The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

' George Brown-2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, 7th
Fusiliers, 19th Regiment, 23d Fusiliers, 33d i‘ egi-
relent, 77th Regiment, 88th Regiment, Brigadier
Major-General Codring ton and Brigadier-General
Buller. The former gallant officer has had a rapid.
promotion. I believe he never commanded a
regiment, much less a brigade, but being a Captain
in the Guards, and a Colonel in the army, he was
made Major-General in the last brevet, and instead
of going home on promotion, became General of
the Brigade, the command of which had been va-
cated by the appointment of Colonel Airey to the
post of Quartermaster-General in lieu of the la-
mented Colonel Maule. Major-General Codringtort
has, however, a good reputation as a soldier, which
he will, no doubt, justify more fully as soon as as
occasion for doing so presents itself.
The Ist Division, under the Duke of Cambridge,
includes the Grenadier, Coldstream, and cots Fu-
silier Guards, under Major-General Bentinck, and
the 42d, 79th, and 93d Highlanders, under Briga-
dier Sir C. Campbell.
The 2d Division, under Sir De L. Evans, con-
sists of the 30th, 55th, and 95th, under Brigadier-
General Pennefather, and the 41st, 47th, and 49th,
under Brigadier-General Adams.
The 3d Division, under Sir R. England, is com-
posed of the Ist Royals, 28th, 38th, 44th, 50th,
and 68th Regiments—rigadiers Sir John Camp-
bell and Eyre. (4th Regiment only six companies.)
The 4th Division, under Sir George Cathcart—
the 20th Regiment, 21st Regiment, Rifle Brigade,
2d battalion, 63rd Regiment. (46th Regiment en
route ; 57th R,giment em route.)
The Cavalry Division (Lord Lucan) is made up
of the 4th Light Dragoons, Bth Hussars, 11th
Hussars, 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers,
forming a Light Cavalry :Brigade, under Lord Car-
digan ; the Scots Greys (net yet arrived here), 4th
Dragoon Guards, sth Dragoon Guards, 6th Dra-
goons, making the heavy Cavalry Brigade, under
Brigadier-General Scarlet t.
Sir John Burgoyne may be presumed to control
the ordnance and engineers, but it is stated that
he will not in any way interfere with Brigadier-
General Tylden.
By 12 o'clock in the day, that barren and deso-
late beach, inhabited but a short time before only
by the seagull and wildfowl, was swarming with
life. From one extremity to the other bayonets
glistened, and red coats and brass-mounted
shakos gleamed in solid masses. The air was
filled with our English speech, and the hum of
voices, mingled with loud notes of command,
cries of comrades to each other, the familiar ad-
dress of "Bill" to "Tom," or of "Pat" to "Sandy,"
and an occasional shout of laughter. Very
amusing was it to watch the loading and un-
loading of the boats. A gig or cutter, pulled by
eight or twelve sailors, with a paddle-box boat, flat,
or Turkish pinnace in tow (the latter purchased for
the service), would come up alongside a steamer or
transport in which troops were ready for disembark-
ation. The officers of each company first des-
cended, each man in full dress. Over his shoulder
was slung his hay ersack, containing what had been,
ere it underwent the process of cooking, 4i11). of
salt meat, and a bulky mass of biscuit of the same
weight. This was his ration for three days. Be-
sides this each officer carried his great coat rolled up,
and fastened in a hoop round his body, a wooden
canteen to hold water, a small ration of spirits,'
whatever change of under clothing he could man-
age to stow away, his forage cap, and, in most in-
stances, a revolver. Each private carried his
blanket and great coat strapped up into a kind of
knapsack, inside which was a pair of boots, a pair
of socks, a shirt, and, at the request of the men
themselves, a forage cap ; he also carried his water
canteen and the same rations as the officer, a por-
tion of the mess cooking apparatus, firelock ana
bayonet, of course, cartouch box and 50 round of
ball cartridge for Minis, 60 rounds of smooth-bore
arms.

As each matt came creeping down the ladder
Jack helped him along as tenderly from rung to
rung till he was safe in the boat, took his fireloa
an stowed it away, removed his knapsack, and
packed it snugly under the seat, patted him on the
back, and told him " not to be afeerd on the
water ;" treated " the sojer," in fact, in 4a very
kind and tender way, as though he were a large
but not very sagacious " pet," who was not to be,
frightened or lost sight of on any account—and
did it all so quickly that the large paddle-box
boats, containing 100 men, were filled in five
minutes. Then the latter took the paddle-box
in tow, leaving her, however, in charge of a care-
ful coxwain, and the same attention was paid to
getting the " solar" on shore that was evinced
in getting him into the boat, the sailors (half
or wholly naked in the surf) standing by at
the bows, and handing each man and his ac-
coutrement down the plank to the shingle, for
fear " he'd fall off and hurt himself." Never did
men work better than our blue jackets—especially
valuable were they with horses and artillery, that
their delight at having a horse to hold and pat all
to themselves was excessive. When the gun-car-
riages stuck fast in the shingle, half a dozen hercu-
lean seamen rushed at the wheels, and, with a
" Give way, ray lads—all together," soon spoked it
out with a run, and landed it on the bard sand.
No praise can do justice to the willing labour of
these fine fellows. They never relaxed their efforts
as long as man or horse of the expedition remained
to be landed, and many of them, officers as well as
men, were 24 hours in their boats.
At 1 o'clock most of the regiments of the Light
Division had moved off the beach over the hill, and
across the country towards a village near which the
advance of the French left had already approached.
The Second Battalion of the Rifle Brigade led the
way, covering the advance with a cloud of skirrnif,b-
era, and the other regiments followed in order of
theirseniority, the artillery, under Capt. Anderson,
bringing up the rear. By this time the rain began to
fall-pretty heavily, and the wind rose so as to send
little surf on the beach. The Duke of Cambridge,
followed by Major Macdonald, led off his division
next in order, and many of the staff officers, who ought
to have been mounted, marched on foot, as their
horses were not yet landed. Generals might be seen
sitting on powder barrels on the beach, awaiting al.'
rival of "divisional staff horses," or retiring gloomily
within the folds of their macintosh. Disconsolate
doctors, too, were there, groaning after hospital
panniers—but toe sorely needed, for more than
one man died on the beach ; and nearly every one
you met asked you after a particular horse, of A
colour and description you were certain not to
have seen. The beach was partitioned off by flag"
staffs, with colours corresponding to that of eac",
division, in compartments for the landing of each
class of man and beast ; but it was, of course,
almost beyond the limits of possibility to observe
the difference in conducting an operation which
must have extended over many square nu'
of water. Shortly before two o'clock, Brigadier:
General Rose, the Commissioner for the British
Army, with Marshal St. Arnaud, rode' over Iran
the French quarters to inform Lord Raglan that
" the whole of the French troops had landed'
This was by no means the fact. Our disembarka-
tion of infantry had very nearly ended at the same
time, but our cavalry and artillery had not come
on shore, and the French, even without cavalry
and with smaller numbers were not more advanced
than ourselves.

Tho disembarkation was carried on long at ter
sunset, and part of the Third Division and f
the Fourth Division, remained on the beach and °n
the hill near it for the night.

SATURDAY.
The disembarkation of cavalry and artillery COrl'
tiuues. Lord Cardigan started on a reconnaisaoce
this morning, with a portion of the Bth Hilss3ll'
13th Light Dragoons, 250 Rifles of Ist Battall2ll'
and 2 Horse Artillery guns. They went 25 rali
—saw no Cossacks—returned very much fatigued'
and suffered severely from want of water. T 1
horses had nothing to drink from the time they le"
the ships till Sunday morning—more than 30 hall'
While the troops were disembarking one of the
reconnoitring steamers returned with news r
Russian camp situate near the beach, about eight
miles south of the place where we were landing*
The Sampson, the Fury, and the Vesuvius, in cola)'
pany with three French steamers, at once pro-
ceeded to the spot indicated. They found a camp
of about 6,000 men formed at a mile's distal
from the sea. The steamers opened fire withslltl
at 3,000 yards. The French shells burst 111 the
air, or fell short. The Fury and Vesuvius were
little more successful ; but the Sampson pitched
shell after shell right in among the tents, knocki og
them over right and left, and driving the soldier",
in swarms out of the camp, which was destroyed
after less than an hour's firing.
The squadron returned to the fleet having
effected this service, and will proceed to-morrow to
cruise off Sebastopol.

A letter from Bucharest of the 18th, ins Vienna,
paper, says :—" We continue to receive details of
the disembarkation effected in the neighbourhood
of Eupatoria. This little town, which is sur-
rounded by a wall, was occupied on the day of
disembarkation by a detachment of 500 French,
English, and Turks. The Russian garrison eva-
cuated the town onithe morning of the 14th, and
retired to the Great Lake at Treablan, probably
with the intention of going to Simpheropol. The
allied troops are marching direct against Sebasto-
pol, in the direction of Simpheropol and Buur-
liuk. The reserve concentrated at Varna was
20,000 strong, and after its disembarkation a
second reserve of 30,000 men, also destined for
the Crimea, is to be concentrated there ; se
that the expedition, including the sailors of
the fleets, will amount to 130,000 ram
On the 19th a Turkish stoma firiTEl lit Varls