"Constantine is expected here to-morrow;

—...._._.... . .

Tllli Ill.'>SI.\.V:l IN 'llll'l (.‘lll‘ll‘.A.

t'f'.The Cracow Czar :t.~'.7t'l'l.~| the t'ollowin;_:

to be the gr-xrwatl po.-itio:r of the l’ut.~'ai-to Crimean artnv:—-—

l’llll.U‘i()l’IIY HI" Sl*ill.\‘i'l‘l)l’«ll. l'lxi:irt:\('t: is 1-vi-rvtliinj: to the creatu:‘r-

'to \'.'ho|n the |m.~I.\L‘.\':.itrII lJtrli)tl'_'_'.~‘. I llit\'t,‘

llu-art} that there are wiseint.-n who say the

“It occupti.-.~t ft lltlt‘, f»tI‘tItH'Il lt)‘ Iltl ‘UNI tuxtx-rnal world is nltogt-tln_-r :1 fnuttv, and

nature, for-:nitr'<_: ft halt’-t-.ii’elt: round the allir-d Ptlﬁlllllls, anl t‘.\lt:tlllllI{{ Irotn the '[‘,-|.-I-_:.-;;ph;1:n| l7.r;1.t;rali'.e forts, along the liar-‘o tn." rwar to I

that it is tln- internal sense which i.-riti:rtaxn.~: the itn:I:_inatiwn: that allow: is :r fact. I do not know Inuch about such sort of thi.:;_I.

..kr-rmann and .\I-lCI(t‘llAlf-'; ' but I must say, if this be llllt‘, that l lliI\'t‘

to the tlt'lllt'-t of the 'l‘i-.lr.ttir l):r«_zh. The |,,[,.|_,. 3.0,.” ,',,,,c',. ,1,.,,t,,,,_, Wm, pm.‘ in ,, \.,.,..,. linssian l'or-co-a are posted Ill llII'l.‘C l)n<lI«'.~‘ t-.ro;;'lr way in (,‘r'iat-'l'ar-tat't', uhi-re I ltavv

behind this litre, fronting the south ((-xcept l 1.,-an _.~¢..,]',-jug‘. ,,,,.;,,p},_,-Sm,-_

\\"heu f}rtn-i-

lltosu w.-itchiI|_J l‘:"l‘“l"’l‘l“' “ml ill” '“’”l”‘1‘H fol balls are driven front the mouth of the

counnunications). “ 'I'ho right wing is posted on the north

side, and the Sverna_\'-I, Cllll|i1|'l"0r Cttll-‘aru just homo lll\‘ttl|<lt(l.

cannon by gllll|ItJ\V(it'l', tn(.t:rp|ty.~ic:rl facts fall down in at stran-_--- wav lrt-fort-. them. I I)y.-rentry has

stamina. and 'I'0l"K""|’l' r””“'-_ The ltfllidrrttt: litrtne more thart the bullet and the holds the fUI'llllt'(I detrles of Attodau‘ 1UHl“.s'\\‘tIl‘(l; and I have l't‘llll'l|l‘tI to my native trvigllt-9 "I '1 ‘'l''‘'''l‘‘’>‘‘~‘‘ l\"""'“""a W ll"‘!-‘hore a broken and slratterrd man. I have.

sources of the Bi-lbck and Ynlta rnountains. The reserves are at lfaktchi-S.-rri:t and Siutphcropol. I)t:ltt('lItln'I|ls are echelonr-d to keep up connnunications between the main body aml the three corps stationed in the Crimea That is, one observing Kvrtclr, with its left leaning upon Arabat and its right on katffzt; a second watches I*}upato- ria; and the third, and strongest, atnotmt- ing to -l‘il,0llll, holds Pcrecop. The Rus- sians have two routes open to the north,—- '.he one by Pcreeop, the other by Tclrongar, on the l’utr-id Sea.” UKASE or ‘rut: £.'|ll’l-‘.l'l0lt ALI-1XA.\DElt.

Sr. I’t:1‘r.asnuar., Sept. ‘.2.*¥.—'I‘he Ern- pcror Alexander has issued the following ukase.—

“Every month ofactual presence in the garrison of St-bztstopol on the north side and iii the forts shall be considered equiva- lent to u year’.~r service, and ensure the following privileges:—-Ist, gererals, staff and superior officers, and likewise officials in the civil service, to wear their uniforms on retiring into private life; 2d, to wear then tlto Orderof St. Vladimir, 4th class, and the scarf for the service of '25 years (any one ofthcrn who had served [4 years when the siege commenced receives at once this order dc jure;) 3d, full pensions to themselves and families as upon superannu- ation; otliccrs, military or civil, to receive additional rank (every grade in Russia has to be ﬁlled for a normal period ofthrec to four years, to be shortened by special dis-- tinctions only; non-commissioned officers and privates will accordingly not enjoy this ﬁnal promotion); otll, surgeons to receive pensions and increase of pay (with certain modiﬁcations); 6th, police ofﬁcials to have higher salaries; 7th, persons holding infe- rior employment will not have their punish- ments and penalties for minor offences recorded against them when discharged; 8th, indeﬁnite furlough (but not till the war is over).”

There are three more regulations for private soldiers, respecting their pay an medals. Every day spent in the north side of Sebastopol beyond a calender month is to be deemed equivalent to twelve days. Then certain regulations follow, respecting the Order of St. Vladimir.

The Emperor orders, in another ukase, the re-organisation of the head military school, and the formation of three special military academies.

Another order of coarse cloths, whether grey or of any other colour, by the land frontiers of Poland and Russia in Europe.

THI IMPIROR ALEXANDIR’8 VISIT 1'0 ODISSA.

The Conslilutionncl publishes the two following letters from Odessa:— Oosssr, Sept. 2l.—The Grand Duke

he will alight at the Narischkin Palace. Count Stackelborg, Russian military envoy at Vienna, and Count Bendendorff, who ﬁlls the same functions at Berlin, passed through here yesterday on their way to Nicolaicff, where the Emperor is expected to-morrow. General Todtleben, whose wounds are not quite healed yet, is expect- ed here shortly. The ﬁrst detachments of the Militia of the Empire, of Moscow, have arrived at Odessa. A great deal of anxiety is felt here in consequence of the ombarkation of a considerable number of French troops at Knmiesch and Bttlsklnvn.

ur garrison is also under arms. The coast bristles with guns and mortars; but

still greater fears are entertained for Nicol- aiofl‘, to which cannon have been sent recently.

however, seen strau<_:c tlritrgs, and have earnod sonrething forinrysclf beyond hall'- pay-namely. the riglrt to talk about what ewerybody is glad to listen to.

One ofthe most .surprising pieces ol'c.\'- periencc I have picked up whilst living amidst scenes of conflict and ii.-lence, is the extraordinary indifference with which men soon come to r.-gargl personal risk when danger is continually around them. It seems to tire, however, t-lfltt there is sotnc spice of barbaristn in this inditl'eretrcc. I do not think it is so readily entertained by lllttsc who have a lIi:_'ll sense of the privi- loge and value of life, as it is by those who have few objects in view bcyon'd the gratifications of sense. To the former, courage becomes a matter of calculation. Men, when they prize their lives highly on account of the capacities they feel to be within them, are capable of acts of great bravery, provided an aim of lriglt ambition is before them: but they will not encounter the chance of destruction for a straw: those, on the other band, who have not learned to cast up accounts with themselves, will as soon face the caunon's mouth for the roost trifling object as for the highe.-‘txand grand- est achievement. This, no doubt, is cool- ness; my o\vn observation has induced me to hesitate as to whether I would accord to it the more dignified appellation of courage. In the majority of cases in which it occurs in the ranks of the British army, I am con- vinced the coolness is born of indifference rather than of bravery; and, in support of this opinion, I adduce some incidents I haye witnessed myself.

Soon after the Allied armies had taken up their positions to the south of Sebastopol, green coffee began to be served out to the British troops. After a few days of‘ hesita- tion and consideration, some adventurous fellows, in the intervals of their assaults upon the earthworks of the fortress, and of their labours at the trenches, planned an attack upon the scarcely less formidable green berries. They contrived to roast them in the tops of their canteens, and then set up extemporaneous coffee-mills, by, polling round shot over the dried berries laid upon pieces of stone. In this way they managed so far to crush the coffee as to tnakc it dofenceless to hot-water; but so soon as the rumour ofthis culinary success was noised abroad, cannon-balls suddenly rose in value: and when a Russian shot has been seen hurling through the air, I have known a dozen stalwart fellows start for it, their'eyes ﬁxed upon it during its descent, as ifit had been a cricket-ball, rather than a messenger of destruction and death: and lucky did he think himself who was nearest to it when it buried itself in the ground. perhaps just beneath his feet. At first, in their haste and inexperience, these amateur cricketers occasionally made the important mistake of running t'or a shell, in place ofs. round shot; and lhave heard, in tho excite- ment ofthe moment, it burst of laughter and hout of merriment echo through the air from their comrades, when the error has been pointed out by half-a-dozen of the ad- venturers being knocked over upon their backs, maimed and bleeding from the burst- ing oftho deadly missile.

After a few weeks’ practice, the men he- came very expert in distinguishing shells by their ﬂight through the air, and took pretty good care not to run after tltcm, when they did not present themselves unsou ht. But they still made very little ofthem w on they did, just casting themselves down that

place a large nmbor of on the ground until the explosion was over

snd the fragments were scattered. There

IIASZ.-\tt'. VS (3 \'/fl‘)!

l‘t5, N()Vl'}'.'lil']II. l

''''''l*'- ' fl" l|'?'."t' :-I:"ll, ll.\\'t‘\'t‘l', they tit-‘rt-r <'ou.'.l not ll.»t,'ll to, whirl: wa-1ti:~<~tlf'-'oint.=:-- l‘-'?lif"!l:r:- t.. tr-tar: this .-hi,-!l -tn ::~tu-t.l~1:.- t-’- It i:;i'.ln-= .'u't‘ t.--.-:, and tr-antaiuml r-i;_i.; --u {""!1'l~ of j‘£t:l[)tr\t(lt‘l' in its tni.-=t-int-v-tIt~'

(‘3t‘~'ll_\'. lt ua-: -'tt7lllf'tl limit :1 I:.ft that lay 1"?"-W1." I": the l;:tr3.«.:tr, at:-l omtttpii-il srtrttt.‘ lofty :‘t§(:tr!t:l:: l'I it-«' .'..;;lIt: llt'.~l, a \l'l‘\' pm-

<:';.tiIr'r- v.i:tli' of \‘.2 no sutoko ltor.~:t rioni tau raft: thr-n, on t'.t!tlt,' the p-rndi-rous t.‘:i—~iit-, lllt'Hltt'; ox‘!-r :1:;il <>\'t‘|' in it-; lliglit -\\'.:i>l.—-'.vi;i.~lt——ulai~'.--—\vi:lt an ll:lt'l'tlIlI NHL; \vlti.~tli:t}_v .~ouzr:l; at ins‘, (l‘v‘.\'tI it puts];- ('d on the _-gr-otuul, with the force of fifty tons CUll(Zll|ll'lrlt(l in its fitrparrt, ltl,ll‘.~‘llttj_{ with a lt'('ttlt‘HtlHlt-t (‘.\'plt>>iolI at the in.~:tant. The tt'ttgtttetrts ofthis slttrll \\'t‘l't.‘ so-rtt--rod, when it burst, inure. than Zlflfl yards in all directi-rn.~‘; it tlrv-r'ef'-we never could lu- loolu-tl upon in the li;_:ht of an :xg."reabli.- nt-i;_rlrbour-—a «platter of a mile. was by no nu-ans l‘v.-‘pertlrtirle as a distance from it. In cottsequertre of its wlri.-«tling note, this rnou.-‘tor ltorrctultott ‘lllfl'fffIflc was Clll'l.~'It.‘l1('tl \Vlri.~;tlirtg llick; and \\'.‘Il('lIlllt.‘l) wt-re Stl to look for the wlnte whiff of smoke fretn the floatio;:-r:t!'t, when:-ver parties were I-rt-__{'tgt-d upon the works within its rtingr‘. The instant this was noticed, the alarm was rai.~'ed, and the men rushctl to the shelter ofthe nearest lulc or crnbauknrunt within their reach.

A hole or pit dug hastily into the ground is the first rudiment of a protective work. Several such lod;_rtnetrt.~t are tirade during the hours of darkness, in advance of the fot't'tno.~‘t trench: and from four to six rifle- men are sent to occupy each. One of these men is kept constantly on the look- out, above the edge of the pit, ready to take aim at any chance-object that is pre- sentcd to his eye; the rest of the party while away the long‘ hours, in the absence ofany stirring excitement got up in their behalf by the enemy, the best way they can. They are completely sheltered from the effects of round shot, and even shells fall and burst uithin a yard of their lurking- placc without working them an_v harm. If, however, one of these explosive spheres lights, by an unlucky chance, quite within the pit, it is certain destruction to the whole. Yet the watching the descent of the shells that fly in their direction, seems to afford rather a pleasurable excitement than otherwise. I have often heard re- marks ofa speculative kind ventured with the most perfect nonchalance, which had for their point the probable safe arrival of one of these deadly missiles, that seemed to be coming straight for the speculator down from the clouds. It is no unusual thing for small bets in tobacco to be laid as to how far offsome shell will fall. Wagers as to the course overhead of round shot were amongst the common resources to which the little garrisons ofthese rifle-pits turned for amusement. The passage ofa ball to the'right or the ls.-"t of the vertical often de- termined the pipe in which a last charge of the precious weed should be smoked. The scenes in these holes are, however, some- times ofthe most painful kind. I remember once to have made one of a party of four in a pit as large as a round table, and six feet deep, and which was entirely isolated from all friendly aid during the continuance of daylight. Of this party, two were suffer- ing from severe dysentry, a third was s1up- porting a shattered arm, and the fourth rad had his eye knocked out by a splinter pro- duced by a cannon-ball.

Upon one occasion, I chanced to be in a pit advanced to within 80 or 100 yards of one of the Russian works. At this time our behaviour was so carefully watched, that the top ofa feather could not be shewn for a moment above the embankment with- out a dozen riﬂe-balls whizzing past it. There was an officer with the party, but lie was siﬂering so severely from dysentry that he lay for a long time in a titirrtirrg state, with his head on the knees of one of the men. While in this sad predicament, the fancy seized him that if he could have some hot coffee it would at once revive him. He expressed his wish; and it was found there was coffee in store, but no wood at hand for the ﬁre. Observing this difficulty, one of the privates remarked that he would soon furnish the wood. He seized a pick- sxo which had been used in tho constructi- on of the pit, and in an instant jumped from

tho hole. Without the slightest hurry in

. .. - ._..__....._.-..__.

:ilt Ir'»t'fl:.i‘lll, be limit his \'.‘a_v to a. tree .t u::< pro-trntv on ti.<.- ,;-routrd about folly cl.-; to the roar oftl:e po-ition, and, with em liar-T; to the ltu.<:-i::rr.~', lre;;an lt'l5IlI(l_) to pick off riitp.-: \'.itlr his :r.‘.'i'. illltte tlttlfly adpr-arul to bv :t:t;:g(-Nil at first l._'.' the ¢'o~l:t<'s-‘ of'lii~e be-aritt;_r, but very sum: :1 ha- den :~‘fItl'llt was wltistltng-nronni him in all IliI'<'Cli~H:~. \\'ith port} of llll(1UltCI‘t|l, hov- vvu-r, he continni-«I, his opt-rations and, \\'Uttll(‘l‘flll to sav, was llllIt|llt'ltt(l by the lI'l.~~'llt'S. The l'.n.-.~i:urs I)t‘CilllI|' more an- ;r;t-_v and eager, and most probaltly fired with l: .~s than lltt‘ll' usual care and precisi- on. At lrn,-_rlh they laid a large gun upon the adv:-nturous \\‘(ttt(l!)t'(‘l\'(‘l', and three times a round shot ru.~hi-d within a few in- rites of him. lly this time, he court-ived that he had made chips enough for his pur- pose; so he stooped down and gathered them t<J;;t‘llI('l' in the skirts of his long great- euat, saurzterrd hark tlrrough the lraden it til storm, and dropped into the pit with his ll(‘tl>’tH't', unscathed, to the great surprise and infinite rtlii-f' of his comrades, not st-rtning to have the sliglrtrst idea that he had done anything out of the usual way; and, lll(lt'(‘(l, I do not think the notion had e\'vr- been c-l<:arly pI'(‘St’|Ilt'(l to his Inind what the riskyas that he had volunteered ' to meet. All the world knows that the naval ser vice is quite 'as much marked by gallantry asthc artny., 'I'hey also share with it the rnatter-of-fact indifli-tencc to personal risk I am just now more particular-lv alluding to. On board ship, matters of ordinary routine often go on under fire, just as if the ves.-cl was lrundr-eds of miles away frotn the ent- nry. Imntediati-ly before the attack upon the forts of Sebastopol, in which the fleet bore a part, an officer ofthe Rifles, who \\ as invalided, had been sent on board I no ofthe small stcatners to recruit. One of the first incidents of his repose, however, was his going \\ith the vessrl into the engagement. She was placed in circumstances of peculiar risk, for she had on board a large quantity ofshells, which she had recently brought for the general service of the fleet, and she was near the Jlgamemnon when the red-hot shot were striking her sides. She bore her share in the action, and was at last ordered out ofﬁre by the admiral. The invalided officer was standing by the bridge when the captain ofthe ship came down from his sta- tion on the paddle-box, whence he had been directing the manoeuvres. The steward came up to him at the instant, and touched his hat, with the announcement: ‘ dinner is on the table, sir. ’ The announcement was received with all due honor, and immediate- ly afterwards the officers were at table dis- cussing the merits of a ﬁne boiled turkey, with the appropriate accompaniments, all of which had been prepared amidst the balls of the redoubtable fortress of Sebastopol. ——o A Stnt.ruL M.ut.xsMAN.—At an agricul- tural dinner in Berkshire a day or two since, Colonel Vansittart, in returning thanks for the "Army and Navy,” alluded to the exploits of Captain Goodlake, ofthe Coldstream Guards, the son ofa Berkshire squire, who had command ofa party of sharpshooters during agreat part of the siege of Sebastopol, and said, “It was 1 service attended with great danger, but notwithstanding. Captain Goodlnke shot 75 Russians himself. One particular day he was commanding his 36 sharpshooters, when unexpectedly in large body of Rus- sians came upon them. He turned round to his soldiers, and said, ‘We have got into a scrape; we must run and take, care ofourselves; but do not move until Igive the word.‘ Just as he was about to.do so, the captain ol' the Russians stepped out six paces in advance of his corps. Captain Goodlakc did not know what it meant, but did the same. They advanced two paces further, when the Russian pulled out a pistol, fired, but only touched Captain Goodlake’s apparel, who forthwith ﬁred and and killed the Russian officer. He then called upon hisdnen to ﬁre a volley, which they did, and instantly they observed the Russians in full retreat. Captain Goodlalto ltad got a ring which he took from the Rus- siau'officer’s ﬁnger, and which he (Colonel Vansittart) had worn himself. This anec- dote, he thought, was an instance of chi-

-ll

,vnlry worthy of the knights of olden times, ,who used to meet in single combat."