The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

JEALOUSIES IN THE CAMPS.

National animosities peep out now and then be-
tween French and English, as may be seen by this
paragraph from the Daily News correspondent:—

English interests are most unblushingly overridden by
those of the French, who, in fact, seem by their effrontery
and unconcealed air of ownership, rather to tolerate our
presence in the place than to recognise an equal right to
a share in it and what it contains. I would again disclaim
any ungenerous feeling towards our allies ; but, really, in
view of their general bearing since the fall of Sebastopol,
one's British " monkey " is often disposed to rise and show
itself. Their sentries are posted over quite three-fourths
of the entire town, and into these quarters admission is
forbidden us, unless armed with a pass from the French
commander. Altogether, amity in fact and amity in print
are here shown to be distinctions with a difference. Talk
as credulous apostles of French and English unity may,
the British Lion and Gallic Eagle will cherish antipathies,
and occasionally show them, to the end of the chapter:
the traditional feelings of more than three centuries are
not so easily extinguished, but will retain a smouldering
vitality under all the surface of factitious harmony which
mere political contingencies may create for the time.
The next paragraph is in the same vein :
Some of the French soldiers, who only saw part of the
operations on the Nth instant, have been inclined to re-
proach our men with not taking the Redan at the assault
on that day. They contrast their own feat in seizing and
holding the Malakoff with our failure. Fortunately our
men have not understood some of the remarks made by
the Frenchmen in reference to this affair, but in a few
instances, chiefly where there has been previously a little
over-indulgence on both sides in stimulating beverages,
there has arisen sufficient understanding, or perhaps mis-
understanding, to lead to personal encounters. The
jealousy of our men has been a little excited by seeing the
large number of Frenchmen who have contrived to forage
in the town, and who have gained no inconsiderable sums
by selling their prizes in the English camps, while they
themselves have not been allowed to abstract anything,
through the watchfulness of our authorities. When the
general nature of the assault is better understood, this
jealousy will in all probability mutually disappear.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.
MARSHAL PELISSIER'S DESPATCH.

The following is the first despatch sent by Marshal
Pelissier to the French Government. In a second
despatch the Marshal enters more fully into details,
but it is unnecessary to print it; as all the facts are
given elsewhere :

Head-quarters at Sebastopol, Sept. 11.

M. le Marechal—l shall have the honour to send you by
the next courier a detailed report on the attack which has
placed Sebastopol in our power. To-day I can only give
you a rapid sketch of the principal achievement of this
great event of the war.
Since the lath of August, the day of the battle of the
Tscheruaya, and notwithstanding repeated warnings of a
new and more formidab!e attack by the enemy against the
positions which we occupy on this river, every preparation
was made to deliver a decisive assault against Sebastopol
itself. The artillery of the right attack commenced on
the 17th of August a well-sustained fire against the Mala-
koff, the Little liedan, the neighbouring defences, and the
roads; in order to permit our engineers to establish de-
fences close to the place, from which the troops might be
able instantly to throw themselves upon the enceint. Our
engineers besides prepared materials for escalade, and on
the sth of September all our batteries of the left opened a
very violent fire against the town. The English on their
side kept up a hot cannonade against the Great netlan and
its redoubt, which they were to attack.
All being ready, I resolved, in concert with General
Simpson, to give the assault on the Bth of September, at
the hour of noon.

General M'Mahon's division was to carry the works of
the Malakoff; General Dulac'e division was to attack the
Little Redan ; and in the centre the division of General La
Motterouge was to march against the curtain connecting
these two extreme points. Besides these troops, I had
given to General Bosquet General Mellinet's division of
the linable, to support the first three divisions. Thu, tar
for the right.
In the centre the English were to attack the Great
Redan, escalading it at its salient.
On the left of the Ist Corps, to which General de la Mar
more had wished to join a Sardinian brigade, having at its
head General Levetllant's division, was to penetrate into
the interior of the town by the Central Bastion, and afte