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th instant , the operations of the siege have been conned , -without any material interruption from the smy beyond occasional shots from guns and mortars , I the more constant firing of musketry from rifle-pits , ich have occasioned , I regret to say , the casualties ich your Lordship will see in the returns I enclose . ' ¦« Captain A . E . Hill , of the 89 th Regiment , whom I ntioned in my despatch , No . 222 , as having been erely -wounded and taken prisoner , died , I regret to ' , of his wounds , before he reached the Russian bulance , as I learnt last night from General Ostenjken , to whom I had written for information on the
fject . 'Ke had gone foiward with a view to place the senb in front of our advanced works , as I stated to your rdsbip on Tuesday , and he , unfortunately , mistook a ssian for a French picquet , and , having challenged it French , he was immediately fired upon , and brought the ground . ' Early yesterday morning a fire was observed in the ti of Sebastopol , which raged with violence for a conj rable time , but how it originated I have not been e to ascertain . ' The enemy has make no movement on the side of the
naya . 1 The railway continues to progress in the most satis-; ory manner , and last night had nearly reached the of the hill , usually called the Col de Balaklava , and antage has been taken to bring up large quantities tmmunition and stores . " I have , &c , " Raglan . The Lord Panmure , &c , &c . "
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WAR MISCELLANEA . Icssian Military Movements . — -A letter from cow of the 8 th says : — " General Paniutine has been imoned to Warsaw from his head-quarters at Lublin , rder to come to an understanding with Prince Pasvitch , probably as to the movement of the troops , ch for some months past have not left their winter r ters . General Rejtern , who commands the first dfon in the government of Kielce , haS arrived at War-. The Emperor has renewed all the orders which been given in the month of February , last year , reve to the Baltic and to that coast . The landmarks the coasts of the Gulfs of . Bothnia , Finland , and r , are to be immediately removed , and the lightses have been all extinguished . Another regiment
Greeks , armed and commanded by the Greek Lieut .-> nel Papa Aphanisopulo , is expected at Odessa on its ' to the Crimea , to reinforce the body of Greek voters , formerly imder the command of Chrisoveri and nati , but now under the former only , as Stamati has L at Simpheropol of the wounds which he received > re Eupatoria . ) r . Robbrt I ) . Lyons , of Dublin , son of Sir Will Lyons , of Cork , has been appointed to investigate pathology of the diseases which prevail in the army he Crimea , and has set out for Scutari to enter tipon duties . The appointment , an unsolicited one , was [ ejby . Sir ¦ James Clarke . ' he Hospitals at ' Scutari . —Ther"Twi&s
correident says that a marked change for the better has sn place in the condition of the military hospitals , re is a decrease in the number of sick , a diminution he rate of deaths , and a larger band of convalescents lghted off to their regiments . " There are now in Bosphorus establishments altogether about 3300 i upon the sick list ; and the average mortality has jped to less than a half per cent , per diem . ; and ¦ e have been lately carried out , or are noAV in actual jress , a variety of measures tending to convert this e favourable state of the register from an exception a rule . " The same writer calls attention to the tched state of the Merchant-seamen Hospital . i Smyrna Hospital . —The , condition of the
enta here continues satisfactory , though several of nurses are suffering from fever . There are several sant walks by the sea-side or in the cemeteries ( says riter on the spot ); but it is unsafe to wander far i the town . The robbers , who gave such trouble a ¦ t time ago , are again on tho hills to the south , quite j to the walls , waiting for a lucrative capture . They j tho wandering peUeatrian or horseman , and have i known to exact as ransom as much ns 25 O 0 A , under at of immediate execution . The usual demand is it 700 / . Tho police nro as bad as tho robbers ; and boatmen are no very reputable sot . They recently > ed and violated a French lady .
he Military Hospitals . —Several official letters l tho Duke of Newcastle , Lord Clarendon , Lord ttford de Redclifle , and Dr . Mcnzies , having Reference lie condition of tho military hospituls at Conistnnti-0 during the months of Octobor and November last , 3 been published . From these wo loarh that in the y part of Octobor these hospitals were very ill sup-\ with bedsteads , mattresses , and many other rcquii ; that tho Duke of Newcastle in consequence wrote -ord Clarendon , requesting tlint ho would instruct 1 de Redcliffo to endeavour to procure t he articles dred ; that instructions to that effect were sent out ; ; Dr . Menzies wrote to Lord Stratford do Rcdcliffo on . 20 th , saying that there was no want of medicines ,
but that such things as bedding , tables , chairs , stoves , &c , were needed ; that the Turkish authorities were communicated with on this point ; and that our ambassador at Constantinople wrote to Lord Clarendon on the 15 th of November , expressing his belief that a great improvement was then in operation , and tha £ , " although there might be a temporary renewal of difficulties in case of another battle attended with severe consequences , the sick and wounded might reckon upon the enjoyment of every aid and relief . "—On this subject , Mr . Sidney Godolphin Osborne has written to the Times , stating , in contradiction to Dr . Menzies , that at the end of October there was great want of more serious things than tables , chairs , &c , for that even the commonest necessaries were absent . Thk Ska of Azof . —In answer to the " Hertfordshire Incumbent , " whose letter we noticed last week , a correspondent of the Times , "G . N . D ., " who has travelled in and around the Sea of Azof , asserts that , as long as the isthmus of Perekop remains open , the Russians will not care for so round-about a way of getting re-inforcements as the one indicated . When we have closed the isthmus , he says , it will be time to think of the other route .
The French Army . —According to the Moniteur , recruits are pouring in at a great rate , and the young men are animated with the most enthusiastic spirit , and present a very fine physical appearance . From another source we leam that a youth belonging to a family of note has resigned an excellent place in one of the ministerial offices in order to enter the ranks , but on condition that he should be sent to the Crimea . Tub English Prisoners in Russia . —Some letters from English residents in Russia have been published , stating that the English prisoners are suffering great hardships , and that those few of our countrymen who are now living in Russia are unable to get up sufficient subscriptions to relieve them . Captain Christie , of the transport service , has been
superseded Dy uaptain . Major-General Scarlett , commanding the Cavalry Division , has left for England on account of the serious illness of his wife . His place will be taken by Lord G . Paget . . The Inquiry by General Simpson into the state of the army during the winter is still proceeding on board the-Gottenburgh at Balaklava , aiid several most important witnesses have been examined . This inquiry , made on the spot , will in one day collect more real facts against our military administration than the House of Commons Committee in the course of a month . —UTorning Herald , Provision Depots are in course of being established along the coast of Asia Minor , for the regular supply of fresh meat and vegetables ; and General Filder is also about to establish most extensive depots in Wallachia , on the banks of the Danube . —Idem .
The Old and Worthless Fuzes . —We have , I am told , fuzes made in 1798 and 1804 ; but , old as these are , they are better than the fuzes of 1853 and 1854 . — Times Correspondent . Eupatoria , —Accounts from Eupatoria mention that great cruelties are committed by the bashi-bazouks on the " wounded 'Russians . The fortifications progress . Skirmishes occasionally happen , mid the Russians have burnt some villages . In consequence of the arrival of a French steamer from Kamiesch , bringing despatches for Omar Pacha , several of the Turkish regiments received orders to hold themselves in readiness to depart . It is thought they are destined to assist in the bombardment of Sebastopol .
A Bo \ in one ov our London IIagoiji ) Schools , having shown a great taste for acquiring languages , has been sent out as an interpreter to Balaklava , and now often dines with Lord Raglan . The Sortie of thk 22 nd . —Prince CortschakofF , in his account of this affair , says the Russians had 379 men killed , and 982 wounded ; and eight officers killed , and twenty-one wounded . A Female Russian Spy . —A young woman , who for some dnys Avas scon loitering about tho French trenches , has fallen into the hands of our allies . She was provided with a paper , in which she had made notes with respect to the state of the French battorics , tho number of the men employed , &c . ; and a communication
addressed to Prince MeiiHchikoff was found on her . At least , such is the story ns related in a letter from Knmicsch ; but there is a certain air of romantic improbability about it . Stratuoetical Movements of the FurcNCir . — Tho Vienna correspondent of the Times says : — " The last move made by Louis Napoleon is a most masterly one . Ho concentrates an army of 40 , 000 men at Mnslnlc , near Constantinople , nnd by so doing gives check to tho Austriaim in the Principalities , and disturbs tho Russian army north of Scbnutopol in its operations . Tho latter cannot be certain that the French will not suddenly be landed in their rear j nnd tho former must nlwnys fcjvr that a French corps will sooner or later iippoar in Wallacliia and Moldavia . "
Thk Sardinian Oontinoknt . —Tho review of these troops , and the benediction of their colours , took pin cm on tho Plain of Marengo , about ji mile to the eastward of Alexandria , on the 14 th of April . Tho King wiih present ; but hiu speech was roiul by tho Miniutor-of-War .
The Ravages of the Sma . li . tPOx in the fleet have not decreased . The St . Jean d'Acre has been obliged to go into quarantine , and has landed her crew near Kamiesch , with many cases of the malady among them . Several men-of-war have put to sea to cruise for a time .
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THE " MONITEUR" ON THE WAR . - The Moniteur of Monday contains the promised second article on the subject of the war and the negotiations . The discussion this time is confined to the political aspects of the question , and traces the history of the struggle , from Russia's original demand with respect to the Holy Places , up to the present Conferences at Vienna . Russia , it is asserted , onlymade the religious part of the dispute a mask to cover her real design , which was purely political , and aimed at the domination of the Bosphorus . Prance
and England , in burning the Turkish fleet at Navarino in 1828 . committed a grave error , since they " destroyed the force which protected the West . " At all times , Europe seems to have shut its eyes to " the invasion of the North , " though , " as far back as 1805 , a fleet left Sebastopol with 12 , 000 men on board , landed them in Italy , and brought the Russians and French in contact in the Mediterranean . " When , in 1812 , France and Austria united , the Emperor Alexander gave the following instructions to Admiral Tichakoff , as the admiral himself reveals in his Memoirs : —
- "' The astute conduct of Austria , which has just allied itself with France , obliges Russia to employ every means in its power to disconcert the hostile intentions of those two Powers . The most important is to turn to our account the military genius of the Slavonic nations , as Servia , Bosnia , Dalmatia , Montenegro , Croatia , and Illyria , who , once armed and under military organisation , would co-operate powerfully with our operations . The Hungarians , dissatisfied with the proceedings of their actual Government , offer to us also an excellent means for alarming Austria , for making a diversion to her hostile ideas , and , consequently , for weakening her resources . All these tribes united to our regular troops would "form . , a ' very imposing militia , TJot-only to provide against the hostile intentions of Austria , but to effect a marked diversion upon the right wing of the French possessions , and to give us a sure means of striking a i ) low in the direction of Nissa or Sophia . "
The people of the Tyrol and Switzerland were also to be incited to rebellion , and the Slavonic races were to be flattered by the promise of a Slavonic kingdom . From these facts , the Moniteur derives its arguments in favour of the justice and necessity of the war . With respect to the negotiations , the writer defends the resort to them after this fashion : — " There was but one of two things possible : the negotiations -would succeed or would fail . If successful , Europe , by the four guarantees , obtained conditions which , four months previously , Count Nesselrode declared he could only accept after ten years of disastrous warfare ; if a failure , Austria , whose alliance became an brrensiv " e ~ 6 n " c , ~ entdred-into--armed-actionj--and-t . he-- w : . eigliit of her sword would soon obtain by war what her influence could not effect in the Conferences . Thus , in either case , it was well to negotiate at Vienna , while continuing all the same to fight in the Crimea . "
Reviewing the motives nnd objects of the Four Points , the Moniteur remarks , with regard to the demand for the dismantling of Sebastopol : — " An argument is brought against this pretension which we do not think serious . It is said to the Allied Powers , ' You ask a concession from Russia , which at most might bo the price of tho surrender of Sebastopol , and that place is still held by tho Russian army . ' Our reply is this : — ' It is true that wo have not yet taken
Sebastopol : but what is Sebastopol at the present moment to Russia ? It is no longer a naval port , as her fleet , sunk at the mouth of the harbour , or shut up behind that insurpassablo barrier , is withdrawn from the struggle . The Black Sea is tho battle-field which we have won—or , if they like it , which has been abandoned to us by tho enemy . The Russian flag could not show itself there . ' Our ships , with those of Knglnnd and Turkey , navigate it in every sense . Its domination him changed hands . It has gone from Sebastopol to
Constantinople . ' . . . • • • What can Russia do ? Could riio suffer for any length of time , without detriment t <> her moral strength and without ruin to her commerce , tho blockado winch will shut her up in every pnrt of tho Ulack Sou and in the Baltic ? Could « ho live in that pnralyms which in her strikes the vital principle of nations—tlmt is to wiy , movement , action , the right of exporting and exchanging her produce , which would condemn her to isolation , sterility , impotom-y , In-the iminennlty of her empire f To askRusmh < o limit her nnvnl forces , or neutralize tho IJlack Sea—that w to * ny , to exclude therefrom all vowels of war nf any nation whatsoever- w , therefore , lo exact from bormiich l « tm tlwin what we have acquired by war , nnd which we could maintain without an effort , lii fact , ' what doew it require to prevent Russia from ever entering tho Ulnck Sea again ? Four men-of-war
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Apbxl 21 , 1855 . J .. . THE LEADER , 365
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2087/page/5/
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