SOuutIl, bluCt
Goodwin, it is said, knew at Metz, where
he remained several years, most of the su-
perior officers Of the artillery and engineers
against whom he defends so well this bull
wark of Russia He even, before the war,
eorresponded with the Colonel second in
command of our artillery
A letter from Odessa, in the Kolnisehe
Zeitnng, of November 2, says: Rein
forcements are being continually sent off
for the Crimea. Up to the 2sth ult. we
had summer weather on that day there
was great GULjdnie, or pleasure promo
made, with military music, on the occasion
Of the arrival of the bulletin announcing
General Liprondi's victory In the after
noon Of that day the weather changed, and
a violent N. W. wind arose, which in
creased to q storm during that night. This
tempestuous weather lasted the three fol-
lowing days and nights, the wind being at
times north, at others east. In the conf
dent calculation that this weather extended
as far as the Crimea it was regarded by
the Russians as an ally that would finish
the good work commenced by Liprandi.-
The most remarkable event of this passage
from summer to winter is that at halfpast
ii o'clock on the night of the 2sth of Oct,
the shock of an earthquake was felt at
Odessa, which has left its traces in the up-
per stSFies Of the hOuses there"