The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

Prn PINDA&'s
—peal Ot Farmer Gum; invested by the
dent of birth with the character of Onconak
the KINO, might, with a few slight change.,
be made exactly applicable to Lord RAGLAN,
is his actual position. The first indis
sable pee-requisite to the MOMS of the war in
East is the meal or resignation of Lord Itsoulf.
And one main object of such rectal or resignation
to have a man placed at the head of the army who
would begin by making a dean sweep in every de-
partment under him. Young, ardent, enterprising men
are required, not only to carry into effect any Army
Reform resolved upon by the Home Government,
but to suggest from their own observation and ex-
perience the details of each a reform, and to supply the
existing want of system by their own high qualities
till the reform can be weird into effect.—Daily
News.

'in the Crimes

the following. report, dated March 23 :
Monsieur la Marfichal,—We had *last night a most
hotly contested combat, one very glorious for oar
pc* on oar right attack, opposite the Malakoff
Tower. 'About 11 -o'clock at night the enemy
attempted a general mortis on this aide, in which be
nOpreri to have employed no less than fifteen
battalions, stated by the Russian prisoners
to be each one thotuand strong. These troops,
divided into two columns, advanced in a body
and with savage howling! attacked the head of the
roadway we have formed in front of our parallel for
reaching the ambuscades previously occupied by the
enemy, embnioades which it is our intention to con-
nect strongly one with another, so as to make of
them a place dames. Repulsed three times and
three times led back by their officers, the Russians
were compelled to abandon their plan of occupying
this point, which was defended by some companies of
the 3rd Regiment of &caves, under the command of
Lieut.-Colonel Banon. The combat there was obsti-
nate and has cost us dear, but has inflicted on the
seem Meese far greater than ours, and proportioned
to the sessises he brought up. The Colonel of the
Wash, Janin, of the Ist Regiment of Zonaves,
dirested the efforts made at this spot, and fought
pmenaally with rare energy. He was covered with
blood from two wounds which he received in the
head, but which fortunately are not serious.
The efforts of the enemy, who could only pull
down the still empty gabions, et this spot, being
without effect, were next directed against the left
of our parallel, towards the ravine of Harabelnia,
where he was warmly received by a fire of musketry,
and was unable to penetrate. He then suddenly
threw himself upon the right of the English parallel,
contrived to cross the works, and found himself in the
rear of our left,whicb for an instant wee exposed to a
murderous fire in reverse. General Autemarre, who
commanded in the trench, made the neoessary dispo-
sitions with his accustomed vigour and composure.
The 4th battalion of infantry champ», coming up to
assist, was sent into the ravine, where it threw itself
valiantly upon the enemy, who being himself exposed
suffered considerable loss, and was repulsed to return
no more. _ _ _

Further to the left, the English, who had not been
able to collect more forces then left them much in-
ferior in number to the assailants, attacked the enemy
with their wonted courage, and after a warm struggle,
compelled him to retreat Still farther to the left,
the English had been attacked by a sortie, having
the appearance of a diversion, and which they very
soon reckoned with.

This operation of the besieged has differed cora-
pletely from all those which he has hitherto attempted '
against our works. In order to insure its success,
and notwithstanding the strength of the garrison, ,
considerable as that u, he brought up from without
two regiments (eight battalions) of fresh troops
(those of Dnieper and Onglitch). It was a species of
general assault against onr lines of communication, and
the combination appeared uncommonly well devised
for obtaining a great result. The importance of this
failure on the part of the besieged ought to beestimated
by the greatness of the object he had in view. The
prisoners we have made state that his loss has been
enormous, and taking into account the masses he em-
ployed, we think that this combat, irregular as all
nocturnal combats are, and the firing at which lasted
several hours, must have cost him at least from 1,000
to 1,200 men. The ground in front of our wallets
is strewed with the dead, and General Osten-Backen
has just demanded of us an armistice, which has been
granted and fixed for to-morrow, in order that the
last honours may be paid to the fallen.
Our own loss, of which General Bosquet has only
been able as yet to end me an approximative esti-
mate, is very sensible, and cannot be less than 300 or
320 killed and wounded. We have especially to re-
gret the death of the Chef de Bataillon of Engineers,
Dumas, a superior officer of great merit and promise
who fell gloriously. Re was killed by bayonet stabs,
after being already wounded at the head of the
works of attack. You, marshal, knew and esteemed
him ; your regret will equal our own. The same fate
has befallen the Chef de Bataillon Bacon, of the 3rd
Regiment of Zonaves, who has disappeared, and who
it is supposed was killed. I shall forward to you
later a report in full of our loss.
I have nothing to add to what I have said in my
previous despatches respecting the sanitary state of
the troops. It is satisfactory.
I am informed that many families, swayed by pre-
conceived ideas perfectly legitimate in themselves,
are astonished that no exchange of prisoners has yet
taken place in the Crimea, and that they address to
you on this subject complaints and urgent en-
treaties. That may be presumed at least from
the great number of private letters that have
been received here. On this point I can but reply,
that, in concert with Lord Raglan, I wrote about it
to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army in
the month of Jimmy lest. Prince Mentchikoff
answered shortly after that he was going to refer it
to his government, and that its decision should be
. subsequently made known to us. Thus the matter
rests for the present, and I do not think it becomes
us to break a silence that they seem disposed to
maintain.

Deign to swept, Monsieur le Marechal, the homage
of my respectful devotion.
The General-in-Chief,
CANROBERT.

(nom ma

pm.)
CAMP ABOVE BEBA

DAILY

d„ liAzos 23.

A sortie made by the Russians last night,
first against the French advanced trench, and
subsequently against the advanced works of the En-
glish, near the Mamelon redoubt, led to considerable
'loos on all sides, but chiefly on that of the attacking
force. The dope of the Mamelon-hill is strewed with
the Russian dead, and many of their bodies are

lying in the fare within our arid the French line of
breutworks.

The following appears to be the most connected
account of the attack ; and the details, as they be-
come known by degrees, are found to accord with it•
About 11 p.m., or a little after, the French were
busily eieloyed in &dreaming their gig-sag, and con,
meting the ambuscades, which they had taken from
the Remises in front of their advanced work at the
foot of the Ilanielon-kill. Three eisapanito of the
3rd Regiment of Zona.., the regiment which lately
suffered near the same spot, were defending the
ambuscades, and some men of the 30th Regi-
ment of the line were working under the direction
of the Vagina/re. The evening had been clear, and
the new moon and stars had given sufficient light to
render visible objects within ordinary range, bat the
moon at early and the sky became clouded shortly
after. Taking advantage of this darks's, a Russian
force advanced spinet the French. They seem to
have formed behind the redoubt, and, dividing into
two columns, to have come round the hill, both 00
the right and on the lett, throwing out their !skir-
mishers as they almost In this way they. oar
trived to peas the ambuscades on either tank, keep-
ing onward towards the main line of entrenchment
about fifty yard' farther on. It was not until just as
the Russians had reonhed the parapet of the trench,
that the soldiers is the ambuscades found them.
Selves surrounded. Contrary to Asir isuip
custom the Pianism preserved the strictest silence,
and it was ably witia they commenced the stud
tight against the troops in the 'drained vior4
and against them the ambuscades, that they
shouted their venal shrill hurrah. The men in till
• trench seem to have been takes completely by set,

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APRIL

arra psi, =nods
des Aoglais r and the French officer then gave the
order which prevented his men from at once firing
land giving the alarm. The attack commenced on
the right, the Russians jumping upon the parapet ;
but in a moment it was universal. The troops in the
ambuscades found themselves cut off from the trench,
and completely surrounded. The troops in the trench
iteelt found themselves attacked by an overpowering
force, end, keeping up a fire against their assailants,
were at first compelled to retire. But the desperate
struggle was at the ambuscades. The Zouaves fought
like madmen, and numbers fell from the fire of their
and from wounds inflicted by their bayonets
and by blows from the butt-ends of their pieces, as
they became closely pressed. It was only when they
found all efforts unavailing against the powerful force
arrayed against them on all sides,—when they found
themselves destitute of all support from reinforce-
ments from the works in their rear—that the Zeugmas
fell back, which they did fighting as they retired. A
serious proportion of their small band fell killed or
wounded. On reaching the trench they had still to
fight for possession of the ground, but shortly after
supports arrived and the Russians were driven from
the work with great slaughter.
At first the attack was confined to the French
works on the Mamelon-hill. There were 800
men in the corresponding advanced works on the
English side, but as the entrenchments comprising the
2nd and 3rd parallels on Frenchman's-hill, and the
batteries connected with them, extend over very
long hoes of ground, this force was very widely
scattered. They consisted of troops from the 97th,
34th, 7th, 19. h, snd 90th Regiments, and were under
the immediate order of Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly, of
the 34'11 Regiment. When the attack on the
French commenced, the fire from the men in the
ambuscades against the Russians on their left flank
fell thickly amongst the English on the extreme
right of the third parallel. This end of the work,
like that on the left of the French, was open, and
separated by little more than the breadth of the ra-
vine. The troops were therefore ordered to move a
little higher up the entrenchment, in a direction
toward the left. Some time elapsed after the fight-
ing had become general in the French works, when
some troops were observed moving along the English
trench. As they had not come over the parapets
from the other side, but bad moved in a
direction from the French work, it was at
first taken for granted that these were French
soldiers. The mistake was discovered, and our
men were ordered to charge. At first stooping and
moving quietly, they came upon the enemy almost
unobserved; but when within a short distance they
poured in a volley, gave an English hurrah, and
charged. The Russians did not wait to see what a
small number was coming down upon them, but
clambering over the parapet and running along the
trench towards the ravine, they fled in confusion.
Captain the Hon. Cavendish Browne, of the 7th
Fusiliers' and Captain Hadley Vicars, of the 97th
Regiment, appear to have particularly distinguished
themselves by their gallantry. Captain Vicars,
leading on some men of his regiment, chased the
enemy over the parapet, and followed toward the
ravine. His arm was elevated in the act of waving
his sword, while he was turning to cheer on the men,
when a ball struck him in the arm-pit, and he
fell. He died on his way to camp, while being
carried on a stretcher, either from haemorrhage of
from the ball having penerated the chest. Captain
Browne was also killed, and his body was found to
be penetrated by no less than four balls in the chest
and two in other parts of the body. About the same
time that some of the Russians entered the third
parallel at the open end near the ravine another body
contrived to get into the work by mounting over the
parapet at some distance off on the left, at a spot
from which the covering party had been drawn off
for the purpose of defending the right. They also
were quickly driven back. I have not heard our
exact loss in accomplishing these objects, but about
thirty-four wounded only have been brought into
camp. Lieut.-Colonel Kelly, who commanded the
covering party on Frenchman's
-hill, is missing, and
fears ars entertained for his safety. Lieut. William
Jordan, of the 34th Regiment, who had exchanged
duty with another officer for the evening, was
killed. Major Gordon, of the Royal Engineers,
who for some time had command of the siege opera-
tions, and whose name is so completely associated
with the works on Frenchman's-hill, and many of
those now held by our allies on the . right, was
wounded severely, having been struck by two
musket balls in the arm. The French loss is very
much greater; u many as 130 killed, and nearly 400
wounded being named. As appears generally to
happen, the chief las was among the Zouaves. Some
of the Imperial Guard, who were brought as a rein-
forcement, also suffered severely. Immense bodies of
French troops moved towards the Pdamelon after the
attack, in the expectation that it would be renewed,
but the troops remained within their respective lines
for the remainder of the night. Lord Raglan was at
the scene of contest at an early hour this morning.
Among the dead left in the advanced work on
Frenchman's-hill is an officer, who was supposed to
be a Russian, but papers on his person lead to the
Isupposition that he was a Greek in Russian pay.
Three other bodies are recognised as being those of
Armenians. The French also state that there were
many Greeks fighting against them in their attack.
Soon after the opening of the fire upon the French
works, a heavy cannonade was commenced against
the line of defence of the Russians. The two new
Russian batteries on the heights on the east side of
Careening Bay—both of which are now folly:armed—
the Round Tower, and the Redan works replied, and
in a short time the enemy discharged more shot and
shell than they have done altogether for a week or
ten days past. Rockets were also discharged against
the town from the Victoria redoubt, and also from a
new rocket battery on the left. The powerful glare
of light, which illuminates for a long. distance round,
at the moment of starting of these misfiles, exhibited
strong bodies of the enemy on the summit of the
Mamelon-hill, and a heavy fire of shell was thrown
in that direction. Some buildings in the town were
set on fire, and the wind, which was blowing strongly,
together with a heavy shelling in the direction of the
flames, prevented the fire from being extinguished
until this morning.

During the last week a constant fire has been kept
up against the Mambo redoubt itself, both from the
French batteries on the right and the English on the
left. In spite of this craw fire, and of the regular
approaches of the French who are working by zig-
zag up the hill; the Russians have contrived not only
to hold, but also partly to arm the redoubt. The
working parties must have suffered severely; for the
fly, both from the French and English batteries has
been exceedingly weU directed, shells frequently fall-
ing in the very centre of the redoubt, and the round
shot striking the half-finished permute. Embrasures
have been out for eight gnus. They are masked at
present with gabiona and famine* but the dark colour
of these temporary obstructions renders the opening
in the parapet very obvious by contrast with
the light coloured earth of the parapet itself.
Though the skirmishes between the Russian
riflemen and the French have been frequent,
the foram have set yet be* forced to
abandon the large upper ambuscade which they threw
up, although more than aloe they have been com-
pelled to Tilt it temporarily. There are also many
small detached rile pits, small covers of sand or
stones for riflemen, mattered about the upper part of
the hilL From a distance they appear l&e the little
mounds of earth which are thrown up by some ani,
mal which is burrowing underground. For some
days past it has been known that the Russians bed
field pieces in the redoubt, foe its protection in can
of attack. Two of them were brought out, and em-
ployed to discharge grape in the direction of the
French line during the attack last night.
Tie fire from the riflemen has been onseionallf
antioying against themreseh to oar third oaealls
pare., *Mob is OSIIM from the pits an
,Stannet be protected by traverses.
owing tos ti irt ution along the elms of the hill. A
sergeant and private of the 7th Failiers were iiind

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