The Express. — London, England, 1855-11-29 00:00:00

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Just at three o'clock this afternoon one of the most extensive and appalling explosions of gunpowder, bombs, and artillery materials that has ever occurred simile the commencement of the war, whether on the side of the Allies oe within the lines of Sebastopol, took place on the right of our camp. A greater quantity of gunpowder itself may have been ex ploded in some of the magazines dieoharged for the isstreetioa of the buildings and worki after the abandonment of the ruined city and fortress ; but this is doubtful, and certainly there were never fired at the same time so gnat a number and variety of deadly and explosive projectiles. The frightful cha racter of the occur:anon was greatly enhanced, too, by its isolated and unexpected nature, suddenly bursting oat in the very midst of the amps at a time when all wee suppled to be secure, and when the sounds of the bombardment, once loud and familiar enough, had dwindled down into the occasional dropping shots interchanged between the north and south Mdse. Another element of alarm was the spreading and fury of the fire after the first great explosion, and the constant fresh com munication with other stores of explosive (sambaed. bless, the amount and nature of which were involved is uncertainty from the diffictilty of learning what had already been destroyed. The close neighbour hood of the great English magazine of gunpowder, where in a closely-packed mass between eighty and ninety to= are said to be stored, farmed no small ingredient in the general apprehension and panic. All accounts agree that the first explosion occurred in the French siege train depot, which is only sopa rated by a pathway from the English right siege train depot in rear of the Light Division. The French depot leaned towards the right, on the shal low part of the ravine, near its eommeseessent, which ultimately terminates in Careening Bay. This part of the ravine separated it from the great gunpowder magazine of the English, from a French ormsaissariat depot, and the hats and mute of a divisional ambulance, from the Freseh road loading to Inks:- mean, and the old encamping pound of the 2nd Regiment of Zonaves. Immediately on the left of the French depot was the English right siege train depot. Around sash depot were the tests and huts of the artillerymen and men of the field train depart ment eassestsd with them respectively. In frost of ilex two depots were the regiments of the First Bed gad* of the Light Division : comenesoing from the right, the 4sd Battalion. Rifle Brigade, 7th. Ski, sad 113 rd Regiments. The 34th Regiment and s field battery of artillery was still farther is frost e and to the right, sot ter from the Careening Bay ravine, the regiments of the 2nd Brigade of the Light Division, 19th, 88th, and 77th Regiments, fall back, so as almost to flank the siege train depots and encampments en their left, the 19th Regiment being the merest. In front of these, again, were the 97th and 90th Regiments attached to the Light Division. In rear of the depots was a large open spew, vacated by some French regiments, *sigh a very short time dose were moved towards lakermann. It is necessary to recount the positions of these regiments with regard to the ex plosion, aa they were chiefly exposed to its effects. Sect to the artillerymen is the immediate neighbour bowl. the regiments of the first brigade of the Light Bidden appear to have suffered chiefly : this is attri lleini in a great measure to the fact that many men from these regiments happened to be working in the visinity of the siege train when the explosion cc warred, while large parties of men from the other brigade bad goes on fatigue duties to Balaklava and other looalides more or leas distant from the scene of the calamity. Had the event marred in the night time, when all the men were in camp, the result must have been greatly more disastrous. It is inspoosille to give any distinct description of the effeet of the first crash: it varied according to circumstances of position and distance. Those who escaped from the artillery tents and immediate vicinity of the siege depots appeared utterly bewil dered. The force of the blow from the impelled air, the stunning noise, the flashing of the fire, the saffo cities smoke, arrested every reasoning faculty, and took away all sense, save the instinctive impulse to fly from the soaves of evil. These lass ran on in all directions, heedless of the shells and grape which were falling around, withoat looking back at the scene of destraedoa they were leaving behind dies, and never stopped till they had reached or passed the tents of the seighboaring regiments• Among the regiments themselves of the Light Division, whether in tests or hate, a saddest seasstion was felt as if of an upbeaving of the ground, at the same time that a violent shock was experienced from the assoundos of the air. Almost instantly followed the load report of the explosion : not sounding as if a single charge or mega:lies had been fired, and without the ring ing tone or decided eharaoter of a salve of artillery, bat seeming rather as if a number of 1111111111105 had been discharged, one after the other, so rapidly that all the reports were blooded into one. As the thunder of the first report subsided, its place was occupied by the sharp cracking wands of shell' bursting high is the air, the rush of fragments falling to the ground, had the load bangs of shells which had been seettored sad were mitten es all sibs. Siseitaseees with LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1855. these, almost from the very meshing of wooden hats, Ratios of timings. real seised Min glass from the brakes windows. The tests were violently agitated, and sometimes the cords or poise were snapped asunder. Then fol lowed a coutinued snocemicer of minor reports, and the roar of flames, and crackling alba:sing wood, as the fire advanced and increased maw the hats and artillery stores of the siege tads ilepets. Throe who rushed out of their tents inmemillistaly after the flret was the Amt. or who happened to be standing outside at the time. saw the air filled with shells, some busting at an elevation snob as they used to be seen in the siege, operatics* when propelled from mortars by the heaviest charges, some exploding on the pound. Grape and the small iron shot, &boat the aim of bollits. of which each groat quantities wore foood in iron coin in some of the litiesian magazines, were falling thickly = all aides. Every one sought the nearest shelter, moulting beneath the stone walls of the huts and buildings lately erected, or wherever _ _ any protection from the iron shower maid be most readily dimovered. The air boom* speedily dark imedos if by a obi, from the smoke "Adel spread around, but this was soon dispersed. These who were at a still farther distance, ap proaching towards the front from the plain, say that they first sew a swelling column of smoke, out of which shot rays of light, ascending to a great elevation, and that these, curving and bursting with brilliant star-hite mow of light, had pee- - - Meetly the appearanee of • magnificent display of fireworks. Tho agitation of the ground, sod the report of the 'opinion which followed, together with tho direction; informed than of the eerioee na• tare of the Tilsit impression was at first, as Indeed it was among the greater number of persons in the amp near the catastrophe, that the great English powder magazine had exploded. It may well be excused if the majority of men and officers—subjected as they were to the double horrors of an earthquake and sudden bombardment —in the camps around the parks of the siege train were for the moment polio-stricken. But to the credit of all be it spoken, that the centurion of the first event had no sooner passed, than one laudable desire seemed to wise all ranks to be instrumental in saving the maimed and wounded, who were unable to escape from the neighbourhood of the fire, or who were lying around, struck by the fragments of shells or by other projectiles. Stretchers were got from the surrounding regimental hospitals, and the wounded, French and English, rapidly car ried to them. Medical Olken from other divisions, and from the General Hospital, galloped over to render assistance. The staff of the Light and Second Divisions were quickly at the scene of action, and not long afterwards General Codrington arrived with the headquarter staff many of whom were returning on their way from the Artillery review in the plain near Balaklava. A train of ambulance waggons ar rived quickly, and wage of emends! service. Many of the regimental hospitals, being in rear of their regiments, and therefore nearest to the plies of the explosion, had bees very much shaken or Waged by shot and shells ; and as the danger of fire sad fesdisel explosions bad Dot ceased, the opportunity of es swaying the wounded rapidly to a trea er discuss was urgently required. Fortunatel the Gemmed Hospital, in the rear of the Third Division, which. previous to the expectation of as attack on the part of the enemy, it had beam intended to break up and convert into winter hats for the troops, wee still vacant. and to this hospital many of the wended were at once removed. These was great danger is appeasable( the fire from the constnat explosioes, and both men sad slicers bad frequently to be re called while searching for those wile bad been iojured, or while attempting, by tearing dews naves or cutting down timber, to stop the sommuniostioas of the fire. One yeas, officer of artillery, of the name of Dawns, bad his leg carried away by a shell berelng, and was con veyed to the General HospitaL Brevet-Major the Hoe. H. Clifford, Bilis Brigade, who is acting sa assistant qoarterneseter-general of the Light Dins= in the cheeses of Colonel Airey, was partieslarly conspicuous in giving direction,. It was known that in one part of the English siege train depot, towards which the fire was tentliag, there was a lags coils& doe of rockets and some shells, and it was fogad he possible to save these front sombestion. As it was uncertain what havoc might be committed through their agency, whether in setting buts or testa on fire, or from the missiles with which they were loaded, it was thought prudent to remove the greater pert of i the troops to a distaste. The regiments of the Light Division were therefore marched some way to the *eat of their camps ; one brigade towards the Victoria indoebt,theelber towards the piebethonse on Freneli maeb-hill. • guard from the bend Divides bed been Weight down very ass Ayr the first infitsies. wed a line of sentries wee strelebsd ewes to prevent a nearer ',preach to . the Nees of danger than the lass of die BBth Berneent. Fortunately the rockets were rid in elms bundles, and were without edam, so tisk visa they exploded shortly before eacilkiftli._difined almost as if they . had been antslNNEinimpe sompound fixed in • single ma • powerful white light, rushing upwards with great lime, and accompanied by showers of sparks sad a lead whizziog noise, followed by numberless =pie "ions of comparatively unimportant oharsoter—and this Bonne of danger wee at an end. One source of apprehension, it has been already weeetiseed, was the great English magazine of gun- Most providentially, at the tune of the first otplosion there was namely any breeze, but what wind there was came from the north-west. Ibis best the flames towards the magazine, ails* widget from the volumes of smoke drivicg is that Everyone was aware what dire esessgiedir laud have resulted if the magazine were esiosoodisd ; and for some time the anxiety on this sessost was very intense. But the fire had hardly raged ID minutes, when the smoke was ob served to mow in another direction. The current of air bad olisomp• and wee blowing from nearly doe north. Moines it the flame wait therefore directed towards the pea in rear, left vacant by the French regiments, whisk bed not long Ines quitted it. This thread's bee Mss maintained moos. Had the wind come kolas "pits point, that is from the south, a wind whist a short time !Igo was prevailing, the huts and teats of the first brigade of the Light Divi goo, being so close to the siege trains, could soaroely have escaped. As it wan, the large commignarist stores of forage and provisions which have been accumulated for the winter consumption of the regiments of this brigade, and which were in great danger of befog set fire to, wholly escaped. They were piled b rest of the regimental encampments, between thane and the artillery samps. Great praise is due to the troops, who. while the fire was horsing, 00V11“4 the sides and roof of the mgazine, wises the Ea==powder wasstored. with wet Meshes end The soave ef the sapimiss Ist sod in all probabi lity will ever be, isvolved in elieserity. The indivi dual who, by his wicked negligence and want of caution. sassed the hisposable mischief, as well as the witamess of the set, meet have met with lesiva teems death. At first the most absurd outmost,' were made ea to its origin. The first impremios-- louand a very general one--essmall to be, that a treia sed lens MU sad the &pot blows lip by a Aseisma 'emissary. When it wag discovered that .the English magazine was safe—long a compl etions_ Ojeet—and the difficulties of snob an nedertakter were considered, this idea was dispelled. Then it was said that a Zosave, excited at having received punishment, bad set firs to the siege ammunition. But even if the .apposition at such a mad sad fiendish act could be admitted, the well known caution and strict rules of the French ad- Mbrististion prevented it from Wag eatertaised. No one at any time was admitted into the French depot without he was engaged there on duty, or was moon patted by a Wench offices% The more probable story is one that was told by a French 'art iller yman, that some live Russian shells were being emptied at the depot, and the gunpowder contained in them col lated for storage, and that the ignition of one of these must have led to the firing of the principal =ga ges. Smoking was forbidden within the precincts of the depot, bat some soldier may have been guilty of the act unobserved and a spark fallen in the gun powder. A commission of inquiry will no doubt be appointed to investigate the subject. No idea can be formed at present of the number of men destroyed or injured. Some of the men who have been carried by, or picked up among the various ritcan greatly mutilated. The weenie ow shell woods. Some of the patients an badly searched—some severely bruised by falling timbers. But among all the distressing objects around, none perhaps wee more melancholy, more calculated to excite feelings of pity, than an artilleryman who had been, either by the concussion or by sodden alarm, rendered idiotic. He attracted geoseal attention as be was led by, bare-headed, between two of his com rades, uttering silly exclamations, and quite lost to maliciousness of all that was pansies around him. He seemed to be posesseed by a feeling that he was in England, for all his rambling remarks referred to home; while a smile on his face, vacant and unmean ing as was its expression, seemed to show that he had at least as muck satisfaction as he was any longer of ga Wonderful escapes are related on all sides. Per haps none are more striking than the following :—A soldier was leading in the camp of the 23rd Regiment a valuable charger belonging to Major Robert Brace. A shall bast, disembowelling the horse and soaring him into nearly two parts, but the soldier escaped unhurt. Two of the large marquees on=by the sick men of the reg iment were torn and a round shot passed through one of le wooden hats, in which were several patients, landing its way out close to the head of one of them, who was perfectly disabled from moving; yet none were injured. Some remarkable escapee were told at all the hospitals neared to the siege train depots, for after the regiments had been marched away for safety, many sick and wounded remained in the hos pitals, attended by the surgeons. The very closeness slam* of the camps seemed to be a source of safety, for the shells, which were projected @boringly, sod afterwards fell and exploded on the ground, app., redly fell more thickly at a considerable distance from the depots than in the immediate neighbour. hood. Many burst among the huts of the .Becood Division and in the Woronoff ravine, and some fell as far even as the temp of the Fourth Division. There was a painful story spread about that the sick men in the English siege-train hospital were aU burned, from the hospital but having been overthrown and preventing their escape. This turns out, happily, to be wholly untrue. The hospital hut was blown down by the force of the fi rst explosion in the French depot; but not one of the patients, of whom there were eight or nine in the hut, was injured by the fall of the timbers. Their escape was almost miraculous. It is attributed Airily to the men having crept under their iron bedsteads before the yielding tidbit, of the roof had fallen to the ground. The sick of the French camp were in the Divisional ambulance on the opacsit: side of the ravine from the depot. The am. b Is reported to be very much injured. No man within the boundary of the French siege train Gould pmeibly have escaped without loss of life or most severe injury. The English commissary of the field train department is said to be missing. e When the writing of this amount was commenced, a little after 6 p.m.. the fire was still burning briskly. It arose chiefly from the consumption of timber re maining from the huts, portions of platforms, gus shell-horse, sod other wooden articles used fir artillery rn a rery purposes. The evening air was becoming misty, and a strong glare was ;reflected in the sky. Bat the materials were quickly exhausted, and about 7 p.m. the lames were extinct, and smouldering embers alone remained. The explosion and subsequent fire attracted the aeries of the Russians encamped on the north hsfgbts and along the range overlooking the T. asp valley. They advanced in considerable numbers towards the edge of the Inkermann cliffs, and stood is evident delight at the spectacle presented to their view. Presently the French opened a fire upon them from the guns of some batteries, which, it is said, were previously masked, and of the existence of which the enemy was in all probability unaware. The Russian@ were at puce driven back, and they appeared to retire in such huts that little doubt was enter tained of the French shot having found their way among them. There was a review of the field batteries of the Royal Artillery this morning at 10 am. in the plain near Relaters, by Genersl Codrington. It was a magnificent sight, as there were no less than 74 guns brought to the ground. Yesterday there was a re view of the Royal Horse Artillery. Notice of the review was given to the several divisions, and as many officers as were able to attend took advantage of the opportunity of witnessing the parade. Many had not returned to the front, when the explosion of the siege train depot took pima and this may have bees the means of saving some lives. The following incidents were noted down shortly toqt., the onoinvenosof the catastrophe just detailed. may as well stand as they were written. It is fasted, however, that the immunity from funerals, which is alluded to in the first paragraph, as having been observed in the British camp for some time past, will no longer exist foe several days to come. Female have been rare in camp since the few days immediately following the final assault. Yes terday, the 14th instant, however, early in the after noon, the attention of those who happened to be near the amps of the Light Division, was attracted by the solemn strains of the Dead March in Baal, pound forth in the clear sonorous tones of a full bras band. Presently a long dark line was seen coming from the direction of the Rifles' camp. on thee:creme right of the division. The procession moved slowly awns the slope of the bill crowned by the Victoria &dealt. The white robes of the clergyman, walk ing between the headmen and the mile. formed a sinking contrast with the dark uniforms of the troops who IfMMwed, but scarcely more so than the scarlet emihrias, made more bright by the brilliant sen sitise, of the officers of other regiments who brought up the rear. It was the funeral of a very Web,elleer of the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Lieutenaat Richard Borough, eldest eon of Air "Award Borough, Bart., of Dublin, who had did ham fever. He had not been long in the Crimea, bit beg enough to be a favourite in his corps, and to hail eat the prospect of becoming a valuable and efil ant 'Meer. At the attack on the Roden on the Bth of liegsamber, when he underwent his dopiest* de fru, be received a contusion in the sheet from a stone, GM was twice strook by rifle balls, bat unwed with eat say serious hurt from them. The guard of his sword protested him from the effects of one ball ; the ease passed themeb the_ sloth dab s e nsed esN s oost withoutpaV as his eku skis He was n ot his tbe sad event roved,fatal iUaees *Le weeks ago. Daring the program of the eivailhe military faserala were very Mantled telbpsielantel buds: the eseelesteosepties (Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. appears to be the best authenticated attributes it t ° the clueless cariosity of aFrench soldier, who sought to improve an idle moment by investigating the contents of • Russian 13-inch shell. After the capture of the town, I may mention, when the am munition found within the enemy's magazines was divided between ourselves and the French, our Quartermaster General, Sir William Airey, di rected our share of the powder to be thrown into the harbour, but our thrifty allies interfered, and carried off the whole. The greater part of this, with a large proportion of the shot and shell that had fallen to their share, was brought up to the camp of General de la Motto Rouge's command, near Inkermean—on the immediate right of our Light Division—and there, class by the walls of the often-mentioned windmill, the explosion took place on Thursday afternoon. Separated from this only by an open, some ban tired and flltj yards mess, are the tents, huts, guns, nand entire stores of our own right siege train. There, Ms, ear allotted the general hospital of their Right Attack, from which, most providentially, several hun dred sick and wounded were sent off only about eight days egos had these poor fellows been on thespot at the time of the accident, these is reason to fear that leaf few of them would be at this moment alive: To recur, however, to the origin of the disaster it appears that the inquisitive Frenchman had tam one from a pile of Russian live' shell, sad was hard at a course of experimental probing of the fuze with his bayonet, when the shell exploded, and igniting a quantity of loose powder which was lying about the tent, communicated with the pile outside, the explosion of which again set flee. to the magazine in its neighbourhood, and to our own storm of shell and rockets across the way. The result. se I have said, was the most terrific blow-up that any individual in either army has ever witnessed. I know not how to desoribe it. To say that it equalled in violence the combined salvors of a thousand parks of artillery might seem extravagant; and yet the simile would but feebly convey an idea of the volume of thundering sound that shook the earth for miles around, tearing down the most substantial masonry and wooden huts, and levelling tents as by the sweep of some invisible giant-arm. I had seen the explosions on and after the Bth of September, which se many pens have since described; but no half amen of them together would have equalled this one, either in force or sound. Over an area of nearly half-a-mile from the spot of its occurrence, the air was one huge column of powder smoke and cast-up earth, up into and athwart which ignited or exploding shells and rockets d anon darted and flashed by hundreds, spreading destruction to nearly everything animate and inanimate, within a radius of more than • thousand yards. Heavy siege guns were wrenched from their carriages and thrown many perches from where they had been standing, whilst the carriages themselves, torn asunder, as a strong man might rend bird-cages, were flung high into the air, and fell iu scattered fragments far away amongst the surrounding tents. It seemed, also, as if whole piles of round shot and grape were similarly caught up into the air and showered far and near, for I can personally testify that, more than 500 yards from the stone of the explosion, they and pieces of burst shell fell and ploughed up the earth nearly as thickly as if all the Russian batteries on the north side had been transferred to Inkermann, and brought into random play against the Light Division at the time. This may sound extravagantly, I know ; but it no more than describes the terrific, but happily brief, storm of missiles vomited around on all sides by this disastrous blow-up. In instantaneous sums ? sion to the first grand explosion of the French magazine followed the minor ones of their and our own detached packets of amallarm ammunition and piles of live shell—with all the tepid regularity of musketry file firing---succeeded in their torn by the thundering echoes of the whole rolling down in a vast storm of sound through the ravines to Sebastopol—a right musical roulade to our brave foes across the harbour. Both within our own %closure and that of the Wench, great heaps of firewood, old gabione, and other combustible materials had been collected; and these, dry as tinder from many days' sun, speedily ignited. As night came on, the whole broke out into pest sheds of flame, which, with just enough of a meedises wind to fan it into clearness from the immoke, era in a lambent stream from heap to heap, Biagio, showers of sparks about, and firing the piles of ammunition as it rolled along. Some7= minor explosions were attended by really epiamlid pyrotechnic effect, those of the rockets 411Plially : few of these list rose high into the air, but nearly all went off with a regularity Vida produced a result resembling nothing so math as a vast fiery free de ha ; whilst many of the shells whizzed and flickered aloft into the sir as in old times over the Malakhoff and the Ilea& Perches off from this burning centre, little patches of flame showed where tents had been set fire to by the sparks and scattered pieces of burning wood, and in every such instance wholesale destruction of the thickly-clustering smear tenements around was only escaped by tearing down those nearest the one on fire. This, however, was done in only a few oases; as, after the (incursion of the first great shock wee recovered from, all fled for very life beyond the range of further harm, leaving tents, arms, furniture, clothing, and everything else to take their chance. As a consequence, many a squire perch—amongst the French especially—was burnt as naked se any piece of far-western savannah by the desolating tide of a prairie fire. It was not tilt the tiro had nearly burned down, about 8 o'clock, that the individual explosions of shell and single heaps of powder entirely ceased; and even then, ea it was unknown what remained to furnish food for others, no attempt was made to approach the some of the catastrophe. The troops had, indeed, returned to their tents from their refuge ground behind the Victoria Redoubt, but all effort to extinguish the smouldering remains of the fire were wisely abstained from till the follow ing morning, when danger was no longer to be feared. Immediately after the first great explosion, however, when it was ascertained that the windmill itself— which forms our main magazine in this part of the camp, and contains some hundred and eighty tons of p ow d e r—had escaped, General Stranbenzee, who commands the brigade, hurried up to the tents of the 7th Fusiliers and asked if any of the men would volunteer to mount the wall of the mill and cover the roof with wet tarpaulins and blankets as a protection (PROM OUR OWN CORBwor....— _ against the thickly flying sparks and burning wood. CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 17. Now, the concussion had literally thrown the roof off A calamity, the resultant casualties of which are the old building, and there it stood in the very centre f the spreading flames, exposed every minute to a not yet ascertainable, has unfortunately occurred to thousand chances of instantaneous destruction. Hardly furnish subject-matter for a short letter by this mail, anything could exceed the danger attending such a when everything else that could have supplied mate- m ow as th e ge neral proposed, but, notenthatand rial for a paragraph was, and is, at the most complete big, Lieutenant Hops (senior) and twenty-five stied still. Shortly after 3 o'clock oa Thursday after- men at once responded a to the m br e ri I ;t u ilirg n appes A l a w a r d Men the whole camp, from lokermann to far beyond Proceeded with sill . • party Oatlicart's Hill, was literally shaken throughout ff of the 34th Regiment, were induced to accompany every square foot of its area, by the most tremendous t and some them; and, within ten minutes from the first great mtehemPerofertie Rifles, syllogism that has ever echoed through these CH- blow-up, Mr. Hope was on the walls of the mill was hills—many as they have listened to during piling the wet coverings over the exposed powder the past twelve thundering mouths. Happily bo h opts x their i6ig shel fec le t a s u tor d mbeutihneinwghtiatreood While though we have shared largely in the lose of life t t _ r e h er and some h alf-dozen of the men were thus aDdlisa4l/144 whatever.,__ blame attaches the °°°°° of employed, the remainder carried water 'o throw upon this calamitouscalamitous oss•utt belongs exclu sivel y ,_ _ °lll the blankets and bars rafters of the mill, and in little laim. llemel envies , of the mite tit the " Mr ' more than half-an-hour this vast pile of powder was lase we swat thrash the can, bat that which as well protested from the thickly flying spathe owl the men, and the daily occurrence of casualties, mused the practice of Otis customary honour to be discontinued. On the same day . , an explosion occurred in one of the expense magazines in the Roden. Two men of the Coldstream Chards, who were on duty in pardwg . the Rahn, were exploring one of the an , derground " bunks " in which ammunition had hem stored. Whether they made ass . of a light is not known ; bat suddenly the oompresOld mod of an ezplosian of gonpowdm was heard, and the earth above the bunk was observed to be upheaved sad broken, and then to mink in. There was not gunpowder enough to mattes the tim ber and stones around, or in al prebabi lity more accidents most hare occurred. The first soldier who was dug from beneath the rain was found to be blackened by the exploded gunpow der,ba d and gaits dead from the injuries which be bad re. Delved; the other was still alive, but little hopes were entertained of his recovery. A sergeant who was near the entrant* of the magazine had his face and hands scorched. There are still many "live" shells lying about the batteries of the Roden, and, consider. lag the number of persons who have wandered through the work and the careless habit of smoking. itisenribas that they have not led to any accidents. The rains which we have now every right to expect from day to day will soon destroy all risk on i ret account. _ . _ ----- November 18.—All the divisions to the right of the British cam p were =der arms before daylight this morning. It was ordered last night that the regiments should parade at half-past five, bat this was afterwards changed to an earlier hour. It was thought possible that the enemy, if contemplating an assault at all, might attempt it now, hoping to gain some advantage from the destruction of oar ammuni tion which be witnessed yesterday. Naval Old rington passed before six a.m. towards Inkernseaa is reconnoitre the enemy's movements. The morning passed by, however, without any demonstration on the part of the Russians. On visiting the ground where the explosion w owed, the signs of devastation are hardly so great les might have been anticipated. The explosion had not formed any funnel-like excavation, =eh as was caused by the destruction of the Russian magazines. This wits of course attributable to the French maga sine being above ground, consisting of powder 0901141 piled one above the other, and simply protested by an appropriate shed, while the Rumen magazines were deeply buried. Some of the shells had been pro jected upwards to an amazing height, and in a direst line, judging from the position and great depth rd some of the shell-holes in the ground when the depot bad been. Pieces of charred timber, brakes gams in which were packed new artillery shakes, broken carbines, tin MOB rent into fragments, pleas of shell boxes, portions of gun carriages, heavy shot whitened by the salts from exploded gunpowder, were strewed about the place where the French siege train stood. The destruction in the English siege train depot was lass than had been supposed, but a great part of the stores had seemingly been destroyed. Sappers .were at work pulling down some of the shattered huts on one side, and fatigue parties of line soldiers were busily employed is clearing the ground at other parts, or assisting the combustion of still unoulderiog heaps of rubbish. The French commis- sariat depot and ambulance across the ravine pre sented an extraordinary spectacle. Nearly every tent was blown over, and hut stove in or shattered. It ap peared as if the blast of a hurricane had pawed over it. One hut was singularly demolished. The two sides had bulged outwards, and the roof had fallen in. The ridge-beam had fallen to the ground along the middle passages of the hut, but the sides of the roof had maintained their connexion with the aide walls. The roof thus appeared inverted, and the patients in the beds along either aide of the hut, if they remained quiet, must have been protected from harm. The huts of all the regiment. of the Light Division are more or lea strained or injured, than nearest to the centre of explosion being the most so. Some have been so twisted and torn that they are quite untenable; in some the roofs have been partly turned round, or forced inwards; many have been perforated by shot or fragments of shells. Many of the tents also have been perforated. The quantity of fragments of shells sad grape shot strewed about in some parts reminds one of the former state of the ground in the neighbourhood of the advanced trenches. The number of caanalties reported is favourable beyond all expectation. Of the artillerymen en camped at the siege train depot, the number killed is said to be nine, while 40 are known to be wounded, or are missing. In the Light Division there are 10 killed and 88 wounded. Three of theme deaths Go ner= in the camp of the 77th Regiment. Only two sick men in hospital were wounded, and one of these was a man of the 34th Regiment, who ran out abed into the camp ground, and was struck in the arm by a fragment of shell. The number of patients in the hospitals is said, however, to have been very limited, and the absence of so many men from the amps en fatigue duties will explain the remarkably few mei dents among the troops, compared with t he number which might have been anticipated. The amount of gunpowder lost by the English is very small—only two tumbrils full, which were kept ready for immediate nee at the depot. There is room for mach gratitude on our side that so frightful an explosion was not attended with more fatal results. It is greatly feared that our allies suffered much more severely. Ths weather has continued most favourable. No rain has fallen, and the temperature has continued comparatively mild. This has been of the utmost importance in enabling the troops to bring up huts and commissariat stores. Many of the new hut' are now occupied in various parts of the mop. Oa die 14th instant, the anniversary of the great storm of last year, no greater contrast could be imagined than was afforded by the weather of this year. The day was bright, mild. and clear, there was scarcely a breeze of wind, the sun spread around a genial lode mice, and the atmosphere was exhilarating in the ex treme. It was the very perfection of an autumnal day. Every road and communicatioo was in excellent order, while last year the passage of a vehicle was the work of almost insermenninhie labour, for the whole plateau was a pool of med. Led even in the calamity of yesterday there is, es already mentioned, great reason for thankfulness. This is not only true in the comparatively limited number of fatal =Gideon ; for had it occurred during the carry ing on of the siege, how mach more grave might have been its consequences on the progress of the campaign P and had it been attended with a strong wind, such as might well have been expected at this time of year, who can say in what part of this wide spread camp of wood and canvas the destructive con sequences would have terminated P 1: ~, 1 ~.....). , , 1 -.. , 1 ! , 1 I . 'l 1., . , I , ' , f- . i I'l' re r IN , lig. Toes I r old ci: ,Tir Yr .w int I:. Mg MA