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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

• THE ROYAL ALBERT.
The Royal Albert, 121, screw three-decker, Captain
Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., is ordered from Sheerness to
Portsmouth with all possible despatch. The better to
expedite her a party of 60 able seamen, from the Nep-
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2 sergeants, and 51 privates ; 92d Highlanders, 1 officer
(Ensign Win. Edward New all) and 30 privates, Cap-
tain Fred. 'Wm. Gore, of the 3d Foot, under orders to
join the service companies of his regiment at Malta,
embarked ix command of the troops on board this vessel.

INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE AT
BALAKLAVA.

A CIVILIAN'S ACCOUNT.

A private gentleman visiting the seat of war writes :
My preconceived and certainly crude notions of a great
siege and bombardment was that of unbroken peals of
thunder, rolling and roaring unceasingly around and over
a devoted city, until the vast mass of smoke which hitherto
had obscured everything, clearing away by a cessation of
the fire, or some sweeping wind revealed a breach for an
assault., or the whole town in ruins. Anything but this—
the real thing. Instead of the stunning thunder of artil-
lery, until a siege is raised or a city razed, the whole ar-
rangements seem to have been conducted much in the
formal and measured style of the Chobham military thea-
taicals, hardly with so much spirit. A number of separate
and independent shots from the batteries, varied by the
whirr of the shell or by the strange sound of the heavy
ball from the Lancaster gun, rattling through the air like
a distant railway train, but there is always tine to count
the shots, and, generally speaking, to see whence they
come and whether they go. There is a flash, a sound, a

volume of smoke in detached spats, at most in half a dozen
places at once; but none of the din, roar, cries, mist,
and confusion worse confounded, supposed to be the ne•
cessary accompaniment of a great, glorious, and bloody
war. Although lame with an attack of erysipelas in the
leg, I managed to get once or twice to Lord Raglan's
viewing place, whence was a clear sight of the town, and
thus I saw and heard all I have described. A considera-
ble part of my time was unfortunately spent in lying on
my back in a tent in front of our lines, the halls and shells
whizzing about me in every direction, till, finding the
camp rather too het to hold me, I left it at half-past six
a.m. on the 25th, in a commissariat cart for Balaklava.
Speaking of the charge, he says :—The Russians were now
within half a mile of the village and port of Balaklava, in
which all our transports were at anchor with their muni-
tions, their stores, and two ships laden with powder. It
was here that a large troop of their cavalry attempted to
charge past one of our regiments into the village. The
93d Highlanders rose from the ground and poured in such
a volley as made them reel again in their saddles, they
again laid down, re-loaded, fired another volley, and tie
whole troop turning to the right about, galloped off. I
am assured that Balaklava would have been in possession
of the Russians had it not been for the cool bravery of
these men ; had they given an inch all would have been
up for the (lay. One amongst them seized a Turkish sol-
dier in his flight, threw him on the greuad, and put his
foot on the gentleman's neck whilst he reloaded his piece.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

We extract the following from a letter received
from Paris yesterday :

"It has been announced that Prince Menschikeff
was expecting numerous reinforcements. It is more
than probable that he - has received all that he
had calculated upon, and accounts from Odessa an-
nounce, in fact, that the passage of troops to the
Crimea had ceased for some days. Moreover, the
Russian army in the Crimea is necessarily in pro-
portion to the resources in food and munitions of
which it can dispose. It has not the sea. It must
bring them from the continent, by routes scarcely pass-
able at this season, and which will soon become utterly
impracticable, all its necessaries. The climate menaces
that army, and if in any new attempt made in two days
after the combat on the sth it does not obtain signal
advantages (which is very doubtful) it must, under pain
of being exposed to the greatest privations, take refuge
in Perekop, and pass the winter there in the most com-
plete inaction.
"Our array is in a far superior condition. With the
sea open to it it may constantly supply itself with
all its wants. It has at its disposal a powerful fleet,
which is at the same time an auxiliary for war and a means
of procuring supplies; and if the Black Sea enjoys a bad re-
putation, we have 200 steamers incessantly ploughing the
Euxine fromßalaklava to Constantinople and back, and
for them storms and wind have few terrors. Moreover,
there are now accumulated at Ildaklava supplies for six
weeks, and almost each daybrings fresh convoys of men,
arms, and provisions. Our army is full of enthusiasm and
courage, inspired by the victories it has gained at Alma
over Menschikoff, and on this recent occasion over the
Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas. It is ever ready
for the fight ; ever prepared against surprise, against
sudden attacks ; ready to face the enemy on two
sides at the same time if necessary, the French with
their characteristic gaiety and impetuosity, and the
English with their stern and immovable courage which
. makes of them, as it were, a wall of bronze. What
ever be the means employed to rouse the fanaticism
of the Russians, their generals cannot always make
them believe that they are conquerors when they are
forced to retreat er to fly in disorder. The disasters of
Sebastopol, its streets strewn with the corpses, its burn-
ing edifices, and its fleet nearly destroyed, cannot al-
ways be kept a mystery, and when the truth bursts
upon them, it is easy to conceive the dismay and utter
prostration which are found in any army that has been
so often defeated."

ST. ARNAUD'S BEFORT.

Men.
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Cavalry : 16 regular squadrons and 11
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their horse artillery upon the heights. We retired out of
range. Down came huge masses of cavalry upon us. 'the
Greys and Enniskillens charged and broke through them.
The 4th and sth Dragoon Guards struck in; the Russians
turned and fled right and left, and, retreating over the hill,
took up a tremendously strong position in the valley.
" We waited about two hours for some infantry to come
to our support, when an order arrived (as we must believe
by mistake) for the light brigade to charge the enemy's

position.
" On we went—astonished, but unshaken in nerve—over
half a mile of rough ground, losing dozens of men and
horses at every stride, to attack horse artillery in our front
supported by three times our numbers of cavalry, heavy
batteries on the right and left flanks, backed by infantry,
riflemen, ke. We took the guns, cut up the gunners,
routed the cavalry, and amid a storm of shot found our-
selves very soon surrounded on all sides by the enemy,
through whom all that remained of us cut our way back to
our position. We went into action 140 strong. I num-
bered the regiment off 31, when we returned. The other
regiments suffered nearly as much."

The following extract of a letter of an officer on board
the Sansparoil, off Balaklava, Oct. 28, describes some
curious incidents in the late action. The words, how-
ever, attributed to Lord Cardigan, as directed to Captain
Nolan, doubtless originate in some misreport ; that
officer had seen too much gallant service for such a
reproach to: have been under any
,circumstances ad-
dressed to him :
" . . . . You will see that we have shifted round
to this little nook, and a busy place it is. There is a Rus-
sian force close to us. They clay before yesterday they
attacked, and our light division of cavalry were severely
cut up. Lord Cardigan behaved nobly. We were all
roused up in the middle of the night by a little skirmish
—daylight this morning discovered 26 Cossacks lying on
the field. The Scots Greys charged three times through a
Cossack regiment the other day,ond played the deuce with
them. The 93d Highlanders were charged by cavalry, and
received them in a manner which sent them to the right
about. They say it is one of the most brilliant things that
has been done this war. Capt. Nolan, of 15th Hassars,
was seen riding away from the Russians. Lord Cardigan
hailed him to stop, or ho would have him tried for cow-
ardice, but when his horse joined the cavalry, every one
was horrified to find he was shot through the heart. Is it
not most extraordinary ? Except that his horse was run-
ning about wildly, one would have supposed he was alive.
Another odd thing happened to Maude, of R.H. Artillery.
A shell burst in the stomach of his horse, and sent him in
the air, yet, with the exception of a wound in the leg, he
Is safe."

The following additional details respecting the francs-

tireurs are given in a letter from a Zouave to his father.
They are published by the Journal de Maine-et-Loire :

"I am almost like a poacher ! I go out ever slay to
shoot Russians ! This is the way we do :—As early as two
o'clock in the morning, our toilette completed—and that
of a Zouave is not long—we leave, carrying with us
ammunition, and one :or two biscuits. Arrived in the
entrenchments, we take sand bags, a spade, and a
pickaxe ; then, at a given signal, we leap from the
parapets with the rapidity of deer, and establish our
homes close to the forts. There we dig a hole, a sort of
warren to hide ourselves in. We place our bags to pro-
tect us, and our residence is then terminated. We remain
in these holes all the day, and it is not until night is rather
advanced that we are permitted to leave them ; this we
often do amidst a shower of grape-shot. You will ask me,
my dear father, what wo do in the holes all day. Very
good work, I assure you. We fire almost as fast as we can
load, and every discharge demolishes a Russian artillery-
man. The other day two officers climbed up a large pole
on the summit of a tower, opposite my lodgings, and they
began to examine our works. With two shots I brought
them both down. Then a storm of balls, shells, and grape-
shot, was directed against us, but, happily, we were so
near the forts, that it passed over our heads without touch-
ing any one of us."

ALMA.-RUSSIAN CAVILS AT MARSHAL

The following carping attempt to invalidate thQ
statements of the late Marshal St. Arnaud respect-
ing the battle of Alma has been put forth in the
Journal de St. Petersbourg. Its special pleading
scarcely deserves notice. Two points, however,
may be touched upon. The humanity of the Allies
to the wounded Russians is not denied ; but
nevertheless an attempt is made to weaken belief
in it by a gross lie respecting the conditioi of those
who were sent to Odessa by the English. The other
point is comical rather ; the Moniteur Universd:is
taken to task for saying that one Russian general
was taken prisoner at Alma. The writer in the St.
Petersburg journal indignantly protests that only
two Russian generals were captured by the Allies.
(From the Journal de St Petersbourg of Nov. 7.)

One of the greatest disadvantage for us, when the
misrepresentations of our opponents demand rectifica-
tion, is the unavoidable lateness of our answers. When
exact details of events, accomplished at such great dis-
tances reach us, public opinion, engrossed by more recent
pre-occupations, receives our retrospective explanations
with only faint interest. Such will also probably be the
lot of those which we subjoin. For all this, we give
them, if only for the sake of truth, and in the interest of
history.
4ccording to the report of Marshal St. Arnaud to his
sovereign, our forces at the Alma amounted to 40,000
bayonets, 6,000 cavalry, and 110 pieces of cannon. In
another report of the Marshal to the Minister of War
our cavalry was estimated at *Pay 5,000 horses.
Having pointed out this divergence of the two reports
emanating from one source, we are going to present at
the same time the numerical list of oar soldiers on the
position of the Alma.

Forming 33,000
Artillery : 8 batteries, that is, 84 pieces.
Such were our forces, whereas to judge by the indica

tions of the press and the depositions of as
well as by the data obtained from our own sources of in-
formation, the troops of the enemy must hare nearly
attained the strength of 70,000 men.
" All the heights," says the Marshal, " were capped
with redoubts and formidable batteries." In reality the
whole was reduced to two simple 4paulements, one of
which was at our centre with 12 guns of position, the
other on our right flank with 10 light field pieces.
" Prince Menschikoff," says the Marshal, " left his
carriage. I have taken it with his portfolio and corres-
pondence. I shall profit by the valuable intelligence I
find in it." The following is the truth. Prince Ilene-
chikoff lost no carriage, nor any correspondence belong-
ing to him. Every equipage belonging to head-quarters
had been previously taken to a place of safety. The only
capture that could therefore have fallen into the enemy's
hands was a clerk attached to head-quarters, who left
Sebastopol on the very day of the battle to rejoin the
prince. This clerk was the bearer of a certain number
of route papers in blank, and a few other papers of no
great importance. Nothing has been known hitherto re-
specting his fate. The probability therefore is, that it is
his capture that has occasioned the mistake.
The enemy's commanders professed to have lavished
the most prompt attention oa our wounded. We do not
deny in any manner their humane feelings, nor their sin-
cere wish to put them in practice. But it is publicly no-
torious that the enemy's army was without a sufficient
number of surgeons. His own wounded would very na-
turally have the preference before our own. Hence, it is
but too true that several of our wounded who remained
in the power of the enemy, rejoined our army during
the course of the following day, of the day after that,
and even of the fourth day after, without having hai
their wounds dressed. Among our soldiers who were
the most severely wounded and who remained on the
field of the Alma, 320 received no succour from the
enemy ; out of this number 70 contrived to drag them-
selves as far as lilaktchi Serai, and the others were con-
veyed by ourselves to Simpheropol. Another very sad
testimony to the little care bestowed on our wounded is
the state of suffering and exhaustion those were in, who
were landed at Odessa by the English steamer Evans,
on the 16th (28th) of September, They were 353 in
' number ; having been carried, after the combat, to the
banks of the !Alma, they remained there for six days
without shelter, and almost without help ; a few of them
only bad their wounds dressed, and even then with hay
and straw instead of lint, which could but render their
state worse. When therefore they arrived at Odessa,
almost all the wounds presented symptoms of gangrene,
and by the 23d of September (October 5), 31 of the
number had already succumbed.
The proportion of ens French corpse to seven Russian
dead bodies, admitted by Marshal Saint Arnaud, is also
incorrect. According to the unanimous depositions of
the prisoners, the English lost 3,000 men, and among
this number 100 officers ; the loss of the French is esti-
mated at 1,800 men. Ours, even according to the
French official reports, would amount to 5,000 men. It
is henee evident, that the real proportion is very different
from the ono assumed by the French commander.
As for the Russian general and the five guns,
taken by the French, as asserted by the letter pub-
lished in the Moniteur Universe', the fact is equally
inexact. Excepting Generals Goguiaoff and Stchel-
kanoff, both dangerously, wounded and left on the
field of battle, there was no Russian general taken
prisoner. In so far as the guns are concerned
two only were abandoned. But even one of ther was
quite dismounted, and the other bad been previously
spiked by our brave artillerymen.
Lastly, Marshal Saint-Arnaud asserts that it was the
want of cavalry that prevented his ursuing us. The
truth is that the enemy's cavalry did indeed try to attack
us, and even to turn our right flank, but it wa our hus-
sars that forced it to retire.

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TEE WAR IN THE CRIMEA.

(Front the Pays.)

We have received no new information concerning
the affair of the sth. The flank-attack on the right
of our army, whilst a sortie from the besieged took place
on our left wing, was a supreme effort to prevent by an
energetic diversion the speedy assault of the town. The
intrepid courage of our soldiers baffled that plan, which
was wanting neither in skill nor boldness. The success
of the plan might, in fact, have bad for result to cut off
the communications between Balaklava and the besieg-
ing forces, and to take our troops between two fires.
The plan has failed. The Russians have retreated to-
wards the Chernaya, and the besieged have been forced
back within the walls of Sebastopol. Will this defeat
and the considerable losses, which it has caused to
the enemy, prevent them from undertaking a new
attack on the Allied troops ? We do not expect this.
It is probable that the Russian forces will return to the
charge, and again attempt the chance of a battle. The
hostile generals have not, in fact, any other means of
regarding, if not avoiding, the fall of Sebastopol. Since
the 4th, the breach has been large enough to admit the
assault to be given. A part of the town is in ashes ; the
forts are for the most part dismantled and reduced to
silence. Evidently, if the army of Prince Menschikoff
Ileaves a single day's respite to the besiegers, if he does
not harass them by continual attacks, the assault will
take place, and the ardour and enthusiasm of our men
are such as to convince us that it will not be long.
The tactics of the enemy must consequently consist of
turning us away from the siege, properly so called, by
every means in their power. This is what they
did on the sth, with a superiority of numbers calcu
lated to inspire them with great hopes, and it is what
in all probability they will attempt again. But whq-
ever may be their efforts, we remain without disquietude
as to the result. The Allied army occupies an impreg-
nable position. It is encamped on heights very differ-
ently fortified from those of the Alma, and the Russians
have not for the purpose of dislodging us those corps
of Zouaves, who care nothing for the asperities of moun-
tains or for impassable summits. The Russian sol-
diers, to whose courage we have never ceased to
pay homage, are marvellous troops by their resist-
ance and by the impassibility with which they know
low to die. But they have not the dash, the furia
of the French ; and in consequence, the Russian
generals have done everything in their power to en-
tice us down into the level country. Their cunning
has proved fruitless before the intelligent tactios of
the chiefs of the Allied army, who contented them-
selves with a rigorous defence, whilst continuing on the
other side to bombard Sebastopol. It will continue to
fail as long as we shall not be masters of the town. It
is only on the day that we shall have obtained a new and
strong base of operations that our army, whose impatient
ardour is with difficulty restrained at present, will ac-
cept the battle wherever it may be offered, and will pur-
sue, if necessary, the remainder of Prince Menschikoff's
army. Meanwhile we are in a position as strong as it is
possible to desire, and we will not abandon it. It
has been announced that Prince Menschikoff was again
expecting numerous reinforcements. We believe that
he has now all that he could reckon on; and letters from
Odessa announce, in fact, that the convoys of troops
towards the Crimea have ceased for some days. The
Russian a-my is necessarily limited in the Crimea by the
resources in provisions and ammunition which it can
dispose of. lis has not the sea by which to receive its
stores ; it must receive every thing, from the continent
by badly-kept roads, which will soon become absolutely
impracticable. The soil of the Crimea is chalky and
friable. The rains, which usually commence in Nov.,
soften it to such an extent as to destroy the communica-
tions. The roads become cut up and full of holes, and
the pools of water no longer allow of any transports..
The climate therefore menaces very seriously the army of
Prince Menschikoff, and if in a few days it does not ob-
tain a marked success, he will be obliged, under pain
of exposing to the most frightful privations his army of
100,000 men, to take refuge at Perekop to pass the winter
there iu the most complete inaction. Our army is iu
far better condition. Close to the sea, it can incessantly
obtain everything that it wants. It has at its disposal
a powerful fleet, which is at the same time a military
auxiliary and a means of supplying stores. Without
doubt the Black Sea is renowned for its tempests and
inhospitable climate ; but there are no more storms and
contrary winds for steamers, and we have 200 of these
latter constantly plying from Balaklava to Constanti-
nople, and vice versa. On the other hand, there
have been already accumulated at Balaklava up-
wards of six weeks' provisions, and stores of every
kind, and every day there arrive there new con-
voys of men, arms, and provisions. If from these
considerations connected with the weather and cli-
mate, and from these details of supplies we pass to the
physical appreciation of the two armies, we find them
at least equal in strength. We see the Allies full of
' enthusiasm and courage, still mere excited by the nu-
' merous victories which they have already gained on

the Alma, over General Lip- randi, and now over the
Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas ; always ready for
the combat, prepared to resist every attempt at surprise,
and displaying in the face of danger that French
gaiety, which is one of the sources of strength of our
army, or Britannic impassibility, which makes our
allies a living wall of brass. 'Whatever may be the
means by which the courage of the Russians is faua-
ticised, it is impossible to make them believe that they

are victorious when they retreat in disorder ; and it
is impossible to conceal from them the disasters and
ruins of Sebastopol. And if that is the case, how
can it be admitted that the inevitable discouragement
which seizes on every army that has been three times

conquered should not creep into their ranks ? The ma-
terial situation, like the moral one, is therefore as good
as could be hoped for, Foolish are they who have ima-
gined that a town like Sebastopol could be taken in a day ;
that an army like that of Prince Measchikoff would sur-
render without striking a blow ; or that a power like
that of Russia would allow itself to be deprived, without
combat, of its maritime bulwark in the Crimea ! We
ought to have expected a desperate resistance, each as
we meet with. Why should we be astonished at it ?
But up to tho present time we have constantly overcome
that resistance, and everything leads to the belief that
we shall overcome it to the end. In terminating, we

have to repeat—the day of the assault is near at -I.)and,
awl the assault, without any doubt, is the capitulation
of Sebastopol."

THE RUSSIAN DESPATCHES.

(Prom, the Siecle.)

The news just received is sufficiently serious for us to
be allowed to say a few words on the subject. We
publish without hesitation the Russian despatches. It
is necessary that the public should know how the enemy
explains to his own advantage a war in which above all
other details the three following facts are brought out :
The battle of the Alma ; the progress of the siege from
the opening of the trenches on the 10th ult. to the open-
ing of the breach on tho sth inst., the day on which an
assault was, according to the Russian despatch, unsuc-
cessfully attempted, which is not impossible after the re-
sults of the labours of the engineers and the artillery ;
and the advantage maintained by the Allies in all their
positions of attack and defence, from the 27th September
to the sth November, in spite of all the efforts made to
dislodge them and to free Sebastopol from the circle of
iron which burns it, and which will stifle it in a given
time. It cannot be denied that the Russians are brave
soldiers ; the prodigality with which their generals shed
the blood of the troops does not excite the slightest mur-
mur amongst them ; the soldier carries his obedience so
far as to believe himself a conqueror on the word of his
chief, when his defeat is evident to himself and to all
the world. There is in them the germ of great military
qualities, which the Muscovite Government uses and
abuses, as is the case with every despotic Government.
The Russian despatches have therefore for their primary
object to deceive the Russian people and the Russian army,
for wherever there exists a shadow of liberty, of examina-
tion, the artifice of them is soon brought to light. We
have no iafermation to enable ns to contradict the spik-
ing of 16 guns in one place and of 15 in the other, as
announced by the despatch of Prince Menschikoff. It
must not be forgotten that a sortie, even if the men
composing it get into one or two batteries, is not from
that circumstance crowned with success. This is so
true that Prince Menschikoff himself implicitly admits
in his despatch that the sortie was so quickly driven back
that our soldiers attempted to enter the town with their
assailants. As far as regards the attack on the Allies army
by that of the Grand Dukes, it has been remarked in the
Debuts that it was skilfully combined, for, if it had been
successful, all our siege works would have been taken in
flank and overthrown, and the enemy would have reached_o
the basis of the English operations at Tialaklavo..
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"This work, while purporting to furnish us with the
curious and extraordinary incidents in the career of a
Russian Government employe, gives also a very interest-
ing and graphic account of the manners and customs of
the Russian people. The most interesting and amusing
parts of the work will be found to be those interior scenes
in the houses of the wealthy and middle classes of Russia,
upon which we have but scanty information, although
they are some of the most striking and truthful indications
of the progress and civilisation of a country. As such,
we recommend them to the study of our readers,"—
, &Amur.