The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

Ihnraing with ardour and animated with Wise confidante

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MINT OP TIM DAILY PEWS.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVINIAO.

The Empress left Paris for the Eau: Bonnie at
eleven o'clock this morning. The Emperor accom-
panied her Majesty to the Orleans railway station,
where the directors had made the usual preparations
for an Imperial reception.
The Moniteur having announced that tke telegra-
phic line between Varna and Bucharest is repaired,
news from the Crimea is anxiously looked fur, but
nothing official has transpired to-day.
With regard to the French losses in the affair of
the Mamelon Vert, General Peliasier's definitive

despatch in taday's Moniteur gives no particulars.
He confines himself to the repetition of the ominous

phrase contained is his original telegraphic despatch,
that they were sensible. A correspondent of the Presse
furnishes the following fearful list of casualties in a
single regiment—that of the Algeriaa Tiraillenrs, who
took a prominent part in the taking of the Mamelon:-
462 men killed, wounded, or missing. M. Gibon,
the single chef de battalion of the regiment, wounded
in the breast ; Captains Scheveimberg, killed ; Conot,
wounded; Pietri, wounded; B,aquefeuil, wounded;
Dej mix, wounded; Erbelin, killed; Pettier, killed;'
Pelisse, killed. Lieutenants Cinsie re, misting ; Pa-
cared, killed ; Llutard, missing ; Deferrieres, wounded ;1
Pelsez, wounded; Hanusse, killed; Humery,ll
wounded ; Veran, wounded. Sub-lieutenants GE.I
yard, killed ; Le Grand, killed ; De Maussion,l
wounded; Bonneval, wounded; Loyer, killed; See-
pentini, killed ; Bourgeois, killed; Falien, wounded ;
Jauge, wounded.
Native Lieutenants and Snb-Liententints.—Mo-
hammed-Ben-Maasaond, killed : Omer-Cbibly, killed ;
Mahommed Abdals, wounded; Ben-Aouda, wounded ;
Mohammed-Abd el-Bader, wounded ; Ben-Erkalaji,
wounded. _ _

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The Bourse has been calm and without any re-
markable feature. The Rente fell 15c., closing at
66fr. 55e. Orleans fell 15fr. There was but little,
change in any other railways.
I learn from an o,:cial source that the number of
sick and wounded French soldiers embarked at
Kamiesch from the beginning of the war to the
present time amounts to nearly 43,000.
Riza Bey, who acted as secretary to Ali Pacha at
the Vienna Conference, hes been appointed first seen-
tsry to the Turkish Embassy at Paris.
The Siticle, commenting on the !Mats' article of
yesterday, says:
The husuend of the Queen of E.,gland is (politically,
speakiog) nobody ; but he appears to aspire to be somebody,
and wearied of the inaction td which he is condemned by
the constitution, he sets up es the chief of a party. We
cannot congratulate hint upon his deslit in this new cha
raster, and we entirely participate in the opini a of the
Debit on the subjtct of the unt .rtunats speech made by
Prince Albert at the Trinity House.

THE FIGHTING ON THE 7111.

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(From the Monsieur.)
The Minister of War has just received the follow.
ing report from General Palmier :
' Before Sebastopol, June 11.
" Monsieur le Matdchal,—My two telegraphic despatches
of the 7th and 8;h of June and my letter of the 9th in-
formed you brit fly of our brilliant affrir of the 7th.
"Having to-day received the report of General Bosguet,
as well as other intelligence which I expected, 1 am enabled
to give you a general and detailei account of this action,
whiten is a real victory, from the lustre which it casts upon
oar arms, and from the importance of its results.
" At 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the 6th, as I had the
honour to inform you, the artillery of our right attack
opened on the place; the English batteries commenced
, their fire at the same mom( et, and they were supported 651
loon as possible by a part of the batteries of our left attack.'
The firing use continued with activity during the whole,
sight from the 6th to the 7th, during the day of the 7th,
and at three o'clock in the afternoon it was completed by
the opening of all the batteries of our left attack, so that
from that time the place was enveloped in a girdle of fire,
which, commencing from the east of our Careening bade-
riga, extended to the west as far as the Quarantine Harbour!
v, The plans of attack concerted between Lord Region,
Omer Pasha, and myself, and—as far as we were concerned
—carefully considered by General Baguet, then began to
be put in execution. The object was to get possession as
the right, on the counter fort of the works called by se
outrages Stones, or 'of the 22nd and 27th of February :' In
the centre to terry the Mamelon Vert opposite the Malakhoff i
whilst on their puts the English on out left should make
themselves master, of the Russian work called the Quarries,
facing the greet Redan. Each of these attacks was sepa-
rated from the other by a ravine between steep end rooky
slopes; that of the ouvrages Dienes was separated from the,
11 Malakhoff attack by the Careening ravine, and the Malik•
hoff attack from the English attack by the Karabelnaia
ravine. These mimes were inconvenient, inasmuch a 1
they isolated the attacks; but their covered portions enabled
us to place in them numerous and powerful reserves out Of
reach of the enemy's fire. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th di•
visions of the second corps had been designed for the at-
tack. At half-put four in the afternoon these four divisions
took up their positions, the divisions of Mayran (the 3rd) I
and Hulse (the 4tk) on the side towards our batteries op-
reed to the Careening bay, and the divisions of Camos
(the 2nd) and Brunet (the 6th) in the attack of the centre.
"General Mayran was to direct simultaneous attacks on
the plateau of the Careening Bay spinet the ouoroges
I biases of the 22nd and 27th of February. The first brigade
of his division, commanded by G 1 Lavarende, and
composed of a part of the 19th battalion of Chssseun a pied
(Commandaat Culbert), of the 2nd of the Zouavee (Colonel
Seurin), and of the 2nd Regiment of Marine (Lieut.-Colonel
de Condrecourt), occupied our trenches of the Careening
Bay. This column was charged to attack the work of the
27th of February.
"On the left of Lavarande's brigadowu the tad brigade of
Mayran's division, ander the command of General de Frilly,
consisting of the remainder of the 19th battalion of Chas.
Nun a pied, of the 95th of the line (Colonel Danner), and ,
of the Ist battalion of the 97th. This column was to carry
the work of the 22nd of February.
" Dulac's division formed the reserves of these two attacks ;
the first brigade, under the orders of General de Saint. Pol,
was to statics itself in the parallels of the Careening works
after the advance to the attack of the two first columns, an
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the second brigade, commanded by General Sisson, forme
the sound reserve.
„Further, the 2nd battalion of the 97th of the line, and
Isee battalion of the filet, under the command of Lieut.-
I Colonel Lamely de l'Oriou, of the 97th, were posted in the
Careening ravine, in order to turn the enemy and cut off
his retreat after the capture of the °forages bkates.
"In the centre the operations were confided to General
Cameo. The Ist brigade of his division, under the orders
of General Wimpfen, occupied the parallels of the Malak-
hoff oountet-fort. Oa the right, the Algerian *ales»
(Colonel Rue); faiths centre the 60th of the line (Colossi
de Brandon); on the left the 3rd of the Zonaves (Colonel
Foible). The 2nd brigade of Canon's division, commanded
by Gummi Vergl, was in reserve in the Karabebnia
ravine, in readiness to replace (the let brigade in the

parallels.
•"Bruaers divides, also posted is the Harabelnaia ravine,
ender the orders of its chief, Was to furnish the second

reserve."
Two battalions of the garde impEriale, one of grena-
diers. and another of gendarmes were placed at the dia.
position of General Cantos for this attack.
The whole force was completed by the Turkish division
of Osman Paella, who had been detached by the Com-
mander-[a-Chief, Omer Fiche, from his army on the
Tchernaya, and who had taken up his position on the
heights of Inkermann.
At half-past si: Lord Raglan was near the Boon& °bear-
vatory, and I arrived at the entrenchment before the Tic-
coda redoubt, from which place, as had been agreed upon 1
between me and his lordship;l mused rockets to be die. I
charged as the signal of attack. General Bonnet, who was
stationed at the neighbouring Lancaster battery, had just
received the last orders. All was ready, the tavola were

Oa the discharge of the Bret rocket, De Leland'''. brigade
with the general at its bead dashed at the second parallel of
musketry which, during the 200 metres length of
bebreapcsaseh . dAo obese; gfiriiehatt numberhe
at ofa impe,ani
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thth:
mcoanl uymonf
the Caressing Bay, and carried at double quick march the
ground to
work of February 27. Notwithstanding the grope and
dcwt o cost it
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penetrated into the battery by the embrasure' and the
the defenders were killed on the spot, and we aeon became
mestere of the iatrenchment.
At the same &Mimi and with the name impetuosity Ferny's
brigade had rushed against the work of February 2'2. The
distance was twice that of the other redoubt, the passage to
it more difficult, the (link fire of the first work more de-
structive: nothing stopped this intrepid brigade. In one
compact mass it reached the battery, scaled the parapet
under a rolling flee, and overpowered, even to the laterite of
the work, the desperate resistance of the enemy.
Forced at these two points, and hemmed in by our troops,
the Russians fled in disorder, some towards a small battery,
constructed suite the 2nd of May for defending the mouth
of the ravine at the Careening Bay, and some towards the
bridge that crossed the bay where this ravine opens into the
great harbour of Sebastopol.
A part of our soldiers, led on to the pursuit of the enemy,
captured the battery of May 2, the guns of which were im-
mediately spiked. Neverth less, as this battery was 600
metres from the work of February 22, the most remote from
our lines, and as it was placed under the double protection
of the enceinte and the north forts of the roadstead, it was
impossible to think of still occupying it.
General Msyran,seeiog a Russian column advancing in
order to retake the battery of May 2, ordered a bayonet
charge, which drove this column back into the place, giving
as silty prisoners, Once of whom were officers. Ile then
rallied his advanced troops, and brought them back into the
works of February 22 and 27, which remained definitively
in our power.
In the mean time the two battalions collected in the Ca-
reening Bay ravine, and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
Larrouy d'Orion, had been far from remiinicg inactive.
Descending ire ravine at the moment the storming party
became visible on the ridge, they pushed on to the height
of the aqueduct bridge, climbed the embankments of the
right bank, and cut off the retreat of the enemy driven oat
of the two first work'. This turning movement, which
was conducted with as much vigour as skill, and which has
given us 400 prisoners (12 of whom are officers), does Lis ut.-
Colonel Lanouy d'Orion the greatest honour, and justifies
my special recommendation of this officer to your Ezcel-
keg.
While these feats were being performed ea the side of the
Careening Bay, the action had begun and was still going on
round the Green Mamelon, with evolutions still more
szciting.
At the same signal of rockets discharged from the Victoria
redoubt, General Wimpffen issued with his brigade from
the trenches, which on our side surround the base of the
Green Mamelon—that is to say, from the left plate d'armee
and from the 3rd Victoria parallel.
Three columns at once charged the enemy's work, carry-
ing two advanced segments, and some strong ambuscades
midway between. The grape fire cf the redoubt, the
converging fire from the Roden, and the batteries to the
left of the Malakhoff Tower, could not slacken their pace.
On the right Colonel Rose, at the head of some Algerine
riflemen, seized a four-gun battery connected with the re-
doubt.
Colonel de Brandon, at the centre, with the 60tb, and
Colonel de Pollain, 'tithe left, with the 2nd Regt. of %comes,
resolutely attacked the redoubt itself, dashed down into the
ditch, climed the parapet, and cut down the Russian artil-
lerymen at their guns. Colonel de traction, who had the
honour of first planting his eagle on she redoubt, fell in this
attack, under the enemy's grape, glorious in his triumph.
The formal order had been given not to pass beyond the
neck of the work, and to make a lodgment there instantly
against the fire and attempts of the place.
Bat,narried away by their ardour, our soldiers pursued the
Russians as far as the fosse of the Malakhoff battery, about
400 metres from the redoubt, and endeavoured to penetrate
with them into the enceinte. As might be foreseen, they were
compelled to fall back under the heavy pointblank fire of
the enemy's reserves, who lined the ramparts. The two
wimp of the French line retired, while the besieged
sent out of the place a strong column of fresh troops, who
marched straight against our centre.
The redoubt of the Green Mamelon could no longer, at
this moment, offer any shelter. The flee had caused to
explode either a Rouges:se prepared by the enemy, or a
powder magazine, which seriously burned the commandant
Tinier, of the 3rd Footchasseurs, and a certain number of
men. Planks, porta, burning topes led us to expect fresh
explosion', the interior of the work was no longer tena-
ble. Instead of supporting themselves at the redoubt our
line passed beyond the summit and fenced a half-circle
round the Mamelon.
There was not an instant to be lost. General Cameo
ordered General Verge to leave the trenches; General
Baguet sent to the 6th Division the order to march ; Gene-
ral Brunet led it on immediately to the front.
The movement of this division was effected with im-
posing solidity; the Ist brigade, commanded by Colonel
Doprat de la Roquette, of the 100th regiment of the line,
arrived and occupied the parallels behind the Mamelon,
and the tad brigade, General Latent de Villiers, advanced
to the rear and the left, under cover of a mound.
The Verge brigade formed at the same moment into
column under the enemy's fire, climbed the slope at a
rapid pace, aid rallied the troops of the Wimpffen brigade.
The position was carried and the enemy driven back a
second time into the place. We were definitively masters
of the Green Mamelon, which our troops occupied in tri-
umph, and the enthusiastic cries, a thousand times repeated,
of Vies rEnipsratr.
It was half-past seven, and the day drawing to a close.
As I had anticipated, we were established in the positions
conquered at the moment when the darkness would enable
the engineers to commence those labours which were to
secure us there.
The whole of these labours was directed by General
Framed, having for his chef d'attaque at the Careening
Bay the chef de bataillon of the enginers Chareton, and at
the Green Mamelon the chef do bataillon De Preaerville.
I Executed daring the night with great boldness, with re-
markable intelligence and coolness, these works were solidly
I established by the time it was light, and they enabled us
All the assaulting columns were accompanied by brigades
el flappen, commanded by engineer officers. These detsch-
meats fought every one of them valiantly. De la Baseline
Captain of the Engineers, was severely wounded when
sealing, among the foremost, the parapet of the work of
from that moment to offer a 'Vireos resistance to the at-
tempts of the enemy.
Feb. 27.
The artillery, which plays so important a part in this
slap, cooperated most effinciously in the success of the
day. After the departure of the assaulting columns, the
I Use of fire from all the batteries of the Careening Bay and
the Victoria parallel was changed and directed against the
body of the place ; during the night a great part of the em-
hrasures of its batteries was reconstructed.
Si: detachments also, each consisting of fifteen gunners,
under the commend of captains of artillery, marched with
the first battalioas of the columns, in order to turn against
'Ake enemy the guns of the works, end to ascertain what
sew works needed to be made. All these operations were
performed under the immediate direction of Lieutenant-
Colonel de la Boussiniere, whose devotion and activity can-
sot be surpassed.
The guns is Mt
battery of May 2 were spiked, under the
enemy's fire, by a detachment of gunners, commanded by
Captain Melchior. The guns of the White works sod the
Mamelon remained in our power. Altogether 73 pieces of
ordnance have been captured from the enemy.
While we wen rendering ourselves nie stem of the White
Works at the Careening Bay and of the Green Mamelon,
the English captured with rare intrepidity the work of the
quarries, and firmly established themselves in ft, thus
1 taking their gloriosa share in the success of the day.
The Turkish division of Osman Pasha rendered great
service Several of its battalions, led on by the chief
s.
of the 'tarot the Turkish army, Sefer Pacha, assisted under
fire, and at the advanced poets, in securing our conquest' on

Mount Begone.
The Generalissimo Omer Pacba came at the oommence-
rant of the action to the advanced Victoria entrenchment;
he wished to offer me all hie assistance in cue it were re-
quired by events. I cannot thank him too highly for his
offer, made with such great cordiality.
What shall I say to you, Monsieur la bfarichal, respecting
the troops of the 2nd corps ? Tbeir deeds are more eloquent
than anything that! can write ;Om have beta idesbable.
Their neeam was skilfully 'ilrepared and Mound by
• It is remarkable that in his telegraphie snout of this General Boman I carry oit-lhe lunation. st Alm Ode
affair, written on the Bth, Prince Gortahakoff parties's:l7 of the 2nd corps at the same tabs as Ido my ky men-
says that the besiegers' cannonade extended frowns ben- timing here the namm of the Gramma); -aims ana
bearing ow Clunking Bay to the left (oar right) bee a
the Vegeta Blettea. Mersa, why oceameadest at ties *Susan eseekir those
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