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

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by their losses, carried their prowess a step too far, and
dreamt of getting into the Round Tower by a coup de main.
Anew crop of battle grew up over all the intervening hollow
between it and the Mamelon, and the ripple of musket shots
splashed and leaped all over the broad hill-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. Oar gunners, observing
the duration and aim of the skirmish, redoubled their exer-
tions, and gang 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 Daily
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 Quarry to 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, theaBBth and 7th 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 theManielon had moved along "heir trenches
towards th e right,wh ere they became connected with 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,
they even 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 bad 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. lie
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
sword belt, that he Tainted. 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 a.--
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 Malakhoff 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 Coporal 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 his musket 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 tioy in the camp at the temporary failure
of the telegraph (which is now, however, all right again), the
men being afraid lest some Aulic Council 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. The French,
in immense numbers, are at work on the approaches to the
Mamelon, in the hope of speedily getting up some heat,
metal. The Round Tower and the Redan are just giving now
and then sullen assertion of unexhausted purpose, bnCwith
so little vigour that the shells which drop and bluster about
their ears, throwing up the dry dust in columna, look almost
like a useless persecution. Five Russian vp..10 of w., arc
in full sight out in harbour, having betaken themselves out
of the way of inconvenient missiles from the Mamelon.
At midday the small steamer which does the cLlef
traffic in harbour was observable in the Dock-yard
Creek getting up her steam, and surrounded by
quite &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 torn
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,lowing 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 Inkerman. 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 all over,
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, theie 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 6,000 beasts of
draught.