The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

THE EXTRA FIELD ALLOWANCE.
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The following is amongst the latest General
Orders issued :

Head-quarters, Sebastopol, Sept. 21.
No. 1. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased
to grant an extra field allowance of 6d. per diem to the
non-commissioned officers and soldiers of her regular
army, when engaged in active operations in the field
against the enemy, the same will be issued from the let
of July, 1855, to all non-commissioned officers and sol-
diers, including the Royal Artillery, Royal Sappers and
Miners, cavalry, and infantry of the army serving in the
Crimea.

The Commander of the Forces trusts that the troops
will make a good use of this addition to their pay, and
reminds them of the facilities that now exist for remitting
money to Eneand. He hopes that he may have the
pleasure of reporting hereafter that the means of obtain-
ing- increased comforts which are thus placed at the
disposal of the soldiers have not been the cause of irre-
gularity or intemperance. Commanding officers are
empowered to stop the field allowance of any soldier for
any period not exceeding seven days in a proved case of
drunkenness. During the period of a non-commissioned
officer or' soldier being in hospital his field allowance
will cease, but will be allowed from the day he returns
to duty in the field. In all cases in which the pay of a
soldier is forfeited for absence without leave, or when
any portion of the pay of a soldier is forfeited by convio-
tion by a Court-martial, his field allowance will be for-
feited also.

By order.
H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff.

There have been various reports respecting the
cruel treatment of the wounded British soldiers by
the Russians. The following interesting history,
received in a letter from the Crimea, will show that
this cruelty is not always employed :
CRIMEA, Sept. 18.
Lieutenant Massy, who only joined the head-quarters
of the regiment lately, a chubby faced youth of sixteen
years of age, led the Grenadiers of the 19th Regiment
into action at the assault upon the Redan on the Bth
inst. They came up to the support of the attacking
columns. Nothing could exceed the bravery of this
young fellow. He went on in front of his men, got
across the ditch, and climbed to the parapet on the op-
posite side.. Here his progress was impeded by the men
of different regiments, who were crowded together,
vainly endeavouring to effect an entrance into the work.
The men fell thickly around -him; but he escaped. He
was one of the very, last who retired. On his return,
as he was mounting the counterscarp, and just at the
edge of the natural glacis of the hill, some soldier caught
hold of his leg to assist himself in mounting up. At
that moment a rifle ball struck young Massy in the left
thigh. The bone was broken near the hip joint, and,
he was unable to extricate himself from his dangerous
position. He crawled on a few yards, and there re-
mained. Now came a fearful trial. The Russians were!
showing themselves thickly on the parapets of the Redan,
firing at our men who were retiring, and, in turn, our
troops were firing up at the Redan from the first
parallel of the works of the right attack. The shot flew
like hail around him. Then came the round shot and;
shell directed against the enemy in the Redan, butt
many of which struck short, and cut up the ground,
where the wounded were lying between the abattis and;
the ditch. Every shot which struck the parapet ofj
the Redan sent back a shower of dust and stones over,
the nearest wounded. Some of our men, lying thus,
dreadfully exposed, even asked the Russians to take.
them into the work, by appealing to them, "Johnny,'
Johnny." In several instances the Russians slipped out,,
in spite of the fire, and carried some of the wounded
and placed them under shelter. Young Massy,
however,
kept himself quiet, and continued near to the spot where
he had fallen. He felt as if his life must be lost, and yet'
at the same time hope was kept up by an opposite feel-
in, that he might be spared to escape. At last, when
He opened his coatee
the fire had in a great degree subsided, and the after-
noon was advancing, a Russian soldier in his charac-
teristic grey coat came to him.
to find if he had any valuables there, then sought for a
watch or other things, but handled him so gently that
Massy felt no fear respecting the wan taking his life.
At last he left him, taking his sword and havresack.
This was the only Russian who came to him ; others
were around collecting the Minie rifles and anything
else they thought worth taking away. Massy saw no

barbarity or ill-treatment now ; previotisly, • while the
fighting was going on, many of the wounded were bayo-
neted by the enemy. Some time elapsed, the firing had
ceased all around, evening was advancing, 4/hen sud-
denly, without any warning, the ground shook, and
there was a terrific noise from an explosion. It was one
of the magazines in the Redan which the RusSians had
fired. Down came a shower of dust and gravel, and as
i 1-fortune would have it, there fell also a large stone
and struck poor Massy on the right thigh, the one
which %las- not previously wounded. It inflicted a
very severe bruise. Soon afterwards he perceived in the
dusk some twelve or fifteen men coining cautiously up
towards the Redan. They were not very far distant
when be first perceived them, but what amazed him
was that they were ndt fired at. He could not divine
why this was, or what the Russians were about ; and at
last suspected that the men must be Russians them-
selves who were not observed from our trenches. They
went into the Redan, and he lost sight of them, but
after a short time they came back again, and be dis-
covered them to belong to one of our Highland regi-
ments. The French had communicated the fact that the
Russians had deserted the Redan, and this party had
gone to reconnoitre. Fortunately they did not remain
longer, for shortly after their return another magazine
of the Redan was blown up. Had.they been within the
work, the probability is that the greater part of them
would have been destroyed. Massy, as he lay at the
edge of the ditch, was again covered by • the dirt and
loose fragments which were thrown up into the air, but
this time received no hurt. Subsequently he attracted
the attention of one of the Highlander; and afters, short
time was carried in a loose great-coat to the trenches.
There his wound was examined by an aasistant-surgeon,
and he was sent up cin.a-stretcheutitstalalh,,iiielisgaleg
ou favourably, but -his wound- is of a very dangerous
character.

The following is from a diary kept by a surgeon
of the 55th Regiment :
"Friday, Sept. 7.—On coining home from a stroll to
the Limekilns, whither I had gore to have another look
at the often•looked-at city, I found that a clear-out had
been made of the hospital ; the sick had been sent to
Balak lava, and an order had come that officers and men.
were to prepare two days' rations, to breakfast at 6, and
parade at S ; so I made ready my havresack by replen-
ishing it with lint, bandages, &c. ; had some beef boiled,
bread got, flasks filled, and turned in. Bombardment,
confined chiefly to the left, going on all day.
" Saturday, Sept. B.—C-- awoke me about daylight;
tremendously cold morning ; had a cup of tea ; went
round hospital, and then marched off with regiment to
parade-ground, where we waited a long time, having
started too soon. At parade, General Codrington gave
a short address, informing us that we were to act as sup-
ports to the storming party—an important duty, which
would, he doubted not, be well performed—that we were
to occupy the fourth parallel, moving gradually into the
fifth, then to enter the Redan, and insure the possession
of it to the stormers. So off we marched down the middle
ravine. My staff consisted of Carmodie and two bands-
men, as orderlies, carrying my havresack, rum-barrel, &c.
I marched beside Burke, our adjutant, at the head of the
Grenadier company. As we went along I gathered that
the French were to attack the Malakhoff at 12 o'clock,
and that their standard, planted on the tower and the
English flag on the Mamelon,gwere to be our signal of
attack upon the Redan. On we went through the ravine
to the oft-trod trenches, keeping up a smart fire, to which
the Russians replied but seldom. On the left the ham-
bardincnt wa, kept up heavily. We jogged along till
we got to the fourth parallel, then gradually moved Gown
the approach of the fifth ; now sitting on the breastwork,
speaking over the coming event of the day, then moving
I on a tittle. Being with the Grenadier or flank company, I
was next to thelig lit company of the 30th, and went along
talking with its officers—among others Col. Patullo, who
not long after was brought to me mortally wounded, and
Sanders, who was also severely wounded. Gradually we
reached the end of the approach, where it joins the fifth
parallel, and at that corner most of us of the 55th and 30th
;were talking together with Gen. Warren, all keeping a
Sharp look-out at the Malakhoff as far as possible amid
the rifle-bullets that were flying about from the Redan.
We were now on the tiptoe of expectation, for our guns
ad commenced such a fire as I never before heard--
olleys of eight and ten at a tune, which, being fired
roin behind, passed but a few feet over our heads, tear-
ing up the earthworks of the Redan in grand style;—the
'French, too, opened a tremendous fire from the Marne-
lon. At 12 o'clock exactly `There go the French !' was
heard ; in a moment we were all up on the breastwork,
thinking nothing of the round shot and grape that came
bounds g and whizzing among us, throwing up earth and
'stones,
smashing gabions, and knocking down men. It
was a splendid sight to see the French rushing up the
steep side of the Malakhoff—we saw it but a few mo-
tments, as all was soon obscured in smoke; but high above
!we could distinguish the French standard waving over
!the Malakhoff Tower ; and it was pleasanter still to see
!the Russians rushing helter-skelter out from the works
(down to the Redan. It was sharp work, for at twenty
Iminutes past 12 our signal was up—a white flag—on the
IMarnelon. Colonel Cuddy saw it first, and rushed off to
the head of his men ; so we all shook hands and moved
;down the trench as last as we could, for our attacking
party had passed out of the sap, and we saw them rush-
ing on the Redan. Many a fine fend,* was cut short in
his career across the open by the grapeshot, which came
lin fearful volleys. I kept up with my regiment as well
as I could, for the wounded falling around me kept me
back. I bound them up, and then made a run after the
regiment till arrested by others, and so on till I got to
the end of the sap which led to the open. To go further
was useless, already there was such a crowd of wounded
around, so I took up my position there—no enviable one
I—for grape and shot came bounding among us, wound-
ing those beside me. Two Riflemen fell dead almost
ou the top of me. I kad plenty to do, and the time
passed without my knowing how it flew—l was so
busy. Cure, our major, was one of the first officers
who came to me, a grapeshot breaking his arm; then
Richards, one of our Captains, struck on the ankle
by grape. He wanted to go back, but I would not
let him—nor could he, if I had, for he fainted when I
had him laid on the breastwork. Officers and men
came crowdir, on, mowed down by the grape from the
flanking fire which rushed over and among us, throwing
up dust and stones, which dealt us no gentle raps. I
was struck twice, once on the back, by, I think, a
grapeshot, but I had no time to look, and once on the
foot by a rife ball, both sinarters ;' but that was all.
I was too busy to observe anything that was going on ;
so, except the first rush, I saw nothing, I may say, of
the attack. While I was hard at work among the
wounded the soldiers around cried out, 'Doctor, you
must iget out of the way—they are retreating ;' so I
looked up and saw our men rushing helter skelter into
and over the open to the trenches in the rear of us. I
did not exactly know what to do, so I drew my sword
(which, by the way, got very bloody that day, but not
with Russian blood), and went on with my dressing till
I had finished all about me, and then thought of moving
off. I could not leave poor Richards, as we all expected
the Russians to be in among us every minute, so there
was nothing for it but to put him on my back and carry
him, which I did till I got a stretcher by some means or
other, and raised some men of the reserve to carry him
home. Then I went down to the trenches again, dres-
sing any wounded I found on the way. While doing
so, Sanders called out to me from the trenches, into
which he had staggered, with the knee-joint of one leg
smashed, and a bullet through the other. He bore it
all splendidly. I dressed his wounds, got a scaling
ladder and sent him 'home' too. The Russians did
not come out, and when I left the city began to blaze.
"Sept. 9. —Up at daylight, and down with the regi-
ment. I went out with the Adjutant tvo look for Colonel
Cuddy's body, which was found with the arm upraised,
as if waving his sword to go into the Redan. Had a
look round there. Stationed in 21-gun-battery all day.
"Sept. 10.—Set to work in hospital at eight o'clock ;
got done about five ; had dinner ; went round and saw a
few wounded officers I knew, and back to hospital again.
My back is by this time pretty sore with stooping. I
have just been warned to go with the regiment on a
bathine, and washing expedition to the Tchernaya, for
fear of accident. Start ac seven o'clock."

The Semaphore of Marseilles, in a letter from
Sebastopol, dated the 18th, says :
" We have ascertained some further details of the late
evacuation of the town by the enemy. In the night of
the Bth the Russians were so eager to regain the north
side of the harbour by the bridge of rafts which they
had constructed, that a number of men fell into the water
and were drowned. Some convicts, who bad
i been libe-
rated for the purpose, were left in the place n order to
set fire to everythingthat might be of use to the besiegers.
Fortunately these plans could only be carriedinto par-
tial execution. A circumstance which will give an idea
of the character which the Russians endeavour to impart
to the present war took place at Sebastopol on the 9th.
It is known that on the morning of that day Prince
Gortschakoff hoisted a white flag on Port Constantine,
the object being to demand an armistice for the purpose
of removing the dead and wounded. While he was wait-
ing for the answer, explosions continued almost without
interruption, and afterwards, while the enemy were being
allowed to remove 500 wounded Russians from the naval
storehouses, they set fire to the mines of Fort St. Paul
into which some French soldiers had entered sick, and
where there were also 750 wounded Russians.' All
these unfortunate men perished together. Itwould
be iieposible to give credit to such acts of inhu-
manity perpetrated in the nineteenth century, if
the exactitude of the fact were not confirmed by thou-
sands of witnesses. The booty, which is said to have been
estimated by a captain of the English navy, is worth
7,000,0001., and the losses of the Russians a' mount to
80,000,000 f. That valuation of course only relates to
the loss of the present moment. Russia has beheld up-
wards of two milliards, and more than 200,000 men
sn allowed up in the struggle at Sebastopol. The line
of the Tehernaya becomes a position of great importance
at the present moment, from the strategical operations
of which it is about to serve as the base. Ido not here
i speak of the movements of the troops, or of all that s
said here as to the future plans of campaign, but I can
tell you that the opinion every day gains ground that
the Russians are about to evacuate the Crimea, covering
their retreat by some movement of their troops.
.The
operation will be a very delicate one when we consider
the quantity of materiel they have to take with them.