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and the benefit I derive from his advice and assis-
tance ; as well as to Captain Gordon, commanding
Royal Engineers, Captain Chapman, and the officers
of that corps ; and to Major Adye, the Hon. Captain
Gage, and Captain Fortescue, the staff officers of the
Royal Artillery, to the command of which Lieutenant-
Colonel Dacres has succeed by the lamented death of
Brigadier-General Strangways, whose aide-de-camp,
Captain Gordon, I would also bring to your grace's
notice.
I profit by this opportunity to render justice to two
officers whom I omitted to mention in my despatch
of the 2Sth September.
The one, Captain Maude, of the Royal Horse
Artillery, who has since been badly wounded, dis-
tinguished himself at the battle of the Alma, as I
myself observed ; the other, Captain W. Pitcairn
Campbell, became the senior officer of the 23rd Regi-
ment when Lieutenant-Colonel Chester was killed,
and though severely wounded could hardly be per-
suaded to quit the field. RAGLAN.
The following order was issued from Lord Raglan's
head-quarters a few days after the last battle :
The commander of the forces has reason to think that
the advanced sentries are not sufficiently quick in stopping
those who approach them from the enemy's side, or in
firing upon those who do not answer them in a satisfactory
manner.
Men, both on foot and on horseback, have come up close
to the sentries, and have been permitted to turn away with-
out being questioned or fired upon.
The only persons who may be permitted to approach
them from the enemy's side are deserters, and flags of
truce ; but these must be made to halt, and not allowed to
come forward until a party from the picket has arrived to
receive them.
When patrols go out in front, or officers go forward to
reconnoitre, notice should be given to the sentries, and
all this should be fully explained to them when they are
posted.
From another order, published by Lord Raglan, it
would appear that some arrangement has been come
to by Prince Menschikoff, which will have the effect
of preventing a recurrence of the inhuman proceed-
ings referred to
October 11.—When burying the dead, if the party so
employed will hoist a black flag the enemy will not fire on
the party.

THE HURRICANE OF NOV. 14.
The Admiralty have issued the following official
list of the ships lost and disabled during the disastrous
gale on the 14th ult. :
On shore off the Katscha, but crews saved—The Pyre.
'ties, Ganges, Rodwell, Lord Raglan, Tyrnne--Pyrendes was

burnt.
The Danube' lost near Cape Cherson, but crew saved.
At Eupatoria, on shore, with their masts gone.—No. 3,
Her Majesty; 53, Asia; 55, Glendalough ; 61, Harbinger;
81, Georgiana. The crews appear to be still on board; two
other transports, partly dismasted, bowsprits gone.
Gone to pieces on the cliffs at Balaklava.—The Prince,
Resolute, Wentworth, Wildwave, Progress, Wanderer, and
Malta.
At nalaklava, riding comparatively easy at their anchors.
—The Melbourne, Pride of the Ocean, Medora, Lady Valiant,
Mercia, Caduceus, and Sir Robert Sale.
Loss of life great; thirty to forty men hauled over the

cliffs.
The Victoria, in harbour of Balaklava, lost her rudder.
Damage to other ships in the harbour confined to their
upper works.
Letters from the Black Sea communicate some
distressing details respecting the storm and its
effects upon the shipping. The correspondent of the
Herald writes from Balaklava on the 18th of Novem-
ber:--
The mere word awful will never convey to your readers
an idea of the storm which has just passed over the Black
Sea. The loss it has inflicted upon the combined navies
and transport fleets is, for some time at least, irreparable.
The Henri (lustre, French screw line-of-battle ship, dragged
her anchors in the tremendous sea, and went ashore. she
instantly became a perfect wreck, went to pieces, and
nearly every soul on board was lost. The Jena, 011 guns,
also went down with all on board. The small French
transports are nearly all destroyed. The English lost
eleven fine steam and sailing transports, with immense
amounts of property on board. Among the former was
the magnificent steam-ship Prince, which had on board a
large sum of money for the payment of the troops, the
diving apparatus for blowing up the ships at Sebastopol,
and clothes for the men. The Retribution, Sunipsmi, and
Fury lost all their masts. All the transports went down at
their anchors in the tremendous sea. The sailing vessels,
it is said, are all, as soon as the weather permits, to be re-
moved to Sinope. Only the screw liners and steam-frigates
will remain with the army.
The Chronicle correspondent says in a letter of the
same date :
On Tuesday, the 11th, the fleet and transports lying at
Eupatoria, the Katscha, and Balaklava, were exposed to
the fury of a tremendous gale from the westward, which
resulted in the loss of at least thirty-five vessels, and the
partial injury of many more. The night of the 13th,
though louring, gave no sign of the approaching storm,
for it was almost a calm in the middle watch ; but about
half•past six in the morning the sky darkened, and a heavy
squall burst forth from the S.S.W.; second anchors were
immediately let go, and every precaution taken to prevent
disaster. The gale freshened, and shortly after eight No.
20 transport, Gauger, dragged her anchors, and fouling

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those of No. 1, Pyrenees, both ships drove together, and a
few minutes after fouled her Majesty's ship Sampson,
carrying away her bowsprit and foremast, which latter in
falliug struck the mainmast, the fall of which destroyed
the inizenmast ; thus in the space of two minutes render-
ing her a complete wreck aloft. The two transports then
broke away from her, and brought up again at fifty yards
distance, about 1,100 yards from the shore. At ten a.m.
a small French brig stranded near the mouth of the
Katscha, and from this time till darkness hid the scene
from our view a succession of terrible disasters followed
each other in quick succession. Fortunately the shore in
the neighbourhood of the river is terminated by a sandy
beach, hence here we have not had to deplore the loss of
life as well as property. Nos. 1 and 20 parted for the last
time a little after noon, and were soon dashed on shore,
where they remained at about ten yards distance from the
beach, with the waves frequently making a clear dash over
them. At one p.m. her Majesty's ship Terrible parted all
her anchors, and the cry rose to every tongue, " the
Terrible will be on shore ; " but gradually the noble ship
faced round to the wind, and passed majestically out
through the fleet. The wind, perhaps, was at its utmost
height about 10.30 ; but the wind, after successive squalls,
accompanied by sleet and hail, passed to W.S.W. and W.,
from which none of our anchorages on the Crimean coast
afford any shelter, and an awful rolling sea then set in,
during which the English transports Bodsley and Tyrone,
a Maltese brig, and four more small French transports,
went on shore. Meanwhile hordes of Cossacks and cavalry
hovered round the wrecks, and, as each of the smaller
vessels were thrown up, were seen occupied in examining
what the chances of the sea and war had sent them. We
could see the French sailors led off towards Sebastopol
with horsemen before and behind them. Our transports,
from their greater burden, were at some distance from the
shore ; and the Cossacks rode backwards and forwards,
regarding them as we read a hungry fox did some grapes in
the days of iEsop. Darkness fell that evening on anxious
hearts, and few eyes could have closed that night amid the
roaring of the pitiless and unabated storm. Soon after
midnight its force was broken, and men thanked God, fur
neither hemp nor iron could have stood such a strain much

longer.
A glance at Enpatoria after the storm showed that it had
suffered even more than the Katscha. True, the
Bellerophon and Leander rode it out, but the total wreck of
au Egyptian line-of-battle ship, and near the beach the
tricolour floating mournfully over the Henri Quatre, strong
and erect as ever, but we fear never again to carry the
flag of France to victory, as well as the stranded transports
in front and to the southward of the town, told a dreary
story. In front lie the stranded remains of five French
merchant vessels ; just beyond it, along the sandy isthmus,
between the sea and Lake Sasik, lie what three days ago
were strong and well-found ships.
I have been given the following as the names of the
ships lost in the Bay of Balaklava, very few persons being
saved :—The Rip van Winkle, Resolute ( with 900 tons of
powder on board), Wild Wave, Kenilworth, Progress,
Wanderer, Prince steamer (she only left Constantinople the
other day with troops ; they had fortunately already been
landed ; six hands saved out of 160), Marseilles, Pallona,
and Mary Ann. Dismasted : The Pride of the Ocean,
Caduceus, Medora, Melbourne (steamer), Sir Robert Sale,
Lady Valiant, and Mercia. The damage done to the
fleet is not yet known. Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Retribution had to throw her guns overboard. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who is ill, was on
board.
Dr. Spence, one of the gentlemen lately come out on a
mission from Government to investigate the state of the
Scutari hospitals, was lost in the Prince. He was official
assistant to Dr. Smith, the head of the medical depart-
ment.
Forty thousand sets of winter clothing for the troops,
and a large supply of medical stores, are said to qe lost.
The resulting loss in lives, ships, and stores, is
thus enumerated more fully by the Times :
The total loss of men at the various stations on the coast
of the Crimea on the disastrous 1:Ith cannot be less than a
thousand, besides those that have fallen into the hands of
the Cossacks. The loss of vessels was thirty British and
French wrecked and half as many dismasted at Balaklava,
and eighteen wrecked or dismasted at the mouth of the
Katscha. Our men-of-war, thanks to the precaution of
frequently trying their cables, have come off with no further
damage than the loss of guns, or of masts, or of rigging,
the twisting of their rudders, or the springing some leaks.
The French have lost the Henri Quatre, a noble three-
decker, and a favourite war-steamer. Thus far we have
sustained no loss beyond the ordinary drain of war ; but
the greatest calamity is that of which we scarcely now know
the full extent. The Prince, a magnificent new screw-
steamer of 2,700 tons, carried out the other day to Balak-
lava the 46th Regiment, all the winter clothing for the
troops engaged in the siege, including 40,000 great-coats
flannel suits, under clothing, socks and gloves; beef, pork,
and other provisions ; hospital stores for Scutari, and a
vast quantity of shot and shell to carry on the siege. These
are wholly lost, and nothing remains of the Prince but
halfa-dozen of her numerous crew, who managed to get ou
the cliffs when she was " broken to powder " against them.
The Resolute, with 900 tons of gunpowder, also went to the
bottom. Thus, it seems, all the materials for carrying on
the siege and providing against the severity of the winter
have been carried off at one fell swoop ! and, even if we
think to content ourselves with merely maintaining our
position on the heights before Sebastopol, it is evident that
we are not in a condition to stand our worst foe, the coming
winter.
Everything seems to have conspired, under a mysterious
dispensation of Heaven, to make the loss of the Prince the
greatest possible disaster. She could not stop at Scutari
to land the hospital stores so greatly wanted there. When
she arrived at Belaklava it was blowing fresh, and she did

SATURDAY,

not venture within the narrow tortuous channel of the
harbour. All she did was to land the 46th, though it is
said that, besides a very large crew, some suppers and some
medical and other officers were still on board. On attempt-
ing to anchor, the whole of the cable ran out, not being
properly clinched. A second cable shared the same lute.
The Prince then steamed out, while a third cable was
got up from the hold, and with this she was brought,
to, though with a smaller anchor than those she had
lost. This answered for a while. On the dreadful morning
of the 14th, however, it proved utterly inadequate. The
Prince cut away her masts, and put on her steam • but the
wreck of the mizenmast fouled the screw, and the noble
vessel, becoming helpless, immediately drifted against the
rocks. Figures are but feeble language for the description
of such a catastrophe, but the value of the Prince, as she
floated, is put at 150,000/., and her cargo at half a million.
There must have been nearly 200 souls on board. The
thirty transports utterly lost, with most of their crews, at
Balaklava, are put down at 15,0001. each. $o here at once
a million of money went to the bottom, in a form of which
money conveys but a faint idea. The other losses enume-
rated above, the French ship-of-the-line and war-steamer.
the transports lost on the western coast, the many vesses
of all kinds disabled, make up another million to be added
to the naked pecuniary estimate of the loss. But the true
way of stating it is, that the army is utterly disabled for the
present, and left to no other protection than Heaven and
that valour which the British soldier is ever sure to display
in the face of the greatest difficulties, the direst privations
and the most overwhelming numbers.

The Crimean correspondent of the same journal,
writing on the 17th, describes the incidents of the day
as viewed from the shore
From Monday morning, the 13th, until the afternoon of
Thursday, the 16th, the most terrible gale ever known in
this part of the world has been raging throughout the
length and breadth of the Black Sea. Pilots accustomed
to the. navigation of the Euxine cannot remember a tempest
so violent as the one which has just passed over us. The
prevalent wind was from the south-west, with occasional
shills to other quarters. It commenced about seven
o'clock on Monday morning, and, with the abruptness
common to this sea, soon lashed itself into a perfect hurri-
cane. Ever and anon through the gale fearful gusts CBlllO
sweeping down the wind, blinding meu with hail and mist,
snatching strong ships from their holding-ground, and
snapping the iron cables like bands of tow. Whenever
this " scud" lifted, another and again another hapless
craft was seen dashed miserably upon the inhospitable
shore. It was impossible to give them help of the
faintest kind in the midst of the resistless ss ell of that
wild surging sea and the mad howling of the teruptesuous
wind.
The first mishap which occurred in the anchorage off
the Katscha (where the commander-in-chief is stationed,
and the larger number of the allied vessels) was to her
Majesty's ship Sampson, which, together v. ith other
steamers, had got up steam the moment the gale began.
This unfortunate ship fell foul of the transport Pyrenees,
and was dismasted by the concussion. The latter vessel,
however, in consequence of the accident, snapped her re-
maining cable and slowly drifted ashore, where she
struck with great force upon the beach, and her roosts
instantly went over the side. Her master managed to tind
for her a most' comfortable berth," if such an expression
is not a contradiction in terms. The Pyrenees was
followed during the day and the succeeding night by the
Rodsley and the Ganges. The Lord Raglan also went
ashore lower down the bay and nearer the mouth of the
Katscha. Eight French brigs, freighted with horses and
men, were also cast away, and several of them went to
pieces at once, or were pounced upon by the Cossacks,
who, ever at hand, quickly discovered the disaster, and
prepared to turn it to the best account. Information was
also speedily sent to Sebastopol, and in a few hours a
carriage drawn by four greys was seen coining over the
downs, containing evidently an officer of high rank. To
his presence probably may be ascribed the humane treat-
ment the shipwrecked mariners experienced at the hands
of the masters of the cliffs, who might easily have destroyed
every soul, by firing over the cliffs upon the ships below.
These, although for the most part armed, were perfectly
helpless, the guns being impracticable and the powder
saturated with sea water. The Russian officers came to
the top of the cliffs and lifted their hats, beckoning to the
sufferers to come on shore—an offer which, for the most
part, was respectfully declined. On Wednesday aftern of
a lull occurred, and Commander Franklyn, the agent
transports, put off in a boat to attempt to reach the
admiral's ship, a feat which he fortunately accomplished
with safety. At the same time Captain Michell, of her
Majesty's ship Queen, requested by signal perm on toissi
send assistance to the wrecks. This was readily g
of a
ranted,
and three boats from the Queen, under the charge
lieutenant, at great risk, succeeded in fetching the
Pyrenees, in spite of the surf and heavy sea. A boat from
the Britannia put off, but I believe was nearly lost in the
attempt, and an officer and boat's crew from the Ville de
Paris, who had gallantly endeavoured to aid their com-
patriots, were all made prisoners by the Russians, the sea
having forced them on shore.
Abont forty or fifty men and two soldiers' wives belonging
to the 95th Regiment were. rescued on Wednesday evening,
and taken on board the Queen. The Cossacks en the
beach, seeing a portion of their expected booty (slipping
through their fingers, fired on the retreating boats, and a
bullet, passing through the bonnet of one of the women,
killed a seaman of the Queen. The enemy closed the (lay
by firing a smart volley upon a bark round whose yawning
sides twenty or thirty men were desperately clinging.
fear their sufferings and suspense were thus summarily
put an end to. The next morning, Thursday, the gale
having completely broken, a large number of boats.from all
the ships were employed in bringing off the remainder of
the crews and such personal property and valuables as

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