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. 1 " : ~ many-naked .-- Their clothing-consists -of -a umfornr Kceatcpat , made of acloth coarser than a horse-rug . A thick linen shirt , trousers of the same linen , generally in , rage , ^ and a , round cap without » shade , complete fteir accoutrement . But they carry enormous eartridgeboxes , well filled with powder and ball , and muskets wiuch are not of the best description . They wear boots 4 * tremely thick and unusually long . All are made in £ he same form , to fit the entire regiment . They cannot ijun with them , and are easily overtaken by our men . Those who attacked us at the Tchernaya carried , bepjfdes , a linen wallet containing what is called bread in the * . Russian army . I- had already seen samples of it at Xeni-Kaleh . It resembles gingerbread in colour and consistence , and is a mixture of unsifted flour and rapeseed . J . caused several of these -wallets to be opened , and I . found in them that description of bread , a piece of raw uet , which appeared to have been cut out of the belly of a dead animal , and a small bag of salt . Such is the food of these poor soldiers !" ACTION AT BRAKDON . A further destruction of Russian stores , vessels , &c , has been effected at Brandon , the seaport of Wasa , in the Gulf of Bothnia . Details of this exploit , communicated in a report from Captain Otter , have been transmitted to the Admiralty by Admiral Dundas . On the 2 nd of August , at midnight , Captain Otter arrived at Brandon , which is a great ship-building place , with a custom-house and barracks , and immense magazines on an island separated from the town by a channel . Captain Otter determined to burn these magazines ; but , as the wind at that time would have carried the flames to the town , he forbore until a change should occur . At the same time , he told the inhabitants that they were at liberty to remove anything from the island that belonged to them , except ship ' s stores . In the course of the 3 rd , " everything , " writes Captain Otter , " had the appearance of security ; ladies were walking about the beach , parties of pleasure sailing round the ship , and the people employed taking their property from the island . " At eight in the evening , a heavy fire of musketry opened from the town . This was briskly replied to with shot and shell ; and , in about an hour and a half , the fusillade from the shore nearly ceased . Our men afterwards ascertained that the enemy had twenty-five killed , and from fourteen to eighteen wounded . On onr side , the casualties were confined to a man and a boy being struck with spent balls . It was not until the morning of the Bfch that the buildings were fired . Having effected this object , Captain Otter was backing out , when " several heavy guns , from an elevated position masked by trees , -Apened fire , chiefly with shells . The Firefly had to be backed astern a mile and a quarter before she was out of tapgej and this operation occupied forty minutes . . Lieutenants Edward Buratal and John Ward , Mr . John A . Bull , Second Master , and Mr . James W . Salter , gunner , are mentioned with high praise . ^ Previous to visiting Brandon , Captain Otter carried away from . WasklOt a large bark , the Fidea , of 300 tons , with from two to three hundred casks of taT on board . Major gantdini on the proper theatre of the war . " - '' A . communication from Major Gandini , an Italian liberal who fought at Venice during the Republican struggle , has appeared in the Morning Advertiser . It ia the opinion of this gentlemJW that "the Danube , on wjhich the contest begun , will be the very spot of its solution , " and that it is only by transferring the seat of war to that locality that Austria will be made to declare herself in her true character as the friend of Russia . He is therefore desirous that there should be " a strong defence in front of the Balkan , and on the right side of the Danube . " He adds : — " Speaking in a military point of view , I consider the Dobrudacha a most important field , the base of which is the quadrangle formed by Varna , Shumla , Silistria , and Ra ^ aova ; and , were a railroad made , linking these f ^ uf points , and also joining Rutschuk , I feel confident it would prove a judicious foresight , whilst , besides greatly assisting the strategical operations by rendering Varna , by sea , the general emporium , and securing the safe and . speedy supply of men and provisions of all kinds for the whole of the Bulgaria and of the Dobrudscha lines , it would enormously increase the material strength ' of Shumla and Silistria , and give to Rassovo , once better fortified , the greater importance which ftt ^ topographical position deserves . It would thus oppose ain impregnable bulwark against any future Russian attempt on' Constantinople , and would also abbre-? rate the - commercial communications on the western Bulgarian and Wallachian Danube with the Black Sea , and render , at leant during the war , its special navigation independent of the Russian mouths of the Sulina , by the land junction of Rutschuk with Varna , which would turn a voyage of at least five days , into a journey of four hours . "
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SIR CUAULES NAPIER AND Silt JAMES GRAHAM . FuimiKK correspondence between Sir Charles N « l' > and Sir James Graham has been published . It aMt > » UI Httlo to our previous knowledge of tlio difloroiicoa between the Admiral nnd the First Lord ; but it allows W gradual deepening of the quarrel , from the first gorin to tho final declaration of Sir Chnrlea that ho " will ««>* w
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WAR MISCELLANEA . Thb Russians in Extromitibs . — A Berlin correspondent of tho Daily News writes : — " We are assured In private letters that wo can form no idea of the strain of the war upon the Russian pooplo during the last six monthri . Of its effect upon the trading classes and landowners , I have already written to you ; but I after all it is * tho pooplo' —if tho language of tho free I
west- may- be applied In "this case *—upon ^ homtfie pressure chiefly falls . The enrolment of the new militia of the empire , or levee en masse , has had a terrible effect . The organisation of this new corps has been pushed forward with a haste which tells volumes on the condition of the regular army . Thirty thousand of the new troops were sent to the Crimea before they had fully learned their drill . Did the safety of the country demand this ? and if so , what has become of the great army which has for generations repressed the inspirations of half Europe , and been the hope and comfort of its despotic princes ? " _ Dr . Hall and the late Mr . Stowe . —Mrs . Hall has published some correspondence between herself and the Editor of the Times , relative to the alleged ill-treatment of Mr . Stowe when he was dying . The lady requests of the Editor that he will publish a letter of her husband ' s , stating that he was never informed of Mr . Stowe ' a illness , or applied to to rescind his order regarding the Castle Hospital in Mr . Stowe ' s favour . The Editor replies that it appears to him that a previously-published letter from Mr . Hayward , the garrison chaplain , fully disposes of the charge against Dr . Hall ; but that he will publish Dr . Hall ' s letter if Mrs . Hall wishes it . Mrs . Hall , on August 20 th , intimates such a wish ; but as , on the 25 th , the letter had not appeared in the Times , she sends the whole of the correspondence —rather impatiently , as it would seem—to another paper for publication . America helping Russia . —We read as follows in a letter from Warsaw , dated August 26 : — " For some time , a great number of foreign physicians , having taken service in Russia , have passed through Warsaw , on their way either to the Crimea or the Baltic provinces . Among them are several medical men of the United States of America . Civil engineers of the same nation have also arrived here to tender their services to the Czar . " Russian Barbarity once more . —The cruel treachery of which the Allies had to complain after the battles of the Alma , Inkerman , &c , has been repeated , if we may credit the account of a French officer , who , writing after the action of the Tchernaya , says : — " In collecting on the field of battle their dead and wounded , those miscreants , by way of reward , fired upon us grape and round-shot . The poor wounded kissed our hands , and there , as everywhere else , I witnessed the kindness and generosity of the French soldier . Having no litters , our men actually carried the Russian wounded on their backs . I never beheld a more affecting spectacle . " Prince Gortschakoff ' s " Impatience . "—The St . Petersburg Correspondent of Le Nord writes on Aug . 23 : —An impationt desire of measuring his strength with that of the enemy hurried Prince GortschakofF , on the 16 th , beyond the dictates of prudence , for in sooth he found the enemy ' s force to be far greater than he had supposed . " " IiE NORD" ON THE u THICK HlDE " OF THE Russians . —The Berlin Russian organ , Le Nord , has a letter from a correspondent at Hamburg , in which the writer endeavours to show that Russia is not reduced to the extremities which the Allies flatter themselves she must be suffering . The landowners , it is admitted , have great sacrifices to endure ; but the bulk of the people , who are poor , are rather better off for the war , since necessaries are cheaper , owing to " commerce no longer possessing a market for them abroad . " Besides , " a degree of material suffering which would appear insupportable in England or France will make but little impression on the thick hide of a people less advanced in civilisation . " Is this meant as a compliment to our enemies , or not ? In England , a " thick hide "is the characteristic of a donkey . The White Sea . — -A correspondent of tho Times , writing from the squadron now in the White Sea , gives an account of a little affair at the town of Kandalak . This place was approached by our boats , for tho purpose of seeing whether there wore any Government stores there . The party , however , were attacked by the Russians ; upon which , rockets were thrown into the town , the Russians were driven out , and forced to fly into tho surrounding woods , and tho town was set fire to , and destroyed all but the church . Three of our men were badly , but not seriously , wounded . Omar Pacha received tho Grand Cross of tho Bath oii the 11 th ult . at tho hands of Lord Stratford , who delivered a , very glowing and laudatory address . Tho ceremony was described as " an imperishable landmark on the paths of national advancement , a pledge of growing cordiality between the West and the East , and , above all , an earnest of the future diffusion of peace , tho more highly to bo prized as being elicited from tho very bosom of war . " Thb Pibdmontese Government is actively making arrangements for the demands of a winter campaign . Tun Vulture , one of our ships in the Baltic , struck recently on a rock near Hango , and was got off seriously damaged . The Dragon has been ashore off Ledsund , but has sustained little injury . Major McGowan , 98 rd Highlanders , who has been missing for some time , was , it now appears , attacked while posting his sentries in advance of tho trenches , wounded severely , and mado prisoner . 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~ XaHceiTpublishes a Ieffer"lr 6 m theTHorsV"Guards , to the Director-General of the Army Medical Department , enclosing a " copy of a letter froni Colonel Lort West , 21 st Fusiliers , representing that Assistant-Sufgeons Brady and Phelps , of the 57 th Regiment , were coolly and zealously attending to the wounded tinder the enemy ' s fire in the advanced trench on the 18 th of June last , to the great relief of the men who were struck down ; and that Assistant-Surgeon Greer , 21 st Foot , and Assistant-Surgeon Wrench , 34 th Regiment , were also treating the wounded under a very heavy fire further to the rear . "—The Army Surgeons in the Crime * have transmitted a memorial to Lord Panmure , coniplaining of various grievances in connexion with promotion , insufficient pay , &c . ''• The Russian Fleet . —We continue to hear accounts of the efforts which Russia is about to make during the ensuing winter to repair the recent gaps in her navy . The Wat Huts are Sent to the Crimea . —Some huts were to be sent out to the Crimea in the Europa , lately lying at Liverpool . The departure of the vessel was delayed for a few days ; in the meanwhile , two officials went down from London , and , according to the Liverpool Albion , " found that only one side and the top of each separate hut was on board ; and , on making further investigation , they ascertained that the remaining portions had been put on board the Great Britain . " The Queen ' s Congratulations on the Victoby at the Tchernaya . —^ General Simpson wrote to General Pelissier on the 18 th of August , to convey the Queen ' s congratulations with her brave Allies , the French and Sardinians , on the result of the engagement of the 16 th , " in which they have worthily maintained the military reputation of their respective nations . " Neutral Vessels . —Official accounts from Bessarabia state that neutral vessels h ave been authorised to load grain at Ismail . The Successor to General Read . —According to a letter from Warsaw , in the Independance of Brussels , it is General SuchozanefF who is to replace General Read , who was killed on the 16 th , while directing the attack against the French lines . General Suchozaneff , who had been residing at Warsaw , has already set off for his new destination . The Attack on Sweaborg . — A correspondent of the Daily News ' says : — " The French Admiral sent a Russian , as a spy , on shore near Sweaborg , to ascertain the casualties and what damage had been done in the attack against it last week . The spy returned with the news that all the Government stores and the dockyard were completely destroyed , twenty-three ships burned by the shells , and 2000 men killed and wounded during the bombardment ; all the powder-magazines have been exploded , and the Governor ' s house and several other buildings burned down ; a three-deck line-of-battle ship has likewise suffered so much from shot that she filled with water and sank . " Movements of the Russians . —General Simpson , I writing to Lord Panmure on August 25 th , says : — " The enemy have been concentrating troops at the Mackenzie , Tasova , and Karales , their left extending as far as the village of Makoul , and arc supposed to have received considerable reinforcements , which probably consist of two divisions of Grenadiers , which have been conveyed in carts from Baktchi-Serai and Simpheropol . The bridge across the Great Harbour is nearly completed , and large bodies of men are employed in erecting earthworks on tho north side of the harbour . Intrenchments have been thrown up on the Scvernaya-hill , extending from the sea-coast to the site of the first lighthouse , facing the north . " Floating Batteries . —Three French floating batteries have been sent to Sebastopol . " These formidable engines of war , " says tho Akhbar , " will soon bring their guns to bear upon the forts of Sebastopol . One may easily imagine their destructive effects . Tho entrance of tho port of Sebastopol ia defended by three stockades , through which passagos have been left open . Should tho three floating batteries succeed in entering it , which they can easily do , thanks to their light draught of water and their screw , the Russian fleet , sheltered behind the cliffs , cannot escape them , and their enormous guns will powerfully assist our land artillery . Tho D evastation justifies the name she bears . She is armed with M guns . Tho Tonnante and Lave only mount 1 G each . ' This Flekt bekoke Cronstaot . —Tho following arc telegraphic despatches , dated respectively Hamburg nnd Berlin , September 3 rd .- —" Three sail of tho line , n frigate and two steamers , forming part of tho Allied fleet before Cronstadt , weighed and stood out to sea on tho 26 th . It is thought that tho remainder of tho fleet will soon follow . "— " In tho morning of tho 27 th all tho remainder of the Allied fleet before Cronstndt woigno " anchor and stood out to aea . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 856, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2105/page/4/
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