The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

LON/2)0-N, MONDAY EVENING2-JUNE 1855.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, June 9
My letter was scarcely despatched this morning when
a white flag on the Round Tower and another on the
left, announced that the Russians had a petition to make.
It was a grave one to make in the middle of a fierce
bombardment with events hanging in the balance, and
success, perhaps, depending upon the passing inoeienta ;
but made it was, and granted. From 1 o'clock until G
in the evening no shot was fired on either side, while
the dead bodies which strewed the hill between the
Marnelen and the Round Tower, or remained in front
(If the Quarries, were removed from the field
of slaughter. Both of the French and of the
Russians there were large numbers scattered
over the ground of the chief conflict ; among the
former a large proportion were swarthy indigenes
of Arab blood, or, as they are popularly termed by
the French soldiers, Turco?, and to their contingent
of the killed some were added from the very inside of the
Malakhoff, showing how near the impromptu attack was
delivering the place into our hands. Of the Russians
there still lay upon the spot some 209 corpse 4, a suffi-
cient testimony to the severity of their losses in the
struggle. Among the dead there was observed by one
of our sergeants, also engaged in the task of seeking
them, one partially in English and partially in Russian
accoutrements. In the language which custom has
stereotyped he pointed the attention of the Russian bury-
ing party to the body,- and said, "No Inglis," " Russ ;"
"No Russ," " Inglis," was the reply ; but a further exa-
mination of the uniform strengthened the impression that
it could be no other than a deserter from the 34th_who
went over to the enemy some time back, and a man of
that regiment coming by recognised the face and put the
matter beyond a doubt. The man had received a less ig-
noble death than he deserved, one bullet had passed through
his head and another through his body. The third bat-
tery on the Sapoune-hill was abandoned last night, and
its guns either withdrawn or tumbled down the hill.
If the general amusement and the satisfaction of curi-
osity were any argument for the interruption of war, it
was ate least well provided. Apart from the military
question, and the further one as to where the true hu-
manity lay, the interval afforded another opportunity,
rapidly taken advantage of, of getting a nearer look at
Sebastopol, and the Mamelon, as the most important of
our late acquisitions, was the attractive spot, whither
any one who had the time and chance hastened. The
French working parties had broken ground on the
ascent, and were connecting their lines, distant some
200 yards, with the fort by new parallels, and were
also reversing the Russian trenches outside, facing
towards our advanced works. The rugged, channelled,'
and shot-bruised outline of the fortress grow larger
and more real as you wound up to it; but the inte-
rior, altogether unknown till that moment, excited a
more vivid feeling, and alike outside and inside attested
the fierceness of the struggle and the pluck of the assail-
ants. The surface of the ground within was cut into
holes and pits—here like an old stone quarry, there iike
a bit of Crimean vineyard - some of these were the effect
of bursting shells with well-timed fuses, some the cun-
ning apparatus of the hardy and prolonged defence.
The corpses which cumbered the earth and were in pro-
cess of removal gave out faint tokens of coming putre-
faction, fragments of bodies and marks of carnage were
interspersed with ruined gabions and broken firelocks ;
Russian guns, dismounted and dented with shotmarks,
lay tumbled below their embrasures ; 59 or so were
concealed beneath the ddbris, and some quantity of
hidden powder was also rooted out of the subterra-
nean recesses which abounded in the rock. These nests,
excavated in the inner faces of the intrenchments,
were left warm by their previous occupants—food and
implements of labour were found in them, and, among
other things, a bit of fishing-net in course of construc-
tion. The nearer view alone revealed the stupendous
character of the earthworks, and, if astonishment were
not now a stale sentiment, the eye witnesses would have
been simply astonished at the amount of labour lavished
on them. The traverses appeared to be some 18 feet in
height. An English lady—where will they not go ?
where do they not go ?—was brought by her husband,
an officer, to survey the place—perchance herself had
decided his coming. On the further side the view into
the harbour was straight and clear, and, from the
furthest point to which access was allowed, it seemed as
if a bowsbot would carry to the ships ensconced beneath
the hill. The Round Tower looked, even to experienced
eyes, less formidable from that proximity than it bad
been judged from the distant points of view. How, in-
deed, coald it longer look impregnable when the Rus-
sians were bringing out of it 40 or 50 corpses of French
soldiers who had won their way into its heart ?
In the early put of the day there had been a popular
impulse to believe that an end of the affair would be
made to-night' by a combined, assault on the Malakhoff
and the Redan. That both were within scope of capture
was considered in camp as proved to demonstration.. But
the news of the suspension of arms dissipated the hope,
and when the divisions got their orders for the night it
was no longer thought that aggression was likely, though
defence might be. The enemy, with their wonted per-
severance, had been making very comfortable use of
their time, and when the firing rcommenced, which it
did instantly on the flags being lowed, a few minutes
before six o'clock, it was plain that the Malakhoff and
Redan had both received a reinforcement of guns. Six
and 11 are the asserted, if not the ascertained numbers
of remounted benches de feu—exactness in such a calcu-
lation is nut easy, for the Russians are laboriously artful
in disguising the strength of their artillery,
and frequently by moving guns from one em-
brasure to another make a single one play
dummy for two or three ; but I am tolerably near
the mark. From 6 until 9 o'clock the duel continued
without special incidents ; then there came a sudden
splash of musketry which lasted some few minutes, and
died away as unexpectedly. The Russians had made a
demonstration against the well•guarded Mamelon, which
vfas easily snuffed ; though it might at first have been
thought to have some connexion with a movement of the
army outside. Simultaneously with the clatter of small
arms, there burst out into relief against a black cloud
passing over several flashes of fire from the Inkermann
batteries. Fatigue parties, 12 to each waggon, were
even then dragging shot and shell down to the trenches.
So there were just enough symptoms of disquiet to make
anything possible. The natural consequence was that
nothing occurred. Another trifling musketry diversion
took place about three in the morning, to relieve the mo-
notony of the great artillery, which kept up its savagery
throughout the night-10 guns for one of the enemy's—
but slacked a little towards morning. We had a great
number of casualties during the night in our new position
on the left, into which the Russians kept firing grape
and canister from the batteries which protect the rear of
the Redan. They also occupied the dismantled houses
above the ravine, and leisurely took shots at our people
from the windows. Not unnaturally, it is a subject of
the bitterest anger and complaint among the soldiers
that they have to stand still and be riddled, losing day
by day a number which is swollen in a week to the di-
mensions of a battle roll of killed and wounded. Their
spirits have been lately at the highest conceivable pitch;
they believe reasonably, after what they have seen, that
the whole place is at their mercy, and must be forgiven
if in the error of their eagerness the subtleties of stra-
tegy, the etiquette of regular approaches, the ready
courteey forthcoming on demand fail to compensate in
their minds for the now enormous labour of the trenches
and the harassing dangers of a petty peddling warfare.
The new ground which they occupy is a strong position
for defence, being divided partly by nature and partly
by art into different bays or recesses, and having three
enormous traverses ; we are now also making a covered
way into it—in fact, a fourth parallel ; but it has the
fault of being either too near or not near enough, and is
exposed to inflictions of mitraille which it cannot pay
back in kind.

JUICE 10.

A breezy day, but with signs of returning heat, and
an occasional drift of shower. The French in immense
numbers, are at work on the approaches to the Mamelon
in the hope of speedily getting up some heavy metal.
The Round Tower and the Iledan are juet giving now
and then sullen assertion of unexhausted purpose, but
with so little vigour that the shells which drop and
bluster about their ears, throwing up the dry dust in co-
lumns, look almost like a useless persecution. Five Rus-
sian vessels-of-war are in full sight out in harbour, having
betaken themselves outof the way of inconvenient missiles
from the Marnelon. The white banner of St. Andrew flies
from their wizen, and floats in honour of Sunday
on Fort Constantine. The Twelve Apostles lies just
ahead of the arsenal, with her broadside towards her new
danger, but encounters another foe, for the " express
train" is cutting up the water near her, awl apparently
flashing the spray right over her. At midday the small
steamer which does the chief traffic in harbour was ob-
ser% able in the Dockyard Creek getting up her steam,
and surrounded by quite a flotilla of boats, which were
most probably carrying wounded on board of her. The
arsenal building, or soi-disant hospital, which stands on
the western side,showed all torn and riddled with shot,its
windows reduced to shapeless apertures, and its roof
ragged and pierced from end to end, the whole being evi-
dently untenable. Between it and the shore, sheltered
under an angle of the building, a group of Russians were
gathered,and there was some slight bustle on the shore,
where one or two men of authority were moving about with
determined step. The steamer was presently full freighted,
and moved off, towing the boats alongside, to return
in the evening with provisions or munitions of war—a
long string of men with carts and animals were toiling
up the steep on the north side leading towards Inkerrnan.
There might have been from 1,500 or 2,000 of them. In
the sloping graveyard at the east end of the harbour,
planted with innumerable crosses, small parties of twos
and threes were wandering on no unexplained errand,
For the last three weeks every day there have been large
parties constantly engaged in the labour of interment—
a fact which encourages the presumption of disease tell-
ing as much, or more, upon the enemies' strength as it
has done latterly upon our own, especially in and near
to Balaklava. Any way, the work in that kind is not
likely soon to cease. There is little doubt, in spite of the
obstinacy displayed, that the garrison are heartily sick of
their commission. A Russian officer yesterday fell into
conversation with one of our men, and, giving him
his card, said, "I wish this was all over, and we were
good friends again ; we are all tired enough, but our
orders are to fight it out to the last." At the terming,

tion, too, of the armi,tice, there .were some signs of
insubordination among the men. who were in contiguity
with ours. Steady firing has been going on all the af-
ternoon, but with abated force in the evening. At 9
o'clock there was a lull in the discharges, but they
grew rapidznd energetic again at 11, about which time
there was another little encounter between the French
and Russian ontpnsts on the Tchernaya. A French qi-
vision, with artillery, passed over that way in the even-
ing,sand their telegraph above the Woronzow-road was
very buiy during the afternoon.

12 o'CLocK.

There is a'very sharp skirmish going on, quite in the
old fashion, between the French a,nd Russians on the

left, and a very pretty interchange of shells, which are
in the air in showers. The enemy are., throwing car-
chmses to direct their grinners and grenades. From our
batteries there is but little firing, one of the Lancaster
guns making the principal figure, and astounding the ear
of night with its resolute whistle, which sounds all the
more wicked from the intervals in the utterance, and
conveys the idea of accumulating power. The Himalaya
came in to-day with a cargo of horses and 340 men for
the Land Transport Corps, from England. The said corps
has its strength now increased to 6;000 beasts of draught.

JUNE 11.

To-day things are very quiet before the town, for the
sufficient reason that our ammunition is trot up in suffi-
cient quantity. Most of our artillery transport is gone
down to Kamiesh to fetch up shells far our allies. We
had yesterday .a little accident in that department, water
interfering with the perquisites of fire,' A lighter
coming up to the Ordnance-wharf at Balaklava canted
over, and deposited her cargo of somethine• like 1,000
shells in deep water. But for the diving bell on the
spot they would have become a.perman,nt puzzle to the
fishes, who would have taken, no doubt, quarters in
them according to precedence. By the aid of the divers
they are 'coming up again, and, having been rescued
from drowning, will end, it is thought, by being shot.'
One may almost say that the bombardment has ceased,
and that " the state of siege" is restored once more.
From morning to night there has-been nothing from our
side beyond salute and reminder. It may well be hoped
that the French batteries ion the Mamelon and Sapoune-
hill will hold their • own effectually, and put a termi-
nation to the struggle ; otherwise, to what end our dila-
tory and inconstant action ? The Russians have been
sending shells up to the Sapoune-hill from the fort oppo-
site to it on the other side of the harbour ; and one of
them, fall;ng among a group of Frenchmen at dinner,
took them, as the ancients would have said, to sup with
Pluto. The losses sustained in the Mamelon are heavy,
and yesterday reached 200. Our official returns will
alto make the 10th of June look a black day when they
are published.
The cholera has been prevalent, especially in and near
Balaklava, and there is a good deal of the moderate
form of it in camp, though the last few days has seen
some abatement, both froni the cool winds which have
refreshed. us and the excitement of late operations. Col.
La Marmera, the brother of the Sardinian-General, has
fallen a victim, and the Piedmontese army has suffered
very generally. In harbour it has been found, as might
be expected, that locality is the chief determining cause
of its outbreak, and our artillery in the low ground out-
side' after losing a number of men on consecutive days,
has been forced to change its ground. Sir John IW.INTeiII
has had some threatening of the disorder, and, having
now completed his task of investigation and counsel, re-
turns to England. I regret to'say, and it is a subject of
very universal regret, that Dr. Anderson, who has for
some months been in charge of the hospital in Bala-
klava, has been compelled to ask for a Board, and has
been invalided home. The union of qualities which
made a man at once valuable as a medical attendant
and an administrator, is not so common but that

it produced, when found, a very wide-spread regard.
Dr. Anderson leaves the Crimea without any special
marks of favour, but with the respect of equals as well
as inferiors, and the grateful remembrance of many who
have been under his care. This is no matter-of-course
eulogy, but the sincere acknowledgment of unostentatious
service.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
TURKISH CAM' BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 9.
As you will have seen from my last letter, a truce
was agreed upon to-day for the burial of those who fell
on the evening of the 7th. In the suspension of hostili-
ties it is always understood that it will not be used for
any other purposes, such as repairing the works or mount-
ing guns, &c., which would materially alter the status
quo before' the truce. The Russians to-day looke
on this truce for the burial of the dead as on

any other kind of truce, which leaves each party
free to employ it as nest it can ' • and while, on our
side not one shovelful' of earth was added to the

parapets and not an embrasure touched, they, as
soon as the white flags were hoisted, displayed an ant-
like diligence in repairing their damaged works and in
replacing their dismounted guns, so that when, after
about six hours' time, the fire was renewed, the formerly
silent embrasures of the Redan and the Malakhoff Tower
gave, by a furious volley, an unmistakeable proof of this
diligence.
Our men in the batteries were, as you may imagine,
furious at this breach of faith of the Russians, but of
course never thought of imitating their example. As it
might have been expected from precedents that the Rus-
sians would make good use of their time, the truce was,
and is still, very much censured by the armies. But in
reality it was an urgent necessity. The dead bodies
were beginning to decompose very fast in the heat of the
sun, so that in a day or two it would bare been nearly
impossible to remain near the places which had been oc-
cupied on the evening of the 7th. This was chiefly the case
as regards the Mamelon. Not only this latter, but likewise
all the whole plateau behindit up to the Malakhoff Tower,
was covered with dead, and it was only in going over the
place and the ground around it that one could form an
idea what a fierce struggle there had been there.
As Eldon as the white flag was hoisted the tents poured
forth their inmates, anxious to look at the battle-field
and to contemplate a little closer the formidable Tower
of Malakhoff, which may be called the south citadel of
Sebastopol. It was quite a procession. Not only the
large ravine between our right attack and the old five-
gun or Tower battery, but likewise the slopes on both
sides of it, were covered with a motley craw—officers,
soldiers, sailors, French, English, Sardinians, and Turks,
navvies and merchant sailors, besides a number of trades-
men and idlers from Kamiesh and Balaklava.
The most interesting road was, however, through
the ravine. Through it the way leads to the ad-
vanced trenches, which were constructed by the
French to approach that work ; through it they had
as well as our own gallant fellows, marched cheering
and singing to the attack ; and through it wero carried
back those who had won it with the loss of their blood.

It was the best guide to the Mamelon, for it contains the
whole history of its taking ; there are the numberless
trenches, the hard work of months ; there are the thou-
sands of shot and shell with which the enemy has in vain
tried to arrest our approach to this vital part of his strong-
hold ; there are the alleys of graves which mark the pro-
gress of our dearly-bought success ; and there, lastly,
you may see the grand preparations made to insure the
success obtained, and to extend it.
The entrance of the ravine was clear enough ; had it
not been for an occasional soldier or idler moving up and
down, one could scarcely have believed to what scene it
led, it looked so solitary, with the steep cliffs on both
sides of it

At the first widening of it the scene, however,
changed. Imperial Guards, Zouaves, Turks, Infantry,
and Chaseeurs were encamped there, with their never-
failing vivandieres, who were with them, even on the
day of the fight, to refresh the thirsty and nurse the
wounded. The soldiers, although without tents, had
adapted themselves to their position with that readiness
which is admirable in our gallant Allies, and had made
themselves as comfortable as it was possible under the
circumstances. The popotte was boiling, and, until it
was ready, every one tried, as lest it suited his covee•
nience, to pass his time—some reposing in the shade of
projecting rocks, others lounging away and chatting as if
they were under their tents at some autumnal concentra-
tion of troops in La Belle France, instead of ferming the
reserve for an arduous duty in the Mamelon.
Near to this clearer spacs in the ravine the trenches
begin. One must go through them in order to judge of
the perseverance displayed in constructing them and fully
to appreciate the difficulties which our gallant allies have
successfully overcome. The whole of the ridge leading
towards the plateau on which the Mamelon lies is covered
only with a scanty layer of earth, just sufficient to pro-
duce grass enough to give it a green appearance. A few
inches under the ground the stone begins. It is a soft
white chalk stone, too hard to make a good cover, and
too brittle to allow dispensing with gabions. Nearly
every step had to be gained by laborious mining, and
under the murderous fire of the enemy. The main trench

follows the right-hand side of the ravine, and from it
branch out to the right three parallel lines running
across the whole breadth of the ridge leading down to
the plateau on which the Mamelon, the Malakhoff Tower,
and the two strand batteries are situated. The third
and most advanced of these lines is constructed on the
narrowest part of the ridge, just before it loses itself in
the plateau. Whoever takes a good map of Sebastopol
in his hands—for instance, that made after the. sur-
veys of Captain Spratt, R.N., of her Majesty's ship
Spitfire—and looks at this ridge, may see to what fear-
ful fire these works, and particularly the third line, was
exposed from the Tower of Malakhoff, the Mamelon,
the eight gun Strand Battery, and even the batteries of
Inkerman.
Immediately in front of this third line Co ground,
which up to there has been sloping down, beg,l.is to rise
towards the Mamelon. On this rise were the Russian
rifle-pits, situated about half way up to the Mamelon.
They had, as usual, chosen an excellent place for them,
the edge of a terrace-like level spot. From this point
the hill rises abruptly to the foot of the fortification. It
is far steeper than one would imagine by looking at it
from a distance, and, although the distance to the top
cannot be more than 200 yards, the pull is very hard.
So much the more marvellous seemed that quick rush
which brought, the other day, our gallant allies to the
foot of the embrasures in less time than most of the visi-
tors today took to get up to it.
The Russians had time enough to fortify the Ma-
melon, and I assure yon they did not lose it. From
the simple parapet it had been in the beginning, it had
by assiduous labour become a strong outwork of the
Malakhoff Tower, Even amid its ruing—for it is the

most complete wreck imaginable—everything shows the
value they had set upon it, and the care they took to
make the most of it by the fixing of the gabions, the
strength of the embrasures, and the traverses. Thee
latter had been taken advantage of .to form a cover for
the troops not required ,as gunners or sentries,• bound
over with fascines and earth, or rather stones ; they are
made up into a kind of subterranean caves. But not
all the care and trouble taken could save tlieni from de-
struction. I never saw a more complete state of wreck.
The embrasures knocked into formless mounds, the tra-
verses overthrown, burying all under them, the guns di,:-
mounted, with here a wheel, there a muzzle sticking nut
of the heaps of stones' and earth—whoever wanted to
know what English and French guns could do ought to
have gone to the Mamelon to-day, and whoever wished
to have an idea what the struggle was ought to. have
counted the mass of dead bodies. •

Already in the French trenches, chiefly at their de.-
bouches, they were lying about in twos and threes, the
higher you went up the more' numerous they became.
Bven if you had not seen the fi;ht you would have
guessed where the fiercest struggle took place, the end
embrasure—namely, to the right behind the Mamelon
on the slope which connects it with. the Mala,khoff
Tower, and at the foot of the latter in the abattia, and
very likely further in.
'When one looks at thejformidable defences of the Ma-
melon and the protection it had from all the Russian
works to the right and left, • and thinks again of the
feeble resistance after which it was taken the first time,
we must come to the conclusion that the RusAians in

it must have been taken by surprise.. Besides, the events
after the first taking of it, the .sortie of the Russians
from the Malakhoff Tower and the 8-gun battery, the
violence of their attack which forced the French to re-

tire fora moment, the resistance which they found the
second time, and the tenacity with which the Russians
defended every inch of ground, all led to the same con-
clusion. The account of the prisoners t tken at the
Mamelon is to the same effect. I heard from a gentle-
man who speaks Russian, and who bad spoken with a
cadet taken in the Mamelon at the first rush, that the
latter says that they had not the slightest idea of an
attack, and was dining quietly with the General, as well
as the rest of the officers, when the French made their
first rush, and he had scarcely time to swallow the last
morsel before he was taken prisoner.
But, notwithstanding the really praiseworthy resist-
ance of Russians to the second attack, the formid-
able batteries of the Malakb.off Tower, which are not
more than 500 to 600 feet from the Mamelon, and the
even more formidable 8-gun battery behind, there is no
doubt in my mind that the French were actually in the
first line of the fortificationa of the Malakhoff Tower.
Not only is the general account of the French soldiers to
that effect, but I saw with my own eyes numbers of dead
French carried out by Russians from the abattis and the
ditch, where they had very likely thrown them from the
interior. The misfortune was that, as always in an as-
sault, all control was lost ovet- the excited soldiers, and
they made an attack on the Malakhoff Tower just BB
our own red-coats did on the Redan, "on their own
hook," carried away by the frenzy of the moment, while
it did not enter into the plans of the generals to do more
than take the Mamelon and the Quarries. What would
have been the result had theycalculated on this irresisti-
ble rush, and had taken advantage of it by sending large
reserves to support it, is, of course, matter of opinion.
As it is, many French soldiers assured me that . they
spiked several of the guns of the first line of the
Malakhoff works, and they pretend they could have
spiked all of them had they been provided with
nails, but before the gunners, who were provided
with instruments, could came up they were obliged
to leave the place. I don't know how it may have
been about the Malakhoff Tower guns, but every one of
the guns in the Mamelon 1120:1 the nails for spiking them
attached ; but it is net surprising that they were over-
looked in the first heat.

There were 26 guns founii in the Marnelon, but only
very few in serviceable order. In.all, the French took
62, the rest in the Ouvrages Blanes, and 310 prisoners.
The French have, with their usual energy, begun to
turn to advantage their new acquisitions, to connect
them with the works they had formerly possessed, and
to turn their faces against those who constructed them.
The Mamelon offers immense difficulties in this respect,
it is so very strongly constructed ; but the chief diffi-
culty lies in the fire directed upon it from the ships, the
8-gun battery, and the towar of Malakhoff, and, until
the work is entirely turned, they are exposed to heavy
losses. Before, and even more after the truce, a hail of
grape and shell was thrown all round it.
I approached as far as I was permitted—that is,
within 300 yards, and certainly the Malakhoff is a for-
midable work ; it is, for the south part, what the citadel
is for the north ; and whatever skilful engineering and
hard work could do for it has certainly been done there.
It seems to command everything within gunshot, and
once taken, the southeide of the town included, must be
I ours.

From the Mamelou I went over the ravine running
up from Careening Creek, to the extreme right up to the
ridge opposite to the Inkertnenn heights where the
Ouvrages Blanes" are which the French took the other
day. This ridge running down from the ' Victoria re-
doubt, the spot where the Russian guns were on the
bloody day of Inkerman, gets narrower as it appraches
Careening Creek on one Bide, and the head of
the great harbour and of the embouchure of
the Tchernaya on the other side. The batteries
are situate at the extreme point of the ridge, over-
looking the harbour most completely, and are
erected on a little elevation of the ground. When I
went over them the dead bodies had not yet been buried.
To judge from those lying there the struggle was not
very fierce. The position there was a kind of forlorn
hope, for there was no retreat, and most of the prisoners
were taken.

The French are hard at work to turn the work against
the harbour and the Strand batteries on the other side
of Careening-creek, both of which will he commanded by
them. In consequence of this success of the French
most of the vessels have moved out of their snug berths.
These works can only be molested by the Inkerman
batteries ; but, as they are nearly completed, the greatest
danger will be soon over. While the French are work-
in.. the Turks have occupied the upper works, and form
the covering parties.
The Quarries, not less than the Mamelon, were an-
noyed by the shot and shell of the enemy yesterday as
well as to-day. It requires the greatest heroism to
keep those places, exposed, in a crowded spot, to a fire
which you have no means of returning. In a battle,
where there is a chance of hurting the enemy, where
there is a corresponding excitement, bravery is easier,
but here you have to await with coolness the next shot.
Nearly the whole fight for the Quarries required this
negative heroism, the hardest to practise, seeing man
after man falling around one.
The taking of the Quarries was an affair of an instant.
The Russians did not await the coming of our own sol-
diers, and never thought of resistance. It was only after
it that the fight began, more with an invisible than a
tangible enemy, for the attacks of the Russians were
soon enough repulsed, but the balls were to be met too.
Juriz 10.

The first bombardment last year proved already, after
the first day's fire, that our fire on the whole was s.ape-
rior to that of the enemy ; the second, from one or other
reason, was not quite so clear in proof ; but the third, I
think, has established the fact clearly enough. From
the first moment there could be no doubt. Even the
enemy seemed to acknowledge it by the comparative
slackness of his fire which followed tbefirst fury of it. But
a better means of comparison is the comparative state
of the batteries. In the Mamelon scarcely a gun was
left whole ; in the 'other Russian works not only were
the guns wholly silent, but the embrasures and the pa-
rapet were knocked fearfully about, while in our batte-
ries scarcely a gun has been dismounted. The loss in
men has been much smaller than on former occasions.
As far as I can ascertain not an officer was killed, only
several slightly wounded.

JUNE 11.

This morning the bombardment had been much slower,
but it is expected to begin as soon as the works on the
➢lamelon are finished.

General Morris with sorneregiments of French cavalry
has advanced to Baklax, and is encamped. There are
strong cavalry divisions of the enemy there.
JUNE 12.
Nothing new, and scarcely ary firing.

THE LIGHT SQUADRON IN THE SEA

OF AZOFF.

The following is a journal of the proceedings o:
the first launch of her Majesty's steam©r Roya:
Albert :

"June 3, 2 a.m.—We roused up, steamers making a
great noise with the steam escaping, all of us taking
either a cup of tea or cocoa and a bite of biscuit, for one
could not eat much at that early hour ; all hands eager
for the fight, boats' crews calculating upon the sundry
sheep they were likely to catch, the Kertch stock being
nearly out. The boats being told off for towing by
the following steamers :—Recrult, Minna, and Da-
nube, we repaired to them accordingly ; and at dawn of
day, or 4 o'clock, we might be seen moving on slowly to-
wards Taganrog, accompanied by the Swallow, the Viper,
the Beagle, the Snake, and four French steamers, with
four; munches and thnie pinnaces in tow, keeping rather
in the rear of us.
" 7.30 a.m.—Anchored off Taganrog in 9 feet, and
about 1,200 or 1,000 yards to the N.W. of a low point,
over which evidently was a large Government store; a
little distance off three schooners aground, and a small
steamer which the recruit had chased on shore two nights
previously, and obliged them to burn and desert. The
town was exceedingly picturesque, situated upon an
elevation of some 120 feet above the sea ; the buildings
exceedingly large, of white stone, roofed with iron, two
storeys high, and those exceedingly lofty. Several large
churches were to be seen, with handsome domes, large
trees and gardens intervening. The ladies came out in
a variety of colours ; horsemen and droskies were to be
seen going the pace, we, in the height of our imagina-
tion, taking the four-horse iroskies for flying artillery.
Mounted Cossacks and k. is troops at present. The
signal for boats to repair around the Recruit, or senior
officer ; the force concentrated round the Recruit. An
order of attack was issued to the launches ; also orders
were given not to fire without direct orders from Com-

`PRIG SD,

wander- Coles. He. went round to ea,..11 boat to see that
we app ehend.ed our orders fully ; one En-glish and one
French boat piffled in with a fix of truce, to demand
that the • Governor should point out and deliver up the
Qovern 3 lent property, ani if any force was in the neigh.
bourho, r 1 it should retire some distance ; and;.p,iso, to
say tha t if any signs of tre.;achery were shown the mag:.-
at:ate v mid be shot. Stich is the report.
An b A .tir having elapsed, the flags of truce rettirnea ;
people . costly retired. The boats at this time were barg-
ing. on to the Recruit in their stations, aeo,;-rdi„
to
senior? ;:-; rocket boats and .firing party ahead. At 9
e proceeded round the low point in line. As ,e
advan: E,d several troops were seen falling in an the top
of thei 01. They were very tempting, many wishing to
have a shot. However, it was against orders, con-
sequel: tiv no one dared to fire. It was the general
opinio a that they intended mischief and were going
to opr .c.se our firing the stores obstinately. After
roundi ing the point the Government stores were disco-
vered oo a low flat'some mile in length and 150 yards in
hrendi two tiers, one behind and a little above

tho ot b er, with officials' houses between, some 20 small
crafts the north-east end, and immense quantity of
spars, partially hauled up. When the rocket-boats got
abreae t of the small craft the boats cast off their painters
simult t neously ; put our helme aetarboard, and brought
our gu t ,s to bear about 400'or 500 yards from the shore.
Very 1e w men were to be seen. One or two inatance°
of greet coolness were shown by the enemy. One was
a sent; r walking hie post some quarter of an hour after
onenin 8 • fire ; round and grape, spherical. case, and
Minie 1 vere fired at him, without effect. He looked at
us °CCP a clonally, as if he would ask what we meant by it,
and I 7esnme, by his standing fire so long,, he did not
leeee rtz ,til.orderad. . He . was the admlratiere of every•
one. knother was a.man coolly t lichee of his clothe.;
and bat hin'. however, ho was taken prisoner, I be-
lieve, I )5, the firing party. A few minutes after our
fire op e ned the firing party landed, commencing at 'the
N.E. r is id with the small craft—gun-boats firing rockets,
shells, .&c., confining the fire to the stores—and I think
I may safely say without firing them, the party that
landed. .only succeeding. The enemy commenced a fire,
but vi y feeble, from the height above the stores, con-
cealed :in the gardens, in buildings, and behind wane.
Some at Yell-directed spherical case, shell, and grape dis-
turbed, them, and several were seen to fall and limp
away e it is very strange to say that in so large a town
they *di' I not even get one gun to bear ,upon us. About
1. p.m..' one man in the Princess Royal launch received a
a inus'e et ball in the jaw.
"Tlee Snake, Beagle, and Viper, with a great deal of
mance u erring, got within range. I have heard since that
she b'srst one of her guns ; Curlew was out of range ;
the R•ecruit about 700 yards, having shifted berth, and
one Fre .nch steamer. Several'of the houses in the town
were fi red with carcase rockets—l presume from the
Danu'ae. Lady Nancy appeared to be of great service,
and I ghoul(' say did her work uncommonly well.
About 2 p.m. the fire slackened from the boats having
no one hardly to fire at. The latter part of the day the
Frenchmen landed in a strong party and chased the
pigs area geese ; the Russians did not approve this, and
opened. rather a sharp fire of musketry upon them,
which ewe returned with !interest from the boats. The
Frendirmen fired volleys of musketry, and idle men
ashore were off in a twinkling. I observed our second
launch, with a few others, was ofdered off about 1 p.m.
All our people bebabed exceedingly well. They were
under a broiling sun pulling their oarsareerly all the
time, having a tide against us for some six or seven
hours. Orders were given not to fire at the hospital or
churches, and they were rigidly adhered to, until the
enemy concealed themselves in a garden around the
church and brought the fire upon it ; it looked after wards
very much as if it had had the smallpox. At 330
p.m., the object of the expedition having been ob-
tained—namely, the destruction of Government pro-
perty. the boats hauled off to their respective ships ;
bringi'eg out two ,Greek brigs that were at anchor,
and arrived at our former anchorage about 7.30
p.m., rather tired, as one can easily imagine.
We had a jolly good bathe, and dined at 8 p.m. on board
the Danube, bad the fight over again, and wondered which
was to be the next. I have not mentioned the Nonsuch,
having lost sight of her. The Recruit gave some Cossacks
a few parting shots. Strange work for Sunday, but war
must be carried on with vigour. Troops having been
seen by several of the boats assembled in the streets
above, I am rather of opinion that they anticipated our
landing and ascending the height, where they remained
drawn up ready to oppose us in case we should have

. _
landed.
" 4 a.m.—Having expended our ammunition, thought
it advisable to replenish from the Medina ; did so ac-
cordingly.
" B.3o.—Squadron weighed in two lines, French on
our left, shaping a course for Marioupol, the stores of
that place being the next object in view to destroy.
" 4.30 p.m.—Anchored off Marioupol about two miles
and a half to the S.S.W. of the town, which appeared to
he about one-third the size of Taganrog ; sent a return
of men employed at Taganrog to Captain Lyons ; boats
ordered to be in readiness for active service, • and to as-
semble round the Miranda at 5 a.m.

" JuNE 5.

" 5 a.m.—Launches, paddle-boats, and our amiable
companion Lady Nancy assembled, according to orders,
round the Miranda at 5 a.m. Shortly afterwards she and
the squadron shifted berth to between 1,500 and 2,000
yards off the town, to convenient shelling distance, boats
forming in much the same order as the day pre-
vious. A very useful addition was included in the
expedition—viz., about 120 marine artillerymen, to act
as a covering party to the fire brigade, under Lieut.
Swinburne. A beat with a flag of truce bad been sent
in previously, which, I believe. returned without a satis-
factory answer. Many lookers-on from the shore were
to be seen, and a few mounted Cossacks, who, I under-
stand, met the flag of truce, and were on the point of
firing upon it, until waved to from the heat. The inter-
preter, when ashore, explained to them the nature of the
flag of truce, which they appeared to be ignorantoe,
and begged pardon for putting themselves in a menacing
attitude. No satisfactory answer being given to the flag
of truce, the boats formed line abreast, under the direc-
tions of Lieutenant M`Kenzie, of the Miranda, pulled in
for the beach, and took up the relative positions assigned
to them 200 or 300 yaris distant from the beach, upon
the west side of a small river, running N.N.W. and
S.S.E. along the line of storehouses for some 500 yards,
and then branching off to the east and west. On the
west side, for 500 yards adjacent to the stores, was a
well-built bank of stone, similar to the bank at Chatham,
for confining the river and preserving the depth of the
water, which was about five feet, upon which was a good
macadamised road leading into the centre of the town ;
hero there were a few sentry-boxes, and large stores
of corn and various other goods in well-huilt brick
buildings, some 120 feet in length, the walls of
which were some 14 feet high. The fire-brigade and
marine-artillery men landed upon the south extre-
mity of this road, under cover of the boats' guns, the
St. Jean d'Acre's boats, and one or two others, having
shifted berth up the river, taking up a commanding posi-
tion in the fork of the river, and covering the* party, if
necessary, in their advance up the main road. After the
boats bad taken up their positions, making a very for-
midable appearance, a man on horseback was observed
galloping down with what was supposed to he a chemise
to the southward point of the river, near a flagstaff,
where several people of all grades had assembled. inno-
cent spectators ; our flag of truce met him, and I have
been informed since that the gentleman on horseback in-
formed them that there were no Government stores, but
that it was all private property ; the magistrate was not
forthcoming ; and that he was a deputy for the towns-
people in general, and that they desired him say 600
Cossacks were in the neighbourhood, and they had re-
tired, hoping we would spare the town, since, whatever
we thought proper to do, they would trust to our tender
mercies. lie and his townsmen were recommended to
retire, which they did, very wisely ; a few shots were
fired, more for a moral effect than anything else. Sbortly
afterwards the fire brigade and marine artillerymen
landed, and then the scene of destruction commenced ;
some of the houses filled with fine wheat were rather
difficult to open, but, somehow or other, in cases of
emergency Jack overcomes all difficulties, and nothing
stands is his way when his mind is bent upon one ob-
ject—especially that of destruction. The blue-jackets
chiefly fired the stores near the river ; ar d a paty, accom-
panied by the marine artillerymen, marched to the town,
some half-mile distant, fired suspicious-looking build-
ings and stores, sparing what they took to be private
property, without any resistance. Many people had
deserted their houses, and some of the scoundrels be-
longing to the town were observed in a state of intoxi-
cation, appropriating to themselves the property of
others. Some shook their fists at our people—a harm-
less amusement. People and horsemen could be seen
upon the summit of the hills looking at the scene of de-
struction.

" 1.30 p.m.—Party embarked returned to our respec-
tive ships without any casualty.
" 4.15 p.m.—Weighed, with a strong breeze from the
S.W., steering for Gheisk Spit.
" 9.10 p.m.—Anchored in four fathoms.

" June s.—At daylight observed the land to the
southward, about 18 miles. Squadron weighed and
stood towards Eisk. 7 a.m., squadron came to an
anchor as convenient for shelling and covering the land-
ing, should it he disputed. Miranda anchored one and
a half miles off the town of Eisk. Lieutenant Horton
went ashore with a flag of truce, accompanied by one of
the French boats with a similar flag. Ahout 10 a.m.
the flag of truce returned, with intelligence that the
Governor had surrendered the town and Government pro-
perty according to terms, they not having any artillery,
but only a few troops to oppose us ; but it was the wish
of the Governor that the boats should pull in close to the
shore and form order of battle in line abreast, making an
imposing appearance, so as to justify him in his conduct,
which we did.

" 12.10 p.m.—Boats take up their position line
abreast, anchoring by the stern, offalow spit, upon which
ica3 part of the town, about 300 or 400 yards off. The
marines and firing party landed, and were received by
the Governor and colonel, providing the officers with
mounts. One party proceeded to the westward, and
fired some mile and a half of stacks, consisting of hay,
rye, and straw, in places 0 and 8 deep ; others to the
town to fire a quantity of grain that the Governor had
taken out of the stores to prevent the town being burnt,
which they were in great fear of. The Governor repented

n ch the-hay over the cliff in lieu of gettin "ff'r 'e' '-,
to it—a modest request rather, to pitch a mile a lla-
half of stacks over : it would have taken our `-iiiy
about two months. The parties having destroye (the_
grain.and stacks, which they took to be Goverment c,-;_.
pert y, }e-embarked ; but previous to their leaving 1 -.,...
beach the Governor begged their acceptance of a clean-TM
tity of 'stock, which he had ordered down to the beach,
which we politely declined. Compliments passed—such
as they hoped they would meet each other under more
favourable auspices in lien of such painful circumstances.
The'Governor and inhabitants were thankful for our
leniency in sparing the town. About this time one dozen
champagno came down .very apropos in a .thosky, which
seeniiokly our friend__ the Governor- had _Ordered„-ane•
which lie insisted upon our opening and drinking each
othcr'sjiealths. Two, very. swell Greek 7, dressed gaudily
in their war costume, were riot content with drinking
healths 0n1y,,1.V,. drlnk success to the expeditioil in
French. I suppose our 'friend the Goyertior did not
understand them. Thos ends- the destruction 'of Go-
vernment property at I:Tsk. .
"The town of "Eisk• has the appearance of a young ,
colony raPidlY "got up. Many buildings were in the
course inf construction, must of them wooden. It corn-
alenceglon a spit ruining cut some five or six miles to
ethijefr ris:rig to the westward
.u.ntil the -
tdair,, aad on the edge! of the :cliff Were
sEa.t,l'lka.iEn; glirenizdhuta`lome 40 feet to the extreinkright
or wzai. a 'the-
the identical stacks of some mile and a hair in' extent.
abort. 1
t ton at, t:sihr,uo from tt,l, 7,e nunihsr of houses estimate the popu-
ia
windmills
Seawere
visibleof
b3coeniutlie
Azafft coat te cot aboands in windmilli ; rind! .a few- long
in,
rtzi , .::.tv ilirOeio ; sees,,re 2
haveo or
calcine-Tonkin,'"'n
beats, about two or three tons 'burde,
were lia•Oed up on the beach. The Danube. went.round
to the
fastward of the spit to explore Glielak Liman (a
la•zoontor lake) ; got within about two mite ,of the towns
gheiTkfand Stanbi no, situated on the river Gei. -They
appeartd to be towns of some omsiderable extent, many
stores andwindmills he'll.- visible. No doubt the town
of Eisl has sprung
un'in consequence of the Lake Liman
silting pp, and the sitnation beiTyr much more at hand
for the. WO:tient of
.goods—not oniV on account of the
dept o of water, the, ice clearin away much sooner at
Eisk than at Gheisk. We understand that Eisk, Gheisk,
and -Silerbino are great nulitary depots for the Cauca,ns,
and they have two large. military roads from the Cau-
eese:,itrrovbansgooffathth)aoetviiiatn.6,;;;,oethheeismbblecaianrtsga
casus Branching off to these towns. We hope Gheisk
and ST rhino are reserved for some future occasion.
A backn‘a‘ilTat
ibcy-)AnTadt,l7del ra7anti 'di
i
requirdd to embark troops, I hear that Ca pt, L' P . Lyons by
.12:eti-aleg thef?'
letter requested he might retain us till the evening of the
Bth, wishing to de-trey a'depot at Temrouk. some 30
miles to the eastward of Yenikale Straits, on the
southern
side of Temrouk Lake-.

" sm.—Boats returned, our launches and Prineess
Roval'p. being turned over to the Miranda.

"5.30 p m.—Weighed, steering westerly, with a mo-
derate breeze from the westward. Received news from
Kertch ; granted permission for the launches to remain,
which we were all glad of. Heard also that the Admiral
was hikirly delighted with our proceedings. Fine night,
Anchored 11.30 p.m. in 5. fathoms. 3 30, weighed
course,' S.W. ; fresh breeze froni N.E. ; boats towing
heavily. Had casualties, such as hawsers carried away,
&c. 8 a.m.—Hove to ; out guns from boats, and enajo.
rity of the men. 7.30. p.m.—Anchored in al fathoms ;
strong wind from N.B. ; received a mail by Banshee.
9.3o.—Observed a large fire on chore.
"June B.—Wind too strong for boat operations ;
everytfaing at a stand till.
" June- 9.—Wind Moderated a little ; observed a large
body of cavalry, about 2,000, and troops busy throwing
up earthworks to the left of the town, for defending the
stores, apparently. Princess Royal's boats left Miranda
for Snake ; Royal Albert's for Danube.
" 10.40.—Weighed for Kertch."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Letters from Malta to the 20th of June announce the
departure frJna that island on the 15th of her Majesty's
steam-frigate Malacca for the Black Sea, having in
charge' the Fancy, Clinker, and Boxer steam gun-boats,
followed on the 17th by the Jasper, Grinder, and
Cracker, vessels of the same class, in charge of the steam-
frigate Gorgon.

Her Majesty's steam•frigate Odin arrived at Malta
from Portsmouth (in 20 days) on the 10th, having in tow
the cutter-rigged mortar- tessela Flamer and Firm, the
Hardy, having broken adrift off Cape Don. She, how-
ever, arrived all safe on ele 19th, when all three, under
the escort of the Odin, took their departure for the Black
Sea with a fair wind.
The Robert Lowe screw-steamer, from Gibraltar, hav-
ing on board the 13th Regiment, arrived at Malta on the
18th, and left on the same day for the Crimea. The
Thames steamer, from Valencia, with 200 mules and
horses, passed Malta for the same destination on the 17th.
Accbunts have been received of the arrival at Malta
on the'lBth, in tow of the Candia steamer, from Constan-
tinople, of the Greek brig Painaja. Dra.panistis,(loB tons)
in charge of Mr. Chown, R.N., in ballast, detained by
her Mbjesty's ship Niger, off Odessa, and the lonian brig
Santa Ellena (240 tons), in charge of Mr. Paul, R.N.,
of her 'Majesty's ship Albion, laden with paving stones,
detained at Constantinople by Admiral Grey, under sus-
picion of being in reality Russian property. Three more
Greek vessels detained by the Niger under similar cir-
cumstanceswere hourly looked for at Malta.

The Rhadamanthus aeam-transport arrived at Ports-
mouth on Saturday from Plymouth, whence she con-
veyed'supernumeraries and stores, and after landing them
left in the evening for Woolwich. The Diligence naval

transport arrived-at Spithead on Saturday with stores for
the dockyard at Portsmouth. The steam-transport Vic-
tory l'eft Spithead for the Thames on Saturday. The
ships at Spithead yesterday were the St. George and the
:`..Zeptune, three-deckers ; the Imperiense frigate, the
Cruiser screw sloop, and the Prometheus paddle-sloop.
The Alban, 4, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant
Commander W. E. F,sher, on Friday evening took the
ryun-boats Swinger, Lieutenant C. J. Nelson. and the
Jackdaw, Lieut. L. A. Whimper, in tow, and proceeded
to the Nore. Early on Saturday morning she left for
Elsinore, with both gun-boats in tow. Weather fine ;
wind moderate, W. by N.

The Horatio' 24, screw staam-ship, Capt. the Ron. A.
A. Cochrane, left Sheerness on Saturday evening direct
for Heligoland.

The fired steam-transport Rob Roy arrived at Sheer-
ness yesterday morning from the Baltic. She has brought
home invalids from the fleet, some _Russian merchant
seamen prisoners, and the mails, despatches, eze. After
communicat!n, with the Port Admiral, the invalids were
put on board. the steamvessel Fearless for immediate
conveyance to Melville Hospital. The prisoners were
sent on board the receiving ship Devonshire, Lieut.-
Commander J. H. Lloyd, and, after landing despatches,
she left Sheerness at 1.45 p.m. for Woolwich and
Deptford.

The Centaur, 6, paddlewheel steam-frigate, Captain
William J. C. Clifford, arrived at Sheerness at 9 a.m
yesterday, last from Elsinore. It is reported that she-is
to assist in convoying the floating batteries Trusty, Me-
teor, and Glutton out to the Baltic. The Glutton has
been again taken into the fitting basin for alteration.
She is being fitted with a bow and quarter leeboard of
considerable dimensions on each side, to insure better
steerage and staying. She is to have another trial im-
mediatelsPshe can be got ready. The artificers are work-
ing extra hours morning and evening to expedite both
the Glutton and Trusty.
The Calcutta, 81 guns (sailing-ship), Captain James J.
Stopford, is under sailing orders to proceed to the Baltic
with a portion of the armament of the floating batteries,
&c., she has now en board.
The Powerful, 84 (sailing-ship), Captain Themas L.
Massie, remains in harbour at Sheerness.
Draughts of merchant seamen-volunteers for general
service in the navy, are daily arriving at Sheerness from
the Crocodile receiving ship off the Tower.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—The Rev. Walter B. Artily, chaplain
and naval instructor to the Horatio ; the Rev. H. J.
Clerk, chaplain to the Csstor ; John H. Bond, naval
instructor to the Castsr ; William B. Fegen, surveyor
to the Transit.

A telegraphic announcement was received by the
owners of the Cunard steamers at Liverpool on Saturday
that the Arabia left Malta on the 16th inst., at 2 o'clock,
direct for Spithead. It is supposed that she has invalided
and wounded soldiers on board. On arriving at Spithead
she will embark additional troops for the seat of war.
A military camp is about to be formed at Arrow, near
Birkenhead, for the reception and drill of militia, artil-
lery, and other regiments.

Major-General Sir John Campbell, Bart., was son of
the late Lieut.-General Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart.,
by his marriage with MiFs Helen Macdonald. He was
bor❑ in 1800, entered the army in 1821, and, as aide-de-
camp of his father, be served throughout the first Bur-
mese war. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 38th
Foot in 1840, and was one of the original staff of the
army sent last year in aid of Turkey, being appointed to
command a brigade. He was made a Major-General in
December, 1854, for services at the storming of the
heights of the Alma, the battle of Inkerman, and the
siege of Sebastopol. He has left a widow, the only child
of Colonel John Crow, and is succeeded by his son Sir
Archibald Ava Campbell.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SHADFORTH, 57TH REGIMENT-
-Lieutenant-Colonel Shadforth obtained his ensigns
April, 1825 ; lieutenant, October, 182 G ; captain, April,
1831 ; major, March, 1844 ; brevet lieutenant-colonel,
June, 1854 • lieutenant-colonel, November, 1854. This
officer was beloved' by all who knew him. Lord Raglan
thought very highly of him, and more than once com-
plimented him as well on the efficiency of his regiment
as upon the great anxiety he constantly manifested in
providing for the comfort of his men, of whom be was
the pride. Mrs. Shadforth resides at Rochester, and
only on Friday morning her four daughters received a
parental letter, stating how well their father was. Dur-
ing the day 111;s. Shadforth went to town, for the purd-
daughtermgeoslnagg
et or Feareahnecde
pose of staying with her brother previous to her
tele-
graphicsecon
nouncing that her husband was no more.
entered the army
Co!onel Yea, of the 7th Regiment,
Fusiliers throughout theho commanded the Royal
in 1825. As lieutenant-colonel he comm.
where she was
wE theterribly
ce
houseadi
,1:1.1u1
sc ap.
act
ier;rn,p
sofs whenulffs a 2
~ .
esr4e. d
aI
tt
will not be forgotten
the Alma. lie was made
first bri-
gade Yea had lateclyn
gade of the Light Division. Colonel in December last.
CENTRAL RAILWAY STA-
TlON.—Liverpool, AT
TEEturda .—The ten o'clock train from
Tim—Liverpool, S bEeseTnE
CHESTER
commanding
to the station at the moment a
Shrewsbury
was bein4 pushed
Holyhead happened to be crossing the
goods train
.r
arhrZeduapat the Saturday.—The
hour this morning, and
line• A serious collision was the consequence. Several
line. A
were badly damaged, and one female passenger
ankle crushed, but providentially no lives were
bcalaTa herg-
lost.
Considering the nature of the accident, it is sur-
prising the amount of personalkinjury sustained wee so
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been awake to his more strictly military duties.
It is now universally agreed that Sebastopol
might twice have fallen by a coup de main : first,
from the north side after the battle of Alma, next
from the south, while fur days the dispirited Rus-
sians were expecting us to walk in. These golden
opportunities once lost have never returned, and
never will return. We regret to record our con-
viction that if they did there is not the capacity
and vigour to improve them. The rule of mili-
tary precedent, not the intuition of military
genius, is the only guide of nearly superannuated
commanders. The same remark applies to Bala-
klava and Inkerman. Too wide a line of defence
would not have been chosen at first, exposing the
poor Turks to quite undeserved reproach ; nor
would the unprotected position pointed out by Sir
DE LACY EVANS have been left so long to invite
the attack of Inkerman if a man of more vigour
and capacity had been in the chief command.

pass without adding to their already formidable
defences, or in devising new impediments to those
who may undertake the escalade of the key of
Sebastopol. He is too well aware that every
day nay more, every hour wasted must
materially enhance the difficulty of the
task, and the losses that must necessarily be
sustained in achieving a victory as decisive as that
of the 7th of June. He requires no stimulus to
urge him on to the discharge of his arduous duty;
and we may therefore confidently await the issue,
which will not, we venture to assert, be very long
deferred.

It is strange that our chief information on these
points should be obtained from Paris. It is said
that there have been several breaks in the line of
telegraph through Austria ; but surely the French
despatches would have been subjected to similar
delays as our own, and we might as easily have
heard from Lord RAGLAN as our Allies from
General PFLISSIER. We should not, however,
feel greatly surprised if we were enabled in this
very impression of The Sun to repair the omissions
above referred to, and to communicate official in-
telligence as to the amount of the actual losses
of the 18th iu killed and wounded.
We earnestly hope that these may not be so great
as had at first been rumoured. British officers
have never flinched from the conflict, or endea-
voured to save themselves at the expense of the
men under their command. They have always
contributed a full proportion to the numbers of
the killed, and we may therefore, from the fact
that nineteen perished on that fatal day, form a
tolerable estimate of the full numbers of those
placed hors de combat in the attack. We must
not, then, give way to despondency. The courage
of our troops is still unabated—their hearts beat
high with ardour, and doubtless before long we
shall receive authentic intelligence which will
more than compensate for the brief check, and
show that the Russian arsenal and the Russian
fleet are completely at the mercy of the Allied
forces, and that " the standing menace to Con-
stantinople" will be razed to its foundations,
never again to disturb the tranquillity of Europe.

We must then confess to our fears that the
suggestions we have heard are but too likely to
be true ; that the attack of the Bth was not
pressed as it might have been, and that that of the
18th was not undertaken with a sufficient force to
follow up what was gained by the martyrdom of
those who headed the assault. We must endure,
however, patiently the pain of suspense for a time,
both as to the details and to the causes of the
melancholy loss. It cannot, however, be denied,
looking at the past only, that the appointment of
Lord RAGLAN was a Cabinet error, and that his
recall is a Cabinet duty. Whether it were due
to routine or to favouritism, to his com-
panion in years, the Premier, or to one
practically greater than the Premier, to the
Horse Guards and Lord HARDINGE, or to
the Cabinet and Lord ABERDEEN—it is time that
we, like the French, should have a change. New
and younger eyes will discern new plans, and
younger energies will carry them out. The suc-
cess of the War must not be sacrificed to the con-
ceit of the Guards ; we must take the right man
wherever we can find him, whether it be from the
QUEEN'S or the Indian Service, or even, like Lord
CLIVE, from the counting-house of a merchant.
Lord PALMERSTON is now responsible for procur-
ing a military genius who can do the country's
work. He must act the dictator. Let him name
the individual whose merit and capacity he can
prove, and let him, if rebellion show itself at the
Horse Guards or at Buckingham Palace, stake
his continuance in office on carrying his noint.
Both would soon have to bow to the country.
The disasters of the 18th may, indeed, if turned
to the account they ought, be the military re-
demption of the army. The disasters of the
winter have been its Commissariat salvation.
Never will another British army seven miles from
the port be starved to death by hunger and cold,
or its wounded half murdered in what should
have been hospitals. But the annihilation of
Horse-Guards and Court favouritism has yet to
be accomplished. The nation strongly suspects
that Premiers, though responsible for the selec-
tion of the General, arc not allowed free action.
It is believed that so strong is the pressure exer-
cised by irresponsible influence in a very high
quarter that a Premier cannot easily make the
appointment which he is obliged to defend.
Something, it is thought, approaching to a
crisis is • requisite to enable an English Prime
Minister to displace an incompetent Gene•
ral, and to nominate, irrespective of all
precedent, the man of proved ability. If
the rumours of the 18th be true, they may at
least issue in silencing mischievous and irresponsi-
ble interference, and enabling or compelling Lord
PALMERSTON, no one daring to intervene, to
cream the service of India and of England, in
deference to universal and irresistible demand,
perhaps in deference to necessity itself. It is
deplorable to think that nothing but the impera-
tive necessity of redressing unbearable calamity
can get rid of the necessity of a Premier's yielding
to those whom the Crown itself cannot resist.

If the unparalleled demonstration in Ilyde-
park has not taught Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR and
the party whose work he is doing a lesson they
will profit by to the last hour of their lives, it is
because bigotry and intolerance have placed them
so far beyonl the pale of reason that no warning
can be of the slightest possible service to them.
Though it was notorious that the observance of
Sunday as a day of rest was more general than at
auy preceding time—that the public had not
got over their exasperation at the Act closing
public houses for several additional hours on
Sunday, and that our social system, more
especially as exhibited in the metropolis, presents
contrasts it is not well for the poor to brood over,
Lord ROBERT GROSVERNOR and the Sabbatarians
must wring yet further the withers of " the
galled jade," and by an interference with Sunday
trading, which would deprive thousands of their
Sunday food, and spoil the Sunday dinner of ten
thousand more, hazard all the progress Sunday
observance has made, and provoke a war of
classes by exasperating the toiling poor
against the rich, and that at a period when the
nation cannot be too united. So pestilent is the
folly of your Pharisaic legislation, and so danger-
ous is it to give way to it.

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1855.

It would of course be quite unfair to censure
the conduct of the attack which failed so painfully
on the 18th till we have the details before us.
Lord RAGLAN may have a full justification both
for the assault and the failure ; nor in the remarks
we are about to make do we wish for a moment
to prejudge the case. We shall most sincerely
rejoice if it be shown that all which took place
might have done so equally under the generalship
of a C.X3AR, a NAPOLEON, or a WELLINGTON. We
can have no wish to lower the reputation of our
own commanders. It must be borne in mind,
too, that the French attack failed equally with
that of the British.

It is with feelings of the deepest sorrow for those
who perished nobly in the attack on the Redan
and the Malakhoff Tower, and of earnest sympathy
with their surviving relatives and friends, that we
publish the names of the officers killed, or who
have since died of the wounds received on the
18th instant. They will be found in another
part of this day's impression, and will be sincerely
mourned over by every true-hearted Englishman.
It will be seen that England has been deprived of
the faithful and efficient services of nineteen of
her bravest children, whose lives have been offered
as further sacrifices to the aggressive policy of
Russia, and who have sealed with their blood the
testimony of their unflinching devotion to their
country. The names of these gallant offi-
cers will be added to the long list of those
who have perished nobly in the conflict, with-
out receiving personally the rewards of their
inestimable services, but whose daring exploits
will not speedily pass from the remembrance of
their compatriots, and whose relatives may, we
trust, receive no stinted tribute of national grati-
tude and respect.
From the intelligence since received from the
seat of War it appears that the temporary failure
of last Monday has not in any degree dispirited
the combatants, but that, on the contrary, it has
inspired an inflexible resolution to avenge the
mighty dead, and to accomplish the formidable
undertaking which they perished nobly in at-
tempting. Not a day has been lost in pressing
forward the operations of the siege ; nor do the
Russians themselves appear to consider that they
have accomp!ished anything very decisive, or in-
flicted more than a temporary check on their per
severing and determined assailants. On the fol-
lowing evening, after the termination of the brief
armistice that had been accorded for the sepulture
of those who had fallen in the fierce encounter,
they fancied that the attack was about to be re-
sumed, and for a considerable time kept up a vain
and useless cannonade on the approaches to their
works, which they supposed to be tenanted by' an
advancing foe, burning to retrieve the disasters
of the previous day. This apparently trivial cir-
cumstance exhibits in the strongest light the mag-
nitude of the apprehensions entertained by the
garrison—while the fact that on the 20th they
themselves set fire to the little faubourg,
at the extremity of the southern port, proves
beyond the possibility of doubt that they scarcely
hope to retain possession of the position which
they have so energetically defended, or again to
repulse the terrific onslaught of the chivalry of
France and England.
Meanwhile, our gallant Allies aro busily en
gaged in erecting batteries with guns of heavy
calibre on. the Mamelon Vert and other works
captured on the 7th instant, which threaten more
directly the great port. The indefatigable labours
of the Russians will thus be turned against them-
selves, and it is not impossible that the capture
or destruction of their stronghold may be accom-
plished by means of works constructed by their
own hands, and intended to annoy the enemy,
whose objects they have so materially promoted.
From what we already kno v of the promptitude
and energy of General PELISSIER, we may feel
assured that he will allow no needless respite to
the enemy who do not suffer a single moment to
)

On Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR and the Sabba-
tai ians we charge the origination of the deplorable
scene of yesterday ; on their heads must rest the
principal blame and. shame of it. It, won't do
to talk about riotous proceedings and denounce
the conduct of the mob. There are provocations
which English flesh and blood will not endure,
and the Sunday Trading (Metropolis) Bill un-
called for, partial, tyrannical, and inhumane as it
is, is one of them. Common sense all along in-
dicated the fact, and yesterday's proceedings
proved it to demonstration. "My lords and
gentlemen and clean shaven Pharisees, all of you"
they said—" What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander. We see through your hypocrisy,
execrate your tyranny, and won't, if we can help
it, tolerate your Bill." Why does not Lord PAL-
MERSTON exhibit his wonted spirit by denouncing
such Sabbatarian atrocity.

What, however, does strike us, is—the appa-
rent congruity of the mishap with most of
Lord RAGLAN'S antecedent failures. They look
like the failures of the age when timidity and
caution override enterprise ; and when the mind,
which might perhaps once have been inventive
and fertile of resources, prefers to follow routine,
and sees obstructions more readily than the means
of overcoming them. We speak with tenderness
of a period we all hope to reach, and in which we
probably, like our predecessors, shall fail to per-
ceive the change which has come over us, and
shall mistake the defects of old age for its advan-
tages, yet we must not sacrifice the national inte-
rests to our veneration for grey hairs. It cer-
tainly then does appear that the military failures
of this and the last campaign have been to a
large extent attributable to the General in
supreme command not being equal to his
post. If he wanted natural ability, the dis-
enabling effect of years has merely aggravated
the consequences of what should have been equally
well known to those who gave him the command.
The plain fact is, that in cases now fairly within
our judgment Lord RAGLAN has wanted the grand
qualities of a Commander-in-Chief. We see in
him none of that military or rather administrative
omnipresence which has distinguished all great
Generals ; and as little of that promptitude and
decision which masters events, instead of being
mastered by them. He surrounded himself with
a staff of kinsfolk who had no eyes for him, while
his own appear to have been too frequently closed.
He seemed to learn the state of his camp and hos-
pitals rather from the eyes and pens of English
correspondents than of those whose business it
was to keep him thoroughly informed of all
things ; nor had he the activity of a FREDERICK
THE GREAT or even of a NICHOLAS to test by his
own observation the efficiency
of his assistants.
Nothing is more evident in the Report of the
Sebastopol Committee than that Lord RAGLAN
was the last source from whom the Government
learned what he should have known
and- told
them ; and, indeed, that they for a time fatally
discredited private information, because they
justly thought that such information, if correct,
was of a kind that any Commander-in-Chief must
possess, and that if he possessed it, it must have
been forwarded home by extraordinary express.
Who can believe that, not to say the Duke of
WELLINGTON, but that such men as Brigadier
MAYNE, Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, or Major EDWARDS,
would either not have known, or knowing have
tolerated the
hospital mismanagement, the seven
miles of mud, and the Balaklava Harbour
But if such men would have had their eyes and
wits about them in the necessary duties of a
Chief amoral; how much more would they have

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 18 sb.

remain faithful to the policy of 'neutrality she has
hitherto followed. With respect to the third and
fourth points, the note declares that Russia will
never accept any condition which may cause the
least prejudice to her dignity and position as a
great power. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg de-
clares besides that it only considered the last pro-
positions of Austria worthy of examination, because
they laid down the two principlcs of the mare
clausum and of a special treaty between Russia and
Turkey ; but that it will never accept the principle
of a reduction of its fleet."

Voss's Gazette of Berlin contains a letter from
Vie*na, of the 19th, which says :—" The Emperor
was quite pleased with the fortifications and con-
structions in Gallicia, and, above all, the immense
works, raised as if by enchantment, at Cracow ex-
cited his astonishment. Last evening a note was
di3spatched from this place for M. de Hubner at
Paris, being the reply to the last note sent to our
Government by the French Cabinet, at the close of
the conferences. Within the last few days a num-
ber of conferences have taken place between the
Ambassadors of the Western Powers and Count
Buol. A great importance is attached to these
meetings, since it is positively stated that the
Western Powers have made at them a formal de-
claration that they do not any longer confine them-
selves to the Four Points of guarantee, but intend
establishing bases of peace more in harmony with
the efforts which they have been obliged to make
to carry on the war."