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returned once more to my den in despair as to its
cause. lam now inclined to think it was a sortie
in the trench, which was unsuccessful, was renewed,
and was finally repulsed victoriously and with great loss
to the enemy. It appears that at first, about 10 o'clock,
drums were heard beating a charge, or alarm, all along
the French lines at first ; but whether they were Rus-
sian or French drums no one can say. The cheers were
undoubtedly Russian. Sir John Campbell despatched
Capt. Hume, Aide-de-Camp, to head-quarters to learn
the cause of the firing , but as nothing was known there
respecting any attack to be made by the French, it is
almost certain that this busy night has been the work of
the Russ!anS. There is now a profound silence--Hotta
gun can be heard, and the horrid dio of shot and shell
screaming and whistling through the air, the burets of
cannon and bombs, the cheers, and rolling volleys, have
all died away, and the deadly lights have died out and
left all the black waste iu darkness. While the fight
lasted the quantities of shell thrown by both sides were
prodigious. They might be seen 6 and 8 at a time
seaming the sky with their fiery curves, and then
bursting with a bright red flash which lit up for an
instant the smoke, and flashed through it like a beam
from the setting sun through a murky cloud. The
French threw "bouquets," two, three, and four shells
from one mortar in flights at a time, and must have
caused fearful havoc in the enemy's lines. At every
crashing volley our men used to grow quite excited, and
many a " Bono Franceese" ran through the crowd, but
the few Frenchmen who were there talked in subdued
and eager tones, with a deeper interest in the fate of
their gallant comrades than we could feel. Towards the
close of the struggle the Russians fired angry volleys
from their cannon, and threw a multitude of shells into
the French lines, which were paid back with interest. It
must have been the most sanguinary affair we have had
since Inkermann, and no doubt the Mopiteur will let us
know the truth Of it, and give us additional reason to
admire the gallantry of our allies. Our men seemed to
think it was a French attack, and one fenny, exclaimed,
"Oh !..when are we- to get a chance Another ex-
claimed, " When we do, Jack, I hope to the Lord
they'll let us go at it by daylight. I like to see my
inimy !" The progress of the battle was watched with
the most intense anxiety, and many were, the specula-
tions and arguments respecting the lines of fire—as to
whether they were from friend or foe, and as to which
was which, and who were gaining and who were losing.
At last with the silence we all dispersed, and the camp
is once more profoundly quiet. for the reports from the
rifle pits are deadened by the wind. There is less cre-
dence attached to-night to the rumour that we are
"going in" at daybreak. The last nail on which it
hangs is the fact that the Caradoc has been ordered
to get ready to carry Lord Raglan's despatches to-mor-
row. _ .

quent upon the recent rains. The expectation which the
outsiders entertained that "the fleet would go in" this
morning at daybreak has not been realised. At daybreak I
was up at Cathcart's-hill to witness the opening of our fire,
and with some hope that I might see, too, the first broad-
sides of our wooden walls. It was a thick morning, and
the view was obscured by vapours and drizzling rain,
hut the dark hulls and rigging of the steamers and line
of battle ships were visible through the mist, and, though
clouds of steam were flying from the funnel pipes, it was
quite evident that the fleet were only off the port, and
had no intention of taking part in the bombardment.
Only one officer, Col. Nercott, of the Rifle Brigade, was
ur' at that part of the front which is close to the lines of
his regiment, and a few stragglers had crept out of the
adjoining tents to look at the town and its long lines of
battery. Through the gray light the flashes of the guns
lighted up the embrasures, and the shot cleft the air with
a dull, hoarse roar, and struck with a heavy throb into
the earthworks. Our shells were bursting right into and
over the Mamelon, which the French were also plying
from their Inkerman batteries. The Round Tower now
and then fired one • of the three or four heavy guns
which are placed in the west angle works, but the Redan
and Garden Batteries were worked with vigour. On the
left the whole of the outlines of the town and of the
French batteries were obscured by the smoke from the
guns, which hung in heavy white wreaths on the ground.
The fire was very heavy, and the riflemen in front of the
batteries kept up a sharp fusillade on the embrasures,
which was sometimes audible in the lulls of the cannon-
ade. It was tolerably evident that the Russians had
more than recovered from their surprise, and that they
had laboured to recover the ground they had lost with
all their might. Their batteries were fully manned,
and their fire, if not so precise as our own, was very
quick. They occasionally resorted to their old prac•
tice of firing off six or seven guns in a salvo—a
method also adopted by the French occasionally. It
is laid down, indeed, in some books of authority that
salvo firing is more effective than independent firing,
but I take it that the dictum can only refer to breach-
ing operations, and not to those which are directed for
the purpose of silencing guns. As the rain set in again
soon after 6 o'clock, nothing more was to be seen, and
we returned to our tents. The cannonade continued all
day uninterruptedly, but irregularly, and as soon as the
rain ceased and the batteries were visible I returned to
Cathcart's-hill. I could not see that any marked change
had been made in the profile of the enemy's works.
Several of the embrasures in the Redan had been de-
stroyed, and the Round Tower works were a good deal
"knocked about;" but there was no great reduction in
the weight of the enemy's fire. The Allied fleet was
quietly stationed tolhe south of the Quarantine Forts.
Their presence there had, however, the effect of drawing
off a number of the Russian gunners, for the sea batteries
on the north and south sides were all manned, and we
could see the artillerymen and sailors inside the parapets
standing by their guns. Large reserves of infantry
were drawn up near the north forts, and the corps
over Inkerrnan were under arms. The Russians were
seen carrying their wounded men across to the north
side in boats, and it is probable they also get the relief
for the batteries in the same was, and that they keep
the bulk of their magazines in the forts at the other side
of the Roads. General Bizot received a very severe and
dangerous wound to-day. He was struck by a rifle ball
under the ear, and it tore right across his face and lodged
close to his eye in the temple at the opposite side. Some
hopes are entertained that his life will be saved. No. 2
battery, left attack, suffered severely to-day from the
heavy fire directed against it, and the Barrack Battery
proved very troublesome, but its fire was not so mis-
chievous as that of the Garden Battery. The service
has to deplore the loss of Captain Luce. R.A., who lost
both his legs by a round shot, and died soon after-
wards. He was a promising and zealous officer. Lieu-
tenant Urmston, of the Queen, was wounded in one
of the sailors' batteries, but is likely soon to recover. A
strange and almost unexampled accident occurred'in one
of our batteries. A 13-inch mortar, with a moderate
charge. and not over-heated burst on being fired, and
flew into two pieces, splitting up longitudinally. One
of the huge masses was thrown 30 yards to the right,
and anottnr a great distance to the left, and yet, won-
derful to relate, though the fragments flew along the
traverses and parapet, not one man was killed or
wounded. We were less fortunate in the case of the Lan-
caster gun, which was struck by a shot and went to
pieces, killing and wounding severely six men. Several
engineer officers to whom I spoken, while express-
ing regret at the accident, have declared their satisfac-
tion at getting rid of the guu in which they placed no
cenfidence, on account of its wild and uncertain firing.
Omer Pasha visited Lord Raglan again to-day, and

have been engaged ever since adjusting the ladders
fitting them with ropes and sending a certain portion of
them to the trenches where they will arrive after dusk.
Up to this date we have barely lost 100 men in killed
and wounded, and we can see that the Russians suffer
frightfully, judging by the wounded they send across to
the north side.

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FRIDAY MORNING, 13TH.
At 4 o'clock a.m. the Russians opened a powerful and
destructive fire on our 6 gun advanced battery, which was
in a very imperfect state, and by concentrating the fire of
20 guns on it dismounted some of the pieces and injured
the works severely, so as to render the battery useless for
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gun into the new battery this morning, owing to causes I
nave already mentioned, although they worked till it was
nearly dawn. Our mules were lost, 50 of them, at least, by
the Land Transport Corps, returning from the trenches
last night, as the officers could not find their way and the
animals got loose. On every side I hear loud complaints
against the ramrods of the Enfield rifles, , or rather
against the mode in which they are fixed in the weapon.
The least rain or damp so swells the wooden stock into
which the steel ramrod runs, that it is impossible to draw
the latter, and it has been also said that the locks are
very apt to become wood-bound, in which state of course
they will not act. I have been assured by an officer
who had the command of a party in the trenches on
Monday morning last, that if the Russians had come
upon them they could only have been met by the bayo-
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to load the rifles in consequence of the wet having swelle d
the wood round the steel. General Jones is a good dealan-
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the advanced batteries, and he was still more displeased at
the neglect of an officer or officers who ought to have
provided mantlette,s for the embrasures of one of those bat-
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FRIDAY, 12 AT NOON.
The Sailors' Brigade have again suffered very severely.
Although they only Work 35 guns in the various hatteT
ries, they have lost more men than all our siege train-
working and covering parties put together, and up to
half-past 3 o'clock they had 73 men killed and wounded,
two officers killed, one wounded, and two or three con-
tused. The sailors in No. 2 Battery, Chapman's attack,
silenced three of the best guns in the Redan yesterday,
but the Russians replaced them during the day, and
actually opened fire at 5 p.m. from the very embrasures
which had been knocked to pieces. The reports of in-
jury done to our batteries have been greatly.exagge-
rated. In addition to the 13-inch mortar, which was
burst, and the Lancaster destroyed by a shot, there
have been only four guns disabled by the enemy's fire,
and one of our 9-pounders, directed against the Rifle-
pits,
,has been " dinted" by a shot. One of our
24-pounders was burst by a shot which entered right at
the muzzle as the gun was being discharged. Another
gun was struck by a shot in the-muzzle, split up to the
trunnions, the ball then sprung up into the air, and, fall-
ing at the breech, knocked off the button. There are
only three guns firing front the Round Tower this morn-
ing, but the enemy has mounted a heavy gun in the
Mamelon, at which we are at present directing our fire.
The Redai is very much damaged on the right face and
front already, and three of the embrasures, at least, are
knocked to pieces. It is impossible to deny to the Rus-
sian engineers great credit for the coolness with which
they set about repairing damages under fire ; but words
cannot do more than justice to the exertions of our
own men, and to the Engineer officers and Sappers en-
gaged in this most perilous duty. When an embra-
sure is struck and injured it is the business of the
Sappers to gt. up into the vacant space and repair
the damage, removing the gabiors, &e., under fire, and
without the least cover frOm shot, shell, or riflemen.
Our engineer vfficers have frequently set the example to
their men in exposing themselves when not called upon
to do so, and I believe, that as yet, there has not been a
single instance in which a gun has been silent owing to
damage done to an embrasure. The officers and men
charged with this dangerous work have not waited for
the cover of night to effect repairs, but have carried them
on in face of the enemy. Our Allies, also, exhibit the ut-
most coolness and gallantry in a similar manner. Poor
Jack pays the penalty of his excessive courage in the loss
which he sustairs. The sailors will not keep under cover.
When they fire a gun they crowd about the embrasures
and get upon the parapets to watch the effect of the shot,
and the result is that they are exposed to many more
casualties than the artillerymen, who are kept under
cover by their officers. Yesterday, under the very heat
of the fire, a Russian walked through one of the em-
brasure:, of the Round Tower, cocl'y descended the
parapet, took a view of the profila of the work, at d
sauntered back again—a piece of bravado which very
nearly cost him his life, as a round shot struck within a
yard of him, and a shell bunt near the embrasure as he
re-entered it. Lieut Doug!as was buried to day close
to poor Twyford and young Spalding. The Rev. Mr.
Freeman read the funeral service over his remains. It
will scarcely he credited that for nearly eight months
the Naval Brigade, mustering 1,200 men, has been left
without an x c!iaplain, and the officer's have to " borrow
a chaplu,in," or do without one, whenever a comrade's
reinaiLs are t./'be interred.
Two divisions of Turkish infantry have just marched
from Kainiest), past the head-quarters camp, towards
Balaklava. They mustered about 15,000 men, and
finer young fellows than some of the soldiers of the
crack regiments I never saw. Very few of the
privates wore decorations or medals, but many of the
officers hal them, and had evidently seen service
Ngainst the Muscovite. They had had a long march,
ail(' their sandal shoon afforded sorry protection against
the stony ground ; and yet it was astonishing that so
few men fell out of the ranks or straggled behind. One
regiment had a good brass band, which almost alarmed
th bystanders by striking up a quick step (waltz) as
they marched past, and playing it in very excellent style,
but the majority of the regiments were preceded by mu-
sicians with drums, fifes, and semicircular thin brags
tubes, with wide mouths, such as those which may have
tumbled the walls of Jericho, or are seen on the sculp-
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There is a tremendous cannonade on our left. The
Light. Division bugles are sounding close at hand.
3.ls.—There is an awful crishing roar from the Rus-
situ batteries. The Light Division are on the alert. I
must close my despatch for the present. And now to
my diary.

TUESDAY APRIL 10.

I was obliged to send off a very hasty despatch
this morning, as the fatigue and the wet of Monday
had nearly incapacitated the from writing. It was nearly
noon before the Russians recovered their surprise and
manned the whole of their guns, and we gained a decided
advantage by the secrecy with which the day of opening
fire .as kept, and the excellence of our arrangements.
In the extreme right Inkerman Battery, manned by our
artillerymen, the guns, in consequence of a message from
our allies that they were soff, ring from our silet:ce, were
opened before all was quite in readiness, and the result
was that the enemy inflicted some damage on us in con-
sequence of their being able to concentrate their fire
before it was taken off by the other batteries. A valu-
able man—a corporal of Sappers—was killed, and several
men wounded here. Some of our batteries era as yet
unfinished, but exertions will be made to complete thorn
at night during► the siege. I have not been able to get the
armament of the right attack as yet, but I send you a
statement of the armament of the left attack, which
it carnet be dangerous to publish, as our cannonade
and bombardment will have failed utterly if Sebastopol
be not taken before these lines are in print, and the
whole dreary process of dragging up more guns, getting
up fresh platforms and throwing. up new batteries, will
have to be gone over again. The French have, it is
said, about 300 guns and mortars in position, but I be-
lieve such an estimate to be exaggerated. At 120 rounds
a-gun per diem, we can fire for abut 10 days without
much damage to our guns; If the 'place does not fall
then, it is not in the power of artillery to take it, and we
must either get ready tii invest the north and south, or
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Left Attack.—No. 1 Battery.—Ten 24-pounders, two
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No. 2 Battery (Sailors).—Eight 32-pounders, two 8-
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No. 3 Battery (Sailors). —Eight 24-pounders.
No. 4 Battery (Sailor-).—Two 32-pounders, four 04-
pounders, two 8-inch guns, one 10-inch gun.
No. 5 Battery (Sailors).—One 8-inch gun, one 10-inch

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Y:cket-house, or No. 6 Battery.—Two 32-pounders,
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No. 7 Battery.—Six 32-pounders.
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Irrespective of Vie guns in the above batteries, there
are in position the following mortars-10 13-inch and 4
10-inch, intended for bombarding the remoter works,
and the storehouses and magazines of the enemy.
The casualties in the first day's cannonade on our
side were not numerous. In the Naval Brigade One
most excellent aid zealous yot.ng officer, Lieutenant
Twyford, of the London, lost his life. He was killed
on the spot, and a piece of i-tone knocked up by the
same shot, struck Lord John Hay on the face, cut his
mouth, and knocked two of his teeth down his throat, be-
sides wounding him in the shoulder. The remains of Lieu-
tenant Twyford were buried to-day, and they were fol-
lowed to the grave by many officers and sailors. The
chaplain of the Diamond performed the funeral service.
Lord John Hay's wound is not very serious. Of the
men of th brigade 9 were killed and 13 wounded. The
artillery of the siege train and men in the trenches lost
about an equal number killed and wounded. This morn-
ing a promising young officer, Lieutenant Sinclair, Royal
Artillery, received two very severe wounds from the
fragments on the recoil of a gun carriage struck by a
shot, and he is, I regret to say, in rather a precarious
state. The loss of Lieutenant Twyford is the more to
be deplored, inasmuch as it took place at the close of the
day, when he had done his work and was about being
relieved. The shot which killed him hopped in over the
parapet from the angle of the Flagstaff Battery, which
almost rakes the left over Chapman's Batteries, and
struck him on the back as he was leaning against the
traverse, making up his day's expense paper of ammu-

his two majors rode at the head of each regiment richly

dressed, on small but spirited horses, covered with
rich saddle-cloths, and followed by pipebearers and ser-
vants. The mules, with the tents, marched on the
right ; the artillery marched on the left. The two
batteries I saw consisted each of four 241 b. brass
howitzers and two 91b. brasi field-pieces, and the
carriages and horses were in a very serviceable state.
Each gun was drawn by six horses. The ammunition
boxes were rather coarse and heavy. The baggage ani-
mals of the division marched in the rear, and the regi-
ments marched in columns of companies three deep, each
company on an average with a front of 20 rank and file.
One of the regiments had Minie rifles of English make,
the majority, however, were only armed with flint fire-
locks, but they were clean and bright. They all displayed
rich standards, blazing with cloth of gold, and many-
coloured flags with the crescent and star embroidered on
them. All the men carried their blankets, squares of
carpet for prayer or sitting upon, cooking utensils, and
their packs were of various sizes and substances. As
they marched along in the sunlight over the undulating
gro.ind, they presented a very picturesque and warlike
spectacle, the stern reality of which was enhanced by the
thunder of the guns at Sebastopol, and the smoke from
shells bursting high in the air. On ascending the range
of hills towards Balaklava, they must have been seen by
the Russian army over the Tchernaya, and by the Co--
sacks on Canrobert's-hill. The Zouaves, who were for-
merly encamped near the artillery and cavalry at Kadee-
kovka (which is erroneously called in our maps, &C.,
Kadikoi), have been moved to the left, and replaced by
Turks. The heavy field battery which has just arrived
from England is packed at Karany, but I believe Sir
Colin Campbell objects to parting with the guns, which
are, be considers, required at present for the•defence of
Balaklava. Every night the plain is swept by a strong
picket of our cavalry, under the command of a field-
officer, a captain, and two subalterns, but as yet they
have met no marauding Cossacks, though they have
gone right up to Canrobert's-hill and past the lines of
the redoubts.

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wnthy enthusiasm ; all the people seemed happy to raise their hands
and vo'ces in a hearty welcome; ma y manifestations of English
-kill and industry have appetred, and in the most pleasing forms;
he .esources ot the nation have been held up for admiration ; but the
GARNIENT4 made by E. MOSES and :ON have been the suhject of
u-iversal commendation, as the Union of France and England on the
,roadest commercial basis.
The newest Fabrics of French
Ind English Mann toture arc
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French Novelties i Ladies
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ire just received by E. MoREs
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12.
At dawn this morning the 'Allied batteries and
the Russians recommenced their terrible combat as
usual, and it was evident the enemy had exerted
themselves greatly to repair damages during the
night, and that they had replaced four or five da-
maged guns, mended broken embrasures and injured
parapets, and were, in fact, nearly as ready to
meet our fire as they had been any time for the last six
months. On our side four of the guns for the advanced
parallel, which for the previous two nights we had failed
to get into position, were at last brought down after
dark, and it is expected that material results will be pro-
duced by their fire when they are in position. Broken
platforms were removed and damaged guns replaced by
others. The morning was hazy, and rain fell at times,
but towards' the afternoon the weather cleared up again,
and the heights were crowded with spectators, many of
whom were Turkish officers recently arrived from Eupas
toria. An English lady on horseback, who rode up to
Cathcart's.hill, attracted nearly as much attention from
these gentlemen as the cannonade. Our batteries
throughout the day fired steadily, and if their cannonade
was less imposing in appearance than when they sent
forth salvoes and irregular bursts of fire and smoke, it was
probably more effective. Orders were sent to all the batteries
to restrict the firing to 120 rounds per gun each day. The
vivacity of the sailors' batteries has been diminished by
that order, but their practice is splendid, and the enemy
have directed their heaviest fire on them in reply. The
13-inch mortar battery fires parsimoniously one round
mortar every 30 minutes, but it requires a long time to
cool the great mass of iron heated by the explosion of
121 b. or 161 b. of powder. Every one is most anxious to
see the effect of the shells when they burst ; but, owing
to the smoke, and to the great distance of the objects at
which they are 'directed, it is impossible to tell where
they alight or what they do unless one happens to be in
the battery, and is enabled to know their flight. The
English battery on the right' at Inkerman has been
very well served and has caused great damage to the
enemy, and the Round Tower has been almost shut
up ; nor did the Ma,nelon fire a shot for the four
hours I was watching it. The portion of the town
opposite the French is a heap of ruins. The laces-
sa4 shelling at night has done much mischief to the
private houses. Our allies fire to-day with great
energy. Their Inkerman and Tchernaya batteries are
admirably served, and they have not only kept down the
firing of the Mamelon, aided by Gordon's Battery, but
they have also answered the batteries at the north side
of the harbour, the Inkerman Cave Batteries, and have
silenced for the present the Lighthouse Battery, No. 2.
Our fire from Gordon's Battery and its advanced works
has swept away the rifle pits, has damaged some six or
seven guns in the Round To wer, and has kept and I. the
fire from one face of the Redan, whilethe firefrom Chap-
ma,. 's Battery has been very sucoesstul against the Redan,
the Barrack Battery, the Road Battery, and the Garden
Battery. The French on the left have done great mischief
to the Garden Battery also, and their fire has cru-hed the
guns of the Flagstaff Battery (Batteriedu Vat) completely,
but they suffer considerably from the Quarantine Fort
and its outworks, and from the Dockyard Harbour Bat-
tery. We have quite destroyed the small hat heavily
armed and destructive battery called that of " Careening
Bay," Bay," recently constructed by the Russians; but e
we have sustained considerable losses in aiaecod enemy.
Our of.
artillery waged A% ith a skilful and determined
especially.
Our 'sailors- -men and guns—have suffered
It is reported that seven guns have. bbeenleifstm a° d or
rendered unfit for use for the time in the
attack. Our
four have been damaged in the right
dismounted
and
Bat-
tery No. 2 in the left attack, has been
exposed to a pecu-
liarly heavy fire. all
The cannonade has never ceased
heavy on the whole as tdbaCy.thrleet ipsrnevoitosuos
clays.severe till ni
ghtfall,
newel 4.50 the bhaettfierreies
wasrelvaexredy firing, but they re-
ightfall,
it at 6, and t
when the bombardm;tucomasTeßm:Ned.,anmd,ailasktieldledtiltlod-daayy-
break. Lieutenant bi
round shot, - which carried away his head. His
lboy: is severely felt in the Naval Brigade. Orders
have been sent to the Engineers this afternoon to
prepare scaling ladders and pontoons, and they

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nition.
The losses in the Naval Brigade have been severe
within these last two days, but our covering antites have
net suffered much, as they have been placed of fire,
in shelter close to the batteries. In this respect we seem
to have taken a lesson from the Russians, who only keep
men enough to man the guns in their works, and draw
them from the reserves as they may be required. The
cannonade on both sides commenced at dawn to-day, and
it was apparent that the Russians had quite recovered from
the surprise of the preceding day, for they opened with
tremendous salvoes from their batteries. Our gunners
,i gave them as good as they got " and soon silenced
I:'veral of their most troublesome guns. The practice from
the left of the left attack and from the right of the right
attack, which was more wider observation than other parts
of our works, was admirable, and at every shot the earth
wasknocked up out of the enemy's parapet and embrasures.
on account of bad fuses. If the fuse burns properly the
Our shell practice is not so good as it might be, all
direction and flight of the shells are unerring, but a large
proportion burst in the air. Some of our fuses were
made in 1802 and subsequently. I have heard of some
belonging to the last century, but they are net the least
reliable, and some of very recent manufacture have
turned out the worst of all. At 12 o'clock at noon the
fire slackened. The French have silenced eight or nine
of the guns of, the Bastion-du-mat (Flagstaff), and had
inflicted great damage on the outworks and on the
had
d onein conjunction with the
aout of seven guns to
buildings inside the batteries in the western tower.
They had also almost shut up the Inkerman batteries.
On our side we had silenced half the guns in the Redan
reply to us, but the Garden Battery, the Road Battery,
and the Barrack Battery were comparatively uninjured,
Mamelonand onlyand kept up a brisk fire against us all day.
Our guns were restricted to eight shots an hour each.
id il
French o
left the wer,
The sea service mortars fired only once in every 30 mi-
nutes. The Ru:sians, with great sang froid, repaired
the batteries outside under fire, and appear to have ac-
quired confidence and courage, but their fire was by no
means as brisk as it was when the siege commenced
last year. On our sole six guns were disabled, including
tine !arse mortar. From 2 till 4 o'clock the &leg was
very h avy on both sites. , It then slackened for half an
hour, and at 4 30 it recommenced, and there was one
zontieuous ries of cannon and mortars till darkness set
itt. Then the French began to throw in shells by five and
six at a time, arid discharged quantities of rockets into
the town, and our mortars kept up a steady fire at the
Redan and Mamelon till daybreak. We are about arm-
ing a bast ry in the advanced parallel with eight-inch
guns in a position calculated to do immense mischief to
the enemy This operation should have been effected
on Monday night, but owing to the rain and the
state of the ground, it Was found imposeif.le to
effect the operation. His Excellency Omer Pasha visited
Lord Raglan to-day, and a council of war took Blasco at
head-quarters, at which the French Generals assisted.
The day was dark, and drizzling mists fell at intervals ;
in the early morning it rained heavily. A large convoy
was observed coming into Sebastopol to-slay from Sim-
pheropol. Several deserters came in from the town, but
they had no intelligence of importance to communicate.
An interpreter was taken up in one of our batteries on
I suspicion of being a spy, but was dischaaged on exami-
I cation at head-quarters.

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A letter from an officer of the French army be-
fore Sebastopol ; it is dated the 10th :
"God protect France ! The great duel between civili-
sation and barbarism has commenced. By the time this
letter reaches you the decisive blow will have been
struck. The weather was frightful yesterday. The wind
blew from the South with extreme violence, accompanied
by pelting rain, but we were ready. It was the date an-
nounced beforehand for the opening of the fire. At day
break 500 grins opened at the same time, and mingled
their thunders with the din of the tempest. Our fathers
have seen on the battlefields of the empire some hundreds
of cannon thunder for some hours; but these pieces did not
equal ours in calibre. To the soldiers of the Crimea only
it is given to see in line 1,200 guns, and to hear their
tremendous bellowing night and day. Yesterday the
wind drove tha rain on our backs ; the Rus4ian4 had it
was
full in their face. The fire, commenced at
dhaowunr,s
the
kept up with the greatest energy. For seorrese
periority
enemy replied vigorously. At 8 o'clock
was evident ; in the afternoon
the whole line, and towards evening they
we COMlTlsacla,,drecdeityhreeraplioedn
works of the
at all. During the nightt,ere of the
aellOythovtehrewhcietlymaenddwtihthe
Russians
shell and shot. Our cannonade continued, and the .
morning
, occupied in repairing their batteries and dressing
their wounded during the day, did not
o reply. Ina lanuta
)w, word,
the result of thi, first day was magnificent for us, and
our loss was comparatively insig;naifincad nltia. 0 Tehtis - •
the Russians *again commenced firing, at first sharply,
cat;sseaelfrtohe
tchoenhs
considerably
alb
lwritey
pi
lino see
it,
asm
steam up,
ytbileuesttirelrfide raaeny slackens,
see,
e: a
almostt silenced this evening,
the tent where I write you these hurried
esgailnlsni Knegt't to andand some are
ashtitphsiosfmthoemfieneettb,
not fail to take part in the Wit) move.
I suppose they will
Admiral Bruat and Admiral llf the 3,000 guns of
with ours, never did human Lyons mingle their roar
engineers recommenced their ear hear such a noise. The
lay-break our workmen approaches at night. At
place at some metres were under the walls of the
blood isdistance from the Russians. Our
up—and I
ines will probably do not think they can arrestM us.
think that the explode to sight or to-morrow, and
, enceinte,
will ~.. P
w exterior works, or rather the first
occupied. Large breaches were easily

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3.
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" What passions hurt the body—what improve.
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WEDNESDAY, April 11.

RuGB, r S cHooL.—Many Rugbeians are about to pub-
scribe fo r a memorial window in the school chapel at
Rugby t 0 th e memory of those of their Old schoolfellows
Who hay a 4 lieu ih the Crimea.

. .
Our men were not able to get the guns from which so
much is expected into position last night, owing princi-
pally, I believe, to the b s':y nature of the ground conga-

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"The boMbardment continues with more vigour than
probable,reevseirsat.gTacrinheneeogelpotfoofofsriistttiohhneecAßf
tained, that this last will be decisive. The Malakhoff
Tower, and the fortified height of the Mamelca, have
not replied with the energy expected from them. The
mistrust
tluihl
ins see
dit:hianeurs
Malakhoff
tyiihbaawcsu beenkeff.
luyn
wowseuceraaa
are
eieoul thisanygwtcompre-
hend abore:side.mp that
These symptoms of apparent feebleness have occasioned
the Russians were in the habit of firing ten shots for our
aomhneedenne'd the weakness withbut wthhaitchalilt wasour defended. It
illlt°srbeies-
thought that the approaches to that position are mined,
and this causes us to be prudentin the attack. Itisalmost
certain that the assault on the tower will not be
yainmstadthee Flagstaff Bastion, as they have been
havefdi omi rrmecsetotdemhidaeetaoeglh hours.alioe 0
fßt
ay
i,; takinging
by
y assaultthat P o st ihtenan first w e
enceinte
behind which we should have shelter from the fire of the
Malakhoff Tower, which would then be completely
rwwewould isolated.
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could
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ace
of, sf evidentthe
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enceinte;
ttee oefai
most
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rts
uaacatenr edi
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rested
tphoi
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town. Our Generals have the greatest confidence in the
bayonettdile ecAiedvte i
letevening,
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charges
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"tTeherpigriiant,cipf:rl
ietffiosrtnece f
estheary bombardment
that
on h
the position of the Malodor], and the works of the
Alalakhoff Tower or of the Flagstaff Bastion. After
half an hour's firing on both sides, three Russian
batteries have been completely silenced. The night
is coming on, and the fire still continues. I
gill
up all idea of attempting to describe to you the spec.
tacle presented to our eyes. The city is on fire in
s at
we
should
lids madecarry
several parts, and I cannot better compare these pro-
jectiles which cross each other in the air, and describe
thousands of carves within each other, than to the spouts
of flame from some gigantic firework. At daybreak the
fire will be still more energetic if possible. At 4 p.m.
the fire slackened in order to ascertain the results. It
appears from the official reports of the Engineers thit
two large breaches have been effected in the crenel-
lated wall of the town. The advanced works of the
Malakhoff Tower have been utterly dismantled in spite
of the batteries which defend it, and of which nine
guns have been dismounted. The tower itself is in a
very bad condition. These results being ascertained,
the fire recommences with vigour, and continues to the
moment at which I close this letter. I hope that my
next epistle will be dated from Sebastopol itself."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mails for her Majesty's land forces in Greece, Turkey,
and the Crimea, the fleet and vessels engaged in the
transport service in the Black Sea, and the medical staff
and sick and wounded in the hospitals at Scutari and
Smyrna, will be despatched to-morrow evening via Mar-
seillez. Letters, must be prepaid.
The paddlewheel steam-ship Hecla, 6, Commander
H. S. Hawker, from Gibraltar, which arrived in Ply-
mouth Sound on Tuesday morning, went into Hamoaze
in the afternoon, to have defects made good.
The steam-sloop Hecate, 6, Commander H. C. Glyn,
from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday,
bound for the coast of Africa.

The sailing transport Kent, Captain Vincent V.
Howes, embarked 24 men and 52 horses, 11th Hussars,
at Devonport on Tuesday, and sailed the same afternoon
for the Crimea.
We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth, that
the screw steamer Earl of Durham, Captain E. Thomas,
from the Crimea, arrived in Plymouth Sound 'yesterday
afternoon. She left Balaklava, March 25 ; Constanti-
nople, 30th ; Malta, 4th ; and Gibraltar, 18th ; and
spoke, on the 20th, 100 miles, east; of Cape St. Vin-
cent, the transport Bride, No. 27, from Malta for Lon-
don. The screw steam-ship Victoria, bound for Ply-
mouth, was coaling at Gibraltar. The Earl of Durham
is chartered by the North of Europe Company for the
railway expedition, and two of her consorts are hourly
expected at Plymouth—viz., the Hesperus, which left
Gibraltar on the 12th inst., and the Samuel Long, which
was coaling there on the 18th. The barque Meteor,
from Hull, with passengers for Quebec, was off Ply-
mouth, all well, on Tuesday.
The Russell, 60, screw block-ship, Captain F. Scott,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning and joined the
fleet. The Arthur the Great transport will embark her
troops and sail for the Cape of Good Hope this day. The
Carysfort, 26-gun frigate, which has been at Sconce
Point for some time as a berthing hulk for the artificers
employed upon the new works of defence there, has re-
turned to Portsmouth harbour. The Malacca., 17,
Captain Farquhar, remains in No. 2 Dock, refitting.
The Sampson and Polyphemus steam-vessels are refit-
ting in No. 3 and 4 Docks. The Bellerophon, 73,
Captain Lord George Paulet, is still returning stores
al,mvAe the dockyard. The h],-)lus shell magazine is
all ataunt in the fitting basin and taking in ballast, &c.,
prior to being reported for service. The Lancashire
Witch transport is expected at Portsmouth to-day to
embark cavalry for the East, consisting of two officers,
65 men, and 130 horses, of the Ist Dragoons, and 3 men
and 6 ht,rses of the 6th Dragoons.
The ships Onward and Lady Russell wen- towed out of
Kingstown harbour on Tuesday. The w:_vd, however,
n,,t being favourable for the passage down Channel, both
vessels came to anchor outside. The Zebra has not yet
completed her mires, nor finished taking in her cargo.
She will car.y out 400 tons of peat charcoal, to be ap-
plied to ,aniutry purposes in the Crimean camp.
' The fnliok‘ing appointments have been inane :
Commander— e'a'ter Ivrirf, to the Sanspareil.
Lieutenant—Herbert 'W. Wilberforce, from the Tra-
falgar to the Hastings.
Assistant-Surgeons—David Courtenay has been con-
firmed to the Driver; Benjamin Crabbe has been con-
firmed to the Miranda.

Acting Assistant-Surgeon—John Lomax, to the Ho-
ratio.

Naval Cadets—F. D. Foster, to the Pembroke ; W.
G. R. Gipps, to the Retribution.

Midshipman—The Hon. B. Vivian, to the Duke of
Wellington flagship, as supernumerary for disposal.
The Household Brigade on actual service in the
Crimea, consisting of the 3d battalion of the Grenadiers,
the Ist battalion of the Coldstreams, and the Ist bat-
talion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, is, it is stated, to be
augmented by a battalion of ten companies of 100 men
each. The Ist battalion of the Grenadiers, quartered in
the Tower, it is believed will be that selected, the defi-
ciency in its numerical strength to be made up by volun-
teers from the 2d battalion of Grenadiers, the 2d batta-
lion of Coldstreams, the 2d battalion of Scots Fusiliers,
and from regiments of the line and militia. The four
battalions quartered in die metropolis can now muster
upwards of 1,600 disciplined men, in addition to nearly
400 recruits at drill. The 96th Regiment of Foot,
quartered at Chichester, which recently arrived from
Bengal, will, as soon as augmented, relieve the 94th
Regiment at Windsor, which corps will proceed to the
seat of war. The 96th Foot is now scarcely 300 strong,
a large number having volunteered for other regiments
serving in India previous to the regiment embarking for
Europe. The 51st King's Own Light Infantry is to be
completed to 1,200 strong, for immediate service in the
Crimea.
The 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons, which was ac-
tively engaged in the Affghanistan campaign, and now
quartered in Manchester, the 7th Hussars, which repi•
went returned from Canada in 1843, quartered at pre-
sent in York, and the 16th Royal Lancers, the heroes of
Affghanistan and the Punjab, stationed in. Cahir (Ire-
land), are each ordered to be increased to 10 troops of 80
men each, exclusive of farriers and trumpeters, and to be
held in readiness to proceed on foreign service.
Captain Lord Walter Butler, who is at present in Lon-
don, has received a month's extension of his leave of ab-
sence, in consequence of ill health.
A large draught of the 2d Queen's Royal Regiment,
consisting of six officers and 192 men, left Waterford on
Monday for Cork, whence they will embark to join the
service companies at the Cape of Good Hope.

THE MILITIA.
Arms Ilve now been received from Government suf-
ficient for the Kilkenny Fusiliers when raised to their
full complement of 719 men, a period which must be
deemed rather remote if the men continue to volunteer
into the line as fast as they have done hitherto.
The North Down niflesi whose head-quarters is New'
townards, now number 650 men, in 8 comp
oing ileduty at
The Hampshire Artillery Militia. lately d
Woolwich under the command of Lieut.-Col. Burnaby,
left the garrison at 6 a.m. on Wednesday,
and p
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