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-edifice,untouched but one. This is a fine storehouse, with a
grand semicircular front, ornamented with rich entablatures
and a few Grecian pillars. The windows permit .one -see
massive mirrors and the framework of pictures and the glitter
of brasswork. Inside the open door an old man in an-arm-
chair receives everybody. How deferential he is ! how he
bows ! how graceful, deprecatory, and soothing the modulation
of his trunk and arms ! But these are nothing to his -smile.
His face seems a kind of laughing clock, wound up to act for
so many hours. When the machinery is feeble, 'towards
evening, the laugh degenerates into a grin, but he has
managed hitherto with nods, and cheeks wreathed in smiles,
and a little bad German and French, which enables him to
inform all comers that this house is specially under English
and French protection, to save it from plunder and pillage.
The house belongs, on dit, to Prince Woronzoff, and the
guardian angel is an aged servitor of the Prince, who, being
paralytic, was left' behind, and has done good service in his arm
chair.

In concluding his account of the expedition,• under
Mate June 14th, he says :

The French fleet have returned to Kamiesch, with the ex-
ception of a few small vessels left at Yenikale and Kertch.
The English fleet remains at Ambelaki. The Arrow (Lieut.
Joliffe) and the Recruit are on guard in Kertch Bay; the
Furious, Sidon, Gladiator, and Valorous were, up to last night,
anchored at the entrance to the bay, and the Sphinx was sta-
tioned at Yenikale. As Ak-Bournou and Pavlovskaia are
such commanding positions, it is intended to renew the in-
trenchments of the Russians, and to form new lines in addi-
tion to them. Half of the 71st regiment, a battalion of
French infantry, and 3000 Turks will be marched round from
Yenikale to execute these works, and when they are completed
they will be garrisoned by 2000 men. This position will to
a great extent command Kertch, and will be perfectly se-
cure so long as the sea is open. It will, in fact, form the
left of the allied position—the centre being represented by
the fleet, and the right by the works at Yenikale.
The embarkation can be covered by the fleet, or at least by,
the smaller and lighter vessels. All the guns at Pavlovskaia
Ak-Bournou, Kerteh, Yenikale, and the Sandbank batteries
are taken or destroyed. the cannon at Arabat are described
as being so light that they could barely reach our ships at
1,200 yards. The guns at Anapa have had the trunnions
knocked off, and are rendered useless. There is a rumour
that another expedition will start in a few days for a very im-
portant purpose, and that it will be on a large scale. The
Orinoco is discharging the horses of the Carbineers at Bala-
klava. The Colombo ran into harbour this evening, and Sir
John Campbell and his staff will, probably, disembark. This
steamer ran into the St. Jean d'Acre and inflicted some injury
on herself, such as the loss of her bowsprit and jibboom, and of
figurehead, &c. By some mistake, the Land Transport Corps
were sent round to Kamieseh. The Trent, which is laden
with horses for their use, has returned with the expedition,
and did not land any of the cargo she carried up to Ambelaki.
The weather is exceedingly hot.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing on Friday,
says :—"lf Russia has male and female spies in Paris or London,
I suspect that we are not entirely deprived of a similar advan-
tage at St. Petersburg. lam assured in another quarter that
accounts have been received which describe the state of Russia
itself to be menacing to its aetual rulers. The peasants are
ground to the earth by exactions and thinned by the conscrip-
tion, and the nobles do not conceal the scorn they feel towards
their present Emperor, for what they term his vacillating and
pusillanimous conduct, while his brother is constantly exalted
to the skies as a hero, and as the only one worthy of swaying
the destinies of the empire. These accounts speak of a revolu-
tion as not at all improbable, with the object of driving Alex-
ander 11. from the throne and raising Constantine to it. As for
the numerous armies which, we are told, Russia intends hurling
on the Crimea, it is ascertained as a fact that it is out of her
power to maintain there more than 150,000 men at the utmost,
and this at the greatest sacrifice, simply because she cannot
feed them. The Crimea is a monster which has devoured the
Russians, and will yet devour them. We are suffering in
some degree from sickness, but the Russians are dealt with
more mercilessly.

were generally serious, many of them being occupied
in writing home in case of their death, while a general feeling
of relief prevailed in those regiments which were not fixed
upon for the assault. About eight o'clock, p.m., there was, a
tremendous fire of musketry on the right, which broke in
upon the occasional roar of cannon almost as suddenly as a
clap of thunder, which for a moment it almost resembled. It
was caused by the Russians threatening to make a sortie on
the Mamelon. This continued with unabated violence for ten
minutes, and then died away almost as -suddenly as it had
began. A general order appeared in the evening, exhorting
the regiments to keep their order, and not to scatter when au
an entry had been effected, which showed that success was as
positively expected at head-quarters as elsewhere. The regi-
ments were-to parade at one o'clock, a.m. The cavalry, at
two o'clock, were stationed at about -twenty yards apart
across the whole of the line, immediately in front of the
camps, to prevent any one passing down to see the assault.
The plan of operations was as follows :—The French
were to attack the Malakoff Battery, six regiments of the 3rd
Division, viz., the 9th, 14th, 18th, 28th, 38th, and 44th, were,
at the same time, to assault the Garden 'Battery, while the 2nd
battalion of the 4th Division, and part of the Light Division
were to make a simultaneous attack at the opposite angles of
the Redan Battery. I cannot give you the names of all the
different regiments engaged of these two divisions, but among
them were the 17th, 57th, and 21st regiments of the Fourth
Division, and the 7th, 33rd, 34th, 55th, 95th, and Rifles of the
Light. The rest of the Fourth and Light Divisions were to
act as supports and as reserves, and to move up immediately
an entrance was effected. Sir John Campbell was to com-
mand the attack. It commenced about half-past two, a.m.,
and the first mistake was in the fire not having been kept
up with its full vigour during the night. In an attack, too,
of this sort, it might be reasonably supposed that a torrent of
shot would be poured on the batteries till the very moment
that oar men were ready to scale them, so that not a Russian
would be able to move from cover ; but nothing of the sort
took place, and some of the Russians actually stood on the
parapet to fire at our men as they climbed over the abattis.
I will, first of all, describe the attack upon the Redan. The
men rushed gallantly on, and reached the abbattis, which was
of a very formidable description. Sir' John Campbell ad-
vanced at their head—the act of a brave man, but hardly that
of a good general, as the result proved, for he was shot,
and fell dead, almost at the commencement. The men
made repeated efforts to climb the abattis, but could not
succeed, a few only getting over, and being shot in the
act. Three times did the gallant fellows rally and return
to the attack succeeding each time in climbing the abattis,
and even, some say, of entering the Redan ; but they were
without support, and were a mere handful in comparison
to the numbers within the battery. Indeed, I should say
that the whole of the regiments I have enumerated were not
engaged, each storming party consisting only of from one
thousand to fifteen hundred men, who were not supposed to
take the battery without assistance ; but Sir John Campbell
being dead, there was no one to give orders to the supports
and reserves to advance, they therefore remained inactive,
while the storming parties were almost swept away.
After the third attack alone, finding they were without
support, did these gallant fellows retire, having for half an
hour faced a perfect storm of musket bullets, round and
grape shot; for a great many of the guns of the Redan, that
had been either silenced and replaced, or else never properly
silenced, opened upon them.
The loss cannot, at' present, be accurately ascertained; it
is, however, somewhere about 1,000 killed and wounded.
Among these is Sir John Campbell, the colonels of the 57th
and 7th, and an immense number of officers. The 57th has
suffered most severely, hardly an officer escaping without a
wound; indeed, the regiment was nearly annihilated. The
34th and the Rifles have suffered also very severely. The
men are greatly disheartened ; it is their first reverse, and
all, officers and men, attribute it entirely to no support being
sent them. General Jones is wounded, but not dangerously.
I will now proceed with that on the Garden Battery. Here
the troops made a dash, took three small redoubts in the
Garden in front of it, but were unable to penetrate farther;
they have lain the whole day in the grave-yard and garden,
which are both immediately in front of it. Here they have
been exposed to a heavy fire from various quarters. The
Quarantine Battery has been playing on them, the Redan has
had a gun constantly firing at them. which has demolished
many a headstone in the grave-yard; but more than all, they
have been annoyed with grape-shot from a four-gun battery,
near the Quarantine. Their loss was stated to me by wounded
soldiers returning, to be about 100 killed and wounded. They
expected to take the Garden Battery as night came on.
The French have also failed in their attack upon the Mala-
koff Tower; they never were even able to approach it, as the
shipping threw shell and shot into them, and cut them up as
fast as they left the Mamelon. They were, I believe—
although of this I am not certain—supported by the Guards
and Highlanders, who are said to have suffered severely.
The French loss is estimated at 1,200 killed alone. They
continued their efforts until 11 o'clock, a.m. General Pelis-
sier declares that the Malakoff shall be taken cost what it
may, and I believe the same is the case with us with respect
to the Redan. I observed, in the afternoon, three three-
deckers of the Russians, moving over to Fort Constantine,
and my supposition was, that they were intended, in case of
a successful assault taking place to-night upon the Redan and
Malakoff, followed, as it would immediately be, by the capture
of the town, to
,open fire upon the south side. Two large
sailing-boats have been moving about the harbour all day,
apparently only for amusement; but, of course, with some pur-
pose or other, though certainly none was apparent While the
I attack of the French continued on the Malakhoff, a flag was
flying there. I could not see- with my glass what it was, ex-
cept to decide it certainly was not Russian. I have since been
told it was a blank flag. What the import of this may be, I
do not know; it could hardly be that which generally attaches
to it—of no quarter. About twelve o'clock at noon, a species
of whirlwind passed over the camp, levelling some of the
tents, filling the air ,with dust so thickly, that it was impos-
sible to see twenty yards, besides completely blinding one
with the force with which the particles entered the eyes,
even when sitting in a tent. It was succeeded by a short,
though heavy biloWer of rain. It is baid—Lhoughwith what
truth I know not—that a letter has been intercepted from
Liprandi to the Governor of Sebastopol, urging him to hold
out as long as possible, to enable him (Liprandi) to make his
retreat from the Crimea by Perekop. . Some ships have
passed Sebastopol in that direction, and it is said they are in
tended to take Perekop, and thus cut Liprandi off.

The special correspondent of the same journal, writ-
ing on the 19th, says :---
The attack commenced yesterday morning about four
o'clock, the troops having been brought up to their positions on
the previous night, in as complete silence as possible. Early
in the morning Lord Raglan and Gen. Pelissier took their
stand near the ravine facing the so-called Careening Port of
Sebastopol. The approach of the troops destined for the at-
tack was soon perceived by the Russians, who were the first to
open fire, making sad havoc among the French and English
troops, and almost literally cutting off to a man the sth Reg.
'of the Chasseurs de Vincennes. To enter into all the details
of this day's memorable fight is not possible at present, for
the accounts are still conflicting, and the dense smoke arising
from the sanguinary contest prevented even near specta-
tors forming a correct idea of what was going on. Since
the siege of Sebastopol commenced there has not been a more
furious bombardment than that of the last two days, nor a
harder fought battle than that of yesterday. The Malakoff
Tower, the possession of which would have placed the fleet in
the power of the Allies, is principally an earthwork on a pla-
teau, well fortified and entrenched, with a deep fosse, and
hence its great strength. - Some of the main approaches to it
are defended by the Russian men-of-war lying opposite, and,
for the most part, near the ravine to which I have previously
alluded. That fleet, prisoner as it was within the port of Sebas-
topol, did great execution yesterday, and, unfortunately, its
fire could not be silenced. Some of the outward works of the
Malakoff Tower were taken, and the French flag was hoisted
for a time, but neither the English troops, who also made
good their way into the little works of Fort Redan, nor
the French, who were near becoming masters of the
Malakoff, were duly supported, and hence the necessity of
falling back, followed by hosts of rifle balls. The most daring
bravery was manifested by the English and French divisions,
altogether some 40,000 strong, engaged more or less pro-
minently in the action. One of our gallant generals was par-
ticularly noted for his enthusiasm, as he frequently declared to
his men that he would enter Sebastopol or die.
P.S.—lt is believed that the Quarantine batteries will be
attacked in a day or two, it is to be hoped with greater
success than attended yesterday's efforts.