The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-27 00:00:00

the interior of the work ; they held their ground on this
fast-sinking parapet of loose earth, stones, arid broken
gabions, ender a most fire from both flanks and in
front, and continuous showers of vertical grape, from inside
the work, for an hour and a half at least, when a sudden
rash, made by the enemy, who bad crept up the faces by
the traverses, obliged the troops to retire, and step bystep,
pelting each other with huge stones, they retired,
slipping and tumbling into the ditch, where many
poor fellows were buried alive, from the scarps giving
way. Then came the fearful run for life and death,
with men rolling over like rabbits, then tumbling into
the English trench, where the men lay faur deep on
each other. The men once in tvanned the parapet, and
kept up a heavy and continuous fire on the enemy
on the parapets of the Red. n. The rest you know.
The Rifles, as usual, behaved nobly, and where they
bad tried to creep up the ditch to pick off the Rus-
sians on the flanks they lay four and five deep, all
together. Colonel Lysons, of the 23d, as usual, was
ail energy, and, though severely wounded through
the thigh and unable to stand, remained on the
ground cheering on the men and giving directions to
the last. Cal. Handcock, of the 97th, was shot through
the head on the crest of the Redan, and died soon after
arricing in camp. Captain Preston, and Lieutenants
Swift and Wilmer, of the 90th, were all killed inside,
where their bodies were found next morning. Captain
Vaughan, of the 90th, whose conduct was beyond praise,
was shot in both legs severely, and taken prisoner
when we left the place, it being impossible to get him
over the ditch. He was found in a Russian hospital to-
day, and brought to camp. Colonel 'Windham was most
energetic in striving to keep down the fire of the flanks
after the first retrogression, and stood where the
fire was hottest, trying to force a few men to make
an attack on them ; but so dense was the fire that
the men were mowed down as fast as a handful could
be got together. He was backwards and forwards,
cheering, directing, &c. ; but a formed body of men
alone could be of service, a(id that could not be
got. Lieutenant and Adjutant Dyneley, of the 23d.
Fusileers, was so severely wounded that he is since
dead—a most excellent officer, and a great loss to the
regiment and the service. Individual deeds of daring
were too frequent to particularize. The first dead Rus-
sian on the extreme salient was a Russian officer shot
through the mouth, a singularly handsome man, with
bands and feet white and delicate as a woman's. I
won't trust myself to returas. The fire of our artillery
bad been splendid, as the number of broken guns
proved."

DETAILED REPORT OF MARSHAL

PELISSIER.

The Moniteur contains the following report ad-
dressed to the Minister of War by the Marshal
Commanding in Chief the Army of the East :
" HEAD-QUARTERS, SEBASTOPOL, Sept. 14, 1855.
" M. le Marecbal,—l have the honour to address to
your excelle.icy, as I announced to you iu my despatch
of the 11th, my report on the capture by assault of
Sebastopol.
"The moment for that assault appeared to have
arrived. To the left the engineer works had reached for
some time within from 30 to 40 yards of the Flagstaff
Battery (No. 4 of the Russians), and the Central Bastion
(No. 5 of the Russians.) To the rigbt our roadway,
actively pushed under the protection of a sustained fire
from the artillery, opened upon the 17th, were not more
than 25 yards from the salient of the Malakhoff and the
Little Redan of the Careening Bay. Our artillerists had
nearly finished 100 batteries in a complete state pro-
vided with every necessary, and presented a body of 250
guns to the attacks of the left, and 250 to those of the
right. On their side the English, although greatly
arrested in their course by the difficulties of the ground,
had arrived within 200 yards of the Great Roden (Bas-
tion No. 3of the Russians), upon which they directed
the fire of 200 guns placed en. batterie. The Russians,
using their time profitably, raised on the side of the
Malakhoff a second entrenchment, -which it was import-
ant that they should ❑ot be allowed to finish. In fine,
the army that came to the succour of the enemy was
completely beaten on the IGth at Tcbernaya. They had
suffered considerable losses, and it was not probable that
they would come again to renew a❑ attack on points
which we had rendered stronger, and where we were
enabled to repulse all the efforts of the enemy.
"It was then agreed between General Simpson and
myself that we should make the decisive attack. The
generals commanding the artillery and engineers of the
two armies were unanimously of the some opinion. The
Bth September was fixed for that attack.

" Thus, as I have already had the honour to inform
your excellency, the enemy ought to be attacked on the
principal points of this vast fortress, in order to prevent
him from directing all his reserves against a single point
of attack, and to cause him anxiety respecting the town,
upon which abutted the bridge by which he would be
able to"effect his retreat. General de Sallee, with the
Ist corps, reinforced with a Sardinian brigade, which had
been offered to me by General de la Marmora, was to
attack the town on our left ; in the centre the English
were to take possession of the Great Redan ; and on our
right General Bosqu,-t was to attack the Malakhoff and
the Little Redan of Careening Bay (Bastion No. 4 of the
Russians), these being salients of the fortress of Kara-
belnaia.