The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN BATTERIES.

To-day the fire on our lines was very slack, but it is
observed that the Russians are working hard at fresh
lines nearer to the town, and it is probable they have
withdrawn a portion of their men from the guns to
assist at the works, which are designed to check no
whenever the assault takes place. At present we are
all waiting for the French. lam not sure but that the
French think they are waiting for us to "ecraser" some
of the obnoxious batteries which play upon their works.
from ugly enfilading positions. They certainly are ex-
posed in their advance towards their portion of the town
to very heavy fire. It is opposite to them that the
assault must be made, and the first lodgment
effected. The Quarantine Fort is opposed to them
on their extreme left. Then comes a long, high,
loepholed wall or curtain extending in front of the
town from the back of the Quarantine Fort to
the Flagstaff Battery. The Russians have thrown up
a very deep and broad ditch in front of this wall,
and the French artillery have as yet made no im-
pression on the stonework at the back. The Flag-
staff Battery, however, and all the houses near it
are in ruins, but the earthworks in front of it,
armed with at least 20 heavy guns, are untouched,
and keep up a harassing fire on the French work-
ing parties, particularly at certain periods of the
day, and at the interval between 9 and 11 o'clock at
night, when they think the men are being relieved
in the trenches. Inside the Road Battery we can
I see the Russians throwing up a new work, armed
with six heavy ships' guns. They have also erected
new batteries behind the Reds and behind the
Round Tower. The latter is now a mass of crumbled
stone, but two guns keep obstinately blazing away
at our 21-gun battery from the angle of the earthwork
I around it, and the Redan has not yet been silenced,
though the 4inbrazures and angles of the work are
I much damaged.

NVIZISTLINet DICK.
The heavy frigate which has been " dodging " our
batteries so cleverly gave us a taste of her quality in
the right attack again to-day. She escaped from the
position in which she lay before, where we had laid
two 24-pounders for her, and came out again to-day in
a great passion, firing regular broadsides at out battery,
and sweeping the hill up to it completely. Occa-
sionally she varied this amusement with a round or
two front 13-inch mortars. These shells have done
our works and guns much damage ; but the sailors,
who are principally treated to these agreeable missiles,
have got quite accustomed to them. " Bill," cries one
fellow to another, "look out, here comes ' Whistling
Dick " 13-inch shell has been thus baptized by
them in consequence of the loudness and shrillness of
the noise it makes in the air. They all look up, and
their keen quick eyes discern the globe of iron as it de•
scribes its curve aloft. Long ere " Whistling Dick"
has reached the ground the blue jackets are snug in
their various biding-places, but all the power of men
cannot keep them from peeping out now and then to
see if the fuqe is still burning. One of them the other
day approached a shell which he thought had " gone
out ;" it burst just as he got cilese to it, and the coneus-
sion dashed him to the ground. He got up, and in his
rage, shaking his fist at the spot where the shell had
been, he exclaimed, " Yen --- deceitful beggar, there's
a trick to play me l" Our losses continue to be remark-
ably slight.
SIR C. CAMPBELL AND THE TURKS.
Poor Sir Colin Campbell is very indignant at having
some SOO Turks placed under his command. Ho will
not have them at any price. •In the most vigorous terms
be repudiates the charge, and declares he has no confi-
dence in them. It must be observed, iu justice to Sir
Colin, that before the catastrophe of Balaklava ho had
strongly represented the insecurity of his position, and
had demanded reinforcements. His contempt for the
Turks was too well founded, and now he is annoyed at
having the men who ran away under his control. The
Highland Brigade is now moved down to strengthen him,
and the Marines have been reinforced on the heights.

ACCIDTiNT TO SIR D. L. EVANS.
OCTOBER 30.—Sir De Lacy Evans met with an acci-
dent yesterday, which will compel him to resign the
command he has so ably held to Brigadier-General
Pennefather for a few days. His horse fell with him
as he was going at a sharp trot ; and, as the General
bad been suffering from diarrhoea for some days before
the shock so weakened him that he has been obliged to
go down to Balak.lava and get on board the Sinioom.
The whole army hope that his illness will be of short
duration, and that he will soon be with them once more

THIS " BONO JOHNNIICS."
The Turks, or, as they are now universally called,
the " Bono Johnnies," except by the sailors, who call
them "No bono Johnnies," have been employed for the
bet few nights in working in the trenches, and have done
good service. The first night they set to work in Captain
Chapman's attack they worked on manfully till 10 o'clock
at night, when a Russian shell came over them. They
at once shouted out " We shall all be killed !" and ran
off as fast as they could, carrying off a portion of our
working and covering parties with them. Hew-
ever, they were at last re-formed and brought
back, and then they worked on till 11 o'clock, when they
declared that it was " the will of Heaven they should
labour no snore that night," and, as they had really
exerted themselves, it was considered advisable to let
them go. They remained quietly in the trenches, and
ever since they have been labouring regularly, repairing
damages and casting up earthworks, which they do ex-
ceedingly well. The poor creatures are decimated by
dysentery, fevers—the typhus particularly, and by
diarrhma, and die in swarms. Nothing can exceed their
kindness to theirown sick. It is common to see strings
of them on the road to Balaklava carrying sick and
dying men on their backs down to the miserable shed
which serves theta as an hospital, or rather as " dead
house."

A CORP.E,SPONDENT'S MISTAKE,
OU 100 king ray owa acwou-at of the haite of iho
Alma, which was written literally on the field—part of
it while exposed to a broiling sun, the morning after the
action, oal the grass, tho p:-Keu air (for tote were rare

coverings then, and all that were on the heights were
crowded)—part while exposed to an incessant fire of small-
talk in a tent full of excited and garrulous officers, I find
I have made mistakes which I confess without a blush,
and which, I trust, are excusable under the circum-
stances in which I was placed, especially when it is con-
sidered that the undertaking, under the most favourable
conditions, is not an easy one. For instance, Lord Raglan
and staff did not cross the stream by the bridge. It
had been destroyed by the enemy and was impassable
till repairei by the exertions of Captain Montagu and
his Sappers. Nor did the Highlanders "take" the
battery which dealt such destruction upon us. As I
saw their advance, their bonnets mingled with the bear-
skins of the Russians, they appeared to have got into
the Guards battery, but the fact is, their line was con-
siderably to the left of the line of the Guards, and the
left of the Guards extended beyond the front of the bat-
tery, so as to tum its right flank. The march of the
Highlanders took place up the other slope of the hill,
and it was their firm appearance, together with the
tremendous volleys the three regiments poured into the
Russian infantry on their flank, which produced such
an effect on the Russians. The Highlanders, as will be
seen by the returns, were exposed to very little fire
scarcely any of the enemy's guns bore upon them, and
their advance was too rapid to allow the Russians " to
take their measure" for practice.

Thera is no doubt the Light Division, the 7th, 23d,
33d, and 19th firt, carried the battery opposed to them.
A man of the 7th rushed in and bayoneted two men in-
side the earthworks, when the regiment was obliged to
re-form. Colonel Yea made him a serjeant on the spot
A man of the 331 chalked the number of his regiment
on one of the guns which was subsequently taken by the
Grenadier Guards, and I understand the gun has
been given up to the former regiment. Men of the
7th, 33d, 23d, and 55th were all inside the battery at
one time or other ere the Russians were finally bro-
ken. Major-General Codrington, who led his brigade
of the Light Division in a manner beyond all
praise, was twice within the earthwork of the battery.
Ergo, he must at one time have been driven bads along
with his men. Indeed I saw the Russians coming out
of the battery and actually charging the Light Division,
which was broken up into clumps of men firing inde-
pendently on the enemy, and huddled together round
their officers ; but they never crossed bayonets, except
perhaps in one or two instances, when some of them
olosed with the 55th, and they all dearly repented their
temerity. The 30th, 55th, and 95th did their duty
equally well ; no officers or men ever behaved better,
and it was perhaps erroneous to have said that the 19th,
that Brigadier-General Codrington's brigade of the
Light Division, or that Brigadier-General Pennefather's
brigade of the Second Division ever "retired," as it is
asserted that there wore some men of the regiments
forming these brigades who never receded a step. They
certainly never turned their backs on the enemy—not
one of them faced about.

Mr. Markham shot two with his revolver and woundeir,
another, and the greater part if them werkeithglillga
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or taken prisoners. Zah:
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THE LATEST ON DIT.
The officers of the army here by no means lead that
life of luxury which some of the fast generation at home
say that young men of the present time cannot do
without ; except a few fortunate ones, who may possess .
a bedstead or indiarubber bed, all sleep in their clothes
on the ground, with a blanket or two to corer them.
They have certainly tents but the nights are bitterly
sold, especially when the wind is north, m it now is.
It is impossible to say when Sebastopol will be taken.
I hear that we are waiting for the French, who are
mining at the Quarantine-ground, near the sea. When
they are ready we are to make a false attack, while
they spring the mines and rush in. Such is the on dit.
For the present I finish.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CRIMEA.

We are informed that it has been resolved not to send
the Ist Battalion of Grenadier Guards to the Crimea.
Large drafts from the battalions left in London embark
at once, and will be followed by others as fast as the
men can be obtained. This is considered better than
sending another battalion.
A detachment of Artillery, consisting of 5 officers and
145 men, arrived in Liverpool from Woolwich yes-
terday morning at 4 a.m. They will be despatched for
the seat of war this day (Saturday), per the Europa
steamer, which will also call at Kingstown to take on
board the 90th Regiment, consisting of 3 field-officers,
3 captains, 15 subalterns, 57 servants, and 821 rank
and file.

The following are the numbers of the troops and the
officers who embarked in the Cleopatra at Cork for the
Crimea :-21st Fusiliers-2 sergeants and 120 privates.
30th Regiment-2 officers (Captain Robert Dillon and
Ensign Alfred John Austin,) 1 sergeant, and 50 pri-
vates. 33rd Regiment-1 officer (Ensign Langford R.
Heyland,) 1 sergeant, and GO privates. 47th Regiment
—1 sergeant and 52 privates. 50th Regiment--1 officer
(Ensign Thomas D. Lee,) 2 sergeants, and 73 rank and
file. 55th Regiment-1 officer (Lieutenant J. G.
Echalaz,) 1 sergeant, and 127 rank and file. 68th Reg-
iment -1 officer (Ensign Fra. De L. Saunderson,) 1
sergeant, and 25 privates. Total-6 officers, 9 ser-
geants, and 503 rank and file. In addition to the above
there are on board the Cleopatra 2 officers and 51 mom
of the 42d, and 2 officers and 40 men of the 93d High.
landers, embarked at Liverpool. Second-class Staff
Surgeon Donnell is in medical charge of the troops.