The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

THE WAR.

(From the Second Edition of The Times.)
MARSEILLES, Monday.
The Thabor has arrived with 200 invalids. She left Con-
stantinople on the 25th of June. Despatches leave at 9 a.m.
Capt. Lyons was buried on the 25th.

THE ASSAULT ON THE REDAN AND MALAKHOFF

BATTERIES.

THE Gazette contains despatches from the late Lord Raglan,
Sir E. Lyons, and Admiral R. S. Dundas. Lord Raglan write;
on 19th June : _

On 17th, at daylight, a very heavy fire was opened from
all batteries in English and French trenches, and maintained
throughout the day, and the effect appeared so satisfactory,
that it was determined that the French should attack the
Malakhoff works the next morning, and the English should
assail the Redan as soon after as I might consider necessary.
It was at first proposed that the artillery first should be resumed
on the morning of the 18th, and should be kept up for two
hours, for the purpose of destroying any works which the
enemy might have thrown up in the night, and of opening
passages through the abattis that covered the Redan, but on
the evening of the 17th, it was intimated to me by General
Pelissier that he had determined, upon further consideration,
that the attack by his troops should take place at three the
following morning. The French, therefore commenced their
operations at daybreak, and as their several columns came

within range of the enemy's fire, they encountered the
most serious opposition, both from muskets, and the
guns in the works, which had been silenced the
previous evening, and observing thisaj was induced at once
to order our columns to move out orrhe trenches upon the
Redan. It had been arranged that detachments from the
Light, 2d, and 4th Divisions, which I placed for the occasion
under the command of Lieut.-General Sir G. Brown, should be
formed into three columns ; that the right one should attack
the left face of the Redan, between the flanking batteries;
that the centre should advance upon the salient angle; and
that the left should move upon the re-entering angle formed
by the right face and flank of the work, the first and last pre-
ceding the centre column. The flank columns at once obeyed
this signal to advance, preceded by covering parties of Rifle
Brigade, and by sailors carrying ladders and soldiers carrying
wool-bags ; but they had no sooner shown themselves beyond
the trenches than they were assailed by a most murderous fire
of grape and musketry. Those in advance were either killed
or wounded, and the remainder found it impossible to proceed.
I never before witnessed such a continued and heavy fire of
grape, combined with musketry, from the enemy's works,
which seemed fully manned. The superiority of our fire on
the day we opened led both General Pelissier and 'myself and
the officers of the Artillery and Engineers of the two services,
and the armies in general, to conclude that the Russian Artil-
lery fire was in a great measure subdued, and that the opera-
tion could be undertaken with every prospect of success. The
result has shown that the resources of the enemy were not
exhausted, and that they had still the power, either from their
ships or their batteries, to bring an overwhelming force upon
their assailants whilst the direct attack upon the Redan was
proceeding. Lieut.-General Sir R. England was directed to
send one of the Brigades of the 3d Division, under Major-
General Barnard, down to the Woronzou ravine, with a view
to give support to the attacking columns on his right, and the
other Brigade, under Major-General Eyre, still further to the
left, to threaten the works at the head of the Dockyard Creek.
General Eyre was very seriously engaged, and he took a
churchyard and some houses within the place ; but as the
town front was not attacked, it became necessary to withdraw
his Brigade a't night. I brought up the Ist Division from the
vicinity of talaklava as a reserve, and I shall retain them on
these heights.
The Sardinian troops under General Marmora, and the
Turkish troops under Omar Pasha, crossed the Tchernaya on
the 17th, and occupied positions in front of Chorgouna. They
have not come in contact with any large body of the enemy.
lord Raglan praises in eulogistic terms Major-General Sir
J. Campbell, Colonel Shadforth, and Colonel Yea, all killed;
Captain Peel, wounded ; Lieut.-General Sir R. England ;
Major-General Eyre, wounded ; Lieut.-Colonel Tylden, very
severely wounded ; Sir G. Brown and Major-General Sir Harry
Jones, latter wounded. By the next mail, Lord Raglan will
name the officers who have been particularly mentioned to him.
Admiral Lyons, under date of 19th, incloses a letter from
Captain Lushington, giving details of the proceedings of the
Naval Brigade in the attack on the 18th. Lord Roglan hav-
ing accepted the proposal to carry the ladders, four parties of
60 men were told off, and placed under Captain Peel, to
accompany the four columns ordered for the assault. Captain
Lushington states that the men had the ladders placed in
their places, in spite of the most murderous fire he ever wit-
nessed. Captain Peel led one party, and Lieutenant Caver the
other. The other two columns did not advance, and
consequently those ladder parties, although exposed to
a severe fire, did not suffer much. A very heavy fire
was kept up from the batteries with admirable precision, until
Lord Raglan ordered it to be slackened. The enemy's line of
battle ships did not fire, but the steamers did.
In a second despatch, dated .Tune 19th, Sir E. Lyons reports
a nightly attack on the sea defences of Sebastopol. On the
night of the 16th, a heavy shower of rockets was poured in
without any casualty. On the night of the 17th, the firing was
renewed, but with some loss. Casualties on 18th, H.M.S.
Princess Royal, four men wounded ; H.M.S. Miranda, Captain
Edmund Lyons, very severely wounded by a piece of shell in
the calf of the left leg, sent to Therapia Hospital.-17th,
H.M.S. Sidon, one killed and 12 wounded.
Return of the casualties in Naval Brigade on 17th June :
Nine wovdded, six contused.
Return of casualties in Naval Brigade on the 18th :—Killed
lieut. S. C. Kidd, of the Albion, and 13 men ; wounded,
-Capt. William Peel, of the Leander; Lieut. Dalyell, of the
Leander; Lieut. Cave, of the Diamond ; Mr. H. Wood, Mid-
•shipman, of the Queen; Mr. Parsons, Mate, of the Dauntless,
and 10 men; missing, one ; total casualties, 62.
-Admiral R. S. Dundas, on 21st, encloses a letter
from Rear-Admiral Seymour, reporting proceedings
in examining the Bay of Narva. Admiral Sey-
mour arrived off Narva Light-house at 2 30, a.m., on
the 18th. He writes that the entrance of the river is narrow
with a bar. A considerable number of troops were in active
movement; a large caisson formed the means of communi-
cation on either side of the river. A few wood vessels and
river craft only were visible. The banks were well adapted
for defences.by troops ; an earth battery of 12 guns lies on
the 'east side of the river entrance, and one of 10 guns near
the Light-house, with another in the rear, and two other guns
on the right extremity of the Light-house Battery. The
Pincher and Snap, gunboats, under Captain Hall, of the
Blenheim, who added a 68-pounder to the Pincher, made good
practice, untilethe squally weather interfered. The Fort guns
were well served with hot shot. The weather clearing, the
gun-boats opened fire. The Blenheim and Exmouth likewise
had aconpleofthours' practice, as enough hadbeen done to occupy
the attention of the troops in the neighbourhood, and no ad-
vantage offering for a longer continuance in Narva Bay.
The -firing Wa&discontinued, and the vessels returned. Captain
Searle, Royal Marines, of the Blenheim, received a contusion.
of the left side from a splinter.

[Further ',particulars of the assault on the Redan and
Mulakhoff kßatteries will be found in our 6th page.]

THE BALTIC.

By the explosion of the infernal machines on board the
Exmouth, Admiral Seymour was severely injured, especially
in the left eye ; Captain Louis is both legs and thigh ; others
more or lest; injured. They are all doing well.
On the 21st of June the Amphion mistook a channel near
Sweaborg, and grounded. The forts opened, and four shots
struck her, killing one man and wounding two others. Capt.
Key returned the fire, blew up a large powder magazine, and
did other serious damage.

OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.