The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-29 00:00:00

and 'a of COL S, $g hetlj lfo ritlr di" r, P -00.011 (THIS DAY.) THIS DA.Y'S NEWS! BB3I4RINE TELEGRAPH COMPAIVY. -40- e half -yearly me e ti ng o f thi s C om pany was an etr °ll4ced to be h e ld at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate oe t et, SirJ.C armichael in the chair ; but in consequence he non-attendance of twenty shareholders required et t he charter th e meet i ng was ad j ourne d t ill t hi s d ay .. It . The di v id end could not, consequent l y, b e decl ared• t h ole s report stated that the present half-year's account d a steady and satisfactory development of the (31 aPan h al , Y. The number of messages transmitted in the ylear ending 31st December, 1854, was 18,955, h i 4 e i r clin g a BUM of 8,2781. 14s. 3d., whilst during the 23 60 ending 30th June, 1855, there had been 8,0 messages transmitted, yielding the amount of 41"21- 1 63. lld , showing an increase of 3,650 messages, 104/ . 2s. Bd.. in money. During the last three months c o ' l n umber of messages cent to and received . from . the tor re l : e 2 l t i. have exceeded by 3,488 those carried in the Ir ' tlu ing period of 1854, and 4,061 those of the past 3 ~hire°llthe of 1 855, showing that the stagnation of business tall e a marked the year 1854 and spring of 1855 was tb 111 " way, and it was only reasonable to assume p e 4 r t su w , I th the return of confidence in commerci o al th e ite would greatly increase thebusiness , rit en e°l:ll PanY• A small increase of expense had in the e s t a bli s h men t o f con ti nen tal agencies, fro lc. : h ad, how ever , occas i one d an i ncrease o f r evenue IDam towns which before made but little use of the sub th;:le wire f or commercial purposes. The attention of b fe n d e rthold ers was called to the formation of a reserved Pr e E,' ler Which 71 per cent. per annum on the net t e „ e of th e company were to b e d evote d . Th e actua l de e - It ll2 ga of the c om p any m i g ht a d m it o f a dividend being t ytt : e r d ed the same as last, but after carrying the above te 7 i Per c en t. t o th e reserve d fund, there would kici a , l l , 4 e nlY about 61 per cent. available for dividend, detcl''e dir ectors recommended the declaration of a divi ,p4t t he rate of 6 per cent, per annum, fi ee of income k t i 'ha re ce i pts for messages had been 8,3821. 163.11 d., 2,,n37t111.5197:rking expenses, salaries, &c., amounted to 44 ry INTELLIGENCE.—(THIS DI Y.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) L vir IN RE J. MAYHEW. . 48 4 meeting for audit and certificate. The 1 >141: -Ilt was a mining agent and stockbroker, of Kings 41c1 late of Coggeshall, Essex. krci , balance s h ee t , w hi c h was prepare d by M essrs . gird a nd Pullain, of Lothbnry, extended from June, I t° June, 1855. Dr to creditors, unsecured, )4511.. • liability, 1,1721.; 1 1115 , ditto holding security, 775/. ; ditt o ' T une, 1851, 2,1051. ; credits by property, 45/. ; i 311 .111 the hands of creditors, 2951. ; bills receivable, domestic expenses, 1,1931. ; business ditto, 381. ; ; losse s , 6741 . ; bill s h e ld, 1 , 4701. 154 thee liabilities and expenses were stated to have arisen >ki t . t ale of 3,400 shares in the Wheel Trenance Mine, okria Chancery, h av i ng b een i ns tit u t e d against the apt and another respecting them. ° .4certifi„te. °PPosition was offered, and the bankrupt obtained IN RE PAUL. 4 th • 44 a meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was deale r , of (:orahill. l e , e ti ls4la oce sheet, w hi c h was p re p are d by Mr. Deloite, debt : 4 fr °nl Sept., 1854 to May, 1855, and showed 7 0/ . °- to creditors, 7311. 2s. 9d. ; do., holding security, E ta, ; lia b'lities, 6011. ; capit4.l, Sept, 1855, 221. ; pro -700/15°1• ; credit, b y d ou b t f u l d e b ts, 4921. ; proper t y , 4, „ .z do., in _ hands of creditor, 401. ; losses, 1101. ; IsZ c ,` 44 ", 701. ' • bad debts, Sept., 1855, 3651. k certifiveT)el.iti°ll wasas offered, and the bankrupt obtained AO LICE I NTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.) sky oh MANSION-HOUSE. ' l2 g man, named James Mayne, having the ap 114y:Ce of a groom, was c h arge d b e f ore the Lord (tilt --1. With having the halves of five 51. bank notes 15 tid, - (I f the Bulk of England, a n d two of the ux 1tq1413411k) in his possession, supposed to have been l oti * , e constable 645 stated that from information he o bi he looked after the prisoner, and saw him in t4 14:7: 1 1 3 e1 with ano th er man we ll k nown t o th e p o lioe - 'qq followed him into Aldgate, and from thence pk ,,, ,i ' i, `s4(len ball-street, where he went up to him, and ti 4 : 141 if he h a d no t go t some h a l ves o f Si. no t es . (1 , 11 1 6 „ -- . r eplied, yes, showed them to witness, and said op: it them in the road between Brentford and 1 ; they th en t oo k th e pr i soner i n t o custody b . 44, 4 ": °11 Mayor inquired ii the officer had ascer t "ether th e no t es h a d b een s t o pp e d p a yment at kto. • 11 Policeman said he had not. 444 it Pi3 oner was remanded to enable the police to tile necessary inquiries. 4Ztlte iq e BOW-STREET. h - i tel °V STEAHAN, PAUL, AND Co.—The the jie ltee were again in attendance this morning, 4 tt ht rgeinent of their bail. 11 11 1 - ", aw hi, on th e p ar t o f th e d e fendants, made an j . "4 th a t the bail be enlarged for a mon th, as it I%,,tiTtloisible for th e trial of the defendants to t ak e k, 4 °4 the October sessions. • t 7 4l33 Phrie s said he felt bound to oppose the e ~t 1 ,'"`Qtl. There were circumstances'within his ow 41 4:2 knowledge which justified him in resisting the 4141 4141 +e 't f°r ao enlargement of bail for a longer period , Itleit • He begged to assure the magistrate . that 4tiY tc, ".te'ti on would be made to bring the trial on tt,.° u.ttle S eptember sessions. ti l / 4 Z etl rY said that the statement of Mr. Humphr ies ''cliacient for him. He should therefore or der • /0 • ' "qatlta to attend this day week. 117 4. titlt asAuLT —A woman, named Eli,.abeth.Bres k,:q4' with a child . in her arms, was placed at the bar ae ' 41411-44 'g charge d with violently assaulting a m 1 1(1 I .Yab i N:it evidence of the 411 the l 1 1)4 4PPeared that 41 o last night a violent altercation t qt r ce between the prisoner and her hus band , a O 10(1 • to. g l ngs, i n Bi rc h' s -pl ace , Rlls-buildings. The by the breaking of crockery and the loud '1 11 1 4441t• If e t til ls tir der occasioned . a large crowd to assem ble . 1 ,, 1 " /louse. He resided at No. 3, in the build :ttel4-4 hearin the noise he went to see what was th b e . k lk' l% l, 110 ha d g scarcely reached the scene of distur b '111 : t 1, 14 t he prisoner ' s husband ran past him, and said t tt h!t i lll 's l, 4 44 ..R e iven his wife something, and now he would ti ‘ t i , kli t , ci t , ll . same. H e e then threw off his coat, and tca, ter la i_ b iro (complainant) to fight, but hearing his tli tti g? the man ran away. Before he could turn a, e wr 'Ecan at the bar advanced . towards him, and, gtlt citla ' r t . 11 concealed behind her, 'with an oath. k tl ti el ,Pit h t i i el a 'ViO j le g at blow across his nose, which laid it 4, 44 4 '1 ' 1 ° Pen on his face. A constable was sent for, l gee )e AO n vvas given into custody, and Ryan was 0 111141-‘t° the hospital suffering very severely from the t4t , tl• itlg k by the magistrate what she had to say 4111t4iaage, the prisoner risonerdenied having struck the man, i t , k tl . : l t ie t r ia it was all a conspiracy against her. k t :tem aitt ° a l nt witnesses corroborated the statement o f t ° e ' t, ll4 4. ll tY said that , as the witnesses all seemed te ti4;4141,1144' Prisoner in a drunken quarrel had struc k c 1 ' 1 1 41 ,, 1 1e Manner described, he should fine her 405., 4 ct' Lt commit her for 14 days to the House of 11 1 , I °4. 14i4ober Was then locked up. ' l ot 4 SOUTHWARK. % 111 14 1 A WIFE. — John Holland, a t 1 tr rt_ -41 BATILT ON A . 4 1 liri:Peotable looking man, carry i ng on the business 4 1 : 4 14 , 114Yer, was brolght this morning . befo a re w A i l f r e; q /tol e ! 4 ged with violently assaulting his i t ' t t t "d• Ni 4 , k i . "%rid, a very to the 41t1 4ticeshe had been married t i tr k , stated that respectable and decent woman 4 'la r uPward of 10 years. They were at present %cl lt at l ‘ z 8 tll t 40 thii , 0. 7, Parker's row, Bermon h dse e y. mn T n n t e h y s 4441),Ntqle.:ren, and for the last two or three months in the 1t 4t. ;% Ith, z 11 1a 4 d used her most brutally, 110 4lit her . e came home at night halfainntoxicated, of IS . Iltri violently, and upon several occasions lcnock ll:411115 I:i vib o . This morning, about half-past 12 o'clock, l % el iktr ati Z t e the worse for liquor, and upon witness ,' N b er g with him, be instantly struck her on the 04 k4i , t tia t i 1., month severely and knocked her down. 14 fi ei4 Iv;f "718 , who resided next door to the prisoner 41" t :I t e exi;:, Stated that his conduct to her was brutal ,i It lo * he il 'e for th e l ast six or seven we eks. L as t 'h.: s 4 if eh htiae d her a great d ea l, an d knocked her l'ktitroa, te w as a b u ll oc k . bite %,,e allard, a boot maker tf 41 4 th , corroborated the evid ernenseidoifng the prisoner's at . No. 8, \ *a e A i 0 e last witness. He cons idered the conduct A . 1 t ‘ uP: t - 4tr brutal in the extreme. The complainant - N ti e lle citliet and inoffensive wo man. 44 7, a widow aud the la ,ndlady of the house in which the prisoner and his wife lodged, stated that from the prisoner's continued violence she considered both her life and that of his wife's in danger. He had repeatedly threatened that he would murder his a ife, and witness had known him on several occasions sharpen knives for the purpose, as he said, of cutting his wife's throat. The prisoner, upon being asked what answer be bad to make to the charge, stated that his wife was in the habit of tantalising and irritating him, and upon such occa-ions he hardly knew what he was about. One of the witnesses stated that the prisoner was in the habit of using his wife as brutally when he was sober as when he was in liquor. Mr. Coombe committed the prisoner to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for three months, stating that he hoped that punishment would induce him to be have better in future to his wife. A CRIMEAN SOLDIER IN TROUBLE.-- William Wallis , a private in the 66th Regiment of Foot, quartered at the Portman Barracks, Oxford-street, and whose regi ment is ordered out for the Crimea, was brought up in custody, charged with desertion. It appeared that, on Saturday last, the prisoner had leave of absence from the barracks till 12 o'clock at night, but stopping out much later than that hour, and while on his way to the barracks, yesterday, be was accosted by a policeman and taken into custody for desertion. The prisoner said that he had no intention whatever to desert, but hawing been ordered out to the Crimea, and being too late to get into the barracks on Saturday night, he thought he would have a spree before he went to wap the Russians, and was on his way to the barracks when he was taken into custody. Mr. Coombe said there c,uld be no doubt it was a clear case of desertion, and ordered the prisoner to be kept in custody, and an intimation to be given of his being so to the Horse Guards. AN UNNATURAL FATHER.—SamueI Major, a dissi pated looking fellow, residing at 2, Swan-lane, Swan st, eet, near the Bricklayers' Arms station, was placed in the dock, charged with ill-using and violently beating his children. The charge was brought against the pri. goner by several of his neighbours, who had witnessed his cruelty to his children for some time past, and were determined to have him punished for it. Alice Major, the eldest daughter of the prisoner, stated that her mother had been dead for about two years, and that since her death her father had been con tinually in the habit of beating and ill using herself and brother and sister when he came home drunk. The witness, who is 16 years of age, but did not appear more than 14, presented a melancholy spectacle of ill-treat ment ; both her eyes were blackened, and her face fright fully swollei The cause, she said, of her father beat ing her last night was because she had not ironed his shirt, and the reason she bad not done so was because she had neither coals to light a fire nor a candle to Fee by, her father spending all the money he made in drink, and leaving herself and brothers and sisters to starve, which they would have done ere this had it not been for the kindness of the neighbours. The other children of the prisoner were all brought into court, and their appearance exacted the sympathy of the worthy magistrate and all present : ragged, shoe less, and dirty, they presented a spectacle at which humanity could not but shudder. Mr. Coombe considered that a man who could use his children as the prisoner had done was worse than a brute—they had an affection for their offspring, but the conduct of the prisoner was brutal in the extreme. He was determined to make an example of him, and he should, therefore, commit him to the House of Correc tion, with hard labour, for six months. The worthy magistrate directed the police-constable to take all the children (six) to the workhouse, and see that they were properly attended to. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. An unusually small supply of English wheat was on sale in to-day's market. All kinds moved off freely, and prices were very firm. The whole of the supply was disposed of. The show of foreign wheat was rather limited compared with some previous weeks. Importers were very firm, and some of them refused to sell except at a further advance of 2s per quarter. The business doing was therefore trifling. Floating cargoes were quite as dear as on Monday. The barley trade was steady, at full prices. Malt sup- ported former terms. There was a good sale for oats, at Gd per quarter more money. Beans, peas, and flour were quite as dear as on Monday. The first arrival of the latter article-2,120 barrels—has taken place from New York. Wheat. 320 English .. Irish .... Foreign 1 3,710 r f 4 , 7 ro THE" SUN. 1 1,nYrnION. WEIDNETSDAY EVENING AUGUST 29 lB5B, THE BATTLE OF THE TCI ERNAYA. ( Prom the Special Correspondent of the Times. ) CAMP OF THE ALLIED ARMIES ON THE TCHERNAYA, Aug. 16.—The long-threatened attack of the Ru , sian , - on the Tchernaya line has at last taken place, and ended in the complete defeat of the enemy. During the last few days the signs of an impending Russian attack be came more and more frequent. Movements of large numbers of troops in the neighbourhood of Sebastopol, the unanimous reports of the deserters, of whom several came in every day, and, lastly, information gained from numbers of Tartars who bring in continually news from the Russian lines, were all to the effect that the Rus sians, having received part of the reinforcements which they were expecting, intended to try their luck once more in offensive operation. Although at first the line of the Tchernaya suggested itself as the point which the Russians would most pro bably attack, a supposition which was moreover con firmed by all the deserters, yet, as there were large numbers of newly-arrived troops seen concentrated in and about the Russian works, apprehensions were en tertained that perhaps the Russians might attempt some thing against the positions of the allied armies before Sebastopol, and the chief attention was consequently directed to that point. _ _ Yesterday again several deserters came in and spoke with the utmost certainty of an intended attack on the Tchernaya lines ; but as this had been the case several times already during the last fortnight, no particular at tention was paid to their reports, and no special orders given to the troops, except to be prepared for an attack, and this had been so often repeated that it made no im pression. In addition to this our attention was drawn off from the Lower Tchernaya by the news from Bai dar. I wrote in my last letter that when the arrival of fresh troops at Sebastopol became known, the four troops of English Light Cavalry were withdrawn from Baidar, and only two regiments of heavy French ca valry and a few Chasseurs and Zouaves remained in the valley until all the hay collected should be carried away. Yesterday afternoon General Allonville sent news from Baidar by electric telegraph that large num bers of Russian troops were concentrated on the heights above the valley, and that he expected to be at tacked. The telegraphic message was interrupted by the dense fog which prevailed in the afternoon, but late in the evening notice of this message of General Allon ♦ille was sent to General la Marmora and Osman Pasha. As the cavalry at Baidar would be exposed to be cut off if it were attacked by a considerable force, on account of the great number of carts which are down in the valley for the transport of hay, and which would encumber the Woronzoff.road, an attack on that side seemed not at all improbable. From all these circumstances it follower that no addi tional precautions were taken on the Tchernaya line, and that the attack was soarcely less a surprise than that of Inkerman. The first news of an actual attack was brought about daybreak by some French Cbasseurs, who, forming part of a patrol, fell into an ambuscade of the Russians, and narrowly escaped, while their comrades were taken pri soners. Soon afterwards the outposts which were across the Tchernaya were driven in, and about daybreak the cannonade began. For the better understanding of the movement I must give you some description of the locality. The Tcher naya, coming out at the tower of Karlovka from the narrow gorge in which it runs after leaving the val ley of Baidar, flows between a succession of hillocks on both sides. These hillocks form the basis of the position of the allied armies. On the extreme right, be ginning where the Tehernaya comes out of the gorge down to the little mountain streams which fall into the Tchernaya from the south are the Turks. They occupy two hillocks, and between them are two roads which lead from Higher Tchorgoun and the tower of Karlovka into the Woronzoff-road. The Sardinian position leans to the right on the little mountain stream which limits the Turkish position to the left. They occupy the large solitary standing hillock which used to be held by the Cossacks, and which extends dovrn to the open ground over which the road from Balaklava, to Tchorgoun leads. This hillock has been lately considerably strengthened and provided with batteries, and, as it has a very com manding position, was of the utmost importance in the defence of the Tchernaya line. In front of this hillock, and divided from it by the aqueduct which begins there, is another smaller but equally steop hillock, accessible from the first by a stone bridge, and on this hillock the Sardinians had a small epaultment guarded by a detachment of infantry. Beyond both these hillocks, on the other side of the Tchernaya, they had more over on the hillock nearest to the Mackenzie road their outposts, which could thus watch the move ments of the enemy, and give timely alarm in case of au attack. The French occupy the last series of hillocks to the left of the Sardinians, and guard the road which leads from Balaklava over the Traktir bridge, up to Mackenzie's farm. The hillocks, occupied by them, are three in number ; the first to the right is separated from the others by the great road leading to the bridge ; and the last to the left, is protected by the basin which the aqueduct forms here, and is separated by another open ground, similar to that on right of the French position, from the ridge on which the army of observation was during the winter. In front of the bridge the French had constructed a small epaulattent to guard the passage of the river, beyond which they had their outposts. The first movement of the Russians was against the outposts of the Sardinians on the opposite bank of the river. Corresponding to the hillocks on this side of the Tchernaya are three plateaux on the opposite bank. These were chosen for the left of the Russian position against the Turks and the Sardinians. These plateaux were, therefore, first to be secured, for the guns could command from them not only the hillocks opposite oc cupied by the Sardinians and Turks, but likewise the plain which opens towards the French position. A company of infantry of the line, and a company of Bersaglieri formed the Sardinian. outposts. These were attacked at dawn by the Russians. As the troops w ere not yet under arms it was necessary to hold this position for a while, and General de la Marmora sent over Major Govour, of the Etat-Major, with a company of Bersaglieri, to reinforce the two com panies alreau y there. They crossed the aqueduct and the river, and went up the plateau ; but, when they ar rived on the ci .est of it, the two companies had just left the epaulemel it behind which they had until then de fended thews e Ives gallantly against the overwhelming numbers of the, enemy, but which had become untenable, as it was swept'; by the guns which the Russians had brought up on the two other plateaux, and besides was exposed to be t aiken in the rear. So the troops retired in good order a, tzoss the river, and went to reinforce the post which occu pied the second hillock on the banks of the aqueduct. tn the meantime the cannonade on both sides had begun. The Russians left us not long in doubt where they would attack, for, scarcely had the cannonade begun when thre e compact masses of infantry were seen advancing towar, is the plain opposite to the French position. The p pints chosen were the bridge and the hillock to the • right. The masses, which in the morning sun loo' Led like glittering waves, protected by the fire of th , ► artillery, moved in excellent order down to the riv et. side, notwithstanding the heavy fire of artillery which greeted them in front from the French, at din flank from the Sardinians. At the river the first c •olumn detached itself from the rest, and dividing into ti vo columns crossed the river, which is now nearly evt.,rywhere easily fordable. Men car rying moveable woloi len bridges preceded, but in the first rush the Russian s, w About waiting for bridges, went over wherever tb.ey a ould, and dispersing like a swarm of bees rushed for Ward in columns, some against the bridge, the others against the hillock on the right. As I said above, the continual apprehension of an impending attack had at last benumbed the interest for it, and, notwithstandin I? the signs which seemed to indi cate some movement of i the part of the Russians, every body slept as soundly a a possible until awakened by the Russian guns. Before the troops were properly under arms the Russians were at the bridge and at the foot of the hillock. The 20t1 lager and the 2d battalion of Zouaves had to stand th, 9 first shock, and they certainly stood it gallantly. The rush of the Russians was splen did. Without loseng tAleir time with firing, they ad vanried with an elan scarcel y ever seen in Russian troops. Some French soldiers of Camou's Division, who have during the w inter guarded th e t renc h es to wards the Quarantine., and have had nearly daily skir mishes with the Russians, assured me that they never saw them moving on in such a style. They were new T,rbops, belonging, according to the prisoners and wciunded, to the sth division of the 2d corps d'armee lat ely arrived from Poland. But their ardour was soon broken. They could not carry their point, and were, after a short trial, repulsed both on the bridge and the hilila.ck. The aqueduct which supplies the Turks, and which runs close to the foot of the hillock, formed the chid defence of the French. About 9or 10 feet wide and several feet deep, it skirts the steep hills so close that , it is nearly in all places supported by a high em. bar Iment, offering considerable difficulties for an ad vim icing force, and exposing it, as soon as it reaches the top o f it, to the musketry fire from the heights. Not wit ,hstanding Lthis difficulty the Russians crossed en the right, anri were beginning to scale the heights, when taken in flank by the Sardinian batteries, which fired with admirable precision, they were swept down whole ,ale and rolled into the aqueduct below. This first rush did not last more than 10 minutes. The Russians fell back, but they had scarcely gone a few hun dred yards when they were met by the second column, which was advancing a pas de charge to support the first, and both united and again rushed forward. This second attempt was more successful than the first. At the bridge they forded the river on the right and left, and forced the defenders of it to fall back. Scarcely was the bridge free when two guns of the oth Light Brigade of Artil lery crossed it and took up a position on the opposite side in an open space which divides two of the hillocks, and through which the road leads to the plain of Bala klava. While those two guns passed the bridge a third crossed the river by a ford, and all three began to sweep the road and the heights. The infantry in the meantime, without waiting for the portable bridges, which had moreover been thrown away in great part during the advance, rushed breast-deep into the water, climbed up the embankment, and began to scale the heights o❑ both sides. They succeeded on this point in getting up more than one-half of the ascent, where the dead and wounded afterwards showed clearly the mark which they reached ; but by the time they ar- rived there the French were fully prepared and met them in the most gallant style. Notwithstand ing the exertions and the perEeverance of the Russians, they were by degrees forced back and driven, atter an obstinate resistance, across the bridge, carrying away their guns. While this attack took place on the bridge the other column again attacked the French right. This time they came on in such a swarm that they were neither kept back by the aqueduct, nor cowed by the Sardinian guns, which were ploughing long lanes through their scattered lines. On they came, as it seemed, irresistible, and rushed up the steep bill with such fury that the Zouaves, who lined the bides of it, were obliged to fall back for a moment before the multitude. You could plainly see the officers leading the way, and animating their soldiers. I particularly observed one gallant fellow, who, at least twenty yards in advance of the whole column, was the first across the aqueduct, and I could still see him on the other side of the bill. This furious rush brought the advancing column in an in credibly short time to the crest of the hillock, where t stopped to form. But the French had not been idle during the time that the Russians were ascending the hill. The Zouavers had only fallen back from the side of the hillock to the main body, which bad been drawn up be hind the top. Scarcely did the column of the enemy show its head when the guns opened on it with grape, and a murderous fire Wa9 poured down upon it by the French infantry. This immediately stopped the advance of the column, which began to waver, but the impetus from those behind was so powerful that the head of it, not withstanding the unexpected reception, was pushed for ward a few yards more, when the French, giving one mighty cheer, rushed upon the advancing enemy, who, shaken already, immediately turned round and ran down, if possible, faster than they had come up. But the mass was so great that all the hurry could not save there, and more than two hundred prisoners were taken on the spot, while the hillside, the banks of the aqueduct, the aqueduct itself, and the river side were filed with dead and wounded. ,The Sardinian and French artillery poured, moreover, a murderous crossfire into the scattered remains of the column, of which scarcely a shot missed. It was a com plete rout. The French rushed down the hillside and drove them far across the plain. This defeat seems to have so completely cowed them that nothing more was attempted on this side. Not so on the bridge. Notwithstanding the heavy loss suffered by she second attack, the Russians concen- trated once more all their forces, collected the scattered remains of the column which had been routed on the right of the French position, and brought up all their reserves to attempt one more attack. They again crossed the river, and the aqueduct too, and tried to take the heights, but in vain ;the French were now tho- roughly prepared, and the tenacity of the Russians served only to augment their losses. They were soon seen fly ing in all directions, followed by the French. This last attack was decisive, and immediately the usual Rus sian preparation for retreat—namely, the advance of the artillery showed clearly that the Russians acknowledged themselves defeated and were on the point of retiring. Three batteries, each of 12 guns, which during the greatest part of the attack had been nearly silent, began to open their fire while the scat tered remains of the infantry columns rallied behind a rising ground leading up towards the plateau of Akyer, or Mackenzie's height. The Sardinians, who, with the exception of the little outpost fight on the opposite side of the Tchernaya, had confined themselves to support the French by their ad mirable artillery, which entirely subdued the Russian fire o❑ the opposite plateaux, began now to move across the aqueduct. The Russian riflemen, after the last defeat on the right, bad retired behind the banks of the Tcher- naya, whence they kept up a brisk but ineffective fire. A battalion of Piedmontese, preceded by a company of Bersaglieri, advanced in beautiful order as if on parade, and soon drove these riflemen from their position. It even advanced some way towards the plateaux ; but, as it was not intended to force the heights, it contented itself supported by other troops, with following the enemy, who was already in full retreat. The French had during the battle brought np a new division (Dulac's). Besides this, the whole English and French cavalry were in readiness on the plain leading to the river, the ground of the, Light Cavalry charge last year, ready to receive the enemy if he should force the passage of the river and dehouch on the plain. But Gen. Morris would not risk the cavalry on the plain, inter sected as it was by the branches of the river, and de fended as it was by the Russian guns On the height ; so only two squadrons of Chasseurs d'Afrique followed the enemy. The guns which the Russians had brought up to cover their retreat suffered so much by the fire from our side, which was increased by Capt. Mowbray's battery open ing upon them from the open ground between the Sardi nian and the French positions, that they made off in a hurry. Scarcely a shot was thrown away, and so ad mirable was the practice that all the shot fell at or close to the guns, which we could plainly distinguish, as a slight breeze carrying off the smoke left a beautiful view over the whole of the battle-field. But the Russian guns returned only for a moment under cover, and soon after you could see a brilliant line of cavalry debouching from the rising ground, where it had been hitherto hidden. I could distinguish five regiments—three in one line, and two other regiments on the flanks in second line. They advanced at a gallop, and, wheeling round, allowed 12 guns to pass, which again opened their fire, but only for a short time, and at half-past nine or ten o'clock the dust on the Mackenzie road and the black lines moving off were the only traces which remained of the so long threatened attack of the Russians. Everybody now rushed to the battle-field, and one look was sufficient to convince them that the allies bad won a real battle on the Tchernaya. Although not quite so obstinate and sanguinary as the battle of Inkerman, which this affair resembled in many points, it was a pitched battle. The Russians, as in the battle of Inket man, gave up manoeuvring, and confided entirely in the valour of their troops. The essential difference was in the manner of fighting. At the battle of Inker man the great mass of the Russians fell under the file firing and the bayonets of the infantry, while on the Tchernaya, it was the guns which did the g rea te s t exe cution. Most of the wound ed and dead sho wed fright ful traces of roundshot, grape, shell, and caniste r , so th a t as a battlefield one could scarcely imagine anything inore terrible. Nearly all the wounds were on the legs and the head. On the banks of the a q ueduct p articularl y the sight was appalling ; the Russians when scaling the embankment of the aqueduct were taken in flank by the Sardinian batteries, and the dead and wounded rolled down the embankment, sometimes more than 20 feet in height. The French made every possible despatch to collect the wounded. They were laid on the open space about the bridge until the ambulances arrived. While there the Russians, who could see plainly that the French were engaged in bringing help to their own wretched countrymen, suddenly began to open with their guns upon them, repeating the barbarous practice which they had already oftea previously shown to the troops. A gentleman who was with me at the moment, and who speaks Russian, asked one of the poor fellows who was trudging along with deep flesh wounds on both his thighs, what he thought of the behaviour of the Russians in fir ing among their own wounded ? He answered, " They are accustomed to beat us when we are with them, and there is no wonder that they should try to ill-treat us when we are on the point of escaping their power." According to the account of the prisoners, and judging from the straps on the sh ou ld ers o f th e wounded and dead , three divisions were engaged in the actual attack,—the sth of the 2d corps d'arntee (of Gen- Paniutin), lately ar rived from Poland, under the com mand of General W ran g el ; the 12t h division of the 4 th corpsied of General d'arinee(Osten Sacken's), formerly u n d er the com na Liprandi, now under General Martino lep ; and the 17th division of the 6th corps d'arniee (Lip randi's) under Major-General Wassielcosky. The Fri. soners say that even the reserves took part in the action. I saw a soldier who said he belonged to the last battalion of the .reserves, who saki that before the battle began General Gortschakoff, who commanded in person, had a letter of the Emperor road before them, in which he expressed a hope that they would prove as valorous as last year when they took the heights of Balaklava, and then there was a large distribution of brandy. Not a soldier I saw who had not his bottle lying empty near him, and good sized bottles they were too. This brandy distribution was, however, only for the infantry, whom they wished to excite to madness. The artillery got only the usual rations. Besides the three divisions which attacked there was another, the 7th, which occupied Tchorgoun and the heights, but which did not attack except in the small outpost affair of the Sardinians. AUGUST 18. The attack has not been renewed, and the French have been for the last two days busy in bringing in the wounded Russians and burying the dead. Up to yes terday evening 1,800 wounded and prisoners have been brought in. The number of dead, of whom I have not heard any official estimate, cannot be less than from 1,200 to 1,500. Of course the bridge and the banks of the aqueduct are the spots most crowded with them. The latter is quite choked up with them, so that it has been forbidden to water the horses from it for fear it should be injurious to their health. The French had three divisions engaged—the Division Faucheux to the right, the Division d'Herbillon in the centre of the bridge, and the Division (Camou) on the left ; their loss is about 1,000 in dead and wounded. The Sardinians had only one division engaged, the divi sion (Trotti), and suffered very little loss—a few hun dred men ; but they have to regret the loss of a distin guished general officer, the Brigadier-General Count Monte Vecchio, who is severely wounded and not ex pected to live. Not protected by any intrenchments except that small epaulement near the bridge, which, moreover, could be turned on all sides, our gallant allies, although taken by surprise, showed once more that the Russians have no chance against them in the field—that they must remain behind their earthworks, and be protected by siege guns, in order to establish a kind of equilibrium with the allies. It is worthy of remark that the greater part of the Russians were old soldiers, scarcely one under 30. According to the account of the prisoners most of them came from Bakshi Serai, and they had to attack without resting after their march. They had all large quantities of bread in their foraging sacks hung across their shoulders, but no knapsacks. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. ( From the correspondent of the Daily News.) TURKISH CAMP, KAMARA, August 18.—The disas trous affair of the 18th June was at least in a great mea sure atoned fur by a decisive victory gained on Thurs day over a large body of Russians, by the French and Sardinians on the Tchernaya. To give you anything like a correct idea of a conflict which, though fought out, considering the number of the combatants, in a very small space, derived a great deal of its incidental importance from the nature of the terrain, it is almost necessary to call attention to a few of the leading features of the well known, now so often described, district around Balaklava. If you descend from the northern side of the plateau, on which the be sieging armies are encamped, into the gorge through which the Tchernaya empties itself into the harbour, and follow the banks of the river for a short distance upwards, you find yourself in a narrow valley, with the heights of Mackenzie's Farm rising abruptly on your left, like tall cliffs on the sea shore ; and on your right a row of small hills, extending, with greater or less in tervals between them, on to Tchurgoun. Beyond them is the plain of Balaklava, which is broken in its centre by a somewhat similar line of eminences, but in this in stance su small as hardly to be entitled to any better appellation than that of mounds. It was on these last ,tit the Turkish redoubts were thrown up, which were so precipitately abandoned by their defenders on the 25th of October. The highest of these hillocks does not rise above two or three hundred feet from the level of ,he plain. Between Tehorgoun and Inkerman they are same of the most remarkable features in the landscape ; but on crossing the river on the road from Balaklava to the former of those places they no longer stand apart, each from its neighbour, but become more and more closely crowded together, and are lost in the picturesque I contusion of the great range of hills which extend with out interruption along the whole of the southern coast. On two or three of these, which lie in a cluster on the side of the plain next lukerman, and directly facing the Mackenzie Heights, the road from which passes between them, have encamped for some time past three divisions of French. On the side next the Tchernaya the position was defended by a precipitous and acarpe descent, on which some stunted brushwood still remained, but which in most places, stripped of the soil by the rain of ages, presents but the white masses of the chalk which plays so important a part in the geology of the whole die trict ; on the side next Balaklava the descent is com paratively easy. On the summit rested the right wing of Liprandi's army on the 25th of October, and on the southern side were planted the greater number of the batteries which mowed down the British Light Cavalry, as they charged along the slope which leads gently towards the ford on the road to Tchorgoun. This ford is reached through a tolerably wide open ing, which separates the French position from that of the Piedmontese, who occupied the heights immediately under the village of Kamera, extending a short distance to the right. The valley still further to their right, which is traversed by the Woronzuff-road, leading on to Baidar, was defended by the Turks. The three armies occupied a chain of eminences forming a semi-circle drawn from Inkerinan to the sea, and embracing Bala klava and the plain within its two wings —or, in other words, just the position taken up by Liprandi last autumn. The French divisions were encamped on the top of the hills ; between these hills runs the road leading up to Mackenzie's Farm, and crossing the river in the valley by a stone bridge, for the protection of which a small redoubt had been thrown up in front. This tete de pont was on the night of the 18th instant guarded by the 20th of the line. The Piedmontese had batteries regularly fortified on all the heights overlooking the ford on the road to Tchorgoun, and had the upper end of the valley completely within their range. On the other side of the river, on the top of a hill, similar in every respect to those I have been describing, they had on the same night au outpost com posed of two companies of infantry, for whose greater security, considering their distance from their own lines, a small entrenchment had been thrown up. For some time past, as I mentioned in eeveral of my recent letters, rumours have been afloat each night that an attack in force along the whole line would be made on the morrow. For a long while, however, these ap pear to have had no better foundation than the fact, which seemed pretty well ascertained, that the Russians bad received large reinforcements, and, from hearing so many warnings, which time did not justify, as is usually the case, the French and Piedmontese both, I think, fell into a state of greater carelessness than if they had never received any warning at all. Still the air seemed thick with omens ; nobody could fully satisfy himself that no danger was imminent, though ho could not make up his mind as to when or in what shape it would present itself. The deserters had too often proved false prophets that people began to doubt all their stories, until on Wednesday evening three spies came in, who positively declared that an attack would be made in force on the following morning ; and hardly had they ceased speak ing when General Allonville, commanding the French cavalry at Baidar, telegraphed that the heights around were covered with troops, and that he wished to retire, from the fear that he might be cut off, but could not, owing to the road being blocked up by some hundred of commissariat waggons. He went on to give some details regarding the attack, which made it evident that he had likewise received some information, when a fog came on, and the telegraph ceased work ing. The Turks remained under arms all night, but, strange to say, the French, who were most of all interested iu the matter, ,seem to have given them selves no trouble whatever about it, but went to bed and slept tranquilly. A peloton of Chasseurs d'Afrique went out to patrol during the night, and on the other side of the river fell into an ambuscade, and were all made prisoners, except two men, iwho escaped and gave the alarm ; but even this was treated as one of the ordi nary events of night duty in presence of the enemy. About an hour before daybreak the French sentinels in front of the bridge thought they could perceive shadows gliding past them in the darkness and fired. There was no reply, and silence deep as, death followed ; about the same time a few shots was heard from the bill occupied by the Piedmontese outpost, but, as the utmost stillness prevailed afterwards on every side, no precautions were taken till just as the first break of light made itself visible in the horizon a sharp fire was opened from a Par"' of lt skirmishers agaiest the tcte de Pont, made:upon the Sardinian picket. Gen. de la Marrnoirail to was already a regular assa u lt already on the ground, and sent a battal ion of hersa i e reinforce the post, so thatthey migh t defend thems elv es till the troops could be got un der arms, and the nece s a y arrangements made. When the r einforcements arrived half the picket was already hors de combat, and the as- gallants were up on the parapet of the little redoubt fir inc,, down into them. To prolong the conflict here would only have caused a useless massacre, and the Sardinians consequently withdrew behind an epaulenzent on the other side of the river, near the aqueduct, and there de fended themselves till the day broke clearly, and the attack became general. On the side of the French the tete de pont was assaulted in great force, and carried very soon after the enemy's first showing himself on the ground, notwithstanding the heroic resistance of the 20th Regiment of the line, which in one battalion alone lost 12 officers. The bridge was now izicetipiid - , L two batteries of artillery were brought across, so as to sweep the road leading between the two heights towards Balaklava, and a strong column was pushed on to the assault and mounted the declivity. Strange to say, although Gen. Pelissier bad received full warning the previous night, he refused to believe in an attack until it actually commenced, and consequently no dispositions were made, and nobody was ready. The Russians had already reached the crest of the hill, while the French were still asleep ! many officers were awakened by the round-shot passing through their tents ; a serjeant had his head taken off while writing the orders of the day for the division. At this critical moment two battalions alone of the 24 Regiment of Zouaves held the whole assaulting column in check, and contested the ground inch by inch till they were forced back upon their own tents. In the meantime the alarm was sounding, the troops got into order, the artil- lery into position, and a vigorous onset drove the Rus sians down the declivity, leaving it covered with their dead and wounded. All this, be it well remembered, occurred in the grey of the morning, which the smoke of the action converted into something like positive darkness, leaving everybody as yet in complete ignorance as to the force they had to contend with, or the dangers they had to bear. In the short pause which followed, however, and during which both sides prepared for a renewal of the struggle, the sun came out from behind the hills, the smoke rose, and the valley of the Tcbernaya lay before us like a picture. The tract of table-land lying at the foot of the Macken- zie heights was covered with masses of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. About 30 guns were ranged in a crescent outside the bridge, and thundered unceasingly against the French position. On the hill from which the Pied montese picket had been driven were crowds of men around a battery of field artillery, which fired inces santly, though against what I could never clearly make out. I must not forget to mention, however, that they had previously shelled two battalions of Tuiks encamped in the hollow near the Woronzoff-road, and forced them to retire. This retrograde movement was the only part the latter bore in the affair, but it is right to add they were un der arms already, in case the positions had been attacked. The Piedmontese were drawn up in line behind a small eminence close to the ford on the Tchorgoun road, and their batteries on the heights to the right were vigor- ously replying to the Russian fire ; the three divisions of French, Camoux, Erbillon, and Faucheux were under arms, front line a little way back from the brow of the hill, and a great number of Zouaves were lying down in shelter behind a small ridge. Below, on the plain, along the hollow on which the English light horse died so gallantly last winter, every turf beneath their feet a soldier's sepulchre, were ranged the English and French cavalry, squadron after squadron, extending back nearly to the Turkish redoubts, ready to act in case the enemy should force the Piedmontese position and attempt to debouch upon the open ground behind. The pennons of the Lancers fluttered gaily in long lines in the fresh morning breeze, and when the sun rose high in glory and poured down its rays full on the plain, making scarlet look redder, and steel and brass brighter and more resplendent, gilding the hill tops, making the tents glitter, and rolling smoke and mist in great packs up the valley towards Inkerman, the scene became one of passing splendour as well as of passing interest. We looked in breathless anxiety for the renewal of the con- flict. The combatants had taken breath—their blood was up, for hundreds on both sides lay already stark and stiff on river side around the bridge, and the artillery evi- dently was simply playing an interlude till the curtain rose upon another act in the tragedy. We were not kept long waiting. From behind the cloud of smoke which naturally hung around the Russian batte- ries came two large columns of the enemy, marching in quick t , ,ine, about 200 yards apart and exactly parallel, a short distance from the river, and in aline with the bank. As they wound and twisted, mounted and descended, fol lowing the inequalities in the ground in long compact masses, their bayonets glancing in the sunlight they looked exactly like two huge serpents, creeping rapidly along, their scales glistening, and their prey in sight. On ar riving within about eight hundred yards of the ford, one halted, and the other turned off abruptly towards the river. It was evident they were about to assail the French position more to the right, on the side next the Sardinians. On reaching the water, some passed on Ismail bridges, hastily thrown over, the rest forded, and on gaining this side the column broke into loose order, and pushed on towards the canal, or aqueduct, which rises within an embankment at the very foot of the hill. Before reaching it they had to traverse about 200 yards of smooth green sward ; they were no longer exposed to the French artillery, because the guns could not be de pressed sufficiently to reach them, but they had their flank turned to that of the Piedmontese, who had got the range to an inch, and fired with an accuracy little short of marvellous. The head of the column had hardly come up dripping from the water, when they found themselves in the midst of a storm of round shot, grape, and shell, bent upon relentlessly, unrelaxingly, mowing them down by the score, and covering the survivors with clay and gravel. But I must do these survivors justice, and say that they bore up right gallantly, marched firmly on ward and upward, passed the canal, though the water was breast high, pushed some yards still on the precipi tous side of the hill, though here every wound was mor tal, for all who fell rolled helplessly downwards into the aqueduct, and were instantly drowned ; but at last halted, turned, and fled—never stopping till they reached the river, where they got shelter under the banks and amongst the old willows. An officer remained for some time alone on the declivity, vainly urging them to fol low him. Reinforcements now came up from the se cond column ; they re-formed, but again in loose open order, or rather no order at all, for they marched exactly like a flock of sheep. This was done evi dently so that they might present less mass for the artillery to play upon, but it was a great mistake, as will be seen afterwards. This time they displayed more pluck and resolution ; they fell to be sure by the dozen, but they never wavered nor faltered, climbed on slowly and laboriously, and at last reached the crest of the bill, and came out on the level. When the head of the eo. lumn attained this point, the Zouaves, who were lying down behind the ridge on the Russian left, jumped up and ran off to join the main body, posted near the artil lery on the centre of the plateau, and at the same mo ment the whole of the French, the artillery included, retired about a hundred yards before the advancing enemy. The firing had ceased except broken and puny file-firing from the assailants, who now, unable to form in line, and mixed up in disorder, doubtless perceived they should have either mounted in line, or halted and deployed before coming out on the open ground above. For some moments I thought the French were about to give way and retreat, and the Russians be come masters of the height, but I was soon con vinced of my mistake. One could see them, it Is true, falling back on all sides, and closing up into a small round mass, but in the twinkling of an eye this mass opened out like a fan, two black lines shot from it on each side across the plateau, the centre closed up, di vided itself, and the next moment a sheet of flame broke from the whole line, followed by a cloud of smoke, and the crash of the musketry fell on our ears in a long, con tinuous, unfaltering whirr, like the roar of a waterfall, drowned every second by the mightier thunder of the artillery, which had made half a wheel to the right, and raked the crest of the hill with a tempest of grape. Strongly as one's sympathies might be engaged for the French, it was impossible to repress for a moment a sen timent of pity as one looked upon the crowd of Russians looming out through the smoke, as it rolled across them, feebly returning the fire, unable to advance, afraid to retreat, ten thousand death in front—ten thousanosed for behind—help and hope nowhere. They pa eedily re -1 a few seconds, seemed to hesitate, but should pursue by the advance of the esaogiainliine r P th an ru. lieved from all embarrassment as ttohowtheFerreecoasopoi course a s e sw t th h ho e es y ye cheer rang merrily through the morning y eh i a n r t g en e ded Th to e R levelled ussian t s h g e a ir y obayonets and ru:: "Hurra%stead of suiting the action come up to the scratch, butabout and flung themselves side wheeledi ,1 ecion mptpholee them gauntlet t s a si o e r t d b disorder, before. Some m e soroem Sardinian eaebruonss h a e s f t fo the h e to the word, they artillerydForwe n n c h t h , upon s he and surrendered t the uctdaon-wdlanythitnehgr.uirver. remnant of the column t d h r ee hun dreds threw u d under g aqueduct cover on the other side of the stream, an d ot remained there for some minutes, until two bat talions of Piedmontese came out upon the plain, and throwing out skirmishers advanced upon the river. The R uss i a ns now retired in haste, and not in very. good order, skirmishing as they went, until they reached the high ground on which their cavalry and the moment r e s r u v i e o t .the w f a t s he i Piedmontese propitiousar ti l ery were fora made c s i s a ao t rm i g o ee n stationed. During cavalry, a prisoners.Dv a a l r r i y wT t h h h o e e might have cut them up completely. I`.lajor Grovac, th e second on the Sardinian etat mnjor,, accordingly brought down their four squadrons, but the colonel objected to charge in face of the Russian cavalry force, fully five thousand in number, unless he ARRIVALS THIS WEIR. Barley. ( Malt. Oats. Flom 280 i 74) .300 1,970 — 3sosck 1,580 2,120br1 BOROUGH HOP. There is rather more doing in last year's hops, at full prices. The duty is called 290,0001. WHITECHAPEL. The general demand was steady, at fell prices. Beef. 38 8d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8,1 ; lamb, Co Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d p r Sibs. by the carcase. Up to the 24th, 5,261 foreigners had visited Spa. It is the intention of the lessees of the Limerick and E inis Railway to suspend the works during the harvest month, which will set free a large number of labourers. It is understood that the scrip of the Turkish guaran teed 4 per cent. loan will be ready for issue at the Bank of England on Monday next. A. letter from Vienna of the 23d, in the German Frankfort Journal, says :—" Among the principal finan cial measures proposed by M. de Bruck is the suppres sion of the income-tax, and the establishment of a tax on capital. The Emperor has declared that the National Bank must be immediately reimbursed by the state, in order to enable it to resume its cash payments ; and great exertsons are being made in order to effect this re imbursement." LUBECK, Aug. 25.—1 n imitation of the steps taken by our sister city, Hamburg, the senate of Lubeck have also issued a proclamation, warning the public against taking the small coins put in circulation, but afterwards repu diated by Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and stating that they will not be received in payment at any of the govern ment departments after the end of this month. SUPPOSED MURDER OF A SHIP'S CREW.—BOSTON (U.S.), Ang. 15.—The Janette, Danish brig, drifted into Ackliue, Bahamas, July 14, with all her crew dead, and her sails loose. It is supposed the crew were murdered the day before, as a brig was seen with a schooner along side on that day, and it is supposed the Janette was that brie. SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The fourth and last exhibition of this society for the season takes place at the Royal Cremorne Gardens to-morrow, and will consist of a grand dahlia and hollyhock collection, as well as a miscellaneous flower show. There are above 60 prizes to be distributed, for which an unusual number of competitors have entered their names, which facts in duce us to believe that, aided by the extensive patronage under which this society prospers, the meeting will be a most important one. It appears by advertisement that, in order to afford visitors an opportunity of judging of the effect of artificial light upon flowers, the exhibition pavilion will be brilliantly illuminated till ten o'clock, up to which time the stands will remain. The lovers of floriculture will also, it seems, have an opportunity of witnessing the military spectacle in the adjoining Ash burnham grounds. PARIS.—It is a marked characteristic of the Parisian physique to make a rage for a while of anything new. The Dauphiny glove was no sooner observed upon the hand of Majesty than its possession became a perfect furor. The glove itself has certainly high claims upon patronage, inasmuch as its peculiar cut provides against the fractions which kid is heir to, and the admirable fit thereby induced must give the principle more than an ephemeral existence. The double piece of soft kid round the pulse and wrist, while adding requisite length to the glove, will prove a source of considerable comfort for autumn and winter wear, while it gets rid of that naked demarkation of the arm between the sleeve as now worn and the ordinary glove. The patent has been secured for France and England by the eminent house of Dent, Allcroft, and Co., and is equally applicable to gentle• men's as well as ladies' gloves.—Olobe. THE MURDER AT CUDHAL—Up to last evening the police had not succeeded in apprehending either of the two men upon whom suspicion has fallen. Their names are Robert Peeling and William Clark. The former is a ticket-of-leave convict, and was seen in the neighbour hood of Cudham within a few days of the murder. On Sunday morning, after information of the murder had been received at Croydon, but before it was known that he was suspected, some of the county police, it appears, actually stopped Peeling on the outskirts of Croydon, and searched him, but finding nothing of a suspicious character upon him, suffered him to proceed to London, where he stated he was going to seek work as a shoe maker. He is described as being about 24 years of age, sft. 6in. high, without whiskers, and squints a little. Had on a dark shooting coat, dark trousers, and black hat. Clark, the man suspected by the Croydon police, is believed to be a deserter from the Gren a di er G uar d s , and calls himself a navigator. He is 43 years of age, sft. 10in. in height, very upright, with a long, dark corn plexion, and large bushy whiskers. M rs . B ag l ey st il l lies in a precarious and insensible condition,. It seems to have been known that she had saved a sum of money for the purpose of paying her funeral expenses, keeping it in the cottag e, and it was at first su pposed that this money had been stolen by the murderer. It now ap pears that this was not the case, as, although several boxes were broken open, this money was not lund, and the only money carried off was a sum of about 30s. Some articles of clothing were, however, taken from the cottage, an attempt to disp se of which may lead to the detection of the guilty party. They consisted of two women's dresses, an Oxford mixture shootirg coaf, arid pair of dark trousers with broad stripe down the legs, 1 and the top of the waistband bound with red. were supported by French or English. A message was accordingly sent to General Maurice, the French general commanding the cavalry, requesting him to push for ward a body of his men in the rear of the Piedmontese, but he declined, alleging that he had positive orders not to pursue, having returned a similar answer to a similar request on the part of General Erbillon, who commanded on the heights. This is extraordinary, but true, and the only thing one can say about it is to ex press a hope that there was some good reason for it not visible at first sight. The greater part of the Russian artillery now retired, followed up for a short disance by the French Chasseurs de Vincennes : the cavalry then advanced in an immense line, forming a crescent, from out of which issued three guns, which fired away to pro tect the retreat, till the last column had wound its weary way up the road to. Mackenzie's Farm, or disappeared among the hills towards Tchionlion. Nothing now remained but to visit the field of battle, on which the Zouaves had already descended like vul tures, and were removing everything portable. The scene which presented itself on the banks of the river, below the canal, was something fearful beyond descrip tion, much more fearful than.the ordinary horrors of a battle field. The canal itself was choked with dead, most of whom had doubtless fallen into it living, after rolling dawn the hill side, and found repose in its muddy waters ; broken muskets, bags of bread, cartridges, on dark red stain on the white chalky gravel, often alone marked the spot where the men firstfell; in a moment afterwards tum bled back to perdition. Many had fallen, after scrambling up to the brink of the aqueduct, and ere they had time to cross it, and if not caught in the bushes, rolled into the plain, breaking their bones in the descent, and lie there as we passed, shrieking in agony, and imploring us to kill them and thus put an end to their suffering, Never did eye rest upon humanity in forms so mutilated, defaced, and disfigured as these unhappy wretches, who lay writhing there in their bloody rags, their faces so plastered over with gore and dust that neither wife nor mother would ever have recognised son or husband in those hideous masses of mortality. Some, but they were a small minority, sought t o d rag themselves to the shade of the few bushes that skirted the river ; some sought to hide their heads from the fiery heat of the midday sun under their tattered garnients, and others lay with faces upturned and ghastly, their limbs still trembling in the last quiver, and the flies already burrowing in their wounds. Men shot down by any sort of missile, and lying where they fall, gory and mutilated though they may be, is a sight to whicho - ne soon gets;habituated, but wounded men who have been rolled over a rough soil, and their bones broken in their progress, is one of those sights that one rarely witnesses, and which he who has once seen it never wishes to see snore. On towards the bridge the dead lay thicker and thicker. On the banks of the river about it, and in the river itself, they were "heaped and piled," mostly fine men, in the prime of life —many with a vieuxgrognard air, which bespoke long years of service. Nearly every one bad a brandy bottle, either actually in his hand, co lying near him, or broken under him in his fall. I was xiding with a Polish officer, who conversed with a great many of the wounded, who in formed us that large qussntities of brandy had been served out to the soldiers before the action, except the artillery men. There were a great'. many small platforms lying about, some resembling ladders with the rungs very close, and carried by rope•slings a ttached to each end, as bridges to be thrown across the aqueduct. The great majority, however, passed without then. The Zouaves had made a general collection of orosse 5, relics, and medals, and retailed them to the visitors, in addition to which pick ings from the dead bodies, they made small collections of money from the persons of the wounded, managing dexterously to extract it' from the inside of the trousers close to the knee, where the Russian soldiers generally carry their money, while pretending to examine into the nature of their wounds, thus avoiding giving any mental pain to the sufferers. Some very fine rifles, quite new, and now seen for the first time, were Isund on the field, but were instantly taken possession of by the military authorities, and the sale prohibited. Juriging from what I saw myself, and from comparing notos with others, and without being able to say how many bodies may be in the aqueduct, I should say the number left on the field was 1,500; the usual calculation is that twice as many are wounded as are killed, and this, with between five and six hundred prisoners not wounded, taken by the French and Piedmontese, would make the total loss of the Russians little short of 5,000 men hors de combat. The divisions engaged were the sth, 7th, 12th, and 17th, most of them belonging to different corps d'armee. One had never been under tire before, and bad made a rapid march from Bakshi-Serai and rested eight hours before the attack. One man, who fell high upon the hill side, assured us that he was in the last battalion of the re serve, and that every single soldier had been sent down from the heights ; so thathad we pursued them we might have gained the Mackenzie plateau along with them and held it. Prince Oortcsbakoff commanded in chief, and General Martinaloff the assaulting columns. The whole force, including cavalry and artillery, is calculated at 50,000 men. There were 60 guns in the field. There were only ten or twelve officers left on th• ground, which proves that a great number must have been carried off in the retreat. The Piedmontese have lost 300 men killed and wounded ; amongst others, General MonteVecchio, commanding one of the brigades, who was shot through the body, and was not expected to survive through yesterday. The French have about 1,100 men hors de combat. • I was standing at the bridge while the French were collecting the wounded from the other side, and placing them in the ambulances. The Russians could see per fectly well what they were about from Mackenzie heights, and nevertheless had the barbarity to fire from one of their batteries right into the crowd on the road. A scene of great confusion ensued; the ambulance mules galloped off, causing the wounded they were carrying to shrink with pain. It was little short of a miracle that no one was hurt by the shot, which 1 am told, after my depar- ture, continued to be fired at intervals during the whole day. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (Front a Correspondent of the limes.) FOURTH DIVISION CAMP, Aug. 17.--At 4 this morning the English batteries opened a heavy fire along the whole of their line. The Russians kept silence for fully 20 minutes, when they replied in good style. The French were slow in co-operating with us. It was fully half-past 5 before they opened on the left, and when they did it was a sort of in termittent fire, their right pausing when their left was active, and vice versa. A report had been cur rent that but for the action on the Tchernaya the long-talked-of bombardment was to have com menced yesterday at noon, and when at daybreak to-day the roar of artillery was heard, it was sup posed the cannonade had commenced in earnest and would be vigorously sustained. After a short time, however, it slackened considerably, and it became evident that no serious bombardment was intended. During the whole day the cannonade has varied in violence, and has often been scarcely more severe than we are accustomed to witness nearly every evening. At other times, however, the fire has been very heavy. Its real object is, I be lieve, to enable the French to continue their ap proaches to the Malakhoff. Many conjectures and reports are afloat on the subject. It has been said that the fire is to be succeeded by a feint attack. Then, when it is supposed that the enemy has brought large bodies of troops to the front of his defences, a more effective bombardment is to take place, to be followed by a real attack on a different point. More authoritative information has reached me, which, without entering into de tails, gives me grounds to believe that something serious will shortly occur, to which to-day's fire has been merely a prelude. Meanwhile, we have casualties to lament, and have suffered some da mage to our batteries. Four guns of No. 7 battery, left attack, were silenced, the other two thereupon suspending their fire. Two guns of the Naval Bri gade were disabled. Captain Oldfield, Royal Ar tillery, was killed. 3kor Henry, of tbhetsawmaes corps, lost his arm at the shoulder joint doing well this evening. He had jus , t w be u e e n n trhes hayed, and was about to quit the battery h 3d Buffs, ball struck him. Lieutenant Dennis,.. has been very badly wounded, and there is scarcely a chance of his recovery. Captain Hammet, in the trenches. com mander of the Albion, was killed to his men to stand He saw the ball coming, called 'self remained, and out of the way, was instantly andkilled, either by by the ball or by it smashed. I have a spoke of the wheel , . 7 in stances. There is heard of other similar some times a sort of fascination, it would appear, in a cann o n shot when it at you. The Naval Brigade suffered vereclyom. comes at 200 were i n t h © had 23 casualties, including s i x gallant k b n u o t ck il s l : trenc h es , and they me n and an officer killed. Tlhlisth trea t e d brigade usually gets a but none of the rewards of good service. It surely i s not too m uch to expect that vacancies made in their ran ks by the shot and sh e ll t h ey so bravely and frequently face Should be filled up from a mong themselves ; yet for many months there has not been a promotion among them, but very nu merous deaths. Three lieutenant s ' belonging to one ship have been kill e d . On the 18th of Juno a lieutenant fell when ll tl ga an y attempting to rescue a wounded sailor. The mate promoted had seen no service before, and has seen none since, for her went to England shortly afterwards, but he is a very near relative of Sir James Graham's. h Captain Rammet's vacancy to be similarly filled up ? The .N aval Brigade has certainly strong grounds for complaint. This afternoon, about 6 o'clock, one of our mortar batteries on the right discharged six mortars simul taneously at one spot in the Malakhoff, and blew up a magazine shells, which popped off in succes sion in beautiful style, while the Russians jumped over the parapets in mortal terror, and our fellows in Gordon's Battery jumped on theirs and cheered with delight. This evening, about 9 o'clock, we were disturbed from our post-prandial pipe by a sudden alarm in the camp of the Fourth Division—by shouts of " A Russian spy !" " Seize him !" " There he goes 1" and similar exclamations. Of course we bowled out of our hut in double quick time. There W . Da e considerable excitement in the vicinity of t h e cattle-pound, formed of empty beef casks after containing the dead provisions of.tedysd seemed serve to enclose the live stock. - . l%Du itussian spy division, to have a distin.et idea of what la was like, but b . e was said to betniounted, and