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DESPATCHES FROM THE
CRIMEA.

WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 2.

Lord Pantnure has this day received a despatch, and
its enclosureP, of which the following aro copies; ad-
dressed to his lordship by General Simpson :--

Sebastopol, September 18.
My Lord,—l have much satisfaction in laying before
your lordship the accompanying copy of a letter I have
received from Marshal Pelissier, bearing tentimeny to
the services of Major-General Rose, and Lieutenant-
Colonel the Honourabto St. Georee Foley, who are
attached to the head-quarterii of the• French army, and I
beg also to recommend these officers most favourably to
your lordship's notice.
I avail myself of this opportunity to bring before you
the name of Lient.-Colonet d'Etat Major de SuSleau,
who succeeded the late Lieut.-Colonel.Vic9 at my head-
quarters.
lie is unremitting in his attition, and performs all
the duties I have required of him with a zeal, intelli-
gence, and cheerfulness that merit my warmest thanks.._
I have, &c.,
• JAMES SIMPSON,
• General Commanding.
The Lord Panmure, &c. &c. &c.

Enclosure 1.

Qnartier•General, le 14_Septembre, 1855.

Monsieur le Gendral-en-Ch ef,—J'ai pens qu'au mo-
ment ou Sdbastopol venait de tomber sous les coups des
Amides Allid as, it 6tait demon devoir de signaler it mon
Gouvernement les excellent services quo n'ont cessd de
rendre les ofliciers Ang;ais qui sent attacbds a mon Quar-
tier Gdndral, commo Curomissaires de S. M. la, Leine.
La lettre, dont la copis est ci-jointe, vous poriliottra,
d'appr6Jier dans quels termes j'ai era devoir lain) cette
den:larch° qui, je l'esOre, atteindra le but clue jo rue pro-
pose, si vous voulez bien surtout, joindre .vos efforts aux
miens, pour faire obtenir A cos deux ofileiers, les 1-deem-
penses dont ils sont dignes A tons dgards.

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lc wiliez.anriSvr, Ste.,-- .- , --
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tlf-i--r P ' s (Signd) L A .., teRAT, A. PELTS iErt.
S. E. Le Gdadral en Chef de I'Arm6e Anglaise.

Enclosure 2.

Au Quartier G6n6ral, le 12 Septembre.

Monsieur le Mareehal,—J'ai dejh eu I'occasion ainsi
que mes pr4cidcesseurs de recourir h votre bienveillante
intervention pour faire ressortir auprbs du Gouverne-
ment Britannique, les services ineessants et fort utilet
que n'ont cessd de rendre depuis le commencement de
cette guerre, M.M. le Major-General Hugh Rose et le
Lieutenant-Colonel S. Georges Foley, tous deux Com-
missaires de S. M. la Reine aupres du Quartier Gen4ral
Fran pis.
Dans les journdes des 7 et 18 Jain, du 16 Aout, et
ziotamrnent, le 8 Septembre, ces deux Officers se sont
multiplies pour maintenir en communication verbale et
constante les deux Arm4es ; et dans ce hut, ils ont en
souvent h remplir les missions les plus pdritleuses.
Je n'ai pas besoin de dire ici comment ils se sont
acquittes de ces devoirs militaires, ce serSit superfiu.
La prise de Sebastopol est une circonstance trop hen-
reux, pour que je ne vows prie pas de nouveau, de faire
parvenir au G-onvernernent Anglais, l'expression demon
estime envers ces deux Officers, et ►non desk de lea voir
obtenir l'un et l'autre, les recompenses qu'ils ont si dig-
ndment merit4es.

Je Berms done tre9-beureux, Monsieur le Marechal,
que vous voulussiez biers donner cette nouvelle (16-
marche de ma part, la suite qua vous croirez la plus
utile aux int6ras de ces deux Officiers.

Veuillez agr4er, &c.
(Sign 6) LE MARECHAI, A. PELISSIER.
S. E. le Mar&hal, Ministre de la'Guerre. •

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 1.
A Despatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been received from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons,
Bart., G.C.13., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's
Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
EMBARKATION OF NAVAL BRIGADE.
Royal Albert, off Sebastopol, Sept. 18.

Sir,—l have the honour to enclose, for the informa-
tion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a
printed copy of a General Order which has been issued
to the Army on the re-embarkation of the Royal Naval
Brigade.—l am, &c., ED. LYONS,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
The Secretary of the Admiralty. -
GENERAL ORDER.

Head-Quarters, Sebastopol, Sept. 17, 1855.

No 1. The service for which the Naval Brigade was
attached to this army having been completed by the fall
of Sebastopol, the force has been ordered to rejoin the
Fleet.

The Commander of the Forces heartily thanks the
Officers, Petty Officer; and Seamen, for the very effi-
cient services they have rendered in the batteries, and
on all occasions when their aid against the enemy was
required ; and he has to notice the patience and courage
with which, side by side with the Soldiers of thi s Army,
they have endured the dangers and hardships of nearly
a year's duty in the trenches.
General Simpson cordially acknowledges the obliga-
tions he is under to R. :ex.-Admiral Sir Stephen Lush-
ington, K.C.D., who so ably commanded the Brigade,
from its formation until his removal by promotion to a
higher rank, and to Captain Honourable H. Keppel,
who succeeded him, and retained the command until
the conclusion of this ever-memorable siege.
By order.

(Signed)

H. W. BA.RNARD.
Chief of the Staff.

GENERAL DE LA MARMORA'S,

DESPATCJI.

The Sardinian Minister of War has received the
following despatch relative to Sebastopol from the
Commander•in-Chief of the Sardinian forces in the
East :

KADIKOI, Sept. 11.—By a telegraphic despatch
of the 9th I informed your Excellency of the .strik-
ing success obtained on the previous day by the
Allies against Sebastopol. I now transmit to you
the details which I have been able to collect, and
the facts which came under my own observation.
After a formidable bombardment, commenced in
the morning of the sth, by all the batteries of at-
tack, and directed simultaneously against the Cen-
tral Bastion, the Flagstaff Battery, the Malakhoff
Tower, and the Grand Redan, interrupted at in-
tervals, and then resumed with fresh energy, at the
rate of 100 guns a minute, it was decided that the
columns of attack should be directed in succession
against the entrenchments of the enemy. (The
despatch here goes into a description of the works
and the mode of attack agreed upon, the whole of
which have been given at great length in the re-
port of Marshal Pelissier, and then proceeds.) At
noon, the Ist Division, under General M'Mahon;
and the corps of General Bosquet, 'which had been
suitably arranged in the extreme trenches, oppo-
site Malakhoff, left them ea masse, and rushed on
the enemy's entrenchments, provided with scaling
ladders, bridges, and everything necessary to cross
the trenches. The head of the column in an in-
stant had crossed the first ditch, got behind the
first line and the enclosure of the inner redoubt,
and then rushed from the top of the parapets into
the middle of the work, commencing a hand-tc-
hand struggle with the defenders, almost before the
latter were aware of having been attacked. In less
than 20 minutes the whole of the redoubt was car-
ried, notwithstanding the high traverses, which ren-
dered the defence of it easy ; and the flag of the 20th
Regiment of the Line already floated in the centre.
All the troops of the First Division followed into
the redoubt after the head of the column, crossing
the ditch under a fire of grape from the batteries
which the Russians had erected to flank Malakohff.
The casemated tower alone held out, defended by
about 100 Russians, who had shut themselves up
in it, and annoyed with their fire the French who
were masters of the redoubt. The division of 1
General De La Motterouge simultaneously at-
tacked the curtain between Malakhoff and the Little
Redan, took it, and maintained themselves inside
the place, while the division of General Dulac, ad-
vancing in front against the Little Redan, was ex-
posed to a terrible fire, and could not advance be-
yond the ditch. In the Little Redan were collected
a large body of Russian troops, supported by nume4
rous reserves massed in the rear. While things
were thus going on on the right the French occu-
pied and kept the Malakhoff Redoubt, notwith-
standing the vigorous efforts made by large Rus-
sian masses, who, during several hours, returned
in vain to e charge to retake it. They were at
the same time maintaining a sanguinary struggle
in the Little Redan, and the English troops at-
tacked the Great Redan. The English riflemen
first quitted their trenches a few minutes after 12
o'clock, threw themselves across the ditch, and
I o!dly gained the parapet, followed, by the 23d and
97th of the Light Division and by other regiments.
These troops having penetrated into the work
began a struggle hand to hand. They gained pos-
session of the work and held it for some time, in
spite of the desperate efforts of the enemy to drive
them back. By reason, however, of the difficulty of
supporting them by more imposing forces, the
courage of these brave soldiers could not stand
against so many attacks from overwhelming num-
bers. The English, after remaining masters of the
Great Redan for more than an hour, were compelled
to abandon it, after suffering a heavy loss both in
officers and soldiers. Malakhoff being taken, or-
ders were given about one o'clock to the Ist corps
of General de Galles to commence the attack on
ithe left. The troops of this corps destined for the
assault had been ready in position in the extreme
trenches ; the division I..eva*.iilant opposite the

Central Bastion ; the Brigade Cialdini opposite the
.Ylag-staff BAtery ; and the division d'Autemarre
in reserve. The wind from the north raised such
a cloud of dust, and the smoke was so dense, that
for a long time the transmission of signals was im-
[ possible. It, was only at two o'clock that the cap-
ture of ivialakhoff was confirmed, and that it was
known that the signal of attack against the Cen-
tral Bastion had been. given. General de Salles
immediately ordered forward ,the division Levail-
lant. The first brigade, under General Trochu,
was directed against, the salient of the work, and
the brigade of General Couston against the lu-
nette to the right. In an instant the heads of
these two columns -had crossed • the ditch and
climbed the slopes of the parapet, exposed for
some minutes to a shower of hand grenades,
which the Russians threw from the top of the pa-
rapet, and to the fire of musketry from the pas-
sages leading to the ditch. General de Salles was
accompanied by Major Govone, Capt. Prole., and
Lieutenants Galli and Balbo ; the three first were
slightly wounded. To the cry of 'Vivo l'Empereurr
raised by Gen. de Salles and repeated by the troops,
the heads of the columns threw themselves reso-
lutely into the interior of the work, driving back the
Russians'at the point of the bayonet. Thereat of the
two columns, the 42d and 46th Regiment =, and
the 9th battalion of Chassenrs followed and kept up
a sanguinarystruggle with the enemy. These troops
maintained their pound for a quarter of an hour
in the inside of the Central Bastion, and then meet"-
ing with fresh obstacles and fresh columns threat-
ening them on • their flank, a movement of hesita-
tion manifested itself. The firtnnessiof Generals de
Salles, Rivet, Leboauf, and Dulesine, and the other
officers in immediate command of the troops, re-
stored confidence. The troops, again rushed for-
ward. They rc-entered the work in spite of a tre-
mendous fire of grape, which ploughed up the
ground in every direction. A Beiasian batkary..of
L.1.5-gtins was-spiked by the French artilleryiiihn in-
, side the Central Bastion, and if the ground had
offered. more facilities for the movement of the re-
serves and reinforceinents, these troops would, per-
haps, have been able to maintain themselves in the
conquered bastion.- Being, however, much inferior
in number to the enemy, and decimated by the ter-
rible fire of grape which the Russians kept pouring
against the front and the flank of the columns, these
troops were compelled after three hours to return to
their trenches. They had, in this short spaceof time,
lost Gen. Rivet, the chief of the staff of the Ist corps
General Breton, both killed, and Generals Trochu
and Coustod, wounded on the enemy's parapet at
the head of their troops, and a great number of
superior and other officers. The French batteries
then re-opened their fire against the Russian
works, but about half-past four the fire had ceased
on all the left attack. The late hour would not
allow the assault to be renewed with fresh troops.
The order for the attack of the Flagstaff Bastion,.
which had been confided to a brigade of our troops
under General Cialdini, was then withdrawn, as
it had become impossible. I avail myself of this
opportunity to point out to your Excellency the
confidence with which the royal troops awaited
the order of attack. The taking of the Makakhoff,
which was the essential object of the General-in-
Chief, was obtained, and produced the most corn-
plete result. The Russians employed the whole
night in preparing the destruction of the town and
their retreat by the bridge which they had lately
erected, (The report concludes with an account
of the firing of the town and the blowing up of the
forts, full details of which have already appeared
in the despatches of Marshal Pelissier, and followed
by a list' of five Sardinian officers wounded in the
trenches on the Bth, and four soldiers killed and
31 wounded.)
" ALPHONSE DE LA. MARMORA.."

Colonel Hay, who, with the c, ther officers awl Jaen, were
proud of the fiews that the Redatt was at their corn-
mand."—North British, Da; y Mail.

From a private soldier in t he second battalion of the
Rifle Brigade :
"You have, I know, he: in 1 of the fall of the south
side of Sebastopol lone bet', try j you receive this, which 1
am very glad to tell you is • th re this time ; and I know
that you will be glad to he ir that this poor child has
got off se luckily as he has !. It was kept very quiet
this time ; in fact, we knew s .othing of the attack until
the previous evening, and ti ie n they served out two days'
rations to be cooked, and :in our haversacks by six
o'clock a.m. ; then we kne w what was up.. That was
the time for he canteens ; a:lmost every one that had
any money took good caret o spend it before they went,
for none knew whether they •. would come back or not. .
"We paraded at a quarter east 8 a rn., and piled arms.
We had the order to fall i e about half-past 9, and
marched down to the trench, t , where we lay until about
12 o'clock, when we had t: ae order to come to the
front. By this time the Fre ach had attacked the Ma;
lakhoff, and planted their e; (gle inside, the Rmians
flying from the Malakhoff at id all parts of the town into
the Redan, so that when th .o storming party went up
to the Redan, they were • re ry well able to -receive
them. Our regiment mar el ied up to the advance
trench, and directly after the .order came for our men to
go over the parapet, although . there were two .regiments
that ought to have gone be ft .re us. -Our colonel then
mounted the parapet, and
.a 7ied out, 'Now my bop,'
wa'ing his sword over his he a 1. I was close to him at
the time, but there were two n sea who got over before
aie—l was the third. Di) !el :tly we got over, we had
to run-through a complete s to rm of grape and canister,
and the rifle halls whizzing i ar and our heads like flies-
round a sugar basin ; in fa et , it seemed almost irep•A-
sible to get to the Redan NN it hout being knocked over.
It almost seemed to me that so me bad a ellarrned life.
I bad men fall in front, rear and each side-of me every
few yards that I went. .1 II last I reached the Redan
unhurt. It is impossible to de,cribe the scene : here
was a ditch at least 20 feet f In the top of the Redan ;
is scast-aeavz.tati,with,..xett,ta,eldiers whita-,Wo.ctvtue up,
vtit it-soon became dotted w 's Mack coats. LI the
ditch were the dead and (13 ir g. In spite of the deter-
mined manner of our soldier s, the Russians succeeded in
flanking us and driving us back, throwing stones,
hatchets, and all sorts of mil es at us. The sight then
was awful. As soon as we had the word to retire, I
felt myself slipping down (f )1! where we ware was like a
steep batik). I looked into , the ditch, and that was
filled with red soldiers, with their bayonets fixed ; but I
happened to see a place left , -vacant. I jumped down,
and was no sooner down the n had a dozen or two
over me—the bank had give, e way, and down they came
nn the top of me. I made sum lo that I never should get
out alive, but still I tried ; Si it I was so crushed that I
had no strength left in me, sc., I lay quiet. After about

five minutes I fat a shift, an,LI got My right arm loose,
for I was wedged in by a poor:: fellow that fell on his head,
and I believe broke his neck... I then managed to get free
from my load, and serambled.-n p the bank which I roiled
down, and there I lay a minu• to or two to get breath. I
then got up and ran about 10 p -ices; then I got a clout on
the 'nut,' which sent me spin nil ig, but I got up again, and
ran on till I got in the trenc b. I forgot 'to tell you that
while I lay in the ditch the Iv let t's rifles kept falling down,
and the'bayonets sticking in to the poor fellows as they
lay. I had one that caught one in the ear, and gave me
a bit of a nick, but it was co 213 r a scratch. Wo lost 1
elptain and 1 officer and 3 sergeants ; 3 officers and 3
sergeants wounded, and ab out 200 privates killed and
wounded. Believe me it was a fearful day. I never wish
for such another.

"Half-past 8 o'clock at Ni ght.—l have just come back
from Sebastopol. I went do,A Ti with a great coat for a man
on duty. The town i.3ip ablaze. I should think there are
at least 1,000 houses on fire ; it is a splendid sight—a
second Moscow. They are all ,going away from the south
.alds to run, we had 200
side as fast as they can, so I think that we shall soon
v
have it all to ourselves ; and so much the better, for
their room is a great den better than their company.
The French are very brave mien; they attacked the Ma-
lakhoff in prime style But the had no distance to run ;
where they had not above 100.)
or 250, which is a great deal of dill erence. They only had
two large guns fired at them in,aalvalming ; we had to
advance under a heavy fire of grape, canister, and shell ;
but, although they beat us hack, we _made it too hot to
hold them. No one would believe wha: a strong place
the Redan is the engineer officers said tLat they might
have bombarded for 50 years, and not made any impres-
sion on it ; and as for the troops shot nor shell co old not
hurt them if they chose to look out. But I hope that
Lord Palmerston will be satisfied now, and give us a
chance to winter somewhere else, for it is getting very
cold now towards morning. Remember me to all in-
quiring friends, and tell them that I hope soon to+ be in
Old England again, and believe me to.remain,
" YOUR AFFECTIONITE FRIENDI.:

From William Snow, aged 18, who enlisted about 1
months since in the Royal Artillery ,

" Camp before Sebastopol, Sept. 11, 1355.
"Dear Father and Mother,—l write these few lines.to
you on a small bit of Russian. paper. I hope 10;7111.11;Z'
you iu good health, as it leaves me at present, thank God
for it. Dear father and mother, we have taken Sebas-
topol at last. Wo took it in high spirits, and cut every-
thing down we came across. We bombarded the place
for four days, and on the Bth our allies stormed it, blow-
ing up their magazines and burning the shipping. The
Caine day the Russians fled away to the north sido,
where wo could not reach them ; but there were but
very few of them, for they have lost thousands. What
few ships we left the Russians sank. We had saved
them fur prizes, but they took us in, and I think we
took them in, for their stores were full of articles, hut wo
were not allowed to touch them. I have got a few arti-
cles, and I will have something more yet, I hope. My
cousin Charles escaped the battle as well as myself, and
he is doing well—likewise cousin Snow Dilks ; And I
hope the next letter I write to you will be news that I
am coming to Old England, the place that I thought I
should never see any more, but I have a little hope of it
now, as we cannot do more at Sebastopol. I think
the Emperor Alexander must give up, for he is crip-
plefl now, if ever he was. I hope I shall have my Christ-
mas dinner with you at Christmas. lam so pleased that
I cannot write ; so no more at present from your affec-
tionate son,

"W. SNOW, the Young Conqueror."

BRUTAL ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)

For several years we have thought it our duty to urge
upon the public, and through their influence and that of
the public press, upon. Parliament, the necessity of
checking, by greatly increased severity of punishment,
the increased and increasing amount of atrocious bru-
talities perpetrated by certain miscreants of the lowest
orders (the term is quite appropriate) on women.
For a considerable time few public writers rendered
auy assistance in the attempt to obtain redress for the
weakest and most defenceless members of the commu-
nity. We felt perfectly certain that redress must come.
But out of regard to the character of our countrymen,
and from a wish to diminish the amount of aggravated
human suffering, we urged on Parliament immediate
attention to this subject. Lord Palmerston, much to his
discredit, insisted on " waiting a little longer," till a few
more wretched women had been beaten, kicked, and
knocked into eternity. It was, indeed, according to his
Lordship's view, a grave consideration whether the
women-beaters and women-kickers should be degraded
by the infliction of corporal punishment. This grievance
was therefore left to the usual course of grievances in
England—viz. to increase and expand till it became
intolerable.

That period appears now to have arrived, and Parlia-
ment and Lord Palmerston—now that "the Times has
written a strong article on the subject "—will perhaps
condescend to notice the disgraceful state of the law
under which brutalities which render the name of
Englishman a byword and a hissing throughout the
civilised world, are daily perpetrated in London and our
large towns, and daily reported and sent to every
quarter of the globe.
Why did not the Times express the opinions which
they have expressed in an article which we give in
another column two years ago ? Because it is notorious
that the Times does not aspire to lead the public forward
in the cause of justice and humanity, but comes boldly
forward to advocate the right when the right has become
the popular feeling.
however, better late than never, and so we are ready
to give the Times all the credit, and more than all the
credit it deserves, for its advocacy of the cause of the
hapless victims of these brutal assault cases. The
punishment of six months' imprisonment is, says the
Times " a signal failure." The brutality of numbers
of the working classes to women and children is a "blot
upon our age." " Something," says the Englishman's
oracle, after keeping silence through years of this state
of " horrid barbarity"—" Something must be done."
That something is, we hear ail Englishmen say, who
now discuss the subject in public and private, to flog
men for half-murdering their wives, and hang them when
they go a little too far, and murder them outright. The
poor should also have the same facilities as the rich in
obtaining divorces. " Unmarried women," says the
Times, "are just as frequently the subjects of attacks as
married women." True, but the law does not bind the
unmarried woman for life to a brutal wretch. A man
cannot legally break into the house of the unmarried
mother of his children, and deprive her and them of the
fruits of their industry whenever he wants means of his
own self-indulgence. At all events an unmarried woman
can leave her brutal persecutor whenever she pleases—
the married woman with a brutal husband is a hopeless
slave for life, and her tyrant knows it.
This state of things being a disgrace to our country,
a disgrace to the national character, and a disgrace to
Parliament, let us hope that for very shame,
no higher or better feeling, these awful brutalities will
if we have
be, as far as human laws avail, prevented.

HoNoun TO THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE.—The
Kind of Belgium has just created eighteen of the mott
distinguished physicians in his kingdom Knights of the
Order of Leopold,