The Express. — London, England, 1855-09-26 00:00:00

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A meeting of the nobility and gentry of Water ford, presided over by the High Sheriff, and attended by the Earl of Huntingdon, Curd Stuurt de Dreier., &e., was held at Luogarvan, to propose an address of welcome and congratulation fur presentation to Lord Carlisle. Archbishop Cullen yesterday laid the foundation atone of a new hospital of the &stereo( Mercy. It is to be provieed with 500 beds for the sick poor of all denominations, and will her supported solely by volun tary contributions. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster are gi v i ng a greed reception to the nobility and gentry c f Cht. Skis* and the adjoining counties at Eston•hall, near Miter. The beautiful gardens and pleasure ground are few thrown open for the fir.t time. _ _ Mr. Edwin James, QC., and party, amongst whom ars the Attorney General aed Mr. Phan. Secretary to the Admiralty, are enjqing god sport in partridge shooting over the manor of the Might Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., Bridgbam, Norfolk. The Earl and Countess of Durham are staying at Leaks* Castle, sad will reside there until the sad of t►e aramma r during which the treble earl and woolen will re- Nies saline circle nt relatives. Da. Azimut HILL HausLt. is a candidata for the smeistsest of a«ltb Maw for the City of Leados. The LATII CAPTAIN PECNELL—Addresses aeon &demo bore bets voted by *be Tows Conseil of Brighios, sod by lb. 'cohabitants at a public iswing. to Sir Gooop sad Lady Pecholl. ea the death of their only see. Cassia Pinball, who was killed in the trecehes before Sebastopol. LONDON, WE DNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1855. at all points in more than an equal ratio, these too were soon overpowered, and in less than half an hour altar the first Zouave scaled the parapet, the Malakhoff was woo. The deafening roll of musketry, however, in no degree diminished, but swept on to the right towards the Little Mao, whose guns flanked the tower : here, and in the adjoining works, the struggle was continued for nee , ly a couple of hours, till the last Muscovite was driven from his cover, and the ground occupied by our allies. In the meantime, however, our own assault had begun. But it must first be mentioned that instead of having before them a work whose embrasures had been bunged-up and its guns silenced, like the Malakhoff; our men had to rush upon • line of battery nearly every piece in which was ready to receive them with grape and canister. The French, too, started from a line of trench only some forty yards from the point to be attacked, whilst our owa troops were compelled to cross an open space of fall six times the extent, and that, too, under a direst and flanking fire from nearly a score of guns. It is needless to dilate upon the comparative difficulties of the two attacks; but, whilst had once more been illustrated ; and whilst our allies were jubilant with well-earned success, we were humbled by the consciousness of undeserved defeat. Up till nsido.ght, such was pretty much the state of feeling prevalent throughout the camp, as also amongst the men who remained in the trenches keep ing up the distant attack on the work which they had won and lost. It was known that with dawn another assault would be made, and continued at whatever cost till the redoubt had been finally gained ; but this hope was, after all, but a feeble consolation after the signal and costly repulse we had sustained before the eyes of the triumphant French. However, there was nothing else for it; and so everyone anxiously awaited daylight on Sunday morning, when our slaughtered hundreds were to be avenged,and the tar nish cast upon our military honour wiped away. About an hour after midnight, however, the enemy fore awarding to the French a full weed of praise for their brilliant gallantry on the occasion, I cannot be betrayed by any mawkish generosity into a concealment of the infinitely greater dangers involved in that portion of the day's achievements which fell to the lot of the British. On the day following the assault I crossed over the space betreto our filth parallel and the Redan, and was then able in some degree to realize the difficulty of making a run over such a distance and such ground under the desolating fire of some twenty 68-pounders loaded with grape and canister. Let all this be borne in mind before any of your readers _jump to the few conclusion that the French die- played a greater heroism than ourselves; for, raw anc inexperienced as were many of our troops engaged, with some few exceptions they fought as became the conquerors of the Alma and Inkermann. As soon as the French had made good their footing in the Malakhoff a tricolour was run up to announce the stalled all this by blowing up their msgszine, and abandoning the redoubt. Such, it is presumed, was As fact, though it is autimprobable that the explo sion may have been caused by one of our own shells. Be this as it may, the result was the same; and on • party of our men being soon after sent out to recon noitre, it was discovered that the Russians had given op the game. Our troops were accordingly marched in, and the B•st grey streaks of daylight saw the British ensign waving over a surrender which had already been a prize. Long before darkness had wit in on the previous evening, the French bad swept the chain of works on the proper left of the Malakhoff; and thus the whole line, from the Quarantine Fort to the mouth of the Tchernaya, was in the hands of the Allies—the Russian batteries op- posed to the French Left having been simultaneously • evacuated. Dawn showed the last stragglers of the retiring enemy hurrying over the bridge of boats, which was promptly destroyed when they had creased ; and as the entire shipping—one frigate and a couple of small steamers alone excepted—had been sunk during the night, the sin rose upon as desolate a scene as if Sebastopol had never been inhabited, nor its splendid harbour covered with ships of war. Even before the blow-up of the R. den several mines had been fired by the enemy clung and within their line of works, and during the night they consum mated the sacrifice of their stronghold by blowing up Fort Paul and firing nearly all the principal build triumph, and immediately after a small white flag— the signal appointed for the advance of our own men —wu waved from the parapet of the Mamelon. At the first glance of it the order was passed on from General Codriagton for the stormers to leave cover, sad belt a minute later Major Welaford and his party, carrying the scaling ladders, bounded over the 1 parapet of the boyeau. A volley of grape struck down nearly a third of them, poor Welaford included, but the remainder rushed gallantly on. Is the mean time the Rifles, wider Captain Fyers, kept up • vigorous and deadly fire on the embrasures; but the ings which had not already been in dames. And thus ended the attack and capture of Sebastopol. By early da3 light, as woo as it was evident that the enemy had indeed cleared out of the town, the French crowded io, like crows to a carrion, to gorge thek plundering appetites with what epuil had been lett behind. As on the whole of the previous day thick-matted mantlets with which these were car tained in a great measure counteracted this, and the grape continued to fly thick and fast over the death space to be crowed. The second body of lawmen followed quickly on the heels of those who were already placing the ladder., and, being well sup ported by those behind, were soon inside the Redan. Here a murderous but brief struggle ensued, and before many minutes had elapsed since the first of our men gained the parapet, none of the enemy, hut the dead and dying remained within it. The Mao, like the Malakhoff, waa woo. And here I might have chaunted a pearl in honour of our un qualified triumph, too, had not the blundering mis management which has so often borne fruit in the sacrifice of our troops again turned up to deprive us of oar full share of the glory of this memorable day. Instead of pouring in supports to the aid of those in possession of the redoubt, General Codriogton—l believe I am only justly attributing the blame to him—for some mysterious strategic reasons known only to himself, kept back the troops who crowded the trenches in the rear till the enemy had time to bring up his overpowering reserves and clear the Redan of our men. The latter bravely, but vainly, attempted to make a stand, during the progress of the attack, double lines of cavalry sentries were posted along the whole front of our camp ; and through this impassable barrier no one not on duty, or not belonging to the omnipotent staff, was allowed to go. About noon, however, armed with a pass, courteously given me by General Simpson, I crossed the line, and proceeded down to the scene of the pieced day's carnage. By the time I reached the fatal ** in•tront of oar fifth parallel, however, the dead had been gathered off the ground—the officer* having been taken to the camp, and the men thrown into the deep and broad ditch of the Redso. And there was a sight harrowing enough to affect nerves of iron and a heart of stone : piled up, row upon row, lay the bodies of the brave fellows whose blood had gained our triumph, nearly filling the huge dike—a ghastly and mangled multitude. Those who had died within the Redan had also been gathered into the ditch ; so that 1 looked upon nearly all the British who had fallen in this last scene of an eleven months' tragedy, The first fact which struck an observer was, that nearly all who lay there were old soldiers, men who had borne the heat and burthen of the day—hardly a beardless face was to be seen ; the second, the calmness which appeared on almost every countenance, even where the death•wounds bad been the most severe. Some, whoa. death must have been instantaneous, lay with unclosed eyes " gazing on the sky," and bat for the glazed pupils and ghastly countenance, might have been supposed booking for pleasure in the sun; whilst others again were stretched out in all the seeming composure of a calm sleep. Amongst them lay a few Russians, hideous in their rags and dirt, but displaying like wise but few of the harrowing traces of acute or prolonged death.throes. As I passed over this bridge of corpses into the interior of the Redan, a fatigue party was already beginning to shovel in the parapet upon the bodies, many of whom thus found a grave on the spot where they fell. The enemy had carried off nearly all their dead and wounded, which accounted for the fewness of the former found inside the re doubt. Terrible were the traces of our fire which here met the eye: to say nothing of dismounted guns, shattered platform., and broken carriages, , nearly every squire yard of the place was torn up by round shot and exploded shell. How any human beiogs could have existed in such a pandemonium of explosive horrors it puzzled every one who looked OD the spot to conceive. The place had formerly been a viaeyard, and was consequently honeycombed ori ginally; but these small hollows had been knocked into every possible shape, and scarcely a toot of space left which bad not been ploughed up by the fire of our own and the French guns. Leaving, however, a more detailed description of the interior of this formidable work for a future letter, I pass on to the portion of the town at the hue of the slope which it crowns, end here, for the first time, I got a glimpse of the utterly unknown extent of the injury which bad been done to the town itself by our fire. As viewed even with the aid of a good glass from our most advanced parallel, not a tithe of the mischief was visible, except amongst the house. opposite the French left attack. But even here, in a portion of the place which everybody supposed to be comparatively unin jured, nothing but ruins met the eye. Shot and shells had smashed in roots, penetrated and knocked down walls; and, in fact, left nearly every building one came to crumbling and shapeless muses of bat tered masonry. My exploration in this direction, however, was soon brought to a dead halt, for as I was crossing what bad been a small vineyard behind one of the main buildings which led down to the Admiralty and Fort Nicholas, a rascally French sentry ordered me to atop, and before I had time to ask why, the scoundrel deliberately levelled his piece and fired, mending a bullet within a few inches of my head. As there waamo replying to such arguments as this, I thought it best to prosecute my researches elsewhere, and so turned away to explore the main body of the town on the opposite side of the Admiralty Creek. Bat at every step I found anxiously expecting every minute the arrival of sup ports, but no supports came, and they were swept back into the open to retreat under fresh storms of grape—for by another marvellous piece of neglect no attempt at spiking the guns of the place had been made by those who had gained a tooting inside. Orders for the withheld supports were theta given, but in harmony with the blunder which had gone before, the intelligent aides-de-camp who carried the commands, being about as ignorant of the topography of the trenches as of the interior of Sebastopol, stumbled on the wrong regiments, and ordered up the first brigade of the Light Division, which had been told off as the proper reserve. Evident, however, as was the blunder, the gallant "fighting 7th," led on by Major Turner, and the 23rd, under Colonel Lytton, advanced to the renewed attack. The other regi ments, who should have preceded, followed in a slate of beautiful pell-mell, and under a fire of grape and i canister before which the bravest columns of the Old Guard would have staggered, our young levies—for such were three-fourths of the troops engaged—were led on to regain the ground which bad been lost through mismanagement before. It was not, however, in human nature to make head way under each an iron storm ; the men turned, and fled back under cover of the parapet, leaving very many of their own number, and more in pro portion of their officers, dead or dying on this field of death. Two young lieutenants, Wright and Colt, of the 'kb, were amongst the killed, aid three of the same rank of the 23rd. Major Turner received a ball through his scalp—one of the narrowest escapes of the day—whilst Lieutenant Alma Jones, of fighting fame, was knocked over by a frag ment of a shell. Colonel Lyman carried away a rifts bullet in hie leg, and only three of all the remaining officers of these two crack regiments escaped untouched. From the failure of this second attempt, the attack became one of mus ketry-fire over the parapet, aided by the guns of the Quarry andother batteries which bore upon the Redao. Brigadier Straubenzee, commanding the Ist Brigade of the Light Division, tried to induce his chief to' storm again, offering to lead the assault with the still eager though shattered regiments of his own com mand; but Sir William declined repeating the attempt at that time. Thence on till desk, we waged a futile war of musketry and artillery fire,which was vigorously replied to by the enemy, and night closed upon our men, discouraged and humbled that, through mismanagement on the part of those with whom lay the direction of the assault, they had tailed while the French had triumphed. It mewed as if we were again to reap the bitter experiasse (staled on as by similar causes on the 18th of haw, atter hav ing lost, in killed and wounded, nearly half the number of men, and much more than that proportion of officers, of the whole force engaged. The Russian apothegm of "an army of lions led on by donkies," 1 1 1 1 THE FALL SEBASTOPOL. FULL DETAILS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CO] CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Sari. 11. The Union Jack and the Tricolour are at last weviog over Sebastopol. Long before the following detailsof the great achievement by which this glo rious result has been accomplished can reach you, the electric telegraph will have spread the news of our triumph throughout England and France, bring ing joy to the masses, and sorrow, alas! to many a bereaved home; it remains, therefore, to as, whose slower messenger is the post, merely to furnish the particahus of the struggle which has ended in so glorious, though costly, a sumer. When my last letter wu being despatched the final volleys of Ibe bombardment were booming on the ear, and the brave battalions by whom the attack was to be made were parading a few hundred yards from my tent door. The Light and Second Divisions being those selected for our own share of the opera- tion, the regiments of those two most distinguished sections of our army received orders on Friday night to have two days' rations cooked and served out at six o'clock on the following morning. At 7 a.m. the first storming party, consisting of one hundred men of the 97th Regiment, under Major Welsford, and first severing party, 100 men of god battalion Rifle Brigade, under Captain Filers—paraded, and shortly after- wards marched down to the trenches; where the former took up their position in the new boyeau run ning out of the centre of the fifth parallel, and the latter in extended order on their left, ready to cover their advance, and keep down the fire from the para pet of the Rrdan. Half-an-hour later, the 'cooed body of 'farmers, compered of two hundred of the 97th under Colonel Hancock, and three hundred of the 90th under Captain Grove, tollowtd, and formed immediately behind the first, in the parallel itself. After a similar interval, these again were followed by working parties of one hundred nen from each of the two Divisions engaged, sue- ceeded, half-an-hour later, by supports of 750 men each from the 19th and 88th Regiments, with part of • brigade of the Second Division ; these were stationed laths fourth parallel, ready for advancing into the fifth as mes• as the assault was made. Lastly came the suferefteonsisting of the first brigade of the Light Dlvisien,who as the sequel will show, with their usual losit. came in for a share of the actual tumult. This, I think, is a tolerably accurate statement of the relative division of the duties of the attack, and of the i strength of the parties employed. As on the 18th of June, it was again arranged that the Euglish should assault the Redan aad the French the Malakhoff. The experieace of that disastrous occasion, however, taught the necessity of permitting the latter redoubt to be first captured before our own men attempted the former; inasmuch as the guns of the Round Tower effectually commanded the open space over which a force attacking the Reda° must cross. To be sure, there was reason to believe that the Malakhuff had at length been effectually silenced ; but • similar notion was entertained on the occasion of the lest assault, and its error dearly I proved. Every embrasure but one of the INlelskhoff had been blocked up as early as d.y light of the 7th ; bat this was no guarantee that the guns had not, as before, been drawn in under cover, ready in a minute's time to clear an opening for themselves and receive an attacking force with grape and canister, u on the morning of the 18th of June. Accordingly, the guns of our own right attack continued to play vigorously on the Round Tower till . . _ a few minutes before noon on Saturday, notwitb- standing that its own fire had all but entirely ceased the day before—•as occasional shot from a single gun being all the reply it gave to the onslaught of the besieging artillery. On the Malakhoff, therefore, even more than on the Redan,which was to be stormed by our own men, did our gunsdirect their fire, rendering the work a perfect furnace of exploding shells, and to the sustained vigour and precision of this practice is mainly to be attributed the success of the attack which followed. In the meantime nearly 30,000 French had been moved down into their advanced trenches before the Mamelon and other covering spots around it, ender the commend of General Bouquet. Oar own force, I am forgetting to mention, was under the chief direction of Sir William Codrington, with General Markham as second in command; General Simpson himself being somewhere near the Twenty-one Gun Battery, but without any direct share in the manage ment of the operations. At twelve o'clock exactly the fire of the batteries ceased, and the party of Zouaves, who led the French attack, dashed over the parapet of their advanced sap, and in leas than a minute had crossed the inter vening forty yards, and were scrambling up the pa rapet of the Round Tower. Contrary to all hope, the solitary gun on the proper right of the work was the only piece that rec°ived the vaulters with a dis charge, and there was no time to reload it before our allies were inside the redoubt; the mischief in flicted by its one round of grape was but small. Swarm after swarm of our allies crowded up the steep embankment, till the whole parapet was literally covered with them, and then com menced such a fire of musketry as never echoed through the ravines round Sebastopol before. I can compare its unbroken continuity to nothing but the rattling tattooer of a thousand tenor drums. I base witnessed 70,000 men engaged in a general action ; but the infantry fire delivered on the singleton was but as child's play compared with the naseleas roll that poured in upon the Malakhoff during Ilaturda)'s attack. As usual, no circumstantial or complete narrative of the operation can be given, from tits habitual incommunicativeness which our allies dime in all their proceedings; but from one of the friers who led the attack, I learn that the prepared teslitb•ce was much less than had been expected. The INNS, had evidently been taken by surprise, and after • feeble stand made by the supports within the re doubt when the French entered, the place was vacated by its forgoer holders, who kept up a running tire as they retired : reserves, however, were speedily brought up, but as the French continnefl to pour in - ', a.= (Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENC E. against the faint and brief resistance of a body of pueullded wed th l e l - e s e u , at a andint t fi h e re o f musketry A soo ra o pid ex trench guard., who had evidently been taken re servesun- who were hurried up by the ere my had equally little chance against the swarwieg columns of our silica, whom good generalship kept pouring in to the support of the first atormers, as Last as hurean legs cnuld scramble up the broad parapet and jump inside the redoubt. Such a contest was merely a question of numbers; and, having made excellent arrangements to secure their own supe riority in this respect, the French commanders had no cause to doubt the result. Widely ditlerenr, how ever, was the case on our side. Differently 110[lb:rimed —as I shall presently describe—and stretching eve r a long hoe, in hardly any point exposed to so cruse and direct a fire as that which bore upon the Mslak hoff, the Redan had replied to our batteries with considerable vigour throughout the in tire bombardment ; mid at noon of the Sla still continued to show fight with a elezen or so of uninjured guns. Instead, too, of fully yards of .pea apace, the nearest point from our most advanced parallel to the ditch of the tertian measured 220, and this, also, everywhere expoeed to the fire of twelve or fourteen 68-pounders. I have several times crossed this fatal spot since the capture of the place,and each time with increased wonder how a single man of our whole stormere could have escaped the tornado of grape and canister which seek an armament could, and cid, send forth. .Scarcely a foot of surface is there which a gun did not sweep ; and when I add that the enemy had time to fire three rounds from every piece, from the first issue of our men from the shelt-r of our own parapet till their arrival at the broad ditch where so many have since found a grave, I am disposed to think that most of your readers will share in my surprise. Inevitably repulsed, then, as they were, our shattered companies were compelled to fall back on the trench which they had lett ; and to regain this, they had to pass through the same terrible storm of fire as before. Had they, indeed, been properiy supported, this second ordeal would have been spared them ; and, in spite of all its grape and canister, the Itedan would, without doubt, have been our own. To every attempt at repeating the attack the same formidable front was shown, and cut up as they had been in their first essay, it was not to be wondered at that our young troops, many of whom were under direct fire for the first rim., shrank from a second exposure to the desolating storm. Such, then, is a brief statement of the relative difficulties of the two attacks on the Reeler) and Malakhoff; and, bearing its mind these tae a, f ase I am inclined to believe, will consider that the Freuch have much ground for basting, as compared with ourselves. That they fought and conquered bravely, I would be the last to deny; but that they would have succeed.d, with the same numerical streuath as our own, against the Redan, no impartial and intell gent man could believe. In proof of this, and rather more, I may add mention of their failure before the Little Itedan, atter the occupation of the Malakhoff. The six or eight guns of this work had continued effective throughout the bombardment ; and when our allies,after theirdaseing captureof the larger redoubt, passed on to attempt the seizure of the minor batteries on its proper left, they were received with close and well-directed discharges of grape, which speedily checked their impetuous and midi& nt ad vance. Three several times did they repeat the attempt; but they were as often driven back with heavy loss, and finally abandoned the effort. During the night, when the Itedan itself was blown up, the works in Careening Buy shared a similar fate, and were entered, without a blow, in the moruitig. When I last wrote, my impression was that the French had stormed this line of minor works with the same suc cessful bravery as had been previously diaplased in their seizure of the Malakhoff; but a few hours later I learned my error, and therefore add this sentence in correction of what I then stated. As a sufficiently detailed and accurate description of the Russian works, as seen from our own trenches, has already appeared in these columns, I need say nothing as to the appearance of the Redun e ie. er nally. Let even those of your readers, who may not have seen the topographical sketea to which I ,eter, fancy a huge grey bank of earth running angularly over the summit of a broken slope, and fronted by a vast ditch some eighteen feet wide by mere then half that number deep. Let them pierce this with gabioned embrasures at intervals of some three yards, and mentally picture these bristling with the meek muzzles of 68-pounders, and their idea of the out-ide front of this celebrated work will be sufficiently com plete. My first entry into the interior, on the morning after its abandonment, was made by a bridge of broken fascines and gabions, laid hastily over the dead bodies that had just been gathered into the ditch for burial, which has since been done by levelling over them a portion of the Seer. 15. parapet above. The ghastly piles nearly filled the My last letter, though written on the third day vast trench to a level with the outer surface, and the after the enemy's abandonment of their stronghold, thin covering of earth which now conceals them hem barely falls below the summit of the low bank was necessarily confined to a narrative of the inci- view in front. What first struck one in passing up the dents of our own and the French attack. With a cut made by our Sapp-rs through the broad parapet, view of giving you the latest news, I had deferred was the initialed solidity and strength of this laid — writing it till the last hour allowed me by the post averaging thirty or thirty-five feet along its entire and was consequently unable to do more than refer front. On such a solid mass of gabions, famines, to the fact that the town was already being rifled, sandbags, and earth, I need hardly say that artillery of even the heaviest calibre could have no s ensible Rertch-like, by our allies, whilst our own men were effect : sixty-eight or ninety-tight pound shot mi..ht virtually deprived of the very smallest benefits in the enter, but they could not penetrate. Compared with I shape of plunder. The same necessity compelled me this massive structure of mud and wickerwork, to postpone till now any detailed description of the the t o t sthics of our own or the French woiks is state of the town itself, and of the works by means of as paper which it has been eo long and so bravely defended. e g o r r e r a o t to s o ute u r o iori a l o o n t i tt e eir em m h a r n os t o le r t ea s— ro str e o h n! ire r r op r i t ;n o In the present letter I shall attempt to give your gunners from g the besiegers' riflemen. You admire readers some rough idea of both. the cover provided for their artillerymen when not -- & - fors entering on anything in the shape of a actually working the guns, in little retreats proof description, either of the defending redoubts, or of agains t i any but the very heaviest splinters of &lira Sebastopol itself, however, I wish to add to my for- the utsthot I:n l' d g:r e it a p re roo nr rh i not h ing b w er h o en fo c r ompa e red the held: of met brief account of the operations of the Bth, a fur- larger bodies of troops, which abound tbreughout the they remark or two in defence of the part enacted by work. I dived into several of these half subterranean our own men, and in correction of an error which I waiting-rooms, and found many of them fi'ted up there committed, in stating that the French had with fire-places, ceokiog conveniences, benches, and ; whilst in other suitable furniture ()theta of smaller stormed the Little Redan and its adjoining works i n to dimensions, and which had evidently be en occu p ied Careening Bay. 1 should be most sorry pea a by the officers, there were in addition bedsteads, line which would bear the interpretation of jealousy chairs, tables, and in some even handsomely glazed or ill-will towards our gallant allies, whom bravery cupboards, containing empty wine bottlee, and other and indomitable energy I have so often had occasion traces of their occupants' regard for creature comforts. to admire; but, whilst extending a full meed Oa a shelf in one of them I lighted on a cheap Far of reprint of "Paul Clifford," and an old of praise for all they have both endured engravings o f , . • y of the Lluitrated A etcs—the latter won sundry and accompli s hed, I would permit no squeamish engravings of scenes from the siege. Even more in generosity towards them to dull my recollection, or teresting than all these, however, were the inner quality my eulogy, of what our own troops have in abutting defences of the re doubt, of which we had like manner suffered and achieved. That io the two previously heard and imagined so much. From the combined attacks, however, which have terminated irregular order in which these occur, it is difficult to describe them in any way that will convey an semi the siege of Sebastopol, our allies succeeded in that rate idea of their exact appearance and relation to undertaken by them, whilst we failed in the other the main work ; but they ratty .be generally men allotted to us, may at first sight seem humiliating to timed as independent supports similarly armed and our military pride t . but when the relative diffictiltits of nearly equal strength in construction to the front of the two operations are considered, I venture to fine of the redoubt, which stands to them, in oo fact t , h i o. n think that we shall suffer little either in our own the rel ation of aundth screen . I' oTe h in r te g rTo u r s, of the Redan estimation or ia that of Europe generally. that u a ny assailing force which might have succeeded Mainly owing to the fire of oar English in forcing the outer battery would have been ex batteries during the three previous days of posed to an inr,er fire as galling as and more concen the bombardment—for the Mamelon bad re- Crated than t'Ae first. The whole structure and ar tnaiaed all but silent throughout that period—the raogemro, ot these inner defence has, indeed, are such as French on the forenoon of the B t h found ever y g un to cuse.ry the belief that, d the redoubt been but one in the alalakhoff silenced. Their advanced strenr,ously defended, no body of attacking troops sap, too, had brought them to within some forty th'.4 could have been brought against it would have 1 yards of their point of attack, and during their rapid saad a chance of BUMS'. And the smile System of dash in column, over this narrow space, they were, rear defences extended down along nme:ty the whole exposed only to the grain-shot of this one gun. Oace curtain leading towards the Mal".:khoff. The open on the face of the 'parapet, they were safe Nom a behind the &den, as I have already mentioned, woad discharges and had then only to contend presents a broken outface, literally ploughed up into Frenchmen poking into every nook and crannie, overhauling everything and appropriating whatever appeared worth carrying away. A few of our own men had managed to dodge the sentries, awl were similarly employed; but, besides being numerically only as one to a hundred of the Gauls, they went ' about the business with a clumsiness and evident I inexperience which contrasted strikingly with the ' practised tact and professional ability of the red-breeched enfants around. In descending , the slope which leads down to the head of the Creek, I came its sight of piles of new cannon and shot, ranged as one may see them along the river front of Woolwich Arsenal—on both sides of the Creek. Certainly this was a con tradiction of the generally-believed reports of the enemy's shortness of guns and ammunition : and similar evidence met my eyo at every battery I passed—shot, shell, grape, canister, powder, and musket cartridges seemed everywhere abundant. On gaining the summit .of the opposite slope, on and be yond which the main body of the town is situated, French, nothing but French, were to be met with, the majority of them drunk, and all laden with every conceivable kind of plunder. Chairs, tables, looking glasses, church ornaments, poultry, kegs of brandy, mattresses, bed clothes, cooking utensils,—every do mestic moveable, in fact, that ever figured in a cata logue at the city auction mart, was being carried or dragged along by our light-fingered allies, whilst only at long intervals was au Englishman to be seen with a single article, and in three instances I found Frenchmen disputing their right even to these. More than one lament on our failure before the Bedsit was also uttered, and in one case in which reproach was thrown into the teeth of a brawny Irish Grenadier by a diminutive Chasseur wall more impudence than discretion, I take to myself the credit of having saved a subject of the Emperor from summary annihilation. Pat hid laid hands on a bundle of crockery ware, and was proceeding comfort ably along under the influence of a double allowance of rum, when the Frenchman, still worse off for liquor, came reeling by with a looking-glass under one arm and a couple of ducks under the other "Ha! Avian no, Melakhoff yes; Ingelese no bOOO spirted out the sou of France, tapping the Irishman with impudent familiarity on the elbow. The " whirroor that followed was worthy of Donnybrook, and in an instant, dashing his crockery to the ground, Paddy grasped the Frenchman by the most capacious portion of his pantaloons, sent the looking glass to shivers, and would have made work for the doctor out of its owner it I had not at that moment come up to the rescue. Seeing Frenchmen hurrying to the scene of this tragi-comedy from all points, I deemed it best, for my countryman's own sake, to prevent his administering a chastisement which, however amply deserved, might have endangered the safety of its bestower, and so liberated the frightened impudent, and endeavoured to calm down the wrath of the infuriated Kerryman. This, how ever, was no easy task; but by endorsing his declaration of being able to best ten Frenchmen any , day I finally reduced the storm, and sent him on his way to the outskirts of the town. I cannot refrain front adding one sentence on a subject to which I shall again recur— the prohibition which has been issued against our own troops sharing in the spoil, whilst carte blanche has been allowed to the French. Our camp is swarming with these last, offering for sale every conceivable de scription of plunder, and getting high prices for their goods too whilst our own men, who have equally shared in alt the danger and toil of the siege, are prevented from fingering as much as au empty bottle. The discontent which has risen amongst them in consequence is not deeper than it is just, and reflects credit neither on the judgment nor the regard for fair play of those from whom the prevention proceeds. But with us it is always so: at Kertch, where there was a colouring for the prohibition, the French plundered all before them—to their own indelible disgrace; but why a similar bar should be here again placed on the exercise of what is a right of every soldier who has taken part in the siege puzzles many more than myself to un derstand. r. A .„:4.,... "11 , ... 1 . : „. ?* l t, -- t :.i. /I ti \ :4 ll