The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-13 00:00:00

GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

SEBASTOPOL TAKEN BY THE ALL-LIES.
Who took Sebastopol
I, said the Times;
With telegraphic lines,
I took Sebastopol.
"It may now be confidently stated that the forts of Se-
bastopol fell successively before the combined powers of
the assailants; that at least half the Russian fleet perished;
that the flags of the allies were waving on the Church of
St. Vladiniir, and that on the 26th Prince Menschikoff
surrendered the place !"—Times, leading article, Oct. 4.
" darrirof litpoleoli-l-we may almost
say since the days of Ca3sar—has an exploit of arms been
attended with such entire or instantaneous success."—
Times, leading article, Oct. 5.
Who saw it fall ?
I. said the Chronicle ;
With triumph sardonic:al,
I saw it fall.
"We feel the fullest assurance that Sebastopol has
fallen, and we look to receive, at any /moment, intelligence
which shall place beyond all doubt that spit:null,' achieve-
ment of the allied armies !"—lforning Chronicle, leading
article, Oct. 3.

• Who saw the Russians run ?
I, said the Post ;
I saw the host
Of beaten Russians run.
"Sebastopol is taken ! . . Menschikoff, having be-
taken himself to the fleet, made with them to the inner
harbour, with so much of it as remained. There he is said
to havo declared that he would blow up all sooner than
surrender. . • . . On the grand point alone can we
be said to be sure. Sebastopol is ours. At what expense
—at what cost—remains to be judged with exactness and
precision from details."—liforniny Post, leading article,
Oct. 3.

Who saw them bleed ?
I, said the Daily News ;
(To keep up the ruse);
. I saw them bleed.
"Let the reader fancy to himself the roaring and re•
verberation of all this artillery in a space of some three
miles long, with an average of half a mile in breadth,
hemmed in by abrupt ascents, varying. from 200 to 400
feet. Let him fancy, in addition, the thundering broad-
sides from the allied fleets off the mouth of the harbour.
Let Jilin whiter this the noise, and clamour of the assault
and defence of the North Fort on the heights immediately.
behind the. Double Battery; and, after its fall, of the artil-
lery, Minie rifles, and platoon firing of the allied' land
troops lining the heights which overlook the harbour
from the north. To all this let him again add the noise of
explosions, now of a fort, now of a man-of-war. Let him
conceive the hollow of the harbour thus filled with smoke
and flame ; resdunding with the deep roar of artillery and
the pattering of fire-arms ; the solid earth shaking with
the reverberation of the rent and tormented atmosphere.
And, last of all, let him imagine, in the midst of this
artificial volcanic eruption, masses of human beings inter-
changing sabre blows and bayonet thrusts, closing in
death grapples, panting with exhaustion, fevered with
quenchless thirst, writhing in mortal agony. Of the
Russiani Immo are said to have been killed in this man-
made hell ; how many of the allies have fallen is still
unknown. And all these horrors have been called into
existence by the selfish, relentless will of one man, who sits
at safe distance, surrounded by all the gorgeous and
voluptuous appliances of a Sybarite court."—Daily News,
leading article, Oct. 4.
Who'll dig their grave ?
I, said the Advertiser;
(Urquhart's improviser);
I'll dig their grave.
"It is to be hoped that the victories which have been
won on the heights of the Alma and amid the trenches of
Sebastopol are but the precursors of other triumphs which
will completely crush the Czar. And in that case, not only
will the progress of despotism in Europe be arrested, but
we may confidently calculate on seeing the tide of civilisa-
tion and Liberalism not only set in in other countries
where Absolutism now prevails, but even make its way
into Russia itself. If the Czar is fairly beaten, if he is
utterly vanquished, without any hope of his recovering the
ground he has lost, it would not surprise us were revolu-
tions to take place in his own empire. With the prestige
of his name and arms completely gone, Nicholas will not
only cease to be respected by his subjects, but .his life will
be in danger from the dagger of the assassin, or the
poisoned chalice of some one trustaining to him a closer re-
la
tion than that of subject."—Morning Advertiser, leading
article, Oct. 3.
Who'll preach a sermon?
I, said the Globe ;
I'll don the parson's robe,
I'll preach a sermon:
". How far too valuable to have been allowed to think of
blowing himself up with Sebastopol—as a right-hand man
for the Autocrat of all the Russias still left to Peter's suc-
cessor, by the result of the appeal to arms so haughtily
accepted by him--is a Menechikoff, whose bulletins are
thus penned and thus dated ! These are all alike traits of
the same unfailing thrasonical genius ; of the Russian
genius, before which that of Europe had almost seemed to
quail.!'—Globe, leading article, Oct. 4.
Who'll toll the bell?
I, said the Sun,
(Though ho gloried in tho fun) ;
I'll toll the bell.
"Notwithstanding this scepticism, we have no hosita
tion in adhering to our original opinion, and expressing
our earnest and unflinching conviction that the accounts
already published are substantially correct, that Sebasto-
pol had virtually fallen, and that there had been an enor-
mous sacrifice of human life amongst its defenders ; and
wo fear we must also add amongst its gallant assail-
ants, and also that a large number of prisoners had been
taken. ,
" Vengeance ! Yes, in this mild, sentimental age, we
deliberately cell for vengeance. The blood of our soldiers,
shed in a righteous cause, demands it as loudly as did the
blood of the first victim of hellish passions. Accurate de-
tails may increase or lessen by a few the numb°. of our
slain ; but be the number what it may, their deaths must
be avenged. Blood for blood we ask not, unless, indeed, a
Czar cculd be made to atone for his military murders as a
Charles Stuart once did."—Sum, loading article, Oct. 3.
All the people in the land
Began to doubt their eyes
To see their daily papers
rut forth *Eh *wild lif!kr.riloVW.