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in which the prisoner and his wife lodged, stated that
from the prisoner's continued violence she considered
both her life and that of his wife's in danger. Ho had
repeatedly threatened that be would murder his wife,
and witness bad known him on several occasions sharpen
knives for the purpose, as he said, of cutting his wife's
throat.

THE BATTLE OF THE
TCH ERI\TAYA.

The prisoner, upon being asked what answer he had
to make to the charge, stated that his wife was in the
habit of tantalising and irritating him, and upon such
occasions he hardly knew what he was about.
One of the witnesses stated that the prisoner was in
the habit of using his wife as brutally when he was sober
as when he was in liquor.
Mr. Coombe committed the prisoner to the House of
Correction, with hard labour, for three months, stating
that he hoped that punishment would induce him to be-
have better in future to his wife.
A CRIMEAN SOLDIER IN TROUBLE.-- William Wallis,
a private iu the 66th Regiment of Foot, quartered at
the Portman Barracks, Oxford-street, and whose regi-
ment is ordered out for the Crimea, was brought up
in custody, charged with desertion. It appeared that,
on Saturday last, the prisoner had leave of absence from
the barracks till 12 o'clock at night, but stopping out
much later than that hour, and while on his way to the
barracks, yesterday, he was accosted by a policeman and
taken into custody for desertion,
The prisoner said that he had no intention whatever
to desert, but hating been ordered out to the Crimea,
and being too late to get into the barracks on Saturday
night, he thought he would have a spree before ho went
to wap the Russians, and was on his way to the barracks
wbeq he was taken into custody.

Mr. Coombe said there could be no doubt it was a
clear case of desertion, and ordered the prisoner to be
kept in custody, and an intimation to be given of his
being so to the Horse Guards.
AN UNNATURAL FATHER.—SamueI Major, a di3si-
pated looking fellow, residing at 2, Swan-lane, Swan-
sti eet, near the Bricklayers' Arms station, was placed
in the dock, charged with ill-using and violently beating
his children. The charge was brought against the pri•
soner by several of his neighbours, who had witnessed
his cruelty to his children for some time past, and were
determined to have him punished for it.
Alice Major, the eldest daughter of the prisoner,
stated that her mother had been dead for about two
years, and that since her death her father had been con
tinually in the habit of beating and ill using herself and
brother and sister when he came home drunk. The
witness, who is 16 years of age, but did not appear more
than 14, presented a melancholy spectacle of ill-treat-
ment ; both her eyes were blackened, and her face fright-
fully swolltz. The cause, she said, of her father beat-
ing her last night was because she had not ironed his
shirt, and the reason she had not done so was because
she had neither coals to light a fire nor a candle to see
by, her father spending all the money he made in drink,
and leaving herself and brothers and sisters to starve,
which they would have done ere this had it not been
for the kindness of the neighbours.
The other children of the prisoner were all brought
into court, and their appearance exacted the sympathy
of the worthy magistrate and all present : ragged, shoe-
less, and dirty, they presented a spectacle at which
humanity could not but shudder.
Mr. Coombe considered that a man who could use his
children as the prisoner had done was worse than a
brute—they had an affection for their offspring, but the
conduct of the prisoner was brutal in the extreme. He
was determined to make an example of him, and he
should, therefore, commit him to the House of Correc-
tion, with hard labour, for six months.
The worthy magistrate directed the police-constable
to take all the children (six) to the workhouse, and see
that they were properly attended to.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

An unusually small supply of English wheat was on sale
in to-day's market. All kinds moved off freely, and prices
were very firm. The whole of the supply was disposed of.
The show of foreign wheat was rather limited compared
with some previous weeks. Importers were very firm, and
some of them refused to sell except at a further advance
of 2s per quarter. The business doing was therefore trifling.
Floating cargoes were quite as dear as on Monday.
The barley trade was steady, at full prices. Malt sup.
ported former terms.
There was a good sale for oats, at 6d per quarter more
money.

Beans, peas, and flour were quite as dear as on Monday.
The first arrival of the latter article-2,120 barrels—has
taken place from New York.

Wheat.
320

ARRIVALS THIS WERE.
i Barley. ( Malt. Oats. Floe,
74) y 350
1,970 —3sosck
1,5i30
1 2, 120br1

English ..
!rich •• • •

Fcrelgn 1 3,710

i -

BOROUGH HOP.
There is rather more doing in last year's hops, at full
prices. The duty is called 290,0001.

WHITECHAPEL.

The general demand was steady, at full prices.
Reef. 3s &I to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8a to 4s 8,1 ; lamb,
5a ce to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 61
p.r Sibs. by the carcase.

Up to the 24th, 5,261 foreigners had visited Spa.
It is the intention of the lessees of the Limerick and
Ennis Railway to suspend the works during the harvest
month, which will set free a large number of labourers.
It is understood that the scrip of the Turkish guaran-
teed 4 per cent. loan will be ready for issue at the Bank
of England en Monday next.
A. letter from Vienna, of the 23d, in the German
Frankfort Journal, says :—" Among the principal finan-
cial measures proposed by M. de Bruck is the suppres-
sion of the income-tax, and the establishment of a tax
on capital. The Emperor has declared that the National
Bank must be immediately reimbursed by the state, in
order to enable it to resume its cash payments ; and
great exertsons are being made in order to effect this re-
imbursement."
LUBECK, Aug. 25.—1 n imitation of the steps taken by
our sister city, Hamburg, the senate of Lubeck have also
issued a proclamation, warning the pnblic against taking
the small coins put in circulation, but afterwards repu-
diated by Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and stating that they
will not be received in payment at any of the govern-
ment departments after the end of this month.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF A SHIP'S CREW.—BOSTON
(U.S.), Aug. 15.—The Janette, Danish brig, drifted into
Acklius, Bahamas, July 14, with all her crew dead, and
her sails loose. It is supposed the crew were murdered
the day before, as a brig was seen with a schooner along-
side on that day, and it is supposed the Janette was
that brig.
SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The fourth
and last exhibition of this society for the season takes
place at the Royal Cremorne Gardens to-morrow, and
will consist of a grand dahlia and hollyhock collection,
as well as a miscellaneous flower show. There are above
60 prizes to be distributed, for which an unusual number
of competitors have entered their names, which facts in-
duce us to believe that, aided by the extensive patronage
under which this society prospers, the meeting will be a
most important one. It appears by advertisement that,
in order to afford visitors an opportunity of judging of
the effect of artificial light upon flowers, the exhibition
pavilion will be brilliantly illuminated till ten o'clock, up
to which time the stands will remain. The lovers of
floriculture will also, it seems, have an opportunity of
witnessing the military spectacle in the adjoining Ash-
burnham grounds.
PARIS.—It is a marked characteristic of the Parisian
physique to make a rage for a while of anything new.
The Dauphiny glove was no sooner observed upon the
hand of Majesty than its possession became a perfect
furor. The glove itself has certainly high claims upon
patronage, inasmuch as its peculiar cut provides against
the fractions which kid is heir to, and the admirable fit
thereby induced must give the principle more than an
ephemeral existence. The double piece of soft kid round
the pulse and wrist, while adding requisite length to the
glove, will prove a source of considerable comfort for
autumn and winter wear, while it gets rid of that naked
demarkation of the arm between the sleeve as now worn
and the ordinary glove. The patent has been secured
for France and England by the eminent house of Dent,
Allcroft, and Co., and is equally applicable to gentle.
men's as well as ladies' gloves.—Olobe.
THE MURDER AT CUDHAII.—Up to last evening the

police had not succeeded i❑ apprehending either of the
two men upon whom suspicion has fallen. Their names
are Robert Peeling and William Clark. The former is a
ticket-of•leave convict, and was seen in the neighbour-
hood of Cudham within a few days of the murder. On
Sunday morning, after information of the murder had
been received at Croydon, but before it was known that
he was suspected, some of the county police, it appears,
actually stopped Peeling on the outskirts of Croydon,
and searched him, but finding nothing of a suspicious
character upon him, suffered him to proceed to London,
where he stated he was going to seek work as a shoe-
maker. He is described as being about 24 years of age,
sft. 6in. high, without whiskers, and squints a little.
Had on a dark shooting coat, dark trousers, and black
bat. Clark, the man suspected by the Croydon police,
is believed to be a deserter from the Grenadier Guards,
and calls himself a navigator. He is 43 years of age, sft.
10in, in height, very upright, with a long, dark coin
plexion, and large bushy whiskers. Mrs. Bagley still
lies in a precarious and insensible condition. It seems to
have been known that she had saved a sum of money
for the purpose of paying her funeral expenses, keeping
it in the cottage, and it was at first supposed that this
money bad been stolen by the murderer. It now ap-
pears that this was not the case, as, although several
b,,xes were broken open, this money was not found, and
the inly money carried off was a sum of about 30s.
Some a;tieles of clothing were, however, taken from the
cottage, an Attempt to disp• se of which may lead to the
detection of the guilty party. They consisted of two
women's dresses, an Oxford mixture shooting coat, and
pair of dark trousers with broad stripe down the legs,
and the top of the waistband bound with red.

the right, and were beginning to scale the heights, when
taken in flank by the Sardinian batteries, which fired
with admirable precision, they were swept down whole-
sale and. rolled into the aqueduct below.
( From, the Special Correspondent of the Times.) This first rush did not last more than 10 minutes. The
CAMP OF THE ALLIED ARMIES ON THE TCHERNAYA, Russians fell back, but they had scarcely gone a few bun
Aug. 16.—The long-threatened attack of the Russians
on the Tchernaya line has at last taken place, and ended Bred yards when they were met by the second column,
which was advancing a pas de charge to support the first,
in the complete defeat of the enemy. During the last
few days the signs of an impending Russian attack be-
and both united and again rushed forward. This second
came more and more frequent. Movements of large
attempt was more successful than the first. At the bridge
numbers of troo s in the net ghbourhood of Sebasto they forded the river on the right and left, and forced the
p p 01,
defenders of it to fall back. Scarcely was the bridge
the unanimous reports of the deserters, of whom several
free when two guns of the sth Light Brigade of Artil-
came in every day, and, lastly, information gained from
lery crossed it and took up a position on the opposite
numbers of Tartars who bring in continually news from
side in an open space which divides two of the hillocks,
the Russian lines, were all to the effect that the Rus-
and through which the road leads to the plain of Bala-
sians, having received part of the reinforcements which
klava. While those two guns passed the bridge a third
they were expecting, intended to try their luck once
crossed the river by a ford, and all three began to sweep
more in offensive operation. . , the road and the heights. The infantry in the meantime,
Although at first the line of the Tchernaya suggested
without waiting for the portable bridges, which had
itself as the point which the Russians would most pro
moreover been thrown away in great part during the
bably attack, a supposition which was moreover con-
advance, rushed breast-deep into the water, climbed
firmed by all the deserters, yet, as there were largena
o up the embankment, and began to scale the heights
numbers of newly-arrived troops seen concentrated
on both sides. They succeeded on this point in getting
and about the Russian works, apprehensions were en-
tertained that perhaps the Russians might attempt some
up more than one-half of the ascent, where the
thing against the positions of the allied armies before dead and wounded afterwards showed clearly the
Sebastopol, and the chief attention was consequently mark which they reached ; but by the time they ar-
rived there the French were fully prepared and met
directed to that point. them in the most gallant style. Notwithstand-
Yesterday again several deserters came in and spoke
i
with the utmost certainty of an intended attack on theng the exertions and the perseverance of the Russians,
Tchernaya lines ; but as this had been the case several they were by degrees forced back and driven, after an
times already during the last fortnight, no particular at-
obstinate resistance, across the bridge, carrying away
their guns.
tention was paid to their reports, and no special orders
While this attack took place on the bridge the other
given to the troops, except to be prepared for an attack,
column again attacked the French right. This time
and this had been so often repeated that it made no im-
they came on in such a swarm that they were neither
pression. In addition to this our attention was drawn
kept back by the aqueduct, nor cowed by the Sardinian
off from the Lower Tchernaya by the news from Bai-
guns which were ploughing long lanes through their
der. I wrote in my last letter that when the arrival of
scattered lines. On they came, as it seemed, irresistible,
fresh troops at Sebastopol became known, the four
and rushed up the steep hill with such fury that the
troops of English Light Cavalry were withdrawn from
Zouaves, who lined the sides of it, were obliged to fall
Baidar, and only two regiments of heavy French ca-
back for a moment before the multitude. You could
Talry and a few Chasseurs and Zouaves remained in
plainly see the officers leading the way, and animating
the valley until all the hay collected should be carried
their soldiers. I particularly observed one gallant
away. Yesterday afternoon General Allonville sent
fellow, who, at least twenty yards in advance of the
news from Baidar by electric telegraph that large num-
whole column, was the first across the aqueduct, and
bers of Russian troops were concentrated on the heights
I could still see him on the other side of the hill. This
above the valley, and that he expected to be at furious rush brought the advancing column in an in-
tacked. The telegraphic message was interrupted by credibly short time to the crest of the hillock, where
the dense fog which prevailed in the afternoon, but late it stopped to form. But the French had not been idle
in the evening notice of this message of General Allen- during the time that the Russians were ascending the hill.
ville was sent to General la Marmora and Osman Pasha. The Zouaves had only fallen back from the side of the
As the cavalry at Baidar would be exposed to be cut off hillock to the main body, which had been drawn up be-
if it were attacked by a considerable force, on account hind the top. Scarcely did the column of the enemy show
of the great number of carts which are down in the valley its head when the guns opened on it with grape, and a
murderous fire was poured down upon it by the Forffernothcmhe
for the transport of hay, and which would encumber the
column,
olinfantry.unin;
whThisich
be
emgma
ne dti aot eNl\y,
aver,
vsetro, p ph endt
tthhee ai dmvpaent cues
Woronzoff.road, an attack on that side seemed not at all
improbable.
From all these circumstances it followed that no addi- those behind was so powerful that the head of it, not-
tional precautions were taken on the Tchernaya line, withstanding the unexpected reception, was pushed for-
and that the attack was scarcely less a surprise than that ward a few yards more, when the French, giving one
of Inkerman. mighty cheer, rushed upon the advancing enemy,
The first news of an actual attack was brought about who, shaken already, immediately turned round and
daybreak by some French Chasseurs, who, forming part ran down, if possible, faster than they bad come
of a patrol, fell into an ambuscade of the Russians, and up. But the mass was so great that. all the hurry
narrowly escaped, while their comrades were taken pri- could not save them, and more than two hundred
Boners. Soon afterwards the outposts which were across prisoners were taken on the spot, while the hillside,
the Tchernaya were driven in, and about daybreak the the banks of the aqueduct, the aqueduct itself, and
cannonade began. the river side were filled with dead and wounded. The
For the better understanding of the movement I must Sardinian and French artillery poured, moreover, a
give you some description of the locality. The Tcher- murderous crossfire into the scattered remains of the
naya, coming out at the tower of Karlovka from the column, of which scarcely a shot missed. It was a com-
narrow gorge in which it runs after leaving the val- plete rout. The French rushed down the hillside and
ley of Baidar, flows between a succession of hillocks drove them far across the plain. This defeat seems to
on both sides. These hillocks form the basis of the have so completely cowed them that nothing more was
position of the allied armies. On the extreme right, be- attempted on this side.
ginning where the Tchernaya comes out of the gorge Not so on the bridge. Notwithstanding the heavy
down to the little mountain streams which fall into the loss suffered by she second attack, the Russians concen-
-139 trated once more all their forces, collected the scattered
Tchernaya from the south are the Turks. They occupy
two hillocks, and between them are two roads which remains of the column which had been routed on the
lead from Higher Tchorgoun and the tower of Karlovka tight of the French position, and brought up all their
into the Woronzoff-road, The Sardinian position leans reserves to attempt one more attack. They again
to the right on the little mountain stream which limits crossed the river, and the aqueduct too, and tried to take
the Turkish position to the left. They occupy the the heights, but in vain ; the French were now tho-
large solitary standing hillock which used to be held by roughly prepared, and the tenacity of the Russians served
the Cossacks, and which extends down to the open ground only to augment their losses. They were soon seen fly-
over which the road from Balaklava to Tchorgoun leads. ing in all directions, followed by the French. This last
This hillock has been lately considerably strengthened attack was decisive, and immediately the usual Rus-
and provided with batteries, and, as it has a very corn- sian preparation for retreat—namely, the advance of
mending position, was of the utmost importance in the the artillery showed clearly that the Russians
defence of the Tchernaya line. In front of this hillock, acknowledged themselves defeated and were on the
and divided from it by the aqueduct which begins there, point of retiring. Three batteries, each of 12 guns,
is another smaller but equally steep hillock, accessible which during the greatest part of the attack had been
from the first by a stone bridge, and on this hillock nearly silent, began to open their fire while the scat-
the Sardinians had a small epaulement guarded by a tered remains of the infantry columns rallied behind a
detachment of infantry. Beyond both these hillocks, rising ground leading up towards the plateau of Akyer,
on the other side of the Tchernaya, they had more- or Mackeuzie's height.
over on the hillock nearest to the Mackenzie road The Sardinians, who, with the exception of the little
their outposts, which could thus watch the move- outpost fight on the opposite side of the Tchernaya, had
merits of the enemy, arid give timely alarm in case confined themselves to support the French by their ad-
of au attack. The French occupy the last series of rnirable artillery, which entirely subdued the Russian
hillocks to the left of the Sardinians, and guard fire on the opposite plateaux, began now to move across
the road which leads front Balaklava over the Traktir- the aqueduct. The Russian riflemen, after the last defeat
bridge, up to Mackenzie',B farm. The hillocks, occupied ore the right, had retired behind the banks of the Tcher-
by them, are three in number ; the first to the right is naya, whence they kept up a brisk but ineffective
separated from the others by the great road leading to fire. A battalion of Piodmontese, preceded by a
the bridge; and the last to the left, is protected by the company of Bersaglieri, advanced in beautiful order
basin which the aqueduct forms here, and is separated as if on par ide, and soon drove these riflemen
by another open ground, similar to that on right of the from their position. It even advanced some way
French position, from the ridge on which the army of tow ards the plateaux ; but, as it was not intended
observation was during the winter. In front of the bridge to f; ;me the heights, it contented itself supported by other
the French had constructed a small epaulentent to guard troops, with following the enemy, who was already in
the passage of the river, beyond which they had their full retreat.
outposts.
The French had during the battle brought up a new
The first movement of the Russians was against the
division (Dulac's). Besides this, the whole English and
outposts of the Sardinians on the opposite bank of the
French cavalry were in readiness en the plain leading to
river. Corresponding to the hillocks on this side of the
the ri vet, the ground of the Light Cavalry charge last
Tchernaya are three plateaux on the opposite bank.
year, ready to receive the enemy if he should force the
These were chosen for the left of the Russian position
passafee of the river and debouch on the plain. But Gen.
against the Turks and th e Sardinians. These plateaux
Morris would not risk the cavalry on the plain, inter-
were, therefore, first to be secured, for the guns could
sected as it was by the branches of the river, and de-
command from them not only the hillocks opposite oc-
fended. as it was by the Russian guns on the height ; so
copied by the Sardinians and Turks, but likewise the
only two squadrons of Chasseurs d'Afrique followed the
plain which opens towards the French position. A
company of infantry of the line, and a company of enem:r.
The guns which the Russians had brought up to cover
Bersaglieri formed the Sardinian outposts. These
were attacked at dawn by the Russians. As the their retreat suffered so much by the fire from our side,
troops were not yet under arms it was necessary
which eves increased by Capt. Mowbray's battery open-
to hold this position for a while, and General de la
ing upo n them from the open ground between the Sareli-
Marmora sent over Major Govour, of the Etat-Major, nian an d the French positions, that they made off in a
with a company of Bersaglieri, to reinforce the two com-
hurry. Scarcely a shot was thrown away, and so ad-
panies already there. They crossed the aqueduct and mirablo was the practice that all the shot fell at or close
the river, and went up the plateau ; but, when they ar- to the guns, which we could
slight breeze carrying off the smoke left a beautiful view
rived on the crest of it, the two companies had just left
over t he whole of the battle-field. But the Russian guns
the epaulement behind which they had until then de-plainly distinguish, as a
fended themselves gallantly against the overwhelming
return e d only for a moment under cover, and soon after
numbers could see a brilliant line of cavalry debouching from
numbers of the enemy, but which b ad become untenable,
youthe ri sing ground, where it had been hitherto hidden. I
as it was swept by the guns which the Russians had
c
brought up on the two other plateaux, and besides was could distinguish five regiments—three in one line, and
y
exposed to be ,taken in the rear. So the troops retired w
in good order a cross the river, and went to reinforce the ad vo a oregiments on the flanks in second line. The
post which occupied the second hi.llock on the banks of guns to pass,
t nDed a t Cher
a whichgallop,
a again opened
o pened wheeling
their
fire, round,
but allowedonly forl2
e
the aqueduct. _ln the meantime the cannonade on both
sides had begun. The Russians le ft us not long in doubt dust
where they would'. attack, for, scarcely had the cannonade
off
wel.e
a short
oil thetame,
m Mackenzie
the ' and at half-past nine or ten o'clock the
only
y traceseze i road
w a
h i
nhn and
remained the black o
flin
the
es
so
long-
begun when thre es compact masse sof infantry were seen threatened attack of the Russians.
advancing towards the plain opposite to the French I Everybody now rushed to the battle-field, and one
position. The points chosen were the bridge and look es as sufficient to convince them that the allies bad
the hillock to th e right. The masses, which in the won a real battle on the Tchernaya. Although
sanguinary as the battle of
ut
morning sun looked like glittering waves, protected not quite so obstinate
by the fire of the artillery, moved in excellent order Inkerman, which th is affair and
Thereßsenmeebilaende,ians
in many
the points,
down to the river side, notwithstanding the heavy It was a pitched battle.
fire of artillery -which greeted them in front of Inkerman, gave up
troops.m The essential differenceanceuvring, and confided entirely
from the French, and in flank from the Sardinians. At in the valour of their
' the riv er the first column detached itself from the rest, i was in the manneroffigthhteingn.usAsiatntehefebnatutne
battle of
the
Inkfielre-
and d ividing into two columns crossed the river, which I man the great mass of
is now nearly everywhere easily fordable. Men car- firing and the bayonetsoftwhehieihnfdaindtrtyh,e reawghileteoent
x ethee.
rying moveable wooden bridges preceded, but in the first Tchernaya it was
the guns
rush the Russians, without waiting for bridges, went cution. Most
of the wounded and dead showed fright-
over wherever they could, and dispersing like a swarm ful traces of roundehot, grape, shell, and canister, so that
of bees rushed forward in columns, some against the as a battlefield one couldiie scwaorcueolydeimwaegrieneonantyhtehinleggsinaoorde
bridge, the others against the hillock on the right. -terrible. Nearly allt 1d
As :I said above, the continual apprehension of an the head. On the banks of the aqueduct particularly
on the
impending attack had at last ben embed the interest for the sight w
it, and, notwithstanding the signs which seemed to indi- tbe embankment
Sardinian
e aqueduct were taken in flank
t and the dead and woundedkment, sometimes more
cate some movement on the part of the Russians, every- b. v the
ordina h
ns appalling ; the Russians when scaling
ianof
batteries,t-petheinan
body slept as soundly as possible until awakened by the ro lied
hey were lai
arrived.
Russian guns. Before the troops were properly under thi 'n 20 down
feet in height. The French made every possible
arms the Russians were at the bridge and at the foot of des patch to collect
hcttte rihhedge wounded.
the hillock, The 20th le/er and the 2d battalion of ope.
a space about until the Thep
ambulances
Zouav es had to stand the first shock, and they certainly While there the Russians, who could see plainly that the
countrymen, suddenly began to open with their
did. 117 ithout losing their time with firing, they ad- wrote bed
stood it gallantly. The rush of the Russians was splen- French were were engaged in bringing help to their own
ftea previously shown to the troops.
troops. Some French soldiers of Canon's ,
Division they bad already o
vanced with an elan scarcely ever seen in .Rue sia,n guise upon them, repeating the barbarous practice which
gentleman who was with me at the moment, and who
who h; .ve during the winter guarded the trenches to-
lon with deep flesh wounds on both his thighs,
mishe s with the Russians, aseured me that they n, ever trudging
wards the Quarantine, and have had nearly daily Akir- Aspeaks Russian, asked one of the poor fellows who was
theirthought own wounded ? He answered, " They
fir-
troop s, belonging, according to the prisoners and ing
saw t', aem moving on in such a style. They we re neew what he ag
of the behaviour of the Russians in
wonder that they should try to ill-treat us
late. ly arrived from Poland. But their ardour was so; in there
wow aded, to the sth division of the 2d corps d'arm ee areaameie:ell
nsgtoomed to beat us when we are with them, and
br e,keie They could not carry their point, au d
to the account of the prisoners, and
of ter a short trial, repulsed both on the bridge rend the Ac
ever e, when wooerdairnegon the point of escaping their power."
from the straps ou the shoulders of the
hi Pock. The aqueduct which supplies the Turl re, and . judging
e dt
aacnkd,
_the sth of the 2d corps dead, three divisions were engaged in the
d'armee (of Gen.
w hick runs close to the foot of the hillock, form ed the 1 wounel
chic) I defence of the French. About 9or 10 feet wide : actual atl,
lately arrived from Poland, under the corn-
and several feet deep, it skirts the steep hills so, close Pan
Pinot General Wrangel; the 12th division of the 4th
tha t it is nearly in all places supported by a hi gh em-
s darinee (Osten Sackeu's), formerly under the som-
e' /aliment, offering considerable difficulties for an ad- \
n'an
V. ancieg force, and exposing it, as soon as it reseher ; the
and the 17th division of the 6th corps d'arnzee (Lip-
top of it, to the musketry fire from the heights. ' Not- lep ;
ern%'Pld of General Liprandi, now under General Martino
top
this diffiq ulty the Russians crossed. it on rands) under Major-General Wassielcosky. The pri-

Boners say that even the reserves took part in the action.
I saw a soldier who said he belonged to the last battalion
of the reserves, who said that before the battle began
General Gortschakoff, who commanded in persen, had
a letter of the Emperor read before them, in which
he expressed a hope that they would prove as
valorous as last year when they took the
heights of Balaklava, and then there was a large
distribution of brandy. Nut a soldier I saw who had
not his bottle lying empty near him, and good-
sized bottles they were too. This brandy distribution
was, however, only for the infantry, whom they wished
to excite to madness. The artillery got only the usual
rations.

Besides the three divisions which attacked there was
another, the 7th, which occupied Tchorgoun and the
heights, but which did not attack except in the small
outpost affair of the Sardinians. _ _

AUGUST 15.

The attack has not been renewed, and the French
have been for the lasttwo days busy in bringing in the
wounded Russians and burying the dead. Up to yes-
terday evening 1,800 wounded, and prisoners have been
brought in. The number of dead, of whom I have not
heard any official estimate, cannot be less than from
1,200 to 1,500. Of course the bridge and the banks of
the aqueduct are the spots most crowded with them.
The latter is quite choked up with them, so that it has
been forbidden to water the horses from it for fear it
should be injurious to their health.
The French had three divisions engaged—the Division
Faucheux to the right, the Division d'Herbillon in the
centre of the bridge, and the Division (Camou) on the
lift ; their loss is about 1,000 in deal and wounded.
The Sardinians had only one division engaged, the divi-
sion (Trotti), and suffered very little loss—a few hun-
dred men ; but they have to regret the loss of a distin-
guished general officer, the Brigadier-General Count
Monte Vecchio, who is severely wounded and not ex-
pected to live.
Not protected by any intrenchments except that small
epaulement near the bridge, which, moreover, could be
turned on all sides, our gallant allies, although taken
by surprise, showed once more that the Russians have
no chance against them in the field—that they must
remain behind their earthworks, and be protected by
siege guns, in order to establish a kind of equilibrium
with the allies. It is Worthy of remark that the greater
part of the Russians were old soldiers, scarcely one
under 30.

sailants 'were up on the parapet of the little redoubt fir-
inT, down into them. To prolong the conflict here would
only have caused a useless massacre, and the Sardinians
consequently withdrew behind an epaulement on the
other side of the river, near the aqueduct, and there de-
fended themselves till the day broke clearly, and the
attack became general. On the side of the French the
tete de pont was assaulted in great foice, and carried very
soon after the enemy's first showing himself on the
ground, notwithstanding the heroic resistance of the 20th
Regiment of the line, which in one battalion alone lost 12
officers. The bridge was now occupied, two batteries of
artillery were brought across, so as to sweep the road
leading between the two heights towards Balaklava, and a
strong column was pushed on to the assault and mounted
the declivity. Strange to say, although Gen. Pelissier had
received full warning the previous night, he refused to
believe in an attack until it actually commenced, and
consequently no dispositions were made, and nobody
was ready. The Russians had already reached the crest
of the hill, while the French were still asleep ! many
officers were awakened by the round-shot passingthrough
their tents ; a serjeant had his head taken off while
writing the orders of the day for the division. At this
critical moment two battalions alone of the 2d Regiment
of Zouaves held the whole assaulting column in check,
and contested the ground inch by inch till they were
forced back upon their own tents. In the meantime the
alarm was sounding, the troops got into order, the artil-
lery into position, and a vigorous onset drove the Rus-
sians down the declivity, leaving it covered with their
dead and wounded.

All this, be it well remembered, occurred in the grey
of the morning, which the smoke of the action converted
into something like positive darkness, leaving everybody
as yet in complete ignorance as to the force they had to
contend with, or the dangers they had to bear. In the
short pause which followed, however, and during which
both sides prepared for a renewal of the struggle, the
sun came out from behind the hills, the smoke rose, and
the valley of the Tchernaya lay before us like a picture.
The tract of table-land lying at the foot of tke Macken-
zie heights was covered with masses of cavalry, infantry,
and artillery. About 30 guns were ranged in a crescent
outside the bridge, and thundered unceasingly against
the French position. On the hill from which the Pied-
montese picket had been driven were crowds of men
around a battery of field artillery, which fired inces-
santly, though against what I could never clearly make
out. I must not forget to mention, however, that they
had previously shelled two battalions of Turks encamped
in the hollow near the Woronzoff road, and forced them to
retire. This retrograde movement was the only part the
latter bore in the affair, but it is right to add they were un-
der arms already, in case the positions had been attacked.
The Piedmontese were drawn up in line behind a small
eminence close to the ford on the Tchorgoun road, and
their batteries on the heights to the right were vigor-
ously replying to the Russian fire ; the three divisions
of French, Camoux, Erbillon, and Faucheux were under
arms, front line a little way back from the brow of the
hill, and a great number of Zouaves were lying down
in shelter behind a small ridge. Below, on the plain,
along the hollow on which the English light horse died
so gallantly last winter, every turf beneath their feet a
soldier's sepulchre, were ranged the English and French
cavalry, squadron after squadron, extending back nearly
to the Turkish redoubts, ready to act in case the enemy
should force the Piedmontese position and attempt to
debouch upon the open ground behind. The pennons
of the Lancers fluttered gaily in long lines in the
fresh morning breeze, and when the sun rose high in
glory and poured down its rays full on the plain,
making scarlet look redder, and steel and brass brighter
and more resplendent, gilding the hill tops, making the
tents glitter, and rolling smoke and mist in great packs
up the valley towards Inkerman, the scene became one
of passing splendour as well as of passing interest. We
looked in breathless anxiety for the renewal of the con-
flict. The combatants bad taken breath—their blood was
up, for hundreds on both sides lay already stark and stiff
on the river side around the bridge, and the artillery evi-
dently was simply playing an interlude till the curtain
rose upon another act in the tragedy.
We were not kept long waiting. From behind the cloud
of smoke which naturally hung around the Russian batte-
ries came two large columns of the enemy, marching in
quicktme, about 200 yards apart and exactly parallel, a
short distance from the river, and in aline with the bank?
As they wound and twisted, mounted and descended, fol-
lowing the inequalities in the ground in long compact
masses, their bayonets glancing in the sunlight they looked
exactly like two huge serpents, creeping rapidly along,
their scales glistening, and their prey in sight. On ar-
riving within about eight hundred yards of the ford, one
halted, and the other turned off abruptly towards the
river. It was evident they were about to assail the
French position more to the right, on the side next the
Sardinians. On reaching the water, some passed on
small bridges, hastily thrown over, the rest forded, and
on gaining this side the column broke into loose order,
and pushed on towards the canal, or aqueduct, which
rises within an embankment at the very foot of the hill.
Before reaching it they had to traverse about 200 yards
of smooth green sward ; they were no longer exposed to
the French artillery, because the guns could not be de-
pressed sufficiently to reach them, but they had their
flank turned to that of the Piedmontese, who had got the
range to an inch, and fired with an accuracy little short of
marvellous. The head of the column had hardly come
up dripping from the water, when they found theraselves in
the midst of a storm of round shot, grape, and shell,
bent upon relentlessly, unrelaxingly, mowing them down
by the score, and covering the survivors with clay and
gravel. But I must do these survivors justice, and say
that they bore up right gallantly, marched firmly on-
ward and upward, passed the canal, though the water
was breast high, pushed some yards still on the precipi-
tous side of the hill, though here every wound was mor-
tal, for all who fell rolled helplessly downwards into the
aqueduct, and were instantly drowned ; but at last
halted, turned, and fled—never stopping till they reached
the river, where they got shelter under the banks and
amongst the old willows. An officer remained for some
time alone on the declivity, vainly urging them to fol-

According to the account Of the prisoners most of
them came from Bakshi Sera', and they had to attack
without resting after their march, They had all large
quantities of bread in their foraging sacks hung across
their shoulders, but no knapsacks.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(Prom the correspondent of the Daily News.)
TURKISH CAMP, KAMARA, August 18.—The disas-
trous affair of the 18th June was at least in a great mea-
sure atoned for by a decisive victory gained on Thurs-
day over a large body of Russians, by the French and
Sardinians on the Tchernaya.

To give you anything like a correct idea of a conflict
which, though fought out, considering the number of
the combatants, in a very small space, derived a great
deal of its incidental importance from the nature of the
terrain, it is almost necessary to call attention to a few
of the leading features of the well known, now so often-
described, district around Balaklava. If you descend
from the northern side of the plateau, on which the be
sieging armies are encamped, into the gorge through
which the Tchernaya empties itself into the harbour,
and follow the banks of the river for a short distance
upwards, you find yourself in a narrow valley, with the
heights of Mackenzie's Farm rising abruptly on your
left, like tall cliffs on the sea shore ; and on your right
a row of small hills, extending, with greater or less in-
tervals between them, on to Tchorgoun. Beyond them
is the plain of Balaklava, which is broken in its centre
by a somewhat similar line of eminences, but in this in-
stance so small as hardly to be entitled to any better
appellation than that of mounds. It was on these last
that the Turkish redoubts were thrown up, which were
so precipitately abandoned by their defenders on the
25th of October. The highest of these hillocks does not
rise above two or three hundred feet from the level of
the plain. Between Tchorgoun and Inkerman they are
some of the most remarkable features in the landscape ;
but on crossing the river on the road from Balaklava to
the former of those places they no longer stand apart,
each from its neighbour, but become more and more
closely crowded together, and are lost in the picturesque
contusion of the great range of hills which extend with-
out interruption along the whole of the southern coast.
On two or three of these, which lie in a cluster on the
side of the plain next Inkerman, and directly facing the
Mackenzie Heights, the road from which passes between
them, have encamped for some time past three divisions
of French. On the side next the Tchernaya the position
was defended by a precipitous and escarpe descent, on
which some stunted brushwood still remained, but which
in most places, stripped of the soil by the rain of ages,
presents but the white masses of the chalk which plays
so important a part in the geology of the whole dis-
trict ; on the side next Balaklava the descent is com-
paratively easy. On the summit rested the right wing
of Liprandi's army on the 25th of October, and on the
southern side were planted the greater number of
the batteries which mowed down the British Light
Cavalry, as they charged along the slope which leads
gently towards the ford on the road to Tchorgoun.
This ford is reached through a tolerably wide open-
ing, which separates the French position from that of
the Piedmontese, who occupied the heights immediately
under the village of Kamara, extending a short distance
to the right. The valley still further to their right,
which is traversed by the Woronzoff-road, leading on to
Baidar, was defended by the Turks. The three armies
occupied a chain of eminences forming a semi-circle
drawn from Inkerman to the sea, and embracing Bala-
klava and the plain within its two wings—or, in other
words, just the position taken up by Liprandi last
autumn. The French divisions were encamped on the top
of the hills ; between these hills runs the road leading up
to Mackenzie's Farm, and crossing the river in the valley
by a stone bridge, for the protection of which a small
redoubt had been thrown up in front. This
tete de pont was on the night of the 18th instant
guarded by the 20th of the line. The Piedmontese
had batteries regularly fortified on all the heights
overlooking the ford on the road to Tchorgoun, and
had the upper end of the valley completely within
their range. On the other side of the river, on the top
of a hill, similar iu every respect to those I have been
describing, they had on the same night an outpost com-
posed of two companies of infantry, for whose greater
security, considering their distance from their own lines,
a small entrenchment had been thrown up.
For some time past, as I mentioned in several of my
recent letters, rumours have been afloat each night that
an attack in force along the whole line would be made
on the morrow. For a long while, however, these ap-
pear to have had no better foundation than the fact,
which seemed pretty well ascertained, that the Russians
had received large reinforcements, and, from hearing so
many warnings, which time did not justify, as is usually
the case, the French and Piedmontese both, I think, fell
into a state of greater carelessness than if they had never
received any warning at all. Still the air seemed thick
with omens ; nobody could fully satisfy himself that no
danger was imminent, though he could not make up
his mind as to when or in what shape it would present
itself. The deserters had too often proved false prophets
that people began to doubt all their stories, until on
Wednesday evening three spies came in, who positively
declared that an attack would be made in force on the
following morning ; and hardly had they ceased speak-
ing when General Allonville, commanding the French
cavalry at Baidar, telegraphed that the heights around
were covered with troops, and that he wished to retire,
from the fear that he might be cut off, but could not,
owing to the road being blocked up by some hundred
of commissariat waggons. He went on to give some
details regarding the attack, which made it evident
that he had likewise received some information,
when a fog came on, and the telegraph ceased work-
ing. The Turks remained under arms all night,
but, strange to say, the French, who were most of all
interested in the matter, seem to have given them-
selves no trouble whatever about it, but went to bed and
slept tranquilly. A peloton of Chasseurs d'Afrique
went out to patrol during the night, and on the other
side of the river fell into an ambuscade, and were all
made prisoners, except two men, Iwho escaped and gave
the alarm ; but even this was treated as one of the ordi-
nary events of night duty in presence of the enemy.
About an hour before daybreak the French sentinels in
front of the bridge thought they could perceive shadows
gliding past them in the darkness and fired. There was
no reply, and silence deep as death followed ; about the
same time a few shots was heard from the hill occupied
by the Piedmontese outpost, but, as the utmost stillness
prevailed afterwards on every side, no precautions were
taken till just as the first break of light made itself visible
in the horizon a sharp fire was opened from A Party!
skirmishers against the We de pont, and a regular aau:
tnade;upon the Sardinian picket. Gen. de 1 I ora o
was
already rnse
toslagilvieersitii
reinforceea dy o n
theth e
post, i
the troops could be got under arms, and the necessary
ground,so that and
they
Bentey m a
might
battalion
defend of
th beearrangements made. When the reinforcements arrived
half the picket was already hors de combat, and the as-

low him. Reinforcements now came up from the se
cond column ; they re-formed, but again in loose open
order, or rather no order at all, for they marched
exactly like a flock of sheep. This was done evi-
dently so that they might present less mass for the
artillery to play upon, but it was a great mistake, as
will be seen afterwards. This time they displayed more
pluck and resolution ; they fell to be sure by the dozen,
but they never wavered nor faltered, climbed on slowly
and laboriously, and at last reached the crest of the hill,
and came out on the level. When the head of the co-
lumn attained this point, the Zouaves, who were lying
down behind the ridge on the Russian left, jumped up
and ran off to join the maic body, posted near the artil-
lery on the centre of the plateau, and at the same mo.
mont the whole of the French, the artillery included,
retired about a hundred yards before the advancing
enemy. The firing had ceased except broken and puny
file-firing from the assailants, who now, unable to form
in line, and mixed up in disorder, doubtless perceived
they should have either mounted in line, or halted and
deployed before coming out on the open ground above.
For some moments I thought the French were about
to give way and retreat, and the Russians be-
come masters of the height, but I was soon con-
vinced of my mistake. One could see them, it is true,
falling back on all sides, and closing up into a small
round mass, but in the twinkling of an eye this mass
opened out like a fan, two black lines shot from it on
each side across the plateau, the centre closed up, di-
vided itself, and the next moment a sheet of flame broke
from the whole line, followed by a cloud of smoke, and
the crash of the musketry fell on our ears in a long, con-
tinuous, unfaltering whirr, like the roar of a waterfall,
drowned every second by the mightier thunder of the
artillery, which had made half a wheel to the right, and
raked the crest of the hill with a tempest of grape.
Strongly as one's sympathies might be engaged for the
French, it was impossible to repress for a moment asen-
timent of pity as one looked upon the crowd of Russians
looming out through the smoke, as it rolled across them,
feebly returning the fire, unable to afraidadvancen to
retreat, ten thousand death in front—ten thou s.
ancsled
for
behind—help and hope nowhere.
Theyere sppeedily re
few seconds, seemed to hesitate, bat
the were
lieved from ail embarrassment as totle
French, course
w they
e
should pursue by the advance of
cheer rang merrily through thehed t:loortuheingcaairrgea s. they
T e
levelled their bayonets and rue
nt ig n h
themselves
action
as if they intended to
' Russians gave one Hurrah,"
come up to the scratch,'
übur
but
instead
n ofci suiting
to the word, they wheeled r
about
down the hill side in complete disorder, the Sardinian
artillery again
upon them as beforeplaying arms and .
Some hun-
dreds threw down their surrendered to the
French, sooner than run the gauntlet once more across
the aqueduct and the river. The remnant of the column
e
got under cover on the other side of the stream, and
remained there for some minutes, until two bat-
talions of Piedmontese came out upon the plain, and
throwing out skirmishers advanced upon the river. The
Russians now retired in haste, and not in very good
order, skirmishing as they went until they reached
the high ground on which their cavalry and the
reserve of their artillery were stationed. During the
pursuit the Piedmontese made some prisoners. The
moment was propitious for a charge of cavalry, who
might have cut them up completely.
Major Grovac, the second on the Sardinian etat-
major, accordingly brought down their four squadrons,
but the colonel objected to charge in face of the Russian
cavalry force, fully five thousand in number, unless he

_
were supported by /french or English. AMeseag e was
accordingly sent to General Maurice, the French general
commanding the cavalry, requesting him to push for-
ward a body of his men in the rear of the Piedmontese,
but he declined, alleging that he had positive orders
not to pursue, having-returned a similar answer to a
similar request on the part of General Erbillon, who
commanded on the heights. This is extraordinary, but
true, and the only thing one can say about it is to ex-
press a hope that .there was some good reason for it not
visible at first sight. The greater part of the Russian
artillery now retired, followed up for a abort distance by
the French Chasseurs de Vincennes : the cavalry then
advanced in an immense line, forming a crescent, from
out of which issued three guns, which fired away to pro-
tect the retreat, teal the last column had wound its weary
way up the road to Mackenzie's Farm, or disappeared
among the hills towards Tchionlion.
Nothing now remained but to visit the field of battle,
on which the Zouaves bad already descended like vul-
tures, and were removing everything portable. The
scene which presented itself on the banks of the river,
below the canal, was something fearful beyond descrip-
tion, much more fearful than the ordinary horrors of a
battle field. The canal itself was choked with dead, most
of whom had doubtless fallen into it living, after rolling
demon the hill side, and found repose in its muddy waters ;
broken muskets, bags of bread, cartridges, on dark red
stain on the white chalky gravel, often alone marked the
spot where the men firstfell; in a moment afterwards tum-
bled back to perdition. Many had fallen, after scrambling
up to the brink of the aqueduct, and ere they had time
to cross it, and if not caught in the bushes, rolled into
the plain, breaking their bones in the descent, and lie
there as we passed, shrieking in agony, and imploring
us to kill them and thus put an end to their suffering.
Never did eye rest upon humanity in forms so mutilated,
defaced, and disfigured as these unhappy wretches, who
lay writhing there in their bloody rags, their faces so
plastered ove-r with gore and dust that neither wife nor
mother would ,ever have recognised son or husband in
those hideous masses of mortality. Some, but they were a
small minority, sought to drag themselves to the shade
of the few bushes Oat skirted the river ; some sought to
hide their heads from the fiery beat of the middaysun under
their tattered garment e, and others lay with faces upturned
and ghastly, their limb.' still trembling in the last quiver,
and the flies already burrowing in their wounds. Men
shot down by any sort. of missile, and lying where
they fall, gory and mutilated though they may be,
is a sight to whichone soon g,,:td,habituated, but wounded
men who have been rolled ov.sr a rough soil, and their
bones broken in their progress, is one of those sights
that one rarely witnesses, and which be who has once
seen it never wishes to see more. On towards the bridge
the dead lay thicker and thicker. On the banks of the
river about it, and in the river itself, they were "heaped
and piled," mostly fine men, in the prime of life—many
with a vieuxgrognard air, which bespoke long years of
service. Nearly every one bad a brandy bottle, either
actually in his hand, or lying near him, or broken under
him in his fall. I was riding with a Polish officer, who
conversed with a great many of the wounded, who in-
formed us that large quantities of brandy had been served
out to the soldiers before the action, except' the artillery-
men. There were a great many, small platforms lying
about, some resembling ladders with the rungs very close,
and carried by roPe.slings attached to each end, as bridges
to be thrown across the aqueduct. The great: majority,
however, passed without them. The Zouaves bad made
a general collection of crosses, relics, and medals, and
retailed them to the visitors, in addition to which pick-
ings from the dead bodies, they made small collections
of money from the persons of the wounded, managing
dexterously to extract it from the inside of the trousers
close to the knee, where the Russian soldiers generally
carry their money, while pretending to examine into the
nature of their wounds, thus avoiding giving any mental
pain to the sufferers. Some very fine rifles, quite new,
and now seen for first time, were Lund on the field,
but were instantly taken pos9ession of by the military
authorities, and the sale prohibited. Judging from what
I saw myself, and from comparing notes with others,
and without being able to say how many bodies may be
in the aqueduct, I should say the number left on the
field was 1,500; the usual calculation is that twice as
many are wounded as are killed, and this, with between
five and six hundred prisoners not wounded, taken by the
French and Piedmontese, would make the total loss of
the Russians little short of 5,000 men hors de combat.
The divisions engaged were the sth, 7th, 12th, and 17th,
most of them belonging to different corps d'arrn,ee. One
had never been under fire before, and bad made a rapid
march from Bakshi-Sergi and rested eight hours before
the attack. One man, who fell high upon the hill side,
assured us that he was in the last battalion of the re-
serve, and that every single soldier had been sent down
from the heights ; so that had we pursued them we might
have gained the Mackenzie plateau along with them
and held it. Prince Gortcshakoff commanded in chief,
and General Martinaloff the assaulting columns. The
whole force, including cavalry and artillery, is calculated
at 50,000 men. There were 60 guns in the field.
There were only ten or twelve officers left on the
ground, which proves that a great number must have
been carried off in the retreat. The Piedmontese
have lost 300 men killed and wounded ; amongst others,
General MonteVecchio, commanding one of the brigades,
who was shot through the body, and was not
,expected
to survive through yesterday. The French have about
1,100 men hors de combat.
I was standing at the bridge while the French were
collecting the wounded from the other side, and placing
them in the ambulances. The Russians could see per-
fectly well what they were about from Mackenzie heights,
and nevertheless had the barbarity to fire from one of
their batteries right into the crowd on the road. A scene
of great confusion ensued; the ambulance mules galloped
off, causing the wounded they were carrying to shrink
with pain. It was little short of a miracle that no one
, was hurt by the shot, which I am told, after my depar-
ture, continued to be fired at intervals during the whole
day.

TILE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

(Front a Correspondent of the limes.)
FOURTH DIVISION CAMP, Aug. 17.—At 4 this
morning the English batteries opened a heavy fire
along the whole of their line. The Russians kept
silence for fully 20 minutes, when they replied in
good style. The French were slow in co-operating
with us. It was fully half-past 5 before they opened
on the left, and when they did it was a sort of in-
termittent fire, their right pausing when their left
was active, and vice versa. A report had been cur-
rent that but for the action on the Tchernaya the
long-talked-of bombardment was to have com-
menced yesterday at noon, and when at daybreak
to-day the roar of artillery was heard, it was sup-
posed the cannonade had commenced in earnest
and would be vigorously sustained. After a short
time, however, it slackened considerably, and it
became evident that no serious bombardment was
intended. During the whole day the cannonade has
varied in violence, and has often been scarcely mere
severe than we are accustomed to witness nearly
every evening. At other times, however, the fire
has been very heavy. Its real object is, I be-
lieve, to enable the French to continue their ap-
proaches to the Malakhoff. Many conjectures
and reports are afloat on the subject. It
has been said that the fire is to be succeeded by a
feint attack. Then, when it is supposed that the
enemy has brought large bodies of troops to the
front of his defences, a more effective bombardment
is to take place, to be followed by a real attack on
a different point. More authoritative information
has reached me, which, without entering into de-
tails, gives me grounds to believe that something
serious will shortly occur, to which to-day's fire has
been merely a prelude. Meanwhile, we have
casualties to lament, and have suffered some da-
mage to our batteries. Four guns of No. 7 battery,
left attack, were silenced, the other two thereupon
suspending their fire. Two guns of the Naval Bri-
gade were disabled. Captain Oldfield, Royal
Ar-
tillery, was killed. Major Henry., of tbhuetsawmaos
corps, lost his arm at the shoulder joint,
be
en doing well this evening. He had just
ball struck him. Lieutenant Dennis,re-
lieved, and was about to quit the battery
3wdheßnutehse,
has been very badly wounded,
a chance of his recovery.
Captain
in the trenches.
com-
mander of the Albion, and there
misestc,arcely
He saw the ball coming, w ahcalledsim himself
ltfo hisme n
remained,to standan a
out of the
was instantlywkayil:led and either by the ball or by
which it smashed. I have
a spoke of the wheel,_
similar instances. There is some-
timesti t
bwoeuutl d2ooapwpeeraer i
n.
conles at you. The 'ln
a
hoard
Naval
cannon shot when 1 _
the
had 23 casualties, including six
trenches, an
officer killed. This gall
ant but Al-
mon and an
none of the rewards of good service. It surely
Brigade suffdertedheyseverely.
treated brigade usually gets all the hard knocks,
but
is not too much to expect that vacancies made in
ranks
umubstyel
yl
vt
ehsfea;ac heyoettshaf
noorndldshell they so bravely
e up MM.
their
manybe monthsfilld theref has
not been a promotion among them, but
m very nu-
aarendonfgrethue
merous deaths. Three ' lieutenants belonging to
one ship have been killed. -n the 18th of Juno a
lieutenant fell when l gallantly attempting to rescue
a wounded sailor. The mate promoted had seen
no service before, and has seen none since, for he
went to England shortly afterwards, but he is a
very near relative of Sir James Graham's. Is
Captain Hammet's vacancy to be similarly filled
up ? The Naval Brigade has certainly strong
grounds for complaint.
This afternoon, about 6 o'clock, one of our mortar
batteries on the right discharged sixmortars simul-
taneously at one spot in the Malakhoff, and blew
up a magazine shells, which popped off in succes-
sion in beautiful style, while the Russians jumped
over the parapets in mortal terror, and our fellows
in Gordou's Battery jumped on theirs and cheered
with delight.
This evening, about 9 o'clock, we were disturbed
from our post-prandial pipe by a sudden alarm in
the camp of the Fourth Division—by shouts of "A;
Russian spy !" " Seize him !" " There he goes .r.
and similar exclamations. Of course we
out of our hut in double quick time. There wasthe
considerable excitement in the vicinity of
cattle-pound, formed of empty beef casks,
division,
i which,
after containing the dead provisions of
Nobody seemed
serve to enclose the live stock.
to have a distinct idea of what the Russian spy
be zgLounted, and
was like, but ha was said to