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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

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THE WAR..

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

by their losses, carried their prowess ,a •-step too far, and
dreamt of getting into the Round Tower by a coup de main.
A new crop of battit grew up over all the iatervening hollow
between it and the Mamelon, and the ripple of musket shots
splashed and leaped all over the broad till-side. The tower
itself, or rather the inglorious stump of What was the Round
Tower, took and gave shot and shell and musketry with the
most savage ardour and rapidity. Our gunners, observing
the duration and aim of the skirmish, eeedoubled their exer-
tions, and flung their shells into the Round Tower with
admirable precision, doing immense mischief to the defenders.
Concerning the successful assault upon the Quarries by the
the British troops, the -special correspondent of the Doily
News, on the Bth of June, writes':
As soon as the Mamelon was taken by the French, the order
was given by Colonel Campbell for the small force told off for
attacking the Qnarryto advance. One end of the Quarry, that
looking eastward in a direction towards the Malakoff Tower,
was connected with three parallels which the Russians had
dug in front of the most advanced works on Frenchman's
Hill to prevent our further advance. The large rifle-pit which
the Russians contrived to throw up after "Egerton's pit" had
been taken from them, was connected with the foremost of
'these parallels. When the order was given for our attacking
party to advance, the 88th and Ith rushed out from the right
of the zigzag approach on the left of our advanced works, the
men of the 47th and 49th regiments from the left of the ap-
proach. While some rushed up the hill towards the Quarry,
.others took possession of the enemy's rifle-pit and advanced
-trench. It appeared that the Russians on seeing the attack of
the French against the Mamelon had moved along their trenches
towards th eright,wh ere they bec,ame connected svith the trenches
or other works on the Malakoff hill, so that the left, that side
against which our men advanced, was almost wholly deserted.
A trifling opposition met with in the Quarry itself was quickly
reduced, and our troops congratulated themselves on having
gained an easy victory. Carried away by their enthusiasm,
theyeven advanced towards the Redan, and perhaps, had they
been in force, such was the confusion and alarm of the Rus-
sians, they might have carried this 'important work. As it
was, the enemy returned with comparatively powerful rein-
forcements, and suddenly opened a flanking fire, which com-
pelled our men to abandon the Quarry. It was not armed as
had been anticipated. A second time our men moved-against
this work, and took it from the enemy, who had again entered
it ; nor was this the last time, for still later in the evening a
third contest for its possession took place, which ended as
before in our being victors, but at a severe,. expense. No less
than 18 officers, and a large number of men, amounting to
upwards of half the original attacking force, were 'placed
hors de combat, including killed and wounded. Colonel
Campbell behaved with the most determined gallantry. He
was struck no less than four times, and once so severely by a
musket ball, which providentially was prevented from in-
flicting a more serious wound by striking the front of his
sworebelt, that he fainted. Nothing but the unflinching
bravery of the troops could- have enabled them to retain the
Quarry after they had wrested it from the enemy. • The
ground at the back of the Quarry was fortunately found to be
loose and soft, so that the working party were enabled to
throw up some cover in this direction without much difficulty.
On the 9th of June the correspondent of the Times gives
the following particulars :
In the early part of the night there was some heavy fire of
musketry, but the guns and mortars played the chief part,
keeping up a continued thunder against the' lialakhoff and
the Redan, which seldom made any answer. The French are
getting well on with their batteries on the Mamelon, and have
been able to throw a few shot at the enemy by way of notifi-
cation; heavy guns and mortars toiling up from Kamiesch at
this moment are prabably destined to do the work in it. So soon
as these preparations are completed it may be hoped the Round
Tower and the Redan will fall into our hands, and the former
is the one key to all the positions on this side of the harbour.
At this last moment (twelve o'clock) I hear it stated that the
Russians are carrying shot and shell off to the other side
of the harbour—which may mean that they are getting
ready for a bolt ; may it prove true ! There has been a
vague fiction among the men that Sir George Brown, having
disposed of Kertch, some days ago was on the other side of
the Tchernaya, even such a little way off, and ready to eat up
the relieving army. It is due to Lance Caporal Quin, of the
47th, to make public the bravery which he last night exhibited
and which has already brought him under the notice of Gen.
Pennefather. In one of the attacks made by the enemy on the
quarries after they were in our position, the Russians ex-
perienced some difficulty in bringing their men again to the
scratch. At length one Russian officer succeeded in bringing
on four men, which Corporal Quin perceiving, he made a dash
out of the work, and with the butt end of hisenusket brained
one, bayonetted a second, and the other two taking to their
heels, he brought in the officer a prisoner, having adminis-
tered to him a gentle prick by way of quickening his move-
ments. -After delivering him up he suggested to his comrades
that there were plenty more to be had. Last night a group
of gazers were on the Picket-house-hill; when a shell came
among them ; it passed so close to one man as to paralyse his
arm, and carried off the head of a navvy who stood behind.
There was universal joy in the camp at the temporary failure
of the telegraph (which is now, however, ail right again), the
men being afraid lest some Aulic Counc,il at home should inter-
fere with the present probabilities of success, and infuse un-
certainty into everything.
The correspondent of the Times, writing on the 10th
June, remarks :—" A breezy day, but with signs of return-
ing heat, and an occasional drift of shower. mThe French,
in immense numbers, are at work on the appries to the
Mamelon, in the hope of speedily getting up some heavy
metal. The Round Tower and the Redanare just erivieg now
and then sullen assertion of unexhansted purpose, but with
so little vigour that the shells which drop and bluster about
their ears, throwing up the dry dust in column,s, look almost
like a useless persecution. Five Russian noels of wai• are
in full sight out in harbour, having betaken themselves out.
of the way of inconvenient missiles from the Memelon.
At midday the small steamer which does the chief
traffic in harbour was observable in the Dock-yard
Creek getting . up her steam, and surrounded by
quite a flotilla of boats, which were most probably carrying
wounded on board of her. The arsenal building, or soi-disant
hospital, which stands on the western side, showed all tore
and riddled with shot, its windows reduced to shapeless aper-
tures, and its roof ragged and pierced from end to end, the
whole being evidently untenable. Between it and the shore,
sheltered under an angle of the building, a group of Russians
were gathered, and there was some slight bustle on the shore,
where one or two_ men of authority were moving about with
determined step. The steamer was presently full-freighted,
and moved off, towing the boats alongside, to return in the
evening with provisions or munitions of war —a long string of
men with carts and animals were toiling up the steep on the
north side leading towards Inkernian. There might
have been from 1,500 to 2,000 of them. There is
little doubt, in spite of the obstinacy displayed,
that the garrison are heartily sick of their commission. A
Russian officer yesterday feli into conversation with one of our
men, and, giving him his card, said, "I wish this was allover,
and we were good friends again ; we are all tired enough, but
our orders are to fight it out to the last." At the termination,
too, of the armistice, there where some signs of insubordination
among the men who were in contiguity with ours. Steady firing
has been going on all the afternoon, but with abated force
in the evening. At 9 o'clock there was a marked lull in the
discharges, but they grew rapid and energetic again at 11,
about which time there was another little encounter between
the French and Russian outposts on the Tchernaya. A
French division, with artillery, passed over that way in
the evening, and their telegraph above the Wor.
ronzow-road was very busy during the afternoon. The
Himalaya came in to-day, with a cargo of horses and 340
men for the Land Transport Corps, from England. The said
corps has its strength now increased to 0,000 beasts of
draught.

CON£TANTIITOIME, June 14.—A commercial treaty has been
concluded between Turkey and Greece. The Porte contracts
a loan of 100,000,000 f. under the guarantee of the Western
Powers.
VIENNA, Friday, Noon.—A Russian bullentin will appear
to-day, announcing a terrible loss of the Allies in an attack on
the Malakoff Tower. The exact figures of the reduction of
the Austrian army are 145,000 men and 30,000 horses.

REPULSE OF THE ALLIES.
PARIS, June 22.—The Moniteur announces that the
Gorernmerrt received yesterday, almost simultaneously, two
telegraphic despatches from General Pelissier. The first, dated
June 17, is as follows :—The combined movements agreed
upon with our allies are being carried out. To-day the Turks
and the brigade of Chasseurs made a reconnaissance towards
Akhtiar. General Bosquet occupies the Tchernaya. To.
morrow, at daybreak, in concert with the English, I attack the
Grand Redan, the Malakoff Tower, and the batteries con-
nected with them.
The other despatch is dated June 18, and contains the
following :—The attack of to-day was not successful, although
our troops, who showed very great intrepidity, gained a partial
footing in the Malakoff works. I was obliged to order a re-
treat into the parallels. The retreat took place in order,
without our being harassed. It is not possible for me to-day
to state our precise loss.

THE MASSACRE AT HANGO.
OR the morning of the 26th of May, the Cossack and Esk,
two of the British squadron, perceived several Russian vessels
among the islands near Hango, and dispatched armed boats to
take them. The Russian crews ran their vessels ashore and
nearly all made off; one or two, however, were captured, and
the vessels were burned. On the sth of June, early in the
day, the cutter of the Cossack with a flag of truce on board,
and carrying ten Russian prisoners to be set at liberty, pro.
ceeded to the shore. In that boat (the cutter), was the crew
of nine men, Lieutenant Geneste in command, Mr. R. Easton,
the surgeon, Mr. Sullivan, master's-assistant, three stewards
(who went in hopes of buying some provisions), and the ten
prisoners. On nearing the shore they found about 500 or 600
soldiers on the beach, and as the boat ran alongside a sort of
jetty the three officers jumped upon it from her, when the
officer in command of the soldiers called out in English, "that
he ;would have nothing to do with the d---d flag of
truce," and immediately ordered his men to fire. 7Mr.
Geneste, Mr. Easton, and Mr. Sullivan, fell at the first volley.
One of the prisoners then held up the flag, which Mr. Geneste
had when he fell, but he was instantly shot; some of the men
then jumped ashore to assist the others, but only to meet the
same fate, for volley after volley was mercilessly poured upon
them and the boat, until it was supposed all were killed; when
the Russians came down and robbed them of everything worth
taking away. The Cossack, after waiting some time for the
boat, sent another in search of it, which picked it up a short
distance from the land, with one poor fellow in it struggling
with one arm to scull the boat, while the other dangled at his
side with three bullets in it. When wounded he had fallen to
the bottom of the boat, and as-the water came in through the
shot holes it revived m, and, finding himself alone among
his dead comrades, he, with an almost superhuman effort,
managed to get the boat to sea, until he was picked up. In
the same boat were four of his dead messmates. This deli-
berate massacre, for no attempt was made to take them pri-
soners, and both friends and enemies were killed indiscrimi-
nately, will never be forgotten, should we have an oppor-
tunity of taking vengeance for the murders. Neither men nor
officers were armed, though some muskets were in the boat.
John Brown, ordinary seaman, a young man of colour, the
only survivor, after being helped up the side into his own
ship, said, " They are all killed." Afterwards, in the sick bay,
he made the following statement :
" On the cutter, with a flag of truce flying, getting alongside
the jetty or landing-place, near the village of Hango, the
officers and liberated prisoners jumped out, and Lieutenant
Geneste held up a flag of truce to a number of Russian troops,
who bad suddenly sprung up from the cover of houses and
rocks,--about 600, dressed as riflemen, and armed with
muskets, swords, and bayonets,—and told them what it meant,
and why they landed; they replied ' that they did not care a d--
for flags of truce there, and would show them how the Rus-
sians could fight,' or words to that effect. A volley was then
flied at the officers and liberated prisoners, and afterwards on
the boat, until all were supposed to be killed. The Russians
jumped into the boat, and, after throwing several dead bodies
overboard, lying on the arms in the bottom of the boat they
found Henry Gliddon, A. 8., who was only wounded; they
took him out of the boat and bayonetted him on the wharf ;
John Brown, lying beside him, and severely wounded, feigned
death; he was dragged from one end of the boat to the other,
but luckily not thrown overboard. They then took the arms,
magazine, colours, &c. The officers were shot down, and the
liberated prisoners first. Dr. Easton was the first who fell,
and the Finnish Captain took the flag of truce from Lieutenant
Geneste, and waved it, shouting 'A flag of truce !'—which
had been previoUsly explained to them before they fired.
The Russians spoke English, and the person who led them,
from his dress and appearance, seemed to be an officer. The
Russians yelled, and fired on the men before they could defend
themselves; indeed, there was not an attempt made."

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT.
BERLIN, THIIRSDAY.—The Invalide Russe of the 15th de-
scribes the affair at Hango as in accordance with fair play.
The Cossack's boat having effected an hostile landing with all
on board armed, the crew were, it is said, suddenly attacked
by a body of Russians secreted behind buildings; they at first
defended themselves, but were forced to surrender to superior
numbers. Five were killed and one officer ; one surgeon and,
nine sailors caged, of whom four were wounded. The boat
was sunk, and the boat's flag, together with seven guns and
seven cutlasses, taken. On the following day, a frigate ap-
proached and fired on the place ineffectually for two hours.
A telegraphic despatch, relative to the above transaction,
under date of 11,..Ersday last from Dantsic says The Light-
ning has arrived with the mails. Lieutenant Geneste, Dr.
Eaton, and Mr. Sullivan are prisoners, but wounded.

It is said to be the intention of Government to apply to
Parliament for a yote of public money, which is to be applied
in erecting a monument in commemoration of our soldiers
who have died at Scutari. A design for the monument has
already been prepared by the Baron Marochetti. This tribute
of respect to the memory of so many brave men, the victims
of disease and neglect, was suggested some time ago by Miss
Nightingale, and Her Majesty is said to feel a lively interest in
its realisation.
Advices from Odessa give a deplorable account of the ruin
and misery of many of the merchants in that town, their
trade with the ports in the Sea of Azoff having been totally
destroyed by the successes of the Allies in that quarter. Men
who a short time ago were wealthy are now reduced to beggary,
and are enduring the greatest possible privations.
The Journal de St. Peterebourg devotes six columns to an
examination of and reply to Count Walewski's circular
despatch of the 23rd May, which was a reply to the Russian
circular of the 28th April. This new Russian document is
simply a repetition of the former one, though more moderate
in tone. It brings forward no new arguments, nor does it
throw any new light upon this vexed question. It attributes
the rupture of the Vienna Conferences to France and England,
and expresses a hope that negotiations may be resumed, and
the blessing of peace so eagerly desired be assured to Europe.
GlBRALTAR.—lntelligenee to the 16th inst. reports the
embarkation of the 13th Regiment on board the steam-
transport Robert Lowe, and her departure for the Crimea on
the 7th inst. The steam-transports Propeller and Eagle
arrived out at Gibraltar on the 12th inst. The steamer St.
Patrick, in the French transport service, with stores for Mar-
seilles, had passed en route. The British sailing transports
Edmundsary and Emma Pulley left Gibraltar for the East on
the 15th. The sailing transport Echunga was being fitted at
Gibraltar for the conveyance of horses and mules to the seat
of war. The Sea Nymph, from London to Marseilles, with
stores for the French Government, arrived at Gibraltar on the
15th; she left the following day with the sailing ship Balance
in tow, likewise laden with stores for the French Government.
The Spanish steamer Guadalquiver was shortly to leave
Gibraltar for England.
REPORT OF TIIE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE.—Frora the
minutes of the committee. it appears that a series
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from the chair, to the effect that those whom the evidence
pointed out as responsible for the calamities in the Crimea
ought to be named to the house, was negatived by nine to one,
Mr. Layard alone voting in the affirmative. A sea and motion
(chairman), imputing to the misconduct of the Administra-
tion the primary cause of the calamities which betel our army,
was carried by the casting vote of the chairman, the affirma-
tive votes being those of Messrs. Layard, Drummond, Sir J.
Pakington, Sir J. Hanmer, and Captain Gladstone; and the
negative votes those of Mr. Bramston, General Peel, Colonel
Lindsay, Mr. Ellice, and Lord Seymour. A vote of censure
on Lord Raglan (chairman) was negatived by nine to one,
Mr. Layard voting in the minority. The expense of the wit-
nesses examined amounted to £126 9E. 6d.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CRlMEA.—Orders were trans-
mitted on Friday morning to the regiments in England and
Ireland under orders for foreign service to prepare for imme-
diate embarkation, namely, the 15th Foot, recently returned
from Ceylon ; the. 51st King's Light Infantry, ditto India;
80th Foot and 94th Foot, ditto ditto. Detachments from the
various depot companies, and 1,200 cavalry, are to proceed
without delay to the seat of war. Orders per telegraph were
also transmitted to Marseilles, to be forwarded from hence by
special steamboat to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar,
and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, to
send as many efficient men, not only of the regiments sta-
tioned in those fortresses, but of the reserve of the Household
Brigade and reserve battalions, as can be conveniently spared
previdusly to the arrival of the reliefs of regiments of the line
and the Militia. The regiments that will embark forthwith
are the following :-13th Light Infantry, from Gibraltar; 31st
Foot, from the lonian Islands; 48th Foot, from Corfu; 54th
Foot, frara Gibraltar; 66th Foot, from Gibraltar; and 92nd I
Highlanders, from Gibraltar. The above-mentioned reinforce- 1
milts will augment the British forces before Sebastopol by
upwards of 13,000 men • and, in addition, four field batteries,
a troop of Horse Artillery, and a reinforcement for the siege
train are in readiness, and only waiting for transports to em-
bark. The immaidiate dispatch of the above-mentioned troops
is rendered necessary, on account of the intelligence received
from Lord Raglan of our reverses in the attack of the Redan
and Malakoff.