The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1855.

THE ATTACK OF THE 18th JUNE.

(From the Specal Correspondent of the Times.)

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 20.
It is but natural that the attack of the allies on the
;principal points of the Russian defences should now be
scrutinised in all its details, and, as it has failed, that the
plan of that attack should be severely criticised and un-
sparingly censured. It is certainly true that, in some re-
Teets, these details Were imperfect. As an example of
:,his imperfection, it is stated that the supports were too
' distant from the attacking parties; that proper care was
tot taken to prevent the men becoming confused and losing
their way in the labyrinth of works before the Redan ;
that no steps were formed above the berm of the parapet,
so that the men could step over in order ; that the attack-
ing parties were too weak, and that the mon were crowded
into narrow works and trenches which could not afford
them cover, and were difficult of access and exit. It is,
moreover, affirmed that no proper instructions were given
to the artillery for their guidance in the event of success
or defeat, and that it was only when the Russians had
crowded over their parapets and through their embrasures,
and had been shooting down our men for some time on
their retreat, that an artillery officer obtained permission
From Lord Raglan to open fire upon their lines ; that no
directions were addressed even to the ambulance corps
with respect to locality or action, and that many minor
points of some importance were also neglected ; but the
gravest (bares) of all is that the success of the assault was
compromised by the facility with which Lord Raglan
yielded to General Pelissier's request, and late on the even-
ing of the 17th altered the arrangements for the following
morning. As to the propriety of General Pelissier's views
in making that request there is scarcely a difference
of opinion in this army. If tiro Russians were indeed
about to assault the Hamden before dawn he would
have been prepared for them With overwhelming num- '
bers, could have decimated them as they retreated with
his artillery, and could have immediately attacked a
position held by a beaten and dispirited enemy. If
,they were not prepared to attack the Mamelon, but .were
prepared to resist us, the original' plan of bombarding them
for three hours before we attacked could not have failed
to drive them from tier works under cover, and to slay
great numbers of them. that plan was perfectly successful
in the attack on the Mamelon, which was easily taken
after a fierce cannonade in the open day, which drove the
enemy out of the works. Although we had silenced many
guns in the Redan, we had not silenced all, nor had we
touched the ships' batteries ; and Prince Gortschalsoff tells
as daily, and as we find truly, " The damage does to us
by day we repair at night." We never searched out the
strength of the Redan on that morning, and the Russians
alight have—for all we know and know, replaced every in-
jured gun, and have had the battery in as good order as
when we opened fire. We were certain of success. Sir
George Brown, inflated by the bloodless conquest of Kertch
and Yenikale, directed the operations as if the garrison of
Sebastopol were a body of serf-militia. A private memo-
randum was sent round the night before the attack to
officers commanding regiments, &c., to request them to
keep their men in order, and to make them observe silence
" when they got inside the Redan till the enemy were en-
tirely subdued." It does not appear why there was no
attack on the Russian works on our left. Ode would cer-
tainly have thought that even a feint by the French against
the Flagstaff Batteries would have been attended with ad-
vantage. However, these are points beyond my province,
and I shall stop here, with the assurance that I am ex-
pressing the opinions of others, and am not hazarding any
one statement of any own on a subject of such vast im-
portance to forget that 'memorable morning as it is hopeless
to attempt to describe what occurred.
In my former letter, written hastily and under the de-
pression of our ill success, I could not do more than give
a very meagre sketch of what took place, and I am not
now able to amend my defects. It will be remembered that
the plan of attack originally proposed was that the allies
were to open a cannonade for three hours on the Malakhoff
and Redan after dawn on the morning of the 18th ; that
the French were to assault the Malakhoff, and that when
they had gained possession of it wo were to attack the Re-
dan. As the latter work is commanded by the former, it
would not be possible to carry or to hold it till the Mala-
khoff was taken. Soon after 12 o'clock the attacking party
moved down from camp and took ground is the trenches
under the direction of Major Halliwell, the Deputy-As-
sistant Quartermaster-General of the Division. The Se-
cond Division was on their left, the Fourth Division on
the left of the Second Division, and the Third Division on
the extreme left. The movement was simultaneous, and
the troops moved off together till they came into the
trenches, from which they were to issue forth to attack
the dark wall of earth serrated with embrasures before
them.

These embrasures were only too well filled. Tho fire
which we opened on Sunday morning preliminary to the
assault was marked by great energy, weight, and destruc-
tiveness. In the first relief the Quarry Battery, com-
manded by Major Strange, threw no less than 300 8-inch
shells into the Roden, which is only 400 yards distant, and
the place must here been nearly cleared by the incessant
storm of iron splinters which flew through it. So near are
the works that fragments of our 13-inch shells fly back
front the Redan into the Quarry Battery, and on some oc-
casions our men have been injured by the splinters of their
own shells, which have radiated from the inside of the
Russian batteries. Throughout Sunday our artillery fired
12,000 rounds of the heaviest ordnance into the enemy's
lines, and on the following day we fired 11,945 rounds of
shot and shell. The Russian fire was weak and wild. Al-
though they fired a good deal, they kept many pieces
masked, and one six-gun and one eight-gun battery on the
flanks of the Redan were silent, and were left compara-
tively unnoticed by our artillerymen. The only damage
they did by all their fire throughout the whole of Sunday
was the demolition of the wheel of a gun carriage. Had
the three hours' cannonade and bombardment which Lord
Raglan decided on administering to the Russian batteries
before we assaulted been delivered to them, it is very pro-
bable that we should have found but a small body of
troops prepared to receive us at the parapets 7 • and it must
be esteemed a very unfortunate circumstance that his lord-
ship was induced to abandon his intention in deference to
the wishes of General Pelissier. General Pelissier, in re-
questing the English General to change the original plan
of attac and to forestall the hour which was at first
agreed upon, is not stated to have assigned any specific
reason for the alteration, but it is reported that he wished
to anticipate the enemy, who were about, as ho was in-
formed, to make an assault on the Mamelon. Ho felt, ton,
that the masses of French whom he had prepared coule
not be concealed from the Russians for any length of time,
and that they would soon be revealed by the noise which
always attends the movements of large bodies of men. It
would, indeed, have been impossible conceal the fact of
the accumulation of so many battalions close to the Male-
khoff, and their presence would have been indicated cer-
tainly as soon as dawn, and probably earlier.
The Russian column which is said to have issued from
llalakhoff just before our assault, to attack the Mamelon,
was certainly so small that it was, according to some,
merely intended as a feint to draw out the French and lead
them to the assault, for which the enemy were only too
well prepared.
As the 34th Regiment advanced, the supports, by some
means or another, got mixed together with them, and some
confusion arose in consequence. On crossing the trench
'our men, instead of coming upon the open in a firm body,
were broken into twos and threes. This arose from the
want of a temporary step above the berm, which would
have enabled the troops to cross the parapet with regu-
larity; instead of which they had to scramble over it as
well as they could ; and, as the top of the trench is of un-
equal height and form, their line was quite broken. The
moment they came out from the trench the enemy began
to direct on their whole front a deliberate and well-aimed
ntitraille, which increased the want of order and unsteadi-
ness caused by the mode of their advance. Poor Colonel
Yea saw the consequences too clearly. Having in vain
tried to obviate the evil caused by the broken formation
and confusion of his men, who were falling fast around
him, he exclaimed, " This will never do ! Where's the
bugler to call them back ?" But alas ! at that critical
moment no bugler was to be found. The gallant old sol-
dier, by voice and gesture, tried to form and compose his
men, but the thunder of the enemy's guns close at hand
and the gloom of the early dawn frustrated his efforts ;
and as he rushed along the troubled mass of troops which
were herding together under the rush of grape, and en-
deavoured to get them into order for a rush at the bat-
teries, which was better than standing still, or retreating
in a panic, a charge of the deadly missile passed, and the
noble old soldier fell in advance of his men, struck at once
in head and stomach by grape shot.' The division has lost
upwards of 320 men killed and wounded, and it suffered
severely as it retired from the futile attack. The signal for
our assault was to be given by the discharge of two service
rockets, which were to have been fired when the French
got into the Malakhoff, and the latter were to havehoisted
a flag as a signal of their success.
It is certain that the French did for a short time esta-
blish themselves in the Malakhoff, but they were soon ex-
pelled with loss, and I saw with my own eyes a large tri-
angular blue and black flag waving from the Malakhoff all
during the fight. The moment the rockets were fired the
Light Division rushed out of cover ; in a quarter of an
hour this infantry Balaklava was over, so far as any chance
of success was concerned. The Second Division, seeing
that the flank attacks failed, wisely kept under cover, and
suffered but a trifling loss. Had they foolishly advanced,
we should have to deplore greater and more useless
slaughter. The 41st, under Lieutenant-Colonel Eman, were
to form the assaulting party. Captain Mauleverer, of the
30th Regiment, commanded the working party. The 2d
Battalion Royals was to follow the 41st, and with the 55th
was to form a supporting party, while the 49th and 47th
were in reserve, and the 62d were to fnrnish men for car-
rying woolpacks and ladders. They were marched off and
took ground, guided by Captain Layard, and were formed
in the old advanced parallel, next to the Quarry, and re-
mained there till the attack failed. The Fourth Division
were guided clown by their active Quartermaster-General
Colonel Wyndham, and took ground in the trench to the
left, but it would seem as if they attacked a little too near
the apex of the Redan- Poor Sir John Campbell seems to
have displayed a courage amounting to rashness. He sent
away Captain Hume and Captain Snodgrass, his aide-do-
camp, just before he rushed out of the trench, as if averse
to bring them into the danger ho meditated, and fell in the
act of cheering on his men. I have in my former letter
stated the losses of the Fourth Division, and the part they
took in the fight, dreadful and useless as it was. The 57th,
out of 400 men, had more than a third killed and wounded,
and it became evident that the contest on the left was as
hopeless as the fight on the right, and in fifteen minutes
all was over.
The brigade under Major-General Eyre, which was des-
tined to occupy the Cemetery, and to carry the Barrack
Batteries, consisted of the 9th Regiment, 18th Regiment,
28th Regiment, 38th Regiment, and 44th Regiment. Four
volunteers were selected from each company to form an
advanced party, under Major Fielden, of the 44th Regi-
ment, to feel the way and cover the advance. The 18th
Royal Irish followed as the storming regiment. The bri-
gade was turned out at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to march
down the road on the left of the Greenhill battery to the
Cemetery, and halted under cover while the necessary dis-
positions were being made for the attack. General Eyre,
addressing the 18th, said, "I hone, my men, this morning
sou will do something that will make every cabin in
Ireland sing again'!" The reply was a loud cheer, which
instantly drew on the men a shower of grape. The skir-
mishers advanced just as the general attack began, and,
with some French on their left, rushed at the Cemetery,
which was very feebly defended, They got pomenion of

the place after a slight resistance, with small loss, and took
some prisoners, but the moment the -enemy retreated their
batteries cpened a heavy fire on the place from the left of
the Roden and from the Barrack Battery. Four companies
of the 18th at once rushed on out of the Cemetery towards
the town, and actually succeeded in getting possession of
the suburb. Captain Hayman .vas gallantly leading on
his company when he was shot thr6ugh the knee. Capt.
Esnionde followed, and the men, once established,'prepared
to defend the houses they occupied. As they drove the
Russians out, they were pelted with large stones by the
latter on their way up to the battery, :Isiah quite over-
hangs the suburb. The Russians could not depress their
guns sufficiently to fire down on our men; but they directed
a severe flanking, fire on them from an angle,of the Redan
works. There was nothing for it but to keep up a vigo-
rous fire from the houses, and to delude the enemy into the
belief that the occupiers were more numerous than they
were. Meantime the Russians did their utmost to blow
down the houses with shot and shell, and fired grape in-
cessantly, but the soldiers kept close, though they lost
men occasionally, and they were most materially aided by
the fire of the regiments in the Cemetery behind them,
which was directed at the Russian embrasures ; so that
the enemy could not get out to fire down on the houses be-
low. Some of the houses were comfortably furnished.
One of them was as well fitted up as most English man-
sions, the rooms full of fine furniture, a piano in the draw-
ioeb-room, and articles of luxury and taste not deficient.
Our men unfortunately found that the cellars were
not empty, and that there was abundance of
tins muscat wino from the south coast •of the
Crimea, and of the stronger wines, perfumed with
roses and mixed with fruits, which are grown to
the interior, in the better sort of houses. Some of the
officers, when they went away, carried off articles of cloth-
ing and papers as proofs of their entrance into the place,
and some others took away pigeots and guineapigs which
were tame in the houses. The troops entered the place
about 4 o'clock in the morning, and could not leave it till
9 o'clock in the evening. The Russians 'blew up many of
the houses and set fire to others, and when our men re-
tired the flames were spreading along ilseht. treet. Th% 18th
Regiment lost 250 men, In the middle of the day Captain
Esmonde wrote. to General Eyre to say that he required
support, that the men were short of ammunition, and that
the rifles were clogged. The rifles, which were of the En-
field pattern, had been only served to the regiment the
day before, and again it was found that these admirable
weapons are open to the grave defect which has been so
frequently mentioned, and that they aro liable to become
useless after firing 20 rounds. A sergeant volunteered to
creep back wish this letter, but, when he reached the
place where the general ought to have been, he found that
he had been obliged to withdraw owing to his wound,
and he therefore delivered the document to Colonel Ed-
wardes. As there was no possibility of getting support
down to the troops, Colonel Klaaardes crept down along
with the sergeant and got into the houses to see how
matters were going on. The officer in command, on learn
ing tho state, of the case, ordered the men to keep up the
hottest fire they could ; and meantime they picked up the
rifles and ammunition o f the killed and wounded, and
were by that means enabled to continue their fusillade.
The 9th Regiment succeeded in effecting a lodgment in the
houses in two or three different places, and held their posi-
tion, as well as the 18th. A sergeant and a handful of
men actually got possession of the Etas Wasp Battery, in
which there were only 12 or 14 Russian artillerymen. They
fled on the approach of our men, but when the latter turned
round they discovered they were unsipported ; and the
Russians seeing that the poor fellows were left alone,
came down on them and drove them out of the battery.
An officer and half-a-dozen men of the same regiment got
up close to a part of the Flagstaff Battery, and were ad-
vancing into it, when they, acs, saw that they were by
themselves, and, as it was futile to attmapt holding their
ground, they retreated. About 15 French soldiers on
their left aided them, but as they were likewise unsup-
pasted they hau to retire. Another officer with only 12
men, took one of the Russian Rifle Pits, bayonetted those
they found in it, and held possession of it throughout the
day, Meanwhile, while these portions of the sth and 18th
and parties of the 44th and 28th were h the houses, the
detachments of the same regiments and of the 38th kept
up a hot fire frcm the Cemetery on tie Russians in the
battery, and on the sharpshooters, al the time being ex-
posed to a tremendous shower of bulets, grape, round
shot, and shell. The loss of the brisade, under such cir-
cumstances, could not but be extremety severe. One part
of it, separated from the other, was exposed to a destruc-
tive fire in houses, the upper portico of which crumbled
into pieces or fell in under fire, and ii was only by keep-
ing in the lower storey, which was !milted and well-built,
that they were enabled to hold theis own. The other
parts of it, far advanced from our batteries, were almost
unprotected, and wore under a constant mitraille and
bombardment from guns which our bilteries had failed to
touch. The total number of killed 'rid wounded in the
Brigade was, up to the last returns I could see, 107 killed,
552 wounded—total, 659.
General Eyre has issued the following order :
" SECOND BRIGADE ORDERS, TIIRD DIVISION.

" June 19.

" The Major-General commandinc the brigade re-
quests that the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men
will accept his thanks for their condun yesterday. He can-
not sufficiently express his admiratim of their coolness,
gallantry, and discipline during a rust trying day. He
must tender his thanks to the medical department for their
judicious arrangements to provide for the wounded, which
arrangements were most successful. To Assistant-Sur-
geon Gibbons, 44th Regiment, and (1-eeves, 38th Regi-
ment, especially, much praise is due far their zealous and
humane exertions in the field, while exposed to a galling
fire from the enemy."

The detachment; from the hard-waking and little no-
ticed Naval Brigade consisted of fotr parties of 60 man
each, one for each colu:nn, but onl3 two of them went
out, the other two being kept in reserve ; they were told
off to carry scaling-ladders and wc.elbacrs' and to place
them for our storming parties. It lE not be wondered
at if they suffered severely. On tha' eventful day 14 men
were killed and 47 were wounded. When the men re-

treated, overwhelmed by the storm tom the enemy's bat-
tery, several officers and men were left behind wounded,
and endured fearful agonies for hours, without a cup of
water or a Cheering voice to comfort them. Lieutenant
Eriniston lay for 5 hours under the abattis of the Redan,
and was reported dead, but ho watched his opportunity,
and got away with only a contusicn of the knee. Mr. Ken-
nedy, senior mate of the London, and of the Naval Bri-
gade, was also left behind close to tLe abattis, and after
several hours of painful concealment he rolled himself over
and over like a ball down the declivity, and managed to
get into the trench. Lieut. Kidd came in all safe, and
was receiving the congratulations of a brother officer,
when ho saw a wounded soldier lying out in the open- He
at once exclaimed—" We must go and save and
leapt over the parapet iu order to do so. He had scarcely
gone a yard when he was shot through the breast and died
in an hour after.

from the sun, or keeping watch over the eternal pot-au feu,
making delicious coffee with the rudest apparatus, smoking
or taikieg gravely. Yes, for a wonder, the men are grave,
and look almost sullen, but they are merely thoughtful, and
thinking of the comrades whose bodies they will soon have
to inter, for you will find them courteous anti proMpt, to
give you a drink of muddy water, or a light for a cigar, or
any information they can afford. By the side of this ravine
—your horse must needs tread on them, if you are not
careful in guiding him—is many an humble mound, some
marking the resting-place of individual soldiers, others
piled over one of those deep pits where rank and file lie in
their common glory covered with lime, and marked now
and then with a simple wooden cross. Our Protestant
feelings reed not be outraged by the fact that this emblem
of the old Christian world is not confined to the graves of
Roman Catholics, but that the desire to secure for the re-
mains of their comrades repose in their testiteaplaces here-
after has induced many soldiers to erect thel cross above
those melancholy mounds, knowing that the Russians will
respect it. In other turns in the ravine you will find
mules with litters for the wounded, and ambulances, and
the horses of the Land Transport Corps waiting for their
burden. English and French are mixed together. I saw
in one place two of our men, apart from the rest, with me-
lancholy faces. " What are you waiting here for ?" said
I. " To go out for the Colonel, sir." was the reply. "What
Colonel 1" " Why, Colonel Yea, to be sure, sir,"
said the goad fellow, who was evidently surprised at my
thinking there could be any other colonel in the world.
And indeed the Light Division will feel his loss. Under
occasional brusqueness of manner he concealed a most
kind heart, and a more thorough soldier, one more devoted
to his men, to the service, and to his country, never fell in
battle than Lacy Yea. I have reason to know that he felt
his great services and his arduous exertions had not been
rewarded as .he had a right to expect. At the Alma he
never went back a step, and there were tears in his eyes
on that eventful afternoon as he exclaimed to me, when
the men had formed on the slope of the hill after the re-
treat of the enemy, " There ! look there ! that's all that
remains of my poor Fusiliers ! A colour's missing, but,
thank God, no Russians have it !" Throughout the winter
his attention to his regiment was exemplary. They were
the first who had hospital huts. When other regiments
were in need of every comfort, and almost of every neces-
sary, the Fusiliers, by the care of their colonel, had every-
thing that could be procured by exertion and foresight.
Ho never missed a turn of duty in the trenches, except for
a short time, when his medical attendant had to use every
effort to induce him to go on board ship to save his life.
At Inkc rman his gallantry was conspicuous. What did he
get for it all ? He and Col. Egerton are now gone, and
there remains in the Light Division but ono officer of the
same rank who stands in the same case as they did. Is
there nothing to be done for the colonels? No recognition
of their services ? No decorations ? No order of merit ?
Just as one is thinking of these things, a French officer
passes by with two orderlies after him. He is about 35
years, of age, and yet his embroidered sleeves and his cap
snow he is colonel of a regiment, and his breast is covered
with riband, and star and cross. Oar colonels had
entered the service ere this young man, who has won
nearly all his honours in campaigns ag.iust Ben Some-
thing or other iu Africa, was born. Let us get on, for the
subject is unpleasant. You are now close to the Mamelon,
and the frequent reports of rifles and the pinging of the
I balls close to you prove that the flag of truce has not yet
been hoisted by the enemy. We are now in the zigzag, a
ditch about 6 feet broad and 6 feet deep, with the earth
knocked about by shot at the sides, and we meet French-
men laden with water canteens or carrying large tin cans
full of coffee, and tins of meat and soup, ready cooked, up
to the Mamelon. They are cooked in the ravine close at
hand, and taken up in messes to the men on duty. The
Mamelou rises before us, a great quadrangular work on
the top of a mound or hill opposite Malakhoff, which is
about 500 yards nearer to Sebastopol. The sides are
formed of enormous parapets with a steep slope, and they
bear many traces of our tremendous fire on them before
the Mamelon was taken.
The parapets are high inside the work, and are of a pro-
digious thickness. It was evident the Mamelon was over-
done by the Russians. It was filled with huge traverses,
anti covers, and excavations inside, so that it was impos-
sible to put a large body of men into it, or to get them
into order in case of an assault. The interior is like a
quarry, so torn is it and blown up with shells. IThe stench
is fearful. It arises from the dead Russians, who were
buried as they fell, and bones, and arms, and legs stick
out from the piles of rubbish on which you are treading.
Many guns also were buried here when they were disabled
by our fire, but they do not decompose so rapidly as poor
mortality. I was shown here one of those extraordinary
fougasses, or small mines, which are exploded on the
touch of the foot, and whichi the Russians planted thickly
about their advanced works. If a person steps on it he
bends the tin tube, and breaks the glass tube inside.
Combustion instantly takes place, the mine explodes, and
not only destroys everything near it, but throws out a
quantity of bitumen.. with which it is coated, in a state
of ignition, so as to burn whatever it rests upon. Later
in the day I very nearly land a practical experience of
the working of these mines, for an English sentry,
who kindly warned me off, did not indicate the exact
direction till he found he was in danger of my firing it,
when he became very communicative on the subject. One
of them blew up during the armistice, but I don't know
what damage it did. We have lost several men by them.
The white flat, was hoisted from the Redan just as I turned
into the second English parallel on my left, where it joins
the left of the French right. The Russians threw out a
long line of sentries along their works in front of the o.hat-
tie which guards them, and at the same time we advanced
another line of sentries opposite the Redan, and the French
a similar cordon before the Mamelon. The officers on duty
hastened to the intermediate space, and the burying and
searching parties came out on their sad duty. The Quar-
termaster-General and his staff were on the spot, and every
precaution was taken to keep officers and men from crowd-
ing about. The men in the trenches were enjoined not to
get up on the parapets or into the embrasures, or to look
over. All officers and men not on duty were stopped by
the cavalry a mile behind or at the boyaux in the trenches.
The Russians seemed to be under restraint also, but they
crowded on the top of the Redan and of the Malakhoff
parapets, and watched the proceedings with great interest.
I walked out of the trench unmolested on the right and
rear of the Quarries, under the Redan, in which we have
now established a heavy battery at the distance of 400
yards from the enemy's embrasures, The ground slopes
down from our attack for some few hundred yards and
then rises again to the Redan. It is covered with long rank
grass and weeds, with large stones, with tumuli, alas ! of
recent formation, and with holes ranging in depth from
3:e feet or 4 feet to a foot, and in diameter from 5
feet to 7 or 8 feet, where shells have fallen and ex-
ploded. It is impossible to give a notion of the man-
ner in which the earth is scarred by these explo-
sions, and by the passage of shot. The grass, too,
is seamed in all directions by grapeshot, and fur-
rowed by larger missiles, as if ploughs, large and
small, had been constantly drawn over it. Some times it
is difficult to get over the inequalities in the ground, which
is• naturally of a broken and uneven surface. There is a
red jacket, in the grass—a private of the 34th is lying on
his face as if he were fast asleep; his rifle, with the barrel
curved quite round, and bent nearly in two by the grape-
shot which afterwards passed, through the soldier's body,
is under him, and the right band, which protrudes from
under his chest, still clutches the stock. it was the first
body I saw, and the nearest to our lines, but as we ad-
vanced and passed the sentries they lay thick enough around
and before him. The litter-bearers were already busy.
Most of our dead seemed to lielclose to the abattis of the
Redan, and many, no doubt, had been dragged up to it at
night for plunder's sake. Colonel Yea's body was found
near the abattis on the right of the Redan ' • his boots and
epaulettes were gone, but otherwise his clothing was un-
touched. His head was greatly swollen, and his features,
and a fine manly face it had been, were nearly undistin-
guishable. Colonel Shadforth's remains were discovered
in a similar state. The shattered frame of Sir John
Campbell lay close up to the abattis. His sword and boots
were taken, but the former is said to be in the Light Di-
vision Camp. It is likely he was carried away from the
spot where he fell up to the ditch of the abattis for the
facility of searching the body, as he could not have got so
far in advance as the place where he lay. Already his
remains were decomposing fast, and his face was much
disfigured. Captain Hume, his attached aide-do-camp,
had the body removed, and this evening it was interred on
Cathcart's-hill—his favourite resort, where every one was
sure of a kind word and a cheerful saying from the gallant
Brigadier. It was but the very evening before his death
tha I saw him standing within a few feet of his own grave.
He had come to the ground in order to attend the funeral
of Captain Vaughan, an officer of his own regiment (the
38th), who died of wounds received two days previously
in the trenches, and he laughingly invited one who was
talking to him to come and lunch with him next day at
the Clubhouse of Sebastopol. I must close here for the
present.
Although the army has been disappointed by the result
of the attack on the Redan and Malakhoff, it has not de-
spaired—it does not despair of the result of this weary
siege. It is not too much to say that General Jones, our
chief engineer, expects nothing of importance to be
achieved for several, many, weeks to come—that Sir
George Brown is wiser and more discreet, and Lord Rag-
lan less sanguine and more perturbed than they have been
for some time past. Our Land Transport Corps is so
hardly pressed by the service of the Siege Artillery that,
as I am informed, the ration of fuel has been, on several
occasions, recently not forthcoming for the troops to the
full amount.

(From the Daily News Special Correspondent.)
HEIGHTS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 21,

The original plan of attack contemplated a joint English
and French assault of the Malakhoff, which as command-
ing the Redan and forming the grand key to the whole
network of redoubts and batteries in front of the place,
would, if taken, have at once rendered the former unte-
nable, and placed the whole town and harbour at the
mercy of the captors. For reasons, however, which no-
body can understand, this very sensible and apparently
most practicable design was abandoned, and the plan was
changed into one of a simultaneous attack of the t vo
great works—the Malakhoff being undertaken by the
French and the Redan by ourselves. The first manifest
disadvantage of this arrangement was the spreading of our
forces over a field of difficulties nearly double in extent,
and enabling the enemy to bring a vast number of guns
into play against us, which, in the former case, could not
have injured a man. To vastly enhance the chances of
failure involved in this plan to ourselves, our whole attack-
ing force, including supports and everybody else, was
limited to some four thousand men ; whilst the French,
with a much juster appreciation of the difficulty that fell
to their share, told off twenty-five thousand. Of our
handful, again, a large proportion consisted of raw re-
cruits, recently arrived to fill up the gaps in the regiments
selected for the service—regiments which, with one or
two exceptions, have borne the whole brunt of our trench
fighting, and suffered accordingly. This was done
through no want of old soldiers, of whom the third
and fourth divisions could have furnished abundance—
men who have been kept comparatively idle whilst their
comrades of the. Light and Second Divisions have been
worked like galley-slaves. Sir George Brown, I believe,
is to be thanked for this selection ; anxious as he was to
gain fresh laurels for his own command, though he well
knew the untried materiel of which so large a proportion
of its strength is composed. I have already mentioned
that the 23d Regiment had been chosen to lead the attack,
and that, through a similar motive of mistaken desire to
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