The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-22 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Jtri 8.
I have to tell you to-day of one of the most gallant affairs
which have occurred during this campaign, and in which
the bravery and gallantry of the English and French troops
shone in their old glory.

You will have heard, of course, by telegraph, of the tak-
ing of the Mamelon by the French, and of the Quarries in
advance of the Great Redan by the English, yesterday
evening at 7 o'clock.

The day before it was no mystery that something great
was impending, and everywhere one could see those un-
mistakeable, although silent signs, which are always its
forerunners, but the first active preparatory movements
began at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The 12 Turkish battalions, which were eneg.mpecl mid-
way between Balakiava and the front, were under arms by
that time ; they had nothing with them but their arms,
even their great-coats followed on bat horses. Omer Pasha
and kis staff were in advance, while the troops, dressed out
in their best clothes and white trousers, followed in co-
lumns of battalions. Near the road leading up to the rear
of the Fourth Division, just where the French camp runs,
on the extreme right of the English, the troops halted for
a moment on an open spot.

Nearly at the sme time with them a column of French
Guards advanced from the road which crosses over from
the great road of Karciesh, and passed on towards the ra-
vine, to the left of Frenchman's-bill, where already the
Zouaves, Chasseurs, and the French Infantry were waiting
to advance.

In our camp everything was likewise on the alert. The
Light Division, which occupied the sides of the ravine, had
already turned out the volunteers destined to take the
quarry, while the volunteers of the Second Division were
gradually arriving. All looked as if they were going to a
merry party rather than take a position defended by heavy
siege guns. They were talking and laughing away, while
the French were cheering the Guard which was arriving,
and singing a chanson in chorus.
It was a little after five o'clock when the first battalion
of Chasseurs passed (loin the gorge which leads towards
the plateau crowned by the Mameion. Just about this
time General Pennefather arrived with his staff when the
air rang with hurrahs, caps flew up, and whenever he
stopped for a moment ho was surrounded by the soldiers,
who seem to love him like a father. As the cheering did
not cease, he winked as if to ask them to listen for a
moment, and then said, smiling, "Leave the cheering till
you have taken the place," which was succeeded by other
cheers and cries of, "We will take it," and "Never fear
us," &c.

The passing through the narrow ravine took a good
deal of time, and it was nearly six o'clock when the Srst
column of English volunteers fell in with one loud cheer.
As you may imagine, every one of the remaining soldiers
followed with intense interest the columns vanishing out
of sight, and crowds hastened to the heights to see what
was going on. No one seemed to entertain the slightest
doubt but that the attack would be successful. This con-
viction of the certainty of success, without taking away
anything from the interest felt in the attack, dissipated a
great deal of that anxiety which naturally prevails on
such an important occasion. The Marnelon ani the
Quarry are the keys of the Malakhoff Tower and the
Medan, and both the latter are nearly sure to fall with the
possession of the former, but certainly cannot be taken
without them.

While the French and English columns proceeded
through the ravine—the first to the entrance of the plateau
leading up to the Mamelon, and the second to the trenches
on our right attack—the Turks marched down towards
Inkerman, and occupied the position formerly held by our
Second Division, and so gallantly defended in the Battle
of Inkorman.

This was partly to support our right wing, partly to
serve as a reinforcement to the French, who intended to
take the Ouvrages Blanes, which opposed them on that
side.

Expectation was every moment rising to a higher pitch,
when, just about 7 o'clock, three rockets were fired from
the French trenches to our right, and immediately after-
wards a brisk fusillade was heard in all directions, and soon
atter the French were seen rushing up the Mamelon. The
Marnelon is, as its name indicates, a mound crowning the
plateau which forms the western shore of Careening
Creek. The plateau on which the Mamelon lies is crowned,
moreover, by the larger mound on which the Tower of
Malakhoff is situate. This plateau forms a continuation
of the crest now occupied by the French advanced trench,
so that in leaving the most advanced rifle-pits the ascent
to the Mamelon begins immediately, but very gradually.
The distance, which is not above 500 yards, was overcome
in a moment, and in a few minutes afterwards the French
were close to the embrasures and the parapet. Having no
scaling ladders there, a stop occurred for one moment, and
the furious musketry which was heard, and two guns fired
at the very moment when the French were already in the
embrasures, showed that the ascent, if short, was hotly
contested. But the smoke of these guns had scarcely with-
drawn when the French were already seen on the parapet,
and the musketry was heard inside the walls---,a sure sign
that the French were in.

The victory, however, was not yet won, for the Russians,
reinforced from the Malakhoff Tower, attacked stoutly on
their side, supported at the same time by the heavy guns
of the Tower and the eight-gnu battery on the other side.
They possessed themselves of the trench connecting the Ma-
melon with the Tower, and opened a heavy musketry fire.
Oue could see quite plainly how the reinforcements ran
out of the Malakhoff and hastened to occupy the advanced
trench. The French, falcon by surprise by this unexpected
rush, were obliged to fall back half way down the hill,
where they remained under cover until the reinforcements
came up, and a second rush as fast a's the first put them in
possession once more of the Marnelon. A steady light
shown at ono of the embrasures, and followed by a signal
of three rockets, stopping the firing of our guns against
the Mamelon, announced the fact. Not content to keep
it, a good number of the French began pursuing the enemy
and advancing against the Malakhoff Tower. It was on the
plateau behind the Mamelon and the connecting ridge be-
tween this latter and the Malakhoff Tower thata fearful Inas-
sac:e took place. Notwithstanding the quick firing of the
heavy gun s of the Tower, and the enfilading fire of the Russian
eight-gun battery to the right of the Mamelon, and not-
withstanding the fire of some of the ships in the harbour,
our gallant allies succeeded in 'reaching and ascending the
Malakhoff Tower—at least, a part of it, but it was impoS-
sible to keep it. A powder magazine or a mine exploded
inside, and the French, after having spiked seven of the
guns, retired to the Mamelon, which they kept, notwith-
standing all the exertions of the enemy, and still keep.
I do not wish to interrupt the narrative of the taking of
the Mamelon by inserting simultaneous events which took
place in the Quarry and on the French right towards the
Ouvrages Blanes. _ _ _

Our troops, ag I said, went down to our right attack
(Gordon's Battery), and occupied the advanced trench. At
the same time that the French hastened up to the Mame-
lon our gallant fellows, with the 7th, 88th, 34th, and 31st
in advance, gallantly carried the Quarry. In order to form
an idea what the Quarry is I must give you a description
of the locality. The ravine of Karabelaia, Through which
the Woronzoff-road runs, separates the Redan from the
Malakhoff Tower and Mamelon, and the Woronzoff-road
separates our right from the left attack. The Quarry is on
the side of the steep hill which is crowned by the Redan,
about half-way between our most advanced trench of the
right attack and the base of the Redan. Not only this
latter, but likewise the Malakhoff Tower, and even a part
of the eight-gun battery, can sweep over it. Not-
withstanding ,all these difficulties, the Quarry was ours
in just the time required to go there from the advanced
trench ; and an officer of the 7th, whose name I could
not ascertain, and Captain Meynott, of the 88th, were
the first on the parapet, for the Quarry had been converted
into a regular rifle-pit. But from the exposed position of
this place, and from its importance, it being the key of the
Redan, it was one of those spots less difficult to take than
to keep. During the whole night the Russians were mak-
ink one series of continual murderous attacks, without
being able to make any impression on our gallant fellows.
Neither shell, nor grape, nor bullet, nor bayonet- could do
anything against them. It is scarcely possible to for
ras
complete idea of the awful situation in which our so c
were.
On the extreme right the French took,
ficulty, the Ouvragcs Blanes, on the east side of Careening
Bay, which were afterwards occupied by two regiments of
Turks. without any dif-
ficulty,
the pressure of time and events yon mst. ust nlogtivexepseucut
the details of these affairs until the next po
on this occasion only their general features.
During the night the cannonade and musketrybatteries
scarcely
they enfilade.
ceased for one moment; even the Inkerma
busy firingat the French in the Ouvrages Blanes, which
This morning the bombardment
eutiud the
on our side was resumed
again with great vigour, and
_whole day
The French repaired the Maraelou works as much as pos-
sible, and connected them with their former advanced
trenches, so that they can go up now without difficulty.
We on our side connected likewise the Quarry with the
advanced trench of our right attack, and strengthened it.
The French, I hear, want to wait a few clays until they
attack again; but every night strong parties are going
down on our side as well as on theirs, in order to be ready
against any attack from the Russians, and to be prepared
to take advantage of any opportunity which may occur.
The spirit of the men, notwithstanding the fatigues and
dangers of the position, is really heroic. Death seems to
have lost all his terrors from being a daily companion, and
his appearance, in whatever shape ho may come, is no
longer an event. To-day, for instance, by a curious coin-
cidence, Capt. Bingham a Edward Muller, of the Ist
Royals, was carried, to the sound of the Dead March in

Saul, to Cathcart's-hill, to repose at the side of the heroe
of Inkerman, and while the procession passed it was Diet
by the reliefs going down. So long as the funeral convoy
and the marching troops were alongside everything Was
silent, impressed by the solemnity of the moment ; bat as
so,‘n as the corpse passed they fill again to singing and.
laughing.

JUNE 9 (3.IOBNiNG).
The night passed quietly— that is to say, as far as attacks
on either side were concerned—but the shelling was exces-
sively heavy during the whole time.
these battles as enormous. 25,000 men are spoken of
as
Russian prisoners and deserters represent their loss in
their loss since the reopening of the bombardment ; 1.5,0vu
alone during the attack the other day.
There is a truce to-day for the burying- of the dead on
both sides.

A PICTURE OF WAS AND IS•

The photograph photograph is in daily use now under the maga-
sun of the Crimea. We who have been sitting at home
under the grey sky, which has hidden the summer sun
from us till now, please ourselves with thinking of the
sun-pictures which may be gratifying the eyes 0f„e44,11r
have
countrymen in old Taurida, and with seeing in " -
mind's eye " the groups which we should like to
brought home when our victorious armies return.h, one
There was the bright, handsome town of ICertc
day lately. What a picture it must have been when the
townspeople were about their ordinary business, and t e
ladies were abroad in the streets, shopping and °leo/
oth
visits, to talk about what was doing at the er en
_.
the peninsula, as if it were in a far country array °ail
dent were they of safety while the Russian arn3Ydsil
between them and the camp of the Allies. 1)337 ny with
they had seen long trains of waggons pass by, ladewerewbl
supplies, which would, as they were informed,
their defenders to tire out the invaders. They
Withe
told nothing but the good news, and were elate
s.
pride in the resources of the Czar, and looked with_eceoee
tempt on the folly of the infidels who attempted vi°l
pro'
against Holy Mother Russia. Some of them svere idr)ivs
bably counting the days which would suffice
away the foe, and leave the road clear for tharsenneolialiesissdeer;
bring their households down for their
petal al
turned all eyes towards the heights, where a h°l3',
rejch their homes, d nal.'
tbha et I
Paradiseiglitteringno
anrmtol I::
the sou
world.t h coast ,
ir down upon the town. Before the Bay ladles
.
arty filling
were passing
parties
riesthoe ridg e,ci and
couldgra
Inwhaicuihotmheltj,
f the ene-' tes
the streets ; and when at home they.foun
standing wide, and British soldiers co ~ hoe nee
with '1 uastlgye e... vi
jai
spoi.s. What a picture it rnuP wakenrude a
unspoiled by bloodshed, but in all else 3
mg from the dream of security,
n board the
Another picture was presently to be Seen e- or in rich
ships. Sailors dressed in gaudy ball ar,a3"! turs, were
Russian uniforms, while heaps of plate and Pie 0 fetched
put up to a mock auction, where the treasure
A.
silver
nothing because of the difficulty of orriage' to buy,
salver to be had for five shilling, and nebodyded,
be.
becathe it was so heavy ! Mirth and file abounarose 50
cause nobody was killed or hurt ; and
P'° quill
owes'
ming forth. laden
in
batteries and magazines were blown upin the
sian by Russian hands, and exploded harmleY
air. A singular picture it must have been l role great
Next day, there was another, on the verge of the
barren steppe, sloping gradually down • tbe hot
precipice at Simpheropol. Behind there " 01, with
not a house upon it—nothing but the
the nests of the night hawk, mildthe nere,hieling
thyn; h), the
anecYhwee"
stalking cranes. Before and below were the
; ebewhere the
on the slope far beneath, and the l'av'e 8 dwellings
brooks were leaping seawards, and Tartar i between
peeped from their ledges or the hill-eides, an"
rose nigh
the gorges of the mountains the blue sea line behind,
toiniethe horizon. Instead 9f looking before.orb bitotg
scouts of the army and of the anxious In a,„„taies
were gazing eastwards, on the watch for the !r,„..hea
from the Sea of Azoff. For a day or two
and peopled
theYr;-egia-
eine vain ; and then the news could no longer• will
aled that no more supplies would come rocefoth
They were probably told that supp'iea would nr.,e, in A
come from the north, across the Putrid Sea. P over the
few hours more, a horseman would come scouring
steppe, to tell that no more aid would arrive fro:0 toed
chi—that the enemy had burnt the stores and Pa tbe
the ships, and had the command of the nassalflooired
Putrid Sea. The blank faces of the multitude looked
on one another in disma must have wade a„rdeepli
which the potent sun himself' could not staraP 6"
as despair on the minds of all who raw it• ofeenial
e fie g
If this was a picture of despair, there was ell, earooP.,,.
hope, not very far oft Those ho attended Inyailey or
the Tchernaya, tell us of the slopes
Sardinian, French, and English, who swept tne,s horses
where the ever)"
were knee deep in grass and flowers, and where,of the
winter might now grow sleek, enjoying
poor quadruped which survived the banclsn'PB clover,
after pickieg up barley from the mud, and elroolt the
night with tail turned to the midnight blast- .s horse.
the Val ins DO
change to the soldier is not less than that to his h°
Under the spring sunshine and rains the neW„gfast 09
nature will serve those whom she had
about the camps are growing their vegetables '
°severe .
put to o°, A fin!
probation. And the good fellows see, not if opals
promise of vegetable dainties, after a long °ll4 there' •
meat, cooked or raw, but there is Soyer am° dui
ntiet
turning their very salt meat and biscuit int% A 10r
and promising dinners fit for noblemen Where° of tnee
coffee
ohoaffatrehtelilnetgdh
actftrl
more sunshine shall have given them the resou.oro
With
gardens. The hospital patients no longer Log vil
cup which
shetilicaheri
renews
nftoehowedtihtb:
nu gt. s wtwahtactoh itswh ii 1
An:egeneidt.
the fnt,:
pi sick
hungry eyes and say of their broth and Tie° le- 000 t.-1;
welcoming him as a guestA
wneolurldstrweangket
s• nag
ythe s.Aielr•
again. Soyer is the magician b haill'io a netinea
enough ; but one would rather see him anielree 0"-fi'
and shrunk soldiery, who say that his is ttleg;-tlerher;
, d that he is worth all the phy
eine an
Not far from the spot, down in the barbco_usLo before
there is a spectacle which assuredly was neyer°,o se ter
siaiatis p _.. et° ,
—the returned prisoners and deserters sent 1111: severer%
topol. The sending those men back has hell oeso P_i
blow to Russia than taking any number o_aoted fro,n;
Boners. Those poor wretches cannot be Prev:pieshorn'ci
telling what it is fatal to the Cz.a. that his Pe iota ells
hear. They tell that the British soldier fs gray bas
no slave. They tell that no one in all Y 3; no cue n
been taken from home against his fromwill--tua' big Slee.er
those tens of thousands has been drarra'''ed to the Vl'.
at midnight, bound and shaven, anddriven
33
of then:
'like a beast to the slaughter—that ever°, ahis office_
considers himself of the same species witnesk what
the
and his Sovereign—that every one rnel If law', in
1,,,,
has to say, and lives under the protectior? 0. sra la the
law of kindness. They tell what priesuottering
own
camps of the Allies—levying n° te'' wne their t.
tnises instead of threats, and giving ne .4 for tueh'.
comforts to sufferers, instead of Pilf IGlreek Chu fed 1
the in the le- ef
own profit, like the Popes of
They tell of the solemn Sunday do at
camps, and what the clergy say the beds eh
and 6
eached 'V:, ,a/i.,htehe
the dying. If what these men say 5.,
in the Olcreiael
more must have spread in the othehra
provinces of Russia. The insurrection
reading
s reading so that._
not put down. On the contrary it P be out of the.
airrection—le 's
The clergy are having,
way of the impending vengeaae %operated peaceosa_
shat f the e
their turn first, at the ban 0 ost escape b.l r'
the landowners are hastening to Warsaw to
they re t a fate to°
try, and the nobles know or inee. on it.
horrible for the mind's eye t •t. l t is enough to kn.ol".
the serfs have done with the celerge,
There is no need to dwell ourupo
side, the seeds of
tote
that, without any plotting on
camps into the forth
affection are carried from ont. It steadily to
a
e seem likelY to
0,
into the heart of the hostile pir ial Prg
than the meter o
more for the success of the right
the devoted citY•sele
jectiles which we send to burst on
striking sPeer'' er,
of the enemy, and that the ideaiyl feeling-3 sent e
group in that city can present a more
returned
prise)! _
Wan those which cluster round the ,_hat the Pl'
bee
pious invaders are really like. 51, bale dill
listening with amazement ti his report or µ+h
at
is another picture which might ea i the be a
t° ea e
taken on the spot, so as to be presented ressbt.
eye; but none is less needed, because it
_.rernee Pito,
rate
every heart. Lord Raglan has visited Flo
ingale in her sickness. Who the Te el
who can tell what he knows must have been lee sve
lie -'.` aidg
ran's heart when he entered her presen,ci_eio own)
eat,
cannot tell-eor te'
to the Crimea, as we now know, not 0 , his own)
went, but in obedience to the orders 0' ;id Ps ed, •
He witnessed the horrors of the winter, e ttlirts
before his eyes ever since, wherev ,_er b.,.14
have sickened at the details of ...b, be, Iv'sniste
the graves of his soldiers. If all
ib°:u nos bas
how must it have been with his I 1-1,04 olbole-
passed forty years in superintending .8.'00,3 in a ever
tion, has seen it fail, and all his toil 1: wag towards
sale misery and death, worse than roeireliegs .1101.
inflicted, what must have been his le all offiele•enal
ut a f roe
that woman whose daring set at noug. A„d pro e „ode
pediments, whose simple sense confoun" 0 mu", The
pedantry, and whose devotedness redeemed grail° ~ she
whom a cruel negligence was sending t° t 8e
(fief..., soli
the irlii°
old general long ago gave a limb to - bad W have
who lay pale and debilitated before himao prust eh
given her life. His characteristic calor, haired
of
0,-.on r
nearly given way before a pressure of ell -.what. a
admiration, such humbling gratitude as e „Irretendilithee'
man has seldom felt towards a woman s01•1-1;iras tf° tba
so careless of praise, so unconscious of her.ell a 8 e'
gratitude of the great and powerful, as ''e t ha"
lowly and helpless.ns- ea•
Tile general commanding in this great hertze/tall •
felt that he was rendering his homage to d owe° tf
humbled themselves at that moment
tote. The hououts of years, sex, rank. nu aigo -..
lots J• 0
before the re ser
of youth, womanhood, simplicity, and v° ifaelis 0
vice, rendered effectual by sense and the sea the eels
of devotedness. Such a picture does not need
1,
to paint it. There is a source of light and_ mare faith'
every human heart which will render it eve,:_t this
'
fully. Sun pictures fade, sooner or later ; Jetues.
lose nothing by the lapse of ages.—Da ill/ l'

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permission of Colonel Pay, the splendid Band of ''be be
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; also four other first-rate bands of 037‘0.
ebdahencdoerldatetdheonwethatehoecreapsrioonve. favourable, no doubt
_tPwll
caDvaitsioconofvspzefßorsryotnohgrewlipiululrmpb;rperesent. The town is t°l°
squared opposite Nolan „a 01
,8
HnoofEt.geoll,fotrsaticwtaiNnyVg: iatihaseelliwilii;blkiretborh:
wiscovered several human skeletons, some of W tiy
reemreaiin a perfect state of preservation. The" of the
mortality are supposed to be relics
severeo
old Crnosmowfolian wars, when Galway underwent 3 ore
did.. protracted siege, as the place where the bones , ~..
discovered is not far from where the old wall stow.
adWaY Vindica4er.