The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11. 1854.

hearsay and vague rumour, while Prince MENscru-
KOFF narrates the details with a particularity that

entitles him to a certain degree of credence, more

especially as he has been, on several former oc-
casions, proved to have been tolerably accurate as

to the main features of the different events.
There are also a variety of other rumours, but for
the present we shall mix. look to those which may
be regarded as official.
It is apparently impossible to reconcile the de-
spatches of General CANROBERT and Prince
MENsonixoFF. These come from persons on the
spot, who had abundant means of ascertaining the
facts, and who were bound to tell, not merely the

truth, but the whole truth. In a case of such

gravity the suppressio Teri would be just as
bad as the suggestio falsi ; and concealment,

with the manifest intention of deceiving

the people, and inducing them to arrive at errone-

sus conclusions, would be just as bad as the pro-

mulgation of a wilful and deliberate falsehood.

Now we cannot for a moment suppose that Gene-

ral CANROBERT would be guilty of such mendacity.

He has displayed too many high and sterling

qualities to induce us to credit on anything short

of the, most decisive and unequivocal testimony a

chart:e so serious. We are bound to give him
credit for candour and
*honour ; and the claim
is the more urgent, inasmuch as he has never yet
-attempted to varnish matters, or to depict the ex-
isting state of affairs too much colevir de rose.
We yesterday gave the despatch of the French
General, but as so much may depend on the
ipsissima verbs, we here repeat it. it is of the fol-
lowing tenour : .

" The siege works continue. On the 25th'the
Russian army showed itself on the plains of Bala-
klava ; there had been no serious engagement, but
the English cavalry had sustained some loss, owing
to a charge pushed too far against the enemy.
On the 26th, 5,000 men of the garrison made
a sortie against the left wing of the English.
This attack was repulsed, and the enemy thrown
back into the place with considerable loss."

Now the attack of 30,000 men, or even of
half the number, could not be spoken of in these
terms—more especially if they had taken posses-
sesion of sundry redoubts, and held even two of
them, from whence they could greatly annoy the
lines of the Allied Forces, and impede the commu-
nications with the base of operations from whence
all the supplies of provision and ammunition
should be drawn. Nor would a loss of 400 or
500 men in killed and wounded have been spoken
of in such terms. To judge from the tone of the
French General it was a mere Russian demonstra-
tion followed by a slight skirmish, which could not
be termed a serious engagement, and which left
no results worth speaking of. He also speaks of
the sortie of the 26th as having been made by
5,0'00 of the garrison, and declares that it " was
repulsed, and the enemy driven back with consi-
derable loss."

._•.'

Now Prince MENSCHIKOFF makes a regular
pitched battle of the affair of the 25th, in which
a most important triumph was achieved. He says:
" Our offensive operations against the besiegers
began to-day, and were crowned with success."
This is a grandiloquent commencement, be-
speaking the Imperial attention to the sub-
sequent events. He narrates, in the tone of a
victorious General, the arrangements made, and
the brilliant manner in which they were earri el
into practical execution—how four redoubts, in
which were captured eleven pieces of cannon,
were still in their possession. (It will be recol-
lected that this despatch purports to have been
written on the evening of the 25th.) He also
declares that the principal redoubt of the enemy,
which was defended by Turks, was carried by as-
sault by the Azoff Regiment of Infantry, and then
adds, "The English Cavalry also opposed our de-
tachment, under the command of Lord CARDIGAN.
It charged with extraordinary impetuosity the bri-
gade of Hussars of the Gth division of Cavalry,
but, taken in flank by four squadrons of the com-
bined regiment of Lancers of the reserve, and
thrown back on the cross fire of the guns of the
12th and 16th infantry divisions, which fired
grape, the enemy suffered considerable loss. At
the same moment that it attacked our Hussars the
English cavalry also charged at full gallop the
heavy guns of the Don battery, No. 3, where
some artillerymen were sabred."
From this it will be found that MENSCHIKOFF
does not in any way allude to a conflict with the
English infantry or the French troops. He would
have it implied that there was such a contest, but
does not expressly mention it. He also speaks of
his own losses in the following manner :—" Our
loss in infantry does not exceed 300 killed and
wounded. The loss of the cavalry and artillery is
not yet known, even by approximation." But when
speaking of the English loss, only alludes to that of
the English cavalry, which, it is believed, amounts to
500 men. From this statement we may readily
conceive that the affair has been greatly mag-
nified, not only by the Russian General, but by
the captain who gathered the accounts for Lord
STRATFORD, and that General CANROBERT is not
so far wrong as might be imagined on
the first cursory perusal of the other accounts.
A view that is materially strengthened by the
silence of Lord RAGLAN, who must have forwarded
some communication if the affair were so serious
as had been represented. We must, therefore,
beg our friends not to be disheartened, or to suffer
their spirits to be depressed by the gloomy ac-
counts in circulation, but hopefully and patiently
to abide the result of the authentic intelligence,
which esumot much longer be deferred.

So, then, the boasted. Austrian co-operation in
the Principalities has come to this, security for
Bessarabia against the Allies, the consequent
liberation of reinforcements from that province
to the Crimea, with the further consequence of
harder work and heavier sacrifices for our troops
before Sebastopol ! Even the Times is now
obliged to take up the very position occupied by
The Sun from the hour that disgraceful move-
ment was encouraged by our Government, and
lauded by our great compeer as the perfection of

diplomacy. Even the Times now laments over
the transference to the unfortunate provinces of
" the same obtuse and unrelenting despotism as
saddens the plains of Lombardy, or the marshes
of Venice," and admits that Austria has attempted
to act th© sovereign where she came as an
Ally. Probably, however, Austrian despotism
might have passed unnoticed but for Austrian
military villanies. What language of execration
can suit the cool selfishness, and the base injury
inflicted on the Allies by the following conduct ?
Austria, through the infatuated counsels of Eng-
land, is admitted by the SULTAN inti the provinces ;
she enters only as fast as the SULTAN'S troops
clear them for her ; she fires not a gun, draws not
a sabre, loses not a soldier, if soldiers such cowards
ought to be called. She promises to hold the pro-
' winces for the SULTAN, and insults all his superior
officers, civil and military. What the poor provin-
cials suffer only transpires now and then. But
the crowning infamy is
vic-
tory of the Alma was gyaeitn
etdo, caonmde
it
wT
ah
se
en r_
I'nt at Vienna, as elsewhere, that still
afore splendid " consequences" had followed ; the
poltroon sends straightway to the French Emperor

to congratulate the Allies on the victory and " its
consequences !" Austria will unblushingly pro-

.
claim herself the bosom friend of the supposed

omnipotent victors. Nor was that all. In an
official paper, lauded to the skies by the Anglo-
Austrian press—the same which is now compelled

;o denounce her—she tells Prussia that she can-

not interfere with the operations of the Allies in

he provinces they suffered her to enter.

course not ; they did not admit her there
to impede them. But mark the consist-

ency in baseness of this degraded Power.

When she was entering the provinces the retreat-
ing Russians faced about a little, and the craven

Generals of Austria halted immediately. It turned

out after the congratulations that the Allies in-
stead of taking Sebastopol by a coup de main, at
the North or South, have some long and hard

work before them. Immediately Austria quakes
before Russia, eats her words about not interfer-
ing with the Allies, and hinders Opt PACIIA
from making any movement on Bessarabia ! The

movement is essential to the plans of the Allies ;

,he prevention of succour for Sebastopol depends

greatly upon it ; yet she coolly alleges that it wil

embarrass her with Russia, if the latter should
think it necessary for strategic reasons to re-

enter the provinces. The brave congratulater
on the Alma victory and its consequences, the bold
respondent to Prussian demands, quivers like an
aspen at the thought of Russian bayonets, and
sends them to shed the blood of the Allies lest
they should spill a drop of hers.
Now, really, will our Cabinet, and that of
Lours NAPOLEON, endure such insufferable, such
revolting assumption and meanness any longer ?
Who and what are the perjured recreant Haps-
burgs that they should be parleyed with any
longer ? What does any country in Europe owe
to the last dregs of a long race of superstitious
and cruel tyrants that they should be permitted
thus to play fast and loose with all their en-
gagements, and with the very lives of our gallant

soldiers ? Unpardonable, indeed, was the blander
of substituting HESS for OMER PACHA at Bucha-
rest. But are France and England afraid of him
there ? Let him not deceive himself. Let his
master be informed—if a drop of English blood
still flows in the veins of our aristocratic governors
—that this game will be tolerated no longer ;
that we mean to use the provinces as Turkish
soil ; that we pin Austria to her original pro-
fessions, and to her language to Prussia, and that
we would sooner see all Europe in flames—all
Lombardy, Hungary, and Poland rising together
—than permit one Russian soldier more in the
Crimea, in consequence of her treachery and
disloyalty. Is she, forsooth, to be permitted
to spare her tailor-made soldiers, the well-
drubbed survivors of Hungarian bravery, and the
saved by Russian intervention in 1848 ; and are
we to be so profuse of the lives of ours ? Why, if
OMER PACHA is not to keep the Russians from the
Crimea, why did not Austria advise him to go and
fight them there while she took the benefit of his
battles on the Danube ?
If this last insult be endured by the Western
Powers, however, lot the ignominy be transferred
to the right backs. Let Austria have the repu-
tation of knowing but too well the stuff we are
made of, and bid us "hang a calf-skin on our re-
creant limbs"—she having worn it long
enough. Are not Turkey and we iden-
tified. ? Is not a restriction put on her move-
ments a restriction put upon ours ? And are
we, then, to suppose that Lord RAGLAN and
General CANROBERT would permit these feather-
bed Generals in white to bid. them let Ismail alone
if they were on the Danube and OMER PACHA in
the Crimea? It is even known that Lord RAGLAN
had urged the Turkish General to give the Rus-
sians ample work in Bessarabia, and therefore this
Austrian insult is hardly less than a direct one.
We will assume, however, that " timid counsels"
cannot so prevail in our Cabinet as to respect
Austrian cowardice at the cost of our soldiers' lives.
We will believe rather that a special messenger is
on the road to Vienna, Bucharest, and the Danube
to inform Austria, her generals and the Turkish
generals, that England will not tolerate such
assumption, such perfidious and dastard selfish-
ness, one hour longer. If not, the time of Par-
liament's meeting is near at hand, and there are
Lords and Commons who will know how to vin-
dicate the respect due to ourselves and our Ally,
aad to make Europe aware that English Cabinets
cannot Gower before such a Government as Aus-
tria but at their peril. As to Austria herself—
detested by her oppressed subjects, detested by
Russia, detested by France and England—her
ultimate fate is titter dismemberment, and con-
raction to her own little hereditary states.

GUlf-BOATS VERSUS THREE-DECKERS.

COURT CIRCULAR.

' - , WINDSOR, Nov. 10.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess Of
Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness,
Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. N. and
Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour,
Sir George Couper, Sir Charles Eastlake, Major-General
Wylde, Lieutenant-Colonel Vyse, commanding officer
Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards,
commanding 18th Royal Irish, Colonel the Hon.
Charles Maynard, commanding officer Essex Rifles,
and Mr. Glover.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and played the following pieces
March, " Prince of Wales" Costa. 1
Overture (on the theme " God save the Queen") Schnieder.
Selection, " Diamans de la Couronne" Auber.
Quick Step, composed for the birth-day of the
Prince of Wales by the Duchess of Kent.
Galop, " Prince of Wales" Seaman.
The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the
Castle, and performed the following selection :
Overture, " Der Freischntz" Weber.
Solo, Violin, " Carnival de Venice" M. Sainton.
Selection, " Robert le Diable" Meyerbeer.
Le Panquet des Dames Strauss.
After dinner her Majesty had an evening party, to
which were invited the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Phipps, the
Hon. Mrs. Grey, and Lady and Miss Couper.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, walked
in the Home Park this morning.
Prince Albert went out hunting, attended by Captain
Du Plat. . _

_._
The Hon. Lucy Maria Kerr and the Hon. Mary Bul-
tee,l have succeeded the Hon. Mary Seymour and the
Hon. Matilda Paget as Maids of Honour in Waiting.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attended by
the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston,
the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, and Earl Granville.
The Council sat nearly three hours.
A deputation from the parish of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields had an interview with the President of the Gene-
ral Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, on the
subject of the nuisance created by unloading offensive
matter at the Adelphi Wharf. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Cobbett, Chairman of the Board of Guar-
dians ; Mr. W. H. Dalton, Vioe-Chairman of the Board
of Guardians ; and Messrs. Barton and Clemence,
guardians, accompanied by Messrs. Latter, Coll, New-
all, Elder, Laing, J. Allen, Green, and Hill, inhabitants
of Adelphi-terrace ; and also by Dr. Cross J. Leonard,
district surgeon, and Mr. C. Griffiths, clerk to the Board
of Guardians.

Sir George Grey arrived in town on Thursday evening
from his seat, Falloden, Northumberland, and attended
the Cabinet Council yesterday.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury has recently
accepted the- office of President of the Weekly Tract
Society.
The Hon. Edward Erskine has left town, to resume
his duties as Secretary of Legation at the Court of
Turin.

Count de Goltz left Berlin on the 4th for his post a 3
Prussian Ambassador at Athens. It is said that he is
charged expressly with the task of doing all he can to
maintain a good accord between the Western Powers
and the Greek Government.
The Baron de Geer, who for a long period has filled
the office of Secretary of the Swedish Legation at the
Court of St. James's, is about to leave London for the
Hague, having been appointed, provisionally, Chargd
de Affa'res at the Court of the Netherlands. The baron
will be succeeded as Secretary of Legation in this country
by Baron de Wrede, whose arrival from Sweden is
shortly expected.

The Duke of Portland, who is staying in compara-
tive retirement at Welbeck Abbey, Notts, has improved
in health. Mr. Evelyaa and Lady Charlotte Denison
have been visiting his grace during the past week.
The Marquis of Salisbury, who came to town to be
present at the grand civic bacquvt, returned to Hatfield

House yesterday.
The Earl and Countess Craven and family leave Combo
Abbey, near Coventry, on Monday next, for Brighton,

for the winter.
The Earl and Countess of Durham, who have been
visiting their noble relatives, the Earl and Countess of
Elgin, at Broom Hall, Fifeshire, have arrived at Lamb-
ton Castle, Stockton-upon-Tees, for the winter.
The Countess of Jersey has returned to Middleton-
park, Oxfordshire, from town. The Hon. Captain and
Lady Elizabeth Villiers are staying at Sulby Hall,
Northamptonshire, where they are entertaining a select

circle.
The Earl of Chesterfield is entertaining a party of
sporting noblemen and gentlemen with the sports of the
field, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. Lord Stanhope is doing
duty with his regiment, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue),

at Windsor.
The Dean of Waterford and Miss Ho-are have ar
rived in town from England, em route to Waterford.
Sir Thomas Fetherston, Bart., is appointed to the
commission of the peace for Wexford, on the recommen-
dation of Lord Carew, lieutenant of the county.
Sir Janes Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P., has for some days
past 'seen on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Hogg, of
Castle-street, Lisburn. About 40 years ago Mr. Hogg,
then a' very young man, left that town for India, and
shortly after his arrival in Calcutta was promoted to one
of the most lucrative situations connected with the
Supreme Court. On his return home he settled in Lon-
don, where the high position he had held in the East
gave him great influence with the lords of Leadenhall-
street ; and no long term elapsed until he found himself
a director of that far-famed congregation of merchants—
the East India Company. Sir J. W. Hogg, though up-
wards of 60 years of age, is still a very fine, stout-look-
ing man. His venerable parent, we understand, has
reached her 90th year.—Bel fast Mercury.
It is said that intimation has been given to the fol-
lowing gentlemen that the office of deputy-lieutenant of
the city of Cork will be conferred upon them :—the
Mayor, W. Fagan, M.P., F. B. Beamish, M.P., A. J.
Wood, and T. Tobin, Esqs.
DEATH OF GEORGE &BUDDER; ESQ.—It is with
much regret we (Saunders's News Letter) have to an-
nounce the death of our valued fellow citizen and late
magistrate for the city of Dublin, George Studdert, Esq.,
of Sackville-street. Mr. Studdert was 71 years of age,
and while strength was spared him a very active mem-
ber of many public boards and charitable societies. He
was descended of an ancient county Clare family, being
brother to Thos. Studdert, Esq., D.L., Bunratty Castle,
and of Admiral Studdert, Pella.
HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.—As a funeral procession
was proceeding to the church at Roystone on Thursday
last, a hare, with the Ecclesfield pack of hounds close
upon her, came at full speed down the town, and poor
puss was killed right in the midst of the mourners.—
Doncaster Chronicle.
Tax CHOLERA. —LIvEEFooL, Nov. 10.—The cholera
has disappeared from Liverpool. No new cases have
been reported for up wards of a week, and there remains
only one patient under treatment in the parish.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who have passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certifi-
cates to practise, on Thursday, November 9 :—Benja-
min Richardson, Glinsdale, Whitby, Yorkshire ; Dal-
ton Adolphus Haffenden, Hanwell ; Henry Allnutt
Dodd, North Stoke, Oxfordshire.
Da., KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.—Several new
and highly interesting models have lately been added to
Dr. Kahn's Anatomical Museum in the Haymarket,
upon some of which a lecture was delivered last night by
Dr. Sexton. The principal of them is a full-length
figure, which can be taken into very many pieces, the
elaborate execution of which was the admiration of a
numerous audience.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.—LISBON, NOV. 1, 1854.—The
Board of Health has issued the following orders of 28th
Oct., declaring Bahia and Rio Janeiro "free from disease"
fromc aadml
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rtrohommS e2lpolttt.hh;
cloacnettd.:, declaringaalltte altering
innggthe order
order of 2d August ; order of 14th Aug. ;
"suspected of cholera,"
Gibraltar, from 20th August, altering the order of 7th
October.
THE ASSYRIAN.—Another splendid clipper, built by
Messrs. Walter Hood and Co., of Aberdeen, has just
been added to the shipping of that pert. She is named
the Assyrian, is the property of Mr. Alexander Nicol,
and is expected to rank with the fastest on the passage
between London and Australia. Another fine ship, the
Walter Hood, of 1,100 tons, has made the passage from
Sydney to London in 78 days ; and the Frances Henty,
built by the Messrs. Hall, the originators of this model,
has come from Melbourne in 72 days, each carrying
cargoes nearly double their tonnage measurement.
ENCOUNTER WITH POACHlRS.—Considerable alarm
(says the Kent Herald) was created at Fredville-park,
the seat of J. P. Plumptre, Esq., on Saturday morn-
ing last, shortly after three o'clock, by a serious encoun-
ter with a number of poachers. Several reports of guns
were heard in the vicinity of the pheasant preserves, and
the head gamekeeper, with his assistants, went to the
spot to ascertain from whom they proceeded, when they
found foist. poachers. An attempt was immediately made
either to capture them or drive them off the premises,
when the poachers (all strangers) turned on the keepers
with their guns and sticks, and subsequently succeeded
in making their escape, leaving one of their guns behind
them. The head gamekeeper, besides receiving many
serious contusions, had his arm broken. Information
was quickly conveyed to the authorities, but no traces
of the offenders have as yet been obtained.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The first session of
the council for the current academical year was held on
Saturday, the 4th inst. The Andrew's scholarships of
1001. and 60/. were conferred respectively on Mr. Wil-
liam Britten Jones and Mr. Henry Mason Bompas.
The Liston clinical gold medal, for surgical cases, was
awarded to Mr. John Zachariah Lawrence. The Fel-
lowes' clinical medals, for medical cases, were obtained,
the gold by Mr. Stephen Nesfield, the silver by Dr.
Frederick G. Clarkson. The Signor Conte Arrivabene
was appointed substitute, for the session, for the profes-
sor of Italian language and literature, Signor Gallenga,
absent at present at Turin, in discharge of his duty as
deputy for Trino to the Piedmontese Parliament. Thanks
were returned to the Court of Directors of the East
India Company for the presentation of valuable collec-
tions of books on Oriental literature, topography, &c.,
and a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Hume for the
gift to the college of the full-length portrait, by Lucas,
of Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., presented in August last
to Mrs. Hume by a large number of Liberal members of
the Legislature and other gentlemen, in testimony of the
affection and regard entertained by them for Mr. Hume,
and of their admiration of the energy, courage, and per-
severance with which during his long public career he
had laboured for political improvements, and for the re-
moval of disabilities on account of religious differences.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF
SEBASTOPOL.

The following despatch has been received from
a correspondent at Marseilles, which had reached
that port by the French post steamer which left
Constantinople on the 30th ult :
Your correspondent in the army before Sebas-
topol writes on the 28th that 607 light infantry
were engaged in the affair of the 25th, and that
only 198 returned.
Eight hundred cavalry were engaged, of whom
only 200 returned,
Nine officers were killed, 21 wounded, and 4

were missing.
The 17th Lancers were almost destroyed.
We require reinforcements.
Another despatch from Constantinople, dated
the 30th, says :
On the 26th, 8,000 Russians made a sortie
from Sebastopol, but were beaten by two divisions
of English infantry. The Russians lost 700 in
killed and wounded.
" The English lost 1 officer and 30 men."

We have received the following from our cor-
respondent at Vienna, dated Friday morning :
" According to authentic advices of the 28th
ult. from Balaklava, a council of war was held on
the preceding day, when it was resolved not to
attempt to storm. Sebastopol until the effect of the
siege guns had been fairly tried.
" It is considered highly probable that a battle
will be fought with the Russians under General
Liprandi before Sebastopol is stormed.
" The Russian reinforcements are estimated at
30,000 men."

VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
circulated in Vienna. It must be received with
the greatest caution :

' " CZERNOWITZ, Nov. 9.
A most -violent attack has been made OR

Sebastopol.

" There was a conflagration in the town, which
the garrison could not extinguish.

" Prince Menschikoff had demanded an armis-
ice of 12 hours, which was refused."

PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.
A telegraph from Marseilles brings news from
Sebastopol of the 28th.
The trenches had been carried to 250 yards
from the wall. •

The rifle firing had been kept up as well as the
fire of the artillery by moonlight.

The new Lancaster guns are firing on the Rus-
sian fleets, which, however, is almost hidden.

BERLIN, THURSDAY, Nov. 9.
The, following Russian despatch, has been re

received here :

" SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.
" The operations of the besiegers continue
without any visible result.
" The English fire was slacker.
" The damage done to the fortifications is in-
considerable, and is immediately repaired."

THE BALAK.LA_VA AFFAIR
ST. PETERSBURG, NOV. 2.—Yesterday was pub-
lished. an extraordinary supplement of the Journal
de St. Petersbourg, of which the following were the
contents :
" H.M, the Emperor has just received the fol-
lowing report from A.D.C. General Prince Men-
schikoff, under date orOct. 13 (25).
" Our offensive operations against the besiegers
were commenced this day, and have been crowned
with success.
" Lieutenant-General Liprandi had been ordered
to attack with his division the special intrenched
camp of the enemy which defends the road from
Sebastopol to Balaklava. This morning that en-
terprise was executed by him in a brilliant manner.
Four redoubts, in which we captured 11 pieces of
artillery, are now in our hands.
" The principal redoubt of the enemy, which
was defended by Turks, was stormed by the Azoff
regiment of foot, which valiantly performed this
feat of arms under the personal command of Major-
General Semiakine, the commander of the brigade,
and of the commander of the regiment, Colonel
Kradener, who distinguished himself in this affair.
" The English cavalry also attacked our detach-
ment, commanded by Lord Cardigan. It charged
the Hussar Brigade of the 6th cavalry division
with extraordinary impetuosity, but, taken in flank
by four squadrons of the combined, regiments of
Lancers of the reserve, and thrown back on the
cross fire of the artillery of the 12th and 16th in-
fantry divisions, which fired grape, and on the fire
of the Rifles of the Ist brigade of the same division,
the enemy suffered considerable loss.
" The Ist brigade of the 16th division, under the
personal command of Major-General Jabokritsky,
was thrown forward to prevent the outflanking of
General Liprandi's division by the enemy.
"At the same moment that it attacked our
Hussars, the English cavalry came at full gallop on
the heavy guns of the Don Battery, No. 3, and
sabred some artillerymen.
" Our loss in infantry in this affair does not ex-
ceed, according to appearances (a cc qu'il semble),
300 men in killed and wounded.
" The loss of our cavalry and infantry is not yet
known, even approximately.
" Major-General Khaletsky, commanding the
Hussar regiment of H.I.H. Prince Nicholas Maxi-
milianovitch, received sabre wounds on the ear and
the arm.
"It is difficult to determine exactly the loss of
the enemy.*
"We have made prisoners of about 60 of the
English, one of whom is a superior officer, and
two subalterns.
"Of the four redoubts taken from the enemy,
two will be to-night destroyed, and two more
strongly fortified, in order to enable us to hold this
important position, from which we can act on the
village of Radykoi, through which the road passes
that leads from Balaklava to the enemy's camp.
"To-day the artillery on the ramparts of Sebas-
topol has been in no respect inferior to the batteries
of the besiegers, but the bombs and incendiary
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" This preliminary report and the information
collected by me on the spot will be conveyed to
your Imperial Majesty by my aide-de-camp, Baron
Willebrandt, who was near Lieutenant-General
Liprandi.
" I have the honour, in conclusion, to acquaint
your Imperial Majesty that. I have permitted my-
self to thank in your name on the field of battle all
the troops, who fought with distinction on this
day."

* It is thought, however, that the English cavalry lost
as many as 500 men.

THE CRIMEA.
PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF'S DAILY LOSS.
A letter in the Augsburg Allgemein, from the
Polish frontier, dated the 3d inst., gives the total
force at Prince Menschikoff's disposal at 62 bat-
talions, of 700 men each, with 144 field-pieces, but
it does not include the 10th and 11th divisions of
Dannenberg's (4th) corps, which were expected to
reach Bakchi Sarai about the 3d or 4th inst. The
loss of the garrison, daily put hors de combat by shot
and sickness, is estimated at about 500—indeed,
Prince Menschikoff estimates his loss to average
nearly 300 killed and wounded. The bombardment
had lasted 14 day:, according to the despatch of
the Ist from Sebastopol, so that there can be no
exaggeration in setting down the total number of
men put hors de combat, or unfit for duty, at 8,000.
The greatest loss has been in artillerymen, who
have bravely done their duty. This loss is the most
sensibly felt, and is in some measure irreparable.

INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE.
EXPLOSION OF THE REDAN BATTERY.
Until twenty minutes after two o'clock, the French
batteries directed their fire on this work, when unfor-
tunately, the Russians projected a shell so truly into
their battery, that, falling into one of their tumbrils
situated in the middle of their reserve ammunition, it

exploded, causing, of course, a fearful loss of artillery-
men. A few minutes afterwards—that is, about half-
past two—another shell was directed towards the same
spot with similar unfortunate results. The Russian bat-
teries having it now all their own way, hammered unre-
mittingly upon us with the greatest vivacity. They had
sent forth from their ramparts loud shouts of defiance or
of victory when the explosion of the French and English
magazines acquainted them of our misfortune ; but it
was now our turn to crow, for about half-past three
there suddenly shot upwards from the works, or
rather the Redan on our front, a white livid
flame which ascended high into the air, and, while we
all paused to gaze on the spectacle, a round which made
the very earth tremble beneath us, followed by a most
awful report, told us that the Redan had ceased to exist
—for in the next minute its garrison of hundreds, blown
to atoms, dismembered, and mutilated by the action of
the explosion, were discovered hundreds of yards above
the parent earth. So fearful and terrifying a spectacle
I never have, nor do I hope ever again to witness. In
the midst of a dense volume of smoke and sparks, which
resembled a water-spout ascending to the clouds, were
visible to the naked eye arms, legs, trunks, and heads
of the Russian warriors, mingled with cannons, wheels,
and every object of military warfare, and I may say
with every living thing it contained. The explosions in
the French and English batteries were like flashes in
the pan of a musket compared with this.