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

THIS DAY'S NEWS 80-112 f41INE TELEGRAPH COMPANY, (THIS DAY.) l'he half -yearly meeting of this Company was an 111°Ilticed to he held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate treet, Sir J.Carinichael in the chair ; but in consequence the by I leri•attend ance o f t went y s h are h o ld ers required th e charter the meeting was adjourned till this day Week declare The di v id en d cou ld not, consequent l y , b e d. 14 111 ° report stated that the present half-year's account c : We d a ste a dy an d satisfactory d eve l opment o f th e l ia -111 1 ,P a r'Y. The numb er o f message s transmitted in the yi -- ; . Year ending 31st December, 1854, was 18,955, a s um of 8,2781. 14s. 3d., whilst during the <z n,, €O, Year ending 30th June, 1855, there had been a message s transmitted, yielding the amount of 64, 11d . , showing an increase of 3,650 messages , '4 ,5 11u t1C1104/. 2s. in money. During the last three months erilher of messages went to and received from the 0 0 ° „ 4tille nt have excee d e d by 3,488 th ose c arried in the kt eB Pondin g period of 1854,and 4,061 those of the past 3 vb,• 11t , 118 of 1855, s h ow i ng t h at t h e stagna ti on o f b us iness p 4B . 4 c i 4 la r narked the year 1854 and spring of 1855 was ; th at g a way, and it was only reasonable to assume It'; ptirth the return of confidence in commercial th : sult a would greatly increase the business of kril le c°lll . ls "Y• A small increase of expense bad vbie: fro t al the establishment of continental agencies, „,,.. 141 : 1 , however, occasioned an increase of revenue ""wris which before made but little use of the subf the'llnle wire for commercial purposes. The attention 'itreholders was called to the formation of a reserved p r o d ' tt. fOr which 71 per cent. per annum on the net e ktz : of the company were to be devoted. The actual d e , i 110 of the company might admit of a dividend being ll kt , t e t d ed the same as last, but after carrying the above -4; 7 i Per cent. t o the r e s erved fund, there would s e i l a ts ri only about 61 per cent. available for dividend, d et „i" directors recommended the declaration of a divi t4'4t the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income 4 4 , 1 ; 41 e receipts for messages had been 8,3821. 168.11 d., ' 9 371 . 1 " workin expenses, salaries, &c., amounted to 9e, g 444; " INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN BB J. MAYHEW. b 4 Th r i : Was a meetinc , for audit and certificate. The Ish 4 d k- ' ls t Was a mining agent and stockbroker, of Ku:lgs- Tti and late of Coggeshall, Essex. 4 4 ; balance sheet, which was prepared by Messrs. 18,r,1 , 14 g and Pullain, of Lothbury, extended from June, 1 to June 1855. Dr. to creditors, unsecured, t h l4 : 4- . ; ditto holding security, 7781. ; liability, 1,1721.; ( litt PlllB Jane, 1851, 2,105 1 . ; cre di ts by property, 451. ; tit in the hands of creditors, 295/. ; bills receivable, r oestic expenses, 1,1931. ; business ditto, 381. ; 11: 4 ° 1 . ; losses 6741. ; bills held, 1,4701. o h t ; . ' e n l iabiliti es and expenses were stated to have arisen sale of 3,400 shares in the Wheel Trenance Mine, 1. 41 , 10 Chan cery, hav i ng b een i nst i tute d against the !\ :' l. upt and another respecting them. 114 oart apposition w as o ff ere d, an d th e bankrupt obtained ate. IN BE PAUL. 1 11 1 , " a l Meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was The dealer, of eornhill. tkt,tiedb4lance sheet, which was prepared by Mr. Deloite, Itbt to f rom Sept., 1854 to May, 1855, and showed %Cr to creditors, 7311. 2s. 9d. ; do., holding security, 4E ; I,li4blities, 601/. ; capital, Sept. 1855, 22/. ; pro -7001. ; Credit, b y doubtful debts, 492/. ; property, f! 14 * u° '' in hands of creditor, 40/. ; losses, 1101. ; N o o l' p e"e s, 70/. ; b a d d e bt s , S e pt., 1855, 365/. eati6cate . Plti °offered, and the bankrupt obtained "a 5 Ao L 7 , R INTELLIGENCE.—THIS DAY.) t n k MANSION-HOUSE. Ae~r;onis - man, named James Mayne, having the ap -114-'4 of a groom, w as c h arge d b e f ore the Lord (ti:L ir With having the halves of five 5/. bank • notes; Ilti ‘ C it the BAnk of England, and two of the Ux.- I W ° Ilank) in his possession, supposed to have been Constable 645 stated that from information h!' Whi t ki he look e d a f ter th e p risoner , an d saw h im in ke tL eCh nlpel with another man well known to the police itt4l Ile followed him into Aldgate, and from thence lceE . Lde n h all•street, where he went up to him, and llhll4 if he had not got some halves of Si. notes.. kt I "r r eplied, yes, showed them to witness, and said 110: 44 them in the road between Brentford and T4: 1° .," ; they th en t oo k th e pr i soner i n to custody. 44 44 ' l4°l 'd Mayor inquired if the officer had ascer tlit vi hether the notes had been stopped payment at B b • I`l l , l3°l inetnan said he had not. 441 t til e Pria °ner was remanded to enable the police to . neces sary inquiries. TS % BOW-STREET. q 11, -44 OP STRARAII, PA.IIL, AND Co.—The prison ease w ere aga i n i n a ttendance this morning, - T till wrgenaent of their bail. Plit'atick on the part of the defendants, made take ad a e s ia that the bail be enlarged for a mon h, it N te t aLl'ossible for the trial of the defendants to ke lkttuefore the October sessions. tiTh: t l:l ; u 'llPhries said he felt bound to oppose tae k 4- 1 " 3 , 13 . There were eircutnstances'within his ()ma k nowledge which justified him in resisting th e Np i 4 for a n en l argement o f b a il f or a l onger p en . . d ° Wl ek. H e b egged to assure t h e mag i s t ra t e theft tiriogzertion would be made to bring the trial on k th r, b. ° September sessions. quit e said that the statement of Mr. Humphries er °d r f• - , 4 411elnient for him. He should therefore 0r,.. 1)'/-`41datits to attend this day week. ~.1 .1411 A SSAULT.—A woman, named Elizabeth Bi l • with a child in her arms, was placed at the '44l)4l % t i lt h ilin it, charged with violently assaulting a rn an F ro . LtYan. 4441%.41 t he evidence of the complainant and his w intn tl°b a PPeared that last night a violent altercati 1 4 2 0 bet ween t h e pr i soner an d h er h us b an d, at , 11 1 t ," I g i wgs, in Birch's-place, Rolls-buildings. 'the d t wt f 44 `l by th e b rea ki ng o f croc k er y and the u mur der occasioned a large crowd to asse rrible e house. He resided at No. 3, in the bu ild '`t' t ttt " 4 heari ng t h e no i se h e wen t t o see w h a t w: i s the L t 1 4t I le had scarcely reached the scene of dis turb ttqw the prisoner's husband ran past him, an. it said 1 ' 4 % h i 1 / 4 1 given his wife something, and now he v could l' 4ll ll -41 t he same. He then threw off his coat, and hihim (complainant) to fight, but hearin g his il tcl : l4 ,Zl 4 g the man ran away. Before he could •turn qtrwoman at the bar advanced towards him, !laid, t kl t . Ili quart jug concealed behind her, with h. e an_ a o_. i !th it , k t' ' tll ,l ol tt : 4l l a violent blow across his nose, w Ica 1 11 ‘ - Y °Pen on his face. A constable was sent :for, 'l'l4 t 11°111 given into custody, and Ryan vr )r,, %d i ._ an was • severely from the "" the hospital suffering very to t si t 1 4 be t gazked by th e mag i s t ra t e w hat she bad to say 4 , it 4+ -4 , t ge, the p r i soner d en i e d h av i ng s truck the man, t4l that it was all a conspiracy against her. iklb4l.of witnessesof corroborated the statement 4:431/11tiOant ‘ l '4 said that, as the witnesses all seemed to Prisoner th e ta' i a drunken quarrel had struck 111,i4 the r er described, n he should fine her 40 s., 0 4 '"ault ann . 14 days to the House of •fiet; commit her for T 44 `tn. Iltil "er Was then locked up. V Yt ts SOUTHWARK. t N t tl'hi r L :: ASSAULT ON A WIFE.— . John , Holland; a () 4 , 1 : klp.i:itPiettable looking man, carrying on the business before lAr. '40 1 4, 4 ,Yet', was brolght this morning 'it cual'ged with violently assaulting his wife, 1 4p 014 Thd. ~4 kp / t rolla nd p l i kl ee k . 44 _ , a very respectable and decent woman te 41 , 4 4 f or ' , stated that she had been married to the 1, 41nc, u pwards of 10 years. They were at present , 4 at NT They 'ke ~-.° cLi i ; O . 7, Parker's-row, Bermondsey. months kii,Ptiti o ,, - " r eti, and for the last two or three . - Nit -- er had A her most brutally, and was L n the 1 ) , 1tt ,, wheh use., . e ~, o f it itl ii 1 1 he cam e home at night half intoxicate u ll t Ilet d et ' violently, and upon several occasions lt , t !ock• t: Na l , ° Il l ! n. This morning, about half past 12 o wl clock, f4: 4l4 q t I . tll e the worse for liquor, and upon Ir.i t e . s e e .44 C1) Nt 4hteirtgrawouittla him, be instantly struck her on 4 k 4,1 41 11e1 - 1 - h severely and knocked her down. it t his ,`4Bwis, who resided next door to the prisoner 11 61, t3 ktr ' 'II 'lre stated that his conduct to her was brutal a,s. v. h etne for the last six or seven weeks. 1 i t (1 %9 4 41/ ill.titted her a great deal, and knocked 1 ier 11111ot:4.1%4e was a bullock. 8, \ ,, it qte t .. ti It' liallarcl, a boot maker residing at No. 8, t)f . tl'ind the , corroborated the evidence of the priso Ake 4(' Dri a't witness. He corisidered the conduct a 4104)fler brutal in the extreme. The complainant Ati ll eh at quiet and inoffensive woman. el4l eY, a widow and the landlady of the }louse 4 ) a g UN, LONDO N, WE I . N EIS 11 Y EV MN 17 46, AU GU FT 29 ) 851. 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. Ho had repeatedly threatened that be would murder his wife, and witness bad known him on several occasions sharpen knives for the purpose, as he said, of cutting his wife's throat. THE BATTLE OF THE TCH ERI\TAYA. The prisoner, upon being asked what answer he had to make to the charge, stated that his wife was in the habit of tantalising and irritating him, and upon such occasions 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 iu 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, he was accosted by a policeman and taken into custody for desertion, The prisoner said that he had no intention whatever to desert, but hating 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 ho went to wap the Russians, and was on his way to the barracks wbeq he was taken into custody. Mr. Coombe said there could 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 di3si pated looking fellow, residing at 2, Swan-lane, Swan sti 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• soner 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 swolltz. The cause, she said, of her father beat ing her last night was because she had not ironed his shirt, and the reason she had not done so was because she had neither coals to light a fire nor a candle to see 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 6d 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 ARRIVALS THIS WERE. i Barley. ( Malt. Oats. Floe , 74) y 350 1,970 — 3sosck 1,5i30 1 2, 120br1 English .. !rich •• • • Fcrelgn 1 3,710 i - 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 full prices. Reef. 3s &I to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8a to 4s 8 , 1 ; lamb, 5a ce to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 61 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 Ennis 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 en 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 pnblic 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.), Aug. 15.—The Janette, Danish brig, drifted into Acklius, 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 brig. 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 CUDHAII.—Up to last evening the police had not succeeded i❑ 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 bat. Clark, the man suspected by the Croydon police, is believed to be a deserter from the Grenadier Guards, an d calls himself a navigator. He is 43 years of age, sft. 10in, in height, very upright, with a long, dark coin plexion, and large bushy whiskers. Mrs. Bagley still 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 cottage, and it was at first supposed that this money bad been stolen by the murderer. It now ap pears that this was not the case, as, although several b, , xes were broken open, this money was not found, and the inly money carried off was a sum of about 30s. Some a;tieles of clothing were, however, taken from the cottage, an A ttempt to disp• se of which may lead to the detection of the guilty party. They consisted of two women's dresses, an Oxford mixture shooting coat, and pair of dark trousers with broad stripe down the legs, and the top of the waistband bound with red. the right, and were beginning to scale the heights, when taken in flank by the Sardinian batteries, which fired with admirable precision, they were swept down whole sale and. rolled into the aqueduct below. ( From, the Special Correspondent of the Times.) This first rush did not last more than 10 minutes. The CAMP OF THE ALLIED ARMIES ON THE TCHERNAYA, Russians fell back, but they had scarcely gone a few bun Aug. 16.—The long-threatened attack of the Russians on the Tchernaya line has at last taken place, and ended Bred yards when they were met by the second column, which was advancing a pas de charge to support the first, in the complete defeat of the enemy. During the last few days the signs o f an impending Russian attack be- and both united and again rushed forward. This second came more and more frequent. Movements of large attempt was more successful than the first. At the bridge numbers of troo s in the net ghbourhood of Sebasto they forded the river on the right and left, and forced the p p 01, defenders of it to fall back. Scarcely was the bridge the unanimous reports of the deserters, of whom several free when two guns of the sth Light Brigade of Artil came in every day, and, lastly, information gained from lery crossed it and took up a position on the opposite numbers of Tartars who bring in continually news from side in an open space which divides two of the hillocks, the Russian lines, were all to the effect that the Rus and through which the road leads to the plain of Bala sians, having received part of the reinforcements which klava. While those two guns passed the bridge a third they were expecting, intended to try their luck once crossed the river by a ford, and all three began to sweep more in offensive operation. . , the road and th e h e i g ht s . Th e i n f an t r y in the meantime, Although at first the line of the Tchernaya suggest ed without waiting for the portable bridges, which had itself as the point which the Russians would most pro moreover been thrown away in great part during the bably attack, a supposition which was moreover con advance, rushed breast-deep into the water, climbed firmed by all the deserters, yet, as there were large na o up the embankment, and began to scale the heights numbers of newly-arrived troops seen concentrated on both sides. They succeeded on this point in getting and about the Russian works, apprehensions were en tertained that perhaps the Russians might attempt some u p mo re than one - half of the ascent, where the thing against the positions of the allied armies before dead and woun d e d a f terwar d s s h owe d c l ear ly th e Sebastopol, and the chief attention was consequently mark which they r eac h e d ; b u t by the time th e y ar rived there the French were fully prepared and met directed to that point. them in the most gallant style. Notwithstand- Yesterday again several deserters came in and spoke i with the utmost certainty of an intended attack on theng the exertions and the perseverance of the Russians, Tchernaya lines ; but as this had been the case several they were by d egrees f orce d b ac k an d d r i ven , a ft er an times already during the last fortnight, no particular at- obstinate resist ance , across t h e b r id ge , carr yi ng away their guns. tention was paid to their reports, and no special orders While this attack took place on the bridge the other given to the troops, except to be prepared for an attack, column again attacked the French right. This time and this had been so often repeated that it made no im they came on in such a swarm that they were neither pression. In addition to this our attention was drawn kept back by the aqueduct, nor cowed by the Sardinian off from the Lower Tchernaya by the news from Bai- guns which were ploughing long lanes through their der. I wrote in my last letter that when the arrival of scattered lines. On they came, as it seemed, irresistible, fresh troops at Sebastopol became known, the four and rushed up the steep hill with such fury that the troops of English Light Cavalry were withdrawn from Zouaves, who lined the sides of it, were obliged to fall Baidar, and only two regiments of heavy French ca back for a moment before the multitude. You could Talry and a few Chasseurs and Zouaves remained in plainly see the officers leading the way, and animating the valley until all the hay collected should be carried their soldiers. I particularly observed one gallant away. Yesterday afternoon General Allonville sent fellow, who, at least twenty yards in advance of the news from Baidar by electric telegraph that large num whole column, was the first across the aqueduct, and bers of Russian troops were concentrated on the heights I could still see him on the other side of the hill. This above the valley, and that he expected to be at furious rush brought the advancing column in an in tacked. The telegraphic message was interrupted by credibly short time to the crest of the hillock, where the dense fog which prevailed in the afternoon, but late it stopped to form. But the French had not been idle in the evening notice of this message of General Allen- during the time that the Russians were ascending the hill. ville was sent to General la Marmora and Osman Pasha. The Zouaves had only fallen back from the side of the As the cavalry at Baidar would be exposed to be cut off hillock to the main body, which had been drawn up be if it were attacked by a considerable force, on account hind the top. Scarcely did the column of the enemy show of the great nu m b er o f car t s w hi c h are d own i n th e valley its head wh en th e guns opene d on it w i t h grape, and a murderous fire was p oure d d own upon it b y the Forffernothcmhe for the transpo r t o f h a y, an d w hi c h wou ld encum b er th e column, olinfantry.unin; whThisich be e m g m a n e d t i a o t eNl\y, aver, v s e t r o , p p h e n d t t t h h e e a i d m v p a e n t c u e s Woronzoff.road, an attack on th a t side seemed not at all improbable. From all these circumstances it followed that no addi- those behind was so powerful that the head of it, not tional precautions were taken on th e Tchernaya line, withstanding the unexpected reception, was pushed for and that the attack was scarce ly l ess a sur p r i se than that ward a few yards more, when the French, giving one of Inkerman. mighty cheer, rushed upon the advancing enemy, The first news of an actual attack was brought about who, shaken already, immediately turned round and daybreak by some French Chasseurs, who, forming part ran down, if possible, faster than they bad come of a patrol, fell into an ambuscade of the Russians, and up. But the mass was so great that. all the hurry narrowly escaped, while their comrades were taken pri- could not save them, and more than two hundred Boners. Soon afterwards the outposts which were across prisoners were taken on the spot, while the hillside, the Tchernaya were driven in, and about daybreak the the banks of the aqueduct, the aqueduct itself, and cannonade began. the river side were filled with dead and wounded. The For the better understanding of the movement I must Sardinian and French artillery poured, moreover, a give you some description of the locality. The Tcher- murderous crossfire into the scattered remains of the naya, coming out at the tower of Karlovka from the column, of which scarcely a shot missed. It was a com narrow gorge in which it runs after leaving the val- plete rout. The French rushed down the hillside and ley of Baidar, flows between a succession of hillocks drove them far across the plain. This defeat seems to on both sides. These hillocks form the basis of the have so completely cowed them that nothing more was position of the allied armies. On the extreme right, be- attempted on this side. ginning where the Tchernaya comes out of the gorge Not so on the bridge. Notwithstanding the heavy down to the little mountain streams which fall into the loss suffered by she second attack, the Russians concen -139 trated once mo re a ll th e i r f orces, co ll ecte d t h e scattere d Tchernay a f rom t h e south are the Turks. They occupy two hillocks, and between them are two roads which remains of the column which had been routed on the lead from Higher Tchorgoun and the tower of Karlovka tight of the French position, and brought up all their into the Woronzoff-road, Th e S ar di n i an p os itio n leans reserves to attempt one more attack. They again to the right on the little mountain stream which limits crossed the river, and the aqueduct too, and tried to take the Turkish position t o th e l e ft. Th e y occupy the the heights, but in vain ; the French were now tho large solitary standing hillock which used to be held by roughly prepared, and the tenacity of the Russians served the Cossacks, and which extends down to the open ground only to augment their losses. They were soon seen fly over which the road from Balaklava to Tchorgoun leads. ing in all directions, followed by the French. This last This hillock has been lately considerably strengthened attack was decisive, and immediately the usual Rus and provided with batteries, and, as it has a very corn- sian preparation for retreat—namely, the advance of mending position, was of the utmost importance in the the artillery showed clearly that the Russians defence of the Tchernaya line. In front of this hillock, acknowledged themselves defeated and were on the and divided from it by the aqueduct which begins there, point of retiring. Three batteries, each of 12 guns, is another smaller but equally steep hillock, accessible which during the greatest part of the attack had been from the first by a stone bridge, and on this hillock nearly silent, began to open their fire while the scat the Sardinians had a small epaulement guarded by a tered remains of the infantry columns rallied behind a detachment of infantry. Beyond both these hillocks, rising ground leading up towards the plateau of Akyer, on the other side of the Tchernaya, they had more- or Mackeuzie's height. over on the hillock nearest to the Mackenzie road The Sardinians, who, with the exception of the little their outposts, which could thus watch the move- outpost fight on the opposite side of the Tchernaya, had merits of the enemy, arid give timely alarm in case confined themselves to support the French by their ad of au attack. The French occupy the last series of rnirable artillery, which entirely subdued the Russian hillocks to the left of the Sardinians, and guard fire on the opposite plateaux, began now to move across the road which leads front Balaklava over th e Traktir- th e aqueduct. The Russian riflemen, after the last defeat bridge, up to Mackenzie' , B farm. The hillocks, occupied ore the right, had retired behind the banks of the Tcher by them, are three in number ; th e fi rs t t o th e right is naya, whence they kept up a brisk but ineffective separated from the others by the great road leading to fire. A battalion of Piodmontese, preceded by a the bridge; and the last to the left, is protected by the company of Bersaglieri, advanced in beautiful order basin which the aqueduct forms here, and is separated as if on par ide, and soon drove these riflemen by another open ground, similar to that on right of the from their position. It even advanced some way French position, from the ridge on which the army of tow ards the plateaux ; but, as it was not intended observation was during the winter. In front of the bridge to f; ;me the heights, it contented itself supported by other the French had constructed a small epaulentent to guard troops, with following the enemy, who was already in the passage of the river, beyond which they had their full retreat. outposts. The French had during the battle brought up a new The first movement of the Russians was against the division (Dulac's). Besides this, the whole English and outposts of the Sardinians on the opposite bank of the French cavalry were in readiness en the plain leading to river. Corresponding to the hillocks on this side of the the ri vet, the ground of the Light Cavalry charge last Tchernaya are three plateaux on the opposite bank. year, ready to receive the enemy if he should force the These were chos en f or th e l e ft of the Russian position passafee of the river and deb ouc h on the plain. But Gen. against the Turk s an d th e S ar dinians. These plateaux Morris would not risk the cavalry on the plain, inter were, therefore, first to be secured, for the guns could sected as it was by the branches of the river, and de command from them not only the hillocks opposite oc fended. as it was by the Russian guns on the height ; so copied by the Sardinians and Turks, but likewise the only two squadrons of Chasseurs d'Afrique followed the plain which opens towards the French position. A company of infantry of the line, and a company of enem:r. The guns which the Russi ans had brought up to cover Bersaglieri f or m e d the S ar dinian outposts. These were attacked at dawn by the Russians. As the their retreat suffered so much by the fire from our side, troops were not yet under arms it was necessary which eves increased by Capt. Mowbray's battery open to hold thi s p os iti on f or a w hil e , and General de la ing upo n them from the ope n gr ound between the Sareli- Marmora sent over M a j or G ovour , of the Etat-Major, nian an d the French positions, that they made off in a with a company of B ersag li er i, t o re i n force the two com- hurry. Scarcely a shot was thrown away, and so ad panies al rea dy th ere . Th ey crosse d th e aque duct and mirablo was the practice th a t a ll the shot fell at or close the river, and went up the plateau ; but, when they ar- to the guns, which we could slight breeze carrying off the smoke left a beautiful view rived on the crest of it, the two companies had just left over t he whole of the battle-field. But the Russian guns the epaulement behind which they had until then de-plainly distinguish, as a fended th emse l ves ga ll antly aga i nst t h e overw h e l m i ng return e d only for a moment under cover, and soon after numbers could see a brilliant line of cavalry debouching from numbers of the enemy , b u t w hi c h b a d b ecome un t ena ble, you the ri sing ground, where it had been hitherto hidden. I as it was s we pt by th e guns w hi c h th e R uss i ans h a d c brought u p on th e t wo other plateaux, an d b es id es was could distinguish five regiments—three in one line, and y exposed to be ,taken in th e rear . So the troops retired w in good or d er a cross th e r i ver, an d wen t t o re i n f orce t h e ad v o a oregiments on the flanks in second line. The post whi c h occup i e d t h e second hi.llock on the banks of guns to pass, t nDed a t Cher a which gallop, a again opened o pened wheeling their fire, round, but allowedonly forl2 e the aquedu c t. _l n th e meant i me the cannonade on both sides had b egun. Th e R uss i ans le f t us not l ong i n d ou b t dust where they wou ld'. a tt ac k, f or, scarce l y h a d th e cannona d e off wel.e a short oil thetame, m Mackenzie the ' and at half-past nine or ten o'clock the only y traceseze i road w a h i nh n and remained the black o f lin th e e s so long begun whe n th re es compact masse so f i n f antry were seen threatened attack of the Russians. advancing towards the plain opposite to the French I Everybody now rushed to the battle-field, and one position. The points chosen were the bridge and look es as sufficient to convince them that the allies bad the hillock to th e right. The masses, which in the won a real battle on the Tchernaya. Although sanguinary as the battle of u t morning sun look e d lik e g li tter i ng waves , p ro t ec t e d no t quite so obstinate by the fire of the artill ery , move d i n exce ll en t or d er I n kerman, which th is affair and Thereßsenmeebilaende,ians in many the points, down to the river sid e , notw i t h s t an di ng th e h eav y It was a pitched battle. fire of artillery - which greeted them in front of Inkerman, gave up troops. m The essential differenceanceuvring, and confided entirely from the French, and in fl an k f rom th e S ar di n i ans . At i n the valour of their ' the riv er the first column detached itself from the rest, i was in the manneroffigthhteingn.usAsiatntehefebnatutne battle of the Inkfielre and d ividing into two colum ns c r os se d th e r i ver , w hich I man the great mass of is now nearly everywhere easily fordable. Men car- firing and the bayonetsoftwhehieihnfdaindtrtyh,e reawghileteoent x ethee. rying moveable wooden bridges p rec ed e d, b u t i n the fi r st Tchernaya it was the guns rush the Russians, without waiting for b r id g es, went cution. Most of the wounded and dead showed fright over wherever they could, an d di s p ers i ng lik e a swarm f u l traces of roundehot, grape, shell, and canist er , so that of bees rushed forward in columns, some against the as a battlefield one couldiie scwaorcueolydeimwaegrieneonantyhtehinleggsinaoorde bridge, the others against the hillock on the right. -terrible. Nearly allt 1d As :I said above, the continual apprehension of an the head. On the banks of the aqueduct particularly on the impending attack had at last ben embed the interest for the sight w it, and, notwithstanding the signs which seemed to indi- tbe embankment Sardinian e aqueduct were taken in flank t and the dead and wounde d kment, sometimes more cate some movement on the part of the Russians, every- b. v the ordina h ns appalling ; the Russians when scaling ian of batt eries,t-petheinan body slept as soundly as possible until awakened by the ro lied hey were lai arrived. Russian g uns. Before the troops w ere p ro p er ly un d er thi 'n 20 down feet in height. T he French made ever y p oss ible arms the Russians were at the bridge and at the foot of des patch to collect hcttte rihhedge wounded. the hillock, The 20 th le/er and the 2d battalion of ope. a space about until the Thep ambulances Zouav es had to stand the first shock, and they certainly While there the Russians , who could se e plainly that the countrymen, s uddenly began to o p en w ith th e i r did. 117 ith o ut losing their time with firing, they ad- wrote bed stood it gallantly. The rush of the Russians was splen- French were were engaged in bringing help to their own ftea previously shown to the troops. troops. Some French soldiers of Canon's , Division they bad already o vanced w ith an elan scarcely ever seen in .Rue sia,n guise upon them, repeating the barbarous practice which gentleman who was with me at the moment, and who who h; .ve during the winter guarded the trenches to lon with deep flesh wounds on both his thighs, mishe s with the Russians, aseured me that they n, ever trudging wards the Quarantine, and have had nearly daily Akir- A speaks Russian, asked one of the poor fellows who was theirthought own wounded ? He answered, " They fir troop s, belonging, according to the prisoners and ing saw t', aem moving on in such a style. They we re neew what he ag of the behaviour of the Russians in wonder that they should try to ill-treat us late . ly arrived from Poland. But their ardour was so; in there wow a ded, to the sth division of the 2d co r p s d'arm ee are a a m e i e:e ll nsgtoomed to beat us when we are with them, and br e,keie They could not carry their point, au d t o the account of th e p r i soners , and of ter a short trial, repulsed both on the bridge rend the Ac ever e, when wooerdairnegon the point of escaping their power." f ro m the straps ou the shoulders of the hi Pock. The aqueduct which supp l ies the Turl re, and . judgi n g e d t aacnkd, _the sth of the 2d corps dead, three divisions were engaged in the d'armee (of Gen. w hick runs close to the foot of the hillock, form ed the 1 wounel chic ) I d e f en ce of the French. About 9 or 10 feet wide : actual atl, l a tely arrived from Poland, under the corn and several feet deep, it skirts the steep hills so , close Pan P in ot General Wrangel; the 12 th division of the 4th tha t it is nearly in all places supported by a hi gh em s darinee (Osten Sackeu's ) , formerly under the som e' /aliment, offering considerable difficulties for an ad- \ n'an V . ancieg force, and exposing it, as soon as it reseher ; the and the 17th division of the 6 th corps d'arnzee (Lip top of it, to the musketry fire from the heights. ' Not- lep ; e rn % 'P ld of General Lipra ndi, n ow under General Martino top this diffiq ulty the Russians crossed. it on rands) under Major-General Wassielcosky. The pri- Boners 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 said that before the battle began General Gortschakoff, who commanded in persen, had a letter of the Emperor read 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. Nut 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 15. The attack has not been renewed, and the French have been for the lasttwo 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 lift ; their loss is about 1,000 in deal 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. sailants 'were up on the parapet of the little redoubt fir inT, down into them. To prolong the conflict here would only have caused a useless massacre, and the Sardinians consequently withdrew behind an epaulement 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 foice, 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 occupied, 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 had 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 passingthrough 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 2d 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 Tchernaya lay before us like a picture. The tract of table-land lying at the foot of tke 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 Turks 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 bad taken breath—their blood was up, for hundreds on both sides lay already stark and stiff on the 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 quicktme, 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 small 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 theraselves 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- According to the account Of the prisoners most of them came from Bakshi Sera', 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. (Prom 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 for 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 Tchorgoun. 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 so small as hardly to be entitled to any better appellation than that of mounds. It was on these last that 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 the plain. Between Tchorgoun and Inkerman they are some 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 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 Inkerman, and directly facing the Mackenzie Heights, the road from which passes bet ween 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 escarpe 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 dis 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 Kamara, extending a short distance to the right. The valley still further to their right, which is traversed by the Woronzoff-road, leading on to Baidar, was defended by the Turks. The three armies occupied a chain of eminences forming a semi-circle drawn from Inkerman 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 iu every respect to those I have been describing, they had on the same night an 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 several 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 had 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 he 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 in 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 hill 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 m ade itself visible in the horizon a sharp fire was opened fr om A Party! skirmishers against the We de pont , and a reg ular aau : tnade;upon the Sardinian picket. Gen. de 1 I ora o was already rnse tos l ag i l v ie e r s i tii reinforceea dy o n theth e post, i the troops could be got under a rms, and the necessary ground,so that and they Bent ey m a might battalion defend of th bee arrangemen ts made. When the reinforcements arrived half the picket was already hor s de combat, and the as 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 hill, and came out on the level. When the head of the co 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 maic body, posted near the artil lery on the centre of the plateau, and at the same mo. mont 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 asen timent of pity as one looked upon the crowd of Russians looming out through the smoke, as it rolled acros s them, feebly returning the fire, unable to afra idadvancen to retreat, ten thousand death in front—ten thou s. an c s l ed for behind—help and hope nowhere. They ere sppeedily re few seconds, seemed to hesitate, bat the were lieved from ail embarrassment as totle French, course w they e should pursue by the advance of cheer rang merrily through the hed t: l o or t u he ing c a a i r r ge a s . they T e levelled their bayone ts and rue n t i g n h themselves action a s if they intended to ' Russians gave one Hurrah," com e up to the scratch,' übur but instead n ofci suiting to the word, they w heeled r about d own the hill side in com p lete disorder, the Sardi nian ar tillery again upon them as beforep laying arms and . Some hun dreds threw down their surrendered t o t h e French, sooner than run the gauntlet once more across the aqueduct and the river. The remnan t of the column e go t under cover on the other s ide of the str eam, an d remained there for some minutes, until t wo bat talions of Piedmontese came out upon the plain, and throwing out skirmishers advanced upon the river. The Russians now retired in haste, and not in very goo d order, skirmishing as they went until they reached the high ground on which their cavalry and the reserve of their artillery were stationed. During the pursuit the Piedmontese made some prisoners. The moment was propitious for a charge of cavalry, who might have cut them up completely. Major Grovac, the second on the Sardinian etat major, 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 _ were supported by /french or English. AMeseag e 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 abort distance 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, teal 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 bad 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 demon 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 ove-r 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, s o ught to drag themselves to the shade of the few bushes Oat skirted the river ; some sought to hide their heads from the fiery beat of the middaysun under their tattered garment e, and others lay with faces upturned and ghastly, their limb.' 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 whichone soon g, , :td,habituated, but wounded men who have been rolled ov.sr a rough soil, and their bones broken in their progress, is one of those sights that one rarely witnesses, and which be who has once seen it never wishes to see more. 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, or lying near him, or broken under him in his fall. I was riding with a Polish officer, who conversed with a great many of the wounded, who in formed us that large quantities 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 attached to each end, as bridges to be thrown across the aqueduct. The great: majority, however, passed without them. The Zouaves bad made a general collection of crosses, 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 first time, were Lund on the field, but were instantly taken pos9ession of by the military authorities, and the sale prohibited. Judging from what I saw myself, and from comparing notes 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'arrn,ee. One had never been under fire before, and bad made a rapid march from Bakshi-Sergi 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 that had we pursued them we might have gained the Mackenzie plateau along with them and held it. Prince Gortcshakoff 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 the 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 I am told, after my depar ture, continued to be fired at intervals during the whole day. TILE 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 mere 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. Major Henry . , of t b h u e t sa w m a o s corps, lost his arm at the shoulder jo int, be en doing well this evening. He had just ball struck him. Lieutenant Dennis,re lieved, and was about to quit the battery 3wdheßnutehse, has been very badly wounded, a chance of his recovery. Captain in the trenches. com mander of the Albion, and there m is e s t c , arcely He saw the ball coming, w ahcalledsim himself l t f o hisme n remained,to stand an a out of the was instantlywkayil:led and either by the ball or by w hi c h it smashed. I have a spoke of the wheel,_ similar instances. There is some timesti t b w o e u u t l d 2oo ap w p e e r a e r i n . conles at you. The 'ln a hoard Naval cannon shot when 1 _ the had 23 casualties, including six trenches, an officer killed. This gall ant but Al mon and an none of the rewards of good service. It surely Brigade suffdertedheyseverely. treated brigade usually gets all the h ar d knocks, but is not too much to expect that vacancies made in ranks umu b st y el yl v t e h sf e a; a c h ey o e t tsh a f noorndldshell they so bravely e up MM. their many be months filld there f has not been a promotion among them, but m very nu aarendonfgrethue merous deaths. Three ' lieutenants belonging to one ship have been killed. -n the 18th of Juno a lieutenant fell when l gallantly attempting to rescue a wounded sailor. The mate promoted had seen no service before, and has seen none since, for he went to England shortly afterwards, but he is a very near relative of Sir James Graham's. Is Captain Hammet's vacancy to be similarly filled up ? The Naval Brigade has certainly strong grounds for complaint. This afternoon, about 6 o'clock, one of our mortar batteries on the right discharged sixmortars 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 Gordou'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 . r . and similar exclamations. Of course we out of our hut in double quick time. There was the considerable excitement in the vicinity of cattle-pound, formed of empty beef casks, division, i which, after containing the dead provisions of Nobody seemed serve to enclose the live stock. to have a distinct idea of what the Russian spy be zgLounted, and was like, but ha was said to *a ►i_S (3 0;0 0 is Gil' p•-•"..° /,