The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-26 00:00:00

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sorrow trenches by rata sleet, and honeycombed
late small pits by exploded shell ; I doubt if there
be half a foot of square space within the whole enclo-
sure on which one or ether of these missiles has not
fallen. The huge pits occasioned by the exploded
mines complies the wrecked appearance of the spot.
and give it in the last degree an aspect of ruin and
desolation. Although four days had elapsed &es
the closing contest I stumbled on no less than five
dead Russians in different parts of the redoubt why
they had bees passed over in the general burial I
am usable to expliin.
Passing down from the rear of the Reda% the path,
which lies along what was ones a handsome wall of
chiselled stone--now knocked into a line of shattered
masonry, leads to the first of the great series of go-
vernment buildings which terminate down on the her-
boar, at the point at present covered with the nine
of Fort Paul. Concealed as they are from view from
our trenches by the Roden bill, I was one of essay
who, till within the past five days, were utterly
igas-
rant of the extent of the mischief which had
bbeMs
done to these buildings by oar fire. Shattered and
riddled at all points, they seem the very type of
architectural rein. Only a degree better is
the sedition of the next range of building,'
Weed;; the terrible effects of shot and
skill everywhere meet the eye, in shattered
eslemme. levelled aide-walls. and fallen roofs.
Eves in this tyres* of desolation, however.
• "emit resales to suggest bow fine--almost rand
—meet have been the structures thee ruthlessly
destroyed. The general character of these piles of
buildings resembled in ems degree that of the
quadrangle of the Admiralty and other adjacent
eases is Somerest-house. As the distance from the
Hades heiresses, the injury done to the buildings
lissome less in proportion, though, down to the very
last of the series opposite to where stood Fort Paul,
the damage la emoderable. Crossing one of the in-
tervening esplanades, I rode through a wide gap
made in the wall separating it from the buildings of
the dockyard, and entered the road leading down
to the series of basins and locks, of which,
with the workshops, this great establiab most is com-
posed. Its low situation appears to have saved this
extensive naval quarter from much of the injury
which has fallen so destructively everywhere else, as
only here and there are the marks of a shot or shell
to be seen. The masonry of these splendid basins
equalled, if not surpassed, both in finish and solidity,
anything to be seen either in Portsmouth or Wool-
wich. In one of the largest ol the locks lay the still
smoking remains of a large war steamer, with the
machinery, paddles, and other solid iron fittings
"tanning all complete, though, of course, much is-
by the fire. Outside all these, and on the
=dof the channel which opens into the creek
stood the charred remains of the huge shore, at
which I had so often eased from Catkoart's said the
' Picket-house Hills. Then came ruins of boat
sunken boats, of all sizes, from a eaptaiiN gig In
a fifty-ton lighter ; and farther out in the
creek still, the mast-heads of a sunken brig.
The road then passes down the stone "go
flanked on one ride by the waters of the meek en
the other by a continuous pile of lofty two storied
buildings. used apparently for all three purposes et
emblie offices, naval stores, and hospitals. Hers I
found a party of the Land Transport Corps engaged
in the loathsome duty of removing some four hun-
dred Russian dead, some of whom had been found
laid outside along the quay, and the remainder
' within the buildings. Of these last, a large num-
ber had been discovered in a vault under the build-
leg, piled up in rows, one on top of the other, and,
judging from their state, they most have been dead
at least nine or ten days. The officer in cos-
' mend of the party described the condition of
these bodies as loathsome in the extreme.
Of those found laid out on the ground floor
of the building, two still breathed when
they were first discovered, and a man who had acci-
dentally strolled into the place, a day sootier than
" the authorities." affirmed that be had counted
twelve of them alive. Besides these, in another
vault, some twenty or thirty,bodies were found coffined,
some with the coffin-lids firmly screwed down, and
others with them lying by the side of the dead :
these were doubtless officers. The transport corps
men were piling up the last load of corpses as I rode
up, and certainly the sight and the smell were offen-
sive to the last degree. From this point, some hun-
dreds of yards do en the quay, the bloodstained and
noisome rags of three who had been already borne
away, still remained; bat they were to be forthwith
paid up and burned. From the discovery of the
longer dead, it is inferred that the wounded during
the three clays of the bombardment were carried
hither, and here left to die; as every sign appeared
of their wounds having received no attention whet-
ever.
Towards the extremity of the quay is a new, half-
finished building of cut stone, of similar architee-
turd character to the line of edifices along the front
of which I had already passed. Even it, far removed
se it is from the scene of action above, bore not a
few tram" of cannon shot; many a handsomely
chiselled cornice and well-fitted joining having been
shattered and displaced by a stray long ranger.
Nearly opposite this point, on the other side of the
creek and within some hundred yards of the rear of
Fort Nicholas, the French had mounted a mortar,
and were then throwing shells at a working party
employed in the construction of a fort on the
north side. They made very pretty prac-
tice; sending nearly every other shell within,
or close upon, the new parapet, sod inflicting
evident detriment on those at work. The Russians
replied with a few round shot, but without effect ; and
when I turned (root viewing the pile of broken stones
and mortar, which is all that remains to teH where
stood the once handsome structure of Fort Paul, our
allies were still pounding away. Besides blowing
up the Fort, the Russians had likewise burned several
rows of small buildings in this neighbourhood, and
the fallen-in roofs rat these were still smouldering as I
rode along. Through the openings between these, as
• well as from the top of the ruins of Fort Paul. I had
an unbroken view of the harbour, from its mouth at
Fact Constantine to its termination at the embou-
chure of the 'fchernaya. Close under Fort Paul,
is about twenty feet of water, lay the re-
mains of the burned ship whose destruction I
reported some ten days ago : out further, about the
middle of the harbour, appeared the mast-heads of
the last sunk liners, and away beyond, under the
L opposite shore, was the burnt wreck of the long
fancied Wladimir steamer, which, with the other
steamers and remaining vessels, had been burned a
few days before—the day after I last wrote. This
final sacrifice of the last remains of their once proud
Black Sea fleet was occasioned by our having, on
Tuesday last, brought down a couple of guns from
our advanced batteries to a point near the harbour,
which commanded these few remaining vessels; one
ruiners put four shot into the hull of one of
the steamers, which were replied to by a few
shells, when, seeing that further defence wee
useless, the enemy consummated the Bestrew
Lion of their vessels by burning or sink's,
everything that remained, except a few insignifiesst
• barges, which are not worth a shot. Not less wreck-
fel and desolate, in its own way, is the present anent
of this once crowded and navy-laden harbour than
the most ruined quarter of the town itself. View the
satire scene from whatever point you may, it seems
as if a deetroving curse had fallen upon and bleared
the whole. Three% nothing is to be seen in the
shape of buildings on the north side, beyond the
forts on the shore sad some wooden huts scattered
over the face of the slops, there is an extensive
gathering of tents, and signs of great activity all
over the enemy's new settlement. The width of the
• harbour is so inconsiderable, that all their movements
can be IRMO readily with the naked eye.
I returnel to our lines by the quarter behind the
Malakhoff, and through that redoubt itself. With
a few exception., all the houses in this locality are
mach inferior to those in the main body of the town
behind Fort Nicholas; being mostly of only on. stow;
and many of them built of unburnt bricks.
streets here, too, partake more largely of the charsolir
of those of an Eastern towns many of them
simply a couple of parallel dead walls, brebublieS
'stomas by doors or low gateways lending likqoa
courtyards inside, round one or two side" if inks I
fossil similar galleries running to these whisk ones
Deets with in Asiatic towns. Inside, howeveir,llliW___
go troops of the universal divaps to be seen in OM
Toone or an Asiatic dwelling; but, externally, OM
streets, with the exception of being wider, 011111)1
have word for amiss cif Er crone, Diartekir,or, And.

loch. Although ruin had swept like a storm over
'this quarter, too, the consummating touch of French •
angers had Bien wanting to parka the desolation-1
and it had not been withheld; benches, doors, win.
doles, and every internal article of furniture worth
carriage to their camp, had been borne away, and
what would not have repaid this trouble was all
smashed to pieces. Little enekoures of Bowers and
ornamental trees fronted many of the houses; but
even these had not escaped the gratuitous wrecking
which had been everywhere perpetrated; up-
torn nee bushes, roots of dead tulips,
camellias, daisies, and the like, met the eye and toot
at every point along the street on which this little
floral souk had abutted ; as it sheer love of ruin had
been as strong an impelling motive with the de-
stroyers as their unsparing itch for plun'er itself. I
may here mention that all this quarter of the town,
as well as the great body of it on the opposite side of
the Creek, is at present formally in the occupation of
our allies, the only portion of the place which is in
oar hands being the government buildings and dock-
yard which I have already noticed. This small moiety
of the city lies behind our right attack, the reason
I suppose, why we are allowed to hold even it. In
this as in a thousand other things connected with
the whole affair, English interests are most unblush-
ingly overridden by those of the French, who, in fact,
seem by their effrontery and unclocoeided 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 nouns. I would again disclaim any un-
generous feeling towards our allies; but really, in
view of their general bearing show the fall o' Bens•
topol, one's British " mocks; " 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 for-
bidden us, unless armed with a pas. Irom the French
commander. Altogether, amity in fact and amity in
print, are here shown to be distinctions with a dlr.
fennel. 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 exile-
gobbed, bat will retain a smoulderiog vitality under
all the surface of factitious harmony which mere
podded mintiogencies may create foe the time.
L esostruction and general appearance the Ma-
, lobbed differs little from its neighbour the Manis-
tee; the same massive parapet of earthwork, ga-
, Mons, and sandbags, with similar underground sir-
' dabs to those in the Redan, but without the formid-
able rear defences to be seen within that redoubt, so
• that the outer line of battery once gained, the
mastery of the interior became merely an Utile of
musketry and the bayonet. As in the case of the
Redan, so here again nearly every inch of ground
o behind the breast work was out by our own and the
I French fire. The embrasures still remain closed,
as on the morning of the Bth, and will, of conies,
I never be re-opened in the same direction. As in all
the other batteries belonging to the enemy which!
have visited, there has appeared no scarcity of
aomenition—round shot, shell, grape, canister, and
I *Very other missile known to artillerists everywhere
'blooded. I noticed that at the moment of the
very many of their mortars had been
Illisarreitetand wanting only the application of a
match to send their deadly contents into our own or
the French lines. Before passing from this
' subject of the enemy's field delouses. how-
ever, I may jut mention that in the
• Roden, and, I believe, some of the other
batteries, large magazines full of Russian pow-
der still remain, the daily explogion of which, strange
to say, we await—passing in crowds over these hid-
den mines the while. The quantity of the powder is
alleged as a bar to its removal; but, if so, why our
authorities do not take measures to blow it up Won
la restle, instead of permitting it to tak.
its own time under the smouldering gabions
and other woodwork on the surface of the
ground, puzzles my civilian understanding. A
sentry, for example, will 000lly warn you not to come
near him, as he is over a magazine, t' which may at
any minute blow up." In the body of the town, also,
it is suspected that unexploded mines yet exist ; but
of this there can be no certain knowledge. Apropos of
explosions, I may mention a marvellous escape of
paymaster of the Rifles a few days ago
within the town: he was riding quietly
along when a shell thrown from the north
side of the harbour struck the ground immediately
under his horse's body, and exploding at the moment
killed the animal without seriously lowing his rider.
Were an incident of this kind mentioned in • work of
flciun, one would be more disposed to place it to the
account of the author's imagination and ignorance of
what shells are than to believe in its possibility. The
fact, however, occurred as I have stated it, and is oon-
sidered one of the narrowest shaves known in the
whole course of the siege.
The French trade in the proceeds of their plunder
continues to flourish, higher prices for everything
being demandkd as days roll on. In the centre of a
small knot of commercial Zonaves, outside the French
bazaar on the Woronsuff-road, I noticed, a few days
ego, no less distinguished a purchaser than the Duke
of Newcastle, who was bargaining for some Russian
trophies with a closeness that would have done
credit to the economic instinct of Lord Aberdeen.
The Gauls chaffed his rue with a freedom
which showed how little they suspected
that their customer was no less a personage
than the British tiniest mintier. de la 'sperm fre-
quently displaying their sympathy with the duke's
linguiteic difficulties by assuring Dim that he was a
bond Ingle*: ooterithstanding. The Marquis of Sligo
is also at present in the camp, on a visit to his bro-
ther, C iptain Lord Richard Browne, of the 7th Fusi-
lier" Daring the late attack, and for some time pre-
ceding it, Colonel Powell Thomas, of the Contingent,
was present as a volunteer with the 44th Regiment—
the only one of the force to which he belongs who
has as yet, I believe, taken a part in any of our ope-
rations.
By next post I hope to be able to give you some
information as to what is likely to be our next move
—if any is to take place before spring. In the mean-
time there is nothing tangible even afloat on the
hisses of camp rumour; and I need, therefore,
boned se personal surmises. Another visit to the
French part of the town, as yet uodescribed, will
also furnish me with some materials of interest for
the same mail.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRKSPONDENT )
CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Sere. 11.
The very serious and exalting events which have
411111111,1 during the last three days have followed in '
seek rapid succession that even yet their import
and probable results have not been fully disenseed or
estimated. The attack on the Malakhoff and Roden,
the fleadonment subsequently of the south side by
the many, the destruction of the city and suburbs by
firm reselling the policy pursued formerly at Moscow,
the staling of the remainder of the fleet, are such
stirring incidents, that for a time, on the scene of
action, amid the disturbances of constantly fresh ru-
mmies and reports, reflection is almost Milled. The
management of the attack on the Medan is much dis-
cussed ; and neither the generalship exhibited, nor
the sondem of some of the troops, escape without
censure. If the Malakhoff were the key to the
whole position as engineers stated, and the Russians
seem to have considered. wee the attack on the Redan
Galled for; and, if called for, were our own works suffi-
ciently advanced, and the reduction of the place suffi-
ciently effected, to warrant its being then undertaken P
These are questions of a wider range. Has the burn-
Log of the city, considering what must have been its
ruined and polluted state, been of much harm to us ;
and, by blowing up the forts, have the Russians done
more than save u. the trouble of doing the same
thing ourselves P What is to follow now ? Are the
troops to shift their position, to take the field and
march against the enemy, or will winter and dearth
of food do the work for us ? What influence will the
destruction of Sebastopol, its fleet and its
have on the great question of the submimise
Update the demands of the Allies P For inhume=
ea these latter important subjects we shall min*
look for the result of deliberations at home.
I sabloin a diary of some of the leading events:
fin. B.—The bombardment has continued all
nfirbt, the chief infeasity of the fire continuing to

THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1655.1

Ibe 01 the left. An active discharge of shells and
rockets has been kept up against the positions of the
Malaise and Reda. This morning there is a
cold high wind, and clouds of dust, creating for a
time dean fogs, or sweeping past n rapid whirls,
are enveloping the camps. It is hi
complete storm
of sand and wind, which it is difficult to move
against, for the dint is forced into the eyes and pene-
trates every pore of the skin. Before 7 a.m. the
men of the Light and Second Di ' • na com-
menced assembling before their camps, previous
to moving forward to the trenches to make
the assault against the Redao. They were provided
with two days' Booked rations, and an extra quantity
of ammunition. First, the covering and storming
parties assembled sad moved down to the trenches;
then the supporting columns, the working parties,
and, lastly, the reserves, went in succession to the
various parallels of the right attack. In spite of the
gloomy aspect of the weather, and the trying wind
and dust, the men appeared steady and determined.
Streams of French were also pouring down in quick
succession from all directions toward the works con-
nected with the Mamelon Vert,behind which a vast re-
serve of troops wasoollectei. A park of field artillery was
brought behind the Victoria Redoubt. Large bodies
were also pieced in reserve in the Careening Bay and
Karabelneta Ravines. In the latter, also, were the
English Highland Division, who were brought is
from Kamera for the occasion, and the Division of
Guards. These divisions were exteodtd into the long
covered way, connected with the old advanced work,
and communicating with the corresponding French
approach. General Simpson and staff passed toward
the right attack about half-past nine o'clock, and
about au hour afterwards General Palmier moved 0111
his station in front of the Victoria Redoubt.
roux.—At 12 o'clock precisely, the French troops
showed themselves above the foremost approach, clam
to the almittis of the Malakhoff. The ditch wee
passed in admirable order, and with wonderful
rapidity. The men were seen mounting the parapet,
sad appeared to enter the bastion at its left face, almost
without any opposition. Other columns followed isi
gala secoessioo. On a high piece of earthwork,
within the bastion, nearer to its r ght, two Russian
officers were partiedarly conspicuous, appealed,
trying to cheer on their men. A minute or two
seareely elapsed when they turned and disappeared,
and immediately afterwards a body of French ap-
peased in their place. About eight minutes only bad
elapsed since the first entrance of our A lies into the
work; the French standard was already firing near
the salient angle, pleated there by the 27th gi-
went of the Line; and now the Union Jack waved
within the Malakhoff, being displayed as the signal
for the attack against the Ryden. Another Union
Jack was also shown in the Branoion Redoubt. Thei
signal was at once responded to. One hundred men
of the second battalion of the Rine Brigade under
Captain W. Fyers, an experienced Lacer, moved from
the left of the foremost approach, and, rapidly form-
ing in extended order, pushed forward. The ladder
parties and troops, told off for the duty of storming,
quickly followed. These consisted of men from the
97th and 90th Regiments, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Henry Handoock and'
Major Welsford 97th Regiment, and Captain'
Grove of the 90th Regiment. N. sooner had
they appeared than a tremendous fire of
grape and musketry was opened against
them from all the flanking batteries, especially those
on the proper right of the Redan. They quickly
reached the ditch and put down the ladders, but it
was evident that some difficulty had occurred. Some
of the commanding officers bad fallen, and there was
a want of proper comptictness and concert. The men,
however, turned the ladders and mounted the pa-
rapet. Then a heavy musketry fire followed, but
there was no advance within the work. The sup-
ports, consisting of soldiers of the 19th, 41st, 55th,
and 88th Regiments, were moved up, and though
they added to the numbers, did not seem to be able
to effect the desired progress. Officers were seen
standing on the parapet, waving their swords as if
to encourage their men to descend into the work.
Occasionally men moved on, but it was apparently
only two or three together; there was no general
advance. A violent struggle was going on. The fire
if musketry, both from within the work and from oar
men, was incessant. Numbers were falling back into
the ditch, others were pushing forward into their
places, and thus it continued for upwards of two
hours, when it became evident that the effart to sal
complish the object was unavailing, sad the troops
were ordered to retire. Brigadier-General Shirley,
who bad left a sick bed to take the cowman&
of his brigade of the Light Division, Colonel Hasid-'
cock, Colonel Maxwell, 88th Regiment, Colonel Unite,
and Major Warden, 19 Regiment, Colonel Patna*,
30th Regiment, Major Welsford, and other field offi-
cers, had been killed, or placed here de combat from
wounds; and the men of diff rent regiments were se
mixed up is the contest, that it was difficult to
attempt any regular formares or systematic move-
ment of the men. They therefore found their way
back to the trenches as they beet could, leaving a
great number of dead and wounded about the ditch
and parapet of the Redao, and strewing the meadow
like piece of ground between it and the nearest ap-
proaches. It was on every account a painful
sight more especially as it was too apparent that a
very heavy loss had been sustained in the minibus
killed and wounded. Oar Allies, in the meantime,
had established themselves in the Malakhoff. and had
rapidly brought in a number of brass field-pieers.
which they now turned upon the enemy.
It appeared to a spectator as if the French
had taken the Russians by surprise at the
Malakhoff, and that they, finding that posi-
tion was lost, had united all their efforts, and
brought up all their reserves, to defend the Redan.
As was subsequently proved, it was fortunate that
our men did not get into the work. The Russians
had a force immediately behind it, estimated at 30.000
men, into whose hands our troops would have fallen
as let° a trap, sad had they contrived to remain
within it, they would have been in all probability
blown up by the springing of a mine beneath them.
At a late hour of the evening, about eleven o'clock,
'he Redan was found to be evacuated by the Russians.
They had been seen going over to the north side over
the bridge in immense bodies during the afternoon,
hut it was supposed that these were only the reserves
which had been brought across on the occasion of the
attack, and were now being sent back again to be out
of the way of the shelling and fire of the bombard-
ment. 80034 of the Highlanders went into the.work,
and finding it altogether abandoned, providentially
left it immediately for their former position. They
had ao sooner done so, than a mine was
sprang, and a tremendous explosion followed.
The enemy had very probably perceived their en-
bunoe, for which they had been waiting, and then
caused the explosion. Our Allies were not so forte-
sate on the right. The 11th Regiment of the Line
and other troops, who had assaulted the Little Redan,
were establishing themselves there for the night.
Jest about the time when the explosion occurred in
the Redaa opposite to our works, another mine was
sprung in the Little Redan. It produced a frightful
effect, horlieg a great number of French into the
air, and scorching or otherwise injuring many more.
It is said that as many u three hundred suffered by
this explosion. The providence of the French ene-
mies prevented a similar catastrophe at the Malsk-
hot They had examined for mines and galleries.
and bed some across a large pipe charged with gun-
powder. This they had carefully cut asunder, and
they had separated each end from communication
with the other. It was subsequently proved to be •
simnel of communioation between the mine in the
Little Redan and one in the Malakhoff; had it not
been that the continuity of this tube had been de-
stroyed, an explosion in the Malakhoff would have
taken place almost simultaneously with that in the
Little Redao, and numbers must have perished.
The French have been bringing Russian prisoners
ell the afternoon into camp. The storm of dust and
wind gradually subsided in the course of the after-
noon, and the night became comparatively calm and
clear.

sloes are onewitleg het time to time. As fresh fires
spring up, the jet bradz thick columns of smoke which
rise from them prove that hay and tar, or some other
inflammable articles. have been heaped together to
insure the combustion of the inner parts of the build-
ings intended to be destroyed.
Search is being made near the Reden for any
wounded who may be lying in its neighbourhood,
and parties are employed to collecting the dead for,
burial. The loss of the Russians has been very great.
Our loss is not yet known with aoeuracy, but it is
said to amount to one hundred and fifty officers, sea
about 2.300 men, killed and wounded. The loss Is
the Light Division was very severe, 83 officers being
killed wounded or missing, and 1,350 men killed or
wounded. The regimental hospitals, and the Gess.
ral Hospital behind the Fourth Division, were
filled. Every patieat was in bed, and had his
wounds dressed, and nearly all the chief surgical
operations were performed by 9 o'clock the same
evening. The labours of the surgeons were greatly
increased by the diminished numbers of medical
officers in the Crimea; the established strength
being considerably more than a hundred
below its proper number from victories
caused by absence or promotion not having
been filled op. One assistant-surgeon went with
each regiment into the trenches. The wounded
Russians left in the Malakboff and Little Man of
whom there were considerable numbers, have been
taken care of in the French ambulances.
The Medan is a most extraordinary work. Like
the Hainschatka redoubt on the Mamelon Vert, it
consists of an intricate *raise of trenches and tra-
verses, and bombproof places of retreat. Along one
part is a series of vaults or underground barracks,
in which, so deep and protected are the excavations,
the occupants must have been perfectly secure under
the heaviest fire of shell that could be poured upon
it from our batteries. Indeed, the state they bad
been left in proved how contentedly the men had
been in the habit of employing themselves; for
shoemakers' and tailors' tools and implements were
found in abundance within them. In one some
dolls and playthings were found, as if a child had
been taken into it.
1.30 r.ii.—An unusually loud explosion has attracted
many persons to the hills to front. A mine had been
fired beneath Fort Paul, and its destruction tho-
roughly effected. So well had the explosive mate-
rials been laid, and so great was their force, that not
even one wall remains where the lofty and solid
structure formerly existed. It is reduced to a heap
of stones.
The principal town west of the South Harbour is
all on fire. From time to time explosions occur, and
after each the fire seems to acquire greater force at
some point in the general conflagration. The bridge
lately constructed to the north side is destroyed;
portions of it can be seen near the steamers at the
opposite shore. The bridge of boats across the south
side, joining the town and Karabelneia suburb, is
also broken up. This suburb has been greatly in-
jured by the bombs which have been discharged
over the Malakhoff, and by the effect of rockets;
but them are only one or two houses
now on fire in it. The long white build-
ings have escaped the flames. The French and
Sardinians are going down in great numbers, and a
continual stream is returning, bringing up every
imaginable article that can be found in private houses
or public buildings. Furniture, clothes, pottery,
metal vessel., paintings, arms, stores of canvas, evi-
dently intended for issue to the Russian trove, are
being brought up into camp. The French soldiers
bring canvas bags filled with promiscuous articles,
seemingly collected at random, into the camps of the
English regiments, arid obtain almost fabulous prices
for some things from the officers, who are anxious to
send mementos to their friends of the fall of Sebas-
topol. A cordon of British cavalry videttes is sta-
tioned across both the French and our own positions
to stop any English persons, military or civil, from
going towards the town.
9 r ic—Two mines, heavier than usual, bars just
exploded—a bright sudden illumination of the sky
and the broad aloud, of smoke, succeeded by several
similar but less vivid flashes, having preceded the
deep report and rumbling echoes. The town is enve-
loped in a bright white veil, in the midst of which
some twenty or twenty-five brilliant centres of flame
mike themselves visible. These brighten up, waver,
, and. from time to time almnat diearpear bi hind dense
columns of smoke. Lithe distance, the arches in the
reverse of Fort Nicholas are plainly seen, lighted up
, by flame within the building. On the right, behind
the Malakhoff, there are three or four fires ; and feel
away on the left, among the works behind ,the outer
line of fortifications, are also a few lighted soots,'
where sheds or karat's, are burning. No roar free
the flame, no ',lining or cracking noises of timber I
burning, can be heard at the distance of the first parl
railed; the flames start out, and served, and the vast,
column and canopy of smoke and vapour mount up
in perfect silence as if it were some pictured effect
produced at a (Emetic exhibition. The batteries
, are all silent, and the effect to one who has been see-1
iog their flashes and bearing their reports for many
months pest is very placentae. The perfect silence is I
almost peinfuL The whole assumes the character of
a delusion. or a drum, so wide is it to the imagine-
tion from the ordinary reality. As the huge moan-
' tain of smoke rises above the fire, it is wafted gently
, inwards by a breeze from the west, and after this curve
has been carried upwards for some distance, it ap-1
peer. to reach a stratum of air when it is left to
expand according to its own gravity. The lights on
these clouds are constantly brightening or fading,
varying with the increase, or the reverse, in inten-
sity of the fires, among the streets awl buildings in
the town below. The ground behind the batteries,
for as the crests of the bills above, is strongly
Watranated. Above and all around the sky is gene-
' rally clouded, and were it not for the wide-spread
glare, the night would be very dark.
Ths French are still returning, singly or in parties
of two sr three in each, as they have been nearly the
whole day, laden with spoil of every imaginable kind.
Sometimes they are Government stores for troops, some-
times articles from a private house, church, or a
theatre; furniture, and property of every kind, that
can be expected to be found in a large city,
, are continually pouring into the French camp
through the medium of these foragers. As several
battalions of French were going down towards the
Malakboff position this afternoon, shortly before sun-
set, a &maws who wastreturning carried a polished
chair on one shoulder, and with the other hand
held open a handsome blue silk small parasol. With,
mock modesty he covered his face with the parasol
from the gaze of the troops as they passed by. 'Shouts
of laughter and sallies of wit were poured forth as
section after section of the infantry columns went
along, but the Zoetee preserved the dignity
of the character he had adopted,and pretended neither
to hear or observe the remarks addressed to him. There
is a wonderful change obviously apparent in the
demeanour and spirits of the French troops. Lately
their conversation has always turned upon the nightly
harass and loss in the trench duties, and recollections
of the miseries endured in their tents during last
winter. Now there is not only the flush of success
on their cheeks, the elation of victory exhibited in
their gay elastic movements, but there is also the
cheerful satisfaction expressed in their countenances,
that, for the present, lit least, the trench labours are
at an end. This lest idea seems uppermost in the
minds of all, and it takes away nearly all the dread
of the coming winter.
The following General Or'er has been published.
It may be noticed that it is no longer dated from
Head-quarters, before Sebastopol :"
GICIRAL MITZI MIDIS.
/lead contorts, Sebastopol, Sept. 9.
The Commander of the Fontes congratulates the army en
the malt of the attack of yesterday.
The brilliant assault and occupation of the Idalakhnff
*sr gallant Allies, obliged the enemy to abandon the work.
they have so long held with such bravery and determine-
Res.
The Commander of tie Forces retrains his thank, to the
tosses' MUM, and officers and men of the Second sad
Light Divisions. who advanced aid attacked with such gal-
lantry the works of the ft- dan. H. regret., from the Ur-
midable nature of the Sinking defence., that their devo-
tion did not meet with that immediate neon' which it se
well merited.
ffisoondolee end deeply ryteosthises with the many heave
offieers, non commissioned (Awn, sad mew, who an now
suffering from the wounds they received is the coarse of
their noble ezertions yesterday.
He deeply deplores the death dee many gallant officers
and men who have fallen in the final struggle of this long
and memorable siege. Their lees will be severely felt, and
their sasses keg remembered is this army, and by the
British nation.

Garr. 9.—Daylight has unfolded an extraordinary
event. The Russians have sunk their remainieg Spo-
of-battle ships, and everything wears the appearance
that they are about to abandon the south side of
Sebastopol. In the town there are seven or eight
deer, end several explosions bay* occurred.
8 sat —Although there is no wind, the fires are
rapidly extending. A dense mass of smoke is rising
over the town, and forms a cloud, which is spreading
QUI' our camps and moving to the eastward. Explo-

Gegen' Mace= avails himself of this opportusity to 1
congratulate and convey his warmest thanks to the general
givers, officers, and soldiers of the several divisions, to the
Royal Boatmen and Artillery, for their cheerio' endurance
of almost unparalleled hardships and sufferings, and for the
00E1:shin, courage end determination which on so many
trying oeeestosirtbey have ',Weed.
It le with equal satisfaction that the Commander of the
Forces thanks the officers and men of the Naval Brigade
for the long and uniform course of vela ibis servioe ren-
dered by them from the commencement ,f the siege.
By order (Signed) W. Biaimiu).
enter of Staff.

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SEPT. 10.—A sunny, bright, clear morning. On
walking along the heights above the position of our
works the perfect stillness of the atmosphere and
batteries seems almost insupportable. In society it
is not so much noticed.
The burning. sod destruction of the town continue.
The Karabelnata suburb te now free from flame.
'Several wounded officers and soldiers, who were sup-
' posed to have been killed, have been found today in
houses converted into .hospitals in this part of the
town. Capt. Herbert Vaughan, of the 90th Regiment,
was thus found ; he was brought up to camp badly
wounded. The Russians had also left between two
and three thousand of their own wounded soldiers in
a large hospital not tar trona Fort Paul. When disco-
vered, they had had no food since the abandonment
of the town on the evening of the Bth inst.
A very considerable movement has been observed
among the troops on the north side. Large bodies
have been observed to move to the eastward, and
this has led to a suspicion that the enemy is about
to abandon the north side of Sebutopol as well
as the south side, and to fall back upon Simphe-
ropol. It seems hardly credible that they would thus
give up their great citadel and the chain of forts pro-
ceeding from Fort Constantine. The defences of this
stronghold have been greatly added to even lately,
and vast stores of forage and provisions have been
collected there. It is not improbable that the Russians
had intended to arm the new works from the south
side, for large parks of artillery have been found in
the arsenal new and untouched. Part of the canvas
town on the uorth side caught fire this morning, but
the flames were soon extinguished.
Large military stores have been discovered in
vaults beneath the large barrack building. They
skis fly candler, as far as is yet known, of clothing and
asoontrements. The quantity of furniture brought
up by the French soldiers, and the miscellaneous
&exacter of the articles, is surprising; there can
seareely be a house or store that is not now exhausted
of Its contents. The following stringent regulations
have been published in the English orders bearing
this subject:

GENERAL ORDIaa.
Reediquarters, Saintopol, Sept. 10.
The police of the interior of the town of Sebastopol has
been undertaken by the French authorities, for the present.
All persons whatever, except bodes of troops on duty,
and officers on duty , reviled with rapers from the English
or French head quarters. are positively forbidden to enter
the town.
Regimental picqueta are not to be sent to the town with-
in's authority from brad (Leonora.
Military posts are established near the town, with orders
to apprehend all stragglers, and send them to the Provost
Menhirs guard, which is posted in front of the Fourth
Division.
No persons, military or civil, except those on duty, are to
be permitted to enter the trendies without passes from head-
quarters.
SEPT. 11.—Towards last evening the wind rose,
end about 2 a.m. a very heavy storm of rain, accom-
panied with lightning and thunder passed across the
camp.