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They were repulsed with tremendous loss. Terrible as our loss and that 'ef our gallant allies is, these is no real discouragement k • hut. there is a want of confidence—in .whom you will not fail soon to learn. open this letter to state that on my arrival at Kamiesh I found that, for the first time, the regular mail would not go to-day to Constantinople—th.) steamer being otherwise employed. JUNE 23. The great object of the alli es a t present is to destroy the Russian fleet, and for that purpose we are erecting new batteries in positions likely to enable as to boar on the fleet, unless it run under the protecting guns of the northern forts. The Turks, under Omar Pacha ina - itusten Pacha, have gone on an expedition more offeisive th an d e f ens i ve , an d it is probable we shall soon hear somethin g of importance. .---' 't l t-2 lif RI ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC ~.,, Ls Now *pen Every Evening, at 8 o'llock, except Saturday. .18 Mo rning Representations take place every Tuesday, Thundai, sad Sai nrd ay, at 3 o'clock.—Stalls can be taken at the Box-office very day Prom Eleven till Fonr.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. _ 5 . bale i I'o 4 Iro nes 01/ r. All el° erein... ; , , MONTI'S LECTURES on ANCIENT and MODERN SCULPTURE.—The last cf the series that was Lito be ielivered to-night, in compliance with the express desire of ke subscribers, has been postponed to WEDNESDAY, July the 11th. wickets to be had at Messrs. Colnaghi's, Pad-Mall East. 29 ▪ 39 42 31 ... ▪ 40 Acks 45 38 LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4-41.855. 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ARCHITECTS.—The Committee appointed B a r r by the Secretary of State for War to consider the question of arr Accommodation for the Army, are authorised to offer the following Prizes for Plans of Barracks which shall embldy the re tenlMendation contained in their Report, dated June 18. 1855 : Por the best plans for an Infantry Barrack to aceomrno date 1,000 men For the second best lOO For the third best For the best plans for a Ca v al r y B arrack to accommodate )'or the second best•• •• •• . ............... •• • . 100 For the third best The candidate who obtains the highest prize of 1501. for the best Infantry Barrack will be employed to execute his plan in the build hair of an Infantry Barrack. The same for the Cavalry Barrack. Bach plan must be accompanied by specifications and estimates and where plans seem in other respects to possess equal merit, a rre let.nee will be shown to those which provide the necessary accom r°"ation in the most economical manner. 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MA fUItiTY. aust published, price 28., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 stamps, i ' BRVOI7g DEBILITY; Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper- Its Causes, tnat orrhoaa, with Practical Ob servations on a safer and more saetessful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative YsteM, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and disti nguishin., by urinary examination, the real cause and effect . of nv erY variety of complaint, vrneihe_r arising from solitary habits, eanesses, accident, or climate, by practical remarks, founded l ir thed treatment of Impuissance, gpermatorrhosa, &C. To which (! n years' experience fol i of Marriage, with pre twentyrDebility, Local Weakness, Physiology are added, Commentaries on the eautionarY d D various Prterrtseticeon. hints on the evils emanatinge _fr.o7 empirical • and on the d%ngerons remedies advocat tbEle i mportant disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, ?LB* , 37, BE DFORD-SQUAR L ONDON. FORD-SQUARE, he University of Edin -uactor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University , ~,,,,,,,„al society, ba rn, Honorary Member of the London li o FP ll4 . l _,"'''''' Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, hc., &u :,__ cearful xcecossn. es, I:reeecisential object of this treatise is to point out tali , e 'laenees resulting from certain habits, irregu'aritieS, n a cther el ,iCh have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man- flo od, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, ass of disease known to modern pathologists. Itv perusal is übts of treularly recommended to penons entertaining secret do hazarded th e ir Physical condition, and who are conscious of having .. e hea th, haPpiness, and priVileges to which every human bein g ' 5 entitiedt fr!n;. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are ipies Of perronal management which cannot be violated without trllle2,:ring grievous p?nalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed br ay neYday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties ant ,be avid,mitigat how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, that?",,t' the and its consequences maybe avoided, and above all. de there in scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional Ti r te a r t i?ent to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a curs. p ..a c ti c q e Zr has for a series of years been engaged . in an extensive ullortunatel the treatment of. these delicate complaints, which have ainDirics, who been too generally confided to the care of ignorant . o inflict silt Rv o great injury on those who are i n du c ed t o pl ace in their pret. i. us uxsi.°". Bro thers, and piper, co I,LITy be had, Hannay , of Messrs. tr t . 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Hats, Caps, Boots and !shoes, &c., the newest, cheapest, and best articles which can be procured. E. MOSES and SON are Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, fosters, Shirt Manufac turers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and lentlemen. _ _ _ . . . • CAUTION.—E. MOSES and Sow beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or out of London, except their own Esta blishments, as follow : London City Establishment, corner of the Minories, and Aidgato (opposite the church). London West-end Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of Hart street. Country Branches—Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire. Colonial Wholesale Branch—Melbourne, Australia. The establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays :till sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. . . , Isrpoaxawx.—Should any article not give satisfaction it will be ex changed or, If preferred, the money returned a ;thout hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measuremeni and other information, may be had on application, or post free. Id on parle Francais. I Qui si parla Italian°. Hier;spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espagnol. The tone of the recent mercantile advices from St. Petersburg is not favourable to the prospect of an early peace. This alteration is believed to be attributable to a, secret understanding with Austria, which has given Rus sia more confidence in contending with the We ;tern Powers, and in the possible success of her constant in trigues to break up their alliance. The recent announce ment from Russia that the Synod had addressed the Em peror in favour of peace is said to have been merely a ptratagern to cover the more aggressive views which had just then received a new stimulus from the covert intima tion of active sympathy from Austria and Prussia, that sympathy being, it is alleged, in course of exercise at this moment by the transmission through German terri tory of large supplies of materials contraband of war. P ORTUG AL. —Liverpool, July 3.—The Minho steamer brings Lisbon dates of the 28th of June. The Douro steamer bad arrived out from Liverpool on the same day. It was expected the Tagus would leave on the 29th with the mails for Southampton, although she had not re turned from the south when the Minho left. The C;ntra Railroad contract had been approved by the deputies, also the bill to authorise the Government to continue the admission of grain as it might judge prudent. The harvest in general promised to be good in Portugal. The Government and its majority in the Deputies had come to a better understanding, after a stormy meeting, re specting the declaration signed by 63 of them for the continuation of the common road from Coimbra to Oporto. Foreign ship of war in the Tagus---French lttemiloop Le Newton. (Pi•ont the Special Correspondent of tire Times.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JuNE It is but natural that the attack of the allies on ther principal points of the Russian defences should now be scrutinised in all its details, and, as it has failed, that the plan of that attack should be severely criticised and un sparingly censured. It is certainly true that, in - some re spects, these details were imperfect. As an example of this imperfection, it is stated that the supports were too distant from the attacking parties ; that proper care was not taken to prevent the men becoming confused and losing their way in the labyrinth of works before the Redan ; hat no steps were formed above the berm of the pai-apet, .0 that the men could step over in order ; that thseattack 'ng parties were too weak, and that the men were crowded ' into narrow works and trenches which could not afford them cover, and were difficult of access and exit. It is, moreover, affirmed that no proper instructions were given to the artillery for their guidance in the event of success or defeat, and that it was only ; when the Russians had crowded over their parapets and through their embrasures, and had been shooting down our men for some . 4ime on their retreat, that an artillery officer obtained permission from Lord Raglan to open fire upon their lines ; that no directions were addressed even to the ambulance corps with respect to locality or action, and that many minor points of some importance were also neglected'; but the gravest charge of all is that the success of the assault was compromised by the facility with which Lord Raglan yielded to General Pelissie r 's r eques t, an d l a t e on the even-'ing of the 17th altered the arrangements for the following morning. As to the propriety of General Pelissier's views in making that request there is scarcely a difference of opinion in this army. If the Rusians were indeed about to assault the Mamelon before dawn he would have been prepared for them with overwhelming num bers, could have decim a ted tha n as th e y retreate with his artillery, and cod have immediately attacked a potitinn held 'by a beaten'. and - dispirited- enemy. If they were not prepared to attack the Mamelon, but were prepared to resist us, the original plan of bombarding them for three hours before we attacked could not have failed to drive them from their works under cover, and to slay great numbers of them. That plan was perfectly successful in the attack on the Mamelon, which was easily taken After a fierce cannonade in the open day, which drove the enemy out of the works. Although we had silenced many guns in the Roden ' we had not silenced' all, nor h a d we touched the ship s ' batteries ; and Prince Gortschakoff tells es daily, and as we find truly, " The damage done to us by day we repair at night." We never searched out the strength of the Redan on that morning, and the Russians might have—for all we knew and know, replaced every in jured gun, and have had the battery in as good order as when we opened fire. We were certain of success. Sir George Brown, inflated by the bloodless conquest of Kertch and Yenikale, directed the operations as if the garrison of Sebastopol were a body of serf-militia. A private memo randum was sent round the night before the attack to officers commanding regiments, &c., to request th em t o keep their men in order, and to make them observe silence " when they got inside the Redan till the enemy were en tirely subdued." It does not• appear why there was no attack on the Russian works on our left. One would cer tainly have thought that even a feint by the French against the Flagstaff Batteries would have been attended with ad vantage. However, these are points Weyond my province, and I shall stop here, with the assurance that I am ex pressing the opinions of others, and am not hazarding any one statement of my own on a subject of such vast im portance to forget that memorable morning as it is hopeless to attempt to describe what occurred. In my former letter, writteu hastily and under the de pression of our ill success, I could not do more than give a very meagre sketch of what took place, and I am not now able to amend my defects. It will be remembered that the plan of attack originally proposed was that the allies were to open a cannonade for three hours on the Malakhoff and Redan after dawn on the morning of the 18th ; that the French were to assault the Malakhoff, and that when they had gained possession of it we were to attack the Re dan. As the latter work is commanded by the former, it would not be possible to c arr y or t o h o ld it till the Mala khoff was taken. Soon after 12 o'clock the attacking party moved down from camp and took ground in the trenches under the direction of Major Halliwell, the Deputy-As sistant Quartermaster-General of the Division. Tho Se cond Division was on their left, the Fourth Division on the left of the Second Division, and the Third Division on the extreme left. The moveme - nt was simultaneous, and the troops moved off together till they came into the trenches, from which they were to issue forth to attack the dark wall of earth, serrated with embrasures before them. These embrasure s were only too well filled. The fire which we open e d on Sunday morning preliminary to the assault was :narked by great energy, weight, and destruc tiveness. In the first relief the Quarry Battery, com manded, by Major Strange, threw no less than 300 8-inch shells into the Redan, which is only 400 yards distant, and the place must have been nearly cleared by the incessant storm of iron splinters which flew through it. So near are the works that fragments of our 13-inch shells fly back from the Redan into the Quarry Battery, and on some oc casions our men have been injured by the splinters of their own shells, which have radiated from the inside of the Russian batteries. Throughout Sunday our artillery fired 12,000 rounds of the heaviest ordnance into the enemy's lines, and on the following day we fired 1.1,945 rounds of shot a.nd shell. The Russian fire was weak and wild. Al though they fired a good deal, they kept many pieces masked, and one six-gun and one eight-gun battery on the flanks of the Redan were silent, and were left compara tively unnoticed by our artillerymen. The only damage they did by all their fire throughout the whole of Sunday was the demolition of the wheel of a gun:carriage. Had the three hours' cannonade and bombardment which Lord Raglan decided on administering to the Russian batteries before we assaulted been delivered to them, it is very pro bable that we should have found but a small body of troops prepared to receive us at the parapets ' • and it must be esteemed a very unfortu na te circumstance that his lord ship was induced to abandon his intention in deference to the wishes of General Pelissier. General Pelissier, in re questing the English General to change the original plan of attack and to forestall the hour which was at first agreed upon, is not stated to have assigned any specific reason for the alteration, but it is reported that he wished to anticipate the enemy, who were about, as he was in formed, to make an assault on the Mamelon. He felt, too, that the masses of French whom he had prepared could not be concealed from the Russians for any length of time, and that they would soon be revealed by the noise which always attends the movements of large bodies of men. It would, indeed, have been impossible to conceal the fact of the accumulation of so many battalions close to the Mala khoff, and their presence would have been indicated cer tainly as soon as dawn, and probably earlier. The Russian column which is said to have issued from Malakhoff just before our assault, to attack the Mamelon, was certainly so small that it was, according to some, merely intended as a feint to draw out the French and lead them to the assault, for which the enemy were only too well prepared. As the 34th Regiment advanced, the supports, by some means or another, got mixed together with them, and some confusion arose in consequence. On cross i ng the trench our men, instead of coming upon the open in a firm body, were broken into twos andthrees. This arose from the want of a temporary step above the berm, which would have enabled the troops to cross the parapet with regu larity; instead of which they had to scramble over it as well as they could ; and, as the top of the trench is of un equal height and form, their line was quite broken. The moment they came out from the trench the enemy began to direct on their whole front a deliberate and well-aimed mitraillc, which increased the want of order and unsteadi ness caused by the mode of their advance. Poor Colonel Yea saw the consequences too elearly. Having in vain tried to obviate the evil caused by the broken formation and confusion of his men, who were falling fast around him, he exclaimed, " reis will never do ! Where's the bugler to call them - hack ?" But alas ! at that critical moment no bugle:: was to be found. The gallant old sol dier, by voice and gesture, tried to form and compose his men, but the thunder of the enemy's guns close at hand and the 'zoom of the early dawn frustrated his efforts ; and as he rushed along the troubled mass of troops which were herding together under the rush of grape, and en deavoured to get them into order for a rush at the bat teries, which was better than standing still, or retreating in a panic, a charge of the deadly missile passed, and the noble old soldier fell in advance of his men, struck at once in head and stomach by grape shot. The division has lost upwards of 320 men killed and wounded, and it suffered severely as it retired from the futile attack. The signal for our assault was to be given by the discharge of two service rockets, which were to have been fired when the French got into the Malakhoff, and the latter were to havehoisted a flag as a signal of their success. It is certain that the French did for a short time esta blish themselves in the Malakhoff, but they were soon ex pelled with loss, and I saw with my own eyes a large tri angular blue and black flag waving from the Malakhoff all during the fight. The moment the rockets were fired the Light Division rushed out of cover; in a quarter of an hour this infantry Balaklava was over, so far as any chance of success was concerned. The Second Division, seeing that the flank attacks failed, wisely kept under cover, and suffered but a trifling loss. Had they foolishly advanced, we should have to deplore greater and more useless slaughter. The 41st, under Lieutenant-Colonel Eman, were to form the assaulting party. Captain Mauleverer, of the 30th Regiment, commanded the working party. The 2d Battalion Royals was to follow the 41st, and with the 55th was to form a supporting party, while the 49th and 47th were in reserve, and the 62d were to furnish men for car rying woolpacks and ladd ers . Th ey were marc h e d o ff an d took ground, guided by Captain Layard, and were formed in the old advanced parallel, next to the Quarry, and re mained there till the attack failed. The Fourth Division were guided clown by their active Quartermaster-General Colonel Wyndham, and took ground in the trench to the left, but it would seem as if they attacked a little too near the apex of the Redan. Poor Sir John Campbell seems to have displayed a courage amounting to rashness. He sent away Captain Hume and Captain Snodgrass, his aide-de camp, just before he rushed out of the trench, as if averse to bring them into the danger he meditated, and fell in the act of cheering on his men. I have in my former letter stated the losses of the Fourth Division, and the part they took in the fight, dreadful and useless as it was. The 57th, out of 400 men, had more than a third killed and wounded, and it became evident that the contest on the left was as hopeless as the fight on the right, and in fifteen minutes all was over. The brigade under Major-General Eyre, which was des tined to occupy the Cemetery, and to carry the Barrack Batteries, consisted of the 9th Regiment, 18th Regiment, 28th Regiment, 38th Regiment, a n d 44 t h R eg i men t. F our volunteers were selected from each company to form an advanced party, under Major Fiolden, of the 44th Regi ment, to feel the way and cover the advance. The 18th Royal Irish followed as the storming regiment. Tho bri gade was turned out at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to march down the road on the left of the Greenhill battery to the Cemetery, and halted under cover while the necessary dis positions were being made for the attack. General Eyre, addressing the 18th, said, "I hope, my men, this morning you will do something that will make every cabin in Ireland ring again !" The reply was a loud cheer, which instantly drew on the men a shower of grape. The skir mishers advanced just as the general attack began, and, with some French on their left, rushed at the Cemetery, which WISII Tory feebly defended, They got mg Olgina . . the place after a Blight resistance; with small loss, and took some prisoners, but the moment the-enemy retreated their batteries opened a heavy fire on the place from the lett of the Redan and from theßarrack Battery. Four companies of the 18th at once rushed on out of the Cemetery towards the towneand actually succeeded in getting Pesse`ssion Of the suburb. Captain Hayman 'was gallantly leading - en his company when he was shot through the knee. Capt. Esmond° followed, and the men, once established, prepared to defend the' houses they, occupied. As they drove the Russians out, they, were pelted with lar g e stones by the latter ot t th eir wa y up.. to -the battery, which 'quite over hangs the suburb. The Russians could not depress their guns sufficientTy to firs down on our men, but they directed a severe, flanking fire cn them - from an angle of the Roden works. There was nothing for it but to keep up a vigo rous fire fronilhe'honses,',aaad to delude the enemy into the belief that the occupiers were more numerous than they were. Meantime; the, Ens.stans - did their utmost to blow down the houseeevith shot and , shell, and fired'grape in cessantly, but the -soldiers -liePt close, though 'they lost men occasionally, and they were, most materially aided by the fire of the regimmts 'in the' Cemetery behind them, which was directed a*the .Russian embrasures; so that the enemy could not get . etitto hie dOwn on the houses be low. Some of the housed wee, comfortably, furnished. One of them was as - well fitted up as most English man sions, the rooms full of fine furniture, a piano in the draw ing-room, and articles of luxury and taste not deficient. Oar men unfortunately found that the cellars were not empty, and . .bat there was abundance of fine muscat wine froni the south coast of the Crimea, and of the - stronger, wines, perfumed with roses and mixed with fruits, which are grown to the interior, in the better sort of houses. Some of the officers, when they welt away, carried off articles of cloth-._, ing and papers as proofs of their entrance into theeplace, and some others took away pigeons and guineapigs, which were tame in the house s . Th e tr oo p s en t er ed the place about 4 o'clock in the morning and could not leave it till 9 eeloek in thereverting.' The Ittunians blew uP many of. the houses and set fire'to others,. and when our men re tired the flames were spreading along the street. The 18th Regiment lost 250 men. In the middle of the day Captain Esmonde wrote to General Eyre to say that he required support, that the men were short of ammunition, and that the rifles were clogged. The rifles, which were of the En field pattern, had been only served to the regiment the day before, and again it was found. that these admirable weapons are open to the grave defect which has been so frequently mentioned, and that they are liable to become useless after firing 20 rounds. A sergeant volunteered to creep back with this letter, but, when he reached the place where the general ought to have been, he found that he had been obliged to withdraw owing to his wound, and ho therefore delivered the document to Colonel Ed werdes. As there was no possibility of getting support down to the troops, Colonel Eciwardes crept down along with the sergeant and got into the houses to see how matters were going on. The officer in command, on learn ing the state of the case, ordered the men to keep up the hottest fire they could ; and meantime they picked up the rifles and ammunition o f the killed and wounded, and were by that means enabled to continue their fusillade. The 9th Regiment succeeded in effecting a lodgment in the houses in two or three different place; and held their posi tion, as well as the 18th.. A sergeant and a handful of men actually got possession of the little Wasp Battery, in which there were only 12 or 14 Russian artillerymen. They fled on the approach of our men,butwhen the latter turned round they discovered they were unsupported ; and the Russians seeing that the poor fellows were left alone, came down on them and drove them out of the battery. An officer and half-a-dozen men of the same regiment got up close to a part of the Flagstaff Battery, and were ad vancing into it, when they, too, saw that they were by themselves, and, as it was futile to attempt holding their ground, they retreated. About 15 French soldiers on, their left aided them, but as they were likewise unsup ported they had to retire. Another officer with only 12 men, took one of the Russian Rifle Pits, bayonetted those they found in it, and held possession of it throughout the day, Meanwhile, while these portions of the sth and 18th and parties of the 44th and 28th were in the houses, the detachments of the same regiments and of th e 38th kept up a hot fire from the Cemetery on the Russians in the battery, and on the sharpshooters, all the time being ex posed to a tremendous shower of bullets, grape, round shot, and shell. The loss of the brigade, under such cir cumstances, could not but be extremey severe. One part of it, separated from the other, was exposed to a destruc tive fire in houses, the upper portion of which crumbled into pieces or fell in under fire, and it was only by keep ing in the lower storey, which was vaulted and well-built, that they were enabled to hold their own. The other parts of it, far advanced from our batteries, were almost unprotected, and were under a constant mitraille and bombardment from guns which our batteries had failed to touch. The total number of killed and wounded in the Brigade was, up to the last returns I could see, 107 killed, 552 wounded—total, 659. General Eyre has issued the following order : " SECOND BRIGADE ORDERS, THIRD DIVISION. " June 19. " The Major-General commanding the brigade re quests that the of f icers, non-commissioned officers, and men will accept his thanks for their conduct yesterday. He can not sufficiently express his admiration of their coolness, gallantry, and discipline during a most trying day. He must tender his thanks to the medical department for their judicious arrangements to provide for the wounded, which arrangements were most successful. To Assistant-Sur geon Gibbous, 44th Regiment, and Geoves, 38th Regi ment, especially, much_ praise is due for their zealous and humane exertions in the field, while exposed to s galling fire from the enemy." The detachments from the hard-working and Ittle no ticed Naval Brigade consisted of four parties of GO men each, one for each column, but only two of thorn went out, the other two being kept in reserve ; they yore told off to carry scaling-ladders and woolbags, and to place them for our storming parties. It is not to be Ivondered at if they suffered severely. On that eventful day 14 men worn killed and 47 were wounded. When the men re treated, overwhelmed by the storm from the encmy's bat tery, several officers and men were left behind wounded, and endured fearful agonies for hours, without a CLIP of water or a cheering voice to comfort them. lieutenant Ermiston lay for hours under the abattis of tie Redan, and was reported dead, but he watched his opportunity, and got away with only a contusion of the knee. Mr. Ken nedy, senior mate of the London, and of the Naval Bri gade, was also loft behind close to the abattis, and after several hours of painful concealment he rolled himself over and over like a ball down the declivity, and Managed to get into the trench. Lieut. Kidd camp in all safe, an d was receiving the congratulations of a brother officer, when he saw a wounded soldier lying out in the open. H e at once exclaimed—" We must go and save him !" and leapt over the parapet in order to do so. He had scarcely gone a yard when ho was shot through the breast and died iu an hour after. 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After the contest of the 22d of May, General Os..eu•Sacken is said to have applied twice to our generals before an armistice was accorded to him ; and, indeed, General Pelissier expressly says that the truce was granted to the Russian general on his reite rated request. It is no wonder, then, that the Russians were rather chary of granting us an armistice, when they had no occasion to go outside their lines for their dead or dying and wounded. Somehow or other the rumour got abroad that there would be an armistice early in the day, and we hoisted a white flag in the forenoon, but there was no such emblem of a temporary peace displayed by the Russians. Our batteries and riflemen ceased firing, and the Rus sians crowded the tops of the parap3ts of the Redan •and of the Round Tower (Malakhofl) batteries, and did not harass us by any fire, but of course it was dangerous to go out in front of the lines till they hoisted the white flag also. The advanced trenches were filled with officers and soldiers eager to find the bodies of their poor comrades, but they could not stir out of the parallels. They waited patiently and sadly for the moment when friendship's last melancholy office could be performed. It was a very hot day, and of all the places in the world whore heat dis plays its utmost power, a trench before Sebastopol is the most intolerable. Every moment anxious eyes were turned to the huge walls of earth before the Round Tower and behind the aattis of the Redan, in the hope of seeing the answering flag, but our own was the only one in view, and the French were still firing away on our loft at the Russian works. It was evident that something was wrong, and it was whispered that the Russians had refused our application for an armistice. Boats were at last seen to leave the roads of Sebastopol, and to meet boats from the fleet at the entrance, and it became known that the Rus sians had acceded to an armistice, and that it was to take place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. To pass the weary time away, there was nothing to do but to watch the Rus sians at work repairing their batteries—labours which they continued during the armistice subsequently — and to make out the bodies which lay scattered about in front of the Redan and Malakhoff. It was agonising to see the wounded men who were lying there under a broil- ing sun parched with excruciating thirst, racked with : fever, and agonised with pain—to behold them waving their caps faintly or making signals toward our lines, over which they could see the white flag waving, and not to be able to help them. They lay where they fell, or had scrambled into the holes formed by shells ; and there they had been for 30 hours—oh ! how long and how dreadful in their weariness ! An officer told me that one soldier who was close to the abattis when he saw a few men come out of an embrasure raised himself on his elbow, and, fearing he should be unnoticed and passed by, raised his cap on a stick and waved it till he fell back exhausted. Again he rose, and managed to tear off his shirt, which he agitated in the air till his strength failed him. His face could be seen through a glass, and my friend said he never could forget the expression of resignation and despair with which the poor fellow at last abandoned his useless efforts, and folded his shirt under his head to await the mercy of Hea ven. Whether he was- alive or not when our men went out I cannot say, but five hours of thirst, fever, and pain under a fierce sun would make fearful odds against him. The red coats lay sadly thick over the broken ground in front of the abattis of the Redan, and blue and grey coats were scattered about or lay in piles in the raincourses be fore the Malakhoff. I could see, too, that the white port streaks of the Russian vessels were blackened by the broad sides of the morning of the 18th. About 3 o'clock I rode down past the old 13-inch mortar battery in advance of our Picket-house into the Middle Picket Ravine, at the end of which begins the French approaches to their' old parallel which is now extended np to their recent conquest, the Mamelon. A body of the 12th Lancers and of some light cavalry moved down the Woron zoff-road about the same time or little later, and began extending their files right and left in a complete line across the whole of our front, with the evident object of preventing any officers and men, except those who were required on duty, getting down to the neutral ground. However, my companions and myself were beforehand, and had got down into the ravine before the cavalry halted just behind the Picket-house. As we advance this ravine is almost paved with shot and shell. They stud its sides or lie in artificial piles out of the path at the bottom. The earth gleams here and there with bullets and fragments of lead. In one place there is a French picket posted in a bend of the ravine, sleeping under their gronteeo4 railed on twisti to Protect t4em ee!"=.'e•es . " • • from the sun, or keeping Watch oierthe eternal:eft-cm-feu, .makieg,delicious coffee with the rudest apparatus smoking me - talking grayely. Yes .for a wonder, the me n are g rave, and leek almost sullen, but they-are merely thoughtful, and thin king e of the comrades wheaelodies they will loon have . tjo'inter, for you will find Iliera courteous and probspt, to give 7014 a drink of muddy watee, or a liittefor a cigar, or any information theyecan afford..By thsrsideof this ravine careful in guiding' hinae-"eistaby. ienebeimble mound, some .—your horse-must neede tread' them, if you are not marking the resting-place of individual soldiers, others piled over one;of those' deepl.pits Where rank and file lie in their common glory covere4 with limo, and. marked now and then with -a simple wooded cross. Our Protestant 'feelings need not be outraged by the fact that this emblem of the old Christian world e is,not confined to the graves of Roman Catholics, but that the desire to secure for the re mains of their comrades repasts in their res.tieg-places here- . after has induced many soldiere io erect the cross above .i.hcriet melancholy moundis,lnowing that the Russians will respect it. In other turnsein._ the ravine you will find mutes With litters for the wounded, and ambulances ' and the horses of the Land Transport Corps writing for their berden. English and French are mixed together. I saw in one place two of men, heart from the rest, with pie-• lapcholy faces. What are you waiting here fOr ?" said. I. " To go out for the Celonel, sir." was the reply. l a What Colonel ?'Why, Colonel Yea r _ 'to sure,- sir," said the good fellow, who was evidentireufprised at my thinking therecould - be any . btlier colonel in the world. And indeed the Lieht Division wild feel his loss. Under . occasional brusqueness of manner he concealed a m ost kind heart, and a more thorough siddieii one more devoted to his men, to the service, and to his country, never fell in • battle'thah Lacy Yea. I have reason to know that he felt his greats services and his arduous 'exertions had not been. rewarded as he had a right to expect. At the Alma he never went back a step, and there -were tears in his oyes on that eventful afternoon as he exclaimed to me, when the men had formed on the slope of the hill after the re treat of theynemY; " There!, look there ! that's all, that remains of nay peer Fusiliers ! A carolled missing, but, thank God, no Russians have it !" • Throughout the winter his attention to his regiment was exemplary. They-were the first who had hospital huts. When other regiments were in need of every comfort, and almost of every neces sary, the Fusiliers, by the care of their colonel, had every thing ' that could be procured by exertion and foresight. He never missed a turn of duty in the trenches, except for a short time, when his medical attendant had to use every effort to induce him to go on board ship to save his life. At, Inkerrnan his gallantry was conspicuous. What did he get for it all ? He and Col. Egerton are now gone, and there remains in the Light Division but one officer of the same rank who stands in the same case as they did. Is there nothing to be done for the colonels? •No recognition of their services? No decorations? No order of merit ? Just as one is thinking of these things, a French officer passes by with two orderlies after him. He is about 35 years of age, and yet his embroidered sleeves and his cap show be is colonel of a regiment, and his breast is covered with ribaud, and star and cross. Our colonels had entered the service ere this young man, who has won nearly all his honours in campaigns against Ben Some thing or other in Africa, was born. Let us get on, for the subject is unpleasant. You are now close to the Mamelon, and the frequent reports of rifles and the pinging of 'the balls close to you prove that the flag of truce has not yet been hoisted by the enemy. We are now in the zigzag, a ditch about 6 feet broad and 6 feet deep, with the earth knocked about by shot at the sides, and we meet French men laden with water canteens or carrying large tin cans full of coffee, and tins of meat and soup, ready cooked, up to the Mamelon. They are cooked in the ravine close at hand, and taken up in messes to the men on duty. The Memel= rises before us, a great quadrangular work on the top of a mound or hill opposite Malakhoff, which is about 503 yards nearer to Sebastopol. The sides are formed of enormous parapets with a steep slope, and they bear many traces of our tremendous fire on them before the Mamelon was taken. The parapets are high inside the work, and are of a pro digious thickness. It was evident the Mamelon was over done by the Russians. It was filled with huge traverses, and covers, and excavations inside, so that it was impos sible to put a large body of men into it, or to get them into order in case of an assault. The interior is like a quarry, so torn is it and blown up with shells. !The stench is fearful. It arises from the dead Russians, who were buried as they fell, and bones, and arms, and legs stick out from the piles of rubbish on which you are treading. Many guns also were buried here when they were disabled by our fire, but they do not decompose so rapidly as poor aboutben d t t h h e e i r mortality. I was shown here one of those extraordinary s fongasses, or small mines, which are exploded on the touch of the foot,' and which the Russians planted thickly advancedtin: tube, an 7octrksbrealkfeatpheerstiolts.stetpusbeoninistidte. Combustion instantly takes place,,the mine explodes,- and not only destroys everything near it, but throws out a quantity of bitumen, with which it is coated, in a state of ignition, so as to burn whatever it rests upon. Later in the day I very nearly had a practical experience of the working of these mines, for an English sentry, who kindly warned me off, did not indicate the exact direction till he found he was in danger of my firing it, when he became very communicative on the subject. One of them blew up during the armistice, but I don't know what damage it did. We have lost several men by them. The white flag was hoisted from the Redan just as 1 turned into the second English parallel on my left, where it joins the left of the French right. The Russians threw out a long line of sentries along their works in front of the abat tis which guards them, and at the same time we advanced another line of sentries opposite the Redan, and the French a similar cordon before the Mamelon. The officers on duty hastened to the intermediate space, and the burying' and searching parties came out on their sad duty. The Quar termaster-General and his staff were on the spot, and every precaution was taken to keep officers and men from crowd ing about. The men in the trenches were enjoined not to get up on the parapets or into the embrasures, or to look over. All officers and men not on duty were stopped by the cavalry a mile behind or at the boyaux in the trenches. The Russians seemed to be under restraint also, but they crowded on the top of the Redan and of the Malakhoff parapets, and watched the proceedings with great interest. I walked out of the trench unmolested on the right and rear of the Quarries, under the Redan, in which we have now established a heavy battery at the distance of 400 yards from the enemy's embrasures. The ground slopes down from our attack for some few hundred yards and then rises again to the Redan. It is covered with long rank grass and weeds, with large stones, with tumuli, alas ! of recent formation, and with holes ranging in depth from 3. 1 , feet or 4 feet to a foot, and in diameter from 5 feet to 7 or 8 feet, where shells have fallen and ex ploded. It is impossible to give a notion of the man ner in which the earth is scarred by these explo sions, and by the passage of shot. The grass, too, is seamed in all directions by grapeshot, and fur rowed by larger missiles, as if ploughs, large and small, had been constantly drawn over it. Some times it is difficult to get over the inequalities in the ground, which is naturally of a broken and uneven surface. there is a red jacket, in the grass—a private of .the 34th is lying on his face as if he were fast asleep; his rifle, with the barrel curved quite round, and bent nearly in two by the grape shot which afterwards passed through the soldier's body, is under him, and the right hand, which protrudes from under his chest, still clutches the stock. It was the first body I saw, and the nearest to our lines, but as we ad vanced and passed the sentries they lay thick enough around and before him. The litter-bearers were already busy. Most of our dead seemed to lie close to the abattis of the Redan, and many, no doubt, had been dragged up to it at night for plunder's sake. Colonel Yea's body was found near the abattis on the right of the Roden ; his boots and epaulettes were gone, but otherwise his clothing was un touched. His head was greatly swollen, and his features, and a fine manly face it had been, were nearly undistin guishable. Colonel Shadforth's remains were discovered in a similar state. The shattered frame of Sir John Campbell lay close up to the abattis. His sword and boots were taken, but the former is said to be in the Light Di vision Camp. It is likely he was carried away from the spot where he fell up to the ditch of the &battle for the facility of searching the body, as he could not have got so far in advance as the place where he lay. Already his remains were decomposing fast, and his face was much disfigured. Captain Hume, his attached aide-de-camp, had the body removed, and this evening it was interred on Cathcart's-hill—his favourite resort, where every one was sure of a kind word and a cheerful saying from the gallant Brigadier. It was but the very evening before his death that I saw him standing within a few feet of his own grave. He had come to the ground in order to attend the funeral of Captain Vaughan, an officer of his own regiment (the 38th), who died of wounds received two days previously in the trenches ' and he laughingly invited one who was talking to him to come and lunch with him next day at the Clubhouse of Sebastopol. I must close here for the present. Although the army has been disappointed by the result of the attack on the Redan and Malakhoff, it has not de spaired—it does not despair of the result of this weary siege. It riot too much to say that General Jones, our chief engineer, expects nothing of importance to be achieved for several, many, weeks to come—that Sir George Brown is wiser and more discreet, and Lord Rag lan less sanguine and more perturbed than they have been for some time past. Our Land Transport Corps is so hardly pressed by the service of the Siege Artillery that, as I am informed, the ration of fuel has been, on several occasions, recently not forthcoming for the troops to the :ull amount. (Prom the Daily News Special Correspondent.) HEIGHTS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 21: The original plan of attack contemplated a joint English and French assault of the Malakhoff, which as command ing the Redan and forming the grand key to the whole network of redoubts and batteries in front of the place, would, if taken, have at once rendered the former unte nable, and placed the whole town and harbour at the mercy of the captors. For reasons, however, which no body can understand, this very sensible and apparently most practicable design was abandoned, and the plan was changed into one of a simultaneous attack of the t vo great works—the Malakhoff being undertaken by the French and the Roden by ourselves. The first manifest disadvantage of this arrangement was the spreading of our forces over a field of difficulties nearly double in extent, and enabling the enemy to bring a vast number of guns into play against us, which, in the former case, could not have injured a man. To vastly enhance the chances of failure involved in this plan to ourselves, our whole attack ing force, including supports and everybody else, was limited to some four thousand men; whilst the French, with a much juster appreciation of the difficulty that fell to their share, told off twenty-five thousand. Of our handful, again, a large proportion consisted of raw re cruits, recently arrived to fill up the gaps in the regiments selected for the service—regiments which, with one or two exceptions, have borne the whole brunt of our trench fighting, and suffered accordingly. This was done through no want of old soldiers, of whom the third and fourth divisions could have furnished abundance — men who have been kept comparatively idle whilst their comrades of the Light and Second Divisions have been worked like galley-slaves. Sir George Brown, I believe, is to be thanked for this selection ; anxious as h o was to gain fresh laurels for his own command, thong h knew the untried materielmateriel of which so large a proportion he well of its strength is composed. I have already mentioned that the 23d Regiment had been chosen to lead the attack, and that, through a similar motive of mistaken desire to briDgegY to big OWDAYOUrite QtrPgj CIVA9I4I Airey ?rah . at the eleventh hour, permitted to assign this place of honour to the 34th—a regiment which, whether justly or not, enjoys only a moderate reputation amongst the others now in camp. Later still in the evening preceding the assault, Sir George discovered that the major commanding the 23d was still laid up with a wound received in the at tack on the Quarries, and that the senior captain—an officer, by the way, of some 18 years' service—would have charge of the corps during the storming. " Impossible ; this will never do," said the friend of apoplectic neck fur niture, " another regiment, with a field-officer in corn mend, must bo substituted." A message to this effect was telegraphed to head-quarters, , but Lord Raglan, with a degree of common sense which was quite unmilitary, overruled his second's objection, and replied that an officer of Captain —'s length of service, be his rank what it might, should be quite as fit to lead his regiment into ac tion as any field officer in the service, aud, accord ingly, that no substitution should be made. I merely mention these trifles to show the state of un certainty and confusion in which our preparations Were till almost within an hour before the assaulting force marched down towards the scene of its struggle and defeat. Then another deviation from the original plan of attack was made, also at.the eleventh hour, by General Pelissier, to which both military sense and common sense agree in attributing no small share of both the French and our own failure. Though the bombardment had been kept up vigo rously the whole of Sunday, night necessarily compelled a slackening of the allied fire, and during this respite there was reason to expect that the Russians would employ them selves in making good the injuries done to their batteries during the day. It was therefore arranged that at day break on Monday a terrific fire of shot and shell should be poured into the Redan and Malakhoff, to render as many of their guns as possible incapable of mischief. An hour or so, however, before the combined forces marched from the camp the French Commander-in-Chief rode over to our own head-quarters and declared that he could not wait for this preliminary assault of artillery, as he would have so many men in his trenches before the Malakhoff that there would be no cover for them ; and, consequently, they (and we) must "attack at daybreak, .at all hazards, and take the chance of finding the enemy's guns in the most favourable condition in which our bombard ment and their owners' subsequent idleness might have left them. Of course Lord Raglan complied, though forty-nine out of fifty of the subalterns in his camp would have foretold the consequences to be expected ; and, ac cordingly, soon after the first streaks of sunlight broke over the horizon the doomed thousands rushed to defeat and death. So little is ever known of the details of French opera- tions here, that I can give you few particulars of their attack on the Malakhoff ; but their plan of assault appears to have consisted in assailing the work on both flanks and the front simultaneously, and with overwhelming numbers —twenty-five thousand are said to have been actually en gaged. In just retribution for the disregard of their gene ral to the good to be expected from a short morning's bom bardment, they found the redoubt swarming with defen ders, and guns bristlindfrom every embrasure. On them, as on our own men, showers of grape and canister were poured out, literally mowing down whole battalions at a time ; whilst from along the whole semicircular line of parapet the crowding riflemen sent volley after volley into their disordered ranks, that passed through them like a sheet of molten lead. Three times they gave way, and as often rallied ; but were finally driven back after a struggle of some three hours and a half, leaving the space between the Hamden and Malakhoff literally covered with the dead and dying. With our own men, the space to be passed over from our most advanced trenches to the Redan was somewhere about seven hundred yards, and from the first moment of their rushing over the parapet towards the point of attack, they were met by the same awful and annihilating storm of canister and grape. Many fell within the first dozen of yards, and thence on to some broken ground about mid way, in which the remainder sought cover, the field was strewed with the slain and wounded. An officer present in the affair, and who was one of the few who escaped un injured, described the fire to me as being perfectly awful —much more severe, he assured me, than that which greeted our men at Alma, where ho also fought, and re ceived a wound. Few of the men ever reached the abattis in front of the work —none, I believe, ever even saw the deep ditch which protects its approaches. I have already mentioned the confusion which characterised the first commencement of our movement ; and coupling this with the murderous preparations made by the enemy, you will be at no loss to understand that success was most impro bable. I shall presently mention what the Russians thought of our generalship, as repeated in my own hearing by one of themselves. Daring the whole affair Lord Raglan and Sir George Brown were ensconced within our S-gun battery ; but though this afforded a good view of the scene of the struggle and of the disorder which marked it, for some reasons unknown to uninitiated spectators they appeared unable to give any efficient directions for the correction of our multiplied blunders. When the whole sad scene was ended, our men struggled back by every safe avenue to the camp, in a state of dispirited con fusion, well in keeping with the mob-like disorder in which they had. been throughout the assault. About midnight of Monday I was roused up by the sound of a terrific cannonade, and sustained musketry fire, along the whole front from our left to the French right, and on hastening out to the height in advance of the Vic toria Redoubt heard and witnessed what induced me to believe that a night attack had been made by ourselves and the French to retrieve the fortune of the day. From the Malakhoff to the extreme left of the Redan—a space of about a mile—whole clouds of flame burst along the line from the sustained discharges of some two hundred cannon, whilst musketry filled up the short intervals from both our own and the enemy's ground. The night was pitch dark, and as the storm of shells whistled through the air, nothing could be grander than the fiery parabolas of these terrible messengers, from battery to redoubt, and from redoubt back again to battery. I have neither time nor power to describe the magnificent but awful pyrotech nic scone. A badly aimed shell from the Malakhok passed high over the Mamelon, and fell some sixty yards from where I stood ; but though this was safe enough, I deemed it best to shift my ground, and so retired. A loud " three times three" rose upon the midnight air from the direction of the Redan ; and as one can never be mistaken in this peculiar vocal product of British lungs, I jumped to the pleasant conclusion that the day's stain had been wiped away, and that the Redan was our own. I was, however, mistaken, and the explanatton of the whole affair was this: during the night, the French, endeavour ing to take advantage of the darkness, had crept out from the Manselou, to recover a number of scaling ladders which they had been compelled to abandon daring the at tack. Tho Russians perceived them , and opened a smart firo of grape from the guns of the Malakhoff, which was replied to by shell from the Mamelon, Almost simulta neously, a party of the enemy emerged from the Redan, in expectation of what they deemed a similar attack to that attempted by the French, and being perceived by our mon a volley of musketry was poured into them, and chase given with the bayonet. After a short stand the Russians turned and fled, and it was at this juncture that the hur rahs I have mentioned were sent after them. After this the cannonade was kept up for some time from both lines, in the manner I have remarked. Next morning there was hardly a gun fired on either side ; and about 12 o'clock wo hoisted aflag to request the necessary truce for the burial of our dead. TCHORGOITN, JUNE 21. After witnessingthe brave, but fruitless assault upon the Malakhoff and Redan on the morning of the 18th, at day break, I rejoined the Turks on the plateau above the vil lage of Upon, on the , other side of the Tchernaya, in a north-easterly direction from Balaklava. They had quitted their position close to Lord Raglan's head-quarters early on the 17th, with—so ran the tale —the full intention of making a final movement in advance in concert with the Pieclmontese and two divisions of the French. They took no tents with them, except some half dozen for the use of the pachas and other dignitaries. Everybody under that rank was obliged to content himself with such covering as could be afforded by the "arch of heaven," and, in fact, but for the rather heavy dew of the nights, no one could desire better. Upoo was occupied, a few shots were exchanged with some hundred Greek volunteers and Donski Cossacks -the only Russian troops to be seen, and the night of the 17th was passed on the plateau above the village. In the afternoon of the following day, Omer Pasha received the news of the failure of the attacks on the Malakhoff and the Redan, and the same evening retired two miles, and took up his position on another plateau above Koutchka. This retrograde movement was said to be caused partly by the check received by the allies, and partly by some vague fears of being " cut off," though what they were founded on I could never clearly ascertain. There were certainly no Russians in the vicinity beyond the Greek volunteers, and the army might have marched right to Bakshi-Serai without hindrance. The plain above Koutchka was covered with brush wood, and in default of tents the soldiers exit off leafy branches, and in a few hours had constructed a whole town of summer-houses, which formed an admirable protec tion from the burning heat of the sun, as well as from the night. In this sort of work the Turkish soldiers display no small amount of skill and ingenuity. The bowers of this sort which they constructed for the pachas might grace any English garden. Valley of Baidar, 12 miles south-east of Balaklava, June 22.—The movement of the troops commenced about 1 o'clock this morning ; by 5 the last battalion had descended from the heights above Koutchka, and was wending its way along the Woronzoff road towards Baidar. This, though not exactly " advancing backward," is something rather like it. It is certainly a step towards fighting, as there aro Russian troops in this quarter, but it is not a step towards anything decisive as the general objects of the war. No movement that is not directed against Sim pheropol can very seriously affect the Russians. We do not expect to move to-morrow, but for the day after I cannot answer. Our outposts are on near Balder. The Piedmontese, who crossed the Tchernaya at the sam e time as Omer Pacha, and were likewise encamped necr Tchorgoun, were also to have marched to-day, but, as et, we have seen nothing of them. They are still supr v . s li on from cholera. There is some talk of Bosquet's di I acting in conjunction with the Turks. BEFORE SEBASTOPO , JVN L „ e d, letter win reach ( From the Special Correspondent of the L gorLtill' e p ra ld . . ) In the hope that this hastily-T . ) u nKamiesch, the French port leaving some hours s y t o a u t i i o n n , time, with l it h , have r p i o d s c t l e f n ro after the one from Balaklay . a o , . at which I posted my pre ceding letter early this mor ' ni troops are furious—a much The British and French . possible, might be employed—at (rakwthnat-We stronger expression, theif p storming party on the Redan and the way in whic h treated. The two Englisha Malakhoff batterie s w e re the storm' - regi mentsing ing party on the Redan chiefly conaP °B t ru ly heroic party —were shot down,four like dogs, whilst a • deep, thousands of their countryme n , p an ting like f or the contest, were pre ven t e d —literally prevented lions an forbidden —giving any aid. Those regiments were the 57th and the 33d, aided by the Rifles. As I said before, they advanced four deep : a very inju dicious arrangement under all circumstances, for they should have been allowed to get to their gaol on a more extended plan, and depend upon it British soldiers would have come to the mark under any difficulties. Those re giments have been more than decimated, and all through not being supported. No real effort, in fact, at aiding them was made. Terrible isthe responsibility—searching, minute, and fearless must be the investigation. Sixty sailors of the Naval Brigade volunteered to go with the storming party —all honour to the heroic fellows 1 Off they went with ....._- - - (F,•ont the Special Correspondent of the 2lforning Post.) CAMP BEFORE SEBA.STOPOL, JUNE 20. They say we are preparing again for anothe r attempt ; but that cannot be until we receive more powder from Malta, unless we drain ourselves of the little We have. Shot and shell we have in abundance. Scarcely a shot can be heard during the day. For two nights past can nonading and musketry have been very brisk. yester day a flag of truce was hoisted, but it was some time be fore the enemy answered it; but at last it was hoisted for the burial of the dead, from four till seven p.m. The heat of the weather had caused some awful sights in the (lead and the mangled limbs of the poor fellows. Our loss is great—no less than 17 officers, I hear. Colonel Yea, I understand, the enemy had completely stripped. The whole of the troops are still stationed on the heights. The Guards are still encamped on the ground in rear of the Third Division. The French Imperial Guard are likewise bivon. asked on the right,as before the assault,from which circum stance we anticipate that another trial will begiven. A Rus sian mechanic from the to vin came over this morning, and tells us that the firing, at the time of the assault, and during the day previous, killed and wounded about half the gar rison. A scarcity of water is beginning to be felt on the heights, more especially near the regiments, from the over crowded state of so small a piece of ground. The wounded of both French and English are being sent on board ship as rapidly as possible. The wounded suffer greatly this weather. The Simla, screw-steamer, has made a very rapid passage, having left Southampton on the 3d instant, and arrived here on the ISth early, with 11 officers, 250 men, and 290 horses of the Royal Horse Artillery. The Cormorant has also arrived with 6 officers, 53 men, and 59 horses of the 17th Lancers. Cholera cases in the Guards are of less frequency since their removal up to the front. In tho Royal Artillery, five and sii daily is about the average. I can hear no news as to when the place will be attempted again. JUNE 22. Everything still remains very quiet. Another trial will be made on the town from this side. Every exertion is now being made in the transport of shot, shell, and powder, immense quantities of which have been transported up these last few days by rail. Some fresh arrivals have come into harbour, which puts plenty at our disposal. No firing scarcely takes place during the day. At night, as usual, when works are in progress, the usual quantity of shells are to be seen flying in the air from both sides. We have commenced a new battery in the new ground obtained the other night near the Cemetery, close to the Dockyard Creek, which it will command ; but the enemy have per ceived our intentions, and have traced, and last night commenced, another strong work to enfilade it. But it has not stopped our progress, so that, in course of time, we may expect to hear nightly attacks being made on this new piece of work by us, for it will be impossible to hold the present ground, or battery, if they are allowed to erest this battery, without its being taken or destroyed. The other night the enemy set the houses on fire in that neigh bourhood, which burnt fiercely, for the purposes, it is sup posed, of giving them a better opportunity to resist us, and to deprive us of any shelter. The French are throw ing up, close to Careening Bay and on the flank of the Mamelon, a very large battery, which will, when com pleted, be mounted with the heaviest guns and mortars. But they are so exposed to the enemy's fire that the works cannot progress with that rapidity one would like to see ; but the French seem determined to master all obstacles to obtain their end, which is said to be of extreme utility, for this battery will command the shipping (in conjunc tion with the one now making in the Cemetery) ; it rakes the Careening Bay, and also the main harbour, down to Fort Constantine, so that if the Allies can but secure these two batteries in operation, we may yet have good hopes. But even if we continue as we now are, in a very short time the enemy will have destroyed both town and shipping. Another three weeks must elapse ere any thing can be done or attempted. General Estcourt has had an attack of cholera, and Lord Burghersh has been very severely indisposed. Cholera is on the decline. The First Division will remain to do duty in front for a time. JUNE 23. A sharp attack was made by the enemy last night, but it was easily repulsed. Lieut.-General Pennefather, C. 13., proceeds to England for the recovery of his health. Major the Hon. A. Cathcart, Deputy Adjutant-General, Light Division, and Captain the Hon. J. Hutchinson, 13th Light Dragoons, are indisposed, and proceed to Scutari. The weather continues vory hot. The 71st are still at Kertch, throwing up works. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. ( From the Report of the Registrar-General. ) In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths of 1,273 persons, of whom 669 were males and 604 females, were registered in London. The return shows an increase on that of the previous week, when the number was 1,075. This result is not caused by an increased mor tality, but by an influx into the registers (which is usual at the end of a quarter) of cases returned by coroners, which have accumulated during previous weeks. In the table of causes of death these cases are chiefly found under the several heads that compose the class of deaths by "violence." This class comprises 158 deaths i❑ the present return, against 53 in the preceding week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years the average number of deaths was 1,023, and with the same rate of mortality which then prevailed, in the popu lation as now existing, the number would be 1,125. The excess of the present return above the corrected average is 14S ; and the comparison is admissible, because the corresponding weeks having occurred at or near the end of a quarter, they were subject for the most part to the same irregularity which has been mentioned above. Last week the deaths from zymotic diseases were 212, whilst the corrected average is 249. 01 that number 24 were caused by small-pox, 39 by scarlatina, :36 by hoop ing-cough, 43 by typhus, and only 9by measles. The only disease in this class which manifests any tendency to increase is diarrhcca, and the numbers from it are still inconsiderable. In the last fuur weeks diarrhcra was fatal in 16, 17, 25, and 33 case?. Last week the births of 879 boys and 853 girls, in all 1,732 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1345-54 the average number was 1,484. The reading of the barometer at the Royal Observa tory, Greenwich, rose to 30.25 in. by the morning of Wednesday, which was the highest reading in the week. Tile mean reading was above 30 in. on every day till Friday, and the mean of the week was 30.048 in. The mean temperature of the week was 63 deg., which is 1 . 8 deg. above the average of the same week in 3S years. The mean temperature was above the average on every day after Monday ; and on Wednesday when it was 66 . 8 deg. it was 5.6 deg. above the average. On that day the highest temperature of the week occurred, and was 80.5 deg. ; the lowest occurred on Monday, and was 47.7 deg. The highest reading of a thermometer in the sun was 105 deg. on Saturday. The mean dew point temperature of the week was 52 . 8 deg., and the differ ence between this and the mean temperature of the air was 10.1 deg. The temperature of the water of the Thames was 62'4 deg. No rain fell in the week. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, .TUNE 30. Zyrnotic Diseases 212 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 37 Tubercular D; Aseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Sens es Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 72 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration .. ....................................... 137 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and. other Organs of Digestion . ............ .. . • ........................... 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .. . ........................ 6 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ............... 1; Diseases Malformations Diseases o o f f t t h h e e . .. Skin,.. Joints, . .&. . C....80ne5, and.. . .. a .. i n : ..n d .. t........ . Muscles l ....... ... ......................................... 15: Premature Birth and Debility ........................... 30 Atrophy ...................................................... 45 Old Age ......................... . ...... , .................... 31 5 u dd e n............................................ Violence, Privation, Cold,lntemperance Causes not specified ............ DEATHS Tnox ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in eorre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week In the 1851. of 1854. Week. West Districts ...... 376,427 North Districts ...... 490,396 Central Districts...., 393,256 East District s 485,522 South Districts Totals Males 669 Females 1,290 1,27$ BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Maleg . 870 Pernalea 853 Total 1,732 A. deputation from the Irish maltsters, consisting of Mr. Codd, Mr. Fottrell, and Mr. Sinnott (attended by Mr. Bryden, Parliamentary agent), had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of the Excise Duties Bill. The deputation was accompanied by the following members of Parliament :—Mr. George, Mr. Beamish, Mr. Esmonde, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Vance, Mr. Alexander, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Burrows, Mr. L. Montgomery, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Brady, Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Tristram Kennedy. A deputation of the Stage Carriage Committee had also an interview with the right hon. baronet on the subject of the present duties on stage carriages. The deputation consisted of Mr. R. Hartley, Mr- J. Barber Mr. Geo. Chancellor, Mr. A. Lines, Tdr , Douglas, and 'lit •J.,•8. Bradfield (secretory.) • ___ _____ ........, ~410