The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-24 00:00:00

T 11-E BATTLE OF INKERMAN. (Front es Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) BRITISH Caul', Nov. 7.—We have again had a pitched battle with the Russians—a battle which, for duration and loss of life, is only to be equalled by the tremendous con flicts of Napoleon at Austerlitz and Leipsic. In a word, the enemy, with an overpowering force, attacked the right of our entrenched oamp at daybreak on the morning of Sunday, the sth of November. Their immense superiority of numbers enabled them to carry several strong positions, and penetrated into the centre of the camps of the Light and 2d Divisions ; but the opportune arrival of reinforce ments enabled the Allies to recover their lost ground, and eventually repulse the attack with such loss to thenemy as is, porhaps, unparalleled in the history of modern warfare. The English have lost no less than aeven general officneerer killed and wounded, an unusually lar g e proportion of ell:leers, and about 2,400 men. The Freuch, who reinforced us, and turned the fortune of th e da y , have lost, as at Alma, about 1,400. The loss of the enemy is litera ll y appalling. No words can convey an idea of the m anner in which they have been slaughtered. Between 15,000 and 20,000 of theii in some pces three and fou, dead remain upon the fi eld, deep. While the battle was raging on the right, a sortie was made from Sebastopol on the left of the French line. It was repulsed after a tremendous engagement, in which our allies lost about 1,000 killed and wounded, and the Russians nearly 3,000. a se The fighting lasted about eight hours. No terms of praise. aro too high for the desperate courage which the enemy *hewed in this assault upon our lines. Their conduct and coolness, under fire, literally seem inexplicable. On the morning of the 4th the enemy approached Bala klava en two bodies, about 35,000 or 40,000 strong ;—of course, as they nearly always are, day aid night, the de fenders of the batteries had to get ander arms, and fired several shells into the enemy's columns. The latter gave not the least sign of a wish to attack; on the contrary, be yond moving out of range aid remsiaing drawn up in or der of battle, they barely appeared to notice us. The night of the 4th passed much the same es other light' in cavil); that is, we talked over what the trenches had done that day, the geasral prospects of the siege, the large force of the enemy in our rear, and the probability of an "'s l ots " from the besieged garrison. T. our surprise the enemy appeared iaolined to let us have a quiet night, and only a guts now and thea was fired from Sebastopol. A little after three, on the morning of Sunday the sth, when a heavy fog shrouded everything from view, the various garrisens of the redoubts at Balaklava were roused out by the neje° of large masses of troops approaching. This time scouts were instantly sent out, and returned with the intelligence that a large army was moving against them, though, ow ing to the darkness and the thickness of the fog, it was impossible to say on what point the attack would be directed. To the surprise of all, the right of our position at Balaklava was not even threatened, and this was the only point from which danger is really to be apprehended. The left or north of the Balaklava defences are remark ably strong, as they rest on the steep plateau of land on which our camp is fixed, so that any army advancing against Balaklava on the left, would be exposed to a tre mendous flanking fire from the redoubts is rear of our lines. Yet it seemed from the sound as if it was on this point that the attack of the enemy was directed, and all our doubts were set at rest by the batteries oa the left of Balaklava, and also those in rear of the camp, opening tire. What they fired at—beyond a noise—it is difficult to say, for the merning was dark, cold, and foggy; so foggy, with that particalar white wet mist of a winter's morning, than it was impossible to see ten yards beyond the mnzales of the guns. Yet the noise of the cavalry and. artillery could be plainly heard, and in its direction oar batteries sent shell after shell. At about half-past three the Russian artillery returned the fire. From the flashes of their guns they appeared to have advanced into an angle of the plain, between a Are from our camp line* on their right, ano our Balaklava batteries facing them. Directly the vague indirect flashes of their guns were made out our artillery fired in that direction, and the enemy ap peared to be trying to return it. The cannonade was hot enough, and lasted about half-an-hour, yet I scarcely think a man fell on either side. The fog WAS se thick that aim was out of the question, so the guns were fired on "spec," and to show the enemy we were preparee , for them. At about four o'clock a cloud of skirmishers advanced to the brow of the hills en which the rear of our camp lines rest. The Barden skirmishers never approached nearer to this breastwork than 500 er COO yards, and at this very safe distance a hot fire wee kept up by them in the direction of the breastwork. The Zouaves, of .:nurse returned the musketry, but with just the same results ar those which followed the cannonade—viz., no results at all Both sides were almost out of range, and mist decideals, out of sight ; its fact, as your readers have foreseen, thi whole attack upon the rear of our lines was a mere feint to draw off attention, while s serious and desperate attempt was made to force our camp, and tarn the whole of our position en the right, near Tchernaya. Ia the camp the continued cannonade in the rear hat. excited some disturbance. The troops were got undo arms; but, knowing the strength of the position in the rear, none were moved. The fire meanwhile had much lackenod, when suddenly, and near five o'clock, to th , surprise, and I think also a little to the consternation o. all is camp, a most tremendous cannonade was opened Iron the heights near Inkorman, full upon the right of our po sition. As I have said, the two-gun battery on the hid over the Tchernaya was held by a strong party of the 55th With the first fiting in the rear they had turned out: an , were watching the cannonade from a distance, when some of the men remarked a peculiar rumbling noise on the base of the steep hill. The fog and darkness were so dense that it was quite impossible to distinguish anything ton feet below the battery. Yet still the noise round the hill cone tinned. I have already described the high steep hill facing the battery and overlooking it. No one suepectet: or believed it possible that the enemy could get guns n; this in a single night, so the place had been but little re girded. Yet it was from this spot that the Russians open° i the fire from about ten guns full on the Two-gut, Battery and the Light and 2d Divisions, which lay about half-a-mile in the rear. The instant the cannonade began, and the first emotions of utter astonishment and surprise were passed, the 55th piequet kept close under the earth 'Perk of the battery, and the Fillet flew over them, do* but little injury. The enemy had, some way or other, managed to get up their guns during the night, but havinr , to point them in the dark and fog, took b u t a blind aim, yet nevertheless their shot and shell flew in all direction,. for the space of nearly 20 minutes, while the cannonade is rear of the line at Balaklava was also redeubleel, so that it seemed impossible to say which would prove the true an, which the feint attack, or whether they were both true of both feints. The latter opinion was adopted by many. who said that the enemy would never dare attack us ie our entrenchments, but rather distract our attention while. a sortie was made from the town upon the trenches. A , if to confirm this surmise, the instant the cannonade it the rear recommenced, all forts, redoubts, and batteries round Sebastopol opened with a tremendous roar, which seemed to shako the earth. Of oonrse, the troops remained ander arms, but did net attempt to move; every one knew that before the real at tack commenced the artillery would cease and the sitar; crackling fire of musketry begin. Until that was heard, there wan no knowing on which of the three points the enemy intendel to advance. The report of the muskets was therefore anxiously listened for, and it soon wa' heard. . The picquet of the 55th had been all this time I 7 is ender cover of the walls of the T wo - gun Battery enth: right. The fire of the Russian artillery, though much di rented on the battery, had done little or no harm, and the men still lay under cover when the g uns „ mod. The instant they had done so, and the men of the 55th were enabled to hear what was moving in their ewe immediate neighbourhood, the noise of an immense body of amen advancing was heard close upon the batteries. The Picipset instantly prepared to defend the place, an d then in the hour of need the great deficiencies of the bat tery were discovered. In the first place it had no gnus , and in the second place no steps were made to enable the infantry to fire over ita high parapet. Had there been either one or the other, the Russians would never have taken the place. As it was, our men were obliged to erowd sloe* to the two narrow embrasures, and fire through them as they best could. Before they had taken their place s at theee ports a single minute, all the kill close r y e a n n 2 c d i the battery was found to be surrounded by the &a but th* z ' 1 " . 111 Y. The fog prevented ear follows seeing far, Hamilton:we:ere a te lil ltl d toe plainly that some 5,000 or 6,000 The instant thea y close at hand. through the fog, though caught sight of the battery ' exertion, in climbing the seemed utterly spent by their th e hill, they rushed forward with n dash we hardly gay: of numbers, for. Nothing daunted by the immense disparityln they closed within 10 feet ° antuuber3, the 55th waited till 00.f rid ui the n gave one tremendous and firin g enemy in the dust ; an d volley, which stretched ..2 .. musketry fast as he could, kept 1 then each man, loading thrylupon eaoh Itussial, up an incessant discharg e of as h a a pproached. The Itusm at , and then, with wonderful courage, lii i e minutes they X "' for a I"lnint) t a ll e r instant f d up and returned a close and deadly fire. In less than its emu again attempted to storm the battery. gallant 554t:'"' rushed on and poured over its banks, an d brasures, in over-powering rig numbers. There I:ausgit gent of desperate struggle, during which our hand to hand and foot to foot with their numerous fon ht assail ants. It was but a moment, and iu the neat they repulsed the attack and preserved the battery. But their numbers diminished every instant, while those of the enemy in. creased. Soddenly tho Russians made another charge, and this time with more effect. The remnants of the 55th picquet abandoned the battery just in the nick of time, for the 11th regiment of Russian infantry had crossed the Tchernaya at another point, and were trying to take our men in rear and flank. The, brave 55th fell back among the bushes, fighting to the last, till they came to another picquet under the wall, on the old post road, which,.. like itself, had lost half its men, and were fighting desperately to L' +, 'Y~ 7/11 - ,1 ` ~ e ~ l THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1854. repel an attack from a column of the enemy's infantry. he led them, • and his escapes seem almost miraculous. The two picquets joined, and for a time held the road The Russians now altered the plan of attack. They no igainet all their assailan ts, who foil in heaps under the longer pressed upon the wall in front, but, swarming up pool murderous fire of war men. But the check to the Rus- by the two-gain battery, poured down upon the right flank -liens was only momentary ; they had now got between in tremendous force. their heights on our right, and At this moment there were not less than 40,000 of the t : h 'O err baantdtelro;°°onotraheea hill u p threw shot and shell among our enemy, to oppose whom there were only about 12,000 men, with terrible effect. The picquete were preparing to English. Aides-de-camp were instantly despatched for retire from the wall, when fortunately two regiments of reinforcements from the French, and the English fell back she 2d Division, the 41st and 49th, came into action, and upon their line of tents. The wall was abandoned, and as P assing the wall opened a destructive file fire on the Rue- our men retired the enemy mustered in force for a grand Clans on our right, near the Two-gun Battery. The enemy attack. returned it quite as rigorously ; but their small, inefficient The 30th and 41st remained to engage the enemy, and weapons stood no chance against our Minie rifle. The Rue- most nobly they behaved, fighting their ground inch by eians fell in ranks ; yet still they never moved their ground, inch, and strewing the field with Russian corpses. The or showed a sign of retreating. The 41st and 49th then enemy advanced by the old post road from Sebastopol ; leployed into line, and prepared to charge ; and the on an eminence in the centre of this a battery of six field instant they did so the enemy fell back in die- pieces was placed. Unfortunately, it was so placed, reeler. It is strange, but it is quite true, that the Russian with thick brushwood at each side, that the enemy's troops will keep their ground in beautiful order, under the skirmishers were enabled to approach unseen, and most fearfal volleys which can be poured upon them, but pick off both men and horses. Our fellows of she moment our men prepare to go in with the bayonet the 30th and 41st made many attempts to dislodge they break and disperse like children. The 41st and 49th i them, but the place was so crowded with them in accordingly charged up the hill to the right, and in the i all Directions that it was useless. While this fighting was course of 5 minutes recaptured the Two-gun Battery, driv- going on a body of Russian infantry dashed up the road ing out the enemy like sheep before them. This maven- towards our guns. The danger was seen, and such horses :'age, however, was only temporary. The instant our men l as still survived the fire were hastily harnessed to each of were in the battery, the Russian artillery, on the hill the guns, which were withdrawn. The remaining two guns above it, threw shot and shell into the very centre of our with their ammunition waggons fell into the hands of the troops, cutting them down by files. The enemy's infantry enemy. Some of the artillerymen clung round the guns, tt the same time rallied, and swarming up the hill poured and fought the Russians for them hand to hand. One ser ie such a terrific fire of musketry that our regiments were jeant in particular was seen defending himself with his %gain compelled to retire down the hill, and defend the sword alone amid a hundred enemies for fully five minutes. wall along the post road. When the battle was ever his body was found with 17 It was now nearly seven o'clock, and most of the troops in bayonet and ballet wounds on it, and two Russians killed the English camp were moving up to the scene of action. with his sword lay on the ground beside him. By the time I have mentioned, all oar chiefs were as- Our troops were now slowly falling back, file-firing, and aemblecl near the camps of the 2nd and Light Divisions. disputing every inch of ground, until the reinforcements Lord Raglan was there looking unusually anxious, with cams up. The Russians had got into the brushwood, and fir George Brown, Sir George Cathcart, the Dake of Cam- were picking off every officer of raak, who, of course, like bridge, Sir De Lacy Evans, Major General Strangways (of all English officers in the moment of danger, were coaspi the Artillery), Brigadier-Generals Buller, Adams, Torrens, swans in the frent of their mei, giving out tie necessary oldie, Beutieck, Pennefather, and several other officers orders as if at a review. It was at this time that poor Sir Hof high rank from the English and French armies. George Cathcart was shot through the heart and fell dead All this time the 41st, 47th, 49th, 55th, 20th, and SSth from his horse. Within five minutes afterwards Brigadier- Regiments, from tie 2d, 4th, aid Light Divisions, were Generals Torrens and Gold* also of the 4th Division, ranged inside the wall on the old post road, firing over it were mortally wounded, the former through the chest, th e into the bodies of Russian infantry with the most terrible latter through the stomach. Here also Brigadier-General effect. Bentinck was wounded through the arm, Sir George Brown The rattle of musketry was deafening. through the arm, and Captain Butler, brother of the hero About this time our batteries of artillery came hotly of Silistria, who was on the Duke's staff, and standing tato the fight against the enemy's battery on the hill, near him at the time, was shot through the brain. Our which was doing us a considerable amount of mischief. men had fallen back so far that the two-gun Lancaster Under the splendid management of General Strangways battery, which was erected to command the harbour and they soon so far tamed the fortune of the day as to leave shipping in Sebastopol, fell into tie enemy's hands. They their infantry attacking oars beyond the wall entirely spiked and dismounted both tie guns, and pushing forward without support. Advantage was instantly taken of the on our left tried to cut off the whole body of our men 'change to advance the 20th and 47th Regiments to the from the advancing French succour,. right for the purpose of retaking the Two-gun Battery. The fight was now quite among the tents o f th e 2d an d These two regiments splendidly uphel d the fame of the Light Divisions. All the canvas of the tents was cut aid English troops. In spite of a tremendous cress fire, they blown to pieces by the storm of shot and shell. But at this advanced at the aeint of the bayonet, and as they neared spot the tide of fortune turned. The enemy were now cone the battery poured in one tremendous volley and charged. pletely out of the bush which had screeued and sheltered he less than a minute the Russians were driven out, with them on their advance, and upon fair ground they stood fearful loss. 'Yet, hardly were they clear of the battery, no chance with our men. Our regiments halted, extended when the Russians rallied again, and, returning round the their line to the left, and commenced a tremendous file spot, poured in volley after volley into the columns of fire. The enemy, in disorder, hardly returned a shot, but the gallant 20th and 47th, and at the same time the stood their ground, and fell by hundreds and hundreds. Russian artillery reopened en the battery is such a Thrice they moved up stolidly to break our line on the ,nanner as neither friend nor foe could hold it. Under left, and were met each time by terrible volleys of mug these cirenmstaacee the 20th and 47th were compelled ketry, until they closed in, when our fellows charged and to fall bask, and the enemy again occupied the T wo• massacred them at the point of the bayonet. The fortune gun Battery far a moments This tarn of possession was, of the day still hung doubtful. The enemy were getting , aowever, but brief ; oat fellows again dashed up at up all their strength for a final effort, when Canrobert it, and again they literally massacred all in the place. came up with three regiments of Zonaves, five regiments the battery itself, and all its approaches, were now of French Infantry, and a strong force of Artillery, and covered with English and Russian corpses and wenaded. commenced a terrible attack on the enemy's right flank. The latter were few in the extreme, as whenever the This occurred at about eleven o'clock, and from that Imo- enemy occupied the contested post, they bayoneted all our fellows who gave the least sign of life. This is no battle field rumour, bob a fact, for the truth of which I can my self ♦ouch ; for, later In the day, when the battle s3omed ment the Russian chance was hopeless. Yet, though under the French fire they were literally falling by bat talions, they never showed the least sign■ of trepidation or disorder. On the contrary, they formed up in the most ;oing against us, I saw the Russians killing the wounded svh remained on their part of the ground. When the 20th end 47th regained the battery the Rue sian artillery recommenced in each a manner as to make it quite untenable. This part of the Russian guns wan on the hill on the other side of the Tchernaya, overleokieg our battery, but so admirably was the situation selected that it was quite impossible that our mon could attempt to storm. If they had been east-iron they must have been lastroyed. Accordingly our artillery was advanced for the purpose of endeavouring to silence the enemy's guns. the 20th and 47th again retreated from the Tree-gun Bat tery, and our field-guns were advanced to the wall near the post road. Beth parties then commenced a tremend lons cannonade. The Russian infantry drew hack as our suns moved up. Our regimeats remained under the wall to support them. From this time until eight o'clock it was a mere artillery battle. The Guards came up to take their share in the battle on our side, bat this accession of strength was raore than counterbalanced by tbo arrival of t division of Russian infantry and artillery, about 20,000 strong, who moved up from Ink - erman to reinforce their countrymen. The instant these reinforcements came up the action again became general. The Russian skirmishers and strong supporting bodies of infantry were again thrown out on our right, and under cover of a tremendous fire of artillery .:rawled up the hill to the Two-gun Battery. Ag their , non breasted the hill, they were encountered with showers of grape from our field batteries, which mowed them down by hundreds. Yet still they came on with perfect cool noes, and apparently with perfect courage. To favour their advance the enemy's artillery was turned fall lapel ours, and from their commanding position and advantage in weight of metal did much execntion. It was at this mo ment, as the Two-gin Battery was taken again by the enemy, that a cannon-shot struck Major General Strang ways, and carried away his thigh, while he was giving some orders relative to a fresh position which our batteries were to take up. Poor Strangways was carried to the rear, when the mangled limb was immediately amputated, but the brave old general only survived the operation a few minutes. Hardly had we sustained this loss when several other leading officers of our artillery were out down, either killed or mortally wounded while superintending the work ing of their gnus. The 20th and 47th had in the mean time recaptured and lost the Two-gun Battery once more. [t is no exaggeration to say that whenever the enemy took this little position, it cost them between 400 and 500 mon killed on the spot ; our men were unable to hold it in con isequeuce of the Russian artillery on the heights, so that our loss when we retired from the place so often was hardly more than 15 per cent. that of the Russians. As the enemy's reinforcements came up our Guards also came into action. And new a tremendous struggle ensued for this position. The number of the enemy iu and around the battery was et least 6,000, yet the Coldstreams charged and broke their way through all opposition, and got to the work. The in stant they bad done so, the enemy seemed to redouble their efforts to take and keep the place. Fresh regiments came up the hill and throw themselves iato the battery i from all points ; but the Celclstrerams held their ground, righting with perfect desperation. The battery was new oompletely eaciroled in front, flank, and rear, aid, as the Coldstreams say, every man in the place gave himself up for lost, and determined to sell his life dearly. Three times died the Russia's throw themselves upon the battery, and by the sheer weight of their masses eurtneunt and cross the walls, yet each time they were driven back again. Th e iThe,lo3 was frightful. So close were the antagonists, that after once firing the musket there was no time to load. rhe men then stood up and charged with the bayonet, or boat each other down with the butts of their muskets. Each time the Russians were repulsed they left heaps of lead behind, and it was ever the corpses of their comrades that they advanced each time to a fresh attack. After the last repulse the Russians for some time did not renew the oontoet. Observing that the height of the walls prevented our men from firing over, they collected in masses close under them, and began throwing the muskets and bayonets of their dead comrades spearwise into the , battery, with huge stones. F or thi s epee i es of attack our men also were quite prepared, and in turn hurled out the rough fragments of rock upon their assailants. For nearly ten minutes this stone-throwing continued withont inter mission on both sides. And every now and then the Rus• slang made a desperate dash to enter by the embrasures, but were bayonetted in the attempts till the embrasures f were choked with corpses. All this time the Coldstream Guards elene, a bayalmonsetaurnly aided, and only 500 strong, hell been keepi ng 7,000 of the enemy's troops. But at last they were cone pelled to retire. The Russians came road in rear of tits battery, and kept up from a distance a tremendous fire of musketry, while the follows on the outside plied the stones thicker than ever. The Coldstreams did not abandon the place while the least hope remained of defending it succetes fully. They then charged out is a body on the enemy in eight °Moors and nearly 200 men kill e d [e' heir nd rear,wouu loggias detl i n eR t t h i l e s t: a h n A s . l l the s om w o o o m f rel t h e ‘. O l Zeeeti•sn'sthaondtilyes"wYeerne°tfto°udntblywith as many as 20 bayonet warmth', and their skulls completely smashed with the butt mods of muskets. Leavieg the battery, the Coldstreatus fought their *ay to where the Fusiliers and Grenadiers were coming up to their assistance. The three battalions, which then did not muster ono thousand men, tried to charge up to where the Russian artillery was firing, 'out it was a useless attempt, as the enemy had then nearly r),000 men upon our right flank. The handful of Guards trov e three entire Russian regiments beck at the point Of the bayonet; t ayoonreettre ; i b , ut, in the act of doing it, such masses of the en emy hung upon their flanks that they were corn ellel 'elves. and with difficulty cou ld extricate them , ~A e pl i l e ,4 this h e t th e i b m n e mb er, of regiments e e n n t e s under myatb a t y h e. fivewa l l or h a s d i been , erent times R esa i an battalions adva nce d ' to take it, but after lit era ll y losing thousands under our t remen d ous file ire, fell back in disorderif oil Behind this wa ll th e G uar d s , rallied, and formed, a .vho was coming d own from parad e, a t (' e ' to meet the enemy, .gunbattery on our right flank, and., in re ar o f the wall always at the head of the Gua r d s ; who a th e Duke kept I ] y Were to go 1 beautiful order, altered their front ao as to meet the attack of the French, and, extending their line to the left, pre pared to resume their attack upon the English. At that time, however, our men wore well prepared, and, without any order or arrangement, flung themselves headlong upon the enemy, charging with the bayonet. The Russians boldly charged with the bayonet also, and for the space of five minutes the 30th, 41st, 49th, 88th, and six or seven Russian regiments were stabbing, besting, and JJ firing at each other in the moat fearful manner. At last the enemy gave way, and began retiring in good order across towards the Inkertnan heights. Until I saw it, I never in my life could have believed that any troops in the world could have retired under such a murderous fire in such perfect order. The French and English, with a whole mass of artillery, fol lowed close upon the retreating battalions, pouring in val ley after volley of grapeshot, shell, and musketry. In fact it was a perfect carnage. Yet in spite of this the enemy kept their order, retreating almost at slow time, and every five or ten minutes halting and charging despe rately up the hill at our men and the French. In these charges the Russians lost fearfully. We received them with volleys of musketry, and then dashed at them with the bayonet. In one of these charges the 50th French Regiment of the Line re-captured the two guns which in the commencement of the day we had lost. By half-past two o'clock the great mass of the enemy had completely fallen back, leaving between 7,000 and 8,00 dead upon the Add behind. Abont ten o'clock, while the Russians were gaining ground on our right, the garrison, to the number of about 12,000, made a desperate sortie upon the French trenches en the left. A most obstinate and bloody battle ensued, which ended i■ the enemy being completely repulsed at all points. Much dissatisfaction is expressed here at the want of precaution on the part of our generals in leaving the posi tion on our right, when an attack was hourly expected, undefended by redoubts or breastworks. Both generals— Sir George Brown and Cathcart—it is said, remonstrated against this want of precaution. Certain it is that now the mischief has been done, and is not likely to recur again; trenches and breastworks are being thrown up. The fleets do nothing but lie at anchor all day. The Bellerophon has been sent up to Enpateria and landed the whole of her crew there, and the 400 Marines have been sent tip to the camp. Abont 2,600 Turks have also been landed, and the 4fith is landing while I write. These additiens, of cosine, are better than nothing, but we want at least 50,000 immediately, or 100,000 for next spring. The cholera continues to rage among the Tarkish troops. Lori Raglan and staff were in the front of the troops, and in the very thickest of the fire. Se hot was the can nonade and musketry round his lordship that no one ca❑ understand how he escaped uninjured. An 8-inch shell came rearing and hissing along the ground, passed right between the legs of Lord Raglan's horse, and exploded be hind him and the staff. Cathcart, who was only a few paces in front of Lord Raglan, was shot through the heart, and fell from hi s horse a dead man. Colonel Seymour, who was with him, instantly dismounted, and was endeavouring to raise the body, whee he himself received a ball which fractured his leg. 11. fell to the ground beside his general, and a Rus sian officer and five er six men running in bayonetted him, and cut him to pieces as he lay helpless. General Cath cart's corpse was also bayonetted in five or six places. I have mentioned in ray letter of this morning the cold blooded cruelty with which the enemy treated all the wounded who fell into their hands. In not ono solitary instance, as far as can yet be ascertained, was a man spared. The conduct of the Coldstream Guards should immor talise their name. They fought literally to the death. They charged the enemy at the point of the bayonet eleven times. At each time the Russians orossed bayonets and fought fiercely, but were slaughtered like sheep by our gallant fellows. The throe battalions of Guards new barely master 1,000 moil. Te-day a flag of truce was 'sent into Sebastopol. The bearer of it carried a letter from the Allied coramaiders to the comnsander-in•chief of the Rums's,' forme. It stated. that General Canrobort and Lord Raglan had seen with detestation and disgust the merciless cruelty with which the enemy bayonetted our woandod of the field, and re. quested to know if the war was to be carried on in this barbarous and exterminating manner, as then the Allies would know hew to act ? The letter also contained a hint that in case of our prisoners being ill-treated, the Russians would de well to remember that we had many of their countrymen in our hands, whose treatment would be regu lated by that which our 311 ea received from them. .La answer is to lee given to this letter tomorrow, and it is generally believed that it will be for war to the knife, and ao quarter for either side. A Russian major was captured at the close of the battle. He had been observed on many oceasiens stabbing and hacking our unfortunate wounded with his sword, and directions were given to a party of the Guards to take him alive, if possible. This they effected, after a slight resist ance on his part, and after his having offered iu vain a bribe of some gold pieces to oar men to allow him to escape. He is to be tiled by court-martial to-morrow, and the de positions and sentence forwarded to whoever of the many generals now in Sebastopol is the commander-in-chief. If they consent ti punish him he will be given up to them. If they decline to interfere, he will be shot, as the laws of civilised warfare denounce the killing of defenceless wounded as murder. Neither the Grand Duke Constantine nor Prince Alex ander were actually present on the field. They reniaiwod all day ou the slope of the heights on the north side of - the harbour, beyond Inkerman. Our men came into action first just as they turned out of the tents, that is, without knapsacks, and in the grey great coats and forage caps in which they were sleeping. Their fighting in this dress was particularly unfortunate, as the enemy were clad in a precisely similar manner, so that in the fog the Russian troops could not bo distin guished from ours at a little distance. This, I am informed on high authority, led to some fatal mistakes. In one ch , two instances parties of our men fired on their ewn coni rad:s, and in others allowed Russians to pass unmolested, believing them to be English, The grey coats also led to the heavy loss of officers. They came into action in uni form, and among our grey coated soldiers were conspicuous marks for the enemy's bullets. A great deal of mischief was also done by the Russian ships in the harbour, which threw a perfect shower of E. and 10-inch shot and shell among our fellows. They con tinued this all the night after the b tttle, though their own troops were withdrawn, and the shell only fell among their own killed and wounded. The correspondent of the Illus trated London -Velez had a narrow escape. Two round shot passed through his tent, and before he could leave it they were followed by a large shell which burst the tent, within two feet of where ho was standing. The tent was literally tern to ribbons by the explosion, yet strange to say the representative of your pictorial contemporary was unhurt. On the evening of the battle I went over the field. All our wounded have been removed, and the wounded of our enemy wore being gathered in. The kindness and attention of our fellows to their helpless enemies was beyond all praise. There is nothing so awful as the spectacle of the bodies of those who have been struck down by round shot or shell. One poor fellow of the 95th had been struck by two 24-pounders in the head and body. A shell afterwards ' burst on him and tore him to pieces, and it was only by the fragments of cloth, with the regimental buttons ad hering, that you could toll that the bloody mass which lay iu the road had ever boon a human being. Some had their heads taken off at the neck, as with an axe; others their legs gone from the hips ; others their arms and others again who wore hit in the chest or stomach, were literally as smashed as if they had been crushed in a machine. Pas sing up to Sebastopol over heaps of Russian dead, you came to the spot where the Guards had been compelled to retire from the defence of the wall above Inkorman Val ley. Here our dead were nearly as numerous as the ene my's. Across the path, side by side, lay 5 Guardsmen, who were all killed by one round shot as they advanced to charge the enemy. They lay on their faces in the came attitude, with their muskets tightly grasped in bath hands, and all had the same grim painful frown upon their features like men who were struck down in the act of closing with their foes. Beyond this the Russian Guardsmen and line regiments lay as thick as leaves, intermixed with dead and wounded horses. The path lay through thick brushwood, bat the path was slippery with blood, and the brushwood was broken down and encimbered with the dead. The scene from the battery was awful—awful beyond descrip. 'ion. I stood upon its parapet at about 9 at night, and felt my heart sink as I gazed upon the scene of carnage _ _ around. The moon was at its full, and showed every •b -ject ail if by the light of day. Facing me WAS the valley of Inkerman, with the Tchernaya like a band of silver flow ing gracefully between the hills, which, for varied and picturesque beauty, might vie with any part of the world. Yet I shall never recall the memory of Inlcerruan Valley with any but feelings of loathing and horror; for round the spot from which I surveyed the scene, lay upwards of 5,000 bodies. Many badly wounded also lzy there ; and their low, dull means of mortal agony struck with terri- isle distinctness upon the ear, or worse still, the hoarse gurgling cry and vehement struggles of those who were convulsed before they passed away. Round the hill small groups of men with hospital stretchers were searching out for those whe still survived ; and others again, with lan terns, lousily turning over the dead, lcokisg for the bodies of officers who were known to be killed, but who had not been found. Here also were English women whose hus bands had not returned hurrying about with loud lamen tations, turning the faces of our dead to the moonlight, and eagerly seeking for what they feared to find. These latter were far more to be pitied than the inanimate forms of those who lay slaughtered around. The ambulances, as fast as they came up, received their load of sufferers, and even blankets were employed to convey the wounded to the rear. Outside the battery the Russians lay two and throe deep. Iliad's the place was literally full with bodies of Russian Guardsmen, 55th and 20th. Some say as if prepared for burial, and as though hands of relatives had arranged their mangled limbs, while ethers again were is almost startling positions, half standing or kneeling, clutching their weapons or drawing a cartridge. Many lay with both their hands exteided towards the sky, as if to avert a blow ar utter a prayer, while others had a malignant scowl of mingled fear aad hatred as if indeed they died despairing. The moonlight imparted an aspect of unnatural paleness to their forms, and as the cold damp wind swept round the hills and waved the boughs above their upturned faces the shadows gave a horrible appear ance of vitality ; and it seemed as if the dead were laugh ing, and about to rise. This was not the case ea one spot but all over the bloody field. There is no prospect of any fighting for the next month. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (Fpom, ca Correspondent of the Titne3.) Camp before Sobaatopol, Nor. 7. On the sth, about 4 a.m., I heard all the bells in Sebas topol ringing, as if for alarm, and at the same time the discharge of guns from the town at that hour was greater than usual. About 5 a.m. tke relieving pickets marched off, and about 6 30 the pickets which had been relieved arrived in their tents. They had no sooner done so (I speak of those of the Second Division, where I was located, which division occupies the ground close to the field of battle) when musketry was heard, the pickets of that division were attacked, and the whole camp got wader arms. The Russians had attacked our position in great force, as they did on the 25th. They drove in the pickets, and got their guns on the same ridge where they were before ; so before we well knew that the enemy were so near, the shot and shell dropped into the tents of the Second Division so fast that, although the tents were immediately struck, at the end of the action there was hardly one that was not more or loss damaged, while some were almost cut into shreds. The Second. Divi sion marched up to repel the attack, then the Guards, and finally part of every regiment—except the Third Division, who were in reserve, and the Highland Brigade, who were at Balaklaya—were included in the battle. The French also were extensively engaged, both infantry and artillery. The Turks did not fire a shot. The battle began before 7, and was not over until after 3 p.m. Sometimes for a few minutes the firing would comparatively cease on both sides, and they begin again with greater fury. The morning was dark and foggy, and the sun could hardly be said to rise at one time the fog was se dense that what with that and the smoke little could be seen except the flashes of the guns. Later in the day the fog cleared off and the day became bright and fine ; before that the Russians had, from their immense numbers and numerous and excellen artillery, nearly won our ridge, but then the aspect of at fairs changed, and they were forced to retire. They ad vanced up to the breastwork and muzzles of our guns ; those that I saw were almost blows to pieces. Their artil lery practice was excellent. .A.s soon as the battle was ended I went ever the field. On our ridge, where were our batteries, the ground was covered with dead, princi pally Russians , t heir bodies fea rfully shattered. They fought desperately , and at one ti me were nearly outflank iliguendearrYing the ridge. On e R uss i an, or rather his remains, lay on the parapet of the breastwork ; had it not been for his clothes, he would have dropped to pieces. Ho had literally been blown from the muzzle of a gun while in the act of climbing over the breastwork. I then went to the ridge and knoll whore our advanced pickets had been, and which were occupied for a time by the Russian artillery. There there were not so many bodies, for the Rus sians had doubtless carried them off; (the gun s h a d b een nunsbers of h o rses horribly bitiyucttitinantel baanldls,stmillanally alive—soma with disembowelled, ma carriedbut there ha was ck h y g un h carriageseißussians), usst a n s s n , a smashed wounded kil i l i e o d th an er d s ono leg shattered, and still standing. j then crossed the road which runs across the field of action, where our right had been. A little in advance is a battery for two guns, which had been erected for the purpose of silencing a Rua- Sian battery on the other side of the Inkerinan Valley. This having been done, the guns had been long since re moved. Here the fight bad been fiercest, and the sight exceeds all description. For a great distance the ground was absolutely covered with dead ; Rue. lions, Z• 1111•118, Frenchmen of the line, English guards.• men and linesmen lay heaped together. Here was the greatest slaughter, but everywhere where any fighting had been there was no want of bodies, and I am certain, judg ing from three visits to the ground, that for every English man or Frenchman there were eight or ten Russians. The wounds were frightful—some were ripped open with shot or shell, some had their legs blown off, others were head less, and the 'brains of many had actually dripped out of the imp:muse holes made by the Mille bullets, leaving the skull empty. Forty-eight thortsaid fresh Rumbals were engaged. They Lad come front Porekop, and were conveyed in carts and accompanied by the Grand atkes Michael and Nicho las. They had marcheclout of the town overnight, togetker with all the available force there, and lay at the foot of the hills near our position. The night was dark and rainy and the morning also, so that they were enabled to ascend the bills unperceived by our sentries, - and by that means got their guns (about 30) into position before we could bring anything to bear upon them. These guns were fol lowed by infantry so numerous that for some time we had no chance with them. 60,000 Russians wore engaged altogether, and their columns swarmed up the hills so that there appeared to be no end to them. One thing that made both their artillery and ours still more effective, and the battle more bloody, was that the experience of the aetion of the 26th had given the accu rate range to both. It was a battle of position, not of reanvrirrre, for none was required,. From first to last it was band-to-hand bush-fighting—regular butchery. The Russian fordo encamped in the Valley of Balaklava at one time threatened to advance, and did make a feint or false attack en our rear, but, except that, remained nearly sta tionary the whole day. In the evening, in all directions, the reports of firelocks wore heard, where the wounded horses were being shot and put cut of their misery. In going over the field I found many bottles which had contained spirits, and I was informed by the escort in charge of pri soners that they all smelt strongly of raki. There is no doubt that the Russian army was primed with drink for the attack ; most of our men went into battle without their breakfasts. Our loss in - Generals and other officers has tasen great. I do not attempt to name them, as their n3,nies will appear in the official returiag far more accit- rately than I could give them, but I learn that ;our total toss is estimated at 2,400. Yesterday I again went over the field. I can add little omy previous account of it. The fire locks, nearly all Russian, lying about are innumerable. I cannot esti mate their loss with any accuracy, The ground is thickly xwere/ with dwarf oaks, and the dead and wounded are lying on hill and valley even down to the plain. It will be some time before they are all discovered. Many of the wounded were not then brought in, and the troops are so hard-worked that some time will elapse before it can be done, and all the dead buried ; and the dead horses are so numerous that it is no easy matter to get them even out of the camp. Many of the wounded were dying for want of assistance ; they had not even had a drop •f water, and their moaning was horrible. It could not be helped, for there was no ono to g• ant to give it to them, and which is scarce, and has to bo brought from a great distance. The Russians should (as any civilised nation would have done) have sent in a flag of truce and surgeons, aad asked per , mission to attend to their wounded, and bury their dead, but that would have been acknowledging their defeat. There is no doubt that our force is too small for so great an undertaking as the capture of Sebastopol, to do it properly. 20,000 more men would have carried the place while the battle was going on, and finished the business ; as it was, both our flanks were nearly turned, and w e might have had the worst of it had it not been for the valour of officers and men of both the English and French armies. As it is, it may yet be long before we succeed, but succeed wo must. Draughts are coming out from England ; but, in stead of sending every available man as they should do, they only send out driblets. For instance, ono subaltern and . 80 men to the 95th, once 1,000 strong, and now having about 6 officers and 200 men. We really deserve to lose. The Turks, since the battle, have been employed in throwing up works on our ridge, where heavy guns are to be mounted. It ought to have been done before, for it is the weak part of the position, and I expect the Russians will again attempt to force it, as it is said 18,000 more men are on their way from the north. The Russian guns were so much heavier than ours that they had it all their own way until twe long 18-pounders were brought up, aid in some measure silenced them. The Turks are lazy workmen ; to make them work properly, there should be one Englishman or Frenchman with a stick to every six of there. To-day, the 7th, the remainder of the wounded Russians are being fast brought in, and the dead buried. The dead horses are being dragged to a dis tance from the camp, for there are neither hands nor time to bury them. The dead men are being piled up in strains and drawn down to the valleys, where great holes are being dug to receive them. The order of the camp has , been somewhat changed. Some French battalions have been brought up to our right, and are encamped near the Guards. Up to this time our troops have fought in their greatcoats, and it is said that during the action they were occasionally peppered by the French, whe in the confusion mistook them for Russians, who also took them for irregu lar troops. To-day an order has been issued for them always to fight in rod during the day time. This is as it should be. I have just been retard the field again. The dead are being buried as fast as possible, bat I fear it will be some days before they aro all collected and buried. Large pits are being (lag, and the bodies laid in crosswise—head aid feet alternately. The Russians are buried separately, and the English and French together. They lived together, fought and died together, and are buried together; indeed, the soldiers have a repugnance even to place a dead Russian in the came cart with an Englishman or a Frenchman. One field battery alone lost 40 horses. It is fortunate the wea ther is not hot, or the number of dead horses and men would create a pestilence, and the ground is so hard and stony that it is only in certain places that graves can bo dug. A report was spread about to-clay that the Russians had sent in a flag of truce, but it was not correct. (Front another Correspondent, of the Timm) Sunday morning seems the choice day for a battle. Very early we were awakened in the harbour of Balakln.va on the sth by the report of groat guns before the Talley which communicates with the town. As you looked out you could see the shells bursting in the air, and there could be no doubt that the great Russian army which covered the small hills and valleys near us was in motion. Balaklava had long been threatened by this force, and we made np our minds that there was to be an attack. We could see the Turkish troops drawn up in a line on the rising ground that faced us abont three-quarters of a mile away. All were on the alert. Orders were given to the steamers in harbour to get up steam and bo prepared to leave, should there he occasion for it. In the harbour yon can hear the bombardment of Sebas topol at all times ; but there was a heavier and a nearer fire this morning, mixed with what we had net heard be fore—faint discharges of musketry. It was soon apparent that Balaklaya was not the real object of attack. There was something going on " to the front," more than usual ; but we made up our minds that it was not the long looked-for storm of the town. It was net until noon, however, that the news first reached us, " The Russians have attacked us ;" and as stragglers came down for com missariat stores or ordnance the news grow into shape, " There is a desperate action oa our right, Sir George Cathcart is killed, Sir George Brown is wounded, the enemy are not repulsed yet, the French are moving fast to our support, more Generals wounded, the Second Division fearfully cut up, the Guards have tremendously suffered," and by evening our tnxieties were ended. We saw Sir George Brown pass out under our bow with his staff aicesnd him, and we were glad to see that he was not dan gerously wounded, as he was sitting up unsupported. We learnt that he was bound to the Agamemnon. The sum of the news that wo went to bed with was, that we had been surprised, and some of our regiments were dreadfully cut up, but that the Russians had retired with great slaughter and that we had recovered all the guns which had fallen into the hands of the enemy. It need not be said that there was great anxiety to learn hew it had all gone ; and the information that was gathered from different sources, from those who had gone to the field the next day, and from 'many of the wounded the writer had an opportunity of seeing, may be summed up into some such narrative as this of the seeming events of the &th of November before Sebastopol. There were no offi cial returns made up when the writer left Balaklava on the 7th, and ovary one was giving his description of the day, in the fewest words, from his own point of sight, all agreeing that, though it had cost us much, we had give' the Russians a fearful lesson. You may trust to the following narrative, as being as nearly correct as the time will allow to collect infot- Illation for it : those T thenh The ihn 4 t oha bellem of p Nrwio. ringing go e m n gb aid e ar notg w a a n s s l a e o w p e something t h a a ryd. the like eur ringing the iuz cheering, e i o night bells i and the d bells of Sebastopol, the stir of distant noise, a silence, and the hubbub and suppressed noise of crowds moving in the streets. Oar men had a report among them the day after the battle, that the army must have been attending ser vice; and they were probably blessed for the coming bat tle, of which there was no idea evidently in our camp. Sunday morning broke in very heavy mist. As it broke the battle began. The enemy rushed down the height, which they had crept up unknown to us in the night, and surprised first of all a picquot of the 30th Regiment. Surrounding them of a sudden, they wore all taken prisoners. Ono officer escaped after a detention of two hours, aid gallantly brought in the Russian who had kept him prisoner. The pony were up into the very tents of the Second Division before scarcely an alarm was raised ; and then began to play some 15 guns, which had been quietly moved up in the night, facing the heights on which our extreme right rests. Their shot aid shell swept through the lines. It had been beautifully pre-arranged—the very shipping were brought out of the shelter into which they had heels moored away from our bombardment right into the middle of the harlsour,•sad poured their fire on our tamp, and riddled onr tents, aid cut our cattle to pieces. There seems to be no secret about it; there must have been some want of caution, or this large force could not have surprised us as it (lid. It was known to be the weak end of our position, aid there were no supports near. For some time, then, the regiments in the Second Division were fighting bayonet to bayonet with the Russians. There was a fog, and our men did not knew where the enemy were, except those immediately near them, Very early there was a rush upon the batteries in that neighbourhood, and the gunners were killed at their pests. One field bat tery was also taken, with great less on our side, se that we could net answer with our artillery. When the mist cleared a little, and there was some reco very from the rush and confusion, and e ar su pp orts came up, back we drove the enemy, and retook our guns. But three dif ferent columns, or, from their numbers, yon may say three different armies. threw themselves, one after the other as ens was driven back, in desperation on our men. They yelled to the vary skies, as if they were 'maddened with drink. And se it seemed they had been stimulated to the charge, from the appearance of the prisoners and the can teens of raw spirits each man serried. In the early part of the day it was bayonet to bayonet. As our brave fel lows pushed on, one man told us, " Why, every bush seemed alive with them ; they was as thick as the leaves on 'em." But when the mist cleared off, and our men could better see their own and the enemy's position, the combat does not appear to have been so close. But still it was but a handful of men keeping thousands at bay at the point of the bayonet. Staff officers were seen gallop ing about for assistance. The Guards early throw those selves upon the advancing columns and helped to stem the torrent manfully, with the Duke of Cambridge at their head, but they lost an untold number ; how great their lose was may be gathered from their burying eight officers (the Celdsti earns) in one grave ; and the Marne number wounded of the Fusiliers. The sergeant who gave the writer the names of the killed could not keep from toms. The 88th Regiment sent out five companies in advance, o a u n t d are of 3 s s a o i d o men.h a v Your o come o b q a u c i k r o w s i t a h b f t or u t p r O t i u o u n i t a o r u c r h o e g d i me nts, of the wounded belonging to them, and how they came off, especially of the Second and First Divisions, were only met with the nnswcre, " No one lzuws the exact numbers," "We are fearfully cut up," " We have suffered dreadfully," "There has been awful loss." Our men were keeping the enemy hack, in the midst of this carnage, until II o'clock. The French had been sent For, and there was no telling what might come worse. To the honour of our men, the feeling among them seems to be to give our allies their full glory of the day. They came up at a double; they deployed beautifully into line ; they spread themselves over the hill, and there was an evident check. " They drove the Roossians," said one man, " like shepherds after a flock of sheep." But it W 35 not until 2 o'clock and later, and not until our allies had suffered fear fully too, could you say the day was quite secure. In the ebb and flow of the action our guns were not always in our hands, se they could not be directed always on the enemy. But, as we kept our position more firmly, and were aided by the French, these guns committed dreadful havoc. For, though the Russian guns were pro bably snore numerous and more heavy, and though their fire may have been more than five to ono shot of ours, yet directed against our handful of men, out in skirmish - ill order, they did not do the same execution as our shot, shell, and grape ploughing and bursting through the mas sive columns iu which they were launched on our position It is impossible to gather an idea of their lose. The num bers given varied from 6,003 to 17,000 ; but wo always love to exaggerate the harm we have done to the enemy. Cer tain it is that all accounts agree in making it out as neces sarily great, from the number of bodies which blackened the hill-sides and valleys where the action took place, from the number of muskets packed up in our camp and brought away to the ships, from the herd of prisoners taken, and from the circumstance that our men grad at close quar ters the whole of their sixty rounds, and dealt fearfully with the bayonet at each Russian charge. There can be no doubt that they poured three torrents of men upon us, and that it was a desperate attempt by the army which had reached there but the day before from , Odessa or the Danube, and commanded by the Grand Duke Nichelas, to raise the siege. Lord Raglan is said to have considered himself attacked by 60,000 men. They behaved with barbarous cruelty to our wounded ; every fallen man was bayonetted. One English officer was wounded slightly, but unable to leave the spot with his men, as they retired for a while overwhelmed. When our troops recovered the ground, they found the poor fellow stabbed all over and stripped ! One Russian officer was seen to halt and limp about the field ; he had been wounded, but be was stabbing the fallen with his sword. ! An orderly of the Duke of Cambridge went up to him aid took him prisoner, and his Royal Highness was heard to promise the wretch that he would do his best to have him shot for his inhumanity. It is to be feared that this Rus sian barbarity provoked our men to give no quarter. They would throw down their arms, and, calling themselves Christians, beg for mercy; and if they were spared they would take np their muskets and shoot the man who had saved them. The French Zouaves also took no prisoners. The writer was telling a French officer that the conduct of his men was the theme of our soldiers' enthusiastic praises. They had not only been signalising themselves by their gallantry in the field, and by the admirable man ner in which they had been handled, but they had out shone all by the kindness, courtesy, and attention to our wounded in the evening. The French officer's re ply was, " Ah, but your men stood like a wall ;" and, turning to his neighbour, he paid us the compliment, " It was, perhaps, as well that the English had to b ear the first shock." One gallant incident needs a record in the description of this day. A serjeant of our 33d or 30th Regiment was left alone for a short while in advance some- how. Colonol Herbert kad noticed his daring, and told him to semi to him in the evening. He was alone, and five Russia's wire on him. He shot one, bayonetted . _ another, and fell before the attack of the other three. They had given him five wounds, when he felt a horse's hoof sear his head. The Russians fled; he jumped up as he could, and in a moment found himself dragged up on the horse, and being carried to the rear for some 200 yards When in safety the officer took hold of the eerjeant's hand and kissed it, left him, and returned to the front. That serjoant would give a great deal, he told the writer, to know who that general officer was. With such incidents, can you be surprised at our men being in enthusiasm about the French ? You will hear from other sources, probably, what our losses were. It in to be sincerely hoped that official returns will lessen the numbers now in circulation. 2,200 men cannot be spared, nor san oar allies give 1,700 every day. 600 of this last number fell in gallantly repelling a sortie from the town; the remainier shared the day's honours on our right. Whatever the loss of the Russians, they carry away with them the lesson, that though we nay be surprised, and though we may be 7 ont-generated, the English soldier will not be beaten. The word that passes through our camp is still, "Sebastopol must fall." And, if they carry away that moral, we have to learn that we have a stubborn and cruel enemy to deal with, ♦ery full of craft, and ♦astly overwhelming in nimbers, and therefore it needs that we exercise more caution, and that our generals must learn 6oinething more than the mere order, " Fix bayonets and charge." So many and many a private soldier thinks. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Post.) HEIGHTS ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 6. Saturday was a day of ordinary movements; the cover ing and working parties were about, and in the batteries picquets were duly posted; rations were distributed and cooked by hungry soldiers; the usual amount of on dill were handed from camp to camp; dragoons carried from and to head-quarters instructions into which many a curious eye wished to penetrate. These, and the thonsand and one other proceedings of a besieging army, went :on apparently with clock-work precision, for certain hours have certain duties and certain scenes. I was not quite so comfortable as usual, as the rain poured in tor rents during the early part of the day, and I was com pelled to make for head-quarters. In vain did I .over myself with Macintosh greaves, coat, and southwester the penetrating flood rushed into the crevices; and, ere my return, I found chilly circles and patches which hinted the necessity of an immediate change. Let me tell all new campaigners never to trifle with damp clothing ; at times a soldier gets thoroughly wet through, and he has from necessity to take his chance. Of such troubles I speak not, but what I say is this—if possible, let damp clothes be at once changed, and let the body be over rather than under clad. In warm weather—never mind hew hot th e c li ma t e put on a flannel shirt, and when the cold has set in, put a linen shirt over it. True, the linen shirt cannot be starched and ironed ; but what signifies that—the soldier on service requires merely a clean skin and clean ender-clothing. The former he can insure himself, the latter his servant can supply by means of soap and water and a little labour ; and the two combined will preserve far mere strength than all the tonics in the world can restore. I was sorry to find that Captain Somerset , ef the Rifles, was sick at head-quarters. Ho is, now, however, recovering. Many of the officers aro ailing, and among the rest that best of soldiers, Lieut.-Col. Blake, of the 33d Regiment. My belief is that the cause is to be traced to the action of the night air upon the system during ditty in the trenches or on piequet. So long as a man is well, he can bear any amount of roughing ; but no sooner does diarrhoea or dy sentery, or rheumatism, or fever threaten, than exposure has a terrible effect upon body and spirits, and too fre quently nature sinks under it. Among those who have found an early grave from labouring hard under trying circumstances, I am sorry to enumerate poor Mr. Webb, the Roman Cath olio chaplain. I am devotedly attached to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, but that does not prevent me from admiring the faithful ser vices of one who, if his creed was in some of its doctrines erroneous, had the heart of a faithful servant of his Master. Night and day he was at the call of the sick and suffering, and died at last, broken down by labours wrought under no common difficulties. I have every reason to believe tha the chaplains of oar own Church have throughout this campaign been blessings to the army of the East. The only thing has been, they were too few in nnuileor (a state of things which is by the autherit'es being most satisfacto rily altered) ; bnt with all their energy and good example, the best of them may consider Mr. Webb as a pattern ef seal worthy their imitation. It is currently reported that General Oaten-Sacken has arrived from Odessa with a por tion of the Wallachia' army, and that artillerymen have been forwarded by post. That the Russian army of the Crimea has been lately much increased is evident, for we see encampments in all directions. Not that you can fudge nanabers from appearances ; quite the contrary; for ofttimes rows of bashes, arranged for covering during the night, are run between lines of troops, so that from a distance the army may appear vast in deed; but yea may be quite sure that reinforcements have come in, when an army lately trembling before us has dared to assume the aggressive. My firm belief is, that we shall in the end overthrow the Rus sian force, and bring our great enemy to his swims ; but it will be o nly a ft er m any a bloody battle, for the mate rial against which we have to strive is hard, and req u i res great pouuding before it is thoroughly beaten. Of this we had good proof yesterday, when our little army fought ono of those trying engagements in which British courage so wonderfully and suecensfully prevails. I have stated that the greater part of Saturday was wet, ; t owar d s the evening the sky cleared a little, and small patches of blue wore bore and there visible, but as night sot in a heavy fog came over us, and gradually i ncreased until it was so thick that apparently it might b e cut. Under the cover of it, the * enemy plac e d, upon the hill op posite our 2d Division, h eavy gnus, some of them brass 321 b. howitzers ; and vast columns crept up the rlvine from the ank orman, with all the cunning of the Russian. O ur ou tl y i ng picquets did their atmost. but that at first was littl e , as t h ey could hear much, but ' saw nothing, save w h en masses came close down, resly as it were to crush them. This was about five a.m. ; and, al though all means o f .judging the state of things was out of the question, the sharp firing of the picquets soon caused the alarm to be sounded throughout the camp, and, our men were all under arms and ready about six o'clock, the fog still tryingly thick. As the 2d Division had lost many men at Alma, not a few during the repulse of the first sertie, and 501:01.3 hundreds had been carried off by the sickness of Bulgaria and the Crimea, it mustered but a verysmalliforce to act against an armyof the enemy, numbering at the lowest , :alculation 45,000 men, but small though it was, well did it do its duty. I must observe that the ravine along which the Inkerrna,n road runs is covered with brushwood, 140 that our troops laboured under the serious disadvantage that they could not charge with full weight. The 30th, 41st, 47th, 49th, and 95th proved themselves heroes ; wherever the foe could be found, there did our gallant fellows pour is their withering fire, and when the fog allowed a column of Russians to got close upon thorn, the bayonet was down o the charge, and on rushed our men with that cheer of determination, before whom the stoutest enemy must quail. At a Tory early hour the P battery came into position ; but as tho gunners could not see ten yards before them, a column of Russians was upon it as it were in a moment, and we had no infantry near to defend the gnus. Fortu nately the Russians had no weans of spiking them. At this they were infuriated ; they put dust into the touch- holes, beat the iron with their muskets, and at last ituffed the vents with wood. All this was the work of a esvrninuteo ; the guts were for the time gone, but at the crisis, up came some some infantry, anti bore down upon the foe, retook the guns, and swept the attackers from the brow of the hill far down into the valley. When the bat tery was first in danger, Lieut. Miller gallantly tried to protect the artillerymen by dashing against the enemy, sword iu baud. Three shots were fired at him, but which providentially missed their object, and be escaped to re turn with his mon and do geed service during the rest of ,he day. Thu Guards were encamped near the 2d Dili lion, co they at an early period were up an d at work; so, . . ndeed, were tho Light Division, under Sir George Brown, and the 4th dirision, under Sir George Cathcart, The Guards were principally engaged on the right, near a battery, and the alaughter there made was something incredible—the ground is literally heaped with the enemy's dead. Without the slightest exaggeration, I should say that, in aid around the battery, 1,500 dead are lying ; and is the valley below, towards the broken bridge, where the 2d and 4th Divisions and the French fought, the destruction was equally severe—the Light Division was to the left, and many of there fell while nobly fight ing against fearful odds. It is calculated that the Eng• lish engaged never exceeded 7,000, and that during the day the 45,000 Russians were opposed by not more than 10,000 men ; and here it must not be forgotten that a powerful artillery were sending in shot and shell like hail, from which we necessarily suffered much, as our artil• lery was not able to silence guns of so mich heavier s► calibre. It was a glorious day for the Allied Armies, and never shall I forget the sight when the ZOURTIIB came up, and some French regiments. Our brigades, in a hard tight of several hoar■ against seven times their numbers, were, of necessity, sadly weakesod, and most acceptable was the assistance of the Allies. As to advancing in order, that was impossible. French and English, side by side, dashed forward like a mighty wave of the sea, and carried all before them. Te the right, some 800 French rushed upon a retiring column, and with this the day was ours. From six in the morning to half-past four in the afternoon had the enemy, with great doggedness endeavoured to turn our position but vain was their hope. They recei ►ed a lesson that will not be forgotten in a' hurry, and the allied troops once more proved to the world at large that nothing can surpass the courage which is engaged in the defence of the freedom of mankind. At sunset the French occupied the ground held at sunrise by the Russians, and a goodly ❑umber of prisoners, ammunition waggons, and horses, fell into our hands. But this glorious ♦ictory has been attended by losses which cannot be repaired, although, at least, six Russians have fallen to each one of the Allies. We have suffered, as regards general officers, in an un paralleled manner. Sir G. Cathcart was struck down by a grapeshot. I saw his body, and I think the wound was tiro large for a rifle ball; the deadly missile entered low in the chest, and close to the orifice were three bayonet wounds, given in malice by a brutal enemy. I need not say that ,in Sir George Cathcart the country has lost a general of the highest character. Cool and determined— eautions, yet dashing—keen, and ever prompt, he knew his enemy well, and the whole army looked up to him as an all-sufficient leader, should anything occur to deprive us of those holding higher command. Now, however, he is gone ; having died a warrior's death. We will not grieve for him as men without hope, but we will rather condole with those dear relatives that he and so many other officers have left behindto sorrow overnoble spirits departed. The Fourth Division also lost one of its Brigadier-Clenerale, the beloved Goldie. The Duke of Cambridge, although his coat was torn to ribbons, was only slightly struck. Our loss is calculated at 01 officers killed and wounded—some say 131—and 2,360 non-commissioned officers and privates. I must not forget to mention that the 400 Marines who, with the Light Division, were engaged on the left near the Lancaster Battery, kept up nobly their high reputa tion. They were at times pressed upon by vast columns, but no ! nothing could move them ; faithfully they fought, and the enemy were compelled to retire leaving behind hundreds of dead to tell of the determined courage of the small force opposed to them. Alma was deemed a great victory—the fight lasted for throe and a half hours ; but this battle was ten times more glorious. 10,000 of the Allies repulsed 45,000 Russians during a hard strife of ten long and trying hours. All that we want w is men to recruit our weakened army ; let, then, France and England send at once 50,000 men, and we will soon teach Russia her position, and tear from her her strong hold. We can and will stay hero, and endure any private tions, if necessary, but let there be no delay—overdo rather than underdo the matter, and bid Austria for her life's sake join with the noble against the cruel and presumptu ous. After the battle the• troops of the Russians retired i it* Sebastopol, and ste: mer were at once busily engaged conveying them across tl e h .rbour. This has been done, we suppose, to avoid our shot and shell. Nov. 7.--Our batteries were directed to fire 60 rounds a-gun today, instead of 20, so that there has been a terri ble din from dawn to dewy eve, and right glad am I that all is now quiet. Burying the Russians has been still the great work of the day, and the Tarks have been busily engaged throwing up a breastwork to defend us in the event of another attack on our right. About two o'clock the alarm was sounded, and all our troops were soon under arms and in position. Happily it was a false alarm, anti after sundry wanderings hither and thither of staff officers, the men were allowed once more to go quietly to their teats, and be at peace. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (Fro►t the Special Correspondent of the Daily NeteJ.) CAMP, ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, SUNDAY EVBNING, Nov. 5. A battle has been fought to-day, which it is feared will be found, when the returns of killed and wounded are col lected, to have been attended with a loss considerably ea evading that sustained by the British troops at Alma. Among the list of easualties are no less than eight general officers killed and wounded ; and instead of the brunt of the attack falling, as at Alma, on two or three brigades, It has this day been slistributed over nearly every division of the army. The Second Division, Brigade of Guards of the Pint Division, the Light and Foertb. Divisions hare par ticularly suffered. The enemy has been repulsed with great loss ; the number of their dead left on the field would appear to exceed fivefold that of our men, and a largo body of prisoners has fallen into our hands. The action may ims said to have cernmenced about 6 a.m., long before daylight, and not to have con cluded until 2 p.m., so that the majority of the troops were not able to return to their camps until a short time before sunset. In brief the battle may be described as a concentrated attack upon the extreme right of the besieg ing army, while a feigned attack ou Balaklava and the right flank were made at the same time, to engage the at tien of the Allis* towards the rear, and a strong sortie was made against the extreme left, for the purpose of destroy ing the advanced works of the French in that position, sr at least ef preventing their troops operating as a support elsewhere. The attack commenced by some skirmishing with the advanced piequets in advance of the Second Division and First Brigade of the Light Division, about G a.m. The day before there was a change from the previous weather ; the wind had veered round to the west and was accom panied by continuo's rain. This was followed by a dense misty fog. Towards morning this mist in a groat measure disappeared, and about 7 o'clock the light enabled us to perceive that the Russians had pieced guns in an exceed ingly strong position upon the summit of a hill about a mile in advance, and to the north of that ou the side of which the Second Division was enearaped. This position was separated by two ravines, communicating with each other from the British camp. Strong columns of the enemy were also seen to be marching out of Sebastopol, while in addition large masses of infantry were already occupying the hill en the summit of which their battery had been placed. Ti. force shortly afterwards advanced with loud cheering, the sound of which was heard a very long dis tance, and the Second Division, under Brigadier-General Pennefsther (the Division General, Sir De Lacy Evans, having gone en board sick) shortly afterwards advanced to meet them. Then commenced a contest which lasted for five snocessive hours without interruption. The rattle of 'musketry, as the infantry fought for each inch of ground, anti the booming of the heavy guns, and the shower of shell and shot from the enemy's battery, and our own field gins, which flew over head, went on unceasingly till noon, and (lid not cease altogether until two hours after. The brigade of Guards under Major- General Bentinck, Light Division under Sir George Brown, and Fourth Divison under Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart, were quickly brought up to the sup port. It first, after a fierce struggle, the enemy were driven hack as far as the botto►x of the hill on which they' had mounted their guns; but immense reserves which they had posted there rose up, and in turn our troops had to retire. The Russians at ono time advanced close up to the tents of the Second Division—following upon the steps of one of our regiments (I believe a regiment of the Fourth Division), who, under the heavy pressures were retiring in some disorder, but here a rally was soon effected, and the Russians were again driven back with fearful slaughter. So close was the advance of the Russians that an artilleryman, fearing the loss of three guns, actually spiked them in ease of the worst, but ucceeded in bringing them away. The guns whi * ;jae ()wrotly had placed on the Leight 7 and tbg