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were everywhere. The general officers, Canrobert in-
cluded, and officers of every grade, were superintending
the removal of those who had fallen. Mules, with slung
seats and beds, were employed in conveying the wounded.
I tell you all this from what I saw myself. I went
everywhere, determined to judge for myself. Yesterday
afternoon ten medical officers arrived from England, and
it is to be hoped that they will do something towards
remedying the neglect which has hitherto distinguished
our medical staff. To add to our misfortunes, the
Fourth Division was encamped on an old encamping
ground of the Russians ; the cholera has consequently
broken out with great violence among them.
" We learn from the prisoners that the Russians
have within the last 12 days received reinforcements
amounting to 15,000 men from Moldavia and Odessa,
and 8,000 from the side of the Anapa. The General
(Slokonoff) on board tells me that he left Moldavia in
the beginning of August with his division, and only
reached the Alma in time to take up his position there.
He has not been to Sebastopol. From what we now
learn, the victory of the 20th has created a perfect panic
in Sebastopol, and I have very little doubt that a very
few days will suffice for its capture. The people of the
country are still well-disposed towards us. The Russian
cavalry are inexplicably inactive, and Governor Brock,
who illuminated Eupatoria in honour of our victory,
I am informed, sends large Trains of carts with pro-
visions to the army without a single soldier. As
far as we can mike out, the Russians had about
50,000 men on the Alma, 33,000 infantry of the
line (I receive an exact account of this branch from
the General, our prisoner), about 100- guns, and
between 5,000 and 6,000 cavalry. They will probably
make one more stand on the Belbeck, in the neighbour-
hood of which they have built works and mined exten-
sively. Kinglake accompanied Lord Raglan's staff
during the action. All our friends are well. Dickson
behaved very gallantly, bringing up two guns, and
working one himself after the captain was killed. These
two guns were placed by Lord Raglan, and did very
great service in breaking up one of the immense squares
of Russian infantry.
" September 24.—The despatch did not leave yester-
day, as intended, and I have just time to add a line to
my long epistle. The allied armies have just marched.
There are some Russian troops on the Belbeek river,
but it is doubtful whether they intend to make a
great stand there. They have bad recourse to the
desperate expedient of sinking eight of their men-of-
war in the mouth of the harbour, believing that we
would boldly push into it. Poor people ! They
don't know what an Admiral we have. I have just
seen a letter from him, in which he rejoices at this
move of the Russians, and adds, So here ends our
naval campaign !' The remaining ships in harbour are
careened over, so that their guns on one side may point
upwards, to defend, if possible, the heights. from all
we hear there is a perct panic in Sebastopol, and there
is, no doaht that, had our admiral 13.-. en ainin of energy
or courage, the place might now have been ours. We
can see thousands of Ruk-“ians at work, thro.vi,ig up
earthworks to the north of the fortifications. T:ie Retri-
bution and one of the French steamers have liczn under
the batteries all,the morning. A heavy fire has been
kept up upon them, but without ed'ect as yet, as far as
we can see. We tire now about. seven miles feoni the i,ar-
hour. It is now generally a,lmitted that at one
was: great (Ls9r,ler on the 20th, and that the ba-,t, o stns
decAed by an admirable flank movement made by Sir
C. Campbell and his Highland Brigade. The Fini'lers
and 231, and the 19th or 33d (ecannot ascertain ex-
actly which), were the regiment.' driven back.
"BLACK Set, OFF SEBASTOPOL, Sept. 24. —The
loss off the Russians at the battle of tiro A 1,113
has been even greater than we supposed. Our
array has burial 2,500. lam informed by an Eng-
lish eye-witness who visited the French crimp early
the following morning that the heaps of dead Rwisians
beyond the French lines were enormous. Teo. French
caught them in flank while retreating, after our High-
landers and Horse Artillery had done with them. 700
wounded Russians were left in a village tin the north
bank of the Alma, and about 70 were carried n board
one of our transports ; so that the stories brought in by
Poll h deserters of 14,000 or 15,000 killed, wounded, and
missing, do not appear so improbable as I at first thought.
They retired night and day, and for two days and nights
were bringing in wounded. Ail the hospitals are full.
They have sunk one three-decker, three two-deckers, one
two-decker hulk, anl two frigates in the mouth of the
harbour, with their guns in. This looks rather desperate.
The allied armies marched from the Katcha riser, above
Sebastopol, this morning.

CONSTANTINOrnE, S-pt. 27.—The following is a list
of dead and wounded officers, or of those di,:abled by
"Colonel Beckwith, ill with cholera ; ITQllesley ;
Captain Dickson, Aide-de-Camp ; Pakenham.
"The Vulcan brought the following :—CrAlon, 7th
Fusileers, wounded ; H. Jones, 7th Fusileers ; Fitz-
gerald, 7th Fusileers ; Bissett, 55th ; Sayer, 23d ;
Greenwood, 33d ; Warden, 19th ; Carden, 19th,
Williams, 88th ; Bazalgette, 95th ; Captain Bray-
brooke, volunteer, diet on board ; 300 privates.
"The Andes brought the following :—Major Gough,
33d ; Fitzgerald, 33d ; Walli:, 33d ; Worthington,
33d, died on board ; }lure, 334 ; Captain Watson,
7th, wounded ; Carpenter, 7th, wounded ; Persse,
7th ; Comming, 7th ; Saunders, 19th ; Currie, 19th ;
Campbell, 23d ; Appiewhaite, 23d, died on board ;
Tinley, 21st ; Dickson, 30th ; Philips, 47th ; one
other, 47th ; Whyraper, 65th ; a,not+er„ 65th ; Boothby,
95th ; 321 privates ; 13 died on board, with one
woman, of cholera.
" Colonel Chester, dead ; Lord Chewton, Fusileer
Guards, Sir W. Young, both since dead.
" The Colombo came in yesterday' with 600 wounded.
She towed two vessels carrying 500 more.
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"General Tylden, of the Engineers, is dead of
cholera.

" Colonel Lloyd is dangerously ill at Therapia.

" The following description of the battle is trans-
lated from the Moniteur de he Flotte, and purports
to have been written by a superior officer of the French
navy :7

"'Alma Roads, off the Crimea, Sept. 22. —The battle,
which began at noon on the 20th, was a complete victory.
At 6 o'clock in the evening night alone rescued the Rus-
sians from a most terrible destruction. They retreated
to their intrenched camp at Katcha, 1(5 miles to the south
of this. But to take things in their order .—On the 19th
the allied army, encamped on the shore at Old Fort,
where it had landed, struck its tents. All the French
divisions moved first, with the brave first division of the
gallant Canrobert at their head. Our order of march
was cad losange, and the English, forming the two north
flanks, marched after us. We were aware that the Rus-
sians were encamped on the left bank of the Alma. The
right bank is very low, but the left bank, on the con-
trary, rises abruptly in peaks, lifting its crests to the
height of a hundred feet. On the north, by which we
were to debouch, is an immense plain, stretching with a
gentle rise to the watercourse of Zembruck, parallel to
and two miles north of the Alma. At the foot of the
steeps on the left bank of the .A.lina there is a village, the
greater part of which occupies the right bank. This vil-
lage is full of trees, and is intersected by numerous en-
closures planted with vines.
" The Alma is only passable at three points in the
course of its last mile, close to its mouth. Even at its
month it is by a narrow bank which only affords a pay-
sage for one man at a time in front. Following its
course, about ninth and a quarter higher up is a bridge
which passes through the upper end of the village ; it
leads to a valley shut in between the mountains which
stretch onwards towards the east and the pleteaus of
which I have spoken, which reach to the sea :Vtd com-
mend the river. Higher up the Alma towards the east
the stream diminishes, and its bed is fordable in many
places.
" Menschikoff, solidly established on the heights of
the left hank, and occupying the village at his feet, with
45,000 mew, of whom 12,000 were of the Guard and 3,000
Dragoons, and having crowned the steep ground and the
opening of the village on the valley by which the steep
ground is terminated towards the east with a numerous
artillery, and thinking his position was impregnable,
had written to his master (as we learnt from his cor-
respondence of the 21st, which we. have seized),—' I
am awaiting the French in an impassable position ;
even if there are 200,000 of them I shall throw them
into the sea.'

"All this description is indispensable thoroughly to
catch the ensemble of the action which follows. While
the formidable lozenge, the point in front, marched
over the ten marine miles which separate Alma from
Old Fort, the fleet followed. The weather was fine,
and there was a slight breeze from the south-west. The
sailing vessels were towed by the steamers .and the
frigates. The light steamers sailed close in ,shore,
sounding, and signalling the depth as they wend. A.
little off from shore were the four steam frigates Van-
ban, Descartes, Canada, and Caffarelli, and, then,
further out still, in a parallel line the men-of-war. The
night before all our other frigates and nearly all oar
transports had left for Varna to embark the cavalry;
of which we are completely deficient, and 10,000 men
of the reserve. Of course, we on board the fleet
sailed faster than the army marched, so that by noon
on the 19th we were all anchored off the mouth of
the Alma ; the men•of•war found themselves in eight
or nine fathoms water about two miles off' the shore.
The old Vauban, anchored in four fathoms, was in
front of the river at a distance of three or four cables
off. Her bow guns carried to 16 cables, so that she
could sweep about a mile and a quarter of the shore ;
unfortunately, the steep of the right bank which
commanded her was 100 feet high, and was four
cables from the shore. The Russian pieces perched up
above could have riddled us with impunity, but, hap•
pily, they were terrified by the sight of so many
vessels, the position of which they mistook, and they
retired into the interior, out of the reach of our guns.
Only their Finland riflemen, who, we are told, are
sharp
active fellows, began
they lay on the flat of their
bellies taking aim at us. began firing on us from some of
the nearest crests,
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Berthollet, Primauget,
Vauban, Thee,
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Caffarelli, threw some shells at them, whichquickly
cleared the coast.
, "At noon our advanced guard crowned the hillocks
from the enemy
of Zembruck and was only separated
by the wide plain of a mile and a quarter across, which
stretches from Zembruck to the Alma. The plan of the
Marshal, we knew, was to halt for a time at Zembruck,
showing only the heads of his columns, in order to draw
down some of the Russians into the plain on the right
of the Alma. Canrobert was to creep round to the east,
and at a given moment to turn round and fall on the
right of the Russians engaged on the plain, when the
enemy, attacked on the right flank and in front, would
be peat up in a corner, and driven down to the sea under
the tire of our batteries. tip to 2 o'clock in the after-
noon Menscbikoff remained in his intrenchments on the
inaccessible plateaus of the left bank without stirring.
At 2 o'clock, however, taking our motionless attitude
for hesitation, caused by bis formidable position, he de-