The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-15 00:00:00

CAPTAIN MAUDE.

During the afternoon, subsequently to the Russians
being repulsed with heavy loss, their object evidently
being to take Balaklava, they retreated to the brow of
a hill on the right, and formed themselves round the
battery they had driven our allies, the Turks, out of ;
and our troops, with the Rifles in front, were formed in
line of battle, not more than three-quarters to one mile
from them, occasionally trying the effect of the shells
from the artillery guns, and the precision with which
these missiles are directed is truly astonishing. Poor
Captain Maude, of the Horse Artillery, than whom I
believe it is universally admitted a more gallant or more
efficient officer does not hold a commission in her Ma-
jesty's service, was severely wounded early in the day
by a shell, which, bursting near, hit him in three places.
The loss of his services will be severely felt, and he is
universally regretted. He was carried into the har-
bour, and placed on board ship.

OUR RIDLEMRN.
One of the most wonderful things I think is to see the
way in which our riflemen go about in small detached
parties, crawling along on the ground up the side of a
hill, till they appear to be within 300 yards of the
enemy, and thus they lie on their bellies till a chance
offers, when crack goes a Alinie and down falls a Rus-
sian. I was informed most creditably that one of these
brave fellows a few days since thought he would go and
do a little business on his own account, got away from
his company, and crawled up close to a battery under
shelter of a bill, lay on his back and loaded, and turned
over and fired, when, after killing 11 men, a party rushed
out, and he took to his heels, but, sad to say, a volley,
fired after him by this party, levelled him with the earth,
and he was subsequently picked up with 32 balls in his
body.

THE WOUNDED.
"To-clay (Oct. 26) numbers of the wounded were sent
on board different ships in Balaklava harbour, and a
most mournful sight it was to sea the poor fellows car-
ried down on stretchers, some minus a leg, others an
arm ; one with his face battered to pieces, another with
a sabre cut at the back of his head.

TILE TURKISH SOLDIERS.
'Whenever during the day you saw any of the Turkish
soldiers, you saw the people hooting them and calling
them cowards and runaways. I witnessed two Irish
women actually driving four of these chivalrous gentry
before them, making them carry some things for them,
probably to their own wounded husbands, and saying,
" Eh ! ye cowardly divils, this is all you're fit for, to be
our servants ; sure, you are afraid to fight ;" and on our
return I saw a young middy drawn up before some 50
of them, abusing them most heartily for their having
run away. Ono of them made a sign as if ho was going
to draw his sword, when master middy sang out, " Oh,"
said he, " I'm not afraid cf you, such a set of cowards as
you are," set his arms akimbo, and then stood, the pic-
ture of a young lion, and, I should say, about as brave.
Had our Turkish friends only spiked the guns be-
' fore deserting them, it would have been less disastrous ;
but that our own guns should be made
at use
throughour
cowardly conduct of these men, for whom we are sacri-
ficing England's best blood and treasure, is too provok-
ing and discreditable to write about ; and I am sorry to
say that, not content with deserting their post, they

plundered everything they could lay their hands on,
even to the very breakfasts which some men of the Greys
were preparing for their officers, who were then out in
fact; of the enemy. The universal feeling is, that a very
severe example should be made of this flagrant act of
cowardice, the probable results of which will be another
hard-fought battle, with a possibility of evacuating Ba-
laklava !

THE GUN-BOATS-A LONG SHOT.

LieuEonant-Commander-Jolliffe has been for sonic

time in his gun-boat the Arrow at Eupatoria, which
place is kept constantly on the alert by the Cossacks
who hover round ; a large party of them were pointed
out to the Arrow, and, though they considered them-
selves well out of range, Lieutenant Jolliffe managed
to plump a shot at 3,400 yards right in among them,
killing, as they were informed next day by a Turk,
some 16, and so astonishing the rest as to cause them to
bolt from the proximity of such terribly long shots.
The Himalaya is just ordered off to Varna for stores
and troops, and to return to the fleet. Verily, this
noble ship is kept well up to her work.