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    The War. The News'from The Seat Of War A...

    verv » walls of the . hospital , and exhalations only ; too -pwpbetic gree ^ you at My turn . Cleacina and Ore *? > bave ^ w > ma . « olemn > c « npact . -Hera ia aome spofcwhich -the living Tuck has made , * ix » mi » able ; ; tbete another , ' whece a host . of dead Mussulmans lie * but lightly buried . The harbour is stiU A-stinking lake , where boats put to shoTe through carrion and vegetable refuse , at which even the- grim sailor , as he lands , gives token of his grim disgust , amd predicts , with a force of language hardly to be blamed , the day of retribution . Something , yet I fear too little , -may be expected in alleviation of this mischief from the mission of the Sanitary Board . An army of scavengers following in their train would alone deal with it as its extent and character demand . " The . writer , adds . several , instances of

    mismanagement . THE HOSPITALS AT SCUTARI . JThe following is . from the letter of a lady now at Scutari : — " -Here , in one room ,: not very large , forty-five women , About thirty h-nsbands , ! fifteen or . eighteen children , born , andi being born , are : together side by side , partitioned by nothing . There are . about two < hundred women altogether here ,, all living in the same way , and in a state ofomcleanliness BOtto be described — every Crimean

    . abomination abounding . Many are ill with fever , diarrhoea , & c ., and , though they have a medical man nominally to ^ attend them , it ; is only nominal ; sometiaies for days together ; ihe never sees them , and , having ^ applied : personally , and ' by : letter , ; over and over again in . vainifor . assistance , J have been obliged myself to pseacribefrom my ownchest , and , administermedicaae with my « Tm' hands . Now , lain given to . understand that the mode of living I have-described above . is the way : in -which a soldier ' s wife always lives in barracks At home . Is not this a disgrace to a Christian country ?"

    BURNING OF THE FRENCH HOSPITAL AT CONSTANTI

    -iNOPCr f . ' "It . seems as ; ifut-were i the lot o £ one writing , frontuthis jdaoe to chronicle ( nothing : bait calamities . On ' March 11 , othe 1 large French . hospital ; above the Grand . Champ , des Morts was totally destroyed " : by . fire . . About midnight ¦ ± he light- which = is the note of-a conflagration , was Jning wntoon Galata T < wver .- Oh reaching the spot , which is aafeiaaiistance-df ^ two ? smiles from the centre of the town , nwetiaund the whole of <* ne wing ; in flames , which rapidly ispcead . until they enveloped the entire face of Vthe building . The ' hospital , which was formerly a Turkish ¦ jmedical - school , is ^ afineiand spacious edifice , which « xterids Its long , Mow , stone front along the road ,, atid * fortunately stands alone , with : the nearest . houses at a siiatanoe of more than > 100 yatds . . It was , a moving

    • Bight' to see the unhappy patients driven from their beds ; in the dead of , a damp and chilly might , -some of . them ^ scarcely rable to walk , others perfectly exhausted , and carried in the arms of their comrades , or of the Turkish s 6 Oldiers ,. all in Bcahty attire , wrapped in their blanJcets , Jiastening . tOJseekfor ^ Bhelter in the . neighbouring bar-Taiiks or in private houses . Whole trains of them might i be jaeen trudging ; through the deep mud , slipping into holes in the > wretched road , or sitting down on stones , to : a-wait some one who might help them onward . . Happily ,, i & e hospital w . ^ no means crowded , or some loss of life must have taken place . " As it ; wasjr . all the ¦ fiickiwere ; safely transported to adjoining . buildings , and mo accident worth mentioning appears to have : happ « aied . —il * mes Constantinople ; Correspondent .

    . ESCAPE QF AN ENGLISHMAN FROM SEBA 8 TOPOI / . " 'During some firing on the night of Marcli'l'dth an ' Englishman managed to- make his escape from Sebastopol . His name is William Henderson , of Dundee , and ho has been in the Crimea two years and a half as servant to a farmer named Thompson , whoso property lies -xslose to the banks of the Alma . When the Allies landed ¦ at' Korlof , Henderson , with his master and three sons , wore hurried away into Sevastopol , where they have been ever since hard at work constructing the defences of the . place . The poor fellow describes the rations as something disgusting ; every morning ho received a pound of black bread , and sometimes a little fish , which , with two glasses of very bad raki , and a pint and n half of water , constituted his support under the severest

    work . Aa the Russians keep the closest watch over their own . soldiers , wo can quite understand that they ¦ were not loaa attentive to the Englishmen employed . No conversation can bo carried on for any length of time , und ovory precaution is taken , so that no one Bhall have a thorough knowledge 6 f the place . A man is' kept at ono work and its immediate neigbourhood ; Henderson nays that the water drunk in Sebastopol is nearly all nrtili-. ^ ciKIly made ,, and is exceedingly unpleasant to the tnsto . 'Hp ' etatos that at ilrat sickness carried oil' thousaucln of the enemy , cholera having raged among them ; but that J 8 lnce tho fine weather set in the men have piuked up Tforiderfdlly , arid are now healthy . The loss of liorsoa l » 0 describes . as something incredible ; they have Rtnrved ¦ ftom want dt tora . au . —^ Mornina Post Correspondent .

    STORMING Oh- SEHASTOI'OL . "" Wo find , tho following in tho Morning Post Paris correspondence . of .. Friday . The assertion , wo think , i & jaot worthy ofunuoh . credit : — ¦" .. The latest offioiaL intelligence from tho Crimoa infojana U 3 » thftt . ttcnexal _ Canrol > ort would boinburd and

    storm a portion , of-the . town of Sebastopolas 8 oon . as . the English army-was -ready to-do so , which it would he within a week At the latest . % W . e . may ,, therefore , hope that the telegraph will soon . tell us of a . new victorythat the . allied .. troops have made a successful lodgment , and that , the enemy-is driven to the north of the town , where . a second . conflict must ensue , before we can . hope to possess the fortress . 'Public ea ^ ctation will , . 1 . fear , be disappointed , if it -is believed . that Sebastopol , under the most successful . attack , will fall in . a day or . twoor .-a week . Probably a month of most painful anxiety will bet imposed on ^ Europe before the ope rations of . th e Allies will have completed the destruction of a fortress such as no- besieging army ever yet had , to contend with . "

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    •War Miscellanea. The Naval Bbioawe At S...

    • WAR MISCELLANEA . The Naval Bbioawe at Sebastopol . —Captain Lushington , commander of the Naval Brigade in the Crimea , writes as follows to the officers of that corps : — "It is with feelings of pr ide . and pleasure that I communicate copies of letters from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons , Commander-in-Chief , which announce the numerous promotions the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have conferred on the officers of the . Naval Brigade . I take this opportunity of thanking those officers . for . their .. gallantry and . untiring energy Jn the execution of their duty . Her . Majesty has . conferred , a

    medal on every . sailor . landed , an < the Crimea , tand ^ clasp for such as were . , present on . the 5 th of . Novenaber , _ 1854 , . whose conduct shall . have been ( . good , and has ,, in . like manner , conferred a : medal and . clasps . upon , the nearest relative or representative of -such as may , have fallen . . The ' Lords Commissioners of the . Admiralty havegranted . extra , pay to . all . $ ) etty officers and seamen of : the brigade , as-well . as , a liberaLsupply of -warm clothing ( gratis ) , as jalready communicated . to them ; and the ¦ Comrnanderin-Ghief , has further notified that the services . of the petty officers and seamen . are . duly appreciated by the Admiralty-, . and will meet with further reward . "

    St . . Duvid ' s Day in the Gamp . —In the camp before Sebastopol , the Welsh Fusiliers gave . a large dinner party to celebrate St .. David ' s Day . Generai , Forey . —The Moniteur announces that General . Forey . leaves the command he held in the army of the East ,:-and proceeds to take the command of the Oran division . in Algeria . Hurt in his military honour by unworthy calumnies , the general had tendered his resignation to the . Emperor , who did not accept it . His Majesty . did notiAvish- to deprive . himself . of—the services of an officer whose , long and brilliant military career is a reply , to those calumnious reports ^ " The general-insists upon his resignation being accepted , and the Emperor replies thereto by giving him the command of the important division of Oran . Eight Hundred Mules have been purchased in Sardinia for our transport service in the Crimea ;

    Torture for the English Soldier . —Sir George Brown has issued orders for the resumption of the regimental stock , which- had been laid aside . The Sunken Russian Ships . — According to a letter from Kamiesch , of the lOthirist ., the Russian ships then afloat in tho port of Sebastopol were two three-deckers , three two-deckers , and another liner , which the Russian engineers were conveffi war broke out . All the others had been sunk at the mouth of the harbour . Six of them , sunk shortly after the battle of the Alma , constitute the first line of

    obstruction . Behind these is the stockade , forming the second line . It is parallel with the first , and constructed of masts and rafts , which support the chain drawn across the channel ¦ to intercept its passage . Further on to the rear , and to the west of the Bay of the Arsenal , or military port , properly speaking , extends a third line , parallel with the two others , and composed of a frigate , a two-decker , and a three-decker lately sunk . The water there is eight fathoms deep , and the breadth of the channel is only four cables' length . The masts rise considerably above the water .

    Tub Flying Sqtjadhon The English consular agent at Ki < £ has been officially informed of the approaching arrival at that port of the Flying Squadron . Preparations aro being made for the provisioning of tho en tire-fleet . The Russian Fohcks in this Crimea aro said to bo distributed as follows : —At Perekop is encamped the corps of dragoons , a division of light cavulry , and various other detachments , amouuting in all to 20 , 000 men , under tho command of General PawlolF I . At Simpheropol there arc about 45 , 000 men , commanded by General Road . Near tho Belbeck , General Ostcn-Sackun ' s head-quartern havo been placed Avith 50 , 000 men , including the garr ison of Sebastopol . On tho Tchernaya is encamped General Liprandi , with 18 , 000 men ; and in the valley of Baidar is General Wagner , with 9000 men . — Oat Deutsche , Post .

    Floating Flour Mills and Bakkhy for this Black Sea . —The linn of W . Fuirburn and Sons hus converted hor Majesty's ship Bruiser into . a complete fiour-inill , capable of grinding from 700 to 800 huslieln of wheat per diem , taking tho raw material in at ono end of tho vcasel in tho form of wheat , and turning it out at tho other in well-manufactured flour , without tho intervention of manual labour . The muchinery is both

    ingenious , and . compact , and 4 n . moderate-weather jnayJbe worked without suspending the progress at : $ &* vessel , notwithstanding it is all driven by the' marine . engiae . The Abundance , a companion . vessel ,, has in . like manner been fitted . up as a large bakery by Messrs . Swaine apd Bovill , of Millwall , and is capable of turning out 20 , 00 < Ub . of bread per diem , with the aid of some , very simple machinery . The bakehouse in this . vessel possesses the great advantage of thorough ventilation , the hot air being withdrawn at pleasure by . 'mechanical , means , and as often replaced by fresh , which , in . a warm climate , is an important consideration . . These vessels will be despatched to the Black Sea with-all haste ; and it is . but just , to add that . the service will owe this undertaking , to Mr . Julyan , an officer of the Commissariat , who originated the scheme , and has now carried it out to completion .

    The Navigation of the Danube . —We learn from Trieste that the Russians have again permitted Austrian vessels to run up to Galatz , where considerable quantities of corn are lying ready for exportation . . The ships of no other nation enjoy the-same privilege . It < is also related here ( Vienna ) that a note has been , received from Count Nesselrode , in which that statesman states that it is not the intention of the i Russian Government to prevent the navigation of the Lower : Banube . -The Russian Minister , however , requires . that . the Austrian Minister of Commerce shall exercise a , proper control over the commanders of the merchantmen , so that they shall not supply provisions to the . Powers , at war with Russia . It need not be said that . the thing , is . not feasible . — Times Vienna Correspondent .

    ¦ The Alliance between Sardinia and tub Porte was signed on the 15 th" iast . Eupatoria . — -Apprehensions , are entertained that the Russians mean to besiege Eupatoria . The Sanitary Commissioners in the East . —wA writer in the Daily News . says , that the Sanitary Commission has Already effected considerable jgood . at Scutari and . lvulali . Tun News of the Death of Nicholas was communicated by Lord Raglan to the authorities at Sebastopol ; a flag of truce being sent by Lord Burghersh for the purpose . The people at , first would not believe the assertion .

    The " Navvies" at Balaklava . —A' little insubordination has appeared among the " navvies , " who , thinking that no more control would be exercised over them than in London or in England , have . given way to drunkenness and riotous conduct , and at one time were rolling about the streets of Balaklava at all hours of the night . _ This threw great difficulties in the way of Mr . Beatty , their conductor ^ who trad no efficient control over them ; so he placed them under the hands of the Provost-Marshal , whose lash soon brought thezn to a state of submission . This manner of proceedinglias had a peculiar effect on the " navvies , " one of whom remarked tome , with an oath , that the military ought not to have any control over them . They arc paid well ; but I am afraid their savings will be but little . Drink is very dear ; but they will have it at any price . —Morning Post Correspondent . '

    Augmentation op the French Army i > t the Crimea , —Before the month of April is a week old , another 10 , 000 of the elite of the French army will haveTefrfoVWe ~ seat * bf ' warT Tlfey SviUber followed in a brief space of time . by a similar force , which again will be augmented as the demands of the allied generals shall require fresh tropps . It . is . proposed to establish at Constantinople a grand depot , or reserve , of the French army , -where preparations have been made for any event which might demand tho presence of a large permanent army in the Crimea . Colontl Beville , the aidc-de-canip of tho Emperor , it is said , reports that his plans are completed , and if the transports arc at hand , a few days will givo Lord Raglan nnd General Cunrobei't a fresh disposable force within forty hours of Sebttstojwl . — Aformnti Post .

    Tuk Military Gazette of Vienna , on the authority of a letter from Odessa dated' the 6 th inst ., says that Bessarabia is being strongly defended . " All the passages over tho frontier arc being destroyed , nnd the whole country between' thePruth and the Dniester is being devastated . Entrenchments have been thrown up in tho most important positions . Tho distribution of arms to the inhabitants in tho interior of Russia has commoncod . "

    The Vienna C Onference. Itjiom'the,Immen...

    THE VIENNA C ONFERENCE . ITjiom'the , immense amount of writing and spooulation wliich has been poured forth during the past week on the . subject of the Peace Congress we can only collect ono or two facts and rumour * , llioso consist in the alleged agreement of all the Powers on the First and Second Points , relating to the uiutad protectorate of the . Principalities « nd the tree . may-i-Utionof the Danube ; in tho . assertion , winch » jo have every warrant for . believlntf , thnt , as all peofclo anticipated , the didlculty has . begun in the consideration of tlie Third Point , which . provides for tho diminution of tho Russian power in the Black bea ; and in the rumour that , . after all ounexpenditure * f blood and treasure , after the naiofiuLaxeiteinent of the public niiud , after our weary . tJJbrts before tho

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 31, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31031855/page/7/